Tagged: dirk ahlborn

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

March 8, 2017 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Jumpstartfund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, Inc. (HTT) announced on Wednesday it has signed an agreement for a feasibility study with a contract value of $2.5 Million with private investors and the Ministry of Transportation in Indonesia. The company claimed that the agreement marks the immediate exploration of the… 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 24, 2016 @ 10:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

JumpStartFund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced on Tuesday a base technology of the HyperloopTM System, Vibranium, which is described as a smart material that was developed specifically for the Hyperloop application.  According to the company the new smart material is made out of sensor-embedded carbon fiber and… 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

August 20, 2015 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

For anyone who has been stuck in the parking lot known as the California Highway system, the Hyperloop is a dream come true. Yet the hurdles, both political and financial, seem insurmountable, but at least one determined group, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), continues to plow… 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

August 23, 2013 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

El Segundo, California based JumpStarter Inc. has announced the beta launch of its crowd-powered portal for startups,JumpStartFund. The concept is to solicit new business ideas and patents from individuals, federal research labs, universities and other R&D organizations across the nation; provide  feedback, collaboration and funding… Read More