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Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) InMotion Ventures fund, Porsche Ventures and Silicon Valley-based Autotech Ventures have contributed to a £9 million fund-raising round by Bumper.

For all the excitement, riches and glamour venture capitalism brings, it's still a domain fraught with high stakes and risks - one that requires charm and smarts on the daily to convince investors to pour huge sums of money into what you think will be the next big thing. An engineer by training, 29-year-old Shaun Hon is more comfortable next...

Singapore-based venture capital firms IMC Ventures and Signal Ventures, together with corporate arm of Japanese shipping heavyweight Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), MOL PLUS have decided to invest in the Motion Ventures Fund established by a Singapore shipping start-up company.

Transport giant Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has trialled blockchain technology to trace the carbon impacts of its leather supply chain, as part of its overarching net-zero commitment.

Three new maritime and supply chain industry leaders have joined the corporate consortium driving Motion Ventures’ $30M investment fund to expand the corporate consortium’s geographic reach to Japan and Greece, and introduces fresh strategic capital to startups. The corporate investors include MOL PLUS – the corporate venture arm of Japanese shipping conglomerate Mitsui OSK Lines, ...

Founded in 2019, Singapore-based Greywing was created to help ship operators and other members of the maritime industry make critical decisions. It includes tools for crew change management, predictive reporting of potential risks like piracy and pandemic-related travel restriction updates. Today Greywing announced the launch of a new solution that will help vessel operators track […]

Greywing, has raised a US$2.5M seed round to accelerate its operating system for the maritime industry with a new carbon scoring solution, which will give organisations visibility on the carbon impact of crew changes. Investors participating in this round include Flexport, Transmedia Capital, Signal Ventures, Motion Ventures, Rebel Ventures, Y-Combinator, Entrepreneur First and more. “The ...

Toyota taps Apex.AI for its autonomous vehicle operating system Automakers shifting to all-electric and tech-laden vehicles have discovered that software — and more aptly software that is free of bugs and can be updated wirelessly — has become a consistent speed bump on the road to attracting customers. It is an issue that plagued Volkswagen’s launch of its all-electric VW ID.3, the 2022 Volvo XC40 Recharge and the Ford Mustang Mach-E.  Apex.AI, a startup founded by Bosch veterans and au...

More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more The launch of a bespoke travel booking platform for ship crews says a lot about where an early recovery lies. UK corporate travel startup TapTrip has developed Vessul, a business travel and expense tool designed specifically for the maritime industry. For example, it can help crews get to ships on time, with unique features including the ability to lump up to 255 passenger...

Singapore Startup Fund Raises Cash to Upend Maritime Businesses Bloomberg 2/25/2021 Yoolim Lee (Bloomberg) -- Motion Ventures, the Singapore-based investment vehicle of European venture builder Rainmaking, completed the first closing of a planned S$30 million ($23 million) fund aimed at disrupting shipping and port businesses. European transport and logistics companies Wilh Wilhelmsen Holding ASA and Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG participated as anchor investors and were joi...