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Empathy is essential for building a loyal team, says Kolors co-founder Anca Gardea
Kolors is following a model that it describes as “if Uber and Southwest Airlines had a baby,” providing a technology layer to bus operators to help them operate more smoothly.
Mexico City’s Kolors wants to disrupt intercity busing in Latin America
Kolors, a Mexico City-based startup, says its platform that connects intercity bus riders with bus drivers is like “if Uber and Southwest Airlines had a baby.” Like Uber and other…
It’s a story as old as time: Pull CO2 out of the air, wave your magic chemistry stick at it and bottle it as vodka and perfume. The planet wins…
Brilliant Planet is running algae farms to pull carbon out of the air
Sure, you can run machines to decarbonize the air, but where’s the fun in that when you can invite Mother Nature to do the work for you? Brilliant Planet does…
Unless you work in manufacturing or product design, you probably haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about how plastic shapes are made. Look around you — see anything with…
Toyota Ventures backs seed extension into Agtonomy, turning tractors into autonomous vehicles
Using a mobile phone app, a farmer can assign a job to one of the tractors, like mowing the field.
Tiger Global leads cash infusion into Elementary for automated manufacturing inspection
In the past year, the company grew its number of Tier 1 enterprise customers by 10 times.
Burro first crossed our path during our 2020 robotics event, when the agtech company competed in our pitch off. The company (which used to go by the decidedly less fun…
Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality
Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The fund is commemorating its new identity by investing an additional…