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Veo CEO Candice Xie has a plan for building a sustainable scooter company, and it’s working

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The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape. Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action. In your Medium post titled “Sorry, Boys. That was pretty bold. .

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Zoomo raises $12 million to expand e-bike subscription offerings

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“We initially built our products to service the demands of gig workers in the food delivery industry,” Mina Nada, Zoomo CEO and co-founder, said in a statement. “Their expectations for quality commercial vehicles, on demand service, flexible financing and tech enabled security features spurred us to innovate.

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Highlights from Berkeley SkyDeck’s virtual demo day

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Notable alumni include micromobility unicorn, Lime, and delivery robotics firm, Kiwi. This results in operational cost reduction by eliminating the need to replace their existing fleet and yields a safer, more efficient and sustainable transportation system,” CEO Raghavender Sahdev tells TechCrunch. The Hurd Co. The Hurd Co.’s

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Nigerian mobility-tech startup MAX bags $31 million in Series B round, set to expand across Africa, build EV infrastructure

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“It is another milestone in our journey to make mobility safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable by deploying high-performance technologies and operators. Chinedu Azodoh is the startup’s other co-founder.

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Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam secures $93M Series B, enters new markets

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Beam , a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. The Series B brings Beam’s valuation up into the triple digits, says CEO and co-founder of Beam Alan Jiang who declined to provide exact numbers. .

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Bo Mobility’s e-scooters are built with Formula One engineering

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The first wave of electric micromobility was shepherded by the ( still largely unprofitable , bless them) shared micromobility companies — the Limes and Birds of the world that popularized electric scooters. But Oscar Morgan, co-founder and CEO of U.K.-based I know what you’re thinking.

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6 Oslo VCs discuss 2021 trends, deal flow and regional opportunities

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In Norway, sustainability-focused companies. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? What are the biggest worries of the founders in your portfolio? So for our founders, it’s mostly about keeping churn-and-burn rates low to survive. Norway does video tech well.