Tagged: hyperloop

March 9, 2020 @ 8:30 am By JD Alois  |  

A hyperloop project based in Poland has quickly hit its funding target on Seedrs raising over £450,000 in ten days. Hyper Poland has already received a €3.8 million grant from the Polish National Center for Research and Development in 2019. Hyper Poland says it is… Read More

June 21, 2017 @ 1:51 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Jumpstartfund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) announced on Tuesday it has signed an agreement with South Korea government’s Department of Technological Innovation and Infrastructure, the Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT), as well as with the country’s engineering research school, Hanyang University, to… Read More

January 24, 2017 @ 5:06 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Jumpstartfund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) announced on Tuesday it signed an agreement with the city of Toulouse, France to open a facility for the development and testing of the Hyperloop-related technologies. This news comes shortly after Hyperloop’s announcement of surpassing $100 million in in-kind and… Read More

December 4, 2016 @ 3:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Jumpstartfund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) has received investments by EdgeWater totaling $30 million. This is in addition to previous in-kind support EdgeWater has provided to HTT.  HTT states it has now secured $31.8 million in cash investment.  According to Jumpstartfund’s accounting, the project has received… Read More

May 9, 2016 @ 10:56 am By JD Alois  |  

  Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), a project being managed by the Jumpstartfund, has taken another step forward with the announcement of the base technology for the levitation system. According to a report from HTT, the “passive magnetic levitation,” originally developed at the Lawrence Livermore National… Read More

March 10, 2016 @ 9:01 am By JD Alois  |  

JumpStartFund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), states it has signed an agreement with the government of Slovakia to “explore building a local Hyperloop” that will potentially connect Budapest, Vienna and Bratislava. A Bratislava-to-Vienna route is estimated to take 8 minutes at Hyperloop’s full speed.  For a Bratislava-to-Budapest… Read More

June 12, 2015 @ 6:45 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

One of the companies planning to build a Hyperloop test track has begun receiving its first set of test tubes, reported Tech Insider’s Cadie Thompson. Hyperloop Technologies, which is located in the arts district of downtown L.A., tweeted dramatic images of the tubes. In March,  Hyperloop Transportation Technologies… Read More

March 1, 2015 @ 9:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Hyperloop Transportation Technologie (HTT) CEO Dirk Ahlborn is setting a path to be the first one to create a working Hyperloop transportation system thus fulfilling the vision of innovator Elon Musk.  Ahlborn has reportedly reached an agreement to create a 5 mile stretch of Hyperloop track in California’s… Read More

December 19, 2014 @ 8:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. founded by JumpStarter Inc., announced today the crossing of several milestones, bringing the company closer to the goal of creating a working high-speed mass transit system.  Elon Musk shook the world of mass transportation when he unveiled his concept for a… Read More

October 31, 2013 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding and co-creation platform JumpStartFund is determined to keep Elon Musk’s Hyperloop mass transport dream moving forward and they are building a team which is forging ahead. The incubator has announced the formation of a new company, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, which will be led by… Read More

August 29, 2013 @ 9:47 am By JD Alois  |  

JumpStarter has announced they have reached out to SpaceX to feature Elon Musk’s Hyperloop concept on their recently launched crowdfunding platform – JumpStartFund. The Hyperloop “project,” which is live on the site, will go through the platform’s standard “evolutionary” processes, where registered users vote, comment,… Read More