AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 7, 2022

Register CARRO , Southeast Asia’s largest used automobile marketplace , and PT Mitra Pinasthika Mustika Tbk , Indonesia’s leading consumer automotive and transportation company, announced that they would enter into a strategic collaboration.

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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs. Fuel Me is a first-of-its-kind platform that revolutionizes fuel procurement and management.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. This is compared to 37%, 70% and 66% in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. Africa is home to more than a billion people, where a majority have limited or no access to vehicle financing. that same year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

A black market still eats into the industry’s bottom line, however, and a patchwork of state regulations artificially constrain the TAM for public and private companies managing grow operations, distribution, transportation, inventory control, testing and point-of-sale software. Yoni Meyer, partner, Casa Verde Capital.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

FourKites , the #1 real-time supply chain visibility platform, today announced a new $100 million Series D financing round. The growth financing is led by Thomas H. The supply chain disruptions from the pandemic accelerated the push for businesses to invest in real-time transportation visibility solutions.

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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. The funds will also be used to extend vehicle financing credit to over 100,000 drivers in the next two years.

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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. . Girteka and Lineage Logistics also participated in the financing, which gives project44 a post-money valuation of $1.2 Enter project44.

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Startup Grind

AUGUST 17, 2018

I’ve invested in several startups that started out as international companies and either moved to the U.S. That’s changed a lot in certain markets, like China and Southeast Asia, but for most countries it is still true that there are more investors willing to invest a higher valuations in Silicon Valley than anywhere else in the world.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 25, 2023

Moreover, participation in international trade agreements, including the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, are expected to bolster regional investment further. The cost of operations and manufacturing can be significantly lower in these countries.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Register Baichuan , a Chinese AI startup, has successfully secured $300 million in financing, with Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., leading the investment. This funding round is said to be a prominent investment in the Chinese AI industry, as startups like Baichuan plan to capitalize on the growing demand for ChatGPT-like services.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Inspiration wants to help commercial fleets go electric, and it has already started by financing electric mobility company Revel’s ride-hail fleet of blue Teslas. The funding comes from ArcLight Capital Partners, a venture fund that invests in energy infrastructure. “Transportation is the largest source of U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4% million) in 42dot.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

With this round of financing, WeMo plans to expand its service to Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on Indonesia and Thailand. The company anticipates accelerated growth over the next few years, building off increasing demand for shared transportation, electrification, fleet management, and resumption of normal economic activity.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Meet some of the outstanding African entrepreneurs addressing challenges in sectors ranging from finance to healthcare to education and keep an eye out for the program’s Dealbook, where the full cohort will be featured. Transportation and storage. Electricity and gas supply. About 80 million Nigerians face daily blackouts.

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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. million trips each month.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The financing was “heavily oversubscribed,” according to the company, which has now raised $28 million since its October 2018 inception. We’ve demonstrated product-market fit and are helping more and more companies embed finance offerings into their products,” Storf said.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

We named this summit after a report we wrote with Pitchbook at the end of 2021 to explore the impact of the pandemic on investment patterns. Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. Infrastructure touches everything.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The support and knowledge of this investor group will catalyze BasiGo in its mission to make East Africa a leader in inclusive, sustainable bus transport,” he said. BasiGo plans to supply over 1,000 mass transit electric buses to transport operators in Nairobi over the next five years. Image Credits: BasiGo.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. Others do not have provisions for seat reservation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

As the Ubers of the world continue to scale, a smaller on-demand transportation startup has raised some funding in Germany, underscoring the opportunities that remain for startups in the space targeting specific service niches. Thanks to this financing, we will continue to fast-track our innovation, with zero layoffs.”.

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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. “[The latest investment] is primarily going to be used for land-grab and expansion opportunities,” Komoni said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Estonian on-demand transport firm Bolt is set to roll out electric taxi options in South Africa four months after introducing e-bike food delivery services in the country. This comes as the company expands its services to environmentally friendly modes of transport.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

You either make it and deliver whatever it is you were tasked with transporting, or you don’t, and everyone watches your rocket fail on YouTube. Tiger and Insight Partners led the investment, giving the AI workload orchestrator a huge capital base from which to grow. TechCrunch reports. billion valuation, TechCrunch reports.

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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. Supply-chain financing and dynamic discounting are two mechanisms business buyers use to settle invoices with suppliers on preferred timelines. Merritt Hummer. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

The company, which runs an app matching truck drivers and merchants transporting cargo and provides financial services to truckers, was formed from a merger between rivals Yunmanman and Huochebang in 2017. Sequoia is quite bullish about truck-hailing as it made its sixth investment in Manbang.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Cellulant co-founder Ken Njoroge, and Google executive Charles Murito made investments too. After working closely with the Leta team, we were impressed with the team, the technology they are building, and the scale of the problem they are solving, which prompted our investment from Chandaria Capital.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The European e-scooter market is currently the main battleground for companies playing in the micromobility space, taking advantage as they are of Europe’s relatively compact cities and the desire of populations to move to more sustainable transportation. In 2021, players like Tier, Voi and Dott continued to raise VC backing. and Europe.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

He grew up on a farm, but has degrees in finance, economics and mechanical engineering. He learned how heavy duty vehicles are produced en masse during his three-and-a-half years there, and also helped start and invest in other companies. Einride, which he founded in 2016, is his seventh company. Einride’s business is threefold.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

General Atlantic is in talks to invest about $50 million in Acko, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, doubling down on its bet on the Indian insurtech at a time when most investors are treading investment opportunities carefully. billion to $1.25 billion, one of the sources said. billion, one of the sources said.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Einride is seeking $75 million in new financing, while at the same time exploring the potential for a public listing through a special purpose acquisition company, according to people with knowledge of the company’s plans. billion thanks to an investment from Ford and the VW Group. billion investment announced in 2019.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

The financing round was led by XBTO Ventures , a crypto finance company with a VC arm that invests in digital assets, among other types of startups. Its last-mile delivery service connects businesses of different sizes to find independent delivery riders for transport of their products to their business and individual customers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Austin’s venture capital scene has been hot for years now, but a pair of local investment firms just closed on new funds aimed at injecting more capital into startups in Austin and elsewhere. Axios reported that this was 211% over the number of dollars invested in 2020. ?. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Foundation Capital also participated in the financing, which included participation from existing backers Broadhaven Ventures, InvestoVC, Monashees, Base10 Partners and Y Combinator. The investment brings Nowports’ total raised since its 2018 inception to over $24 million. in a matter of months.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

With this in mind, Aptiv might have a more long-term reason to invest strategically in a scalable system architecture that functions under the hood of autonomous vehicles.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

At the age of 14, Jacklyn Rome saw firsthand how divorce can impact families, and how arguing about finances both during and after the process can impact children. The other half of expenses, including medical bills, extracurricular activities, transportation, etc., The experience stuck with her. For now, the app is free.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

Sennder , a large digital road freight forwarder based out of Germany, has raised $160 million in Series D financing. Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets. The round was led by an unnamed party, but round participants included Accel, Lakestar, HV Capital, Project A and Scania.

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