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Google’s third bet from its Africa Investment Fund is in logistics company Lori Systems

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Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors.

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint.

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AI-powered building design platform BeamUP emerges from stealth with $15M

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If teams don’t do their due diligence, they risk omitting from design documents important mechanical equipment, like exhaust fans and valves, for example, or failing to size electrical circuits appropriately for loads. The slow uptake threatens to impede the industry’s progress toward desired goals, like improved sustainability.

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What has KOBO360 been up to in the last 2 years?

TechCrunch

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. He also detailed how the company faced them and its current state of stable growth and sustainability.

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Top Detroit Startups and Tech Companies to Watch in 2021

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Though located outside of Detroit in the city of Flint, Michigan, Genusee Eyewear is a sustainable eyewear manufacturer that’s making a difference in the Flint community—and the fashion industry. Petal Transport. Petal Transport is a manufacturing and tech startup founded in 2019. Genusee Eyewear.

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Love’s Cup finalists, semifinalists named

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Babel Analytics developed an artificial intelligence-powered user interface to read and analyze patient health records and extract medical information that saves physicians time, minimizes documentation errors and improves patient care. . New Horizons Technology, LLC. University of Central Oklahoma. Advisor: Maurice Haff.

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The battery business is booming and Zeekr kicks off its IPO roadshow

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The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. and China struck a deal that allows American officials to review audit documents of Chinese businesses that trade in the United States, an agreement expected to lower the likelihood of Chinese companies on U.S. Subscribe for free. Last year, the U.S.