Author: OurCrowd

[Innoviz in The Business Journals] Innoviz set to begin trading Tuesday as fifth lidar company to go public via SPAC merger

Apr 5, 2021 |

Innoviz Technologies Ltd. is set to begin trading on Nasdaq Tuesday as the fifth lidar business in the Bay Area to go public by merging with a “blank check” company. Innoviz will start with a market cap of around $1.4 billion, based on the Monday stock price of Collective Growth Corp., the Austin, Texas-based special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) it is merging with. The SPAC’s stock (Nasdaq:CGRO) traded last week below its $10 IPO price but bumped back up above that mark in early trading on Monday. Read more...

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[Nanomedic in The Times] Nanomedic’s Spincare gun sprays web of fake skin protects burns

Apr 5, 2021 |

A gun that sprays out a protective web of synthetic skin to cover burns and wounds could soon be used by doctors, allowing patients to avoid the pain of re-dressing wounds with bandages. The handheld battery-powered device uses a laser to target the injured area and then spins a breathable mesh that mimics the structure of real skin. Nanomedic, the Israeli company that invented the gun, called Spincare, says that it allows burns patients to move more easily and to shower, which is often difficult with traditional bandages. Read...

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Los Angeles Business Journal] How Hyperloop Is Prioritizing Passenger Experience

Apr 5, 2021 |

In 2012, Tesla Inc. and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Chief Executive Elon Musk published a proposal outlining a concept called the hyperloop, a futuristic transportation system to carry passengers through nearly airless tunnels at speeds reaching 700 mph. In renderings included in the proposal, faceless passengers are seen traveling in steely pods that look like something out of a science-fiction movie. Less than a decade later, Hyperloop Technologies Inc., doing business as Virgin Hyperloop, is testing a prototype of the system. Read more...

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[Stellar Cyber in Business Wire] Solutions Granted Sees 16X Improvement in Threat-Hunting Capabilities with Stellar Cyber Platform

Apr 5, 2021 |

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Stellar Cyber, the leading security operations platform for MSSPs, announced today that Solutions Granted, a Top 100 Master MSSP based in Virginia, is using the Stellar Cyber Open XDR platform to deliver world-class SOC-as-a-service offerings to its customers. Thanks to Stellar Cyber’s ease-of-use and comprehensive pre-built toolkit, Solutions Granted’s analyst team can be far more efficient at threat hunting to provide better service to more customers with the same level of manpower. Read more...

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