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Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation network in Europe and Africa

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In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to move food and people around in cars, on scooters and ( most recently ) on bikes across developed and emerging markets in EMEA is announcing a major round of funding. billion ($4.3

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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Through our work with affiliates that include IASourceLink , SourceLink Nebraska , NetWork Kansas , MOSourceLink , Launch Network and more, we’ve learned first-hand the struggles rural business owners in America experience and how building a network of entrepreneurial support can solve for those challenges.

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Archer Aviation aims to launch network of urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024

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Archer Aviation, the electric aircraft startup that recently announced a deal to go public via a merger with a blank-check company, plans to launch a network of its urban air taxis in Los Angeles by 2024.

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Out There Bets and Insider Games: The Social Barriers to Funding Big Ideas

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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. It can be run as a single route or a network of regional hops with swappable batteries. Below is a link to the pitch video. And then I disappeared.

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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

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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.

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Daimler invests in lidar company Luminar in push to bring autonomous trucks to highways

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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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Nigerian shared mobility startup Shuttlers raises $1.6M, plans pan-African expansion

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Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. CEO Damilola Olokesusi founded Shuttlers in 2016 to address the issue of inefficient transportation costs in Nigeria’s most renowned urban city, Lagos.