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Sila Nano’s battery tech is now worth over $1 billion with Daimler...
Sila Nanotechnologies and its battery materials manufacturing technology are now worth more than $1 billion. The company, which announced a $170 million funding led by Daimler and a partnership with...
View ArticleLatin America roundup: Neobanks raise $205M+; Softbank backs VTEX
Argentina’s Ualá became the most recent Latin American fintech to receive a growth-stage funding ($150 million) from Asian investors, Tencent and Softbank. This marks Tencent’s second round of...
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Ford, 3M, GE and the UAW to build respirators, ventilators and face shields...
Ford announced the details of its current manufacturing efforts around building much-needed medical supplies for front-line healthcare workers and COVID-19 patients. Its efforts include building...
View ArticleFord, GE Healthcare to produce 50,000 ventilators by July using this tiny...
Ford and GE Healthcare have licensed a ventilator design from Airon Corp and plan to produce as many as 50,000 of them at a Michigan factory by July as part of a broader effort to provide a critical...
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With $8 million to consolidate Amazon’s top marketplace sellers, Perch makes...
After raising $8 million in November to roll up top Amazon marketplace companies, the new Boston-based startup Perch has begun putting that money to work in its first few deals. The brainchild of Chris...
View ArticleHeadspace appoints former Intuit exec CeCe Morken as president and COO
As it looks to continue along its path of developing clinically validated digital therapeutics for consumer and clinical mental health and wellness, Headspace has bulked up its executive team with the...
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GE Healthcare and Microsoft are bringing a COVID-19 patient monitoring tool...
GE Healthcare is extending its longtime collaboration with Microsoft to launch a cloud-based COVID-19 patient monitoring software for health systems. GE Healthcare had originally intended to debut its...
View ArticlePopping the hood on Vroom’s IPO filing
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Yesterday afternoon, Vroom, an online car buying service, filed to go public....
View ArticleGE’s soft robot bores holes like a giant earthworm
A giant earthworm robot was not on the list of things I expected to see when I logged in this morning. But it’s here, and I’m here for it. Designed by a team at GE Research, the robot in question...
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Lucid Motors to begin producing Air electric vehicles for customers in early...
Lucid Motors will begin producing its luxury electric vehicle for customers at its new Arizona factory in early 2021, about three months later than expected due to a slowdown caused by COVID-19. The...
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The Shed is a startup out of Virginia trying to revive the...
Reducing consumption by expanding the notion of the rental economy and giving people access to tools and equipment has been something of a startup holy grail for some time. It’s a model that’s worked...
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Menlo Micro, a startup bringing semiconductor tech to the humble switch, is...
Sixteen years ago a group of material scientists and engineers at General Electric banded together to reinvent the circuit breaker. Now, Menlo Microsystems, the spin-off commercializing that...
View ArticleResearchers say hardcoded passwords in GE medical imaging devices could put...
Dozens of medical imaging devices built by General Electric are secured with hardcoded default passwords that can’t be easily changed, but could be exploited to access sensitive patient scans,...
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Warehouse drones take flight
Drones are neat and fun and all that good stuff (I should probably add the caveat here that I’m obviously not referring to the big, terrible military variety), but when it comes to quadcopters, there’s...
View ArticleGM, General Electric agree to develop rare earth materials used in EV...
In yet another sign that automakers are determined to get ahead of the supply chain curve, General Motors said Wednesday it had signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with General Electric for the...
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Daily Crunch: Citing ‘uncertain mortgage market,’ Better.com rolls out...
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome to the Daily Crunch for Wednesday, April 6, 2022! Today,...
View ArticleAmazon aggregator Thrasio begins layoffs, names new CEO
A day of reckoning has come for Thrasio, one of the bigger startups buying up and consolidating third-party Amazon sellers. TechCrunch has learned from sources that the company, valued last year at...
View ArticleSwvl’s $100M acquisition of Smart Bus startup Zeelo is off, amid tech stocks...
All is not well with the proposed acquisition of U.K. start bus platform Zeelo by Mass transit group Swvl. Back in April, we covered how a possible $100 million acquisition was on the cards, and,...
View ArticleBitmain co-founder welcomes crypto regulation to restore market confidence
The collapse of Three Arrow Capital and the counterparties wrapped in the crypto hedge fund’s troubles have drawn questions about the soundness of the heady digital asset investment space. For the...
View ArticleCan this startup solve the HR headache that is digital nomads? It just raised...
In the new era of remote and hybrid working, companies need to manage people who either relocate or work remotely. For obvious reasons, that has created a huge headache for HR directors. Back in 2014,...
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