(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. has shown a boundless desire to put its Alexa smart-home devices in every nook and cranny of people’s houses. Just last week, it announced a raft of new gadgets, including a microwave and clock.
Now it’s making its first bet on a homebuilder.
The Seattle-based Internet giant is investing in a $6.7 million fundraising round for Plant Prefab, a California company that manufactures modules that can be assembled quickly into a home at a job site. The wager is being made through the Alexa Fund, a pool of capital Amazon created in 2015 to back startups working on new uses for voice technology...
RSK: Great concept, hope it works out. I can see us Boomers eventually downsizing into something like this...but I would need a basement for storage lol.
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