Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The hardest relationships to establish have been with the biggest product companies (auto makers, consumer product companies), retailers (Walmart, Kroger) and big transportation (UPS, FedEx), logistics, energy, healthcare, shipping & telecommunications companies. None of us are derivatives of Silicon Valley.

startup

TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership. Alternative financing options such as revenue financing or expense financing are often overshadowed by the VC model, but they can be just as, and sometimes more, useful for SaaS startups, writes Miguel Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Capchase.

culture

TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Financing: It is customary in B2B transactions to pay “with terms,” such as net 30 or net 60, effectively giving a line of credit to the business buyer that enables them to send payment after delivery of the good or service. Is the seller legally registered to sell and transport sensitive goods such as medical equipment or pharmaceuticals?

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. To make it easier to toggle between the three, there needs to be significant policy, financing, and physical transformation. Infrastructure touches everything.

real estate

TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Farming carbon” will drive demand for regenerative finance mechanisms, data analytics tools, and new technology like nitrogen-fixing biologicals – all imperatives to maximize the adoption and impact of regenerative practices and spur innovation and entrepreneurship. Offsets are a start, but they are only part of the solution.

transportation

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

SafeBoda said the investment from Google’s Africa Investment Fund will help “drive its growth in Uganda and Nigeria, scaling its transportation-led app to offer new payment and financial services solutions for its expanding set of customers: passengers, drivers and merchants.”.

investment

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This week, I covered Zeta, a new startup working on joint finances for modern couples. Here’s what I learned : The success of Zeta hinges on the idea that people want to share their finances in an ongoing and meaningful way, and that the world of finance is ready to shift from individualism to collectivism earlier and louder.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S. This has been costly.

development

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

The company is financing tens of thousands of loans per month, according to chief executive officer and co-founder Travis Holoway, and loan volumes are growing at about 40% monthly, he said. “They’re looking to diversify their capital and deploy it to make returns.

finance

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The $75 million investment comes in addition to a previously undisclosed $50 million investment made as part of Joby’s Series C financing round in January 2020 , Uber said. Joby was the first partner to commit to deploying air taxi services by 2023. To date, Joby Aviation has raised $820 million.

micromobility

AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Register Baichuan , a Chinese AI startup, has successfully secured $300 million in financing, with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., Baichuan revealed on its WeChat account that this recent financing round succeeded an initial $50 million angel round. Tencent Holdings Ltd., and Xiaomi Corp. leading the investment.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

MoveinSync’s Strategic Funding Round This financing round is intended not only for growth but also to provide an opportunity for some of its early investors to partially exit. They aim to secure between $50 to $60 million.

innovation

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now, with $5 million in new financing led by the MIT deep tech investment fund The Engine , and $6.5 million in total financing, the company is taking its tech to transit authorities around the world. “We We are thrilled to support The Routing Company. “Smart ridesharing solutions for cities will have a ripple effect. In the U.S.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

Focusing on mission-critical energy needs across industries like data centers, construction, and transportation. Fuel Me will expand its enterprise customer base and enhance its platform through this financing. “We Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

data analysis

TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

New investors VEF, XYZ Ventures, and FJ Labs, as well as DocuSign founder Tom Gonser and Gusto CFO Mike Dinsdale also participated in the financing. The financing — which included $2.5 Existing backers QED, Next Billion Ventures, and Village Global also put more money in the company. .

startup

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

According to Asparouhov, that background, and the time that Bruey spent running his own angel syndicate and working at Bank of America getting a grounding in finance and startups, made him an ideal candidate to run the next startup to be spun out of Founders Fund. Image Credit: Getty Images/AbelCreativeStudio.

incubation

TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Shop owners should stop complaining to their local transportation authorities when parking spots get repurposed for bike lanes. billion loan from the agency to help it finance the construction of new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities.

transportation

TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Fast-forward to today, and we have fintech, insurtech, proptech, logistics and transportation, all capital-intensive businesses that Tacora is focused on. We are here to help early-stage companies finance their assets,” she said. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO. I am happy to have him as a partner.”.

ventures

TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

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.

capital

TechCrunch

APRIL 30, 2023

These factors are proving fertile ground for establishing and growing fintechs that focus exclusively on Islamic finance, offering products and services that follow shariah law.” It’ll lead us into the larger trend that’s happening in what we call the ‘revenue front office and finance back office,’” Sharma said.

finance

TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education. Some examples highlighted in the report include M-Pesa in fintech, Yoco in commerce, Kobo360 in transport, Helium Health in healthcare and uLesson in education. Sectoral transformation.

VC

TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

” To help address the problem, Aso co-founded LexxPluss , a now two-year-old, Japan-based startup that designs and develop autonomous mobile robots to transport loads and optimize workflows within warehouses and logistic sites. with a fresh injection of about $10.7 million (1.45 million (5.26 billion yen). million (1.45 million (5.26

incubation

TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively. In 2020, fintech trailed behind the transportation and travel categories when it came to layoffs as percentage of the total, Lee told TechCrunch via email. of the total.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. Gogoro’s public debut could supercharge EV battery swapping across the globe.

transportation

AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startups qualifying under Startup SG can access cash grants, equity financing, and business loans. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

startup ecosystem

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

From the mobility front: Beam raises $93M, proves that the e-scooter market is not kaput : Beam, a Singapore-based company, rents out e-scooters and other electric personal transport machines. In the wake of valuation declines at Bird and Lime, you might think that investors were over putting capital into the shared personal mobility game.

mix-use

TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The fund has made several early-stage investments to date including Carefull , a financial caregiving app that monitors and protects aging parents’ daily finances; Nirvana Insurance , a platform that delivers commercial insurance for fleets and transportation from the ground up; Titaniam , a data protection platform that delivers encryption-in-use (..)

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

At SXSW 2022, Whurley did a session on applying quantum computing to transportation problems. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg. It is targeting applications in the aerospace, energy, finance and pharmaceuticals industries. And he met with U.S. At past SXSW conferences, Whurley has launched companies.

transportation

TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

NVMe is the storage access and transport protocol for flash and SSDs. While Kirzner declined to reveal concrete financials, he noted that the latest financing brings San Jose–based Lightbits’ total raised to date to over $100 million.

accelerator

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Embedded finance connects services like payment processing with everyday activities like grabbing a coffee before unlocking an e-scooter. Multi Colored Bling Bling Dollar Sign Shape Bokeh Backdrop on Dark Background, Finance Concept. Just how bad is that hack that hit US government agencies? Image Credits: MirageC / Getty Images.

finance

StartupNation

DECEMBER 10, 2021

This is a system we can see scaling very well as shared mobility becomes an integrated part of transportation in the U.S. It’s a perfect system for collections attorneys, legal, auto finance, health care and property management companies who need to keep on top of payments in a particular way. Originally published by Purpose Jobs.

startup

TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California.

micromobility

TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Swyft is a new form of urban mobility, using autonomous cabins on lightweight cable infrastructure to solve transportation problems in densely developed areas including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. Earlier, she led Finance at a major solar manufacturer. Victoria holds an MBA and M.S.

pitching

TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California.

micromobility

TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2022

That conversation hasn’t disappeared, but it has certainly gotten quieter, with many investors now telling me that there’s a super surge of financing on the way. billion in financing for startups that use its own platform. Treepz founder Onyeka Akumah on how to succeed in transportation tech. A different version of CVC, I guess.

startup

TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan interviewed Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko about his company’s transition “from using a hardware-as-a-service model to a take-rate scheme that gives it 10% of any sales made from its card payment-enabled bots.”.

construction

OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

OurCrowd portfolio company IntellAct offers a glimmer of hope to help the hard-pressed transportation industry cut costs as it grapples with financial challenges exacerbated by the pandemic. This $100M round is co-led by two strategic investors: a leading vehicle systems supplier and a leading global investment fund. Learn More. .

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