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Dan Smith Speaker At Mobility Innovation Conference

Dan Smith, founder and president of Capstone Financial, Inc., will share his insights on how the deceleration toward Level 5 autonomous vehicles, the COVID-19 pandemic and changing business models are impacting development and go-to-market strategies for emerging technology suppliers. His featured session at the AASA Mobility...

July 21, 2020

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Autonomous Startup Takes the Long Road in Logistics Transportation

For two years, wrote Bloomberg News, The Office of Inspector General for the USPS had been vetting vendors with the best shipping control and speed. Rising fulfillment expenses has cost the postal service roughly $4 billion dollars a year. They blame the unrelenting driver shortage. Chuck Price, chief product officer at TuSimple...

November 1, 2019

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Improving Lidar – or Defeating it

The buzz at Sensors Expo 2019 pitted lidar-tech optimism against the reality of an impending shakeout. For more than a decade, the lidar market has been led by Velodyne and its spinning towers of 64 or 128 laser beams. But the relatively high cost, delicate architecture, and beefy form factor have made it a competitive target. The growing ranks of competitors fall roughly...

September 5, 2019

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Staking a Claim in the Auto Industry’s Evolving Technology

Dan Smith says his firm, Capstone Financial Group, is on a mission to bolster efforts by Silicon Valley companies to make acquisitions and other deals that nurture the emerging automotive industry, which is fueled by cutting-edge technologies and green energy. Capstone has opened a new office in San Jose, and this newspaper recently...

February 10, 2017