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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. ” 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. 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. million in a Series A round led by Khosla Ventures.

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

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At TechCrunch Disrupt, Harlem Capital’s Henri Pierre-Jacques and BBG Ventures’ Nisha Dua explained how founders should allocate recently raised dollars in today’s environment. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees. What you should know about working with corporate venture investment committees.

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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. To kick off, our own Walter Thompson has a great investor survey up today that attacks the question of how to pitch venture capitalists as a founder. Data science in a box ? Which means we’re mobile once again.

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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.