TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

EMotorad, an Indian startup manufacturing electric bikes, raised $20 million in a Series B round as it aims to disrupt China’s market domination and expand its presence in global markets. The three-year-old startup has raised more than $22.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, has raised over $15 billion, employs more than 3,000 people and expanded its footprint across multiple cities within the U.S. It even has a presence in Dubai. What does it take to build and scale such complex technology? We’re looking forward to discussing that and more with Kyle […]

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore the diverse startup programs available in Singapore. Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

And while this May’s economic backdrop was markedly different from last’s , enthusiasm was high and outlooks remained positive for the startup momentum building between the coasts. We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

“Everstream has grown revenue 30x from the initial investment made by Columbia Capital three years ago and was successful in doubling the business in both 2021 and 2022.” Startups selling supply chain tech continue to attract major investor attention — and dollars. Still, not all firms have been so lucky.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted a lot in the world, and supply chains are no exception. . But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . The raise is quite possibly the largest investment in the supply chain visibility space to date.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week’s startup news and trends. It would be unfair to say that this week in tech and startups felt like 2021’s boom cycle; especially when you look at layoffs coming from Truepill, its fourth this year, and Meta announcing that it will freeze hiring. Well, kind of.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

The firm is already successfully using its autonomous vehicles in everyday operating environments and has the potential to revolutionize goods transportation, Wyle added. Safar Partners invests in seed- to growth-stage technology companies in the cleantech and advanced materials, AI/IT and robotics, and life sciences/medical device areas.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Zoomo, the Australian startup that builds e-bikes and offers micromobility subscriptions to gig workers and couriers, wants to be the next disruptive electric vehicle company. The startup has just announced a $60 million Series B fundraise, money it aims to use to transform the way companies look at last-mile delivery.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. And for decades, until the entire industry was disrupted, that attraction established a virtuous cycle.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2022

But when he was struck by the urge to start a company, he researched the money-attracting industries of the world, and then, using AngelList, saw how many companies were trying to disrupt those industries. Billions of dollars were going into trucking each year but fewer than 30 startups showed an interest in the field.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

InstaDeep , a Tunis and London-based enterprise AI startup that creates decision-making systems for solving real-world problems, has raised $100 million in Series B financing led by Alpha Intelligence Capital and CDIB. InstaDeep was founded by Karim Beguir and Zohra Slim in 2014. Karim Beguir (InstaDeep CEO).

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 20, 2018

I currently work for a large global organization that deals with container shipping as well as transport and logistics. The proposal forms around how our organisation can either be completely disrupted by or take full advantage of this massive opportunity that this technology presents. Honestly, I prefer the latter.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The decarbonization of the planet will be the next major disruption of the 21st century, according to SOSV managing general partner Sean O’Sullivan and Carmichael Roberts of Breakthrough Energy Ventures. ” This opportunity has helped climate tech become one of the hottest sectors to invest in.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. million–the largest of its kind in MENA and sub-Saharan Africa, besting what Rabbit, a 20-minute convenience delivery startup , pulled in last November. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. The venture studio plans to build about four startups at the intersection of tourism, climate and technology, every year.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 15, 2015

They could have created a reasonable, nuanced set of rules that allows me to rent my place out when I'm not there, like the four times a year I'm out in San Francisco trying to convince valley VCs to invest here, to someone who needs it. Uber employs 3000 people, more than most startups in NYC do, and is only six years old.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. In a few months, TC Disrupt will kick off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. This annual flagship event, in which hundreds of founders have pitched their startups on our stage, is back in person. Startup Battlefield 200 applications are closing soon.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Working at a big company is honorable and I don’t believe the narrative that all of this tech disruption is to kill off big companies. In fact, the headline of one read, “How Putting $10m into uBeam illustrates everything that is wrong with tech investing today.” But “what is wrong with tech investing today?”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

But while the company does hope to sell as many of these as possible to the Monaco and Dubai crowd, the bigger opportunity may be in public transport, of all things. With a predicted 60 mile range per charge, the P-30 should be able to make multiple trips without stopping and plug in to a fast charger at terminals without too much disruption.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Melonn , a Colombian startup that provides fulfillment and software services to small and medium-sized e-commerce companies in Latin America, has raised $20 million in a Series A round led by QED Investors. Why global investors are flocking to back Latin American startups. It also plans to soon offer embedded finance products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. But in verticals ranging from freight brokerage to B2B marketplaces, these enablers have repeatedly emerged after an initial disruption. Steve Sloane. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. Derek Xiao. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Robert Falck used to work at a Russian trucking factory by day, and by night, he built a nightclub guest list startup. He learned how heavy duty vehicles are produced en masse during his three-and-a-half years there, and also helped start and invest in other companies. Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

The Southern Californian startup first hit our (and most folks’) radar as a mug company. At the end of the year, it became clear that it would be focusing new efforts on the cold chain — specifically medical transportation. The standalone vertical began life with an investment from Cardinal Health announced late last year. “The

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Proving that Central and Eastern Europe remains a powerhouse of hardware engineering matched with software, Gideon Brothers (GB), a Zagreb, Croatia-based robotics and AI startup, has raised a $31 million Series A round led by Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the venture and growth arm of Koch Industries Inc., Nenad Baki?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup and relative newcomer to the industry, is now valued at $5.3 The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria. .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. There’s never been a better time to start a startup.”. There was the path where you did some investments and made money. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

That’s why Clearbanc, a startup I have covered for years, has always had a compelling pitch. Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 22, 2022

Register Le Yen Thanh, the 28-year-old CEO of Vietnam’s smart mobility startup Phenikaa Maas , is among the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia honorees in the Industry, Manufacturing & Energy category. In 2013, Thanh founded the BusMap Project, a free public transportation app for urban bus passengers.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Department of Transportation, The American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) “[wondered] about the description of pedestrian ‘crumple zones,’ and whether this may impact the vehicle’s crash-worthiness in the event of a vehicle-to-vehicle crash. (R2X In a 2019 letter to the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2021

startup that has attracted funding from an influential set of investors. 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’s now closed a $3.25

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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.” million in funding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

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. That’s the purpose of the new investment — to provide supply for growing demand. million in a Series A extension round.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Flip , an Indonesia-based fintech startup, announced today it has raised $48 million in a Series B to accelerate its growth. Flip is Insight Partners’ first investment in Indonesia. . Indonesian savings and investment app Pluang gets $20M in pre-Series B funding. The funding brings Flip’s total capital raised to $65million. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

Raquel Urtasun, the AI pioneer who was the chief scientist at Uber ATG , has launched a new startup called Waabi that is taking what she describes as an “AI-first approach” to speed up the commercial deployment of autonomous vehicles, starting with long-haul trucks. “That’s a huge benefit in terms of the scaling curve.”

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