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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

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SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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ChargerHelp co-founder, CEO Kameale C. Terry is heading to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

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she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Shortly after, Terry and Ellis were accepted into Elemental Excelerator’s startup incubator and have landed contracts with major EV charging network providers like EV Connect and SparkCharge.

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Exploring the many faces of sidewalk delivery robots with Cartken’s Anjali Jindal Naik

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It was there that she met the engineers over at the company’s Area 120 incubator for experimental products, Jake Stelman and Christian Bersch, who would later go on to become her co-founders at Cartken. Stelman and Bersch worked on Bookbot, a sidewalk delivery robot that would deliver books from libraries.

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Israel’s startup ecosystem powers ahead, amid a year of change

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Released in 2011, “Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle” was a book that laid claim to the idea that Israel was an unusual type of country. Via Transportation raised $400 million in Q1. However, the decline may also be a function of large tech firms setting up incubation hubs to cut up and absorb talent.

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Top Ann Arbor Tech Companies and Startups to Watch in 2022

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Founder Christina York created the tech to work as augmented reality for published books but quickly pivoted into health care when she found the technology could be readily used as pediatric patient distraction during medical procedures. Spellbound has gone from bootstrapped XR startup to award-winning company with a growing team.

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PubNub raises $65M to build and run data streams for messaging, presence and other real-time aspects of ‘virtual spaces’

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It says that customer bookings have grown 200% year-over-year in 2021. They include Ably out of London, Techstars-incubated Cometchat and Google’s Firebase. trillion messages in 2019 — a figure it’s not updating this time around.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

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Birb An apartment rental app to search for the best offers in a user’s favorite neighborhoods Book Box A library service for corporations to provide employees access to books and reading material Corner “The modern, frictionless way to set up a renovation with a pre-designed kitchen entirely online.”

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