TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup that acquired Uber’s self-driving unit in December, is going public via a merger with special purpose acquisition company Reinvent Technology Partners Y. Autonomous vehicle startup Aurora in final talks to merge with Reid Hoffman’s newest SPAC. . Venture capital at scale.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo. Aurora didn’t pay cash for Uber ATG.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

One bright light amidst the gloom: Startups that generate enough revenue to drive steady growth will find many investors willing to take their calls. One bright light amidst the gloom: Startups that generate enough revenue to drive steady growth will find many investors willing to take their calls. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Micromobbin’ The North American Bikeshare and Scooter Association released its 2021 shared micromobility state of the industry report — and it has some interesting findings. Trips on e-scooters accounted for 49% of total trips taken on shared micromobility. 63% of riders said they used micromobility to connect to public transit.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility. How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Early-stage startups tend to claim that their go-to-market strategy is fully operational. Finding GTM fit is a milestone for any startup that includes everything from expanding the engineering team to launching your first media buy. These simple metrics will tell you if your startup is ready to scale. Senior Editor, TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Amsterdam-based startup VanMoof has raised a $128 million Series C funding round. Asia-based private equity firm Hillhouse Investment is leading the round, with Gillian Tans , the former CEO of Booking.com, also participating. Overall, if you add it all up, the startup has raised $182 million in total.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility. How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2021

Bird, the shared electric scooter startup that operates in more than 200 cities across three continents, said Wednesday it is going public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Switchback II with an implied valuation of $2.3 Apollo Investment Corp. Micromobility’s next big business is software, not vehicles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility will feature speakers on the main stage, a bevy of startup exhibits, demos, networking and a live pitch-off with a pretty sweet prize. Buy your general admission or early-stage startup demo package today before prices increase. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility. How to Land Early-Stage Funding.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Bolt Mobility, the Miami-based micromobility startup co-founded by Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt, appears to have vanished without a trace from several of its U.S. The company acquired in January 2021 the assets of Last Mile Holdings , which owned micromobility companies Gotcha and OjO Electric. Bolt has publicly raised $40.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Bolt had appeared to be on an upward trajectory last year after acquiring the assets of Last Mile Holdings, which opened up 48 new markets to the micromobility operator. We’re still working that one out, but Alex Wilhelm and Annie Saunders have been pondering the effect that asset depreciation can have on startups like Bolt.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2023

Startups and VC Greycroft, the self-styled “seed-to-growth” venture capital firm, today announced the closing of over $1 billion in capital commitments across new funds, Kyle reports. s TympaHealth sounds out $23 million to expand its hearing diagnostics startup, Ingrid reports. Jagmeet has more. You can sign up here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

Automakers — like Hyundai, Honda and Xpeng — are investing resources into building their own flying cars. That much is clear from major investments from Toyota and Stellantis into Joby and a manufacturing deal with Archer , respectively. Crystal ball says… More e-bikes will hit the shared micromobility space.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Success breeds IPO : Shared vehicle company Lime reported its first profitable year, with Rebecca writing that “Lime has figured out how to make shared micromobility a sustainable business.” Manish writes that this investment marks the largest check Amazon’s Smbhav Venture Fund has written thus far. You can sign up here. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Mary Ann starts us off by reporting on SoftBank writing down an almost $100 million investment into FTX. In this instance, African web3 startup Nestcoin said it had to lay off employees as a result of not having that access. Startups and VC. The real-time data startup grabbed $12.9 And with that, let’s dig in!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

New York-based Luxor Capital, which led the company’s €37 million Series B in September 2021 , is also leading this round. Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. ( The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to move food and people around in cars, on scooters and ( most recently ) on bikes across developed and emerging markets in EMEA is announcing a major round of funding. France, South Africa and Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2021

You want to make the most of your time at this one-day virtual intensive featuring interactive presentations with the mobility industry’s top movers, shakers and startup dream makers, amirite? Mobility mavens, June 9 will be here before you know it, and that means it’s time to get your strategy ducks in a row for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Part 4: Drama and quirk aren’t necessary for startup success. Micromobility’s next big business is software, not vehicles.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Startups and VC. Today, Haje has been running around at Micromobility America. They insist on using the MMA acronym, so he’s expecting a fist to the face any moment, but so far the only risk of injury has been from neck-breaking micromobility in the form of electric rollerblades. Ivan has more. million Series A in July.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Runa Capital’s Asia business development manager Denis Kalinin studied data from iTjuzi, a database of Chinese venture capitalists, and found: “…Chinese funds invested around $250 billion in 2020 (three times higher than the figure reported in Crunchbase). funds, but three times that of U.K. funds and 12.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

The new round boosts the one-year-old startup’s total financing to $12 million. The startup, which makes premium electric bicycles for commutes and off-road adventures for less than $2,000, didn’t come from nowhere. Zhang’s co-founders at Lime are also vouching for the young startup. Off the back of its $7.4

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Startups and VC. MassMutual Ventures closed a $300 million fund to back Asian and European startups. Crypto-focused Dragonfly Capital officially announced its third fund , weighing in at $650 million. million Series B round, bringing its total capital investment to $77.7 and Canada. .” Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Shared electric moped startup Revel said Friday that it will shut down its service in Austin later this month. million in capital raised in October 2019 in a Series A round led by Ibex Investors. The equity round included newcomer Toyota AI Ventures and further investments from Blue Collective, Launch Capital and Maniv Mobility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Startups and VC In a major blow to shared micromobility companies, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from its streets, Rebecca reports. Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz appeared onstage with WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann to talk about their firm’s $350 million investment in Flow, Neumann’s new residential real estate company.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Happy new week, startup nerds! Startups and VC. Olsen spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013. Here, have a fresh battery : Magna enters the micromobility and battery swapping market with a $77 million investment in Yulu, Rebecca reports.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Aurora Innovation, the autonomous vehicle startup backed by Sequoia Capital and Amazon, has reached an agreement with Uber to buy the ride-hailing firm’s self-driving unit in a complex deal that will value the combined company at $10 billion. Aurora is not paying cash for Uber ATG, a company that was valued at $7.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

You can buy your pass or Early-Stage Startup Demo Package at the early-bird price and save $300 and $200, respectively. The biggest deal this week had to have been German micromobility operator Tier’s acquisition of Spin from Ford. Automotive mobility group Astara is investing $5 million in GoTo Global’s pre-IPO round.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Beam , a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. Advanced rider assistance systems: Tech spawned by the politics of micromobility. Singapore’s micromobility startup Beam raises $26 million.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2022

Brrr, it’s cold in here : Manish writes that a “venture capital winter” will last a little longer, according to SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. Startups and VC. Rebecca ’s transportation and mobility roundup, the Station, was particularly good too, breaking down what is happening in the land of micromobility and much more.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

Startups and VC. Another company conjuring up some capital is Magical, which is out to prove that robotic process automation isn’t ready for consolidation , and there are still a few rabbits left to pull out of its hat. TechCrunch+ is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. Big Tech Inc.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

With 17 startups participating, Berkeley SkyDeck’s Demo Day isn’t the largest cohort we’ve seen by any stretch. Notable alumni include micromobility unicorn, Lime, and delivery robotics firm, Kiwi. Attending a remote startup accelerator is absolutely worth it. NuPort Robotics. Image Credits: NuPort Robotics Inc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Changing your meeting culture is difficult, but given that 26% of workers plan to look for a new job when the pandemic ends, startups need to do all they can to retain talent. Reform your startup’s meeting culture. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Walter Thompson.

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