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Sunfolding Raises $32 Million to Support Rapidly Growing Customer Orders
SAN FRANCISCO, October 22, 2019 (Newswire.com) -Sunfolding, the fastest-growing producer of innovative single-axis tracker systems, today announced that it has closed a $32 million Series B growth funding round. G2VP and Macquarie Capital join the investors backing the next stage of growth for Sunfolding.
Luminar Lands $100 Million Funding Boost To Ramp Up Lidar For Self-Driving Cars And Trucks
Luminar, a Silicon Valley-based maker of laser lidar sensors for self-driving vehicles, raised an additional $100 million and is marketing a new, affordable sensing and perception platform for automated passenger vehicles and commercial trucks to see their surroundings more accurately.
Fictiv raises $33M to be the “AWS of hardware manufacturing”
Hardware, as the saying goes, is hard, but today a startup has raised some money for a manufacturing platform that it believes can make the prospect of starting and running hardware businesses a little easier. Fictiv, which positions itself as a kind of AWS for manufacturing — providing a platform both to design components and help get them produced — has raised $33 million, money that it will use to continue expanding its production ecosystem, the range of components that it can make and to grow its customer base.
Turvo, the world’s first real-time collaborative logistics platform, raises $60M Series B funding
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Turvo, the world's first real-time collaborative logistics platform, announced today it has closed $60 million in Series B funding led by Mubadala Ventures, the San Francisco-based venture capital arm of Mubadala Investment Company. Turvo also added new investors G2VP and Next47, the Siemens-backed global venture firm. These funds bring the total investment in the company to nearly $100 million, solidifying Turvo as the new standard in end-to-end visibility and collaboration for the logistics and supply chain industry.