On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to, for their impact on industry.
Federal regulators have paved the way for Google offshoot Wing Aviation to begin drone delivery in the U.S., a small but significant step in advancing what...
Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on.
The revenue opportunities in the rideshare boom don’t just live behind the wheel. Viraj Ratnalikar, founder of Car Quids, thought of an opportunity while watching cars drive...
“Here be dragons!”
According to lore, that epithet once marked ancient charts of the world’s oceans, a warning from mariners of the perils of the deepest, darkest seas. Today, that label might well be affixed to global supply chains. As beneficial...
Strategic Investors: Profiles of investors with strategies to consider.
Wooden pallets have been around almost as long as global trade. Pallets - also known as ‘skids,’ date back at least to ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, and in spite of improvements...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
The global race to build “the brains” behind driverless cars is accelerating, even as different international players have various motivations and visions of the self-driving future.
The...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
Zencargo, a freight forwarding firm that uses machine learning to improve how large shipping companies and their customers manage and move cargo, has closed a Series...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
Black Sesame Technologies, an artificial intelligence company focused on digital imaging that can make cars safer and more, completed a $100 million Series B financing round...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
If you’ve wondered when you could book a private jet to any place in the world with an app, get your fingertips ready.
As did Dubai-based aviation...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
A European logistics startup called Sennder raised an undisclosed amount in a Series B financing, according to U.S. venture capital firm Accel, which announced its investment in the round. Other...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
Minieye, an autonomous-driving software developer based in China, announced on April 9 that it completed its Series B financing and received hundreds of millions of credit lines That means that...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
Klook, a Hong Kong-based travel activities and services company, announced Tuesday it received $225 million in Series D+ funding from the Softbank Vision Fund. This brings its total...
Perspectives: Opinions from our network of advisors, investors, operators and analysts on the risks and opportunities they see.
Drones are democratizing access to airspace and enabling new participants in aviation. Being unmanned, however, such aircraft also give rise to privacy,...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
In India, the road to economic growth appears to be, well, the road itself.
Roadis, a subsidiary of PSP Investment, the Public Sector Pension Investment Board,one of...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
A few years after Chinese startups turned dockless bike-sharing into a tour de force, Hellobike is seeking up to $1 billion in additional funding to pedal...
Opinions from our network of advisors, investors, operators and analysts on the risks and opportunities they see.
More than a century ago, Ford Motor Co.’s automobile assembly lines were the cutting edge of American innovation. Now, the carmaker’s recent round of...
On Our Radar: Deals we are paying attention to for their impact on industry.
Barely a day goes by without a new thrust or parry in the US-China competition to control the direction of Artificial Intelligence. But some moves resonate...
Sound Businesses: Profiles of companies and business models we are keeping an eye on.
Flying cars and dog-walking robots were all part of a futuristic world of “smart cities” envisioned as early as the 1960s, when they were mainstays in...
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