Giovanni
@Giovanni
418 posts
Joined on 26 Mar 2018
Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Giles
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over 3 years ago
Startup Alley tickets are selling out in record numbers
Startup Alley spots at Disrupt are almost sold out – apply There isn’t much time left to apply for Startup Alley. Take advantage of this opportunity before it’s too late.When you purchase a ticket for Startup Alley, you can opt into being considered for a spot in our ina...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Abbie
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over 3 years ago
Ghost raises $100M Series D for autonomous driving and crash prevention tech
Autonomous driving system developer Ghost Locomotion has raised a $100 million Series D funding round, led by Sutter Hill Ventures. Returning investor Founders Fund also participated in the round, along with Coatue. The money will be used toward RD as the company continue...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Marjory
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over 3 years ago
An exploration of art, nature and technology
Caroline Rothwell is a Sydney-based visual artist whose work tackles important conversations about human interactions with nature throughout history — and their lasting effects. In her latest body of work, she hopes to bring attention to the plants around us we so often t...continued
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Giovanni
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over 3 years ago
Eleven Years and Counting
July 1, 2021 (By Joanna Sung)From the age of six, I spent my days picking up table tennis balls at local clubs, watching the best players compete through a television screen, and playing table tennis with my dad in the basement. Now, I am seventeen. Through eleven ...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Wilmer
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over 3 years ago
AWS is buying encrypted messaging service Wickr
Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to governm...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Jaydon
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over 3 years ago
Pledge 1% is asking VCs to help unlock billions in corporate philanthropy
The corporate philanthropy organization Pledge 1% has, since its launch in 2014, asked founders to donate 1% of their companies’ equity, product or employees’ time starting on their first day of business.While the Bay Area-based outfit has found meaningful support from co...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Hannah
@Hannah -
over 3 years ago
Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak Robotics snags investment, partnership from Bridgestone
Self-driving trucks startup Kodiak Robotics snags investment, partnership from giant Bridgestone has taken a minority stake in Kodiak Robotics, the Silicon Valley-based startup developing autonomous trucks, as part of a broader partnership to test and develop smart tire ...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Eleanora
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over 3 years ago
BMW i Ventures invests in autonomous truck technology company Kodiak Robotics
BMW’s Silicon Valley-based venture capital arm is investing in Kodiak Robotics, a company that develops autonomous trucking technology. Kodiak will use the funds to build out a safety case for its self-driving tech stack so it can more quickly commercialize. It will also ...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Devin
@Devin -
over 3 years ago
How Amazon-owned Zoox designed its self-driving vehicles to prevent crashes and protect if they do
The hubbub surrounding the autonomous vehicle industry often focuses on venture capital rounds, speculation about IPOs and acquisitions. But the industry’s future also hinges on the high-stakes task of proving the technology can operate safer than human drivers do today a...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Izaiah
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over 3 years ago
Introhive raises $100M for AI-powered sales tools to help companies build “relationship graphs”
By its nature, sales is one of the most social faces of a business, so it’s no surprise that there are tools being built for sales teams that are tapping into some of the most interesting dynamics of the world of social networking, and that the startups that are doing thi...continued
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Giovanni
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over 3 years ago
Chiefs' Clark arrested; cops say Uzi spotted in car
9:23 PM ETESPN News Services Kansas City Chiefs defensive end Frank Clark was arrested in Los Angeles after police saw a submachine gun in his car, police said Monday.Clark, 28, was pulled over for a vehicle violation south of downtown Los Angeles at about 9:20 p.m. Sunda...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Hulda
@Hulda -
over 3 years ago
Seoul-based Ringle raises $18M Series A for its one-on-one English tutoring platform
Many of the highest-profile English tutoring platforms focus on children, including VIPKID and Magic Ears. Ringle created a niche for itself by focusing on adults first, with courses like business English and interview preparation. The South Korea-based startup announced ...continued
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Giovanni
@Giovanni -
over 3 years ago
ON-3x3 basketball at the Tokyo Olympics - Reuters
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Giovanni
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over 3 years ago
All Change | History Today
‘There had been dramatic changes in outlook in the course of this remarkable century’, writes Margarette Lincoln in her vast and vivid account of the 100 years that took London from the Gunpowder Plot to the Toleration Act, through civil wars, plague and fire, terrorism a...continued
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Giovanni
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over 3 years ago
Fenway Park and JetBlue Park are now a part of the Applied UV air purifier revolution
Developed by NASA, company's patented disinfection technology will protect baseball players and fans.
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Josiah
@Josiah -
over 3 years ago
InfoSum outs an identity linking tool that’s exciting marketing firms like Experian
InfoSum, a startup which takes a federated approach to third-party data enrichment, has launched a new product (called InfoSum Bridge) that it says significantly expands the customer identity linking capabilities of its platform.“InfoSum Bridge incorporates multiple ident...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Allene
@Allene -
over 3 years ago
Final 2 days for early-bird savings to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing & Fundraising
Listen up, all you budget-conscious early-stage founders. That sound you hear is the countdown clock for serious savings to TC Early Stage 2021: Marketing Fundraising on July 8-9. You have just two days left to score early-bird savings and keep $100 in your wallet. Want ...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Mariano
@Mariano -
over 3 years ago
Widespread electrification requires us to rethink battery technology
Moshiel Moshiel Biton is the CEO and co-founder of Addionics, a battery technology company providing AI-optimized, Smart 3D Electrodes for the next generation of energy storage. The global economy’s transition to widespread electrification has increased the demand for ...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Meggie
@Meggie -
over 3 years ago
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps team
Google hires former SiriusXM CPO/CTO to lead its Maps exactly a year ago, Google announced a couple of leadership changes that saw Prabhakar Raghavan, who joined the company back in 2012, take over the lead of Search, Assistant and Maps. Now, sources familiar with the hi...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Hannah
@Hannah -
over 3 years ago
Don’t miss these startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
Don’t miss these startups exhibiting at TC Sessions: Mobility just five days away from TC Sessions: Mobility 2021, where thousands of mobility movers and shakers will dive deep into the game-changing technology that’s reinventing the way we move people — and pretty much ...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Jany
@Jany -
over 3 years ago
Powerup your networking with CrunchMatch at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
Power up your networking with CrunchMatch at TC Sessions: Mobility thousands of mobility mavens from around the world gather at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 on June 9, you’re going to need an efficient, organized way to tap all that opportunity. Meeting folks is easy. Meet...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Delia
@Delia -
over 3 years ago
Ford-owned Spin shakes up scooter business with new CEO, e-bikes and city strategy
Spin, the Ford-owned micromobility operator, has added a new CEO, launched a new strategy to capture market share and announced a plan to get back into bike share, although this time with an electric twist. The flurry of moves suggest that Spin is still trying to figure o...continued
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Alexandro
@Alexandro -
over 3 years ago
Simplified raises $2.2 million in seed to bring automated content creation to marketers
Simplified raises $2.2 million in seed to bring automated content creation to a marketing-focused design software looking to take on Canva, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding led by Craft Ventures. Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra and Todd Goldberg, former Uber CPO Manik Gu...continued
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Giovanni
@Giovanni -
over 3 years ago
Covid Vaccines Are Now on Wheels
Mobile Covid-19 vaccine clinics in vans and buses are rolling up to neighborhoods in Delaware, Minnesota and Washington State to reach people who have been unable to travel to vaccination centers.
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Giovanni upvoted the following post over 3 years ago:
Americo
@Americo -
over 3 years ago
UK PM Boris Johnson’s Tories guilty of spamming voters
The Party had also switched bulk email provider — during which unsubscribe records were apparently lost. But ofc that’s not an excuse for breaking the law. (Indeed, record-keeping is a core requirement of U.K. data protection law, especially since the EU General Data Prot...continued
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