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Eonix in Popular Mechanics
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Exolaunch Secures €18M DLR Contract - Featured in Space Explored
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Exolaunch Covered in Bloomberg
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Exolaunch and Capella Sign Launch Services Contract
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Destinus Covered in WSJ Video
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MaintainPR client Destinus was featured in lengthy video by the Wall Street Journal on hypersonic technology as it stands today.
How Hypersonic Flight Could Transform Transatlantic Flights — WSJ
CNN Features Destinus in "Race fo Hypersonic Flight"
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Mikhail Kokorich, Destinus’ CEO, recently joined Julia Chatterley on CNN broadcast as the race for hypersonic passenger flight heats up.
Cionic Featured in San Francisco Chronicle
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CIONIC Feature in CBS News
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Pyka Announces New Plane - Path toward Human Autonomous Passenger
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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 Tests Unmanned Crop Sprayer on U.S. Farms” — Aviation Week
Brian Kabot talks Momentus on Halftime Report
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Scott Wapner of Halftime Report talked with Brian Kabot, chief investment officer of Stable Road Capital. The company is taking Momentus public through a $1.2 billion SPAC deal.
CNBC Deep Dive's Momentus SPAC
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MaintainPR client Momentus and Stable Road Acquisition Corp. today announced that they have entered into a business combination agreement, which puts Momentus on the path towards becoming a publicly traded company.
CNBC’s Michael Sheetz did a deep dive on the most exciting space investment since Virgin Galactic hit the market.
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
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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
Lily AI Featured in TechCrunch
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MaintainPR client Lily AI recently unveiled more about their plans for applying AI and machine learning to several problems facing the online apparel industry. The 2017 SXSW Award Winner features a former Box/Yahoo! heavyweight as CTO, and this piece in TechCrunch lets her expertise shine.
“The AI Stack That’s Changing Retail Personalization” — TechCrunch
LDV Capital Featured in Axios
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By 2025, manufacturing and logistics will be faster, cheaper and more flexible because of visual technologies. That’s the main takeaway from MaintainPR client LDV Capital’s most recent report in their Insights series https://www.ldv.co/insights
We helped get the report in the hands of Kaveh Waddell, Axios’ lead AI writer, and he used several citations to back up an excellent piece on teaching robots to see.
MaintainPR & Noble.AI
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Corporate R&D spending in 2018 reached $782 billion among the top 1000 companies, representing a 14% increase relative to 2017 and the largest figure deployed firms to R&D ever. Despite this, most AI-as-a-service is designed and targeted toward marketing and commerce.
Enter MaintainPR client Noble.ai (https://noble.ai/), AI software that helps enterprises do R&D with 10x lower cost. Since founding the company in 2017, Matthew C Levy and his team have worked with many of the largest and most forward-thinking enterprises – across verticals like chemistry, automotive, and materials science – using their unique technology to help them lower the cost of R&D and invent faster.
We are excited about the future announcements from this stellar SF-based startup. You can read more about the seed fundraise from Prime Movers Lab and Solvay Ventures (the venture arm of world-leading chemical company Solvay) on TechCrunch below.
Big data AI startup Noble.AI raises a second seed round from a chemical giant — TechCrunch
Momentus Featured in MIT Tech Review
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MaintainPR client Momentus has very big plans about the future of space. MIT Tech review recently included them in this great explainer on steam-powered spacecraft.
Steam-powered spacecraft could jump-start asteroid exploration — MIT Tech Review
Fullstack Academy Featured in InfoWorld
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A Fullstack developer understands the entire software stack, from the GUI front end to the database back end. Read more on Fullstack Academy’s value proposition in this great InfoWorld piece.
Fullstack Developer: What It Is, and How You Can Become One — InfoWorld