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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. ” Mar Hershenson — Pear VC.

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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. That was crazy.

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Extra Crunch roundup: TC Mobility recaps, Nubank EC-1, farewell to browser cookies

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.” Drawing from observations gleaned from working with founders like Spotify’s Daniel Ek, Sebastian Siemiatkowski from Klarna, and iZettle’s Jacob de Geer and Magnus Nilsson, Brenner explains where “VC FOMO” comes from and how it drives dealmaking. CTO Hunter Jensen writes in a guest column.

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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.” Also, the company’s SMS-based mobile sign-in and data collection is aimed at improving security, convenience for drivers and data quality for managers, Simon said.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Palihapitiya on SPACs, inside Rivian’s IPO, BaaS pros talk shop

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As part of an ongoing series of interviews with founders of transportation companies, Rebecca Bellan spoke to Sila Nano founder Gene Berdichevsky about his company’s efforts to build and scale the next generation of EV batteries. “We Battery chemistry company Sila’s founder Gene Berdichevsky on the science of scaling up.

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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. . On Thursday, the company announced a $517.8 million Series B round.

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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. Startups and VC. Data science in a box ? 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.

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