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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

Both Sides of the Table

Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Not really.

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

TechCrunch

Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” “Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. Mar received her Ph.D.

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

TechCrunch

InstaDeep utilizes advanced machine learning techniques, including deep reinforcement learning in applications within an enterprise environment that cuts across various industries such as biotech, transportation, electronics manufacturing and logistics. I believe that AI is a huge opportunity for Africa and I’ve been vocal about it.

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The New Drug Delivery Challenge: How Will Cures Reach Patients?

Andreessen Horowitz

Barriers to access also raise questions around health equity and the ethical code for distributing innovations to society evenly. These programs may involve unique training for clinicians, clinical logistics, patient support, and data collection and reporting capabilities per FDA, manufacturer, and payor requirements.

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5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities

TechCrunch

While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. government wants to help boost innovation in this crucial sector, too. Versatile is at its core a data science company, not just a data collection tool.

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

TechCrunch

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

TechCrunch

Founded in late 2020 by Daniel Simon, Coast describes itself as the “modern financial services platform for the future of transportation.” But Simon argues that the companies that sell such cards were founded decades ago with very little innovation since. My weekly fintech newsletter is launching soon!

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