TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

We have three sections of startup news today, starting with mobility, continuing with venture fund news, and closing with a neat startup round. From the mobility front: Beam raises $93M, proves that the e-scooter market is not kaput : Beam, a Singapore-based company, rents out e-scooters and other electric personal transport machines.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Existing investors SignalFire, GLP Capital Partners and Google Ventures also participated in the round, in addition to a new minority investment by strategic partner Volvo Group Venture Capital. A slew of startups have popped up in the past several years all aiming to use technology to transform trucking — the backbone of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Alongside its aircraft, Volocopter has also been building a business case in which its vessels will be used in a taxi-style fleet in urban areas. CEO Florian Reuter tells us that live services are now two years out for the two vehicle models it has been developing. Funds managed by BlackRock; global infrastructure company Atlantia SpA.;

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. The addressable market for campuses that would likely use Starship’s services is around 400-500, he said, “but grocery is billions of dollars. It has now made more than 2.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. In Amsterdam, rich people take public transport, not private buses. Elastic, the provider of subscription-based data search software used by Dell, Netflix, The New York Times and others, was another gangbuster IPO in 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

million) in an equity round of funding led by Bosch Ventures (RBVC), with participation from Porsche, the U.K. Use-cases may include accelerating new drug discoveries, or powering the vast amount of data processing required for AI applications. quantum computing company Quantum Motion has raised £42 million ($50.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

More capital for instant delivery : After a flurry of 2021 rounds, the venture market for instant delivery companies is still active. venture market is often considered to be its two main coasts. You can program it and use it for all sorts of things. Mubadala Investment Company led the round. Upstash just closed $1.9

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

The right-to-repair hackers that live somewhere deep within us are mighty pleased. It’s fundraising season for venture funds, apparently! MassMutual Ventures closed a $300 million fund to back Asian and European startups. Startups and VC. Lightspeed India Partners announced a half-billion-dollar fund. and Canada.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2021

GPS is one of those science fiction technologies whose use is effortless for the end user and endlessly challenging for the engineers who design it. L5 was “designed to meet demanding requirements for safety-of-life transportation and other high-performance applications,” as the U.S. government describes it. government agency.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

RapidDeploy , which provides computer-aided dispatch technology as a cloud-based service for 911 centers, has closed a round of $29 million, a Series B round of funding that will be used both to grow its business and continue expanding the SaaS tools that it provides to its customers. “Now the cloud has become the nexus of signals.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

“LanzaJet’s technology opens up a new and exciting pathway to produce SAF using an AtJ process and will help address the aviation sector’s urgent need for SAF. The fuel is made by using ethanol inputs — something that Shell is very familiar with. It’s also something that the oil giant has in ready supply.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Israel’s heady mix of questioning culture, tradition of national military service, higher education, the widespread use of English, appetite for risk and team spirit makes for a fertile place for fast-moving companies to appear. Via Transportation raised $400 million in Q1. Waze’s 100 employees received about $1.2

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

In fact, since the beginning of 2021, Revel has launched an e-bike subscription service , an EV charging station venture and an all-electric rideshare service driven by a fleet of 50 Teslas. million in September 2019, in a round that included funding from Ibex Investments, Toyota Ventures, Maniv Capital, Shell and Hyundai, according to Reig.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

Case in point: Itilite , a Bengaluru, India-based company developing T&E software, today announced that it raised $29 million in a Series C round co-led by Tiger Global and existing investor Dharana Capital with participation from Matrix Partners and Tenacity Ventures. ” To date, Itilite has raised $47 million in venture capital.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

And its contrarian approach has attracted a new group of investors and $25 million in venture funding. According to Seoul Robotics CEO Hanbin Lee, the LV5 CTRL TWR uses an automatic transmission and connectivity built into vehicles to maneuver them autonomously without requiring hardware. Image Credits: Seoul Robotics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 16, 2021

Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. The IPO market is sending us mixed messages. From building out Facebook’s first office in Austin to putting together most of Quora’s team, Bain Capital Ventures managing director Sarah Smith has done a bit of everything when it comes to hiring.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Vecmocon, an abbreviation for vector motor control, is trying to solve all this using its core EV components and software that it sells to OEMs. Before starting their venture, the trio provided pro bono consultancy to e-rickshaw manufacturers. million in Vecmocon along with Blume Ventures. “We

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. In a TC Sessions: Space 2021 panel titled “Backing the Brightest,” Darrell Etherington reviewed activity over the last year and looked ahead to 2022 with three investors: Tess Hatch, partner, Bessemer Venture Partners. Shaun Maguire, partner, Sequoia.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Other backers include Y Combinator, Soma Capital, Starling Ventures, Olive Tree Capital, Capital X and True Capital. ” And o ne factor that might work in its favour is its focus on air cargo even as others explore a mix of air, ocean and truck haulage pioneered by Flexport. Flexport is its lead investor.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

When people talk about hydrogen these days, they almost always mention transportation. I get it: People are used to filling up tanks, not charging cars. But from a practical perspective, transportation is not a great use for hydrogen. Basically, steam is mixed with methane gas, producing hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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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

OCTOBER 28, 2021

It does so through a patent-pending protocol called Apollo, which uses time-bound cryptographic tokens and distributed ledgers – a mouthful of buzzwords but the centerpiece of Xeal’s technology. The cryptographic tokens are “time-bound” because they dissolve after they are used.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

But Tor does not do packet mixing — and Nym’s contention is that a functional mixnet can provide even stronger network-level privacy. “ We do think Tor made all the right decisions when they built the software — at the time there was no interest from venture capital in privacy, there was only interest from the U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

But a mix of stronger (and cheaper) competition, coupled with the rapid pace of technology development and the ongoing market slowdown , have left it spinning. The reduction in workers and switching to a new auditor may reduce costs, but it also begs the question of how Micromax will manage its next venture. Moving ahead?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

“A lot of founders mix up raising money with making money.” Flexing its “20-minute term sheet” the startup uses an algorithm to shift through a startup’s data, and if it has positive ad spend and positive unit economics, they make an investment worth anything from $10,000 to over $10 million. Mobility-as-a-service.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

By drawing on multiplayer gaming culture, the startups are using spatial technology, animations and productivity tools to create a metaverse dedicated to work. The startups need to convince venture capitalists and users alike that they’re more than Sims for Enterprise or an always-on Zoom call. The biggest challenge ahead?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

In their book Cracking Complexity , David Komlos and David Benjamin share the steps to working through any complex business problem—both quickly and using existing talent, not consultants. Fixing a car is complicated; fixing a city’s transportation infrastructure is complex. Chemical reactions happen when substances mix.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Recently, offenders have been using victims’ smart devices, including video and audio capable home surveillance devices,” the FBI said in a formal public warning. Co-investors include Isracard, Strathmore Group, Off The Grid Ventures and Gauss Ventures. If you have limited or no credit history in the U.S., Learn more.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

The TechCrunch transport team is full of brilliant humans, so do not miss out on this one. To kick off, our own Walter Thompson has a great investor survey up today that attacks the question of how to pitch venture capitalists as a founder. So it’s not a surprise to see startups in the mix. Which means we’re mobile once again.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Use this link, or pop “DC” into the promo code box when you buy your passes to the hottest startup event of the summer. This “island” is not tropical : iPhone fanatics may have doubted the usefulness of “the notch” on the iPhone X, but Ivan writes that the new “Dynamic Island” feature for iPhone 14 is anything but.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

. “Bootstrapping Klaviyo, it came out of this: ‘Hey, if we are super disciplined about finding a problem that someone will pay us to solve, we have a real company,'” said Hallen. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. I’d be lying if I told you that every week was an embarrassment of riches here at Actuator HQ (a one-bedroom in a Queens office managed by a mischievous lionhead rabbit mix), but I’ve thus far been happy with the flow of news.

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TechCrunch

MAY 8, 2021

GM CEO Mary Barra wants to sell personal autonomous vehicles using Cruise’s self-driving tech by 2030. And if you enjoy mobility news, definitely subscribe to The Station , a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Uber’s mixed Q1 earnings portray an evolving business. Why did Bill.com pay $2.5B

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TechCrunch

JUNE 24, 2022

Hold my battery: Package-transporting drones are cool. Reactions have been mixed, Jacquelyn reports. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed dozens of vendors that it’s barring the practice of loading “non-bank prepaid payment instruments” — prepaid cards, for instance — using credit lines. million deal.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

That means tech companies focused on next-generation telecommunications and utility infrastructure, transportation, housing and construction tech around energy efficiency could see new dollars pour in over the next four years. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 25, 2016

Just like any new business venture, begin with a basic SWOT analysis measuring strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Even though it had the go-ahead to operate in Clark County, Uber received heavy backlash and fines from the city’s Taxicab and Transportation Authorities. Set up supply well before launch.

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