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The company was founded in 2015. In January 2018, Katerra took an $835 million investment from Softbank. The investment was made from the Vision Fund. Katerra stock price Ex-Katerra CEO Michael Marks (Getty Images)
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Michael Marks, Katerra’s co-founder and CEO was fired in May 2020. Paal Kibsgaard, former CEO of Schlumberger, and the COO of Katerra at the time, was named the new CEO. He stepped down in May 2021. And Katerra is currently being run by folks from the consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal, according to The Information. The brief, dazzling life of Katerra – the American start-up that claimed to have revolutionised construction with its tech-driven approach to mass prefabrication, only to collapse completely in June last year – will have confirmed for many the suspicion that construction can never properly industrialise. In early 2018, SoftBank, the world’s biggest investor in tech startups, directed accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to assess a construction startup in which it had just led an $865 million investment. The three-year-old startup, Katerra, was led by a former CEO of Tesla and had hired other experienced Silicon Valley executives and engineers to revolutionize the construction industry by using factories to build modular apartments quickly.
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Katerra's 2019 revenue was $1.7B. Katerra's most recent revenue is from 2019. Why did you feel confident that VBC could make use of the assets? The global modular construction market size was USD 72.11 billion in 2020 and is projected to grow from USD 75.89 billion in 2021 to USD 114.78 billion in 2028 at a CAGR of 6.1% during the 2021-2028 period. Based on our analysis, the modular construction market exhibited a modest growth of 5.2% in 2020 as compared to the average year-on-year growth during 2017-2019. The regional COVID-19 impact has been unprecedented and staggering, with modular construction witnessing a positive demand across the regions amid the pandemic. The sudden fall in CAGR is attributable to this market’s demand and growth returning to pre-pandemic levels once the pandemic is over.
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There are obviously a lot of construction companies to choose from so I reached out to the Katerra crew and asked them what exactly they saw in Fields. Trevor Schick, who leads Katerra’s construction operations said: CASE and the stellar collision In 2019 Katerra faced flopped overseas expansions as well as layoffs and cutbacks for the company. However, their relationship with Japanese investment firm SoftBank continues as the company invests $200 million to bail out the start-up as they enter 2021. SoftBank is one of the earliest and largest investors in troubled co-working company WeWork.
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