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TechCrunch+ roundup: Psychedelic biotech, Gogoro’s SPAC, H-1Bs for Ukrainians

TechCrunch

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.

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The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015

Tomasz Tunguz

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Others, like transportation and hospitality, fueled by Uber and AirBnB fundraising efforts, command more than 6% of the billions invested in the last 12 months.

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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future

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The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. There are so many efficiencies that come from the fleet model for transportation — we think this will be an increasingly important area in the coming years.

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The Ezra Klein Show: VC Bill Gurley on Transforming Health Care

abovethecrowd.com

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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Digital road freight forwarder Sennder raises $160M Series, plans European expansion

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Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. Sennder competes with large incumbents like Wincanton and CH Robinson, as well as other startups such as OnTrac and Instafreight. The European logistics and freight sector has a market size of $427 billion.

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Morocco’s Freterium grabs $4M to scale its freight trucking software across MENA

TechCrunch

While incumbents have pioneered various enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to digitize these processes, companies would still get four to five different software platforms to complete multiple tasks. And our main product is transport management software for shippers enables multi-enterprise collaboration.

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End-to-end operators are the next generation of consumer business

TechCrunch

The key purpose of being end-to-end is to deliver an even better value proposition to consumers relative to incumbent alternatives. Incumbents in these industries are very large and entrenched, but they are legacy players, making them slow to adopt new technology.