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How to Objectively Measure the "Fundability" of Your Startup

This is going to be BIG.

Yet, everyone’s got an opinion about how a company measures up, especially the founder. ( The other day, I had a difficult conversation with a founder who clearly felt like VCs were the problem in her fundraising process. I don’t need to remind such a founder how the world is stacked against them. Then, there are nuances.

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Startups and investors are turning to micromobility subscriptions

TechCrunch

Amid the chaos of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murky path to profitability for shared electric micromobility, an increasing number of companies have turned to subscriptions. But will this new playbook push the unit economics of micromobility in a positive direction? And what will determine which companies win at the subscription game?

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Korean micromobility startup Swing grabs $24M for growth, expands to Japan 

TechCrunch

Swing , a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. . Last year, the startup set up a subsidiary in Japan, aiming to launch its service in Tokyo in the first half of 2022. . Expansion to Japan.

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Advanced rider assistance systems: Tech spawned by the politics of micromobility

TechCrunch

The desire to achieve something as simple as keeping shared electric scooters off sidewalks has driven the development of some advanced technology in the micromobility industry. And, it’s far cheaper than trying to police rider behavior themselves, or, address the lack of protected cycling infrastructure.

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Magna enters the micromobility and battery swapping market

TechCrunch

Magna International, a Canadian mobility technology company that builds sensor-based systems for cars like driver monitoring systems and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), is entering the micromobility market. Magna enters the micromobility and battery swapping market by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch.

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

TechCrunch

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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Acton’s latest acquisition hints at the future of docked micromobility

TechCrunch

The term “shared micromobility” often calls to mind that Lime e-bike on the nearest street corner or the Voi e-scooter parked next to the bus stop, either of which could on any given day be standing upright or knocked over onto the pavement. That might be changing. Acton , a U.S.