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From electric charging to supply chain management, InMotion Ventures preps Jaguar for a sustainable future

TechCrunch

Since InMotion Ventures , the independent investment and incubation initiative set up by Jaguar Land Rover , launched in 2016 the firm has focused on backing companies across the mobility space broadly. As the mobility market moves to embrace electrification, InMotion wants to make sure its portfolio is in the mix.

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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program

TechCrunch

Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. “It means we’ll be able to help a thousand people over the next few years, and it makes us financially self-sustaining.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

TechCrunch

In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5

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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations

CIO

Since 2016, we have reduced all our emissions by 51%, and in our primary markets, 100% of the electricity we consume comes from renewable sources. Our genuine commitment to sustainability enables us to address those requirements effectively and directly across industries.”

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SAP poaches Microsoft exec as its new global head of AI

CIO

As part of Microsoft’s development team, Sun created Bing Predicts, the inference engine that provides the “favored to win” forecasts beneath search results for sporting fixtures and attempted to predict the 2016 US presidential election winner. Spoiler alert: it failed.)

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As the head of Helios’ new VC arm, Wale Ayeni sees value in frontier markets

TechCrunch

Ayeni has a similar function at Helios Digital Ventures: to spot and back disruptive startups in frontier markets, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. . What we’re trying to do from a strategy perspective is to say what sectors are large enough from an addressable market point of view and affect or impact the mass market.”.

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A Vine mess: The choice between rebooting and reviving old software

TechCrunch

In October 2022, after completing the acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk asked his team to work toward bringing Vine back to market. It’s likely that the team at Twitter could define and ship a perfectly designed app and not even make a dent in TikTok’s market share. If they did data streaming at all, it was likely built in-house.

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