AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. TC Ventures invites founders around the world who are seeking to disrupt and reimagine the maritime and aviation industries to connect.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. This has been costly.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. . But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . A number of applications that aim to solve workflow challenges across the supply chain exist.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. ” Robert Falck. I’m not the kind of person to sit there and keep the status quo.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. In a few months, TC Disrupt will kick off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Apply today to join Startup Battlefield 200 for the chance to exhibit your startup for free at TechCrunch Disrupt this October and win the $100K equity-free prize.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Image Credits: Wellthy Jurist-Rosner founded Wellthy in 2015 (the startup actually launched as a Battlefield contestant at TechCrunch Disrupt that year ) to help others like herself who were juggling work and caregiving. Its latest financing was an up round, but Jurist-Rosner said that was not something the company was focused on.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company is financing tens of thousands of loans per month, according to chief executive officer and co-founder Travis Holoway, and loan volumes are growing at about 40% monthly, he said. The company also offers a sort of default insurance product that lenders can purchase to backstop any losses they experience, Holoway said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

This data is then used to train AI-based computer vision systems for customers such as big retailers, warehouse operators, healthcare, transportation systems and robotics. regional backer NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance , with Deeptech Labs and In-Q-Tel. It literally trains a “synthetic” CCTV camera inside a synthetic world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. A common theme with these partnerships is that all three organizations are investors in InstaDeep’s new financing round.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. When starting in Nigeria, most two-wheel ride-hailing startups begin from Lagos, the nation’s hotbed of commerce and transport. Chinese and Japanese investors.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. The grant facilitates advancing innovative technology solutions, driving startups toward market disruption or creating entirely new markets.

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine. Significant innovation is occurring in fields like healthcare, transportation and agriculture. Transportation. When Plodders Change the World.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

That conversation hasn’t disappeared, but it has certainly gotten quieter, with many investors now telling me that there’s a super surge of financing on the way. billion in financing for startups that use its own platform. We’re less than one month away from TechCrunch Disrupt, and I’m already emotional. Well, kind of.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products. Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . And in January, fulfillment is up 20% compared to November of 2021. So, just how does it work?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

in my alternative financing panel next week for TC Sessions: Justice. SAN FRANCISCO, CA – SEPTEMBER 07: Coinbase Co-founder and CEO Brian Armstrong speaks onstage during Day 3 of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 at Moscone Center on September 7, 2018 in San Francisco, California. Does YC care at all? Mobility-as-a-service.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Having reliable transportation is at the top of any gig worker’s list, but in Latin America, that’s not always easy to secure. As mentioned, the latest funding enables Migrante to launch in Colombia and Mexico and offer new products, including rent-to-own and electric vehicle financing products.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The financing was led by Clal Insurance and Altshuler Shaham, which are Israeli institutional investors. With the new investment, we will continue to create disruptive solutions as well as penetrate new EV segments.”. IRP Systems is in the epicenter of this revolution.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Fashinza , a Dehli, India-based supply chain “marketplace” for fashion brands and retailers, was co-founded months before the disruptions. On the production side, Fashinza partners with factories to run its software stack, dubbed FactoryOS, for tasks in sampling, inventory, and finance. ”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

InstaDeep utilizes advanced machine learning techniques, including deep reinforcement learning in applications within an enterprise environment that cuts across various industries such as biotech, transportation, electronics manufacturing and logistics. That was crazy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Last week a company we enthusiastically backed, uBeam , led by a very special entrepreneur, 25-year-old Meredith Perry , announced a $10 million round of financing. Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. I’d love even 0.5%

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

” He knew Nadeau had focused on transportation and mobility, and the duo eventually decided that they would “swing big.” As for the tipping point that got investors to back a company disrupting a $256 million industry with around $3 million in seed financing? Image Credits: Loop. Mission, Henry says. “I

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

Existing investors in Spire Global include RRE Ventures, Promus Ventures, Seraphim Capital, Mitsui Global Investment and more, with its most recent round being a raise of debt financing. To Disrupt The Aerospace Industry With Small, Affordable Satellites. NanoSatisfi Raises $1.2M

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Quona, GFC, Monashees, UVC Investimentos and Globo Ventures also participated in the financing, in addition to Tinder co-founder Justin Mateen and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel through his family office. Also, financing is often difficult and expensive to obtain, as credit is difficult to access in most Latin American countries.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. This is a system we can see scaling very well as shared mobility becomes an integrated part of transportation in the U.S. FreightVerify. Originally published by Purpose Jobs.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Supply chain disruptions caused — or exacerbated — by the pandemic continue to affect businesses in a range of industries. Algorithms sort through data on supply chain disruptions and vendors, cleansing it and extracting information before offering recommendations. For example, 36% of small businesses responding to a U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2016

Indoor farms consume a lot of energy--cutting into the sustainability gains around transportation decreases. She had great experience and insights from her time at Brightfarms, which finances, designs, builds and operates greenhouse farms at or near supermarkets. That's why indoor farming has, no pun intended, gone through the roof.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets. As investors, we’ve had the privilege of meeting with many of these next-generation end-to-end operators over the years and found that those with the greatest success tend to exhibit the five key elements below: 1. Going after very large markets.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. The following September in 2014 the company received a $3.6

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OurCrowd

JULY 22, 2020

Raja will oversee all finance and business development functions for Virgin Hyperloop as the company drives hyperloop technology towards commercialization. Virgin Hyperloop announced the appointment of Raja Narayanan as Chief Financial Officer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

With white collar workers settling into hybrid work arrangements — a legacy of the pandemic — companies are rethinking how they deliver corporate perks like transportation, cafeterias, and gyms (much to the chagrin of some ). It’s true that corporate perks are ripe for disruption (pardon the well-worn term).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released a notice after Russia invaded Ukraine warning about the potential for state-sponsored cyber attacks: “Every organization — large and small — must be prepared to respond to disruptive cyber activity,” it advised.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Kavak , the Mexican startup that’s disrupted the used car market in Mexico and Argentina, today announced its Series D of $485 million, which now values the company at $4 billion. Kavak, which was founded in 2016, is an online marketplace that aims to bring transparency, security and access to financing to the used car market.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

SmartHop, a startup that uses AI to help interstate truckers make their routes more efficient and lucrative by removing administrative headaches, just raised a $30 million Series B financing round, bringing the company’s total funding to $46 million following a $12 million Series A last year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

We are working closely with our suppliers to mitigate the impact of disruptions,” Sherry House, Lucid’s CFO, said in a statement. million, according to Yahoo Finance estimates. That is up massively from the $313,000 the company pulled in during the same quarter last year. The company experienced a net loss of $81.3

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. It’s easier to raise and harder to spend these days, because there’s such a high demand for talent,” Dua said.

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