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

Both Sides of the Table

Bird already has an enormous lead in data collection. Between our on-board CPUs and your mobile phone companions we have an enormous amount of data on transportation routes, where riders want to pick up scooters in the morning and where they leave them in the evening. Scooters crush this situation.

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Seraphim Capital’s space tech accelerator releases details of its newest Space Camp cohort

TechCrunch

By storing these encrypted fragments across a distributed network of devices, it can secure data collected on the edge and have application within Satcoms, Defence and Enterprise.” Description: “Starfish Space aims to create an on-demand, in-space transportation and maintenance service for orbiting satellites.

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5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities

TechCrunch

While legacy sectors like transportation and energy have embraced new tech, innovation in the construction industry has been slow to take hold. A lot of this tech is focused on job sites, but given the need for data collection and analysis, what advances are you seeing in back-end technologies? Is there a killer app?

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Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M

TechCrunch

“Our product roadmap is high confidential, but let’s say our high-level vision looking a decade or so forth is to take people out of the loop and have a completely automated data collection, processing and analysis,” co-founder and CEO Maximillion Boosfeld told TechCrunch.

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

TechCrunch

Founded in late 2020 by Daniel Simon, Coast describes itself as the “modern financial services platform for the future of transportation.” Also, the company’s SMS-based mobile sign-in and data collection is aimed at improving security, convenience for drivers and data quality for managers, Simon said.

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The New Drug Delivery Challenge: How Will Cures Reach Patients?

Andreessen Horowitz

Manufacturing infrastructure To illustrate the complexity of production of these therapies, some cell therapies require removing cells from the patient’s body, transporting them to the manufacturer to reprogram and regrow the cells, and sending the cells back to the provider to infuse into the patient.

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

TechCrunch

Koop provides autonomy insurance through data collection and proprietary analysis, wrapped up in the UX/UI provided by the portal.” The Singularity Platform is essentially a combo of three tools that Koop built: Koop API, Portal By Koop, and Insurability Sufficiency Framework (ISF).