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Pitchbook data on the 500 most capitalized AI firms in the world includes their HQ locations. We break it down by city — including some non-California municipalities that may surprise you.
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Photo courtesy of Group14 Technologies
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Group14 Technologies last month announced its new silicon battery materials factory in Sangju, South Korea (pictured above), has begun EV-scale production of its proprietary silicon battery material, SCC55®. The state-of-the-art facility is designed to produce up to 2,000 metric tons annually, enabling 10 GWh of extreme-fast-charging battery capacity as production ramps,” the company stated. “The Sangju factory operates alongside Group14’s existing commercial factory in Woodinville, Washington, with a second U.S. facility in Moses Lake, Washington, nearing completion. The company’s silicon battery materials factories were designed to rapidly scale and easily ‘drop in’ to commercial battery cell production lines. These factories are delivering to over 160 customers worldwide.”
To date, Group14 says, the company has raised more than $1 billion in equity to support the buildout of its global silicon battery material manufacturing platform. Site Selection profiled Group14’s investments in its home state of Washington in the publication’s November 2023 issue.
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Chart courtesy of SLB
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As a real estate advisory firm focused solely on sale leaseback and M&A-related real estate transactions, SLB Capital Advisors’ market updates are eagerly awaited. The chart above shows the top sale leaseback transactions by dollar value for 2025. Among other notes from the firm’s update for 2025:
- “There were 20 transactions above $100 million during the year, totaling approximately $5.2 billion. The full-year 2025 market update shows 714 discrete sale leaseback transactions with aggregate dollar volume of about $14.4 billion, meaning the year’s top deals accounted for about one-third of all sale leaseback capital raised.”
- The year’s largest transaction was Reign Capital’s $850 million acquisition of a 74-property portfolio from AT&T. Other major deals included Weill Cornell Medicine’s $510 million acquisition of Sotheby’s Manhattan headquarters office, Blue Owl Real Estate Capital’s $467 million purchase of 165 bank branches from SouthState Bank, and Empire State Realty Trust’s $386 million acquisition of Scholastic’s Manhattan office. Morgan Stanley’s $343 million acquisition of Nissan properties also ranked among the year’s largest transactions.
- “The 2025 list also showed how broad the market has become across property types. Retail remained prominent, with large transactions involving SouthState Bank, 7-Eleven, Life Time, Dave & Buster’s, and Now & Forever. Industrial contributed heavily as well, with major deals involving Nissan, REI, Premium Brands, Reddy Ice, and a privately held food processor. Healthcare and Specialty also produced meaningful headline transactions, including DHL, Hertz, and the Cleveland Clinic portfolio sale to MedCraft and Fengate, the Notre Dame de Namur University transaction with UC Investments, and Gaming & Leisure Properties’ acquisition of Sunland Park.”
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Photo courtesy of NASA
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Need a new perspective on things? Earth set at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, over the Moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis II crew during their journey around the far side of the Moon. “Orientale basin is perched on the edge of the visible lunar surface,” NASA dutifully informs us. “Hertzsprung Basin appears as two subtle concentric rings, which are interrupted by Vavilov, a younger crater superimposed over the older structure. The lines of indentations are secondary crater chains formed by ejecta from the massive impact that created Orientale.
“The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime,” NASA continues. “On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region.”
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