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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. We don’t think the long-term outlook on construction tech has changed, and have several high priority segments that we’re eager to make investments in. Its recently enacted $1.2

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

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Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having

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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. market, where it is blacklisted by the U.S.

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

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Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” Yoon founded a seed fund, Forest Ventures focusing in automotive sector and was an investment director at SAIC capital, one of the leaders in China’s automotive industry. ” Day 2 .

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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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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. . In a press release, John Hall, an investment analyst at T. million Series B round.

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

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This January, Germany’s largest vaccine maker BioNTech announced that it had agreed to acquire Tunisian-born and London-headquartered AI startup InstaDeep for up to £562 million, including a performance-tied £200 million tranche investment. First, when completed (at $682 million, adjusted in U.S. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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Daily Crunch: African mobility fintech Moove raises $105M in Series A2

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The TechCrunch transport team is full of brilliant humans, so do not miss out on this one. It appears to offer a hybrid of data collection and analysis as a service to customers. Pareto is perhaps something of a response to the market dearth of data scientists for hire. Which means we’re mobile once again.

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