AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Register Bangladeshi transport-tech startup Shuttle now has a total of $2.5 million in investments after it raised $1.5 With the additional investment, Shuttle gets a boost in its plan to expand its footprint across the country. Shuttle that is based in Dhaka, started its journey in 2018 with pre-seed capital from Robi Axiata.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Alongside lead investor Lotte Chemical and investment company KTB Network, General Motors’ corporate venture capital arm, GM Ventures, signed on as a strategic investor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Clime Capital , a Singapore-based fund manager focusing on accelerating the low carbon transition, is helping Vietnam address this concern through its partnership with EBOOST , the first mover open network electric vehicle (EV) charging operator in the country. This could in turn support further the deployment of EV charging infrastructure.

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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. Customers can customize the tools and apps or build their own using Pando’s APIs.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. So while Toyota Ventures’ investment approach isn’t changing, it’s broadening the scope of startups it will consider investing in. . The Frontier Fund is a step outside of mobility.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

This market growth is one of the many reasons why Revolution was excited to announce our investment in CLEAR last week. link] Why We Invested in CLEAR was originally published in Revolution on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

m , a startup that provides optimized transportation services for school-age children, has announced the close of a $130 million Series D raise, bringing its total funding to more than $200 million. m was awarded a $150 million contract to modernize the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) transportation service.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The round is being led by D1 Capital Partners, with participation also from Darsana Capital Partners. on gross merchandise value (GMV: the total figure transacted on Bolt’s platform), à la the recently listed DoorDash, than it is closer to “others” in the transport space that are seeing valuations closer to 0.5x

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The week’s top investment deals from OurCrowd. Green light for cleantech investment. Green light for cleantech investment. Annual investment in cleantech increased tenfold from about $400 million a year to peak at $4.3 Joining the AI healthcare revolution. Better choices to fight cancer. Virgin Hyperloop gathers speed.

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Revolution

JANUARY 10, 2019

Over the years, many of Revolution’s investments such as Zipcar, Sweetgreen, and Optoro have experienced explosive growth brought about by their ability to develop sustainable alternatives to problems consumers and businesses were facing in sectors like transportation, food, and e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

All Raise hires new CEO : A nonprofit focused on “increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision-makers” per our reporting, All Raise now has a new boss. The venture result : The tough market is starting to show up in venture capital results, early data indicates. Sarah Kunst, managing director, Cleo Capital.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

GM, Honda and other institutional investors have also put more capital into Cruise as the autonomous vehicle company inches closer to commercializing its technology. While Microsoft’s capital is important, the partnership might provide equal and longer-term value for Cruise, at least in the two companies’ views. .

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Transportation editor Kirsten Korosec was out for a few days this week, so I (Rebecca Bellan) am here to give you all the important future of transportation news that happened this week. This week, the company said it was investing $1.4 But first!

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . And now, project44 announced it has raised $202 million in a Series E funding round led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Emergence Capital. Enter project44.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Freight transportation-focused Rose Rocket recently raised a $25 million round. The Toronto-based startup calls the round a Series A, with Addition Capital and Shine Capital leading the deal. Rose Rocket is therefore part of a growing trend of larger and more frequent startup investment in the country.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

AtoB’s integrated financial platform is like Stripe for transportation, says Harshita Arora, co-founder of AtoB. Now, five years later, the company she co-founded with Vignan Velivela and Tushar Misra has raised a total $230 million in a combination of venture equity, debt and strategic working capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Mass transportation is a critical part of how metropolitan areas keep moving, and today a startup that has built an AI-based platform to help mass transportation work more efficiently is announcing a huge round of funding to grow its business and tackle a new set of opportunities and challenges in the modern city. market overall.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

As part of the agreement, TPK will be leading Ubco’s Series B with a $10 million investment, bringing the company’s total funding to $23 million. TPK also invested in Ubco’s $10 million convertible note round in June , alongside a range of U.S. Ubco 2X2 Adventure Bike review: Utility that shreds. ”

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 25, 2024

million in Series A funding, led by GreenPoint Partners with support from Speedwagon Capital Partners, to accelerate expansion of its managed properties and technology platform. FirstFleet, PAM Transport, Dot Transportation, Western Flyer Xpress, and Riverside Transport, as well as more than 1,500 midsized fleets and small trucking companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The company, co-founded by Michele Romanow and Andrew D’Souza, positions itself as an alternative equity-free capital solution for early-stage founders. While we’ve invested in over 4,000 businesses using this model, we’ve also turned away over 50,000 who weren’t at this scale or level of repeatability,” D’Souza tells TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 23, 2023

If you’re into transportation, don’t miss Kirsten ’s The Station. Give ’em something to ChatGPT about : After much speculation, Microsoft confirmed that it will invest an undisclosed number of billions in OpenAI, thus extending the companies’ partnership. PST, subscribe here. Happy new week! Kyle has more.

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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.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. marking its highest level since 2017. Infrastructure touches everything.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. ” That might sound silly coming from a media outlet focused on technology — and the people investing and building it. Investment activity in aviation — specifically air taxis — continues to ramp up as illustrated by Boeing. Deal of the week.

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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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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

A spin-off from LanzaTech , one of the last surviving climate tech startups from the first cleantech boom that’s still privately held, LanzaJet is taking a phased investment approach with its corporate backers, enabling them to invest additional capital as the company scales to larger production facilities.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. There was the path where you did some investments and made money.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Ottopia said Friday that it has raised $9 million from Hyundai Motor Group as well as Maven and IN Venture, the Israel-focused venture capital arm of Sumitomo Corporation. Since launching, the small 25-person company has racked up investors and partners such as BMW, fixed-route AV startup May Mobility and Bestmile.

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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. They recently closed a $2.5M million to date.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

in terms of vehicle sales, said Tuesday it will invest $300 million in Momenta to accelerate the development of AV tech for future GM vehicles in China. Julian Blissett, executive VP of GM and president of GM China, said in a statement that the investment will help the automaker bring “solutions tailor-made for [GM’s] consumers in China.”.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leading the investment. 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. Notable contributors include Xiaomi, a well-known smartphone manufacturer, and various investment firms. and Xiaomi Corp.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

While the terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Kodiak Robotics co-founder and CEO Don Burnette told TechCrunch that this is a direct financial investment. The deal involves more than capital. Bridgestone CTO Nizar Trigui has also joined the Kodiak board as an observer.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

As consumers around the world slowly start to get moving again — fingers crossed that new waves of COVID-19 cases do not set that back — one of the big players in on-demand mass transportation services is announcing a growth round to move with them. Where top VCs are investing in travel, tourism and hospitality tech.

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