A VC funded company does something that's old hat (3+ years old), and Engadget Reddit Marketing falsely report it as 'novel' (plus putting the battery by the seatpost is worse for weight distribution than on the bike downtube) Stop dutifully reprinting VC ad copy.

As always, great piece of analysis from Horace Dediu highlighting the impact of new business models in mobility.

Looking forward to hearing travel tech pitches at the first European event for @voyagerhq ft @JetBlueVentures / triskaidekaphobia 🇺🇦

Delighted to continue to support Voyage in their series B raise, powering their mission to provide autonomous ride hailing to communities that need it most. Onwards and upwards Oliver Cameron and the whole team 🚀

"How's the industry changed?"... "100x" - VC history lesson from Simon Cook of Draper Esprit, great stories at ALLOCATE today.

Impressive bit of engineering, love it!

With Micromobility around the corner, we thought we'd pull together the InMotion Ventures Micromobility Market Map! More thoughts at linkedin.com/pulse/inmotion…

"The American investors were saying, to win Europe you need to win Paris" but need to work much more closely/collaboratively with cities now... says @tierscooters CEO. Explains a lot! Micromobility

Who do we want to protect? Our pedestrians, cyclist and scooter riders, or the car drivers? Paraphrasing @tierscooters CEO on the in-reality small injury rates of escooters - at Micromobility #mme

A selection of Brazilian mobility... Ft @yellow_app @pbscsolutions Uber LATAM Airlines Brasil

Stumbled across this map of global electric scooter regs by Unagi, really comprehensive, keen to see how this develops in the next year. blog.unagiscooters.com/2019/10/15/the…

Exactly a year ago today, we held a party to celebrate our millionth insured mile. Friends, members, investors, partners and journalists joined us to mark the milestone. It was a proper knees-up. We now cover over 1 million miles a week. Party, anyone? x.com/bymiles/status…

🥳 We just raised £15m in funding 🥳 Thanks to our investors CommerzVentures, Octopus Ventures, Insurtech Gateway & @jamjarinvest, and of course to our members for your support. We wouldn't be here without you 😊 bymiles.co.uk/insure/magazin…

Curious about where our £15m funding is going? Concerned we might just blow it all on matching jackets? We've written about our exciting plans and promise to resist the jacket temptation (for now) 🧥 bymiles.co.uk/insure/magazin… #CarInsurance #Insurtech #Funding #GoodNews

🚀 Very excited to welcome another group of awesome #mentors to the @techstars #SmartMobility #accelerator: Welcome (back): marc sabas (Centrica plc), Johann Romefort, Patrick Huke (Porsche Digital), Maximilian Schausberger, Ignacio Vial, Sam Clifton, Fabio Lancellotti, Adiari Vazquez 🤩

Flashback to our Summer '21 ride! Great to catch up with regulars and meet new faces. Regent's Park ride this week, if you're a tech founder or investor, sign up at TheVC.CC TechBikers - look forward to seeing you there 👀

Come and join TheVC.CC on our Winter Ride '21. We're an informal cycling group for technology founders and investors. Sign up at TheVC.CC

Calling tech founders and VCs... After a year long hiatus, TheVC.CC is back! We've got lots coming in 2023 so folks new or regular, get involved! Sign up at thevc.cc for more info! Cc Sam Clifton Chris Tottman @jmrbnsn

This Week... We've been speaking with pricing leaders from insurance and financial services about dynamic and personalised pricing. We're learning a lot and the platform is progressing fast, follow us here and on LinkedIn to hear out latest news! #pricing #insurtech #fintech

Excited to announce our $1m funding round led by Rory Stirling and Dan Smith from Connect Ventures and Jigsaw VC. We also launched today on Product Hunt, we'd love your support at producthunt.com/posts/swallow