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Delivery has become one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but Covid-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Volta Trucks — the Swedish electric vehicle startup that believes it can build better urban delivery vehicles and other trucks that are safer and take up a smaller carbon footprint than their gas-guzzling, more clumsy, existing counterparts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Voltron Data was launched last year by former employees from NVidia, Ursa Computing, BlazingSQL and the co-founder of Apache Arrow. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

ICON, which creates homes using 3D printing, has raised an additional $185 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management, TechCrunch has learned exclusively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

When Ibex Investors founder and CEO Justin Borus looks at the transportation industry — and the technological changes that are coming — he sees one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime. And with a fresh $113 million fund focused on early stage mobility companies, his firm is tapping into it. “There will be more […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trying to deal with the huge amount of data associated with how companies are going to transition to a “net zero” economy is an uphill task. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Virtual veterinarian care platform Dutch has raised $20 million in Series A funding led by Forerunner Ventures and Eclipse Ventures. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Genesis, which has built a low-code/no-code application platform specifically for the financial markets, announced today it has landed a $200 million investment led by Tiger Global Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Human resources platform Employment Hero announced today it has raised $181 million AUD (or about $129 million USD), putting it at unicorn valuation in Australian dollars of $1.25 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Scrona AG caused a minor splash all the way back in 2015 when it snagged a Guinness World Record for the “smallest inkjet-printed color image.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Tropic’s technology brings a click-and-approve approach to buying and managing all of that software. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Meet Insify, an insurtech startup that raised a $17 million (€15 million) Series A round led by Accel. The company wants to modernize the insurance market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Respira Labs, a medical technology company specializing in respiratory care, which first unveiled its product to the world last year, successfully raised $1 million in funding and an additional $1.8 million in grants to continue building its acoustic resonance technology to assess lung function and changes therein. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It takes as little as 30 minutes to get RedRoute set up, and customers can try the software with zero upfront costs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Twine, a company that provides networking tools for virtual events and remote teams, will soon bring its services to Zoom thanks to its just-closed acquisition of the Y Combinator-backed startup, Glimpse, which had developed a “speech matching” platform designed for virtual events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

For most people, mention of the word “taxes” conjures up unpleasant things like tedious processes, mountains of paperwork and shelling out a lot of money to the government. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over $500 million worth of real estate was sold on the top four metaverse platforms in 2021, data shows. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You might not think much about the train or the airplane that gets you from one place to another, but behind any transportation link is a vast sprawling network of electronics, devices, and data that keep trains on the tracks and planes in the sky. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States and the world. And yet, the system in place to breed and feed and raise all this chicken is incredibly detrimental to our overall wellbeing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

French startup Silvr has raised a $20.6 million (€18 million) Series A funding round and has opened a $128 million (€112 million) debt line for its activities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Endgame connects the dots between product usage and sales opportunities to put employees in the driver's seat of the software they like to use instead of a top-down approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dating app company Bumble, Inc. is making its first acquisition with today’s news that it’s adding the fast-growing French dating app Fruitz to its family of applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A true “metaverse” may not yet exist, but that hasn’t stopped marketers from adopting the buzzword to promote their apps and games on mobile app stores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Even small changes made by individuals to reduce plastic waste can add up to a big positive impact on the environment, founder and CEO Zuleyka Strasner said. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices