TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“For too long, battery recycling hasn’t been efficient enough for companies to take advantage of,” said co-founder and COO at Cylib, Gideon Schwich. For this round, 10x Founders also joined. “World Fund provides a strong climate capability, deep tech knowledge and operational expertise with an extensive network.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

So to find out what the startup scene in Wroclaw looks like, we spoke with local six investors, executives and founders. The country’s capital Warsaw has an angel investment scene, but founders instead often look to Germany for smaller investments because “the distance from Wroc? investors, founders, lawyers, designers)?

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 6, 2022

Register Transport Capital , a globally-recognised investment management and advisory firm focused on the maritime and aviation industries, has launched its new venture capital arm named TC Ventures. We have a deep commitment to sustainability, and through TC Ventures we want to take a more active role in shaping the industries we serve.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. I know you want to see who made the cut.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Over the next five years consumers will return an estimated 40 million to 50 million pieces of furniture that more than likely will end up in landfills, creating tons of unnecessary waste, according to Chris Richter, the founder of a new Austin-based furniture startup, FloorFound. Hunt Transport. Minneapolis-based Yardbird raised $4.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

million Series A led by new strategic investor EIT InnoEnergy, a major accelerator of sustainable energies in Europe that’s supported by the European Union. The company recently launched a battery-swapping network in China and has plans to do the same in India. For the pilot to be successful, Swobbee will need to expand its network.

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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. The global economy happens indoors,” said Fifth Wall co-founder Brendan Wallace, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

She initially thought she’d focus on transportation, but her mind kept returning to consumer consumption habits and the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by targeting consumer behavior. “I didn’t know how we would capture the data to show someone their carbon footprint and help them reduce it until I met my co-founder [ J.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

In a column for TC+ , Ben Tigner, co-founder and CEO of electric aerial mobility company Overair, identified four trends that are changing how investors, entrepreneurs and the market are responding to expanding opportunities in eVTOL: An expanding competitive landscape. Sustainable travel at the forefront. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We deploy sensor networks that combine mobile sensing where we use fleets of vehicles as a roving network. As a result of the new round of funding, led by Clearvision Ventures, the fund’s founder and managing partner, Dan Ahn will take a seat on the board of directors. Image Credits: Greg Epperson/Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investment — which co-founder and CEO Eerik Oja called a bridge round — is a prequel to a larger Series A round next year. Planet42, though based in South Africa, has Estonian roots due to the founders’ heritage: Oja and CFO Marten Orgna founded the company in 2017. Planet42 founders (Marten Orgna and Eerik Oja).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

We spend such a tremendous amount of our resources growing, processing, transporting and selling food items. “One of our core beliefs is that waste is no longer a necessary or acceptable cost of doing business,” said Spoiler Alert co-founder and CPO Emily Malina.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Vertical hydroponic farming is often seen as a sustainable alternative to traditional growing. It uses 95% less water, has less impact on soil and the urban farms can be placed in food deserts or close to grocers to cut down on transportation costs. Build out our retail and distributed network, targeting the social piece of things.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Grab a red Sharpie, circle September 20 on your calendar (ooh, how old-school) and get ready to jumpstart your TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 networking experience. We’re hosting a series of speed networking sessions to get your Disrupt kicked off on Monday, September 20. Planet/Impact: Passionate about making an impact on our planet?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2020

And yet, every entrepreneur who I know went out on a limb, particularly founders. As to the challenges that he faced in starting and sustaining a business , Lethlean admits these obstacles provided important lessons. EO is the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. THE ESSENCE OF A GOOD BUSINESS IS SIMPLE.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Apart from its own brands, including Smartscooters and Eeyo electric bikes, Gogoro also makes its platform available through its Powered by Gogoro Network (PBGN) program, which enables partners to create vehicles that use Gogoro’s batteries and swapping stations.

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StartupNation

APRIL 22, 2021

For many consumers, whether or not a business acts in a way that’s sustainable is a big factor in whether or not they’ll support that business over others. Of those who rated sustainability as very or extremely important, more than 70% say they’d pay a premium for products and services from responsible companies.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Via’s transit tech software helps public transportation agencies, municipalities and school districts optimize fixed bus routes, strategize placements of new bike lanes, plan paratransit and school bus services, and holistically incorporate private on-demand ridesharing services into a city’s entire transportation ecosystem.

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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. So we’re still a young business. Those at 48 months are yet to finish their term. “One It is a problem faced across many emerging markets.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2023

million from GSX-listed transportation firm ComfortDelGro Corporation. In all, Shift4Good hopes to raise 300 million Euros for this venture fund as the company eyes to deploy into early-stage startups that are decarbonising the transportation industry in Europe and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The Mountain View-based company is committed to improving transportation through the use of autonomous, lightweight, fixed-cable vehicles. The company says that its solution offers a lower cost per mile with fewer carbon emissions than conventional transportation alternatives.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Fortunately, co-founders Steven Henderson and Mike Carter have backgrounds in shipping and shipbuilding and are excited to jump in. The feds will be looking into price fixing (and in fact just passed a law ), but supporting a sustainable American alternative is kind of a no-brainer as well.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Importantly, Scale is now a “break even” business and is set up to continue to add employees and expand into new markets in a sustainable way, Scale’s CEO and co-founder Alexandr Wang told TechCrunch. The team, which has expertise in real-time video and neural network training, will support Nucleus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

Thomas Duscha, founder and CEO of Berlin-based battery swapping startup Swobbee , was in Poland visiting family in early March when the reach of the Ukraine crisis galvanized him to action. “I Then he tagged a number of executives, founders and investors in Berlin’s mobility and startup scene. “I Transporting refugees from Ukraine.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. Suddenly network level adversaries were front page news. The node-hopping component of Nym’s network shares a feature with the Tor network.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Travis VanderZanden is the founder and CEO of Bird. That’s a dramatic shift in urban transportation by any measure, and it prompts a simple but important question: How did we get here? Second, we should anticipate that e-scooter technology will continue to develop around two key pillars: safety and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

The third big blow came in September 2016, when billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries introduced Jio, its 4G network. Testing on the network was closed to a select group of brands. All of this was being played out amid the ambitions of Micromax’s founders and management.

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StartupNation

JANUARY 24, 2022

On today’s Business Beat, Jeff talks about sectors undergoing sustained disruption and what it means for entrepreneurs. The sector we’re focused on today, travel and transportation, is certainly relevant to our interests here in our region. for the WJR Business Beat. Are you an entrepreneur with a great story to share?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

“Our product roadmap is high confidential, but let’s say our high-level vision looking a decade or so forth is to take people out of the loop and have a completely automated data collection, processing and analysis,” co-founder and CEO Maximillion Boosfeld told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It also operates a network of solar charging and battery swapping stations in the East African country. We look forward to continuing to serve our customers and making sustainable mobility a reality in Uganda,” he said. million (€3 million) in electric motorcycle startup Zembo to help it grow its business.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

” Here are four considerations for high-growth company founders building their post-pandemic team. How to identify unicorn founders when they’re still early-stage. Founders often tie themselves in knots as they try to project qualities they hope investors are seeking. What are investors looking for?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

During its time developing properties, it found new ways to improve the building process, according to CEO and co-founder Amit Haller. For example, Veev uses Light Gauge Steel (LGS) framing and High Performance Surface (HPS), which the company says “are lighter, stronger, and more sustainable than wood and drywall and with near zero waste.”

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In November 2020, the Detroit tech company announced that they’re developing three new authentication centers in Toronto and Hong Kong, which will expand the company’s global network by 50%. The co-founders are looking for entrepreneurial candidates who are “obsessed with finding a better way” and feel free to innovate. Clearcover.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2022

The move comes after Joco was sued by the city for operating a bike share without prior authorization from the NYC Department of Transportation. Both co-founders are named Jonathan Cohen, but one is from New York and the other from London, so we’ll distinguish them by their geographies henceforth.). “We

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

And, they require stakeholder buy-in for sustained execution. Fixing a car is complicated; fixing a city’s transportation infrastructure is complex. We know a lot more today than we did in the past about the importance of networks. Strong networks yield robustness, efficiency and reliability.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 10, 2022

June 12: Meet Nas Academy Founder Nuseir Yassin. “I I am super excited to be on the platform,” says Nas Daily icon Nuseir Yassin, Founder of Nas Academy , his new company backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Amazon praises CropX for supporting sustainability. Sign NDA to Learn Mo re. The world of education is changing.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Portcast founders Dr. Lingxiao Xia and Nidhi Gupta. Co-founders Nidhi Gupta and Dr. Lingxiao Xia met at Entrepreneur First in Singapore. For example, it can tell clients what ports are faster, other ships and modes of transport that can help them get around a disruption and how to optimize their capacity.

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