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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Capital of course drives scale advantages and when you have “winner take most” markets it also has a way of scaring away some investors from investing in the 3–5th “me too” competitors. Not really.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

TechCrunch

’s Seraphim Capital , the country’s only space tech accelerator, has released details of its newest cohort as part of its Space Camp programme, timed with the end of World Space Week last week. Raised so far: Undisclosed amount / Non-Equity Assistance from Creative Destruction Lab. ” Starfish Space.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” “DIMO enables a new class of mobility applications to be built by developers on real world data. ” Swyft Cities (Mountain View, CA) — Presenter: Jeral Poskey, CEO.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

TechCrunch

Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software.

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The New Drug Delivery Challenge: How Will Cures Reach Patients?

Andreessen Horowitz

Manufacturing infrastructure To illustrate the complexity of production of these therapies, some cell therapies require removing cells from the patient’s body, transporting them to the manufacturer to reprogram and regrow the cells, and sending the cells back to the provider to infuse into the patient.

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Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M

TechCrunch

“Our product roadmap is high confidential, but let’s say our high-level vision looking a decade or so forth is to take people out of the loop and have a completely automated data collection, processing and analysis,” co-founder and CEO Maximillion Boosfeld told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Palihapitiya on SPACs, inside Rivian’s IPO, BaaS pros talk shop

TechCrunch

Each of them has cracked the code that grants access to capital and influential social networks, but I also wanted to learn about how they approached leadership and management, hear some of their strategies for building confidence and find out whether generic best practices for startup success applied to their lived experiences.