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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Though Google’s investment in SafeBoda serves as an early reminder of Gajria’s statement, startups from the Big Four markets will likely fill the fund’s portfolio in the next couple of years. The company counts more than 25,000 drivers who have completed over 40 million orders in both markets. .

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MAY 11, 2021

T his might not seem spectacular from a global perspective because it took the startup a year and two months to achieve but it’s a noteworthy feat in African markets. The company, which first launched in Uganda, is disrupting the offline market of local motorcycles referred to as boda-bodas in Uganda and okadas in Nigeria.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In some B2B verticals, such as the veterinary supplies market, there is little consistency and transparency regarding the market price of any given item; instead, each buyer pays a bespoke price tied to contractual agreements. Contractual pricing: Businesses often enter into enterprise-level pricing agreements with their suppliers.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2022

When Brian Schiff, Sam Krut and Jacob Cooper founded the company in 2015, they were still undergraduates at Cornell University and it was initially an Uber-like social transportation app to help people find rides on college campuses where the transportation giant wasn’t operating.

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DECEMBER 18, 2023

The potential of India, it seems, is simply to ripe to ignore and not just because it’s the world’s biggest two-wheeler market, where 15–20 million new two-wheelers hit roads every year. Gogoro co-founder and CEO Horace Luke wants to “go big” in India even as the Taiwanese company faces challenges in its home country.

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DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

A smaller portion of rail freight movement is referred to as intermodal activity, which essentially involves moving steel containers between a range of different modes of transportation, like boats and trucks. “When that becomes a problem is when you’re figuring out where to park that big train, and the answer is, not many places.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 11, 2021

Today, offset markets get the majority of the attention. Multiple private, voluntary markets for soil carbon have appeared in the last couple of years, mostly supported by corporations driven by carbon neutrality commitments to offset their carbon emissions with credit purchases. So how do we empower farmers in this carbon fight?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2021

This push toward corporate sustainability is creating all kinds of strange bedfellows and startup opportunities, with major corporate offset programs and the establishment of new startups focused on offsets creating channels for sustainable technologies to get to market.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Swedish startup Einride was founded in 2016 with a mission to electrify freight transport. Einride founder and CEO Robert Falck told TechCrunch a year ago that he felt a moral obligation to create a greener mode of freight transport after spending years building heavy-duty diesel trucks at Volvo GTO Powertrain.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Optibus , which uses AI to help public transportation bodies and their mass transit partners plan and operate their networks, has raised $100 million, funding that it will be using to continue expanding its product set and wider business footprint, CEO and co-founder Amos Haggiag said in an interview in London this week.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle company Wisk Aero has unveiled its go-to-market aircraft: a four-passenger autonomous air taxi that the startup will put forward for U.S. Wisk will likely come across more hurdles than Joby in getting its eVTOLs to market. Federal Aviation Administration type certification.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

South Africa’s Planet42 gets $30M for its car subscription service, Mexico expansion Planet42 says its expansion to Mexico is part of its strategy to address transport inequality on a global scale. Safe and reliable transport is a key driver of social and economic inclusion in emerging economies. TLcom and 4DX drive $13.1M

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TechCrunch

MAY 23, 2022

But t he used cars market isn’t only enormous in Egypt; it is in almost every country with a large population globally. Recently, there’s been rapid digitization of this market , with several startups upending incumbents such as classifieds and hoping to define the new era of used-car-sale platforms. Some include U.K.’s

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Consider the following business solutions in their early forms: Workday for HR Salesforce for sales Adobe or Hubspot for marketing SAP for ERP These solutions reformed the way we thought about HR, supply chain, or CRM, but they did not transform the work itself. Uber reimagined transportation. Twitch reimagined gaming. Not necessarily.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Some market research made them aware of the full extent of inefficiencies in the trucking business, which especially limited the earnings of owner-operators. Chargel, which came out of stealth last year, matches shippers with transporters, digitizing processes that were previously largely offline. Moustapha says Chargel did over $1.2

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JANUARY 13, 2022

The autonomous vehicle space is an exciting emerging market with plenty of opportunity. Experiencing first-hand the skill and dedication of the people I worked with, I have no doubt AVs (like Olli) are the future of transportation.” I made some great friends, both locally and globally, which makes it worthwhile.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2022

The Mountain View-based company is committed to improving transportation through the use of autonomous, lightweight, fixed-cable vehicles. The company says that its solution offers a lower cost per mile with fewer carbon emissions than conventional transportation alternatives.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

So far it has concentrated on the lucrative European market. The European logistics and freight sector has a market size of $427 billion. The whole digital freight forwarding market is booming. Sennder’s new investment will mean it can expand in European markets. It says it will move over 1 million truckloads this year.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The public transport sector in Kenya is largely traditional and a majority of operators, especially those in road travel, still require their clients to physically book tickets at their offices even when making advance travel plans. It’s been a great validation for us to prove our credibility in the market,” said Kabra.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. As one of Europe’s biggest economies and with freight and logistics powerhouses spanning road and sea, Germany represents an obvious expansion for Einride in the European market. Gearing up.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Shevelenko, who served as Uber’s director of business development and was behind its acquisition of Jump bikes , says these pivots are just the beauty of a startup that’s responsive to market changes. But the demand for transportation is constant. So if you have multiple modes, you’re always going to be doing well.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

As last-mile delivery increases due to a booming e-commerce scene and pandemic habits now ingrained in consumers’ lifestyles, the biggest market for micromobility will end up being in the commercial space, not focused on consumers. “It “It makes little sense to deliver an iPhone or a poke bowl in a Buick.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

representing the latest in a line of European market expansions. billion tonnes of goods that are transported by road freight in the U.K Einride’s planned transport network grid. Electric and autonomous trucking company Einride is expanding to the U.K., Einride said that it’s looking to target the 1.6 Its first U.K.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2021

Obviously you lose some of the magic here — the self-moving pieces have been sacrificed in order to bring a board that can be rolled up and stashed in a backpack for easier transport. Square Off expects to bring the product to market around March, priced at $199. Image Credits: Square Off.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2023

When people talk about hydrogen these days, they almost always mention transportation. But from a practical perspective, transportation is not a great use for hydrogen. Hydrogen is really terrible to store and to transport,” said Chad Mason, founder and CEO of Advanced Ionics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Out where delivery trucks and full-size cargo planes don’t make a lot of sense, drones are proliferating — they may never deliver your burrito , but could soon be indispensable for transporting medicine and emergency supplies. Clearly the answer was yes, but the segment they found practical wasn’t the urban one.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

According to IDC research, about retailers are embedding sustainable practices into product post-purchase activities and reverse logistics, transportation, and logistics (cited by 37.5% International Data Corporation (IDC) is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the technology markets.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Supply chain disruptions — triggered by factors including demand surges, high transportation costs and pandemic-related lockdowns — are expected to continue well into next year, experts predict. Companies are experiencing the brunt of the impact, with 36% of small businesses responding to a 2021 U.S.

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MARCH 31, 2022

The usual priorities of a startup – securing venture funding, researching and developing new products, finding product-market fit – haven’t exactly been put on hold, but they are now much lower on Delfast’s to-do list. Delfast’s co-founders, Daniel Tonkopi and Serhiy Denysenko, say they have always believed in safeguarding the future.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

In June 2021, Veo was in 22 markets. Long term, who can weather all the crazy market turbulence?” The following interview, part of an ongoing series with founders who are building transportation companies, has been edited for length and clarity. ” Veo CEO Candice Xie.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2021

If you’re not familiar with Avito, they specialize in classified ads for the Russian market. In 2020 alone, BlaBlaCar had 50 million passengers across 22 markets overall. In particular, buses represent a huge opportunity in emerging markets and Eastern Europe. Classified giant and global tech investor Naspers acquired Avito.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

And in trying to sweet-talk investors, what’s not taken into context or often disregarded is that Africa is a fragmented $3 trillion market. From Onayemi’s point of view, the growth of Africa’s digital economy revolves around gains in six segments: education, payments, logistics, transport, identity, and trade.

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APRIL 16, 2025

Navigator: As technology landscapes and market dynamics change, enterprise architects help businesses navigate through complexity and uncertainty, ensuring that the organization remains on course despite evolving challenges. compromising quality, structure, integrity, goals).

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FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The new features appear in its Oracle Transportation Management and Oracle Global Trade Management applications, and include expanded business intelligence capabilities, enhanced logistics network modelling, a new trade incentive program, and an updated Transportation Management Mobile application. billion annually in 2026, up from $5.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

Lori Systems , an African on-demand logistics and trucking company digitizing haulage and providing shippers with solutions to manage their cargo and transporters, has raised a pre-Series B round in which Google participated along with other existing investors.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Not only is the company offering ride-hailing and food and grocery delivery services (via Yassir Express) in 45 cities across six countries, but this report also says that three out of five on-demand activities in Algeria, its first market, are made via the platform. . Algeria’s Yassir picks up $30M to build a super app in North Africa.

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