Factory_OS announced today that it has raised $55 million in Series B funding from six tech and finance industry giants—Autodesk, Citi, Facebook, Google, Morgan Stanley and round leader Lafayette ...

A year after a Factory_OS opened its hulking premanufactured housing factory on Vallejo’s Mare Island, the company has turned out hundreds of units and has orders for 1,000 more. The startup was ...

Factory_OS, a modular-home startup, will be opening a new manufacturing facility later this year in historic Building 680 on Vallejo's Mare Island. It has also taken its first order. Google's parent, ...

The Wall Street Journal today reported that Google parent company Alphabet will spend as much as $30 million buying 300 prefabricated homes from Vallejo-based Factory OS, citing executives at both ...

VALLEJO, Calif. -- Soaring home prices and apartment rents in Silicon Valley have become a growing headache for technology titans. Google owner Alphabet Inc. is taking a step toward addressing the ...

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Google’s employees can’t find affordable housing in Silicon Valley, so the company is investing in modular homes that’ll serve as short-term housing for them. The Wall Street Journal reports that ...

Google’s latest plan may help attract more workers to the Bay Area. The tech giant said it will build 300 units of modular housing at its Bay View campus at Moffett Field in Mountain View, according ...

Larry Pace is giving a tour of a construction site … kind of. He’s near the entrance of a 258,000-square-foot factory in Vallejo, on the outskirts of the Bay Area. The Navy built submarines here ...