By Benjamin SackEvery great building begins with a plan. Yet, preconstruction – the phase where billions of dollars are won or lost before ground is ever broken – is still stitched together with spreadsheets, siloed tools, and gut feelings. Walk…
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The path to selling healthcare innovation has never been more complex, or more critical to get right. This week in New York, we convened a panel of healthcare operators, buyers, and founders to explore how innovation can survive and thrive…
On Seinfeld, Frank Costanza would yell “Serenity Now!” when his blood pressure rose. For clinicians dealing with prior authorization (PA), the feeling is all too familiar. New companies are now applying AI to solve the nagging issue of PA. The…
This summer, we welcomed our second class of MBA Fellows: Andy Wang (Columbia Business School), Sarah Quettawala (The Wharton School), John Syme (Kellogg School of Management), and Lindsey Aronson (Ross School of Business). Each came from a different background, corporate…
AI is moving from experiments to production in the places that matter most for people’s lives. That shift is exciting, and it is also unforgiving. In life sciences, you cannot trade speed for safety. You have to deliver both. The…
We see many questions from early-stage founders about building brand recognition, so we sat down with Kristin Sauchak, Partner and Head of Brand at COMMAND and 53 Stations Wayfinder, to share a systematic approach that’s helped dozens of startups she’s…
The surge in AI workloads has driven massive demand for compute infrastructure – from GPUs to new cybersecurity standards. But no part of the stack has been hit more urgently than data centers. Hyperscalers are continually constrained by access to…
by Chinedu Udeogu Enterprise networking shouldn’t be a nightmare. Yet for most businesses, it is. Traditional enterprise networking involves a labyrinth of hardware purchases, complex installations, and managing relationships with multiple vendors. IT teams spend countless hours troubleshooting connectivity issues…
Today’s technologies – AI, data centers, electrification, automation – aren’t just shifting how we live and work. They’re redrawing the demands we place on the built world. And those demands are arriving faster than our physical systems were designed to…
By Melissa KandinataAt 53 Stations, we invest in early-stage companies tackling the most persistent friction points in U.S. healthcare. This post outlines the areas where we believe the system is breaking down and the kinds of platforms we’re actively looking…
By Benjamin Sack & Alyssa Tsenter Major federal legislation – namely the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and the 2022 CHIPS and Science Act – is driving a surge of manufacturing construction spending at a moment of reckoning for…
Data centers are at the forefront of global growth. They don’t just store the world’s data—they protect it from natural and man-made disasters. The construction of these mission-critical facilities demands the same level of efficiency, urgency, and precision that’s found…