It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called, Twitter. The platform had punched about its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivalled ability to both distribute real-time information and make expertise available. Combine these elements with your own critical faculty — to weed out the usual spam […]
Twitter is dying by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
We are still likely many years away from wide-scale deployment — let alone adoption — of fully autonomous vehicles on our streets, but in the meantime autonomous vehicle companies focusing on closed-campus environments continue to raise funding and make headway in building self-driving on a smaller scale. In the latest, a startup called Venti Technologies […]
Venti raises $29M for autonomous vehicle tech designed for industrial and logistics hubs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Last-mile robotics startup Neubility — which makes autonomous delivery robots that work without lidar — says that it plans bump its fleet up to 400 by the end of this year, up from the 50 it currently has in circulation. The goal is part of an ambitious plan that the Seoul-based startup has laid out […]
Neubility plans to roll out 400 lidar-free delivery and security robots by year-end by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
It’s 2023, and we’re years past the peak of monster fundraising for on-demand transportation and delivery startups locked in highly competitive races with each other to dominate urban consumer mobility. But with many of the biggest and most tenacious players still in the market, those rounds have not disappeared altogether. Today, Cabify — the Madrid-based platform […]
Cabify, the Madrid-based Uber rival, says it’s raised $110M in new funding by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Apple’s new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is available for download to everyone. The app is free for everyone, but you need an Apple Music subscription. Notably, it is not available in countries like China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Taiwan and Turkey. The company said that there are more than 5 million tracks available […]
Apple Music Classical is now available for download to everyone by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Fez Delivery, a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors. CEO Seun Alley, in a statement, said the company plans to use the seed investment to deepen its work in Nigeria (which has […]
Techstars-backed Fez Delivery gets funding to scale its last-mile logistics platform by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
Concrete. Ubiquitous. A mainstay of the construction industry — over 10 billion cubic meters of concrete are used every year. And also responsible for up to 8% of CO2 emissions — one ton of ordinary Portland cement creates somewhere between 800 and 900 kilograms of CO2 emissions. Finnish startup Carbonaide has just raised €1.8 million (~$1.9 […]
When life gives you carbon, make Carbonaide by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
Early-stage investments inherently have a higher risk of failing, but these risks also come with potentially higher rewards — getting in at the ground floor of a startup’s journey gives VCs more negotiation clout. This is particularly true at the very early pre-seed stage, where companies might barely have a functioning product to shout about. […]
‘High conviction, low volume’: Playfair launches $70M pre-seed fund for European startups by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch