Storage news and trends

Coinbase Eyeing Omni’s Crypto Engineering Team For Acquihire
Partnerships / Acquisitions // October 07, 2019

Coinbase is reportedly in talks to acquire rentals startup Omni’s engineering team. Two sources told TechCrunch that Omni also laid off seven operations team members on Friday (October 4). The startup has also received interest in its engineering team from Thumbtack. The news comes as...

Disrupting Self-Storage With Digital, Mobile Efficiencies
Today In Data // October 02, 2019

Neighbor.com aims to bring digital and mobile efficiencies to the self-storage industry with an Airbnb-like model. In digital fraud news, new global regulations and solutions are being deployed to keep consumers, merchants and banks safe as fraudsters become more aggressive. And in retail, pizza’s popularity constitutes a driving force for ongoing innovation in the...

Clutter Expands Into Self-Storage With Acquisition Of The Storage Fox
Partnerships / Acquisitions // September 20, 2019

Clutter, an on-demand storage company that has been backed by the likes of SoftBank, has acquired The Storage Fox, a storage startup with locations much closer to urban areas, according to a report. The acquisition cost Clutter around $152 million. Ari Mir, Clutter’s co-founder and...

Moving Into The Sharing Economy With Self-Storage Platforms
Retail // August 29, 2019

While a student at the University of Missouri, Eric Laurent had to be moved out of his apartment by the end of July, but he couldn’t move into his new home until mid-August. “I was moving from place to place,” Laurent told PYMNTS in an...

Interviews & Exclusives
Meet “The Airbnb of Warehouse Space”

September 13, 2017
  There’s a ton of warehouse space in the United States today: about 14.5 billion square feet, according to Jonathan Rosenthal, chairman and co-founder of Warehouse Exchange. But that’s not the shocker, he told Karen Webster in this week’s Matchmaker. According to Rosenthal, the amount of space that goes unused on any given day is 4 […]

Quick Reads
Coinbase Eyeing Omni’s Crypto Engineering Team For Acquihire

October 07, 2019
Coinbase is reportedly in talks to acquire rentals startup Omni’s engineering team. Two sources told TechCrunch that Omni also laid off seven operations team members on Friday (October 4). The startup has also received interest in its engineering team from Thumbtack. The news comes as Omni has been struggling. Launched in San Francisco as an […]

Clutter Expands Into Self-Storage With Acquisition Of The Storage Fox

September 20, 2019
Clutter, an on-demand storage company that has been backed by the likes of SoftBank, has acquired The Storage Fox, a storage startup with locations much closer to urban areas, according...

Amazon Raises Privacy Concerns With Voice Storage Practices

July 03, 2019
Amazon has confirmed that it keeps Alexa voice data with no intention to delete it unless done so by a customer, and also that it keeps some voice data regardless...

SoftBank-Backed On-Demand Physical Storage Startup Clutter Hits $600M Valuation

February 21, 2019
After its Vision Fund has invested in companies such as WeWork, Compass and Opendoor, SoftBank said on Wednesday (February 20) that it led a funding round for storage service firm...