TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

TC Sessions: Mobility, which takes place on June 9, features the top minds and makers, draws thousands of attendees, fosters collaborative community and creates a networking environment ripe with opportunities. Network with CrunchMatch, our AI-powered platform, to find and connect with the people who can help move your business forward.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Tokio Marine , a Tokyo-headquartered insurance corporation, said Tuesday it has launched its $42 million corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, dubbed Tokio Marine Future Fund, to invest in early-stage startups around the world. . Corporate venture capital follows the same trend as other VC markets: Up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

What role should it play — in existing cities and when designing future urban transportation systems? During his career, he has been recognized as an innovative executive with a reputation for transforming startups into global businesses. What are the costs and benefits? Will the public widely accept and use it?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Save the date and get ready to rub virtual elbows with mobility’s best and brightest minds — the movers, shakers and policy makers that are shaping the future of transportation. We’re excited to host another day dedicated to the people — and the technology they’re developing — that’s changing transportation. Yes, you can!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! Because Bird was first to market, extremely innovative, quick to hire talented leadership and an experienced founder it was able to raise $125 million in an extraordinarily short period of time. There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really. Brand matters.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. Startups are experiments in the marketplace, and this is a way for us to understand and get comfortable with where innovations are coming from.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Those that innovate now to introduce adjacent services will emerge as winners in the next few years, with some inevitably becoming billion-dollar companies. As a venture capital investor in B2B e-commerce companies, I’m carefully watching the industry and have seen several forward-thinking business models emerge for B2B marketplaces.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Aclima , a decade-old startup founded by Davida Herzl, is looking to solve that problem and has raised $40 million in new funding from strategic and institutional venture capital investors to accelerate its growth. We deploy sensor networks that combine mobile sensing where we use fleets of vehicles as a roving network.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. It required a diffusion of personal computers that led to the massive growth of Hewlett Packard, Intel, Apple Computers and others.

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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. They’re the ones innovating, so we believe that big trend is going to be the driver, more than anything.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

All Raise hires new CEO : A nonprofit focused on “increasing diversity within venture capital deals and decision-makers” per our reporting, All Raise now has a new boss. The venture result : The tough market is starting to show up in venture capital results, early data indicates. I, for one, cannot wait.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Get ready for two days of programming dedicated to taking a deeper dive into the future of transportation and to meet the people who are shaping it. Visit the TC Sessions: Mobility agenda , plan your day and don’t forget about the world-class networking — we built time for it into the schedule.

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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. ” Climate resiliency . Financing the future startup nation. Water and power infrastructure .

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

Companies that make people''s lives easier, should they run into entrenched Big Apple interests like housing and transport, aren''t finding that NYC is as easy a place to offer their services to NYC residents. Government served an incredibly important role regulating ground transportation in the past. It''s better for drivers, too.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Clearbanc wants to replace friends and family money, a concept that D’Souza says is “quite elitist,” with its own version of an angel check, while also offering founder services such as supply chain analysis, introductions to networks and competitive landscape analysis. Mobility-as-a-service. How will they do it? What will we do?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

TC Sessions: Mobility is back, and this year we are bringing together the best and brightest founders, investors, engineers and experts on the future of transportation for a two-day, in-person event May 18 and May 19 in San Mateo, California. Turning an AV Innovation into a Product. How to Unlock Profits in Micromobility.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. You can catch all of the sessions and join the robotics community online for speed networking, chats and one-on-one meetings.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

The round was co-led by pan-African venture capital firm 4DX Ventures and regional telecom operator Orange. Participating investors include existing funds Uma Ventures and Saviu Ventures and new investors Yamaha Motor, LoftyInc Capital, Proparco, Google Ventures, To.org, Kepple Ventures and Enza Capital.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

“Afterpay brings global revenues, global users and a more diverse merchant network to Square,” Alex notes. “It Developers may delight in solving complex technical problems, but the problem of a career path is one many don’t think much about, Juniper Networks CTO Raj Yavatkar writes in a guest column. Image Credits: Bryce Durbin.

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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. And the team behind Nym thinks conditions look ripe for general purpose privacy-focused networking tech to take off too.

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Revolution

APRIL 2, 2019

The tour will end the week with a visit to Puerto Rico to explore innovation and entrepreneurship with Chef José Andrés. For the pitch competitions in Orlando, Tampa Bay, Miami, and Puerto Rico, innovative startups based within a 100-mile radius of a tour stop were invited to apply. About : Imalac, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

Evette Ellis and Ben Schippers took to the main stage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to share how their companies capitalized on the new opportunities presented by the electric transportation revolution. Few people are more closely tapped into the innovations in the transportation space than investors. EDT/noon PDT.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

The round was led by TIP, an innovation fund within the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board that focuses on late-stage venture and growth equity investments in companies that deliver disruptive technology. Pony.ai, the Chinese autonomous vehicle startup and relative newcomer to the industry, is now valued at $5.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

When consumers started buying cars, many predicted the transportation revolution would lead to air pollution, traffic and life-threatening collisions. As part of an ongoing series of interviews with transportation startup founders, ??Rebecca Three trends he’s identified: Moving beyond demand-side innovation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. As I’ve shared in here before, we’re bringing more transportation analysis to Extra Crunch. A Bird spokesperson told me these will be new vehicles and “transport modes” in the region. MaaS transit: The business of mobility as a service.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Commercial EVs for the Indian market : Amazon is working with a number of companies on EVs for its global delivery network, one of which is EVage. Fintech and insurtech innovation in Brazil set to take off on regulatory tailwinds. Regulation is often decried as a hurdle to innovation in most parts of the developing world.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 9, 2020

OurCrowd is maintaining close contact with our portfolio and network to provide guidance in navigating this crisis. “From healthcare to transportation; artificial intelligence to agriculture and food and fighting fires in Australia to protection from missiles, OurCrowd is saving and improving lives.” Click here. See photos.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

social networking services. “ But with innovation seeming to slow in the smartphone market, what MWC may look like in the future could be up for debate. In the wake of valuation declines at Bird and Lime, you might think that investors were over putting capital into the shared personal mobility game.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

As for the investing scene, although Bristol has a healthy angel network, the city lacks institutional VC, but with London only a drive or train ride away, this has not proved a significant problem. We surveyed: Coralie Hassanaly , innovation consultant, DRIAD. Coralie Hassanaly, innovation consultant, DRIAD. innovation.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

It wasn’t long before venture capital firms started up and major tech companies like Microsoft, Google and Samsung had R&D centers and accelerators located in the country. Via Transportation raised $400 million in Q1. This came decades ahead of most western governments. So how are they doing?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.” In 2019, the company name changed from Dragonfly Group to Veev.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Earlier this week, we examined the trends in the major categories of startup investment including eCommerce, Software, Social Networking and Education. But which lesser known startup sectors are starting to raise venture dollars? Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate?

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Led by charismatic chairman Dr Kira Radinsky, the company is described by the Israel Innovation Authority as “the most prominent company in the Israeli healthcare ecosystem.” Hyperloop technology, which promises to transport people and goods at speeds of up to 1,000 kilometers an hour, has long seemed too good to be true. Watch here.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

They include Jim Breyer of Breyer Capital and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale, who said last year he was moving his venture capital firm , 8VC, from Silicon Valley to the city, and Geoff Lewis , founder and managing partner of Bedrock Capital. Austin wasn’t an overnight success. Both have lots of green and rolling hills.

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