Fortnite developer Epic Games announced a $1.78B USD corporate venture round consisting of primary capital and secondary purchases from employee equity holders. The investment puts the company’s post-money equity valuation at $17.3B, up roughly 15% […]
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Amira Global welcomes A$20m of mining robotics & automation funding from WA government
Amira Global has welcomed a A$20 million investment by the West Australian government into the development of a mining robotics and automation test facility and precinct at Neerabup, north of Perth. The funding will […]
[Funding alert] Workflow automation app Delightree raises $3M in seed round
San Francisco and Delhi-based Delightree, a workflow automation app for businesses, has raised $3 million in a seed round from Accel Partners, Emergent Ventures, Brainstorm Ventures, Axilor Ventures, and Alchemist Accelerator. The company will use […]
Federal Government announces $2.9 million in funding for autonomous robot to help manage weeds | The Armidale Express
news, local-news, The Federal Government has put $2.9 million into a multi-partner development that aims to revolutionise the labour-intensive business of managing weeds on farmland. The “Kelpie” autonomous robot is being developed to selectively control […]
Australia’s ORDER launches Series B funding round
Australian esports organisation ORDER has opened a Series B funding round in search of additional investment to help fuel future international growth. The organisation originally planned to launch a Series B in 2021, but saw an […]
NASA Awards Renewal Funding to Universities to Support Deep Space Missions
NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Institutional Research Opportunity, or MIRO, has awarded renewal cooperative agreements to four universities to perform research and education. Source link
Charged EVs | Electric aircraft maker Bye Aerospace closes $10 million in funding
Electric aircraft maker Bye Aerospace closes $10 million in funding Posted July 21, 2021 by Charles Morris & filed under Newswire, The Vehicles. Denver-based Bye Aerospace, developer of the all-electric eFlyer family […]
Fruit picking robots and vertical farming receive government funding
A fruit picking robot scheme led by Saga Robotics in Lincoln will receive nearly £2.5 million as part of a new UK government funding initiative to drive efficiency in food production. The ‘Robot Highways’ project […]
Mission Control Secures $1.75M Seed Funding Round – The Esports Observer｜home of essential esports business news and insights
Recreational esports league platform Mission Control announced that it has raised a $1.75M USD Seed financing round led by Dundee Venture Capital. Further investors participating in the round included M25, Cultivation Capital, and MATH Venture […]
Fruit picking robots and vertical farming receive government funding
A fruit picking robot scheme led by Saga Robotics in Lincoln will receive nearly £2.5 million as part of a new UK government funding initiative to drive efficiency in food production. The programme, dubbed Robot […]
Funding the future – why one investor is betting their farms on RAS
Co-founder, Jamie Stein, speaks to The Fish Site about why it’s a good time to invest in RAS, despite so many land-based ventures failing in the past, and what challenges still need to be overcome. […]
Consortium wins funding to create world’s first robotic farm
The future of UK and international farming and food production has been boosted after Innovate UK announced funding of £2.5m for what is widely considered to be the world’s first robotic farm. ‘Robot Highways’ is […]
ACRE Awards Seven Entrepreneurs Funding for Their SC Agribusinesses
ACRE Awards Seven Entrepreneurs Funding for Their SC Agribusinesses Story by Jeremy Ward, Agribuisness Center for Research and Entrepreneurship This story appears in the July 16, 2020 issue of the South Carolina Market Bulletin. As South […]
Tesla price cut, Rivian funding, VW ID.3 tires, Hummer EV preview: Today’s Car News
Tesla lowered prices on the Model Y, and boosted charge rates on some of its other models. The Volkswagen ID.3 will tread lightly with range-extending rubber. Rivian is now flush with a new round of […]
Food Companies Step Up Funding for Organic Farming Research
For almost 20 years, Stephen Jones developed wheat varieties for white commodity wheat flour, but he never liked it much. So when the Washington State University (WSU) researcher was offered the chance to move to […]
Charged EVs | Rivian raises $2.5 billion in new funding
Rivian raises $2.5 billion in new funding Posted July 12, 2021 by Charles Morris & filed under Newswire, The Vehicles. Investors are pouring money into EV companies—as shares in Tesla, Nio and […]
NIST funding awarded to ARM for developing cobots for COVID-19 testing
NIST has awarded a grant to an ARM member for the use of cobots in lab testing. Source: ARM Institute The development and use of robotics are not only relevant to U.S. economic competitiveness, but […]
Fisker funding, ride-hailing EVs, Porsche Cayenne plug-in hybrid drive: Today’s Car News
Another report emphasizes the importance of making ride-hailing all-electric. Fisker is moving ahead with development. And we plugged in the fastest Porsche SUV ever. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Fisker announced that […]
Rivian secures $2.5 billion funding from Tesla investors and more
Rivian has secured another massive $2.5 billion round of funding led by former major Tesla investor T. Rowe Price and more. The electric vehicle startup has yet to bring a vehicle to production, but it […]
Fisker gets new funding and talent for development of Ocean EV
Electric-car startup Fisker Inc. announced Thursday that it had hired several new executives, and secured $50 million in funding for development of its Ocean SUV, due in 2022. The financing came through a Series C […]
Athlane Collects $3.3M Seed Funding, Launches Sponsorship Facilitation Platform
Sponsorship brokerage platform Athlane has received a $3.3M USD seed investment. Participants in the financing round included Y Combinator, The Kraft Group President Jonathan Kraft, Fenway Sports Group President Michael Gordon, Global Founders Capital, Romulus […]
InOrbit raises seed funding to expand cloud-based robot fleet management
Source: InOrbit InOrbit Inc., which provides cloud-based software for managing robot fleets, announced today that it has closed seed funding of $2.6 million. The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said it plans to use the investment […]