Remove accelerator Remove investment Remove sustainability Remove transportation
article thumbnail

Appleā€™s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies

TechCrunch

Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change. Mosaic Global Transportation (Founder: Maurice H.

article thumbnail

Outpost Raises $12.5 Million to Accelerate Growth, Targeting the Nationwide Truck Parking Shortage

American Entrepreneurship

million in Series A funding, led by GreenPoint Partners with support from Speedwagon Capital Partners, to accelerate expansion of its managed properties and technology platform. FirstFleet, PAM Transport, Dot Transportation, Western Flyer Xpress, and Riverside Transport, as well as more than 1,500 midsized fleets and small trucking companies.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Shift4Good raises $4.35M from transport firm ComfortDelGro

AsiaTechDaily

million from GSX-listed transportation firm ComfortDelGro Corporation. In a statement, the company said that ComfortDelGro is the first strategic LP from Southeast Asia that invested on Shift4Good, which hit a first close of about $98 million for its debut fund in October 2022.

article thumbnail

Spirit of innovation demonstrated in land transport sector

NZ Entrepreneur

A number of startups and entrepreneurial initiatives working to address challenges in the transport sector have been approved for funding in round one of the Waka Kotahi Hoe ki angitū- Innovation Fund , with a second round of challenges now announced. The fund will run for two years, and its aim is to make transport greener and safer.

article thumbnail

Finding Founder-Market-Geography Fit

Revolution

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the roadā€Šā€”ā€Šthat great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chanceā€Šā€”ā€Šinto an investment vehicle. In the last decade, weā€™ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

founder 229
article thumbnail

BasiGo secures $4.3 million in seed funding to accelerate mass transit EV adoption in Kenya

TechCrunch

The support and knowledge of this investor group will catalyze BasiGo in its mission to make East Africa a leader in inclusive, sustainable bus transport,ā€ he said. BasiGo plans to supply over 1,000 mass transit electric buses to transport operators in Nairobi over the next five years. Image Credits: BasiGo.

article thumbnail

GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech

TechCrunch

Alongside lead investor Lotte Chemical and investment company KTB Network, General Motors’ corporate venture capital arm, GM Ventures, signed on as a strategic investor. ” Soelect is not the only battery company that the VC invested in recently. . Can solid state batteries power up for the next generation of EVs?