TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That’s a dramatic shift in urban transportation by any measure, and it prompts a simple but important question: How did we get here? 3: Comprehensive industry safety report released (spring 2019). In April of 2019, these programs culminated in a comprehensive e-scooter safety report. Looking forward.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Series A to accelerate its growth.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

That work has accelerated since spring 2019 when Daimler took a majority stake in Torc Robotics, an autonomous trucking startup that had been working with Luminar the past two years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Plentywaka , a Nigerian bus-booking platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program. It will join nine other startups in the class of 2021 and secure funding from the accelerator as it sets its sights on global expansion. It also opened a logistics service.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

They built an AV that spared no room in the narrow chassis for a driver’s seat, and had no need for an accelerator, windshield or brake pedals. In a 2019 letter to the U.S. So when the company petitioned the U.S. R2X is now referred to as R2). “And that’s understandable.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

million in Series A funding, led by GreenPoint Partners with support from Speedwagon Capital Partners, to accelerate expansion of its managed properties and technology platform. FirstFleet, PAM Transport, Dot Transportation, Western Flyer Xpress, and Riverside Transport, as well as more than 1,500 midsized fleets and small trucking companies.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 5, 2018

CloudCuddle designs and produces transportable bed tents to enable families with handicapped children to sleep away from home. As soon as we reach US$250k revenue, I am determined to join the EO Accelerator program! Meet the 2018 finalists and check the GSEA site often for news about 2019 applications!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

A second generation — with an identical design but different lidar sensors and few other upgrades — emerged in summer 2019 ahead of its planned commercial launch in Los Angeles. Postmates revealed its first Serve autonomous delivery bot in December 2018.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic. from 2010 to 2019. There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2019, St. “What we do best is transporting large volumes of people on vehicles and managing mass transit,” said Metro Transit executive director Jessica Mefford-Miller. According to the American Public Transportation Association (APTA), ridership and total miles traveled has declined since 2014, including a 2.5%

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Back in September 2019, Reliable Robotics flew a Cessna 172 with no one on board in airspace just outside of San Jose, California. . In the first instance, the company is working on automation systems for existing aircraft. The company was founded in 2017, and was operating in stealth mode until last year. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Against that backdrop of unsafe practices, I wanted to note an important departure over at the Department of Transportation. The UK’s Department of Transport reports weekday cycling rates have jumped 47% in the first half of 2022. million to 18.8

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

The easy-to-use, comprehensive supply chain management system among top applicants selected for Newchip’s online accelerator NEW FREEDOM, Pa., Past accelerator cohorts averaged more than 17.5 The equity-free, fully digital accelerator has helped over 2,500 founders from more than 110 countries and 250 cities raise over $2.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

For some context, this is basically on track with what the company had previously projected: in 2019 — when Volocopter raised an initial $55 million in funding for its Series C (finally closed out at €87 million, around $94 million) — the company said it was three years away from service. “It is now all about execution. .”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

NVMe is the storage access and transport protocol for flash and SSDs. Lightbits, together with Meta, Intel, Cisco, Dell EMC, Micron and others, collaborated on the NVMe/TCP standard that was ratified in November 2019 by the NVM Express consortium. As a result, the demand for Lightbits accelerated during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. and StartupAmsterdam, there are 1,661 tech companies in Amsterdam, while the city ranked fifteenth in Startup Genome’s 2019 report “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” moving up four places since 2017.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Today, Alex Wilhelm says both transportation platforms plan to reach adjusted profitability by Q4 2021. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. ” TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

million in debt from Banco Sabadell Mexico — brings minu’s total raised since its 2019 inception to a total of $20 million. . Some people are continuously getting loans — at very high interest rates — to cover recurring expenses such as food and transport,” Pourshasb said. The financing — which included $2.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

Uber, for example, launched a shift-finder app experiment called Works, back in 2019 , also targeting demand for on-demand labor — but doing so in partnership with staffing agencies in its case.). while its main sectors are logistics, last mile, warehousing and transport.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

The test is taking place under a sandbox program announced back in May 2019 — directing government funding and regulatory support to R&D in the drone space — initially through virtual testing, such as of avoid and detect systems. company, the regulator said today. UK drone register takes off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 FJ Labs and several family offices from the U.S., Europe and Asia, including Michael Novogratz’s, participated in the round. million seed round last year.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In an interview for the Eeyo’s launch, Gogoro co-founder and chief executive Horace Luke said the company began planning for Eeyo’s launch in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Several cities have also closed some streets to car traffic, making riders more willing to use bikes for short commutes and exercise.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When consumers started buying cars, many predicted the transportation revolution would lead to air pollution, traffic and life-threatening collisions. As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca Accelerating profitable non-core operations. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2019, the company name changed from Dragonfly Group to Veev. By replicating our Digital Fab facility near regions of demand, we’re able to build homes up to 4x faster than traditional means and avoid additional CO 2 e impact with unnecessary transportation.”.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

million seed round to scale its operations on the back of leaving the Techstars Toronto accelerator program last month. . Since going live in September 2019, Plentywaka says it has acquired over 80,000 users while completing up to half a million rides. Lagos and Toronto-based mobility startup Plentywaka has raised a $1.2

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

That’s when she and her co-founder, Heman Duraiswamy, who has a background in residential real estate ownership, took a look at the pain of paying bills and started Circa in 2019. Circa completed the Techstars accelerator program at the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine in 2021. “We

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The company has benefitted from the convergence of two trends sparked by COVID-19 that has turbocharged its business: an accelerated adoption of fintech across the economy and growing attention toward personal finance. . million in seed funding that MotoRefi announced in March 2019. The Series A round followed $4.7

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Cut my life into pieces, this is my last transport : Two of China’s biggest robotaxi rivals, Pony and WeRide, are joining forces to plow $135 million into Chinese ride-hailing service OnTime. He’s a real straight scooter : Singapore’s Neuron raised a $43.5 million Series B round, bringing its total capital investment to $77.7

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The company’s REV-1 robot, which co-founder and CTO Matthew Johnson-Roberson debuted on the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility stage in 2019, was built on a foundation of a bicycle. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. .

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Back in 2019, Jewel was acquired by Capital One, but this Detroit tech company is still very much immersed in the Detroit startup community and looking to hire talented, down-to-earth folks. Headquartered in Metro Detroit, Altimetrik is a software company that helps clients transform and accelerate their business. Petal Transport.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Led by chief executive Jon Gray, RVshare has seen bookings for the fall rising 166% year-on-year from 2019. “As As a result of the pandemic, RVshare has seen an acceleration of growth as consumers have sought out RVs as a way to travel during these challenging times.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

electric bike startup — is a validation of Rad Power’s business model and its ability to expand beyond the $100 million in sales it generated in 2019. The funding round — the largest of a U.S. Rad Power Bikes declined to disclose its 2020 sales numbers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

South Korean startup Seadronix wants to reduce the issue of marine accidents, 75% of which are caused by human error, according to a 2019 Allianz safety and shipping report. “With this funding, we hope to recruit more staff for the AI, sensor fusion and navigation business and accelerate our global market penetration plan.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

. “WeRide Master Platform (WMP), our core autonomous driving technology solution has helped to accelerate the company’s development,” Tony Han, founder and CEO of WeRide, said in a statement. Not long after, the company’s driverless Mini Robobus began road testing in Guangzhou and Nanjing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

That innovation has formed the basis of a startup that’s been raking in funding since its founding in 2019. One way to think about it is to recall that proteins do most of the work within our cells: they help send signals, carry out chemical reactions, or transport smaller molecules throughout the body, for instance.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“UVeye saw the opportunity is 2019 as we saw more and more vehicles that had mechanical issues in their undercarriage so although the systems were used for the security side the need was very obvious,” CEO and co-founder Amir Hever told TechCrunch in an email. Ventures L.P.

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