AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The company recently secured funding in a Series A round, which was led by TRIVE Venture Capital , a Singapore-based firm specializing in early-stage high-growth technology companies. Register Singapore-based EV charging startup Charge+ is gearing up to expand its electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure across Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2022

The tech industry loves generalizations — and don’t worry, I enjoy my fair share too — but as the downturn continues to play out, it’s increasingly important to think about the structural changes that may be forming in the venture capital landscape. Instead, venture firms cut costs in quieter ways. Argo AI says bye bye.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 10, 2014

Other conferences will always feel like Red Hook--out of the way and tough to completely gentrify because of a lack of public transportation. Venture Capital & Technology' A park near a lake, a school, and a three car garage--complete with Bill Clinton, Elon Musk and Snoop on stage prognosticating the future of civilization.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Anyone who was doing something new and cutting edge should feel connected to each other--whether or not they are building a venture backed startup. 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.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. Infrastructure touches everything. The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Collectively , they have raised over $100 million in venture capital. SafeBoda welcomes Google to their community and are excited to continue to drive innovation in informal transportation and payments in the boda boda (East Africa) or okada (West Africa) industry,” said co-founder Ricky Rapa Thomson in a statement.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

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. Summary Bird has created a brand-new transportation sector that has captured the imagination of riders and investors alike.

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This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 5, 2013

Companies that make people''s lives easier, should they run into entrenched Big Apple interests like housing and transport, aren''t finding that NYC is as easy a place to offer their services to NYC residents. Government served an incredibly important role regulating ground transportation in the past. Enter Airbnb.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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Revolution

OCTOBER 4, 2022

At the turn of the 20th century, any number of American municipalities with similar access to talent, materials, investment, and transportation might have emerged as the beating heart of the automobile industry. Hill Street Studios/Getty Images There was never a guarantee that Detroit would become the Motor City.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Nancy Pfund is founder and managing partner of DBL Partners , a venture capital firm whose goal is to combine top-tier financial returns with meaningful social, environmental and economic returns in the regions and sectors in which it invests. Nancy Pfund. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Now, it’s agriculture’s turn.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Njoya said the startup is working towards becoming the go-to vehicle subscription and financial services platform for millions of transport operators across the continent.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Similarly we backed another great team out of MIT called GroveLabs that is building a company to allow you to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and some fruits in your kitchen with no pesticides, no transportation and greatly reduced water consumption. Far from it.

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MAY 4, 2021

He has the idea that he believes, knows rather, can be a gamechanger in the transportation space, pitches it in a way that a Creative Director would, with imagery meant to impress and inspire, and I was like “Dude, what the heck is this?” I took a step back and tried to consider things from his point of view. And then I disappeared.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As a venture capital investor in B2B e-commerce companies, I’m carefully watching the industry and have seen several forward-thinking business models emerge for B2B marketplaces. Is the seller legally registered to sell and transport sensitive goods such as medical equipment or pharmaceuticals?

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HPA

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Series A Round , which was led by High Alpha, and includes co-investors Grand Ventures, Springtime Ventures, Las Olas Venture Capital, Tech Square Ventures, and Royal Street Ventures. Brands and 3PLs are saving up to 15% on transportation costs and reducing their carbon footprints.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Alliance Ventures, the strategic venture capital arm of Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, became WeRide’s strategic investor in 2018 following the completion of the startup’s Series A round, which was partially funded by the Chinese facial recognition giant SenseTime.

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Revolution

JUNE 21, 2022

Second, the gathering came on the heels of a pivotal year in venture capital. 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. This is an extraordinary place, and you shouldn’t let anyone tell you otherwise.”

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 6, 2020

The NVCA (National Venture Capital Association) Guidelines are below. If your company is in dire straits (let’s say you’re a transportation company or a hospitality company) then you’re likely to find an amenable investor. Am I free and clear as long as no investor owns more than 20% of my company? This is another misconception.

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HPA

MARCH 24, 2021

Lee Partners (THL), with participation from Qualcomm Ventures, Volvo Group Venture Capital AB and Zebra Technologies, as well as existing investors Hyde Park Angels , August Capital, CEAS Investments, Hyde Park Venture Partners and Bain Capital Ventures, bringing total capital raised to over $200 million.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating. The funding round he refers to is $6.5

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

’s venture capital fund CapitalG. The company, which runs an app matching truck drivers and merchants transporting cargo and provides financial services to truckers, was formed from a merger between rivals Yunmanman and Huochebang in 2017. The Chinese Uber for trucks Manbang announced Tuesday that it has raised $1.7

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

stake in the three-year-old startup, whereas 42dot’s co-founder and chief executive Chang-Hyeon Song, who interestingly also leads the transportation-as-a-service (TaaS) team at Hyundai Motor, held a 36.19% stake as of December 2021, according to 42dot’s regulatory filing. Hyundai currently owns a 20.4%

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Will Venture Capital Drive the Future of Mobility? Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt will discuss how the pandemic changed their investment strategies, the hottest sectors within the mobility industry, the rise of SPACs as a financial instrument and where they plan to put their capital in 2021 and beyond.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

Launched in 1987, the company provides hundreds of transportation and hospitality providers with inventory management and booking services. If you can map every oasis in a desert, you’ve created a transportation network. venture capital activity,” he writes. Image Credits: Gogoro (opens in a new window).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The startup ecosystem in Africa has until now been dominated by Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa and Egypt (‘the Big 4’), countries that continue to receive the bulk of venture capital and other forms of investment. In December, Tugende, an asset financier with operations in Kenya secured $17 million debt investment after closing a $3.6

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

What role should it play — in existing cities and when designing future urban transportation systems? Sigari is co-founder and managing partner of UP.Partners, an early-stage venture firm investing in technology companies that support a multi-dimensional future. What are the costs and benefits?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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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HPA

MARCH 21, 2024

HPA is excited to announce our investment in Fuel Me ’s $18M Series A Round , which was co-led by Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Tribeca Venture Partners and includes co-investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Interplay Venture Capital, and FJ Labs.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

While technological progress has been on an encouraging trajectory in energy and in transportation thus far, we are nowhere near done, especially in real estate and critical infrastructure. That’s where growth capital and eventually infrastructure investments come in. Invent and firm up new technologies.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 7, 2021

However, as she began working and learning about the local transportation needs of Detroit’s residents, Robinson recognized the opportunity to not only make a difference in the mobility sector, but to also be involved in a meaningful way in making positive change in her newfound community.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. Jim and the team really understand how corporate venture capital should function in order to successfully partner with startups.” . Is there a creed in venture capital?

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Before this program, I had the desire to pursue venture capital funding but lacked the clarity on what steps to take. The learning sessions were game changers that provided me with all the necessary details on how to approach and attract venture capitalists. “The

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Electric vehicle startup BasiGo has today announced the launch of its operations in Nairobi, bringing clean energy options to Kenya’s public transport industry, currently dominated by fossil-fuel buses. . BasiGo’s COO, Alex Mwaura, said they will tap the country’s renewable energy resource to fuel public transportation. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. There are five main sectors in Africa’s startup landscape: financial services, commerce, transport, healthcare and education. The continent’s investment story.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Here’s what to know per Kirsten Korosec , our transportation editor: The agreement to go public and the order from United Airlines comes less than a year after Archer Aviation came out of stealth. This week on Equity , we couldn’t resist nerding out about it: SoftBank and the late-stage venture capital J Curve.

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