AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Startup SG Founder The Standards, Productivity and Innovation Board Spring (SPRING) consolidates various startup assistance programs. The initiative aims to provide Singapore-based startups access to diverse funding sources and mentorship programs, nurturing innovative concepts into prosperous companies.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. When Qualtrics was acquired by SAP for $8 billion, the city saw itself more authentically as a seedbed of innovation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage. For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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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

MAY 14, 2021

Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility? Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt will discuss how the pandemic changed their investment strategies, the hottest sectors within the mobility industry, the rise of SPACs as a financial instrument and where they plan to put their capital in 2021 and beyond.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Entrepreneurs, business leaders, and innovators possess a unique driving force that pushes them to be the best version of themselves in order to elicit change in the world. Today, she’s cofounder and a partner in Assembly Ventures, the first transatlantic mobility-focused venture capital fund in the world.

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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

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. The more people that see your brand as the innovator the more “earned media” the company gets and the product becomes synonymous with the category.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 31, 2023

InstaDeep utilizes advanced machine learning techniques, including deep reinforcement learning in applications within an enterprise environment that cuts across various industries such as biotech, transportation, electronics manufacturing and logistics. As such, most startups have had to domicile abroad to access funding.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 17, 2023

This move is expected to streamline the visa issuance procedure, making it more accessible for global talent and driving innovation in key industries. These efforts demonstrate Japan’s commitment to attracting global talent and positioning itself as a hub for innovation and cross-cultural exchange.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Mouro Capital — a venture capital fund focused on fintechs and adjacent businesses that is backed by Banco Santander — led the round for the Monterrey, Mexico-based startup. Nowports , an automated digital freight forwarder in Latin America, has raised $16 million in Series A funding. Nowports raises $5.3

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StartupNation

MARCH 23, 2021

Since 2012, there’s been little increase in venture capital going to women-founded businesses. In the third quarter of 2020, venture capital funding for female founders dropped to a three-year low. They’re starting businesses, innovating new technology, leading teams and helping their communities.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Jan: California Forever is an attempt to make sure that the Bay Area remains the center of innovation and prosperity that it’s been for the last 50 years. Then, imagine that we improved the transportation system by creating super blocks where cars inside those super blocks can only go about 10 miles an hour.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Alternative capital has pros and cons, just like venture capital has pros and cons. Is taking a revenue-share agreement going to hurt your chances as a pre-seed startup trying to raise capital? The Startup Act is the first piece of dedicated legislation meant to help create tech innovation within Spain.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. A message from reporter Aria Alamalhodaei: “For the time being, your favorite mini-roundup of transportation policy news will be taking an extended hiatus. Tthe transportation world lost one of its leaders this week. A few items before jumping in.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It has now become a materials innovation company disrupting how clothes are made. Allbirds is not alone in this vision or innovation — Tesla’s job is far greater than simply getting a driver from one place to another; Impossible Meats’ job is more than just feeding a hungry customer. today and has chosen an apt ticker to do it: BIRD.

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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While technological progress has been on an encouraging trajectory in energy and in transportation thus far, we are nowhere near done, especially in real estate and critical infrastructure. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. Invent and firm up new technologies.

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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. It’s been three long years since our last in-person mobility event, but the day has finally come. Welcome to Day One of TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 !

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

Construct Capital co-founders and general partners Dayna Grayson and Rachel Holt continue to dive into innovation that some investors may not think is so sexy, but actually runs behind the scenes so that our food gets to grocery stores every week and our packages arrive when they say they will.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

2021 was a transformative year for Zoomo, as we saw enterprises and fleet managers, in addition to gig-workers, benefit from our innovative platform,” Nada said in a statement. The raise was led by Collaborative Fund, with strategic investors MUFG Innovation Partners, SG Fleet, Akuna Capital and Wind Ventures also joining the round.

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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’ve built a platform that enables hyperlocal measurement.

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American Entrepreneurship

APRIL 9, 2024

Venture capital firm made an early commitment to mobility, transportation and energy Global venture capital firm Maniv, based in Tel Aviv and NYC, is advancing solutions to climate change via its recently announced early-stage venture fund of $140 million.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

“It’s hard to pin down where Shein is from,” answered Richard Xu from Grand View Capital, a Chinese venture capital firm. Image Credits: MaC Venture Capital / Wonderschool. But we are in transportation. Like the US, a two-tier venture capital market is emerging in Latin America.

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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. Milo Werner is a general partner at The Engine, a VC firm that helps deep tech companies bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. million in pre-seed and seed funding round led by Augment Ventures with participation by Accion Venture Lab, TMV, Overton Venture Capital and Refashiond Ventures. Subscribe for free. We have a lot to cover so let’s jump in.

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TechCrunch

JULY 10, 2022

In 2021, fintech startups were the top recipients of venture capital globally, accounting for about 21% of dollars raised with $131.5 Based on that categorization, the fintech space ranked third behind food and transportation, respectively. Layoffs up in H1 2022. billion across 4,969 deals. of the total. Other News.

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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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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. Enter Airbnb.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2021

Dana Stalder, a partner at Matrix Partners and Afterpay’s only institutional investor, describes the deal as part of a recurring “critical innovation cycle” in fintech that “determines the winners and losers” for decades to come. How public markets can help address venture capital’s limitations.

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