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A new transportation-focused fund just landed $120 million from a wide range of transport companies

 Transportation is a huge category. Just some of the players include automakers and motorcycle manufacturers and trucking firms and logistics companies and dealership groups and repair shop chains and truck rental companies and car leasing companies and telematics companies and energy companies with big networks of gasoline stations around the world. Given the dramatic changes underway in the… Read More from TechCrunch via April 28, 2018 at 01:00PM

Care/of raises $12 million in Series A for its home-delivered customized nutrition packs

 Care/of, a year-old, New York-based company that makes subscription-only vitamin supplements that it says are tailored specifically to user’s needs, has convinced investors to give it $12 million in Series A funding to get more of its pill packs on users’ welcome mats. Goodwater Capital led the round, with participation from Tusk Ventures, RRE Ventures, the co-founders of the… Read More from TechCrunch via April 17, 2018 at 01:00PM

Transfix keeps on truckin’, with $42 million in fresh funding led by NEA

 When we last checked in on Transfix in late 2015, the then two-year-old, 26-person, New York-based transportation startup was determined to use its tech to increasingly match customers needing interstate freight shipping with truck drivers needing to make deliveries. It wanted to cut out wasted travel, not to mention greenhouse gas emissions. The company has been chugging along ever since… Read More from TechCrunch via February 22, 2018 at 01:00PM

The hunted becomes the hunter: how Cloudflare’s fight with a “patent troll” could alter the game

 The paperwork would itself arrive shortly after from a registered agent in a thick white envelope: the claim: patent infringement. The firm going after Cloudflare: Blackbird Technologies, a three-year-old, Boston- and Chicago-based firm founded by two former attorneys with white-shoe law firms who’d previously litigated intellectual property cases on behalf of some of the largest tech… Read More from TechCrunch via February 01, 2018 at 01:01PM

An ‘Uber for garbage’ picks up steam, and $11.7 million in Series A funding

 Sometimes, it seems like every possible on-demand service that could be created has already come along — and, in some cases, gone away. But Recycle Track Systems (RTS), a two-year-old, New York-based waste and recycling management technology company, serves to remind that there remain plenty of opportunities for startups looking to turn our smart phones into lucrative businesses.… Read More from TechCrunch via October 04, 2017 at 01:00PM