2019 disruption transportation 
TechCrunch
SEPTEMBER 30, 2022
In sub-Saharan Africa, only 33% of the urban population has access to public transportation, compared to 75% in Europe and North America, according to UN statistics. This lack of access to transportation is in stark contrast to other upward metrics on the African continent, like its growing access to equitable education and healthcare.
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. In the meantime we think we can build a globally complex, economically viable business that will be hard to disrupt. They’re not new.
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This is going to be BIG.
MAY 4, 2021
In June of 2019, I got a cold e-mail with a single link: “My name is Braeden Kelekona and I’m the founder of Kelekona, a drone service for passengers and cargo. He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As Below is a link to the pitch video.
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.
TechCrunch
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space.
TechCrunch
AUGUST 16, 2021
In a 2019 letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation, The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) “[wondered] about the description of pedestrian ‘crumple zones,’ and whether this may impact the vehicle’s crash-worthiness in the event of a vehicle-to-vehicle crash. (R2X
TechCrunch
OCTOBER 12, 2020
Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / seed, 1 December 2019. Description: “Starfish Space aims to create an on-demand, in-space transportation and maintenance service for orbiting satellites. ” Starfish Space. ” Vector Photonics.
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