Anori, Alphabet’s new X spinout, is tackling one of the world’s most expensive bureaucratic nightmares

For more than a decade, Alphabet’s X moonshot factory has been quietly trying to fix one of the world’s most stubborn industries. It failed twice, but this time the industry itself is along for the ride.

On Thursday, X said that Anori, its platform for streamlining the notoriously tangled process of getting buildings approved and built, has spun out as an independent company with $26 million in funding.