Sentence examples for Katerra from high-quality English sources.

• BoKlok and Katerra hope their buildings will last a century.

• In May, Katerra received more funding and said it would swap CEOs.

• “It’s changed the game for investing in a dramatic way,” Michael Marks, CEO of the US construction startup Katerra, observes.

• It lent money to Katerra and Oyo—or, rather, Credit Suisse clients did so indirectly.

• It will be driven by both new entrants, like SoftBank's Katerra, and from more traditional builders.

• An American firm called Katerra also builds prefabricated sections of apartments at a factory in Arizona.

• Katerra, the SoftBank-backed off-site construction company, is one of the more prominent startups in this area.

• SoftBank invested in the company that made the loan (Greensill) and in those it lent to (Katerra, Oyo and others).

Use Katerra in a sentence.

• SoftBank-backed Katerra, which has raised $1.2 billion in funding, laid off roughly 220 people in April, just months after closing a factory in Phoenix.

• These sectors have fallen out of favor since the days when you could order a bungalow out of the Sears catalog, but recent investment in the space from Amazon and startups like Katerra show a renewed interest.

• With $865 million in venture capital raised so far (including from deep-pocketed SoftBank), Katerra has acquired a half-dozen architectural and design firms, opened three operational factories, and in June merged with KEF Infra, a Bangalore-based infrastructure company that uses robotics and automation.

• Nishar's steady hand and passion for learning will likely influence SoftBank's investment strategy over the coming months after having navigated around a series of public catastrophes for the fund in the implosions of coworking startup WeWork, failed pizza robot maker Zume, and construction startup Katerra.

• Whether it's the play by Katerra to streamline the construction industry, or the move by Compass to change real estate by arming agents with tech, a nod from Son and SoftBank's Vision Fund is like an imprimatur from the Pope — Katerra now has $1.3 billion in bookings, and SoftBank's infusion of $450 million gave Compass a $2.2 billion valuation.

• Construction industry disrupter Katerra is moving at the speed of a tech start-up — and, in fact, Katerra bills itself as a "tech company," one which plans to revolutionize the $12 trillion global construction industry — traditionally and notoriously fragmented and inefficient — into a "womb to tomb" one-stop shop, covering everything from design to actual construction.