TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Njoya said the startup is working towards becoming the go-to vehicle subscription and financial services platform for millions of transport operators across the continent.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

million pre-Series A round to expand its tech-enabled logistics solution across the Francophone region. The round was co-led by pan-African venture capital firm 4DX Ventures and regional telecom operator Orange. Today the company is announcing that it has raised a $4.5

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 31, 2023

Led by LG Technology Ventures, the venture capital arm of the LG Group, the round also saw participation from Safar Partners, UOB Venture Management, and existing investors Alpha JWC and LDV Partners. LG Technology Ventures was established in 2018 in Silicon Valley and manages over $500 million of fund assets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Sendy , a Kenyan logistics startup that enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, among other services, is shutting down its operations and exploring a sale of its assets, TechCrunch has learned. Sendy was co-founded in 2015 by Alloys, Evanson Biwott, Don Okoth and Malaika Judd. It has raised $26.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Merritt Hummer is a partner at Bain Capital Ventures, where she invests in the fintech, e-commerce and proptech sectors. As a venture capital investor in B2B e-commerce companies, I’m carefully watching the industry and have seen several forward-thinking business models emerge for B2B marketplaces. Merritt Hummer.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. that have invested in Pathstream, Udemy and Coursera. The West African country is the only market where the U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

a startup that enables on-demand repair of electric vehicle charging stations. Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility? But the auto giant’s push to electrify passenger vehicles is just one of many efforts to be a leader in innovation and the future of transportation.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

A Shrimpbox farm system enables farmers to become vertical aquaculture farming operations. Then there is the software aspect that enables remote operation management of the production and workflow mapped out with data so that it is easier to train and perform the farming tasks. So they created Atarraya, a U.S.-based Series A funding

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2023

Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures led the round, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Chiratae Ventures and Next47. CEO and founder Nitin Jayakrishnan says that the new capital will be put toward expanding Pando’s global sales, marketing and delivery capabilities.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The company’s investment in expanding EV charging availability has the potential to accelerate the decarbonisation of Vietnam’s transportation sector, which accounts for at least 25% of the country’s CO2 emissions. “We

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In October last year, Sendy, a Kenyan logistics scale-up, wound up its supplies service , which enabled retailers to purchase FMCGs directly from manufacturers, saying it was directing all its focus on its end-to-end fulfillment offering. Months later, the company is ceasing on-ground operations in Nigeria, one of its four markets in Africa.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

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.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2021

Also participating were VNV Global, RDIF, Flashpoint Venture Capital and others. Borzo says its gig economy workforce enables delivery via any route, any transport, any weight or size. Borzo says its gig economy workforce enables delivery via any route, any transport, any weight or size.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

The company, which uses a combination of computer vision and machine learning to create a system that can quickly and accurately inspect vehicles, has raised $100 million in a Series D funding round led by Hanaco VC, a venture capital firm based in New York and Tel Aviv. Existing investors GM Ventures, CarMax, W.R. Ventures L.P.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. ” Climate resiliency . Financing the future startup nation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage. For these industries, digital enablers, rather than disruptors, constitute the next wave of supply chain innovation. and Enable.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

million) on the back of strong demand for its tech from companies working in transportation and energy infrastructure. “We enable more non-experts to use satellite data. Today, a Berlin-based startup called LiveEO , which has built a satellite analytics platform to do just that, has raised €19 million ($19.5

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Get ready for two days of programming dedicated to taking a deeper dive into the future of transportation and to meet the people who are shaping it. It’s been three long years since our last in-person mobility event, but the day has finally come. Welcome to Day One of TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 !

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Abbeel’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, Tech Review and (of course) TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It is enabling people to contribute to the possibility that their children will enjoy the lives that they did and making them feel good about it? — ?through Most of what we wear on our bodies today is made from plastic. Plastic comes from oil, which comes from fossil fuels. This needs to change. And it will.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

If your US-based business is adversely affected by Covid-19 such that you would need to lay off employees imminently and having access to capital would enable you to keep more employees on the payroll then you might be eligible. The NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) Guidelines are below.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

It has raised upwards of $91 million in venture capital to date. M is a fully managed, tech-enabled living space for older adults in the United States. M, led by Triple Impact Capital and Freestyle Capital, with participation from Techstars. Venture investing in elder tech. “At Image Credits: UpsideH?M.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Grayson, Holt and their team invest in companies operating in and around the manufacturing, transportation and logistics sectors, which, they say “represent over half our country’s GDP and have not been tech-enabled.”. This gives the firm a total of $440 million in assets under management at this point.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2021

But getting real-time access to information from transportation providers has remained somewhat elusive for shippers and logistics companies alike. . Will Chen, a managing director of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, believes that project44 is unique in its scope of network coverage across geographies and modes of transport. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Aclima , a decade-old startup founded by Davida Herzl, is looking to solve that problem and has raised $40 million in new funding from strategic and institutional venture capital investors to accelerate its growth. “We’ve built a platform that enables hyperlocal measurement. Image Credits: Greg Epperson/Getty Images.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

As transactions involving consumer data become increasingly digital, the need for secure identity authentication is becoming critically important in industries such as financial services, transportation, retail, and entertainment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Saudi-based early-stage venture capital firm RAED Ventures led the round. VC firms Algebra Ventures, Nuwa Capital, 1984 Ventures, and Global Founders Capital participated, with several regional and global angel investors taking part as well.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others. Ahrefs claims to have become a $100 million company in annual revenue without venture capital. seed round funding for its warehouse robotics solutions, led by SMRK VC, a Ukrainian venture fund. It has raised $14.7 Incorporated in Delaware, USA.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

During the pandemic, delivery startups — whether focused on groceries, essentials, or takeout — became the darling children of venture capital firms. According a report from AgFunder, total venture investment for “e-grocery” companies reached $18.5 “Fast delivery companies are capital-intensive. .”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Similarly, there’s no reason to be afraid to raise money to start a new venture, but founders should have a healthy respect for a process that’s not completely under their control. billion to SpaceX in exchange for five more astronaut transportation flights, Aria writes. NASA is paying $1.4

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

L’Attitude Ventures announced today that it has closed on its first institutional fund, raising more than $100 million from several financial services heavyweights , including a “strategic anchor investment” from JPMorgan Chase, Mary Ann reports. Startups and VC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Because Sweetgreen raised hundreds of millions of dollars during its life as a private company, including myriad venture capital rounds — through a Series I in 2019 — along with capital from other investors. Salads transport well — they are not soup — and are as plant-based as you’d like.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

And when it comes to reducing real estate’s climate footprint, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), the path starts with adopting technologies that enable green certifications such as LEED and BREEAM. Image Credits: SVB Capital. As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. Design and construction.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

The clean tech sector received the greatest VC interest in Kenya, as it accounted for nearly half of the total capital raised by Kenyan private venture-backed companies — buoyed by Sun King’s mega round and M-Kopa’s funding.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Elroy Air has raised a $40 million Series A, including financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, to ramp up the build, testing and validation of its inaugural autonomous cargo drone. This latest round brings Elroy’s total raised to $48 million to date. This latest round brings Elroy’s total raised to $48 million to date.

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