To maintain privacy, Replica s models are based on ‘synthetic populations’
Urban data platform Replica has secured US$41 million in Series B funding.
The round was led by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, joined by previous investors including Innovation Endeavors, Sidewalk Labs, Rise of the Rest Fund and Firebrand.
Replica began as a project within Sidewalk Labs in 2017 and was spun out as an independent company in 2019. It gives city planners, transport authorities and private companies insights into how people move throughout a city as well as examining economic activity and changes in land-use and demographics, to inform policy and spending decisions.
Move over Texas, Miami mayor talks Bay Area exodus and how he plans to have his city win big
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REGENT is making a flying electric ferry with a top speed of 180 miles per hour CNBC 1 hr ago Lora Kolodny
Boston start-up REGENT is developing an electric seaglider that can motor out of a harbor on a hydrofoil, take off at a low speed using the water as a runway, then fly over the waves at a top speed of 180 miles per hour.
The company raised $9 million in seed funding from Caffeinated Capital an early backer of supersonic jet startup Boom Mark Cuban, Peter Thiel s Founders Fund, Y Combinator and others.
The company s name is an acronym that stands for Regional Electric Ground Effect Naval Transport.