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Korean micromobility startup Swing grabs $24M for growth, expands to Japan 

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Swing , a South Korean electric scooter and micromobility startup, announced today it has raised $24 million in a Series B round to spur its growth and expansion to Japan. . Expansion to Japan. Last year, the startup set up a subsidiary in Japan, aiming to launch its service in Tokyo in the first half of 2022. .

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Zero-day exploits, breaking into Japan, algorithmic VC investing

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We work with contributors to develop guest posts that will help TechCrunch+ readers solve actual problems, so it’s always a delight to present a comprehensive “how to” article. In this case, Barnabas Birmacher, CEO of Platform as a Service company Bitrise, shared the lessons he learned as his team attempted to enter Japan.

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How our SaaS startup broke into the Japanese market without a physical presence

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Breaking into Japan is often one of the biggest challenges a growing tech company will encounter. For the startups that cater to these companies, “cracking Japan” is inevitably part of their growth and expansion roadmaps. Japan is not a testing ground for MVP products. Share on Twitter. Barnabas Birmacher is the CEO of Bitrise.

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The most innovative companies in applied AI for 2025

Fast Company Tech

Anyspheres Cursor tool, for example, helped advance the genre from simply completing lines or sections of code to building whole software functions based on the plain language input of a human developer. Cursor also can access a developers or companys existing code base as a way of fine-tuning code suggestions.

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Joby Aviation partners with Japanese airline to launch air taxi service

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Joby Aviation is partnering with Japanese airline ANA to bring aerial ridesharing services to Japan. Joby’s intent to start up operations in Japan comes to light a week after the company announced plans to launch an air taxi service in South Korea in partnership with SK Telecom. The air taxi market prepares to take flight.

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Japan’s Terra Drone gets $14M lift from Saudi investors

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The Japan-headquartered company, which builds drone software, hardware and uncrewed aircraft traffic management software, said the new capital brings its total raised to $97 million since its inception in 2016. Japan’s Terra Drone gets $14M lift from Saudi investors by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch

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Classiq raises additional funding for its quantum algorithm design tools

TechCrunch

With both the quantum market in Europe and Japan growing quickly, Classiq is focusing its efforts on these geographies right now, in addition to the United States. So what we care about is where the main markets of enterprises that will adopt quantum computing are. If I had to name two, it would be Japan and Germany.

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