American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 28, 2023

Department of Transportation (USDOT), Department of Energy and new Joint Office of Energy and Transportation (JOET) was to set standards eliminating the differences in EV plugs styles and EV chargers—that vehicle owners complained were hampering EV use and enjoyment. In addition to funding, one key action taken by the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 9, 2023

Register The K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) , the most prominent global startup acceleration program of South Korea, is garnering a positive response from global startups as the deadline for the application stage approaches on May 18, 2023,16:00 (GMT+9). Office space in Pangyo Techno Valley, easily accessible by public transportation.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

based tech founders are welcomed with open arms. Amsterdam has tech industry “schools” such as Growth Tribe , The Talent Institute and THNK for educational courses, as well as accelerators like Rockstart, Startupbootcamp and Fashion for Good. In Amsterdam, rich people take public transport, not private buses.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, January 24, the inaugural cohort of startups from i2E’s Bridge2 Pre-Accelerator program presented their groundbreaking innovations during the Bridge2 Demo Day at Sailor & The Dock in Oklahoma City. During Demo Day, attendees heard pitch presentations from five founders who participated in the initial Bridge2 cohort.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

most of which are used only a handful of days, they saw an opportunity. The money will be used in large part to accelerate the growth of Outdoorsy’s insurtech business, Roamly. The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. .

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives. Infrastructure touches everything. Cultivate a super team, not a superstar.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

It lets us build really, really small systems,” Accion co-founder Natalya Bailey explained to TechCrunch. The TILE system was developed by Accion co-founders Natalya Bailey and Louis Perna while the two were at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As launch market matures, space opportunities on the ground take off.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Its proximity to London has meant that it is a good alternative for founders looking for a more affordable stay while letting them tap the capital’s financial resources. Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared. Pete Read , CEO and founder, Persona Education. Kiran Krishnamurthy , CEO, AI Labs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Plentywaka , a Nigerian bus-booking platform, today announced that it has been accepted into the Techstars Toronto accelerator program. It will join nine other startups in the class of 2021 and secure funding from the accelerator as it sets its sights on global expansion. It also opened a logistics service.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

When I was a Y Combinator partner, I noticed that more and more of the batches were companies started by international founders. International founders typically have some combination of these three reasons: a) Access to capital The number one answer is access to capital. or incorporated here to raise capital. investors.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

While working in growth, operations, and marketing for Zipcar across North America, Robinson had the opportunity to launch the world’s largest car-sharing organization in Detroit — and she never left. I don’t think there’s anyplace in the world where you see the importance of transportation and economic mobility as you do in Detroit.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Transportation startup DeltaX is accelerating its plans to digitize the trucking industry in its native Bolivia and beyond thanks to a recent $1 million seed round. ” Why Latin America’s freight-forwarding opportunity is still attracting capital. It will be interesting to watch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of digital freight company Convoy , didn’t start his company because he had a deep and abiding passion for trucking. “I saw a massive opportunity and few people going after it,” Lewis told TechCrunch. Dan Lewis, co-founder and CEO of Convoy. At least, not at first.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

German battery recycling startup Cylib leapt at the opportunity, raising a total of €11.6 “For too long, battery recycling hasn’t been efficient enough for companies to take advantage of,” said co-founder and COO at Cylib, Gideon Schwich. For this round, 10x Founders also joined. million ($12.6

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Electric vehicle startup BasiGo has today announced the launch of its operations in Nairobi, bringing clean energy options to Kenya’s public transport industry, currently dominated by fossil-fuel buses. . “For years, diesel-powered buses have been the only viable solution for bus operators in Kenya.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

It highlights important events in the continent’s tech ecosystem until this point, compares its journey with other emerging markets and provides guidance into the opportunities within various sectors. And though they are inclined to follow the money, Endeavor wants them to look beyond usual market opportunities and map out exit pathways.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Nearly half of the teams I’ve backed have female founders.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

The round also includes participation from several of Gideon Brothers’ existing backers: Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of TransferWise), Pentland Ventures, Peaksjah, HCVC (Hardware Club), Ivan Top?i?, Gideon Brothers founders. Nenad Baki? and Luca Ascani. The company will also expand its operations in the EU and U.S. Matija Kopi?,

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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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. Voltron Data co-founder and CEO Josh Patterson said that at its heart, the startup is a standards company that aims to spread the word on the power of data and analytics standardization via Apache Arrow.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

I wrote about Coral Vita late in 2019 when I encountered co-founder Gator Halpern on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance’s Accelerator at Sea. In the Accelerator over the Sea. We really believe this is an opportunity to jump start a restoration economy,” said Sam Teicher, co-founder and Chief Reef Officer.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Aditi Shekar, the co-founder, gave me some notes about why the ongoing popularity of Venmo is validation for the company, instead of competition. Money is emotional and complex, and the opportunity within the multiplayer fintech reflects just that. Etc: Without desks and a demo day, are accelerators worth it? The new CEO.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic challenges the world of transportation and mobility, the crisis is also offering opportunities for new technological solutions, from electric scooters to self-driving cars, according to some of the leading entrepreneurs in the sector. Adi Pinhas, CEO, Brodmann17. Yakir Machluf, OurCrowd Mobility Lead.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

In a column for TC+ , Ben Tigner, co-founder and CEO of electric aerial mobility company Overair, identified four trends that are changing how investors, entrepreneurs and the market are responding to expanding opportunities in eVTOL: An expanding competitive landscape. Mainstream attention is increasing. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

The demand for affordable, same-day delivery of goods was obviously accelerated by the pandemic, and no less so in developing countries as well as developed ones. Borzo says its gig economy workforce enables delivery via any route, any transport, any weight or size.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

To examine the market forces and psychology driving climate tech, we surveyed an international group of investors to learn about how they evaluate new opportunities and what they’re looking for from the entrepreneurs who approach them. Joshua Posamentier , co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures. Robert Downey Jr. ,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. We’re going to have a much bigger opportunity by focusing on some not-so-sexy stuff.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Today, Alex Wilhelm says both transportation platforms plan to reach adjusted profitability by Q4 2021. TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators. ” TechCrunch’s favorites from Techstars’ Boston, Chicago and workforce accelerators.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Exhibiting your early-stage startup at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 in San Mateo, California on May 18-20 is one of the fastest ways to discover new opportunities and accelerate your growth potential. And, if you’re not quite ready for prime time yet, opportunity still knocks. Why not make yours one of them? You do the math.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Northern Lights was incorporated in March as a joint venture between Equinor, Shell and Total to provide processing, transportation and underground sequestration services for captured carbon dioxide emissions. A facility there will transport the liquefied carbon dioxide by pipeline to an offshore storage location 1.62 This interest.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. This week it’s a dual-hosted event with transportation editor Kirsten Korosec and transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan steering the ship, er, car. GM Future Roads and Inrix are offering “Safety View” to transport planners nationwide.

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Impact Hub

JANUARY 4, 2024

Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp In a world bustling with crowds, events, and public transport, individuals with impaired stimulus filtering often find themselves on the fringes of society. Sefit’s founder, Elena Börlin conceptualised the idea and immediately embarked on the Swiss patent process.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

From the mobility front: Beam raises $93M, proves that the e-scooter market is not kaput : Beam, a Singapore-based company, rents out e-scooters and other electric personal transport machines. Day One Ventures agrees with our general vibe, adding ClassPass co-founder Sanjiv Sanghavi as a climate-focused investor to its staff.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others. Some of my co-founders are big fans of The Lord of the Rings,” Gómez told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“UVeye saw the opportunity is 2019 as we saw more and more vehicles that had mechanical issues in their undercarriage so although the systems were used for the security side the need was very obvious,” CEO and co-founder Amir Hever told TechCrunch in an email. ” Now, UVeye is doubling down on its automotive bet.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

Early investors include the Baobab Network, an Africa-focused accelerator based in London, and Signal Hill, a Singapore-based fund manager that participated in its $5.5 The founder says Ibadan was the ideal market to establish its headquarters because informal retailers in the region experience these challenges more than those in Lagos.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2021

“We will keep expanding through Europe and will consider some additional opportunities (the U.S. and some LatAm countries),” co-founder Juan Urdiales told us, noting that its main markets remain Spain and the U.K., while its main sectors are logistics, last mile, warehousing and transport.

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