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.

transportation

Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2019

Back in 2002, food transportation accounted for almost 20 billion vehicle miles. Floripa Week 2019. As we want to leave a legacy for Florianopolis and for Brazil, we are opening our doors to the public in 2019 with the Global Social Innovation Festival ! Here’s how: 1. Keep It Local.

sustainability

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

transportation

AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Their offerings include MoveinSync Ion, a SaaS-based platform designed to manage employee transportation, and MoveinSync One, a comprehensive solution for accessing various commute modes like cabs, shuttles, and buses.

innovation

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

micromobility

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

from 2010 to 2019. According to the report, African developers created 40% more open source repositories on the software engineering marketplace in 2019 than in 2018 — recording a higher growth percentage than any other continent globally. Image Credits: ITU World Telecommunication/IOT indicators database/Endeavor.

VC

TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.). .

frameworks

TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

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. And in 2019, Bay Area investors put $1.4 In December 2018 that figure was $230 million, in 2019 it was just under $200 million.

startup ecosystem

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.

opportunity

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 But no one gave much thought to the security aspect. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin/TechCrunch.

transportation

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

startup

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. Petal Transport. Petal Transport is a manufacturing and tech startup founded in 2019. But it’s not just a cash-back program.

startup

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.

accelerator

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

FirstFleet, PAM Transport, Dot Transportation, Western Flyer Xpress, and Riverside Transport, as well as more than 1,500 midsized fleets and small trucking companies. Outpost serves many of the largest fleets in the nation, including Landstar, Werner, Prime Inc.,

accelerator

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Today, Alex Wilhelm says both transportation platforms plan to reach adjusted profitability by Q4 2021. In December 2019, Alex Wilhelm began reporting on startups that had reached the $100M ARR mark. Jon and Alex parsed Oscar Health’s 2019 comps and its 2020 metrics to take a closer look at the company’s performance.

health

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.

peer-to-peer

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The company said back in 2019 that it was working with OEMs and suppliers to apply its automated technology to the long-haul trucking market. Pony is building what it describes as an agnostic virtual driver for all sizes of vehicles, from small cars to large trucks, and to operate on both ridesharing and logistics (delivery) service networks.

startup

American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 24, 2023

The BrillDog Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) is a scalable, SaaS-based platform that helps SMBs gain visibility into their transportation processes and manage and track shipments to improve customer service and efficiencies throughout the supply chain. billion in funding with an estimated $9B portfolio.

accelerator

TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

“Splyt and Kakao Mobility’s technology teams have been collaborating since 2019 to integrate and enable global ride-hailing services for Kakao T users through Splyt’s ride-hailing API platform,” CTO of Splyt Stephen Mason told TechCrunch. That in itself was enough to bring on SoftBank as an investor. When it led a $19.5

startup

Impact Hub

MAY 23, 2024

Energía Vectorial: Pioneering electric vehicle transformation in Latin America Energía Vectorial, a member of Impact Hub Medellín since 2019, is revolutionising urban mobility in Latin America with innovative electric vehicle (EV) conversion technologies. Energía Vectorial’s influence extends beyond mere technological innovation.

sustainability

OurCrowd

JUNE 16, 2019

Mobility… RTA and skyTran to develop driverless transportation system in Dubai. At the 2019 OurCrowd Global Investor Summit, eBay’s Chief Scientist and Director of Data Science disclosed how her desire to understand causality between world events led her to develop the ultimate AI data system. News from the Industry .

incubation

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

How did fashion marketplace Poshmark go from posting regular losses in 2019 to generating net income in 2020? @yourprotagonist. Unpacking Poshmark’s IPO filing. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). After the company filed a public S-1 last night, Alex Wilhelm pondered the question this morning in The Exchange.

finance

OurCrowd

JUNE 13, 2021

Automotive telematics is a booming business, expected to grow from $64B in 2019 to $416B by 2027, a CAGR of 26%. Intuition Robotics wows The New Yorker. Introductions. 1,300 high-tech jobs. Startup of the Week: Sfara: Telematics for safer driving. Zippin adds chekout-free AmEx store for playoffs.

incubation

OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This will be a gamechanger for us,” says Geert Denutte, the founder of CGK, a Belgian company that makes 13-foot-high storage tanks for storing and transporting hazardous liquids. Largix has created the world’s largest robotic 3D printing platform, able to produce industrial-sized objects from common plastic materials for the first time.

health

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. As I’ve shared in here before, we’re bringing more transportation analysis to Extra Crunch. A Bird spokesperson told me these will be new vehicles and “transport modes” in the region. MaaS transit: The business of mobility as a service.

transportation

TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

The Munich-based company launched at CES in 2019. For example, around Halloween 2019, holoride teamed up with Ford and Universal Pictures to immerse riders into the frightening world of the Bride of Frankenstein, replete with monsters jumping out and tasks for riders to perform. .

education

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.

transportation

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

on gross merchandise value (GMV: the total figure transacted on Bolt’s platform), à la the recently listed DoorDash, than it is closer to “others” in the transport space that are seeing valuations closer to 0.5x billion ($4.3 Uber sells air taxi business Elevate to Joby Aviation, shedding its last moonshot.

transportation

Paul G. Silva

MAY 24, 2019

This accelerator focuses on “ startup and/or seed stage ventures who offer new technologies, or novel applications of existing technologies, aimed at reducing fossil fuel use and greenhouse gas emissions in the heating and/or transportation sector. My thanks to my first mentor, Joseph Steig , for bringing me into this program!

energy

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.

transportation

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.

transportation

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).

transportation

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.

investing

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%

transportation

TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Plentywaka launched in September 2019, and in the first two months, moved an average of six people daily, according to CEO Akumah. Due to the nature of its business, Plentywaka had to make a slight pivot and began transporting essential services across Lagos, especially food items. It also opened a logistics service.

transportation

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.

investing

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.

transportation