TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In the midst of a major second wave of coronavirus infections across Europe, an Estonian startup that’s building an on-demand network to move food and people around in cars, on scooters and ( most recently ) on bikes across developed and emerging markets in EMEA is announcing a major round of funding. billion ($4.3

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

As consumers around the world slowly start to get moving again — fingers crossed that new waves of COVID-19 cases do not set that back — one of the big players in on-demand mass transportation services is announcing a growth round to move with them. market as well as across Europe. “The U.S.

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Mobilunity

MAY 29, 2023

In the transport business, it is all about planning, monitoring and execution. This is the key to running a successful transport business, and achieving it sounds a lot easier than it is. Transport businesses face loads of challenging factors such as planning, communication, maintenance, speed and reliability.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

In Japan, where the real estate market is fragmented, homeowners have faced uncertain selling prices riddled with brokerage fees and an average selling period of between four and eight months, Ito said. per the 2020 report of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). and the U.K., and the U.K., While the U.S.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The beauty of this approach is that we can scale today around a ubiquitous pain point in the most labor-intensive areas of agriculture, while also allowing our platform to capture data and learn about many environments – providing the foundation for us to scale to countless other applications.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The potential of India, it seems, is simply to ripe to ignore and not just because it’s the world’s biggest two-wheeler market, where 15–20 million new two-wheelers hit roads every year. Gogoro co-founder and CEO Horace Luke wants to “go big” in India even as the Taiwanese company faces challenges in its home country.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Socar , South Korea’s largest car-sharing startup, tumbled in its Seoul stock market debut Monday even after pricing shares below the bottom end of a marketed range. Socar’s debut comes amid a sluggish period in the IPO market in South Korea that has prompted a series of Korean companies to delay their listing plans.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

SkyCell , a Swiss company developing smart containers for transporting medicines and vaccines, is announcing a significant round of funding. Since then, the technology has moved forward in one big way: It’s been redesigned to be able to transport mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines, as well as the raw materials needed to make them. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 11, 2021

million, though, of course, neither company has brought a product to market yet. Mobility companies, including those working on electrified transport, are often pre-revenue and have capitally intensive business models — a combination that can make it difficult to find buyers in a traditional IPO. million and Archer’s was $24.8

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Xicom

MAY 18, 2020

But, when it comes to taking public transport, however, Map’s is not the right fit for the job. Moovit is socially based and depends on the community to help suggest you better routes, while Transit aggregates the information that’s already available from the local transportation authorities.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

in after-market trading following the release of its earnings. Just last month, Canoo was even selected by NASA to build the ground crew transportation vehicles for the Artemis space exploration program. with a market valuation of $2.4 Shares of Canoo, which were down 5% Tuesday, fell another 17.5%

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Trigent

MARCH 9, 2021

The transport and logistics (TLS) companies operate in a decidedly complex market with numerous dynamic variables, including high investment, fluctuating oil prices, multimodal freight policies, large data, and human attributes. Mobility solutions streamline operations while offering substantial operational and cost advantages.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2022

Instacart, citing “market turbulence,” last month slashed its valuation by 40% and slowed hiring. “The good delivery companies can slow their spend in growth areas like hiring and marketing and become profitable almost immediately. ” But promotions and marketing are eating away at these margins.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Einride founder and CEO Robert Falck told TechCrunch a year ago that he felt a moral obligation to create a greener mode of freight transport after spending years building heavy-duty diesel trucks at Volvo GTO Powertrain.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

When people talk about hydrogen these days, they almost always mention transportation. But from a practical perspective, transportation is not a great use for hydrogen. Hydrogen is really terrible to store and to transport,” said Chad Mason, founder and CEO of Advanced Ionics.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Jona Christians and Laurin Hahn, Sono Motors’ co-founders, weren’t that into cars, but they recognized how much transportation contributes to the burning of fossil fuels and thought that would be a good place to start. before the market closed. The company’s path to market is twofold.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Estonian on-demand transport firm Bolt is set to roll out electric taxi options in South Africa four months after introducing e-bike food delivery services in the country. This comes as the company expands its services to environmentally friendly modes of transport.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle company Wisk Aero has unveiled its go-to-market aircraft: a four-passenger autonomous air taxi that the startup will put forward for U.S. Wisk will likely come across more hurdles than Joby in getting its eVTOLs to market. Federal Aviation Administration type certification.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

representing the latest in a line of European market expansions. billion tonnes of goods that are transported by road freight in the U.K Einride’s planned transport network grid. Electric and autonomous trucking company Einride is expanding to the U.K., Einride said that it’s looking to target the 1.6 Its first U.K.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2021

Many people in emerging markets depend on informal public transport to move across cities. million Series A extension to continue its expansion across emerging markets; the company already has a presence in South Africa and Mexico. Google, Toyota Tsusho invest in WhereIsMyTransport to map transport in emerging cities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. It’s been a great validation for us to prove our credibility in the market,” said Kabra.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2022

In a session entitled “From Cage to Stage: Commercializing AI and Robotics,” the panel will share their considerable experience in what it takes to move a robot or AI process from the lab to market. Here’s what our panelists bring to the table, and why we can’t wait to get their take on the topic.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Udemy is also on the way to the public markets. Salads transport well — they are not soup — and are as plant-based as you’d like. Rent the Runway is expected to price its IPO later today and trade tomorrow morning, provided that all things go as planned. Allbirds, too.

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TechCrunch

JULY 31, 2022

Bolt Mobility (not to be confused with the European transportation super app also named Bolt ) was on what appeared to be a growth streak about 18 months ago. The purchaser opened up 48 new markets to Bolt Mobility, most of which were smaller cities such as Raleigh, North Carolina, St. Bolt has stopped operating in at least five U.S.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Toyota Motor Corporation will be partnering with the two companies, as well, in order to explore ways to connect the air taxis to ground-based transportation. “The parties will now collaborate on all aspects of establishing this revolutionary new form of transportation, including potential routes.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Gogoro announced today that its Eeyo 1s is now available for sale in France, the smart electric bike’s first European market. While sale of e-bikes were already growing steadily before COVID-19, the pandemic has accelerated sales of e-bikes as people avoid public transportation and stay closer to home.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

To help fund that growth and expand into 30 new markets over the next year and a half, HopSkipRide raised $25 million in a Series C. “We Rideshare startup HopSkipDrive raises $22M to focus on school transportation. m , another student transportation service, has a similar mission statement with a different path to market.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Though Google’s investment in SafeBoda serves as an early reminder of Gajria’s statement, startups from the Big Four markets will likely fill the fund’s portfolio in the next couple of years. The company counts more than 25,000 drivers who have completed over 40 million orders in both markets. .

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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. . The company is planning to enter other markets within the East Africa region after establishing ground in Kenya.

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CIO

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The decision to analyze data in a location that’s far removed from where it’s generated must take into account the cost of transporting data to the remote location, as well as capacity considerations for both the transport network and the data center or cloud that will process the data. Interested in learning more?

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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.

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Trigent

JUNE 16, 2021

Thankfully, after a successful run across industries including financial services, healthcare, and hospitality, Robotics Process Automation (RPA) has now made its debut in transportation and logistics. The fact that the global robotic process automation market size is expected to touch $13.74 billion by 2028 at a CAGR of 32.8%

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. 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. Some include U.K.’s

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Bolt , the Estonian mobility tech company that recently closed a huge round , is planning to onboard an additional 200,000 drivers in Africa this year, as it kicks-off expansion to more cities within its existing markets while keeping up with the growing demand for e-hailing services across the continent. Image Credits: Bolt.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

“We are thrilled to be partnering with Novastar, Moxxie and this incredible group of investors, all of whom are deeply experienced in rapidly scaling businesses in this market. The support and knowledge of this investor group will catalyze BasiGo in its mission to make East Africa a leader in inclusive, sustainable bus transport,” he said.

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