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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

We have made the decision to invest in entrepreneurs without slides, whose ambition, passion, depth of understanding of an opportunity and compelling vision come through crystal-clear in conversation,” states Sarah Guo from Greylock Partners. As all investors know from the case of Uber, you cannot size a market based on an incumbent.

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Joby Aviation makes its public trading debut on the NYSE

TechCrunch

It’s a sizable amount, but creating an entirely new form of transportation is a capital-intensive business. SPACs are not a new instrument for going public, but they have gained a widespread presence in the transportation space, particularly amongst eVTOL startups looking to secure amounts of capital.

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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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Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa

TechCrunch

Most people in French-speaking Africa are unbanked due to a lack of trust in incumbents and inefficient banking solutions. The company started with ride-hailing services because the cities it targeted had dense populations and inefficient transportation services. After earning a Ph.D. He founded Yassir with Mahdi Yettou in 2017.

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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

TechCrunch

Additionally, Melonn works with a range of transportation providers, including incumbents such as FedEx or DHL and last-mile startups, to reduce shipping times and costs. . Melonn then takes care of the picking, packing and delivery, so that end-consumers receive their orders on the same or next day, also taking care of returns.

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Convoy: The Future of Truck Freight

Y Combinator

We have seen this play out across several business-to-consumer verticals over the past decade: Airbnb in hospitality, Instacart in grocery, DoorDash in food delivery, and Lyft in transportation. Domestic shippers like Unilever spend nearly $800 billion annually transporting raw materials and consumer goods by truck 1.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

The financial opportunity of doing so is massive: an estimated $3-10 trillion in EBITDA will be up for grabs. YC Companies: Enode , Evoly , inBalance , Pelm Electric vehicle value chain Electric cars are winning personal transportation technology. These opportunities may not be as straightforward as they might seem.

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