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Sifted Founder Focus on Desintus CEO Mikhail Kokorich

Ryan Sommer

The Financial Times recently announced a VC-centric news site for Europe called Sifted. The reporters wasted no time getting to know Destinus CEO Mikhail Kokorich. Chatting about his anti-Putin years in Russia, and getting the latest download on Destinus — his Swiss hypersonic plane startup.

The anti-Putin activist building supersonic planes — Sifted

Pyka Announces New Plane - Path toward Human Autonomous Passenger

Ryan Sommer

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MaintainPR client Pyka is the only company in the world with commercial approval to fly large autonomous electric aircraft. They recently took the wraps off a newer, larger plane that will be crop spraying specific fields in the U.S.A. and Latin America called Pelican. Forbes and Aviation Week have coverage.

Pyka Bets The Path To The Future Of Passenger Planes Runs Through Banana Plantations In Latin America” — Forbes

Pyka Tests Unmanned Crop Sprayer on U.S. Farms” — Aviation Week

GoSkills Featured in SF Chronicle Feature on Reskilling

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Reskilling company, and MaintainPR client GoSkills was recently written up in the Bay Area’s most respected daily about their efforts.

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Read more about the surge that GoSkills has seen for Excel, Python, design training and more — as well as the social good initiative they started to discount their modules when the pandemic started.

“Coronavirus is a business opportunity for reskilling companies” — SF Chronicle

CNBC Feature on Momentus Spotlights In-orbit Economy to Come

Ryan Sommer

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MaintainPR client Momentus is the first in-space transportation company, and their servicing offering has had newspace verticals excited for years.

This CNBC piece by Michael Sheetz talks through the ramifications of Momentus’ proprietary technology and explains the coming in-orbit economy that Momentus will power, and it helped spread the word to a much wider business and consumer audience!

Space startup Momentus provides ‘last mile delivery’ for satellites launched on any rocket” — CNBC

Arago's Chris Boos Leads Europe’s PEPP-PT COVID-19 Contacts Tracing Standard

Ryan Sommer

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In public health, contact tracing is the process of identification of persons who may have come into contact with an infected person ("contacts") and subsequent collection of further information about these contacts.

MaintainPR contact Hans Christian Boos (CEO of influential AI startup Arago) recently spoke on a united EU government approach he is helping to spearhead. TechCrunch has the story.

Europe’s PEPP-PT COVID-19 contacts tracing standard push could be squaring up for a fight with Apple and Google — TechCrunch

Pyka Announces $11M Seed Round for Autonomous Flight

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MaintainPR client Pyka are designing and manufacturing large electric aircraft for a variety of real world autonomous applications — right out of Oakland! They currently fly the world's only commercially approved autonomous electric aircraft in use for agricultural sprayers in rural environments.

TechCrunch recently covered this innovative young startup’s seed led by Prime Movers Lab and with participation from Y Combinator.

“Pyka and its autonomous, electric crop-spraying drone land $11M seed round” — TechCrunch

Lily AI Announces $12.5M Series A

Ryan Sommer

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MaintainPR client Lily AI is a female led (and coded) platform focused on using deep learning to help brands better convert customers through emotionally tailored recommendations.

The experienced team, including SXSW Award winner Purva Gupta and former Box/Yahoo tech lead Sowmiya Chocka Narayanan, have recently announced a $12.5 million Series A led by Canaan Partners. Prior investors NEA, Unshackled and Fernbrook Capital also took part in the funding event.

Read more on TechCrunch for how a personal shopping pain point from Purva led to leading AI and Machine Learning solving multiple issues for big brands and retailers.

Lily AI raises a $12.5M Series A led by Canaan to accelerate its e-commerce recommendation tech— TechCrunch

Momentus Announces $25.5 Million Series A

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MaintainPR client Momentus are transforming the business implications of getting around in orbit. They recently announced a $25.5MM series A investment round led by Prime Movers Lab and featuring investment from Y Combinator, the Lerner Family, the University of Wyoming Foundation, Quiet Capital, Mountain Nazca, ACE & Company, Liquid 2 Ventures, Drake Management, and others. This brings the total investment sum for Momentus to $34MM.

View some of the coverage we secured.

“Momentus Raises $25.5M for In-space Shuttle Services” — Space News

“In-space Shuttle Service Momentus Raises $25.5 Million” — TechCrunch

“Startup that wants to ferry items in deep space raises $25.5M” — Forbes