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Kenyan tech-enabled logistics platform Amitruck raises $4 million, embarks on Uganda, Tanzania expansion

TechCrunch

The shipping business in Africa has for years been inefficient and costly due to the traditional ways of managing operations – traditional in the sense that a shipper has to physically look for a transporter, sometimes through a middle-man, and often, once goods are delivered, the trucks almost always make the return trip empty.

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Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Global Transport Receives Airbus Ventures Funding

American Entrepreneurship

With AI bursting all around us and the James Webb Space Telescope sending back stunning images from the universe, new and bold ventures continue to emerge. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport. Both are very important and necessary to achieve one-hour global travel.

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Punching Above Your Weight as a Founder: Why I invested in Bizly

This is going to be BIG.

Sure, I'm an investor, too, but I started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , the firm I invest out of. Google Apps enabled e-mail on demand without a server, Uber enables transportation on demand, and WeWork offers space on demand. I'm a founder. It was about support--how could they make your work life easier?

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

Are you trying to figure out how to build a place that creates venture backed IPOs or are you trying to build something where technical people can feel like they’re in a community? They need to be focused on housing cost, transportation crime, and the kind of zoning that enables a critical mass of interesting local businesses to thrive.

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How To End Your Pitch with Your Vision

Dream It

VCs are looking for a grand slam,” according to Steve Barsh, Managing Partner at Dreamit Ventures. Founders should be able to discuss future milestones that they will hit to enable them to raise intermediate rounds of capital before exiting and ensure investors they can de-risk their startups along the way to achieving their grand vision.

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GM Ventures invests in startup building fast charge-capable battery tech

TechCrunch

It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Alongside lead investor Lotte Chemical and investment company KTB Network, General Motors’ corporate venture capital arm, GM Ventures, signed on as a strategic investor.

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Colombian e-commerce enablement startup Melonn raises $20M to help SMBs scale in LatAm

TechCrunch

NFX and existing backers Pear and Mexico-based Wollef (formely known as Jaguar Ventures) doubled down on their investment, which values Melonn “in the neighborhood” of $100 million post-money and brings the Bogota-based startup’s total raised to $24 million since its November 2020 inception.