Matterport Stock

Matterport, Inc., the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, announced the appointment of Vinatha Kutagula as Vice President of Customer Operations to scale global customer success, support and operations.

Venture capital-backed real estate technology firm Matterport will merge with a blank-check company and go public in a deal that values the startup at $2.3 billion. Matterport, a spatial data firm that makes software for virtual property tours, will merge with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) led by billionaire investor Alec Gores.

The growth of augmented and virtual reality applications and hardware is ushering in a new age of digital media and imaging technologies, and startups that are putting themselves at the center of that are attracting interest. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Matterport — which starte…