Destinus Covered in WSJ Video

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"

Mikhail Kokorich, Destinus’ CEO, recently joined Julia Chatterley on CNN broadcast as the race for hypersonic passenger flight heats up.

Destinus enters race for high-speed flight — CNN Video

Cionic Featured in San Francisco Chronicle

MaintainPR client CIONIC was featured in the SF Chronicle for their bionic sleeve that assists MS patients with gait and other challenges.

CIONIC Feature in CBS News

MaintainPR client CIONIC was featured on CBS News for their bionic sleeve that assists MS patients with gait and other challenges.

Pyka Announces New Plane - Path toward Human Autonomous Passenger

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

Brian Kabot talks Momentus on Halftime Report

Scott Wapner ​of Halftime Report ​talk​ed​ 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

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.

“Momentus to become the latest space stock” — CNBC

Pyka Announces $11M Seed Round for Autonomous Flight

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

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

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

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

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.

“Teaching Robots to See” — Axios

MaintainPR & Noble.AI

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

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

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

Momentus Announces Contracts for New In-space Transportation

Satellite ridesharing has reached hyper-growth thanks to pioneers like SpaceX. But, not all payloads want to be in the same orbit. Enter MaintainPR client Momentus, who today announced that they are taking orders for their Vigoride and Vigoride Extended services — orbital repositioning for satellites with masses up to 250kg.

The press seems to think they are onto something!!

Water-powered Rockets Aim to Give Satellites a Nudge — The Wall Street Journal

Momentus Announces First Vigoride Customer — Space News

Momentus Is a Water-powered Space Startup - Silicon Valley Business Journal

Contract Initiated Between Momentus and EXOLAUNCH for SmallSat LEO Support — Satellite News

Exolaunch backs Momentus’ Vigoride service for bespoke in-orbit transportation — SpaceWatch Global

Momentus Announces Orders are Open for the Vigoride Orbit Transfer Service – EXOLAUNCH Among First to Book — Parabolic Arc

Momentus Announces Orders are Open for the Vigoride Orbit Transfer Service — Space Daily

Fullstack Academy Featured in City A.M.

Want a job working at Amazon? City A.M. covers tech training in NYC, including MaintainPR client Fullstack Academy.

Want a Job at Amazon? Here is Where to Get Tech Training in NYC — City A.M.

Momentus -- Pioneering In-space Transportation

MaintainPR is excited to announce our new working relationship with Momentus.

Formed by veteran space entrepreneur Mikhail Kokorich, Momentus provides in-space connecting flights for satellites between various orbits and deep space. Their mission is to provide the most efficient in-space transportation, powered by deep space resource utilization services and propulsion technologies.

You can read more in TechCrunch now.

Fullstack Academy Supports NYC Cybersecurity

MaintainPR client Fullstack Academy is a part of NYC’s new cybersecurity initiative. The city is investing $30M into “Cyber NYC,” a job development initiative focused on five key technology programs, including a cyber boot camp through its partnership with Fullstack.

Fullstack’s founders have always been at the forefront of “new collar” jobs and giving back to their city. Read more in the press below.

NYC plans cybersecurity industry push that could add 10,000 jobs — Fast Company

NYC Wants to Build a Cyber Army — TechCrunch

City kicks off massive cybersecurity venture — Crain’s New York

NYC Venture Seeks to Spur Jobs, Innovation in Cybersecurity — PC Mag

Why NYC is investing millions in 5 cybersecurity programs — TechRepublic

NYC Invests $30 Million in Cybersecurity — Security Today

Fullstack Academy Co-founders on More Women in Tech

Fullstack Academy's Co-founders recently penned an oped for Vox Media's recode on how to get more women in tech.

The piece is a great read on how to dismantle tech’s gender gap in two straightforward steps. 

Check it out: We need more women in tech in order to get more women in tech -- recode