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The Station: Arrival slashes EV targets, more Tesla FSD controversy and NHTSA loses its captain

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Cliff is headed over to the California Air Resources Board. Micromobbin’ The North American Bikeshare and Scooter Association released its 2021 shared micromobility state of the industry report — and it has some interesting findings. Trips on e-scooters accounted for 49% of total trips taken on shared micromobility.

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The Station: Rounding up the Tesla Cyber Roundup, a Waymo change up and the mysterious disappearance of Bolt Mobility

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Bolt had appeared to be on an upward trajectory last year after acquiring the assets of Last Mile Holdings, which opened up 48 new markets to the micromobility operator. However, there’s also space to push micromobility companies to provide more protections. . It’s all very mysterious. Rebecca Bellan. A little bird. Deal of the week.

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Uber sells self-driving unit Uber ATG in deal that will push Aurora’s valuation to $10B

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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi will take a board seat in the newly expanded Aurora. Rowe Price, in part because of its founders Sterling Anderson, Drew Bagnell and Chris Urmson, all of whom are veterans of the autonomous vehicle industry. “If anything, this accelerates our objectives,” he said.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Klaviyo EC-1, micromobility’s second wave, UiPath CFO interview, more

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This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 Several micromobility companies once operated in my city, but consolidation has reduced that to a small handful.

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Singapore-based micromobility startup Beam secures $93M Series B, enters new markets

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Beam , a Singaporean shared micromobility operator, announced today that it has raised $93 million in a Series B round to accelerate growth into new countries in Asia. The Series B brings Beam’s valuation up into the triple digits, says CEO and co-founder of Beam Alan Jiang who declined to provide exact numbers. .

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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

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Travis VanderZanden is the founder and CEO of Bird. Up until this point, the micromobility industry consisted almost entirely of docked and dockless bike sharing systems that were averaging approximately 35 million trips across the United States every year — more than half of them in New York City alone. Travis VanderZanden.

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After a record year for Israeli startups, 16 investors tell us what’s next

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Some people are more excited by emerging areas like artificial intelligence, which has been a focus of the country’s military for years, and like cybersecurity is now producing many fresh teams of founders. What are companies you are excited about (your portfolio or not), which founders? The cliche VC answer: strong team, big market.

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