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Why Uber and others see a billion-dollar future in e-scooters

Uber's recent investment in Lime scooters is part of a deal that values the company at $1.1 billion.
Electric scooters of the US company Lime are pictured on a sidewalk in Paris during their launching day on June 22, 2018. 
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Why corporate venture capital funds are so popular

Apr 25, 2016
Google has Google Ventures, Twitter has Twitter Ventures, Intel has Intel Capital, and the list goes on.

How Google's venture capital team gets ideas off the ground

Mar 21, 2016
Jake Knapp from GV talks about the "sprint" to test new ideas