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Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has awarded Zūm a transportation contract valued at over $400 million

Zūm is at the forefront of a massive transformation in student transportation, helping thousands of schools move away from a one-size-fits-all approach to a modern experience that provides parents, students, drivers and districts with safer, greener, more reliable transportation services.

D-Matrix AI Chip Promises Efficient Transformer Processing

Startup combines Digital In-Memory Compute and chiplet implementations for data-center-grade inferencing.

CASSIA NETWORKS SECURES INVESTMENT FROM ABB TECHNOLOGY VENTURES

The ABB investment leads Cassia’s Series C funding to support Bluetooth technology as the leading connectivity standard for Industrial IoT. The two companies also enter long-term partnership to further strengthen strategic cooperation.

Cassia Networks

H2U Technologies Closes $11M in Series A Funding from Jericho Energy Ventures, Freeflow Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures, and Hess Corporation

Clean Hydrogen Technology Developer Will Use Proceeds from Follow-on Offering to Build the World's Fastest Electrocatalyst Discovery Process and Disruptive PEM Electrolyzer

January 5, 2022

Quanergy Delivers Industry First 200 Meter Range for OPA-Based Solid State LiDAR

Quanergy’s 100% CMOS silicon solid state OPA technology is a game changer for the automotive and the industrial markets, designed for industry-leading performance, reliability and cost

December 22, 2021

Avoma puts new capital to use making meetings work smarter

Avoma thinks we are doing too much and using too many apps during meetings and something is bound to get lost. It developed software that automates meeting workflows and makes nearly any kind of conversation more actionable.

November 16, 2021

Deskimo, the on-demand desk booking app, raises $3M and expands to Jakarta

Singapore-based Deskimo, the on-demand app that lets people find co-working spaces and pay by the minute, announced today it has raised a $3 million seed round. Participants in the round included Y Combinator, Global Founders Capital, Pioneer Fund, Seed X, Starling Ventures and TSVC.

October 22, 2021

Citcon raises $30M to make paying with mobile wallets ‘as easy as paying with a credit card’

Citcon, a mobile wallet payment provider, has closed on $30 million in funding in a Series C round co-led by Norwest Venture Partners and Cota Capital.

September 19, 2021

Investors place a bet on synthetic biology in Ginkgo Bioworks IPO

Ginkgo's multibillion-dollar offering is a milestone in the maturation of synthetic biology from a science to a true industry.

September 14, 2021

Ginkgo Bioworks to Go Public with Over $1.6 Billion in Proceeds

Soaring Eagle Shareholder Approval Obtained, Closing Scheduled for September 16, 2021Ginkgo Set to Begin Trading under NYSE: DNA on September 17, 2021

September 3, 2021

Automat Solutions Announces the Closing of Its Seed Funding

Automat Solutions, Inc., a platform company focused on accelerating material innovation with a Materials AI-Robotics System (MARS), has announced the closing of $1.6 million in their seed round of funding.

August 18, 2021

New Honeywell Technology for Light Drones

TSVC portfolio Metawave's 24GHz radar in action! Honeywell’s RDR-84K is a phased-array radar that steers beams electronically, meaning it has no moving parts and requires minimal maintenance. It also requires no heavy cooling systems.

Honeywell Aerospace

Automat Solutions, Inc. Received Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research Award

Automat Solutions, Inc. has received $200,000 from Department of Energy (DOE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a stable high-energy-density vehicle battery with drop-in lithium anode enabled by a stable advanced liquid electrolyte, via the Materials AI Robotics-driven System (MARS).

Venture Capital vs. Bootstrapping: Spencer Greene of TSVC On How To Determine If Fundraising Or Bootstrapping Is The Right Choice For Your Startup

What is better, having access to capital or maintaining full control over your vision and profits? What is preferred, to have the seasoned oversight of an experienced investor, or to plow forward with a disruptive and pioneering ‘can do’ attitude?

Authority Magazine

Here's how the explosive rise of Zoom is creating big opportunities for startups, which are raising millions to build apps and integrations

TSVC partner Spencer Greene talked to Business Insider about Zoom ecosystem.

Business Insider

February 8, 2021

Jasper Therapeutics Announces Positive Data from Phase 1 Clinical Trial

Jasper Therapeutics (TSVC Fund 4) Announces Positive Data from Phase 1 Clinical Trial of JSP191 as Targeted Stem Cell Conditioning Agent in Patients with Myelodysplastic Syndromes or Acute Myeloid Leukemia Undergoing Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation

February 6, 2021

6 Zoom Hacks for Remote Workers

The surge of remote work made having a unified communication service a must. For many enterprises, Zoom (TSVC Fund 1) was a lifesaver, enabling companies to stay connected, meet and coordinate while working remotely.

February 3, 2021

Kite launches Team Server to extend its code-completion ML assistant to enterprises

The ML-based code completion tool Kite (TSVC Fund 3) launched its Team Server today, complementing its existing offerings for individual developers with an enterprise-grade version for entire teams of them.

February 2, 2021

Alpine Optoelectronics Delivers Single-Wavelength 100G Transceiver for 100km Interconnects

Alpine Optoelectronics (TSVC fund IV) delivers Single-Wavelength 100G DWDM QSFP28 PAM4 Transceiver for 100km Interconnects enabled by nCP4™ Silicon Photonics optical engine

January 26, 2021

3 reasons why almost every VC investor passed on Zoom

Startups can learn a lot about fundraising from the mistakes made around Zoom (TSVC Fund I)