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

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Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having 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. Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection.

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

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’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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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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InstaDeep utilizes advanced machine learning techniques, including deep reinforcement learning in applications within an enterprise environment that cuts across various industries such as biotech, transportation, electronics manufacturing and logistics. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding.

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

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Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry.

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

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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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Chasing Cruise and Waymo, Chinese AV company AutoX plans to begin testing in San Francisco

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The center will be responsible for vehicle housing, maintenance and charging, as well as processing data collected by the cars locally and calibrating their sensors. AutoX is hiring to build out its local San Francisco team, according to AutoX’s CEO Dr. Jianxiong Xiao, who also goes by Professor X.

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Extra Crunch roundup: TC Mobility recaps, Nubank EC-1, farewell to browser cookies

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update, which does away with automatic opt-ins for data collection, and Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies do not signal a death knell for digital advertisers. Image Credits: Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm (opens in a new window). CTO Hunter Jensen writes in a guest column.