Amazon makes first investment in a homebuilder, backing start-up focused on prefabricated houses

Amazon said it's funding homebuilding start-up Plant Prefab, marking its first investment in the space.

Plant Prefab builds prefabricated, custom single- and multifamily homes.

The investment follows Amazon's launch of more than a dozen new smart home devices powered by Alexa.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/amazon-makes-its-first-investment-into-a-homebuilder.html

Submitted September 26, 2018 at 08:19AM by NineteenEighty9 https://ift.tt/2IjRLur