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

JANUARY 14, 2021

The round was led by an unnamed party, but round participants included Accel, Lakestar, HV Capital, Project A and Scania. Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. Digital freight forwarder Forto raises another $50M in round led by Inven Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. It’s worth noting that these end-to-end models typically require more capital to reach scale, as greater upfront investment is necessary to get them off the ground than other, more narrowly focused marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

billion in total capital to take its air taxi operations to commercialization in 2024. That includes $835 million of private-investment-in-public-equity, as well as more than $500 million of capital on the balance sheet. It’s a sizable amount, but creating an entirely new form of transportation is a capital-intensive business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

VCs include WndrCo, DN Capital, Kismet Capital, Spike Ventures, Quiet Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, FJ Labs, VentureSouq, Nellore Capital and Moving Capital. Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. After earning a Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Other backers include Global Founders Capital and a number of high-profile angel investors, such as GGV Managing Partner Hans Tung, ALLVP Partner Antonia Rojas and LaHaus founders Jeronimo Uribe and Tomas Uribe, among others.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

From an investment point of view, managing and deploying capital in the same physical area makes sense, where investors can work with young companies and help them with a variety of things. San Francisco proper was #1, and taken on the whole, the Bay Area, of course, receives more venture capital investment than anywhere else, naturally.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

YC Companies: Enode , Evoly , inBalance , Pelm Electric vehicle value chain Electric cars are winning personal transportation technology. These are big markets: just aviation and shipping, both of which are growing fast, represent 20% of all transportation emissions in the world.

energy

TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.”

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Getting investors excited about your product is a critical part of raising capital. But founders are often so consumed with talking metrics, milestones achieved, or the capital they need that they sometimes forget to talk about their overarching vision for their startups. Don’t confuse "exit strategy" with your company’s vision.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Investors other than WeRide and Pony include Japan’s SPARX, Singapore’s Pilgrim Partners Asia, as well as government-affiliated funds Guangzhou Industrial Investment and Capital Operation, Lingnan Commerce and Trade Tourism, and Guangzhou Industrial Control.

transportation

TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities. This, along with the platform’s emphasis on no-code capabilities, differentiates Pando from incumbents like SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder and E2Open, Jayakrishnan asserts.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

So he teamed up with former Lyft exec Andrew Woolf to found Coast , a company that is aiming to meet those needs with the mission of becoming “the financial platform for the future of transportation.”. It’s the perfect recipe for a startup to come in and disrupt it with a much better experience,” Mohnot told TechCrunch via e-mail.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Falcon Edge Capital is in advanced talks to lead the round, which values Ola Electric between $2.75 Incumbents, despite all their resources have launched products which appear as another variant of an ICE product and lack the punch. billion to $3.5 The electric scooter offers a range of 121 kilometers (75 miles) on a complete charge.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system. As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area. “Get a plane!

incumbents

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. Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

It’s hard to challenge such a dominant set of incumbents (which may well be termed a cartel at this point), and Fleetzero can’t make any claims to doing so as a fresh new startup, but their approach neatly avoids the most direct competition. Bill Gates offers guidance on what climate technologies he’s looking to fund.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. And would might happen if the company didn’t spend all this capital? Market fragmentation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Hold my battery: Package-transporting drones are cool. The struggle is real: It’s never a good look when, fresh from raising capital, a startup cuts a substantial portion of its staff. Some affected founders are pushing the narrative that incumbent banks lobbied the RBI to reach a decision favorable to them. million deal.

health

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The New York Shipping Exchange (Nyshex) , a platform that connects shippers with ocean carriers, today announced that it raised $25 million in a Series B funding round led by Collate Capital with participation from Blumberg Capital, Goldman Sachs, and NewRoad Capital.

incumbents

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

The Los Angeles and Taipei-based startup has raised $23 million in Series A funding, co-led by Flex Capital and Headline. The round included participation from LFX Venture Partners, Palm Drive Capital and returning investors Mucker Capital, Cornerstone Ventures and Red Building Capital.

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