TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

” He added that Bolt is working on partnering with more city governments to build out its services as part of their updated transportation strategies. “But now we’ve learned that this model works everywhere, and it’s actually easier to grow in Western Europe because they are developed markets. .

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel. Jeff Witwer, and together, they founded Onboard Dynamics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Veev, a real estate developer turned tech-enabled homebuilder, announced today that it has raised $400 million a Series D round that propels the company to “unicorn status.” Interestingly, Veev Group started its life as a traditional real estate developer and asset manager.

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Continuations

MAY 29, 2021

In last week’s post , I provided some data on how much physical capital has grown in the last one hundred years. Put differently, the increase in physical capital has far outstripped population growth. Now one might still question whether this capital is sufficient to meet everyone’s needs as I have asserted.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The round was led by Inven Capital, a growth fund out of the Czech Republic. Additional investment came from Iris Capital, with strong participation from current investors, including Rider Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures and the Italian venture fund H14. It’s now raised $103 million since its launch in 2016.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While that seems like common sense, most communities around the world don’t have tools that can monitor emissions and pollutants at the granular levels they need to develop plans that can address these pollutants. GingerBread Capital , KTB Network , ACVC Partners and the Womens VC Fund II.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2021

Space propulsion developer Accion Systems has closed its most significant funding round yet. The company raised $42 million in a Series C led by Tracker Capital, bringing its valuation to $83.5 Along with the investment, Tracker Capital also acquired a majority stake in the company.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. The lab’s mandate was to deploy the latest advances in AI and ML to develop novel immunotherapies.

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Continuations

MARCH 1, 2021

Over the weekend I tweeted out a summary of my book The World After Capital in 64 theses. Industrial countries were constrained by how much physical capital (machines, factories, railroads, etc.) Today humanity is no longer constrained by capital, but by attention. transportation). For foraging tribes it was food.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 23, 2023

Vehicle networks to drive down cost and complexity while improving power efficiency in next-generation architectures Capital continues to flow to technologies that are driving the future of the automotive industry, as seen in the recent announcement made by startup Ethernovia, Inc. having recently completed a $64 million A-round.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 23, 2023

The funding round was led by Ortus Star, with participation from existing investors Cocoon Capital and YCAB Ventures and new investors, including Goldbell Investment, NP Consulting, Damson Capital, and several angel investors. Register The Indonesia-based fleet-tracking startup, TransTRACK, has successfully raised US$2.1

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. Entrepreneurial development in rural areas is needed now more than ever.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. and global energy markets,” said Carlo Passacantando, Founder and CEO.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync: Revolutionizing Corporate Commutes with Diverse Solutions Established in 2009 by Deepesh Agarwal and Akash Maheshwari, MoveinSync has developed various solutions to streamline employee commutes for large corporations.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Khaled Naim said that the new capital will be put toward product development, expanding Onfleet’s product and engineering capabilities, and enhancing the company’s enterprise offering. It brings Onfleet’s total raised to just over $40 million to date. .”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. SafeBoda welcomes Google to their community and are excited to continue to drive innovation in informal transportation and payments in the boda boda (East Africa) or okada (West Africa) industry,” said co-founder Ricky Rapa Thomson in a statement.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Despite 2022’s heel turn, the ten-year funding trend line still points to VCs concentrating less capital in the major coastal hubs and more in the rest of the country, a collective area of focus for attendees. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2023

I’ve spent the last four years starting a market entry business consulting company from scratch in the young and developing Southeast Asian market of Vietnam. Outside of traditional manufacturing, the IT and software development sector tends to operate under a similar model.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. What role should it play — in existing cities and when designing future urban transportation systems?

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TechCrunch

MAY 31, 2021

, she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. The company uses a workforce-development approach to hiring, meaning that they only hire in cohorts. If it moves people and packages from Point A to Point B, we cover it.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4%

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

APRIL 8, 2022

Whether by land or air, transportation accounts for over a quarter of total yearly greenhouse gas emissions. Consider partnering with local vendors, a method called “near-sourcing,” which reduces emissions caused by transporting resources to your door. Minimize business travel.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Parallel Systems also intends to use the new investment — which was led by Anthos Capital and includes investments from Congruent Ventures, Riot Ventures, Embark Ventures and others — to hire about 60 engineers, most of whom will deal with software, says Soule.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

This funding round is said to be a prominent investment in the Chinese AI industry, as startups like Baichuan plan to capitalize on the growing demand for ChatGPT-like services. The startup’s journey encompasses introducing four open-source large language models and ongoing efforts to develop two proprietary platforms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each founder showcased the innovative business ideas they developed and refined throughout the Bridge2 program. Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. The Bridge2 Program has been fundamental to the next phase of my business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2021

The company includes carriers Mesilla Valley Transportation and Bison Transport, and companies Anheuser-Busch InBev and HP Inc., The company joins competitor AV trucking developer Plus in going public via a SPAC merger. Carriers and fleets can pay a per-mile subscription fee to access it. among its partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

’s venture capital fund CapitalG. The company, which runs an app matching truck drivers and merchants transporting cargo and provides financial services to truckers, was formed from a merger between rivals Yunmanman and Huochebang in 2017. The Chinese Uber for trucks Manbang announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

WeRide, one of China’s most-funded startups developing autonomous driving capabilities, said on Wednesday that it has raised a $200 million strategic round from Chinese bus maker Yutong. The partners have already jointly developed a front-loaded driverless minibus for mass-production.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Everstream today announced that it raised $50 million in a Series B round led by Morgan Stanley’s 1GT Fund with participation from StepStone Group and Columbia Capital. Julie Gerdeman, Everstream’s CEO, says that the fresh capital will be put toward product development, hiring and customer success efforts.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

million funding round led by an investment from First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Impact Engine, 450 Ventures, LDH Ventures II/Launchpad Digital Health, MassMutual Ventures, Capstar Partners and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 16, 2024

April 15, 2024) – Last week, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved the creation of the New Jersey Green Bank (NJGB), which will make investments in the clean energy sector that will help advance the state’s efforts to make an equitable transition to 100 percent clean energy. TRENTON, N.J.

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