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Space manufacturing startup Varda, incubated at Founders Fund, emerges with $9 million in funding

TechCrunch

Things like carbon nanotubes and fiber optic cables, organs and novel materials are all potential targets for a space manufacturing company, because they can conceivably justify the high cost of material transportation. “Nothing we will be doing will be 3D printing,” said Asparouhov.

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From Batteries To Building Materials, Green Manufacturing Startups Are Raising Billions 

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Battery recycling is also big, with outsize rounds in recent months for Redwood Materials , the Nevada-based battery recycling startup founded by former Tesla CTO JB Straubel , and Ascend Elements , a Massachusetts manufacturer of sustainable battery materials using elements from discarded lithium-ion batteries. Glass is another focus area.

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

TechCrunch

million) on the back of strong demand for its tech from companies working in transportation and energy infrastructure. As with the larger opportunity in enterprise IT, big data players like LiveEO are essentially the second wave of that development: applications built leveraging that infrastructure.

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The Station: Waymo sues to protect trade secrets, Wisk lands more Boeing capital and a chat with Toyota’s chief scientist

TechCrunch

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint.

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Digital twins are primed to revolutionize the infrastructure industry

CIO

Keith Bentley of software developer Bentley Systems describes digital twins as the biggest opportunity for IT value contribution to the physical infrastructure industry since the personal computer, and they’re used in a wide variety of industries , lending enterprises insights into maintenance and ways to optimize manufacturing supply chains.

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What is Transportation Management System: Benefits, Features, and Main Providers

Altexsoft

Transportation itself doesn’t generate revenue. Basically, shippers, retailers, and logistics service providers may have a very vague idea about their transportation process. What a Transportation Management System (TMS) is. TMS receives data about the status of transported goods via API or EDI channels. Order management.

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Mapping drone startup Wingtra is charting a new future after landing $22M

TechCrunch

The startup’s second generation drone, released in 2021, is called the WingtraOne Gen II and creates survey grade 2D and 3D maps with RGB cameras. Wingtra dones are meant to be operational under all those conditions, and make asset management more efficient and sustainable at scale.

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