TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. Last year saw $11.3

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Signaling that investments in the supply chain sector remain robust, Pando , a startup developing fulfillment management technologies, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round, bringing its total raised to $45 million. ” There’s truth to what Jayakrishnan’s expressing about pent-up demand.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. Headquartered in Singapore, Transport Capital’s core expertise is in Real Assets and Private Capital Markets.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. Infrastructure touches everything.

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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. Inflation accelerated.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup that builds e-bikes and offers micromobility subscriptions to gig workers and couriers, wants to be the next disruptive electric vehicle company. The startup has just announced a $60 million Series B fundraise, money it aims to use to transform the way companies look at last-mile delivery.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Led by LG Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of the LG Group, the round also saw participation from Safar Partners, UOB Venture Management, and existing investors Alpha JWC and LDV Partners. The post Autonomous logistics startup Venti raises $28.8m million in a Series A funding round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Travel booking startup Hopper today announced that it closed a $96 million follow-on investment from Capital One, bringing the company’s total raised to $740 million. Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch. billion this year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. million–the largest of its kind in MENA and sub-Saharan Africa, besting what Rabbit, a 20-minute convenience delivery startup , pulled in last November. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. The venture studio plans to build about four startups at the intersection of tourism, climate and technology, every year.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Buckle up, startup and tech fans. Save the date and get ready to rub virtual elbows with mobility’s best and brightest minds — the movers, shakers and policy makers that are shaping the future of transportation. Shin-pei Tsay, director of policy, cities and transportation, Uber. Can you say mobility three-peat? Yes, you can!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors. Image Credits: Lori Systems.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 20, 2022

The invisible hand and heart of capitalism supports Ukraine. Startup of the Week: NeuReality: Slashing AI costs across the board. Artificial intelligence technology is disrupting almost every industry from agriculture to retail to transportation, but it doesn’t come cheap. It forecasts initial sales of $2.5M Invest Now.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The decarbonization of the planet will be the next major disruption of the 21st century, according to SOSV managing general partner Sean O’Sullivan and Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. “Climate tech is not just one thing that needs to be changed. But that doesn’t mean success is guaranteed.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. And not enough capital embracing these moonshots. Startup Lessons' Having a steady income and providing for a family is one of life’s highest commitments and honors. Working on it.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. . But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . Looking ahead, project44 plans to use its new capital in part to continue its global expansion.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2024

Capital requirements for new cement plants approach $1 billion for a single facility. After researching most of them, we believe Furno stands out as one that has the potential to scale most quickly and be most disruptive to traditional cement plants. We are excited to closely monitor their progress and be one of their early adopters.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

We partnered with various founder organizations — who in turn nominated promising early-stage startup founders — and collectively provide educational resources and mentorship to help these young founders develop and succeed over the course of the year. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi. Go Together, Inc. : Go Together, Inc. :

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup and relative newcomer to the industry, is now valued at $5.3 The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Robert Falck used to work at a Russian trucking factory by day, and by night, he built a nightclub guest list startup. The startup also offers an IoT system called Saga that runs through its fleet and helps the company and its shipping partners optimize routes, and manage and electrify fleets. Einride launched its U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action. The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption. Again and again, we see these call-and-response patterns of disruptive innovation across supply chain categories. The recurring second wave of innovation. and Enable.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Le Yen Thanh, the 28-year-old CEO of Vietnam’s smart mobility startup Phenikaa Maas , is among the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honorees in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category. In 2013, Thanh founded the BusMap Project, a free public transportation app for urban bus passengers.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup. Coast co-founders Daniel Simon and Andrew Woolf.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. . Sequoia Capital India, Insight Partners and Insignia Ventures Partners co-led the Series B round.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Deal of the week The battery business keeps attracting capital. Other deals that caught my attention … Accure , a startup that uses AI to predict lithium-ion battery failures, raised $7.8 Subscribe for free. The company raised around $1.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 26, 2021

Good news, TechCrunch family, Techstars’ Saba Karim is coming to Disrupt (September 21-23) this year. With a great vantage point from his perspective as Global Startup Pipeline Manager at Techstars, Karim will be hosting a session on the Extra Crunch stage discussing how to craft a pitch deck that cannot be ignored.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Enza Capital participated, alongside some unnamed angel investors. Between 2006 and 2010, CEO Wilkerson, then a journalist and researcher, spent a great deal of time using motorcycles ( Boda bodas ) for quick and flexible transport. Because of the nature of its business, Tugende needs a steady influx of debt capital.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Ann Arbor continues to be one of the top growing tech ecosystems around the country with some of the best startups to watch. This was a year like no other for Ann Arbor startups, so we’ve spent lots of time keeping up with all the news from Ann Arbor tech companies. Small Ann Arbor startups to watch in 2022. DocNetwork.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Zenskar , a startup that is aiming to help SaaS companies automate their billing workflows, has raised $3.5 ” Bansal and Agrawal are second-time entrepreneurs who sold their previous startups to Snapdeal and music-streaming app Gaana, respectively. The startup targets the U.S. million in a seed funding round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

“Our default rate is about three times better than the industry average — which is the payday lending industry that we’re looking to disrupt,” Holoway said. “They’re looking to diversify their capital and deploy it to make returns.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

’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. Description: “Starfish Space aims to create an on-demand, in-space transportation and maintenance service for orbiting satellites.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When consumers started buying cars, many predicted the transportation revolution would lead to air pollution, traffic and life-threatening collisions. billion into cyber startups, a YoY increase of 138%. Why are cybersecurity asset management startups so hot right now? Our startup’s first hire was a fractional Head of Remote.

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