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John Styers, Transportant

Bus tech startup Transportant announces $11M in pre-sales at Lean Lab pitch night

By Tommy Felts / November 17, 2017

School districts across North America are on board with Transportant — to the tune of $11 million in pre-sale agreements, co-founder John Styers said. The startup, which uses video-based technology to allow students, parents and school administrators to better monitor school buses, announced the milestone — $10 million over its goal of $1 million in…

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SpiderOak nabs $3.5M for ‘Zero Knowledge’ software

By Tommy Felts / July 24, 2015

SpiderOak recently closed a multi-million dollar round that will grow its team and boost development of its privacy cloud software. The company, which creates software that encrypts data without ever learning its actual contents, raised a $3.5 million Series A round that also will help fund its transition from Chicago to Kansas City. Chicago-based OCA…

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