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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city. I had some money, and I was able to quickly raise more.

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Equity Monday: No, tech news doesn’t stop over the holidays

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The epic carnage surrounding the Chinese government’s clamping down on its tech sector (more here , and here from TechCrunch). Lalamove raised $515 million in a Series E.

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Equity Monday: Elon Musk reinvents corporate governance

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. That’s one way to do corporate governance, I suppose. Matter Labs raised $50 million , while H2O.ai raised $100 million. We are back Wednesday!

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The most innovative companies in economic development for 2025

Fast Company Tech

The tech from one startup, Electreon , is embedded in the nations first EV charging road. But the challenging road required to hit that target inspired the city government to seek out new kinds of partnerships to meet that bold pledge. Ford Motor Co. to adopt a net zero goal back in 2019.

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

TechCrunch

Maybe it is a stock market bubble, or a tech-stock bubble at least. Here’s the blow-by-blow coverage of the craziest tech IPO week in the craziest (IPO) year in decades, resuming from where I left off last Friday: DoorDash amps its IPO range ahead of blockbuster IPO (EC). Subscribe here. And maybe DoorDash, Airbnb and C3.ai

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Equity Monday: Rich tech folks chat rich tech things on rich tech app funded by rich tech investors

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. In India, news is out that a new law could ban Bitcoin (whatever that means), and this morning India forced Twitter to take down some accounts that had been critical of government policy. Ben raised $2.5

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Equity Monday: Cybersecurity startups see deluge of capital as Microsoft looks to buy RiskIQ

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. And this weekend, Twitter began to conform with new regulations in India , moves that come after it lost some legal protections during a scrap with the Indian government. Talk to you on Wednesday!

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