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The Station: Waymo nabs more capital, Cruise taps a $5B credit line and hints about Argo’s futureJune 21, 2021 at 8:00 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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A few Extra Crunch items highlight before we jump into things. This week, we published an interview with Refraction AI co-founder and CTO Matthew Johnson-Roberson as part of an ongo...Tags: Google, Amazon, Transportation, Electric Vehicle, Europe, UK, Microsoft, Australia, California, Washington, China, San Francisco, Tech, Tesla, Austin, Cruise 44 people like this. Like Investors Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt on SPACs, micromobility and how COVID-19 shaped VCJune 16, 2021 at 1:11 PM Few people are more closely tapped into the innovations in the transportation space than investors. They’re paying close attention to what startups and tech companies are doing to develop and commercialize autonomous vehicle technology, electrification, micromobility, robotics and so much more.
Clara Brenner, co-founder and managing partner of Urban Innovation Fund; Quin Garcia, the managing director of AutoTech Ventures; and Rachel Holt, co-founder and general partner of Construct Capital talke...Tags: TC, Transportation, Events, Tech, Automotive, Garcia, Holt, Rachel Holt, AutoTech Ventures, Quin Garcia, Urban Innovation Fund, Clara Brenner, Event Recap, TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, Clara Brenner Quin Garcia, Mobility 2021 11 people like this. Like ChargerHelp co-founder, CEO Kameale C. Terry is heading to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 31, 2021 at 12:30 PM Thousands of electric vehicle charging stations will be built around the country over the next decade. ChargerHelp!, founded in January 2020 by Kameale C. Terry and Evette Ellis, wants to make sure they stay up and running.
The idea for the on-demand repair app for EV charging stations came to Terry when she was working at EV Connect, where she held a number of roles including director of programs and head of customer experience. She noticed long wait times to fix non-electrical issues at chargi...Tags: Startups, TC, Transportation, Electric Vehicle, Technology, China, Events, Linkedin, Tech, Ceo, AV, Automotive, Electric Vehicles, Automation, Transport, Reid Hoffman 22 people like this. Like The Station: Rivian rolls towards an IPO and Quantumscape makes a big battery hireMay 31, 2021 at 12:25 PM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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For my American readers, you might be traveling — perhaps for the first time in more than a year — because of the Memorial Day holiday. While Memorial Day is meant to honor members ...Tags: Transportation, Asia, Twitter, Utah, Elon Musk, New York, Texas, Microsoft, Senate, White House, China, Ipo, Germany, Berlin, Softbank, America 50 people like this. Like FM Capital steps up automotive investments with new $150M fundMay 27, 2021 at 4:19 PM First Move Capital, the Boulder-based venture firm that has invested in used car marketplaces Frontier Auto Group and Vroom as well as mobility-as-a-service startup Via, has closed a new $150 million fund that will focus on the automotive and transportation sectors.
Existing strategic investors such as OEMs, dealers, distributors, fleet management, remarketing, insurance and software providers as well as family offices have backed the fund. Proceeds from the round will be exclusively allocated t...Tags: Transportation, Tel Aviv, Tech, Automotive, Boulder, Norman, North America Europe, Vroom, Rachel Holt, Mark Norman, Frontier Auto Group, Indigo Technologies, Clara Brenner Quin Garcia, First Move Capital, FM Capital 47 people like this. Like Electric hypercar phenom and founder Mate Rimac is heading to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 20, 2021 at 12:10 PM A decade ago, Rimac Automobili was one-person startup in a garage. Today, the EV and technology company founded by Mate Rimac employs more than 1,000 people, has partnerships with Porsche and Hyundai Motor Group and is on track to launch its 1,914 hp, all-electric C_Two hypercar this year.
If that weren’t enough, Rimac also launched a subsidiary company Greyp Bikes to produce electrically assisted bicycles. It’s a notable run for a company that Mate Rimac founded after converting a 1984 BMW into...Tags: TC, China, Linkedin, Tech, Automotive, Porsche, Electric Vehicles, Gm, Reid Hoffman, Croatia, Silicon Valley, Toyota, Hyundai, Renault, Chris Urmson, Pininfarina 5 people like this. Like The Station: Exits at Waymo and Bird’s SPAC reveals its scooter-nomicsMay 17, 2021 at 11:37 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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Here’s a crypto-meets-transportation story for you before we move onto the rest of the news.
Just weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk and CFO Zach Kirkhorn said they believe in the lo...Tags: Amazon, Transportation, Europe, Japan, Texas, Milan, Congress, Indonesia, Australia, California, Washington, La, China, Massachusetts, Singapore, India 33 people like this. Like Opportunity knocks: Exhibit at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM No matter what slice of the mobility market you’ve claimed as your own — AVs, EVs, data mining, AI, dockless scooters, robotics or the batteries that will charge and change the world — you won’t find a better place to showcase your extraordinary tech and talent than TC Sessions: Mobility 2021.
Buy a Startup Exhibitor Package and virtually plant your early-stage mobility startup in front of a global audience that’s focused exclusively on one of the most complex, rapidly evolving industries. TC Se...Tags: Startups, TC, Transportation, Entrepreneurship, Events, Tech, General-motors, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive, Gm, Private Equity, Leader, Startup Company, Data Mining, Pam Fletcher, Rachel Holt 31 people like this. Like China’s autonomous vehicle startups AutoX, Momenta and WeRide are coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 13, 2021 at 1:18 PM As the autonomous vehicle industry in the United States marches toward consolidation, a funding spree continues to exhilarate China’s robotaxi industry. Momenta, Pony.ai, WeRide and Didi’s autonomous vehicle arm have all raised hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year. And 21-year-old search engine giant Baidu competes alongside the startups with a $1.5 billion fund launched in 2017 to help cars go driverless.
Their strategies are similar in some regards and diverge elsewhere. The bigg...Tags: TC, Elon Musk, Technology, China, Events, Linkedin, Tech, Automotive, United States, Automation, Gm, Reid Hoffman, Search Engine, Toyota, Self-driving Cars, Baidu 6 people like this. Like The Station: Einride preps for a US expansion, Argo AI reveals its lidar specs and a Tesla Autopilot reality checkMay 10, 2021 at 8:00 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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What a week! It’s too much to cover everything that happened in world of transportation, so here are some of the highlights. Oh, and yes, I know that the big story this weekend was ...Tags: Apple, Startups, Transportation, Lyft, Europe, Elon Musk, New York, Texas, Congress, California, Washington, La, Senate, China, Germany, US 3 people like this. Like Autonomous vehicle pioneers Karl Iagnemma and Chris Urmson are coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 7, 2021 at 4:25 PM Long before the multimillion-dollar acquisitions and funding rounds pushed autonomous vehicles to the top of the hype cycle, Karl Iagnemma and Chris Urmson were researching and, later, developing the foundations of the technology.
These pioneers — Iagnemma coming from MIT, Urmson from Carnegie Mellon University — would eventually go on to launch their own autonomous vehicle startups in an aim to finally bring years of R&D to the public.
That task isn’t over quite yet. Urmson, who is co-founder a...Tags: Google, Transportation, Technology, Events, Linkedin, Tech, Mit, Automotive, Electric Vehicles, Darpa, Gm, Reid Hoffman, Michigan, Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles, Self-driving Cars 16 people like this. Like Less than 24 hours to save $100 to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 6, 2021 at 12:10 PM Calling all frazzled procrastinators, feet-draggers, lollygaggers and last-minute decision makers. The best price on passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, which takes place on June 9, disappears in mere hours.
It’s now o’clock, baby. Shift your EV into gear, hail a robotaxi or tell Mr. Scott to beam you up — whatever it takes to buy your pass before the early-bird deadline expires tonight, May 6, at 11:59 pm (PT).
TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 gathers the very best people in the mobility startup ec...Tags: TC, Motorola, Europe, Technology, China, Events, Tech, Automotive, United States, Automation, Silicon Valley, Toyota, Robotics, Science and Technology, Self-driving Car, Scott 43 people like this. Like Less than 24 hours to save $100 to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 6, 2021 at 12:10 PM Calling all frazzled procrastinators, feet-draggers, lollygaggers and last-minute decision makers. The best price on passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, which takes place on June 9, disappears in mere hours.
It’s now o’clock, baby. Shift your EV into gear, hail a robotaxi or tell Mr. Scott to beam you up — whatever it takes to buy your pass before the early bird deadline expires tonight, May 6, at 11:59 pm (PT).
TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 gathers the very best people in the mobility startup ec...Tags: TC, Motorola, Europe, Technology, China, Tech, Ceo, Automotive, United States, Automation, Silicon Valley, Toyota, Robotics, Science and Technology, Self-driving Car, Scott Fewer than 24 hours to save $100 to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 6, 2021 at 12:10 PM Calling all frazzled procrastinators, feet-draggers, lollygaggers and last-minute decision makers. The best price on passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, which takes place on June 9, disappears in mere hours.
It’s now o’clock, baby. Shift your EV into gear, hail a robotaxi or tell Mr. Scott to beam you up — whatever it takes to buy your pass before the early-bird deadline expires tonight, May 6, at 11:59 pm (PT).
TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 gathers the very best people in the mobility startup ec...Tags: TC, Motorola, Europe, Technology, China, Events, Tech, Automotive, United States, Automation, Silicon Valley, Toyota, Robotics, Science and Technology, Self-driving Car, Scott 1 people like this. Like GM’s Pam Fletcher is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to talk about how to build a startupMay 5, 2021 at 3:00 PM GM might be best known for the millions of Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC-branded vehicles it designs, produces, finances and sells each year. But it also has a burgeoning incubator, where a team of 600 employees are working to develop 20 new businesses with a total addressable market of about $1.3 trillion.
A few of the first startup fruits have already come to bear, including OnStar Guardian, OnStar Insurance, GM Defense and most recently, BrightDrop — the commercial electric vehicle deliv...Tags: TC, Transportation, Linkedin, Tech, Cruise, Automotive, Electric Vehicles, Mary Barra, Gm, Reid Hoffman, Silicon Valley, Mobility, Autonomous Vehicles, Fast Company, Nasdaq, Onstar 15 people like this. Like The Station: Lyft sells its self-driving unit, Uber makes a big product push and Revel jumps into ride-hailingMay 3, 2021 at 11:03 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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We took a week off and now we’re back. Whoop. Let’s catch up on all things transportation.
My email inbox is always open. Email me at [email protected]Tags: TC, Lyft, Uber, Europe, Elon Musk, UK, New York, London, Washington, Senate, Ipo, New York City, US, America, Los Angeles, Linkedin 23 people like this. Like Only four more days to save $100 on passes to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021May 3, 2021 at 9:30 AM The only thing happening faster than tech mobility right now is the speed at which our early bird price for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 will disappear. You have just four days left to save $100 to our June 9 deep-dive exploration into the current and future state of mobility and transportation.
Buy your pass to TC Sessions Mobility 2021 before the price increase goes into effect on Thursday, May 6 at 11:59 pm (PT).
The event is virtual (thanks a bunch, you nasty pandemic), but the information you...Tags: Startups, TC, Automotive, Video On Demand, Volvo Cars, Rachel Holt, Quin Garcia, Clara Brenner, Frank Reig, TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, Rachael Wilcox, Tiffany Chu, Clara Brenner Quin Garcia, ChargerHelp, Tamika L Butler, Kameale Terry Announcing the Agenda for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021April 27, 2021 at 2:02 PM TC Sessions: Mobility is back and we’re excited to give you the first look at who is coming to the main stage and what we plan to talk about. The event will be virtual, but never fear, we will bring you the same informative panels and provocative one-on-one interviews and networking you’re used to.
The new format has provided one massive benefit: democratizing access. If you’re a startup or investor, you can listen in, network and connect with other participants here in Silicon Valley. Plus, you...Tags: Amazon, TC, Asia, Europe, Technology, Australia, China, Africa, Articles, Tech, General Motors, Tesla, Ceo, AV, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive 36 people like this. Like The Station: A chat with Scale AI’s Alexandr Wang, the NYC scooter winners and TuSimple goes publicApril 19, 2021 at 10:03 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
Hi there, new and returning readers. This is The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages move (today and in the future) from Point A to Point B.
Just as I was getting ready to ship this newsletter, I spotted that there was a fatal crash involving a Tesla, in which no one was in the driver’s seat. There was...Tags: Transportation, Lyft, Europe, New York, Microsoft, California, Washington, France, Ipo, Berlin, Southeast Asia, New York City, Samsung, San Francisco, Linkedin, Tech 19 people like this. Like Tamika Butler, Remix’s Tiffany Chu and Revel’s Frank Reig to discuss how to balance equitability and profitability at TC Sessions MobilityApril 15, 2021 at 12:30 PM The race among mobility startups to become profitable by controlling market share has produced a string of bad results for cities and the people living in the them.
City officials and agencies learned from those early deployments of ride-hailing and shared scooter services and have since pushed back with new rules and tighter control over which companies can operate. This correction has prompted established companies to change how they do business and fueled a new crop of startups, all promising...Tags: Energy, TC, Transportation, Y Combinator, Remix, California, New York City, America, San Francisco, Brands, Tech, Ceo, Companies, Mit, Cities, Automotive 28 people like this. Like Grab a group discount and take your team to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021April 13, 2021 at 10:00 AM Mobility mavens, June 9 will be here before you know it, and that means it’s time to get your strategy ducks in a row for TC Sessions: Mobility 2021. You want to make the most of your time at this one-day virtual intensive featuring interactive presentations with the mobility industry’s top movers, shakers and startup dream makers, amirite?
Take your team to increase your ROI. Right now, you can grab a group discount — at the early bird price — when you buy a block of four or more tickets to TC ...Tags: Startups, Transportation, Tech, Artificial Intelligence, Automotive, Sharing Economy, Starship Technologies, Volvo Cars, Ahti Heinla, Rachel Holt, Micromobility, Bicycle Sharing, AutoTech Ventures, CrunchMatch, Quin Garcia, Tc Sessions 11 people like this. Like The Station: The biggest SPAC ever and reading the micromobility permit tea leavesApril 12, 2021 at 7:00 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
Hi there, new and returning readers. This is The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages move (today and in the future) from Point A to Point B.
Before jump into micromobbin’ and the rest, I wanted to point you to another Extra Crunch piece, this time a deep dive into second-life batteries. As Aria Alamalh...Tags: Apple, Amazon, TC, Transportation, Verizon, London, Washington, Mexico, China, Germany, Berlin, India, New York City, Tech, Bloomberg, Vienna 33 people like this. Like Investors Clara Brenner, Quin Garcia and Rachel Holt are coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2021March 16, 2021 at 6:30 PM The transportation industry is abuzz with upstarts, legacy automakers, suppliers and tech companies working on automated vehicle technology, digital platforms, electrification and robotics. Then there are shared mobility companies from cars to scooters and mopeds to ebikes. And who can forget the emerging air taxi companies?
At the center of this evolving industry are the investors. Simply put: TechCrunch can’t hold an event on mobility without hearing from the people who are hunting for the bes...Tags: TC, Transportation, Lyft, Uber, Business, Japan, Entrepreneurship, China, Israel, Articles, Events, Supply Chain, Tech, Economy, Canada, Automotive 21 people like this. Like The Station: The lidar SPAC craze and 10 investors give their mobility predictionsFebruary 22, 2021 at 10:51 AM The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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Before you get to reading The Station, a small update for you. As transportation editor — a new title I gained last month — I am focused on building a team and deepening our co...Tags: Google, Transportation, Facebook, New York, Dick Costolo, California, New York City, Los Angeles, Tech, Bloomberg, Automotive, Porsche, Gm, Starwood, Silicon Valley, Bmw 39 people like this. Like MotoRefi raises $8.6 million to bring its auto refinancing platform to the massesFebruary 17, 2020 at 11:30 AM Americans are saddled with $1.2 trillion in auto loans, according to data collected by the Federal Reserve. And while that debt can be refinanced, even U.S. car owners who know it’s an option face a complicated task.
MotoRefi, a new fintech startup that was born out of QED Investors in 2017, says it has developed an auto refinancing platform that handles the entire process, from rooting out the best rates to paying off the old lender and re-titling the vehicle.
Now, the company is preparing to s...Tags: Startups, TC, Tech, Automotive, Credit Karma, Bennett, U S, Holt, Kevin Bennett, Rachel Holt, Accomplice, CUNA Mutual Group, Link Ventures, Rob Chaplinsky, Recent Funding, MotoRefi 48 people like this. Like Uber’s trading debut: who was (and wasn’t) at the opening bellMay 10, 2019 at 2:52 PM Uber finally made its debut Friday on the New York Stock Exchange, ending its decade-long journey from startup to publicly traded company.
So far, it’s been a ho-hum beginning with shares opening at $42, down from the IPO price. The share price is hovering just under $44.
Thirteen people, including executives, early employees, drivers and customers, were on the balcony for the historic bell ringing that opened the markets Friday. Noticeable absentees were co-founder Garrett Camp and former...Tags: Transportation, Uber, Apps, New York, Australia, France, Los Angeles, Tech, Canada, Automotive, Travis Kalanick, New York Stock Exchange, Kalanick, Carsharing, Expedia, Vmware 32 people like this. Like |
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