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Inside the secretive Silicon Valley startup trying to save the oceans with tech

TechCrunch

With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. Universities can get stuck into three-year funding cycles,” he told TechCrunch.

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The Station: Uber’s new battles in the UK, Lucid Motors’ second life plans and Cruise acquires Voyage

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” I might have raised an eyebrow or two when I first read this announcement. The company raised $275 million in a Series D round back in September 2019. Voyage had 60 employees and raised about $52 million compared to giants like Cruise that has a nearly 2,000-person workforce and is valued at $30 billion.