TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. What is different is that with a larger fund, they can deploy the capital faster than in previous funds, Plauche said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

As part of an ongoing series with transportation startup founders, Rebecca Bellan interviews Kodiak Robotics CEO and co-founder Don Burnette about why the autonomous trucking company remains private when so many of its rivals have gone public. How public markets can help address venture capital’s limitations.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

In 2021, fintech startups were the top recipients of venture capital globally, accounting for about 21% of dollars raised with $131.5 Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively. seed round for Adaptive, a construction software and fintech play. of the total.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Stephane Levy, a construction industry veteran, is of the persuasion that technology can solve many of these issues. BeamUP today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures and Ibex Investments along with participation from angels including Workday CEO Chano Fernandez.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

After all, to get a LEED certification, buildings must hit a performance score combining metrics across several categories including energy, water, waste, transportation and quality. Image Credits: SVB Capital. Design and construction. To unpack the opportunity come specific considerations with investments at each point.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We’re constructive around things like voluntary carbon markets. Electrification is a global trend in transportation, power generation, and elsewhere. I think this is something that is a present-day issue for us to solve. We’re food and agriculture investors, so we definitely have that kind of lens as we think about it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

COVID-19 has spotlighted many of the weakest points in our transportation system, but some of the rapid shifts in consumer behavior are creating opportunities for tech once considered fanciful, like sidewalk delivery robots and eVTOLs (electric vertical and takeoff vehicles). Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. million in pre-seed and seed funding round led by Augment Ventures with participation by Accion Venture Lab, TMV, Overton Venture Capital and Refashiond Ventures. Subscribe for free. We have a lot to cover so let’s jump in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 1, 2022

At the time, she was a rising executive in Uber — a post she left in 2020 when she co-founded Construct Capital. Since the founding, Bennett has raised $74 million for the company, including early angel funding from Rachel Holt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Among the most interesting is Cover , a seven-year-old, LA-based company that says it manufactures fully complete wall, floor and roof panels in its factory, then transports them on a standard truck and assembles them on site — without a crane. There are lots of startups now working on modular home design.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 26, 2021

What’s going to happen to those semi-vacant office towers, some of which are still under construction? There’s a lot going on: The venture capital market is redlining its engines while public markets remain sympathetic to growing, unprofitable companies. Our favorite companies from Y Combinator’s W21 Demo Day: Part 2.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

And that sometimes the public sector makes the investment that not even the riskier of venture capital funds can do. “So first, for example, for investment — what if big companies start investing more and more than they are actually doing? Meaning that the political administration, it’s more agile.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Logisly now works with more than 1,000 businesses in Indonesia in sectors like e-commerce, fast-moving consumer goods (FCG), chemicals and construction. Logisly’s Series A will be used on growing its network of shippers and transporters (which currently covers 40,000 trucks) and on product development.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2023

For example, a construction company in a region regularly affected by hurricanes might see its projects surviving these storms mostly unscathed, but it might still see losses in terms of time and other potential costs because crews simply couldn’t make it to work. But that old model doesn’t always work.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 25, 2022

At the time, she was a rising executive in Uber — a post she left in 2020 when she co-founded Construct Capital. Since the founding, Bennett has raised $74 million for the company, including early angel funding from Rachel Holt.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency . Financing the future startup nation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. As I’ve shared in here before, we’re bringing more transportation analysis to Extra Crunch. A Bird spokesperson told me these will be new vehicles and “transport modes” in the region. MaaS transit: The business of mobility as a service.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. We’ll kick off mobility month with a TechCrunch Live event focused on building a better mobility fintech startup featuring Rachel Holt of Construct Capital and Caribou CEO Kevin Bennett. miles per hour and automatic lights. In the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While technological progress has been on an encouraging trajectory in energy and in transportation thus far, we are nowhere near done, especially in real estate and critical infrastructure. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. Invent and firm up new technologies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 18, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Audi started construction of an EV factory in China that is expected to come online in 2024. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. I’m dubbing July the month of EV trucks. Well, at least for me it is.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Infrastructure , data management , a solid construction of architecture and the communication technology between your services however need more attention. As a result, we are in the fortunate situation to not require Venture Capital, herewith we can stay completely independent and do what is right for our user community.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. A message from reporter Aria Alamalhodaei: “For the time being, your favorite mini-roundup of transportation policy news will be taking an extended hiatus. Tthe transportation world lost one of its leaders this week. A few items before jumping in.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Shawn Carolan , partner, Menlo Ventures. Abhijit Ganguly , senior manager, Goodyear Ventures. Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. Sebastian Peck , managing director, InMotion Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Construction tech unicorn Procore Technologies this week set a price range for its impending public offering. And some workers don’t want to waste time stuck on congested highways or public transportation now that they’ve learned to work remotely. Is there a creed in venture capital? The Expensify EC-1. This is the way.”

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