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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. Alright, alright.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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They were developing specific technology that could impact many sectors,” noted Jilani on InstaDeep’s pioneering tech. Yet, it’s too early to assume that because of that, it’ll suddenly open the sluice of venture capital in Tunisian tech or Africa’s AI market, which currently lags several industries as hotbeds of investments on the continent.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

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Monday brings with it not one, but two space SPACS — there’s Rocket Lab , and there’s Spire Global, a satellite operator that bills itself primarily as a SaaS company focused on delivering data and analytics made possible by its 100-plus spacecraft constellation.

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Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M

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“Our product roadmap is high confidential, but let’s say our high-level vision looking a decade or so forth is to take people out of the loop and have a completely automated data collection, processing and analysis,” co-founder and CEO Maximillion Boosfeld told TechCrunch.

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5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities

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While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. Suzanne Fletcher , venture partner, Prime Movers Lab. What’s the most exciting development in construction tech right now? Heinrich Gröller , partner, Speedinvest. Is there a killer app?

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Parallel Domain says autonomous driving won’t scale without synthetic data

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Most self-driving vehicle companies, like Cruise, Waymo and Waabi, use synthetic data for training and testing perception models with speed and a level of control that’s impossible with data collected from the real world.

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Coast lands $27.5M from VC firms, slew of founders to provide expense management to fleet operators

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Existing backer s Avid Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures and BoxGroup also participated in the financing, along with new investors Flexport and The Fintech Fund. Founded in late 2020 by Daniel Simon, Coast describes itself as the “modern financial services platform for the future of transportation.”

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