AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Founded in 2018, Venti Technologies develops highly flexible and industrial-grade precision technology that enables rapid deployment and best-in-class safety and operational efficiency for customers. Its full-scope autonomy solutions require no change to existing infrastructure and work with any vehicle in any logistics or industrial hub.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

So imagine if you enable financing and make the cars much more affordable to people, that’s a core value proposition we want to ship as well,” added El Defrawy, who founded Sylndr with Amr Mazen in November 2021. . We’re looking to develop that as we go,” he noted.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

This data is then used to train AI-based computer vision systems for customers such as big retailers, warehouse operators, healthcare, transportation systems and robotics. In-Q-Tel invests in startups that support U.S. It literally trains a “synthetic” CCTV camera inside a synthetic world. It’s now closed a $3.25

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Ugandan technology-enabled asset finance company Tugende today announced that it has closed $3.6 The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. million in a Series A extension round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Ed Cowan is an investment team member at TDM Growth Partners , a global investment firm with offices currently in Sydney and New York. It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. To be invested in these businesses, you need to believe that the shift is not just to “sustainable.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Wellthy is a startup aimed at helping caregivers be more equipped to deal with all aspects of their various responsibilities by serving as a self-described “tech-enabled care concierge.” So, there’s just a lot of momentum that we wanted to be able to continue to support with some real investment.”

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Tomasz Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The genuine progress in IT from the 1970s up to the 2000s masked the relative stagnation of energy, transportation, space, materials, agriculture and medicine. Combining efficiency innovations can lead to enabling innovations that create new industries. Transportation. When Plodders Change the World.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . Flip, which intends to be the most customer-centric financial technology company in the world, enables users to do fair financial transactions from anywhere to anyone. Indonesian savings and investment app Pluang gets $20M in pre-Series B funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

Having reliable transportation is at the top of any gig worker’s list, but in Latin America, that’s not always easy to secure. As mentioned, the latest funding enables Migrante to launch in Colombia and Mexico and offer new products, including rent-to-own and electric vehicle financing products.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 22, 2021

Roger Lee is a general partner at Battery Ventures, based in Menlo Park, CA, who focuses on investments in software and consumer tech, including online marketplaces. He focuses on consumer internet, online marketplace and software investments. The end-to-end approach makes the most sense when disrupting very large markets.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The following days and weeks are going to prove illustrative in terms of the value of tech-enabled businesses, especially in contrast to more digital and hard-tech efforts. That growth has not been inexpensive, with Sweetgreen “targeting” an “average investment of approximately $1.2 The fast-casual food game.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

According a report from AgFunder, total venture investment for “e-grocery” companies reached $18.5 Craft Ventures has invested in several delivery startups, including Shef , which enables home cooks to sell their food for delivery.) Inflation continues unabated, driving up food, rent, and transportation costs.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

They plan to use these investments to help grow their team and scale their product. In December 2020, the company announced that they are the autonomous shuttle provider for Autono-MaaS , which is a transportation project in Hiroshima, Japan. Founded in 2016, Groundspeed Analytics is disrupting the $300 billion insurance industry.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

of the world’s greenhouse gases — more than all forms of global transportation combined. The time has never been better for new technology to disrupt these alarming trends. As a result, over the last five years investment in emerging FoodTech has tripled. Livestock accounts for 14.5%

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 18, 2020

To use natural gas as a transportation fuel, it must be compressed so that it has the same energy density as gasoline or diesel liquid fuel. The award money was dedicated to addressing the obstacles and barriers associated with adopting natural gas as a transportation fuel.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Inexpensive equity dollars enable capital-intensive companies to amass the warchest necessary to dethrone incumbents. Equally important to note, real estate and transportation are two industries startups historically haven’t upheaved. More money raised for less dilution. All of this points to less money available to startups.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2024

After researching most of them, we believe Furno stands out as one that has the potential to scale most quickly and be most disruptive to traditional cement plants. Furno’s innovative design also allows producers to build cement plants that are compact and cost-efficient, and enables them to add incremental capacity as needed.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s clear that the additional overhead is generating higher prices, but not necessarily better results, according to Sumi Das and Nina Gerson, who lead healthcare investments at Capital G. Derek Idemoto, SVP for corporate development and Cisco investments. PDT/2:30 p.m. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Ritu Narayan founded Z?m

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TechCrunch

JULY 28, 2021

The trio started the company as a bus-hailing service in Egypt and other ride-sharing services in emerging markets with fragmented public transportation. Its services, mainly bus-hailing, enables users to make intra-state journeys by booking seats on buses running a fixed route. Per Crunchbase , Swvl has raised over $170 million.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

That’s the product Backbone , the startup Patil helped to cofound, is selling: a platform designed to enable companies to respond to supply chain disruptions by surfacing replacement options, including vendors.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Following up on our May of 2020 survey of the sector and about the impact of COVID-19 in particular , TechCrunch spoke with 10 investors about the state of mobility, which trends they’re most excited about and what they’re looking for in their next investments.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

And good news, btw, we’re offering 15% off Disrupt tickets (excluding online or expo tickets) for you, our trusty Daily Crunch readers. Populus, the San Francisco–based transportation data startup, got its start as shared scooter mania took hold and cities tried to make sense of how infrastructure was being used by fleets of tiny vehicles.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Elana Berkowitz is a founding partner of Springbank Collective , which invests in early stage companies building the infrastructure to enable working women and families to thrive across career, care and household consumers. That means they required a lot of upfront venture capital investment to disrupt their respective markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

BeamUP today announced that it raised $15 million in a seed funding round led by StageOne Ventures and Ibex Investments along with participation from angels including Workday CEO Chano Fernandez. Despite the hype, construction tech will be hard to disrupt. ” Applying AI to building design. A photo of the BeamUP team.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Top carmaker invests in Connected Energy. OurCrowd is investing in this Series B round alongside energy, banking and equipment manufacturing giants. Our mission statement is to enable the vision of cultivated meat by reducing its cost and improving its quality,” Guy Nevo Michrowski, ProFuse CEO, tells Amy Teibel in The Times of Israel.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Plantish aims to produce 3D-printed fish from soy, seaweed and other vegetable proteins, but unlike other offerings of fish flakes or chunks, “the company is working on an innovative technology that enables the creation of whole cut fish fillets,” Forbes reports. Jerry Yang: ‘I do not invest in public markets’. “I

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OurCrowd

JULY 2, 2020

This large-scale global pandemic made healthcare – an industry traditionally slow to adopt innovation because of cumbersome regulatory and governmental pathways, low IT budgets, legacy systems, lack of trained personnel, and more – ripe for disruption. Ariel Krause is the Medical Investment Analyst at OurCrowd.

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OurCrowd

AUGUST 6, 2020

This large-scale global pandemic made healthcare – an industry traditionally slow to adopt innovation because of cumbersome regulatory and governmental pathways, low IT budgets, legacy systems, lack of trained personnel, and more – ripe for disruption. The post Innovation Insider: Intensive Care appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. While most mobility tech in the country is centred around two-wheelers and car-hailing, there’s been hardly any deliberate disruption in the bus-sharing and mass transit space.

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