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Voi taps Drover to prevent sidewalk scooter riding in Oslo

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Shared micromobility company Voi is deploying e-scooters in Oslo, Norway with Drover AI’s computer vision tech that can identify whether a scooter is on the pavement, road or cycle lane in order to help prevent sidewalk riding. Learn the keys to unlocking micromobility profits at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022.

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Veo CEO Candice Xie has a plan for building a sustainable scooter company, and it’s working

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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. Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action. In your Medium post titled “Sorry, Boys. That was pretty bold. .

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

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Nova itself is a counterpoint to profit-focused corporate venture capital outfits, and is instead focusing on abilities to collaborate with the LG conglomerate across the board, in a few key verticals: the metaverse, connected healthcare, smart homes, electric vehicles (EV) and the wonderfully fuzzily named tech for good. CurieAi, Inc.

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Electric utility bike company Ubco scores $10M strategic investment with TPK

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“The partnership enables us to scale from being a producer that does individual production runs of some number of bikes to a point where we can get into rolling production and scale that up to thousands and potentially tens of thousands of vehicles,” Katherine Sandford, Ubco’s CEO and executive chair, told TechCrunch. .

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The Station: Uber seals a deal with NYC taxis, Aurora rolls into ride-hailing and LG Energy invests in North America

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Finally, i f you, like me, are curious about how micromobility platforms are unlocking profits, and what tech is enabling this, you’re going to want to pay attention to this one. Voi says it has just reached 100 million micromobility rides across 80 cities in less than four years. .

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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SaaS models and cloud technologies have eliminated some of the barriers for Israeli companies and enable companies to quickly set up and set up a proof of concept. Riskified makes e-ommerce easier and safer and enables a thriving e-commerce environment. Led by CEO Pavel Gurevich the company is seeing excellent traction.

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The Station: Intel eyes an IPO for Mobileye and how Elon influenced Autopilot

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Micromobbin’ I don’t want to get ahead of myself here, but are we close to reaching the point of no return on our micromobility revolution? All of the stars appear to be aligning towards the potential for exponential growth in micromobility adoption. You also can send a direct message to me at Twitter — @kirstenkorosec.