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NYC: Regulatory nightmare for tech startups trying to conduct consumer friendly businesses

This is going to be BIG.

Companies that make people''s lives easier, should they run into entrenched Big Apple interests like housing and transport, aren''t finding that NYC is as easy a place to offer their services to NYC residents. Government served an incredibly important role regulating ground transportation in the past. It''s better for drivers, too.

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Pilot Operation of “PanTA-G Bus,” Self-driving Public Transportation, in Gyeonggi-do: Pangyo Techno Valley is Becoming an R&D Hub for Self-driving Technology

AsiaTechDaily

Register Gyeonggi-do is set to commence the pilot operation of its domestic public transportation service, the ‘Panta G Bus,’ which is fortified with self-driving technology, at Pangyo Techno Valley. billion won to construct a research center specializing in autonomous vehicles in Pangyo.

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ChargerHelp co-founder, CEO Kameale C. Terry is heading to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

TechCrunch

, she joined the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, where she developed a first-of-its-kind EV Network Technician Training Curriculum. Shortly after, Terry and Ellis were accepted into Elemental Excelerator’s startup incubator and have landed contracts with major EV charging network providers like EV Connect and SparkCharge.

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Real estate developer turned prefab home builder Veev closes on $400M in fresh funding

TechCrunch

At first, the company was focused on construction ADUs (accessory dwelling units), but now it is building multi-family homes and single-family homes at scale. . Veev’s panelized construction takes place in its 50,000-square-foot “Digital Fab” facility. Panels are efficiently assembled on-site using our plug & play system,” he said.

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With new cash and a former Apple exec now at the helm, Connect Homes is ready to reconstruct homebuilding

TechCrunch

Not only that, but the homes are able to use standard shipping networks and rail transit to bring their homes anywhere in the country. “We build modules the size of a shipping container, so we can connect to the regular intermodal shipping network,” Leung said. Construction tech startups are poised to shake up a $1.3-trillion-dollar

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Fuel Me Raises $18 Million Series A Round

HPA

Focusing on mission-critical energy needs across industries like data centers, construction, and transportation. Fuel Me provides efficient fuel operations through an aggregated nationwide fuel procurement vendor network. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

TechCrunch

Transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan interviewed Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko about his company’s transition “from using a hardware-as-a-service model to a take-rate scheme that gives it 10% of any sales made from its card payment-enabled bots.”. Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture.