TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 18, 2019

As drivers we look out for them, as pedestrians we might be annoyed if they steer in our way but the riders themselves have developed better norms as happens in all forms of transportation. They are no longer remarkable in Santa Monica or Venice or in many cities in America, Europe or South America. They’re not new. They’re not novel.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Daimler’s trucks division has invested in lidar developer Luminar as part of a broader partnership to produce autonomous trucks capable of navigating highways without a human driver behind the wheel. In this case, the software development stays in house at Waymo; Daimler is just concentrating on the chassis development.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. The founders quickly realized that introducing electric vehicles would be the natural next step, and in 2019 MAX kickstarted their electric mobility journey.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

When starting in Nigeria, most two-wheel ride-hailing startups begin from Lagos, the nation’s hotbed of commerce and transport. SafeBoda first hinted at a possible expansion into Nigeria in 2019. The latter is known for endorsing NURTW , a transport group known to legally extort riders daily or weekly in the city.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Urban Movement Labs, launched in November 2019, is a public-private partnership involving local government and companies to develop, test and deploy transportation technologies. ” Archer lands $1B order from United Airlines and a SPAC deal.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 23, 2023

Established in 2019 by Anggia Meisesari and Aris Pujud Kurniawan, TransTrack provides comprehensive solutions for optimizing logistics companies’ operations. Their offerings include a fleet management system, transportation management system, and truck appointment system. percent, according to Statistics Indonesia (BPS).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

If Nuro is to become the generation-defining company its founders desire, it will be due as much to innovation in regulation as advances in the technology it develops. In a 2019 letter to the U.S. R2X is now referred to as R2). The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (now the Alliance Automotive Innovation), which represents most U.S.

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Revolution

JANUARY 7, 2019

In what I’ve called The Third Wave , the Internet will become ubiquitous and transform industries that are part of our everyday life including health care, transportation, education, food, etc. As we kick off 2019, let’s look back on some of the “greatest hits” of 2018, that highlight why policy now matters.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The company declined to comment on the matter, though its CEO Zhang Hui said in May 2019 that the firm was “not in a rush” to go public. The latest funding will allow it to further invest in research and development, upgrade its matching system and expand its service capacity to functions like door-to-door transportation.

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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. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4%

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2019

Back in 2002, food transportation accounted for almost 20 billion vehicle miles. This organization asks airline passengers to make voluntary climate protection payments based on the amount of emissions they create; and uses these contributions to develop renewable energies to save CO? Floripa Week 2019. Here’s how: 1.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo. It plans to ramp up research and development in the San Francisco Bay Area and expand its market reach through new partnerships.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync: Revolutionizing Corporate Commutes with Diverse Solutions Established in 2009 by Deepesh Agarwal and Akash Maheshwari, MoveinSync has developed various solutions to streamline employee commutes for large corporations.

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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. Lori has raised a total of $38.2 million, according to Crunchbase.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

This initiative is part of the ‘2023 Drone Demonstration City Project’ run by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, selected by Seongnam City. The 2nd Pangyo Techno Valley inaugurated its Business Growth Center with the vision to cultivate nascent drone developers. Furthermore, NCsoft invested KRW 1.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Description: “4pi Lab is developing a Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite constellation providing real-time, wildfire detection, monitoring and reporting. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed, 1 December 2019. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / Non-Equity Assistance from Creative Destruction Lab. ” Clutch Space Systems.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. from 2010 to 2019. There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education. and Latin America’s 2.8%.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Nowports raised its initial seed round in 2019 after graduating from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 batch with a mission to innovate the freight forwarding industry by helping companies — with an emphasis on SMEs — improve the import process. “In Nowports raises $5.3 Our 2021 goal is 400% to 600%,” de los Rios told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2021

They have been experimenting and developing using a Cessna 172, which started flying unmanned flights a couple of years ago. Back in September 2019, Reliable Robotics flew a Cessna 172 with no one on board in airspace just outside of San Jose, California. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

A significant event came with acquisition by AOL of the the ICQ messaging system developed by Mirabilis. At the start of 2020, Israeli startups and technology companies were looking back on a good 2019. In 2019 there was a 30% increase in startup funding and a 102% increase in M&A activity. billion in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

This includes our emissions for transports, which is why we are now shifting to electrical vehicles, which reduces our climate footprint by 87% on these routes,” said Simon Broadbent, supply chain director at Oatly, in a statement at the time. Argo, a developer of self-driving technology, is now worth $7.5 billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

In 2019, St. Metro Transit dropped its internal trip-planning app, which had been developed with the Trapeze Group and directed riders to Transit, a private third-party app that offers mapping and real-time transit data in more than 200 cities. a San Diego-based defense and public transportation company. ” St.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

The platform attempts to reconcile documents with third-party websites and internal systems and spotlight exceptions as they come up, sending the data to transportation management and enterprise resource planning systems. in 2021, a 68% increase from 2019, according to McKinsey. billion in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport. It was such an effective means for transport for him that he built a large contact list of “go-to” boda boda riders he would call for rides when need be.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

CEO Florian Reuter tells us that live services are now two years out for the two vehicle models it has been developing. “Getting urban air mobility off the ground requires a full ecosystem that we are developing right now. In addition to Europe and Asia, it also wants to launch services in the U.S. ”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Spanish aerospace startup, wants to break free from that constraint by developing an autonomous solar-powered aircraft it says will eventually be capable of perpetual flight. Airplanes and drones today, regardless of size or fuel type, all face the same limitation: eventually they have to land. Skydweller Aero, the U.S.-Spanish

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

Yoobic , which provides an app for frontline and service workers to manage tasks, communicate with each other and management, and also go through training, development and other e-learning tasks, has picked up $50 million. Felix led Yoobic’s Series A, while Insight Partners led the Series B in 2019.)

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

.’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has given the go ahead to local startup sees.ai, which is developing a beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) command & control solution to aid data capture for industrial use-cases, to trial a concept for routine BVLOS operations — the first such authorization for a U.K. So while (another) U.K.

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In November 2020, the Detroit tech company announced that they’re developing three new authentication centers in Toronto and Hong Kong, which will expand the company’s global network by 50%. As a custom software development company, Detroit Labs has been designing and building mobile and web products (and the teams behind them) since 2011.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Adam Goulburn, a partner at Lux Capital, was first struck by Eikon Therapeutics’ pitch to use super microscopes to develop drugs when founder Eric Betzig posed a simple question: How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live? . “It former VP of corporate and business development at Veracyte, will join as chief financial officer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

OnTime is the ride-hailing service introduced by GAC in 2019 as one of the newcomers competing with incumbent Didi, many of which are either operated by auto OEMs or are close to one. As technology develops, the focus has turned to the operation of autonomous driving.

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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. And traditional software-defined storage systems.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

The capital comes at a critical time for Rivian, which is undertaking the design, development, production and delivery of two consumer vehicles (the R1T pickup truck and the R1S SUV), and building out of its electric vehicle charging network as well as fulfilling an order for 100,000 commercial delivery vans for Amazon. Image Credits: Rivian.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. However, in 2019, the company realized that the challenge was a bit bigger than the founders previously anticipated. The Mexico City-based company emerges with new funding, $3.9

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