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Elevate Rapid City Wants to Give Ambition a Local Address
A chamber, an accelerator and an economic development organization share one roof in the Black Hills. The bigger experiment is making room for businesses - and for the people they need to hire.
ICON Is Selling the Machine That Prints the Walls
After years spent proving that a robot can print a neighborhood, ICON is putting its construction system in other builders' hands. The harder test starts now: turning spectacular machinery into ordinary infrastructure.
Jome
Jome (formerly NewHomesMate) is an AI-powered real estate marketplace focused on new construction homes. It aggregates dispersed listings from home builders into one searchable platform - covering roughly 90% of available new construction inventory across 16 U.S. cities - and pairs buyers with certified experts trained specifically on the new-build process. Founded by Ukrainian entrepreneurs Dan Hnatkovskyy and Sofia Vyshnevska, the Austin-based company has helped over 100,000 buyers search for homes and generated more than $250M in sales for builders including D.R. Horton, Lennar and PulteGroup.
Outreach Grid
Outreach Grid is an Irvine, California software company building a unified platform that helps cities, counties, service agencies, outreach workers, and law enforcement collaborate to understand and end homelessness. Founded in 2016 by Tiffany Pang-Cadengo and John Cadengo under parent company Appledore, its coordinated-entry system spans street outreach, case management, shelter and bed matching, housing navigation, and Point-in-Time counts - turning fragmented field notes into shared, actionable data used by more than 23 municipalities across the United States.
Zumper
Zumper is North America's largest privately held rental marketplace, making it as easy to rent a home as it is to book a hotel. The company aggregates millions of long-term, short-term and monthly listings across the U.S. and Canada, layering instant tours, digital applications and tenant screening on top.