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| 23.07.2024 | Uber наконец-то стал прибыльным — что дальше? | Запуск в новых городах был недешевым: нужно было привлечь на платформу водителей, провести маркетинговые кампании, развернуть новые сервисы, а еще нанять дорогих юристов, чтобы те разбирались в тонкостях местного законодательства — при этом... |
| 17.07.2024 | US-based AI startups that raised over $100 million in funding in 2024 | ETtech
Venture capital investors cannot get enough of the growing artificial intelligence (AI) wave, with startups in the US roping in big funding in the first half of 2024. Even as Indian AI startups saw a dip in funding, those in the US d... |
| 10.07.2024 | New health-focused generative AI company emerges from stealth with Houston office, $4M in funding | A new scalable biodata foundry startup has emerged from stealth with $4 million in investment funding and two new health care artificial intelligence tools. The company is co-located in Houston and Palo Alto, California.
Biostate AI was co-... |
| 02.07.2024 | Houston expert: How to leverage this viral trend to boost performance of your workforce | Trending corporate weapon videos portray the time in the day when employees put down their phone, ignore distractions, and accomplish a high volume of work in a short period. Influencers are also discussing their “daily corporate weapon tim... |
| 26.06.2024 | Former Shopify exec joins Houston scale-up e-commerce software company | Houston-based e-commerce software and services company Cart.com has hired a former Shopify executive as its chief people officer.
Before joining Cart.com, Lani Doyle was chief HR officer at Strategic Solutions Group, a provider of health ca... |
| 26.06.2024 | Autonomous freight co. with Houston-Dallas pilot opens early access program | Texas has been a key testing area for autonomous freight technology for years, and one major player in the space has made its latest move to put the pedal to the metal on self-driving trucking.
Aurora Innovation (NASDAQ: AUR) announced a ne... |
| 26.06.2024 | Automotive Hall Of Fame Announces 2024 Mobility Innovator and Distinguished Service Citation Awardees | The Automotive Hall of Fame is the premier institution for honoring and celebrating individuals and their impact on the automotive industry.
Automotive Hall of Fame Announces its 2024 Mobility Innovator and Distinguished Service Citation Aw... |
| 20.05.2024 | Volvo, Aurora Unveil Autonomous Semi Truck for Mass Production | By Inno Flores
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Volvo and Aurora have joined forces to unveil an autonomous semi-truck, marking a sign... |
| 15.05.2024 | Farasis Energy Signs Strategic Partnership Agreement with Indian Customer Ingar at INAPA 2024 | JAKARTA, Indonesia, May 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Farasis Energy, a global leader in pouch power batteries for new energy vehicles and energy storage systems, showcases its latest mass-produced Super Pouch Solution (SPS), along with its stan... |
| 12.04.2024 | These 74 robotics companies are hiring | It’s tough out there — and yet, doing my semi-regular jobs post always gives me hope. Seems every time I post one of these, the number increases. At 74 companies, this is undoubtedly the largest list we’ve made, by a wide margin. That means... |
| 15.03.2024 | These 61 robotics companies are hiring | It’s extremely heartening to see our little list effectively double since the last time we did one of these. While it’s true that layoffs continue to plague the tech industry at large, there are few better fields to be expert in at the mome... |
| 11.03.2024 | Next Autopilot trial to test Tesla's blame-the-driver defense | Previous
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A Tesla Model X burns after crashing on U.S. Highway 101 in Mountain View, California, U.S. on Ma... |
| 11.03.2024 | Next Autopilot trial to test Tesla's blame-the-driver defense | Autos & TransportationTechnology
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| 23.01.2024 | Driverless 18-wheelers are coming to Houston | Houston is set to be a testing ground for 18-wheelers moving freight without a driver in the cab.
Driving the news: Kodiak Robotics will launch its first driverless route between Houston and Dallas in the second half of this year.
It unveil... |
| 17.01.2024 | Driverless 18-wheelers coming to Dallas | Dallas will soon be a launchpad for 18-wheelers carrying freight from city to city, without a driver in the cab.
Driving the news: California-based Kodiak Robotics unveiled its "driverless-ready semi-truck" at the 2024 Consumer El... |
| 03.10.2023 | Long Haul Automated Trucks: Taking It To The Street | Torc Robotics is one of several AV Truck Developers whose trucks can handle streets as well as ... [+] highways.Torc Robotics |
| 15.08.2023 | Highlight launches full-stack application monitoring platform, raises $8M | San Francisco-based Highlight, a startup looking to streamline web application observability for enterprises, today announced the public launch of its flagship product: An open-source monitoring platform that provides teams with a comprehen... |
| 30.07.2023 | Tesla’s range-flation problem, Waymo reverses on self-driving trucks and Ford tweaks its EV playbook | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| 27.07.2023 | Waymo Cancels Trucking The Same Week Aurora Raises $820M More For It | Waymo VIA self-driving trucks are no more, for now.Waymo |
| 21.07.2023 | Autonomous truck company Aurora raises $820M in stock sale
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| 21.07.2023 | Aurora raised $820M on the road to 2024 commercial launch | The publicly traded Aurora has secured an $820 million raise thanks to a combination of public and private funding, it announced this week. According to leadership, this puts the Strip District-based autonomous trucking company on track to ... |
| 27.04.2023 | Industrialization Is Vital For The Launch Of Automated Trucking: Aurora And Continental Take A Pivotal Step | The Aurora-Continental tie-up aims at industrialization for automated trucking. Aurora Innovation, Inc. |
| 20.04.2023 | AV In The Trenches: What Will It Really Take To Get Automated Trucks On The Road? | What will it take to finally get Automated Trucks on the road?Bishop Consulting / Linda Beatty |
| 03.04.2023 | “Feature Complete” Aurora Driver Enters Final Phase Prior To Commercial Deployment | The dawn of automated long haul trucking may be on the horizon....Aurora Innovation |
| 23.01.2023 | Zeekr goes on a hiring spree, Tesla kicks off a price war and Hesai files for an IPO | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free.
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| 19.12.2022 | Zeekr files for an IPO, Elon sells more Tesla shares and a message to readers | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive the full edition of the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. This is a shorter version of The Station newslette... |
| 18.12.2022 | Every Software Application Will Incorporate AI | Image created with Midjourney
And AI-native apps will generally win over AI-retrofit.
Over the past two decades, we’ve seen a proliferation of SaaS products that we use in every part of our daily work. This current generation of applicati... |
| 08.11.2022 | Aurora and Ryder to Pilot On-Site Fleet Maintenance for Autonomous Trucking | With Ryder technicians embedded in Aurora’s terminal, the companies aim to maximize the utilization of autonomous trucks
Aurora Innovation, a leading autonomous vehicle company, and Ryder System, a leader in supply chain, dedicated transpor... |
| 31.10.2022 | Argo.ai Shuts Down - What Will Happen To Its LiDAR Unit? | June 2020: Volkswagen will invest USD 2.6 billion in capital and assets in Ford's self-driving unit ... [+] Argo AI to market new-technology vehicles in the United States and Europe. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Ge... |
| 05.09.2022 | Self-driving tech firm Aurora mulls selling itself to Apple or Microsoft after losing 80% of its market value | Aurora Innovation, a self-driving vehicle firm co-founded by former heads of self-driving programs at Google, Uber, and Tesla, is considering selling itself to Apple or Microsoft, according to a report from Bloomberg.
In a sign of its stru... |
| 02.09.2022 | In leaked memo, Aurora CEO weighs spinouts, layoffs and acquisitions against sale to big tech | The chief executive of autonomous vehicle developer Aurora Innovation presented a swath of cost-cutting and cash-generating options to its board, ranging from a hiring freeze and spinning out assets to a small capital raise, going private a... |
| 14.07.2022 | Aurora Innovation Launches Fault Management System For Automated Vehicles | Aurora Innovation semi and robotaxi with automated driving system Aurora Innovation |
| 19.05.2022 | Aurora Innovation to Focus on FedEx Texas, Bringing Autonomous Delivery for the State | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 19 May 2022, 01:05 am
Aurora Innovation is now partnering with FedEx Texas to test out its autonomous system that will focus on the trucks of the famous logistics company for a more efficient drive. The autonomous... |
| 04.05.2022 | Aurora unveils fleet management platform to optimize autonomous operations | Autonomous vehicle technology company Aurora Innovation has unveiled a fleet management system that can be used to help optimize operations for the startup’s trucking and ride-hailing products.
Aurora announced the platform, named Aurora Be... |
| 20.03.2022 | The Station: GM deepens it stake in Cruise and Porsche plots out its EV course | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. (Folks, a technical snafu meant the weekly newsletter wasn’t emailed to subscriber... |
| 16.03.2022 | Solo AVT wants to build fully driverless heavy truck platforms | California-based Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies wants to build electric, purpose-built heavy-duty truck platforms for autonomous freight.
These platforms would be compatible with any autonomous driving software, so autonomous vehicle co... |
| 09.03.2022 | Engineering the Future of Transportation | Yanbing Li, Senior VP of Engineering at Aurora
Even when she was a little girl growing up in China, Yanbing Li was interested in engineering. Following in the footsteps of her father, she studied electrical and computer engineering in both... |
| 21.02.2022 | The Station: DeLorean teases an EV, VW and Huawei are ‘talking’ and feds investigate Tesla | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 08.02.2022 | This Week in Jobs: Skate into something new with these 21 open tech roles | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge.”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inb... |
| 20.01.2022 | Power Moves: 3 Pittsburgh tech firms name big leadership changes and 2022 growth plans | Power Moves is a column where we chart the comings and goings of talent across the region. Got a new hire, gig or promotion? Email us: pittsburgh@technical.ly.Continuing the trend of big promotions at the start of a new year, three Pittsbur... |
| 06.12.2021 | The Station: Didi delists, a plea for the Chips Act and crypto for in-car purchases | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 17.11.2021 | Want a job in robotics or autonomy? Here’s what 8 hiring managers are looking for | Pittsburgh’s top tech sectors are robotics and autonomy, but landing a job at one of the many companies here requires a certain type of skillset and mindset.
To find out what coding languages, past technical experiences, problem-solving ski... |
| 01.11.2021 | Ahead of Aurora’s SPAC deal vote, here’s everything the AV company has done since acquiring Uber ATG | After a year of big moves, homegrown unicorn and autonomous vehicle company Aurora Innovation will face a vote to go public this Wednesday.
In a special purpose acquisition company deal Aurora announced with Reinvent Technology Partners Y i... |
| 28.09.2021 | Volvo Autonomous Solutions reveals prototype long-haul autonomous truck for North America application | Volvo Autonomous Solutions reveals prototype long-haul autonomous truck for North America application Tue, Sep 28, 2021 14:00 CET
Volvo Autonomous Solutions and Aurora have achieved the next milestone in their partnership to jointly develop... |
| 22.09.2021 | FedEx to test Aurora’s self-driving trucks on Dallas-to-Houston route | FedEx has started to use self-driving trucks to haul goods between Dallas and Houston as part of a pilot program with autonomous vehicle startup Aurora and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturer Paccar.
Paccar trucks that are equipped with Aurora’... |
| 21.09.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Go Green | Editor’s note: Every week we ship an email newsletter featuring the region’s most exciting career opportunities. We’ve lovingly called it This Week in Jobs (aka TWIJ — “twidge”). Below is this week’s edition; it’s meant to live in your inbo... |
| 13.09.2021 | The Station: Apple car shakeup, how Sept. 11 changed travel and a pledge from airlines | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 09.09.2021 | Aurora makes Pittsburgh its full corporate headquarters, continuing momentum for the local AV industry | A top autonomous vehicle company is officially making Pittsburgh its long-term home.
Though Aurora previously operated a dual headquarters here and in Mountain View, California, this new announcement makes Pittsburgh the sole corporate cent... |
| 02.08.2021 | The Station: The script for Elon Musk’s Loop drivers, Redwood snags $700M and a chat with Kodiak Robotics’ co-founder | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 16.07.2021 | Aurora will go public through a SPAC later this year. Here’s what that means | In the span of a few weeks, two major Pittsburgh-based companies announced plans to go public.
On Thursday, news broke that autonomous vehicle company Aurora Innovation, headquartered in the Strip District, will become a public company thro... |
| 15.07.2021 | Autonomous driving start-up Aurora plans to go public through SPAC deal with initial value of $11 billion | The deal with Reinvent Technology Partners, a special purpose acquisition company, is expected to close this year, setting up the merged company with $2.5 billion in cash.
With partners including Toyota, Uber and Volvo, Aurora is targeting ... |
| 13.07.2021 | Aurora Innovation, Inc. announced that it expects to receive $1 billion in funding from a group of investors | Aurora Innovation, Inc announced that it has entered into subscription agreement for private placement of 100,000,000 common shares at an issue price of $10 per share for gross proceeds of $1,000,000,000 on July 13, 2021. The transaction wi... |
| 30.06.2021 | Alums on the Move | Nicholas Alexsovich (Real Estate/San Francisco) has joined Rockpoint Group, LLC in San Francisco as associate general counsel.
Suzette Barnes (Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution/San Francisco) has joined Morgan Stanley in San Francis... |
| 29.06.2021 | Robotics/AI Industry Leaders Announce Commitment to Make Pittsburgh the ‘Robotics Capital of the World’ | On June 29, nearly 100 leaders from top robotics companies, government officials and universities in the Pittsburgh area, convened to officially launch the Pittsburgh Robotics Network. “We have created one of the world’s largest platforms w... |
| 28.06.2021 | The Station: Quanergy and Embark to go public via SPAC, Spin and Bird announce fresh launches | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 25.06.2021 | ‘Built to last’: How can Pittsburgh support its biggest homegrown tech companies? | Pittsburgh has earned a reputation as a blue-collar city, with companies that thrive due in large part to the region’s storied work ethic.
Over the last three decades, as the Pittsburgh region has tried to rebuild and rebrand as a technolog... |
| 22.06.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Stay Cool | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 03.06.2021 | Aurora brings in outsiders to boost safety efforts, public trust of driverless vehicles | Aurora, the autonomous vehicle company that acquired Uber ATG last year, has assembled a team of outside experts, shared new details about its operations in a self-assessment safety report and launched a website as part of a broader effort ... |
| 01.06.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: What’s Old is New | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 31.05.2021 | The Station: Rivian rolls towards an IPO and Quantumscape makes a big battery hire | The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox.
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| 11.05.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Catch You Later, Calibri | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 27.04.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: It’s Gonna Be May | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 22.04.2021 | AURORA MOBILE LIMITED
Aurora Mobile's Investee WakeData Receives USD25M in Series B+ Financing co-led by Tencent and Sequoia | SHENZHEN, China, April 22, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Aurora Mobile Limited (NASDAQ: JG) (“Aurora Mobile” or the “Company”), a leading mobile developer service provider in China, today announced that one of its investees, Shenzhen WakeData Te... |
| 26.02.2021 | Aurora acquires a second lidar company in push to bring self-driving trucks to the road | Aurora, the autonomous vehicle company that recently closed its acquisition of Uber’s self-driving subsidiary, has snapped up another startup.
This time, Aurora is buying OURS Technology, the second lidar startup it has acquired in less tha... |
| 23.02.2021 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: End of an Era | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
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| 20.01.2021 | Amazon-backed Aurora just inked a major deal to put its self-driving software in semi trucks | Aurora and Paccar will work together to develop, test, and sell self-driving big rigs, the firms announced Tuesday. Paccar
Aurora and truck maker Paccar said Tuesday they have inked a deal to develop self-driving semi trucks.
The Amazon-bac... |
| 08.12.2020 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Mysterious Monolith | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 08.12.2020 | Uber продал беспилотное подразделение ATG за $4 млрд | Александра Кукуть 8 декабря 2020, 11:33 Uber продал беспилотное подразделение ATG за $4 млрд
Uber продал подразделение по разработке самоуправляемых авто Uber Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) конкурирующему стартапу Aurora Innovation. Комп... |
| 07.12.2020 | Uber gives up on developing its own self-driving car | Uber has announced it’s selling its self-driving car unit, although it isn’t entirely cutting its interest in autonomous vehicles.
The company will sell its autonomous-vehicle unit — Advanced Technologies Group (ATG) — to Aurora, a Silicon ... |
| 07.12.2020 | Aurora Acquires Uber’s Automated Driving Unit–And Uber’s Cash | With the acquisition of Uber's ATG unit Aurora becomes one of the biggest self-driving tech ... [+] developers.Aurora Innovation |
| 20.11.2020 | Index OnAir: The Future of Robotics | Will knight: Why have we seen such a fundamental shift to automation over the last five to ten years?
Chris Urmson: The idea of automation in automobiles is not new. Incremental developments have included not having to hand crank your star... |
| 06.11.2020 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Abra Cadabra! | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 24.09.2020 | This Week in Jobs Pittsburgh: Clear skies, full hearts | Hi! You’re reading the Pittsburgh edition of This Week in Jobs (TWIJ), a weekly newsletter written by our team at Technical.ly in partnership with InnovatePGH and the Pittsburgh Innovation District. Each week we put together for you a slate... |
| 08.09.2020 | How To Separate The Wheat From The Chaff In A Sea Of Ventures With AI Use Cases | Driverless cars, like those by Google, are much revered examples of AI use cases.Corbis via Getty Images |
| 14.07.2020 | Bringing AI to Businesses Everywhere | The Co-founders of Abacus.ai – Siddartha Naidu, Bindu Reddy, and Arvind Sundararajan.
Marty Chavez was the CIO at Goldman Sachs until he retired a couple of years ago. Of all the enterprise technology executives that I’ve worked with over ... |
| 27.02.2020 | California’s self-driving car reports are public. Here’s what they don’t mean. | The California Department of Motor Vehicles released its annual cache of autonomous vehicle testing and disengagements data that, depending how one chooses to interpret the data, shows either stunning progress or stagnation.
The data, which... |
| 19.12.2019 | What to Expect in 2020 | In retrospect, it was no surprise that 2019 turned out to be a watershed year for the technology industry. On the one hand, we continued to celebrate the positive impact of technology from successful IPOs and public listings, to remarkable ... |
| 22.10.2019 | Updated: 42 Primers On Driverless Car Innovation And Disruption | Driverless cars put trillions in automotive and downstream industry revenue up for grabs.Chunka Mui |
| 25.09.2019 | Autotech 2019 - Shift in buyer pool as tech giants join the race to own the vehicle of the future, says Hampleton Partners' report | Amazon, Apple and Uber investments in autonomous driving, electric vehicles and battery expertise challenging Tier 1s and OEMs in 1H2019
Mobility and fleet management transactions rebound with 17 transactions in 1H2019
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| 23.05.2019 | Top tech startup news for today, Thursday, May 23, 2019 | Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, May 23.
Streem acquires U.K. augmented reality (AR) Selerio in effort to bolster its AR teleconferencing tech. Streem, an AR startup that that enhances real-time communicati... |
| 23.05.2019 | Self-Driving Unicorn Aurora, Backed By Amazon, Is Buying A Laser Lidar Maker | A self-driving Aurora test vehicle goes through its paces in San Francisco.Kevin Meynell Photography via Aurora |
| 10.02.2019 | Aurora co-founder and CEO Chris Urmson on the company’s new investor, Amazon, and much more | You might not think of self-driving technologies and politics having much in common, but at least in one way, they overlap meaningfully: yesterday’s enemy can be tomorrow’s ally.
Such was the message we gleaned Thursday night at a StrictlyV... |
| 09.02.2019 | Aurora Secures over $530M in Series B Financing | Aurora, a Palo Alto, California-based maker of self-driving technology for automated vehicles, secured over $530m in Series B financing.
The round was led by Sequoia, with participation from Amazon, and funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe... |
| 08.02.2019 | Term Sheet — Friday, February 8 | JOINING FORCES
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| 07.02.2019 | Why Aurora Will Win the Self-Driving Market | If you’ve spent any time researching self-driving cars, you’ll know that all roads lead to Chris Urmson. Chris was working on autonomous vehicle technologies before most of us had even heard of the concept, and has gained such profound expe... |
| 07.02.2019 | Amazon Eases Into Self-Driving Tech By Joining Aurora's $530 Million Funding Surge | An Aurora test vehicle makes its rounds through Pittsburgh, where the Silicon Valley-based company ... [+] has R&D operations.Aurora Innovation, Inc. |
| 07.02.2019 | Top startup news for today, Thursday, February 7, 2019 | Good morning! Here are some of the top technology startup news stories for today, Thursday, February 7.
Amazon just invested in self-driving car company Aurora. Amazon has invested in a self-driving car startup Aurora. The investment may b... |
| 09.07.2018 | Index Ventures closes 2 funds, $1B for growth rounds and $650M for early-stage investing | Make way for more money into the startup investing pool. Today, Index Ventures announced that it has closed a total of $1.65 billion in new funds — $1 billion that it plans to invest in later-stage, growth rounds, and $650 million that it p... |
| 14.05.2018 | Embark CEO says autonomous driving is the only way we’ll get to zero fatalities | Autonomous systems are coming. In fact, they’re already here, thanks to Alphabet’s Waymo, Uber and smaller startups like Aurora, Embark Trucks and Voyage. Although there have a been a couple of fatal crashes involving autonomous software, t... |
| 23.03.2018 | After Uber Fatality, Autonomous-Vehicle Pioneer Points To Lethal Record Of Human-Driven Cars | In a 2015 photo taken when he was still with Google, Chris Urmson (R) shows a Google self-driving... [+] car to U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx (L) and Google Chairman Eric Schmidt (C). (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) |
| 20.03.2018 | Blackmore Sensors and Analytics raises $18 million from BMW i Ventures and Toyota AI Ventures to scale its automotive LIDAR solution | Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) is the most important and expensive component of any autonomous vehicle. It is a sensor that detects objects in a car’s proximity using lasers. Not so long ago a LiDAR sensor used to cost $75,000. With ad... |
| 13.03.2018 | What This Self-Driving Tech Exec Wants Entrepreneurs To Know About Goal Setting | Autonomous vehicles could represent a seven trillion dollar market by 2050. Aurora is one of a handful of startups paving the way towards that driver-less future. Headed by Google, Uber and Tesla veterans, the startup has partnered with aut... |
| 02.03.2018 | Aurora Raises $90M in Total Funding | Aurora, a US based self-driving company, raised a total of $90m in funding.
Backers included Greylock Partners and Index Ventures.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and continue to develop its technology.
Co-founded ... |
| 28.02.2018 | Self-driving car startup Aurora speeds forward with $90M, LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman joins board | Photo via Aurora
Aurora, a newcomer in the race to develop self-driving vehicles, put a little fuel in the tank today as the company raised $90 million in series A financing from Greylock Partners and Index Ventures. As a result of the inve... |
| 28.02.2018 | Aurora, Led by Google and Tesla Driverless Car Vets, Lands $90M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Aurora Innovation, a self-driving car startup whose founders have ties to Google, Tesla, and Uber, has raised $90 million in Series A funding co-led by Greylock Partners and I... |
| 28.02.2018 | Term Sheet — Wednesday, February 28 | THE STATE OF PRIVATE EQUITY
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| 15.02.2018 | Investmentchancen aus Sicht eines Mobility-VCs | (Quelle: www.ngin-mobility.com)
Welche Startups bringen die Branche voran? In welche Technologien lohnt es sich, zu investieren? Unser Autor hat die wichtigsten Bereiche und Akteure zusammengetragen.
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