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7 EO members share how to mitigate rising transportation costs and shipping delays

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Global supply chain issues, increased transportation costs and shipping delays are an ongoing post-pandemic problem. Our small business has absolutely been impacted by higher transportation costs and shipping delays. Utilized lesser-used ports, other modes of shipment (air, rail), or a mix—to diversify the risk.

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Bolt raises $182M to expand its on-demand transportation network in Europe and Africa

TechCrunch

on gross merchandise value (GMV: the total figure transacted on Bolt’s platform), à la the recently listed DoorDash, than it is closer to “others” in the transport space that are seeing valuations closer to 0.5x Its current list of biggest markets reflects that mix: Villig said they were the U.K., billion ($4.3

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Builders and VCs explore the impact of air mobility on urban planning at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

TechCrunch

Just some of these investors include Google co-founder Larry Page, United Therapeutics founder Martine Rothblatt, UP.Partners co-founder Cyrus Sigari and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun — along with corporations such as Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Honda and more. . Will the public widely accept and use it?

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Diamond Age picks up $50M to lay the foundation for the future of houses built by robots

TechCrunch

The side-effect of adding a slice of robotics to the mix is that homes that used to take nine months to build can now be instantiated into existence in a month or so. In particular, the investor gets excited about startups re-inventing energy, transportation, infrastructure, manufacturing, human augmentation and agtech.

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Optibus taps $100M at a $1.3B valuation for its AI-based mass transit operations platform

TechCrunch

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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Reliable Robotics lifts $100M to take autonomous cargo planes where none have gone before

TechCrunch

They have been experimenting and developing using a Cessna 172, which started flying unmanned flights a couple of years ago. Of course, people are a little twitchy about the safety aspects of self-driving cars — and planes add a literal additional dimension to the mix.

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The Station: Arrival slashes EV targets, more Tesla FSD controversy and NHTSA loses its captain

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. I don’t have much to say about this since anyone who follows the most basic tenets of society and uses logic understands it is wrong and ridiculous. 63% of riders said they used micromobility to connect to public transit.