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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

TechCrunch

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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Navigating Singapore’s Startup Ecosystem: Top 5 Funding Initiatives Unveiled

AsiaTechDaily

Entrepreneurs are drawn to Singapore’s comprehensive support system, which has business-incubating infrastructure, tax incentives, substantial government subsidies, and strong international connections. This flexible arrangement fosters a conducive environment for both startups and investors, promoting growth and sustainability.

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Circularity Tales: accelerating the transition in Rwanda

Impact Hub

What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity? Each startup was assigned an individual sustainability coach that supported them to apply CE knowledge in testing out their circular innovations.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Unpacking BuzzFeed’s SPAC, curb your meeting enthusiasm, more

TechCrunch

Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Veo CEO Candice Xie has a plan for building a sustainable scooter company, and it’s working. But we are in transportation. Veo CEO Candice Xie has a plan for building a sustainable scooter company, and it’s working.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

At the centure of this quirky building that houses an advertising school , a yoga studio , and video production companies is Studiomates --"a collaborative workspace of designers, illustrators, bloggers, writers, and developers" run by Tina Eisenberg --perhaps better known as Swiss Miss. via DumboNYC.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

Years ago, Melonee Wise told me Fetch was still building Willow Garage–style research robots because they’re a great recruitment tool, but you can’t really sustain a business on them. Whenever we’ve changed the way transportation works in the past, we’ve changed the infrastructure. It’s just the way things are now.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Eric Parker

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Only through annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, ensuring permanency of friendly relations. Ecosystem Builders need a sustainable business model. He also founded and leads theClubhou.se