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

TechCrunch

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. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC. Mar received her Ph.D. ” Day 2 .

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

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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. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding.

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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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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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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

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That innovation has formed the basis of a startup that’s been raking in funding since its founding in 2019. Eikon Therapeutics, co-founded by Betzig, is a biopharmaceutical company with plans to use super-resolution fluorescence microscopy, the data collected by these high-powered microscopes and a host of other tools to develop new drugs. .