This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Side note: I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the world hasn’t quite changed yet just because a few more cars, which are a horribly inefficient mode of transportation to begin with, are electric and *questionably* better for the environment when waste and disposal is taken into consideration. VC David Sacks tweeted “??

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. They take fewer bets, they don’t mind being counter-conventional and investing in things that make others scratch their heads. Year in, year out.

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. In the last decade, we’ve socialized several Rise of the Rest-isms to describe investments that check those boxes.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Any VC will tell you that the ones they said yes to, they mostly got there right away—and that there are very few “maybe” deals that get tipped over the fence. Here’s the way I look at the math: Let’s go over the structural bias first—the “pipeline” that happens before you ever even get near a VC. First is network bias.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 25, 2013

It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Three companies from the Studiomates community-- Sherpaa , Tinybop , and Editorially --received VC dollars in 2012. via Brownstoner.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

As is often said if you don’t get at least a few fellow VCs (and entrepreneurs) scratching their heads you may not be funding ideas with enough upside. This was certainly the case when I invested in a small YouTube video production company called Maker Studios that recently sold to Disney for just shy of $1 billion.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors. We are focusing on investments where we believe that Google could add value.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Register Bangladeshi transport-tech startup Shuttle now has a total of $2.5 million in investments after it raised $1.5 million in a recent funding round led by South Asia Tech, a growth-stage VC fund that is focused on logistics and e-commerce startups in the region. The post Bangladesh transport tech startup Shuttle raises $1.5m

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Alongside lead investor Lotte Chemical and investment company KTB Network, General Motors’ corporate venture capital arm, GM Ventures, signed on as a strategic investor. ” Soelect is not the only battery company that the VC invested in recently. .

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

When I began investing a little over five years ago, it felt like the conventional wisdom was that one had to invest in the Bay Area to harvest venture-like returns. So, about two years ago, as a Bay Area resident, living right off Sand Hill Road, started intentionally investing outside the Bay Area.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 4, 2021

It seemed unrealistic—not that all startups aren’t in some way realistic—but VCs generally communicate communication style with competency. What’s the likelihood that some random guy who doesn’t even think to create a standard VC deck could know enough about aviation to build whatever this thing was he was trying to build?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2022

Chipmaking giant Nvidia is investing $10 million in Uber spinout Serve Robotics, funds the startup will use to further expand its sidewalk delivery robot service outside Los Angeles and San Francisco. ” This isn’t the first strategic investment Serve has seen in recent months.

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Revolution

APRIL 24, 2023

As investors who bet on those entrepreneurs and the industry-transforming startups they’re building, VCs have a unique perspective on what “investing in the planet” looks like at scale. What does investing in our planet mean to you as a venture capitalist vs. as a consumer? “As Here’s what they had to say. “As

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Shared transportation in Nigeria, Africa’s largest country by population, is a thriving business, at least when done the conventional way: offline. Chicago and Africa-focused investment firm VestedWorld led the round. Olokesusi is one of the few female founders on the continent to have raised a significant round from VCs this year.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Many people in emerging markets depend on informal public transport to move across cities. Naspers, via its investment arm, Naspers Foundry, co-led the investment with Cathay AfricInvest Innovation Fund. Japan’s SBI Investment also participated in the round. Devin de Vries (CEO WhereIsMyTransport).

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade. Trade has the least startup activity in a market that received $5 billion in VC funding last year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

COVID-19 has spotlighted many of the weakest points in our transportation system, but some of the rapid shifts in consumer behavior are creating opportunities for tech once considered fanciful, like sidewalk delivery robots and eVTOLs (electric vertical and takeoff vehicles). Shawn Carolan, partner, Menlo Ventures. Dave Clark, partner, Expa.

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

As the coronavirus pandemic challenges the world of transportation and mobility, the crisis is also offering opportunities for new technological solutions, from electric scooters to self-driving cars, according to some of the leading entrepreneurs in the sector. Manufacturers are increasing investment in such features, even in lower-end cars.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

But when the seed-stage VC — a backer of e-bike maker Zoomo and solar data firm PVcase — debuted with a $13.6 ” Materially, the firm invests in tech that could help decarbonize transportation, industrial processes, energy and buildings. So, if anything, it’s trendy.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology startups across almost 1,700 deals, according to an analysis by PitchBook and TechCrunch. What’s more, about 75% of the investments in that period happened in the last two years alone. Let’s dig in.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 25, 2023

Founded in 2014 by industry veterans Chi-Hua Chien and Eric Kim, Goodwater is the largest venture capital fund focused on consumer tech investments. Besides its traditional investment approach, Goodwater has further introduced innovation by introducing Genesis, a platform that facilitates global seed-stage startup investments.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 5, 2023

NASHVILLE— GoodShip , a collaborative cloud-based analytics and transportation procurement platform for shippers, announced a $5M seed round today. and was co-led by Ironspring Ventures and Chicago Ventures, with continued participation from FUSE VC and Cercano Management. The raise brings GoodShip’s total funding to $7.4M

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Their offerings include MoveinSync Ion, a SaaS-based platform designed to manage employee transportation, and MoveinSync One, a comprehensive solution for accessing various commute modes like cabs, shuttles, and buses. According to a presentation for investors, MoveinSync boasts over 450,000 monthly active users and facilitates more than 2.5

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Revolution

JUNE 21, 2022

Last month, we gathered more than 150 investors across 42 states with more than $180 billion in assets under management to explore new frontiers in regional investment. One in which the proportion of seed and early-stage capital invested in Bay Area startups fell below 30% for the first time in more than a decade.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The investment was led by BOND, the growth-stage firm that Mary Meeker spun out of Kleiner Perkins in 2018. According to Tayebi, providing on-demand services in food and transportation was the entry point that allowed Yassir to gain users’ trust — which he argues is one reason most Africans are unbanked — for this endeavor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Yesterday, I showed the increasing share of venture capital investments consumer companies represent. So, I’ve created two charts: the first is a bar chart of consumer investment by segment and the second is a heatmap of of sector and stage. Consumer services and ecommerce represent 70% dollars invested. S indicates seed rounds.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

This includes our emissions for transports, which is why we are now shifting to electrical vehicles, which reduces our climate footprint by 87% on these routes,” said Simon Broadbent, supply chain director at Oatly, in a statement at the time. billion thanks to an investment from Ford and the VW Group. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. What are the costs and benefits?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The Netherlands’ ecosystem has been flourishing; more than $85 million was invested in regional startups in 2019 alone. In 2020, the venture industry continued to invest in startups, despite the COVID-19 crisis. In Amsterdam, rich people take public transport, not private buses. Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Due to the nature of its business, Plentywaka had to make a slight pivot and began transporting essential services across Lagos, especially food items. Although g rowth was steady and picking up, the company started seeking external investment. “We know that Western cities have legacy transportation systems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Briter Bridges : In 2020, the publication reported that fintech companies accounted for 31% of the total VC funding. In 2021, fintech startups got 63% of the continent’s total investments. The Big Deal : African fintech startups received 53% of the total VC funding in 2021; it was 49% in 2020. That number doubled to 62%.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Its approach enables people to invest in the real estate sector, which is known for providing generational wealth, but in a less expensive, more fractional way, and in some cases, for as little as $5 initially. Startups and VC. Stepping on the gas, er, EV pedal : Toyota is accelerating its investment in U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

The investment, which, according to the company, was agreed on and structured in 2020, follows the $6.3 million raised in November 2020 and led by Toyota Tsusho investment fund Mobility 54. San Francisco and Paris-based VC firm, Partech led the round. million in a Series A extension round. Development Finance Corporation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The startup, which closed a seed round in February led by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, has brought on several new investors , including funds from Will Smith’s Dreamers VC, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures and Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Combs Enterprises.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

As the public markets contract and startup valuations follow suit, it’s common for entrepreneurs who have invested years of their lives into a startup to accept “take-it-or-leave-it” terms, says Blank, an adjunct professor at Stanford and senior fellow for Innovation at Columbia University.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The European e-scooter market is currently the main battleground for companies playing in the micromobility space, taking advantage as they are of Europe’s relatively compact cities and the desire of populations to move to more sustainable transportation. In 2021, players like Tier, Voi and Dott continued to raise VC backing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Tokio Marine , a Tokyo-headquartered insurance corporation, said Tuesday it has launched its $42 million corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, dubbed Tokio Marine Future Fund, to invest in early-stage startups around the world. . billion assets under management (AUM), to drive the CVC’s investment strategy and process.

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