TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

TC’s Rebecca Szkutak wrote about how a pivot helped HopSkipDrive win a difficult pitch to parents: Trust your kids with our ride-sharing services. Here’s why it’s important: The security, performance and reliability company didn’t raise a corporate venture fund, typical of other companies looking to breed entrepreneur attention.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

So, if your face doesn’t appear on the team slide in your startup’s pitch deck, this would be a good time to cancel your upcoming vacation. Pitch Deck Teardown: Dutch’s $20M Series A deck. If you’re working on a pitch deck and are in need of inspiration, start here: all 17 slides are available to TC+ members.

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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. Alternative capital has pros and cons, just like venture capital has pros and cons. How will our altered set of needs and wants reshape cities, right as new technologies are fundamentally altering transportation, too? What will we do?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

TechCrunch Editorial is on the hunt for six early stage startups to feature in a pitch-off on the Main Stage. On May 18-20, the industry’s brightest entrepreneurs will take the stage in front of a live audience and a panel of industry experts, pitching revolutionary technologies. TC Sessions: Mobility is back… in person!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When consumers started buying cars, many predicted the transportation revolution would lead to air pollution, traffic and life-threatening collisions. Before you can deliver on any of the promises in your pitch deck, you’ll need to build a team. As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce Swyft Cities won the TechCrunch Sessions: Mobility 2022 pitch-off and is fast-tracked into the Battlefield 200 at TechCrunch Disrupt in October. The Mountain View-based company is committed to improving transportation through the use of autonomous, lightweight, fixed-cable vehicles.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

The clock is ticking and we’re down to seven days left to apply to pitch at TC Sessions: Mobility taking place on May 18-19 in San Mateo, California, with online analyst commentary on May 20th. What are the qualifications to participate in Mobility Startup Pitch-Off? It’s simple: Be an early-stage startup.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Today, Alex Wilhelm says both transportation platforms plan to reach adjusted profitability by Q4 2021. Dig into the pitches yourself, as there’s never a bad time to check out some super-early-stage startups.” Scott Friend, partner, Bain Capital Ventures. Li Jin, founder, Atelier Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

Unless you’re a former CIO who already has a clear understanding of the decision-making process, you can only fall back on basic best practices that usually result in a generic sales pitch: “How do you do, fellow CIOs?” Corporations are scrambling to get into the venture game. So that definitely stretched me in many ways.”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

How contrarian hires and a pitch deck started Nubank’s $30 billion fintech empire. For a balanced perspective, she also spoke to early Nubank investors at Sequoia and Kaszek Ventures, Latin America’s largest venture fund, to find out why they funded the startup while it was still pre-product. Walter Thompson.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In December 2020, the company announced that they are the autonomous shuttle provider for Autono-MaaS , which is a transportation project in Hiroshima, Japan. Schneider has over 25 years of experience in the mobility and transportation sectors, and we’re excited to see what he does with the company in 2021. Groundspeed.

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OurCrowd

MAY 20, 2022

Animal agriculture emits more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation sector. EVERY aims to disrupt the $200B egg market by producing egg protein for cooking without chickens. OurCrowd, Regal Four (a Beren family venture entity), F2 Venture Capital, NGN Partners and Future Energy Ventures participated in this new round.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2016

I'm excited to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has led a $1 million round into Agrilyst. Indoor farms consume a lot of energy--cutting into the sustainability gains around transportation decreases. At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , there's no such thing as too early to have a conversation. Food is a big market.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Supply chains have become front-page news since the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted global networks of everything from furniture makers to grocery suppliers. They have been recognized for this innovation in FreightDocs, FreightWaves, and Venture Michigan. FreightVerify. It’s also another solution to make your supply chain more visible.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2016

Equally important to note, real estate and transportation are two industries startups historically haven’t upheaved. The capital markets have boosted these types of startups, helping them raise huge amounts of capital at attractive prices, and disrupt massive markets. Because at that point, the business only needs money to grow.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

With white collar workers settling into hybrid work arrangements — a legacy of the pandemic — companies are rethinking how they deliver corporate perks like transportation, cafeterias, and gyms (much to the chagrin of some ). She pitches Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Compt as the answer. ” Image Credits: Compt.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

Below is a link to the pitch video. There wasn’t any context around it—not exactly something I’d call a “pitch”. I explained that this wasn’t really a pitch because it lacked all sorts of context. He didn’t write back to me until I wrote this piece on backing disruption in the middle of the racial equity protests last June. “As

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TechCrunch

JUNE 26, 2022

The company announced today that it has raised a $70 million Series C led by Gobi Partners and SPIL Ventures, with participation from returning investor Inspire Ventures. What portion of that sales cost is spent on logistics and transportation and warehousing? The answer is very well-documented. It’s about 8%.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2016

Just like any new business venture, begin with a basic SWOT analysis measuring strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. You should also have your total market potential and total addressable market locked down when pitching an expansion. Research the red tape. Get ready for unforeseen backlash from local and state officials.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. ” Here is what they told me: Peter Barrett, Playground Global: Why the venture community decided to call in an airstrike on their portfolio companies is quite beyond me. Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Today, a startup is announcing that it has raised seed funding not to disrupt, but improve that basic model with a more flexible approach that can help agents work in a more modern way, and to ultimately scale out the number of people working as agents in the market.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Image Credits: Cowboy Ventures / Guild Education. Tomorrow’s episode of Extra Crunch Live will feature guests VC Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures and Rachel Carlson, CEO and co-founder of Guild Education. m CEO Ritu Narayan explains why equity and accessibility works for mobility services. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin. Since then, Z?m

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

“While all startups are certainly not focused on being disruptive, they often rely on cutting-edge technology and processes to give their customers something truly new,” Zeile writes. Few people are more closely tapped into the innovations in the transportation space than investors. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2022

As far as weeks go, this one was as disruptive as they come. TechCrunch Disrupt 2022 has officially come to a close after an iconic three days of interviews, startup pitches and “Oh my god I know you from Twitter” moments. Overheard at TechCrunch Disrupt 2022. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. Would I pick this?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The pitch — building a starter home for a much lower cost than other prefabricated houses on the market, and one that could be dropped in to locations in the urban core of most cities — was too good to pass up. The single module shelter that the company has developed can be transported and put on site in one day.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. Suzanne Fletcher , venture partner, Prime Movers Lab.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post he had written for his own blog titled “ A Disruptive Cab Ride to Riches: The Uber Payoff.” In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. Transporting kids.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 1, 2022

It was a slow news day at TC Towers because we double-checked every PR pitch for April Fools’ Day silliness and every PR agency in the world advised their clients to set embargoes to literally any other day of the year. P.S. Before we forget – TechCrunch Disrupt is back with an in-person event in October. PT, subscribe here.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2022

The email is a vibe shift from just a few weeks ago , when hundreds of Y Combinator startups — many of which already raised venture funding — presented themselves to the public on Demo Day. TechCrunch obtained a series of memos that venture capitalist firms sent to portfolio companies about the market downturn. seed round pitch deck.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

If you’re coming to Early Stage in Boston, Pitch to VCs there. Also, if you want to speak at Disrupt later this summer, you can apply now. Oh, and sustainability is getting a whole stage all to itself at Disrupt. Today, there’s a ton of fun events-based updates for you. It’s gonna be rad. See you there?

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