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Agility Robotics and Playground Global join TechCrunch Live to speak on fundraising robotic delivery Feb 22, 2022

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Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but Covid-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation.

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Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year Feb 22, 2022

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Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts.

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Voltron Data grabs $110M to build startup based on Apache Arrow project Feb 21, 2022

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Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow.

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ICON raises $185M in Tiger-led round to build more homes with its 3D printing tech, now approaching $2B valuation Feb 21, 2022

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ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.

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Ibex Investors’ newest fund is betting on a mobility revolution Feb 18, 2022

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When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility companies, his firm is tapping into it. “There will be more […]

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Actual, which renders company ESG data in a SimCity-like platform, raises $5M seed Feb 18, 2022

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Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task.

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Dutch raises $20M to scale its telemedicine platform for pets Feb 17, 2022

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Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures.

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Genesis raises $200M in Tiger-led round to grow its finance-focused low-code application platform Feb 17, 2022

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Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management.

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Employment Hero raises $181M AUD at $1.25B AUD valuation, acquires KeyPay Feb 16, 2022

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Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion.

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Scrona has big manufacturing plans for its tiny 3D printing Feb 16, 2022

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Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.”

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