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5 key innovations taking e-scooters to a half-billion rides in 2021

TechCrunch

Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. It’s a proven strategy to improve the safety of all road users that depends heavily on one critical input: reliable, standardized data. Share on Twitter.

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The big question on every startup’s mind for 2021

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My big question for 2021, and the one that is on every startup’s mind, is how will a cataclysmic event such as a global pandemic show up in post-pandemic innovation? In 2020, innovators and investors were forced to stand still, and witness cracks, fractures and rubble in society in a way like never before. Across the week.

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African tech took center stage in 2021

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Entering 2021, the bullishness of African tech stakeholders returned — and why not? Stephen Deng, the co-founder and partner of DFS Lab, a firm that invests in digital commerce startups, serially compared the 2016 Southeast Asia funding landscape to where Africa might be in 2021, at $3 billion. It wasn’t a bad year, though.

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Opportunity knocks: Exhibit at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021

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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. TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 takes place June 9.

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How to Work with Your Customer Success Team to Create a Great Product Feedback Experience

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

Throughout this series, we have been discussing ways to innovate your feedback loops, and strategies for incorporating your customers into the heart of your product development systems. December 2, 2021 at 9:30 am PST, 12:30 pm EST, 4:30 pm GMT Why empowering customer success teams saves you time and builds strong relationships.

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4 Indian investors explain how their investment strategy has changed since 2021

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After a blockbuster year for venture capital funding in 2021, the flow of capital to Indian startups seemed like it would buck global trends in early 2022, but dried up in the second half of 2022. How has your investment strategy changed? How has your investment strategy changed? Do you expect these trends to continue into 2023?

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4 strategies for building a digital health unicorn

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Corporate venture business strategies that work. According to CB Insights, as of March 3, 2021, there are 51 healthcare unicorns — “startups” — worth $1 billion or more around the world. Company founders most often turn to veteran investors for help with grand-slam strategies to create the next healthcare unicorn.

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