Author: OurCrowd

Newsletter: Food Tech Heats Up

Quality and Taste Triple Tovala Sales Ahead of Investment Round Smart meal service delivery company outperforms competition OurCrowd investors join Series B round led by Finistere Ventures     “It just blew us away that the food could taste as good as it did,” said Tom Mastrobuoni, recalling the first time he tried a Tovala meal kit. Had Tovala found the actual secret sauce to deliver convenience food at high quality? “Not microwaved, but actually baked, broiled, steamed – and taste delicious,” Mastrobuoni told OurCrowd’s disruptive food tech webinar last week. Mastrobuoni, then CFO and founding partner of Tyson Ventures, now chief investment officer at Big Idea Ventures, became an early investor. Tovala’s sales are now tripling year to year and the company has raised nearly $42 million from major backers including Comcast Ventures and Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Learn more about Tovala here.  Top Tech News Smooth Teleoperator: Rise of the Remote ControllerA Venture Beat profile on OurCrowd portfolio company Phantom Auto, currently funding a new investment round, described how it built the remote communication software that integrates unmanned...

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Fox Exclusive] Hyperloop Could Be the Change Required To Transform Transportation of Passengers and Freight in India

Harj Dhaliwal, Managing Director for Hyperloop One’s the Middle East and India region noted the potential the company has in India. He said, “India is home to the fastest growing global economy, a vibrant young workforce, and world-class high-tech engineering skills. It makes an ideal market to launch Hyperloop.” Read...

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[Virgin Hyperloop One in Business Today] Simply Upbeat

A new mode of transport hasn’t been invented in a 100 years. Yet, the Future of Travel requires moving at higher speeds, lowest costs and with least energy (forget fossil fuels). That’s precisely what some of the newest modes of transport being tried out hope to achieve. The closest to commercialisation, of course, is the Hyperloop. It promises speeds three times that of high-speed trains, costs much lower and banks on renewables. Read...

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