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Ola Electric raises $200 million at $3 billion valuation

TechCrunch

The startup said it had sold scooters worth $150 million in just two days. The startup, which was once part of the ride-hailing giant Ola, said it will deploy the fresh funds to accelerate development of other vehicle platforms, including electric motorbike, mass market scooter and its electric car.

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8 investors, founders and execs predict cybersecurity, fintech will take Belfast by storm

TechCrunch

With that in mind, we reached out to founders, investors and executives in the city to get an inside look at the state of the current tech startup ecosystem. According to the survey, the city is strong in sectors such as fintech, agritech, hospitality tech, emerging tech, cybersecurity, SaaS and medtech. What does it lack?

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

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Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. It accelerates enrollment and improve retainment of trial participants. A genomics startup in Ann Arbor is a growing thing, just like cybersecurity. RightBrain Networks.

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6 Miami-based investors share their views on the region’s startup scene

TechCrunch

The Miami tech ecosystem is smaller than in the Bay Area or New York and arguably less intense, with fewer exits so far of which to speak. Who are key startup people you see creating success locally, whether investors, founders or even other types of startup ecosystem roles like lawyers, designers, growth experts, etc.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

As far as green shoots, COVID-19 has “played a role of an accelerator for innovation in many business areas and even e-government and other rigid/conservative industries,” said one. D2C startups have benefitted and “Zoom selling” now seems “totally plausible.”. Osman Salih , associate, Bolt Start Up Development a.s.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

TechCrunch

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. JoyTunes, led by Yuval Kaminka has developed a music-learning platform that has skyrocketed in 2020. The upside is that companies that will develop a remote and simplified approach can reap gains from this time.

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Newsletter: Shopping enters the metaverse

OurCrowd

OurCrowd is reinvesting in Scopio , an Israeli company that has developed the world’s first digital cell morphology imaging and AI platform that can scan a full-field image of thousands of cells at 100X resolution, breaking a historical trade-off between resolution and field of view. Gates-backed fund grants MigVax $4.3M