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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection. Today the company officially announced its most recent round of capital ?—?having

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5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities

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While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. For example, we haven’t yet partnered with any companies in robotics, procurement and finance, and labor management, but we’re seeing a lot of interesting early players emerge.

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Coast lands $27.5M from VC firms, slew of founders to provide expense management to fleet operators

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million in a Series A financing co-led by Accel and Insight Partners. . Existing backer s Avid Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures and BoxGroup also participated in the financing, along with new investors Flexport and The Fintech Fund.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” Earlier, she led Finance at a major solar manufacturer. ” Boston Materials (Billerica, MA, USA) — Presenter: Anvesh Gurijala, founder and CEO. Victoria holds an MBA and M.S.

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Satellite constellation operator Spire Global to go public via $1.6 billion SPAC

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Spire’s network of satellites is designed to provide customers with a “space-as-a-service” model, allowing them to operate their own payloads, and access data collected via an API their developers can integrate into their own software.

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Daily Crunch: African mobility fintech Moove raises $105M in Series A2

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The TechCrunch transport team is full of brilliant humans, so do not miss out on this one. Moove helps finance vehicles for ride-hailing drivers, which appears to be a growth market. Data science in a box ? It appears to offer a hybrid of data collection and analysis as a service to customers. The TechCrunch Top 3.

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Extra Crunch roundup: TC Mobility recaps, Nubank EC-1, farewell to browser cookies

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update, which does away with automatic opt-ins for data collection, and Google’s plan to phase out third-party cookies do not signal a death knell for digital advertisers. Image Credits: Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm (opens in a new window). CTO Hunter Jensen writes in a guest column.