Foiled again: Candela raises another $20M to set course for the future of ferries

Foiled again: Candela raises another $20M to set course for the future of ferries

Swedish company Candela will launch its 30-passenger commercial hydrofoil shuttle, the P-12, this summer — the vessel it believes will change the course of motorized water transport. Following on from its C-7 and C-8 leisure cruisers, Candela has already been making waves with its drive to transition to fossil-free waterways. “We are now heavy into […]

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Aether wants to shift you from blood diamonds to gems pulled from thin air

Aether wants to shift you from blood diamonds to gems pulled from thin air

Diamonds: carbon, transparent, expensive, symbolic of love and commitment — and many of them come dripping with human rights abuses. They also come with a heavy environmental burden, even the lab-grown ones. So what if diamonds could be done differently, with proper traceability and sustainability? That’s exactly where Aether, a diamond-growing company based in New […]

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Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

Prelaunch assembles a pre-seed round to help hardware founders pre-build the right pre-products

Hardware startups are hard, the saying goes, but it isn’t always obvious why they are hard. One of the core challenges is that it has traditionally been hard to do agile hardware product development — even if you get everything ‘right,’ how do you know that people actually want one of the 20,000 gizmos you […]

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Brinc’s Lemur 2 straps on blue strobes and is ready for action

Brinc’s Lemur 2 straps on blue strobes and is ready for action

Drone developer Brinc today showed off its newest drone, designed to help cops and others who care about public safety do their jobs from a safe distance. The new quadcopter is called Lemur 2 and is tooled up and ready to go into areas that otherwise would be too dangerous for humans. The new drone […]

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Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

Battery recycling startup Cylib recharges its coffers to go faster

In 2024, a number of new EU regulations are expected to come into force, which will tighten the obligation of electric vehicle manufacturers and resellers to recycle batteries at the end of their natural lifespan. German battery recycling startup Cylib leapt at the opportunity, raising a total of €11.6 million ($12.6 million) to build a […]

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Targeted at commercial and military, hydrogen-powered drones are coming

Targeted at commercial and military, hydrogen-powered drones are coming

The last time hydrogen-laden flying vessels zipped around the heavens didn’t end all that well, but that isn’t stopping Heven Drones from fueling up its H2D55 drone. The company claims the octacopter can fly for over an hour and a half, with a payload of 7 kg (15 lbs). The drones are built to spec, and […]

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DJI’s Mini 2 SE ultraportable drone takes to the skies

DJI’s Mini 2 SE ultraportable drone takes to the skies

It’s a couple of years since DJI first launched its Mavic Mini, and last year it brought the Mini 3 Pro. It’s utterly confusing why the current drone is called the Mini 2 SE, but in any case, it’s the newest flying creature in the hovering menagerie that is the DJI line-up. The drone has […]

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