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Daimler Expands Global Innovation Network
Jul 19, 2018Daimler has inaugurated Lab1886 in Atlanta, Georgia, a new location for the company's innovation hub. Guests at the event included Nathan Deal, Governor of Georgia, as well as Silicon Valley icon and investor Guy Kawasaki. Lab1886 ...
Tags: Daimler, Mercedes-Benz
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Automotive Technology Firm Protean Electric Secures $40m New Equity Financing
Jun 11, 2018Automotive technology company Protean Electric has completed a $40m equity investment as the initial closing of its Series E funding round. The investor group is led by Weifu High-Technology Group, a leading diversified automotive ...
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Hyundai Invests in Metawave to Build Intelligent Radars for Autonomous Vehicles
May 18, 2018Hyundai CRADLE, the venture capital wing of Hyundai Motor has invested in Metawave to help develop smart automotive radar platforms. Hyundai autonomous vehicles will be equipped with next-generation radar systems. Metawave uses adaptive ...
Tags: Autonomous Vehicles, Hyundai
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Tyson Foods Invests in Lab-Grown Meat Producer Future Meat Technologies
May 4, 2018Tyson Ventures, the venture capital unit of Tyson Foods, has co-lead a $2.2m seed investment in Future Meat Technologies. Based in Jerusalem, Future Meat Technologies is a food tech company that is engaged in non-GMO production of ...
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Pairwise Plants Raises $25m Funding to Speed up Crop Innovation
Mar 22, 2018Pairwise Plants has closed a $25m Series A funding round co-led by Deerfield Management and Monsanto Growth Ventures (MGV), the venture capital arm of Monsanto to accelerate crop innovation. Pairwise is an agricultural company focused on ...
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Fonterra Partners with German Nutrition Start-up Foodspring
Mar 6, 2018Fonterra Ventures has partnered with German active nutrition start-up foodspring via an investment in its parent firm, Goodminton. The new partnership will enable Fonterra to tap into the rapidly growing active nutrition consumer segment, ...
Tags: Fonterra, Start-up Foodspring
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Tyson Foods to Launch Several New Products in 2018
Feb 23, 2018Tyson Foods said that it will launch several new products this year and modernize its $1bn brands as part of its transformation into a modern food company. Speaking at the 2018 Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, Tyson Foods ...
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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Launch $1bn Venture Capital Fund
Jan 15, 2018The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance has launched a venture capital fund to invest up to $1bn in the next five years. The new entity will act as main interface for start-ups, investors and the venture capital ecosystem to ...
Tags: automotive, Nissan
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Alibaba Invests in Chinese Electric Car Startup XPENG Motors
Dec 20, 2017XPENG Motors has completed three rounds of series A+ financing and scheduled to disclose series B round in early 2018. He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPENG Motors, announces that the company has completed three rounds of series A+ financing and ...
Tags: XPENG Motors, Alibaba
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Tyson Foods Increases Stake in Beyond Meat
Dec 11, 2017Beyond Meat has closed a new financing round led by Cleveland Avenue, a venture capital firm founded by Don Thompson, former CEO of McDonald’s Corporation. “We see Beyond Meat as a strategic and compelling consumer-focused ...
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US Smoothie Maker Bright Greens Raises $2m in Seed Funding
Jun 19, 2017Plant-based frozen smoothie producer Bright Greens has raised a seed round led by Kellogg Company’s venture capital fund eighteen94 capital. Blu Venture Investors, an early stage investment group based in the Mid-Atlantic, also ...
Tags: Bright Greens, Smoothie
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GaN Systems's Investors Receive Venture Capital Awards
Apr 19, 2017GaN Systems Inc of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada – a fabless developer of gallium nitride (GaN)-based power switching semiconductors for power conversion and control applications – says that its funding partners have been recognized ...
Tags: GaN Systems Power, semiconductors
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Kuli Kuli Secures $4.25m Investment From Kellogg's Venture Capital Fund
Jan 16, 2017Moringa-based products maker Kuli Kuli has secured a $4.25m investment from Kellogg Company's venture capital fund eighteen94 capital in a Series A funding round. InvestEco and S2G Ventures were the other institutional investors featuring ...
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Inocucor's Specialty Ag Biological Products Registered in Canada
Dec 15, 2016Inocucor Technologies announced that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has registered its first two specialty ag biological products for use by Canadian farmers and greenhouse growers. Synergro is a live-cell formulation for ...
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2016 Hot Review of The Science and Technology Circles: Samsung Explosion, Twitter Decline, Facebook Outbreak...
Dec 12, 2016Global Technology MapShu Shu Shu information science innovation frontier2016 is about to end, for most people, this is a busy and valuable year, but for some companies, 2016 is not good. Today, take a look at the foreign media Marshable ...
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