Piet Jan de Bruin, former CEO of Tuft and Needle, is working on a new venture called Iomete, and the startup has gained early traction, including admission in the latest class at Y-Combinator, one of the most well-known startup accelerators in the world.
Arizona
AZ Big Media: New Digital Air Strike tech helps car dealers beat online retailers
Digital Air Strike, the leading consumer engagement and customer experience (CX) technology and services company, today announced a new technology platform to improve consumer communication with dealerships, OEMs, and lenders while increasing ROI. The CX technology is featured at Digital Air Strike’s booth 2352W at the NADA (National Automobile Dealers Association) Show March 10-13, 2022, in Las Vegas.
KTAR News: GM hiring for hundreds of software-based jobs at Chandler technology center
General Motors is looking to hire hundreds of software-based positions at its Arizona Information Technology Innovation Center in Chandler. The company is seeking to grow its 1,000-member workforce at the East Valley facility, one of its four national technology hubs.
Prescott ENews: Arizona To Expand Broadband Connectivity Along Interstate 40 West
Governor Doug Ducey today announced the next step in the state’s efforts for all Arizonans to receive fast, affordable and reliable high-speed internet: an investment of $68.1 million to expand broadband connectivity along Interstate 40 West from Flagstaff to the California border.
WSJ: Intel Pays Up for Foundry Expertise
The deal reported by The Wall Street Journal late Monday and announced by the two companies Tuesday carries an enterprise value of $5.4 billion and thus ranks as Intel’s fourth largest deal ever, behind the acquisitions of Altera, Mobileye and McAfee .
AZ Inno: RV rental platform RVnGO finds enduring popularity after early pandemic surge
The Covid-19 pandemic has taken things that seemed to be fleeting fads, like telecommuting or wearing a mask, and morphed them into part of the new normal. Paul Kacir, founder and CEO of RVnGO, said the same is true in the world of leisure. RVnGO is a website that offers peer-to-peer RV rentals (like AirBnB for RVs) and Kacir said after a major bump in traffic during the first year of the pandemic in 2020, bookings have continued to flood in.
LIGHTWAVE: Arizona Public Service Co. partners with eX² Technology to offer open fiber network services
eX² Technology says that it has signed a three-year contract to assist Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) to commercialize communications infrastructure along APS’s right of way. eX² Technology will exclusively market and offer dark fiber, conduit, regeneration and colocation space, laterals and access points, and other wireline and wireless assets based on APS’s secure 2,700-mile fiber-optic network backbone.
AZ Inno: Gilbert startup secures $2M to expand global supply chain platform
Aramid Technologies, a Gilbert-based software-as-a-service startup, has raised $2 million in seed funding to grow its quality certification software, SmartCert.
SmartCert is a global supply chain collaboration platform that enables companies to prepare, manage and transfer digital quality certifications such as certificates of analysis, material certifications, and certificates of conformance. Aramid will use the funding to enhance SmartCert’s sales and onboarding process, increase product offering and strength the technology team, the company said in a funding announcement.
AZ Big Media: Arizona will get $76.5M to develop electric vehicle charging network
Arizona stands to get up to $76.5 million over the next five years to develop electric vehicle charging stations along interstate corridors, in hopes of increasing EV ownership by reducing range anxiety for drivers.
AZ Inno: Trinity Capital aims to be Arizona’s one-stop-shop for specialty startup finance
Trinity Capital Inc., an equipment finance and venture debt firm, had a banner year in 2021, but the firm is working to establish itself more in the minds of Arizona entrepreneurs.
Trinity Capital (Nasdaq: TRIN) provides loans and financing to high-growth technology startups, previously working with Lucid Motors, Impossible Foods, Galvanize, Gilbert-based Footprint and scores of other companies.
