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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.

Empathy is essential for building a loyal team, says Kolors co-founder Anca Gardea

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…

Mexico City’s Kolors wants to disrupt intercity busing in Latin America

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…

This company makes vodka out of thin air to save the planet

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…

Brilliant Planet is running algae farms to pull carbon out of the air

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…

Atomic Industries wants to change how your plastics are made

Using a mobile phone app, a farmer can assign a job to one of the tractors, like mowing the field.

Toyota Ventures backs seed extension into Agtonomy, turning tractors into autonomous vehicles

In the past year, the company grew its number of Tier 1 enterprise customers by 10 times.

Tiger Global leads cash infusion into Elementary for automated manufacturing inspection

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…

Burro raises $10.9M for autonomous produce field transport

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…

Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality