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Uber Is Spinning Out Postmates' Robotics Division Into Its Own CompanyMarch 2, 2021 at 8:11 PM  Tags: Uber, Science, California, Companies, Automation, Transport, Robotics, Postmates, Online Food Ordering, Self Driving Car, Uber Technologies, Business Finance, Uber Freight, Ali Kashani, Lox Inc, Technology Internet 149 people like this. Like Uber spins out delivery robot startup as Serve RoboticsMarch 2, 2021 at 11:39 AM Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion, has officially spun out as an independent company called Serve Robotics.
TechCrunch reported in January that a deal was being shopped to investors.
Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo. Other investors included Uber as well as Lee Jaco...Tags: TC, Uber, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tech, Automotive, San Francisco Bay, Postmates, Anki, Bastian Lehmann, Lime, Aurora, Vancouver Canada, ATG, Dara Khosrowshahi, Kashani 20 people like this. Like A Phishing Scam Targeting Postmates Drivers Pretends to Represent the Company to Empty Out Victims’ AccountsFebruary 21, 2021 at 8:36 PM  Tags: Uber, Science, Crime, Fraud, Social Engineering, Phishing, Postmates, Spamming, Online Food Ordering, Deception, Meghan Casserly, Confidence Tricks 119 people like this. Like Google’s treatment of AI ethics researchers continues to stir up controversyFebruary 20, 2021 at 4:19 PM You’ve landed on the web version of the weekly Human Capital newsletter. Sign up here to get this in your inbox every Friday at 1 p.m.
Welcome back to Human Capital. A lot happened this week pertaining to on-demand companies like Uber, Postmates, DoorDash and Instacart, and their respective gig workforces. Meanwhile, New York’s attorney general hit Amazon with a lawsuit over its warehouse labor practices and Twitter made some new commitments to increase diversity at the leadership level by 2025....Tags: Google, Amazon, TC, Facebook, Uber, Twitter, UK, New York, Supreme Court, Labor, California, San Francisco, Tech, Diversity, Eu, Bloomberg 48 people like this. Like A year into the pandemic, Uber and Lyft drivers say gig companies are still failing them. They blame Prop 22.February 16, 2021 at 10:30 PM Tags: Transportation, Lyft, Uber, New York, California, San Francisco, Trends, Retail, Rideshare, Instacart, PPP, Postmates, Gig Economy, Doordash, Working Conditions, San Francisco California 91 people like this. Like Ex-Postmates VP of global public policy on the future of gig workFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:00 AM Vikrum Aiyer, the now-former vice president of global public policy and strategic communications at Postmates, penned a memo to his former colleagues and other stakeholders in the gig economy outlining what he thinks needs to happen next in the industry.
In his letter, Aiyer says “it would be a mistake for us to think that mild tweaks to worker classification, or a single state ballot measure, create a durable path forward for meaningfully addressing what Americans truly worry about: the chance ...Tags: Uber, New York, Congress, California, US, Los Angeles, Tech, Postmates, GAO, AB, Aiyer, Vikrum Aiyer 42 people like this. Like Uber Buys Uber for BoozeFebruary 2, 2021 at 12:50 PM  Tags: Uber, Science, Companies, Websites, Food Delivery, Postmates, Drizly, Online Food Ordering, GrubHub, Dara Khosrowshahi, Logistics Companies 90 people like this. Like Kindred Ventures just closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitmentsFebruary 1, 2021 at 8:45 PM Two years after launching its $56 million debut fund, Kindred Ventures, a San Francisco-based pre-seed and seed-stage venture fund founded by Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela, has closed its second fund with $100 million in capital commitments.
Jang is himself a founder who later jumped into investing. In more recent years, he cofounded Bitski, a crypto-asset wallet startup, and previously founded Schematic Labs, an early social music app that was brought into Rhapsody in 2014, and co-created the m...Tags: TC, San Francisco, Tech, Venture Capital, Coinbase, Signal, Postmates, Zymergen, Clubhouse, Collaborative Fund, Otto, Jang, Tonal, Steve Jang, Dydx, Kindred Ventures 27 people like this. Like The Weeknd Honors Black-Owned Restaurants, Donates 150 Meals to Tampa Health-Care WorkersFebruary 1, 2021 at 6:17 PM To honor the first day of Black History month, on Monday the Weeknd — who is the headline halftime performer at Super Bowl LV — chose Mama’s Southern Soul Food a Black-owned restaurant in Tampa, Fla., to feed the frontline healthcare workers at AdventHealth Carrollwood. The hospital, which located near Raymond James Stadium, where the Super […]Tags: News, Postmates, The Weeknd, Tampa Fla, Raymond James Stadium, Carrollwood, Weeknd Honors Black Owned Restaurants, Tampa Health Care Workers, Mama s Southern Soul Food a Black 21 people like this. Like Stonks, flying burritos and my boss’s boss’s boss’s bossJanuary 30, 2021 at 4:25 PM Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading. Want it in your inbox every Saturday morning? Sign up here.
What a week. What a month. Are you doing all right? It’s okay if you are tired. We all are. That’s why we have weekends.
Let’s reflect on what happened this week: Individual traders outraged more professional investors by doing something hilar...Tags: TC, Verizon, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo, Congress, US, NFL, Tech, Salesforce, Black, Postmates, Gamestop, Alfred, Guru, SPAC 2 people like this. Like Equity Monday: Clubhouse, Taboola, and why the SPAC wave will get worseJanuary 25, 2021 at 10:03 AM Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that tracks the latest private market news, talks about the coming week, digs into some recent funding rounds and mulls over a larger theme or narrative from the private markets. You can follow the show on Twitter here and myself here — and make sure to check out last week’s main ep, which was super-packed and a real treat....Tags: Apple, Fundings & Exits, Startups, Uber, Tech, Postmates, Clubhouse, Taboola, SPAC, Pula, Wolt, Equity podcast, Chamath, IMVU, Clubhouse Taboola, SPAC IMVU 45 people like this. Like More Super Bowl advertisers line up as Bucs set to face Chiefs, and RIP Larry King: Monday Wake-Up CallJanuary 25, 2021 at 6:07 AM Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. Bucs face Chiefs, Super Bowl LV advertisers line up
With less than two weeks to go until Super Bowl LV, last night’s games confirmed that Tom Brady's Tampa Bay Buccaneers will face reigning cham...Tags: Amazon, New York Post, Vladimir Putin, Russia, Advertising, Los Angeles, Barack Obama, Cnn, Nbcuniversal, Tom Brady, Kansas City Chiefs, Heinz, King, Vermont, Bernie Sanders, Postmates 2 people like this. Like Uber lays off 15% of Postmates' workforce just 3 months after buying the food delivery app. Postmates founder Bastian Lehmann is reportedly among those let go.January 25, 2021 at 7:11 AM Tags: Amazon, Uber, UK, US, Trends, New York Times, Retail, Food Delivery, Times, Postmates, Lehmann, Uber Eats, Bastian Lehmann, Job Cuts, GrubHub, Tech Insider 135 people like this. Like Uber, After Buying Postmates, Lays Off More Than 180 EmployeesJanuary 23, 2021 at 7:42 PM The layoffs include most of the executive team at Postmates, the food delivery app that Uber bought last year.Tags: Postmates 37 people like this. Like TV Ratings: ‘Mr. Mayor’ Ratings Quadruple in Key Demo Following Premiere DateJanuary 15, 2021 at 10:24 PM NBCUniversal’s newest sitcom series “Mr. Mayor,” a comedic, skeptical take on city government co-created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, opened to solid numbers in its Thursday night debut on Jan. 7. One week after the premiere, and ratings in the key, adults ages 18-49 demographic haven’t just undergone a substantial increase— they’ve quadrupled, from […]Tags: News, People, Nbcuniversal, Ratings, Tina Fey, Entertainment Weekly, Postmates, Ted Danson, Peacock, Holly Hunter, Robert Carlock, Mr. Mayor 17 people like this. Like Twitter’s decentralized futureJanuary 15, 2021 at 5:52 PM  Tags: Google, Android, Social, TC, Twitter, Technology, Social Networks, Washington, Social Media, Tech, Encryption, United States, Computing, Jack Dorsey, Free Software, Biz Stone 102 people like this. Like Twitter’s vision of decentralization could also be the far-right’s internet endgameJanuary 15, 2021 at 5:52 PM Tags: Google, Android, Social, TC, Twitter, Technology, Social Networks, Washington, Social Media, Tech, Ceo, Encryption, United States, President, Computing, Jack Dorsey 63 people like this. Like Uber planning to spin out Postmates’ delivery robot armJanuary 15, 2021 at 11:39 AM Another Uber spinout is in the works.
Postmates X, the robotics division of the on-demand delivery startup that Uber acquired last year for $2.65 billion, is seeking investors in its bid to become a separate company, according to several people familiar with the plans.
The startup is being referred to as Serve Robotics, a nod to the yellow and black-emblazoned autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X. The Serve robot, which recently partnered with Pink Dot S...Tags: Transportation, Uber, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tech, Automotive, Postmates, Lime, West Hollywood, Aurora, ATG, GrubHub, Dara Khosrowshahi, Kashani, Aurora Innovation, Pink Dot 23 people like this. Like Tiger Global is raising a new $3.75 billion venture fund, one year after closing its lastJanuary 14, 2021 at 3:19 PM According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management, the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 billion venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March.
The fund is Tiger Global’s 13th venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s 12th venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75 billion in capital commitments.
A spokesperson f...Tags: Startups, TC, New York, London, China, Russia, India, San Francisco, Tech, Walmart, Venture Capital, Brazil, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Columbus, Snowflake 29 people like this. Like Exclusive: Tiger Global is raising a new $3.75 billion venture fund, one year after closing its lastJanuary 14, 2021 at 3:19 PM According to a recent letter sent to its investors, Tiger Global Management, the New York-based investing powerhouse, is raising a new $3.75 billion venture fund called Tiger Private Investment Partners XIV that it expects to close in March.
The fund is Tiger Global’s thirteenth venture fund, despite its title — the partners might be superstitious — and it comes hot on the heels of the firm’s twelfth venture fund, closed exactly a year ago, also with $3.75 billion in capital commitments.
A spoke...Tags: TC, New York, London, China, Russia, India, Funding, San Francisco, Tech, Walmart, Venture Capital, Brazil, Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, Snowflake, Intuit 25 people like this. Like UK on-demand supermarket Weezy raises $20M Series A led by NYC’s Left Lane CapitalJanuary 13, 2021 at 4:59 PM Weezy — an on-demand supermarket that delivers groceries in fast times such as 15 minutes — has raised $20 million in a Series A funding led by New York-based venture capital fund Left Lane Capital. Also participating were UK-based fund DN Capital, earlier investors Heartcore Capital and angel investors, notably Chris Muhr, the Groupon founder.
Although the company hasn’t made mention of a later US launch, the presence of US investors would tend to suggest that. Weezy is reminiscent of Kozmo, th...Tags: TC, Europe, UK, New York, London, Groupon, Marketing, US, Tech, United States, United Kingdom, Procter Gamble, Retailers, Delivery, Postmates, McKinsey Company 21 people like this. Like An even bigger battle for gig worker rights is on the horizonDecember 13, 2020 at 10:52 AM  Tags: TC, Lyft, Labor, Abc, California, Tech, Postmates, Bain, Gig Economy, Ride Hailing, Murphy, Oakland California, AB, Josh Edelson, Assembly Bill, Gig workers 117 people like this. Like Uber is selling its self-driving car business to Aurora as it races to turn a profit amid the pandemicDecember 7, 2020 at 4:05 PM Tags: Transportation, Uber, News, Trends, Mergers and Acquisitions, Self-driving Cars, Volvo, Postmates, Aurora, EBITDA, ATG, Dara Khosrowshahi, Tech Insider, Aurora Uber, Graham Rapier, Uber ATG 77 people like this. Like A roundup of recent unicorn newsDecember 2, 2020 at 10:49 AM  Tags: Fundings & Exits, TC, Tech, Venture Capital, M&a, Airbnb, Coinbase, Postmates, Slack, Doordash, Flexe, The Exchange, Bizzabo, Coinbase Tanium Postmates Olive Scale 82 people like this. Like Walmart+ takes on Prime by dropping $35 minimum on Walmart.com purchasesDecember 2, 2020 at 11:56 AM Walmart+, the retailer’s lower cost alternative to Amazon Prime offering same-day delivery of groceries and other items, is making its service more appealing with today’s launch of a new perk. The company says that starting on Friday, December 4, it will remove the $35 shipping minimum on orders from Walmart.com for its members. However, this doesn’t apply to the same-day orders of groceries or other items fulfilled by Walmart stores, but rather online shopping where orders are placed thro...Tags: Amazon, Food, Ecommerce, Uber, Tech, Walmart, Amazon Prime, Online Shopping, United States, Retailers, Streaming Video, Instacart, E-books, Postmates, Doordash, Online Food Ordering 23 people like this. Like Uber Eats PostmatesDecember 1, 2020 at 12:00 PM  Tags: Uber, Science, Postmates, Variety 87 people like this. Like Uber officially completes Postmates acquisitionDecember 1, 2020 at 9:35 AM Uber today announced the official completion of its Postmates acquisition deal, which it announced originally back in July. The all-stock deal, valued at around $2.65 billion at the time of its disclosure, sees Postmates join Uber, while continuing to operate as a separate service with its own branding and front-end – while some backend operations, including a shared pool of drivers, will merge.
Uber confirms it is acquiring Postmates in an all-stock, $2.65B deal
Uber detailed some o...Tags: Startups, TC, Uber, Apps, California, Companies, M&a, Websites, Driver, Postmates, Online Food Ordering, Food Service 9 people like this. Like Restaurant search engine FoodBoss adds support for direct delivery from restaurantsNovember 20, 2020 at 4:20 PM  Tags: Food, Ecommerce, Tech, Chicago, Postmates, Lunchbox, Lou Malnati, Sbarro, FoodBoss, Michael DiBinedetto, DiBinedetto, Heather Stege 105 people like this. Like 'Profitboss' Is Saving Restaurants From Heavy Delivery App FeesNovember 17, 2020 at 4:30 PM  Tags: Amazon, Tech, Shopify, Postmates, Bay, Guild, Adam Guild, Placebull, Profitboss, Amazon fulfillment centers Guild 50 people like this. Like TikTok is parterning to deliver food based on viral trends on the app as food delivery explodes during the pandemicNovember 6, 2020 at 12:12 PM Tags: Food, Los Angeles, Trends, Korea, Postmates, Menu, Bentobox, Eric Edge, Tech Insider, Tiktok, Brittany Chang, Coffee N Clothes, Dialog Cafe, B Sweet, Sweetfin, TikTok Treats 106 people like this. Like |
