TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

When Daniel Simon sold Bread , a consumer purchase finance and payments startup he’d co-founded, to Alliance Data Systems for over $500 million late last year, he quickly set his sights on building another startup.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

More recently, this trend has shifted a bit within the Bay Area, which today’s giants like Uber, Airbnb, and Stripe being built in San Francisco proper while incumbents down south have begun scooping up premium commercial real estate in the city. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

Ola Electric is in advanced talks to raise between $250 million to $500 million in a new financing round as the Indian firm looks to scale its electric vehicle manufacturing business in the South Asian market, according to two sources familiar with the matter. billion to $3.5

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

In addition, founders have raised capital to transform many of the fundamental industries: transportation, hospitality, lending, health insurance, and banking. Others, like transportation and hospitality, fueled by Uber and AirBnB fundraising efforts, command more than 6% of the billions invested in the last 12 months.

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. According to the founders, Sylndr also plans on providing seven-day money back guarantee, warranty and availing flexible financing options to users.

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

This is all happening, of course, to a region that doesn’t have a modern public transportation system. As an investor in startups, there is considerable conventional wisdom around the idea of investing only in the Bay Area.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2022

With white collar workers settling into hybrid work arrangements — a legacy of the pandemic — companies are rethinking how they deliver corporate perks like transportation, cafeterias, and gyms (much to the chagrin of some ). The resulting mess was an administrative nightmare,” Spurling said.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance. short haul aviation and shipping).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. There are so many efficiencies that come from the fleet model for transportation — we think this will be an increasingly important area in the coming years.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

“It used to be that if you were a fintech startup or, for lack of a better term, a digitally native financial services business, you might be eyeing an acquisition from an incumbent in the industry,” Ryan Lawler writes. “But lately, fintech upstarts are the ones doing the acquiring.”

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

So if Internet and mobile technologies can be used to change real estate or transportation, why not healthcare? So backing up on how healthcare is financed, let’s say you got a plan with basically no deductible, so you’ve got first dollar coverage. Additionally, all of us that have been consumers of the U.S.

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