TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Fort Robotics today announced a $13 million raise. The Philadelphia-based company was founded in 2018 by Samuel Reeves, who previous headed up Humanistic Robotics. That fellow Pennsylvania startup is focused on landmine and IED-clearing remote operating robotic systems. 2020 will change the way we look at robotics.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The typical hospital spends about 30% of its annual budget on four to seven million items ranging from gloves and catheters to robotic surgery systems, totaling a staggering US$50 to US$250 million. Escalating heart rates, sleep deprived eyes and much anxiety later, we delivered our first category 45 days later.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. Again and again, we see these call-and-response patterns of disruptive innovation across supply chain categories. The story repeats as enablers follow disruptors across each category of supply chain business. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Led by Hike Ventures and Real Ventures, the funding includes participation from Toyota AI Ventures and Uphill Capital, among others, designed to help the company pilot its kitchen robotics technology. XRobotics is keeping the dream of pizza robots alive. Food robotics, in particular, have been a focus.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. HealthTech + BioTech.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 8, 2024

From supply chains and robotics to advanced factories and industrial autonomy, LLMs and other AI models are powering the next wave of transformation in the physical domain in ways we’re only just beginning to comprehend.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. . The reason we’re all here – the XTC Category and Special Awards Winners get their chance to pitch their transformative tech ideas to a panel of expert judges and hear their feedback. Waste Matters. According to the EPA, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. I talked about Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast recently in the context of two high-profile startup failures there, Ford- and VW-backed Argo AI and robotic vertical farming outfit Fifth Season.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Launched last year, Retail Watch uses a combination of computer vision, machine learning and hardware like cameras and autonomous robots, to gather real-time data about the shelf availability of products. Other tech companies focused on retail analytics include Quant Retail, Pensa Systems and Bossa Nova Robotics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“[Cultivate Next will give] early stage ventures great visibility and experience in the restaurant category to work with alongside a large scale operation with domestic and international growth ahead.” “It could be anything from innovations in farming and supply chain, to advanced robotics, and beyond.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Deus Robotics Ukrainian Startup Deus Robotics secured a $1.5M seed round funding for its warehouse robotics solutions, led by SMRK VC, a Ukrainian venture fund. Its robots are capable of sorting by direction and moving shelves, which are used in pre-sorting tasks, consolidation, and order picking.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

That was a win for the category. Northern Light Venture Capital’s He Huang says the Chinese robotics market is overheated : Per the investor, robotics in China is “riddled with speculation and overvalued companies,” calling the situation a bubble. Samsara recently went public on the back of its IoT business. Series F-tw ?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. I also think that femtech is a hyped category but funding as well as renown exits are still missing. What are you looking for in your next investment, in general?

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Hardware Stage: Uncovers the mechanics and code powering our smart world, featuring topics like articulated robots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), commercial hardware, humanoids, IoT hardware, and interstellar technologies. Sessions will include Alphabet and Magic Leap. Disrupt 2023 isn’t just a conference, though.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Richard was CMO for PAX labs a market leader in the e-cigarette category and he ran marketing for Bonobos, an innovative apparel company bought by Walmart for more than $300 million. No prizes for guessing what some of MakeSpace’s innovations will be in 2018 and 2019. We recently added Richard Mumby to our leadership team.

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TechCrunch

JULY 17, 2022

The corporate spend category continues to evolve. Kote emphasized that he does not believe that the move puts Airbase into the lending category. “We Now for a non-fintech-related PSA: For all you robotics tech lovers, TechCrunch has created a great lineup of sessions for #TechCrunchRobotics! Weekly News. We are not a lender.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

Camino Robotics is creating “e-rollators,” or smart walkers with features that help people walk over slopes and uneven surfaces, brake automatically when going downhill and folds into “compact mode” for navigating tight spaces. In its wellness category, AARP Innovation presented three startups focused on overall health and well-being.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

One key challenge for early-stage companies that are disrupting a particular space or creating a new category is figuring out how to sell a unique product to customers who have never bought such a solution. Deep Science: Robots, meet world. Deep Science: Robots, meet world. Image via Getty Images / Westend61.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Consumer packaged goods brands that are reinventing themselves already have successful product lines, but few brands are taking a look at certain categories she said are ripe for reinvention, like cereal. Video: Japan gets a ramen noodle robot.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

will hand-hold you through the process of building a super savvy customer service robot, is the pitch. “We believe that customer service automation will be its own category in the future and so we are working hard to define what that means today.” will do the same for customer service.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

She uses science, tech, engineering, arts and math to create inventions from her secret lab to fight this evil robot villain — her town’s ruler — and his minions. Super Sema is the story of a 10-year-old African girl — a superhero — with the powers of creativity, determination and team skills. Immediate plans include launching a U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 25, 2021

Even today, garnering a top spot in one of the category leaderboards remains a surefire way to build brand awareness, investor interest, as well as sales records. What used to take weeks now takes mere days, the lead times shortened drastically by software, robots and other advancements.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

” Zhang previously worked at Amazon under the company’s robotics R&D division before leading product for Smartcar, an API platform for connected vehicles. When an employee changes their contributions in a benefits app, Finch Benefits automatically updates it in the correct tax category on their paycheck.

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OurCrowd

MAY 23, 2021

Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE’s robot warehouse. Startup of the Week: BionicHIVE: Elon Musk hails “robot future”. The robot future is coming,” exclaims Elon Musk, sharing a video of SqUID, the automated warehouse robot developed by our portfolio company BionicHIVE , that has been viewed more than two million times.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

OurCrowd is joining some top investors raising a $24M investment round for Diagnostic Robotics , a company at the forefront of the digital health revolution that uses artificial intelligence to reduce hospital waiting times and guide patients to faster, more efficient medical care. Juganu: Killing Covid-19 with light. Introductions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

AI is just like a new and interesting piece of infrastructure that lets you solve a new category of problems or solve an old category of problems in better ways. And then determining whether or not AI is actually a useful piece of infrastructure to go solve that user problem—that is something that is unchanged.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 4, 2022

3D printing is revolutionizing industries from automotive to robotics. The company’s magnetically driven micro robots deliver therapeutics directly to the midbrain, unlike standard drugs that are delivered mostly intravenously or orally. Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M Bionaut Labs raises $43.2M MedTech pioneer Bionaut Labs raised $43.2M

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OurCrowd

JULY 1, 2022

The company’s net revenue grew in 2021 despite supply-chain disruptions during the Covid-19 pandemic, with sales growing several times faster than the industry average across all categories. Head of Sales at Diagnostic Robotics (New York) System Engineer at Insightec (Haifa) Data Scientist at Teradata (Tokyo). L earn More.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

When I spoke to the company at launch, an executive outlined a 10-year plan to become a major player in both the mobile and smart home categories. Starsky Robotics (2015-2020). Self-driving trucks startup Starksy Robotics began with this first, and problematic truck. Image Credits: Starsky Robotics. “In

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders. Coverage Cat, because it’s a damn cute name and a damn difficult category to build in. – Anna Heim.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Startup of the Week: Bionaut micro-robot inside the brain. Startup of the Week: Bionaut: Micro-robot delivers drugs inside the brain. A tiny robot could revolutionize treatment for brain disease and disorders in the central nervous system. The company is led by experienced robotics and pharma/biotech executives.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 6, 2021

FDA greenlights Memic’s breakthrough robotic surgery. FDA greenlights Memic’s breakthrough robotic surgery. The FDA has granted De Novo Marketing Authorization for the breakthrough Hominis robotic surgery system developed by Memic – a notable first. Elon Musk’s genius is battery powered. Webinar, Mar. Introductions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Over time the Boston area watched the development of a robust technology startup ecosystem across industries like cybersecurity, robotics and biotech with companies like Hubspot, Wayfair, Rapid7, Boston Dynamics and Moderna, to name but a few. By the time the new century came around the area began to shift to look like a modern startup scene.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2021

My focus is primarily in Israeli companies and I’m seeing many exciting startups in security, SaaS, enterprise and cloud infrastructure, robotics and semiconductors. replace existing products that are aging, low performance) or a new category. is a great example of a new category we invested in early on.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

AI, drones, and robots are already having an impact. What I learned when I started to work over there… it led in every crime category that you don’t want to lead in: robbery, homicide, sexual assault, gangs. And I don’t have to spend a lot of time convincing anybody afterwards because they’re out doing that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 7, 2021

Robotic process automation (RPA) has certainly been getting a lot of attention in the last year, with startups, acquisitions and IPOs all coming together in a flurry of market activity. Let’s unpack the deal to gain a better understanding of the huge exit and the value of Divvy’s richly funded competitors. Why did Bill.com pay $2.5B

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

We will fund businesses that meet our criteria in categories we like such as health and wellness, consumerization of healthcare, food and beverage, beauty, and other consumer and techsumer areas. I would be thrilled to find an investment based in Miami, however Clerisy is not focused on a specific geography.

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