{"id":73273,"date":"2017-10-12T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/investors-havent-seen-an-opportunity-like-this-in-decades"},"modified":"2017-10-12T23:42:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T06:42:30","slug":"investors-havent-seen-an-opportunity-like-this-in-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/investors-havent-seen-an-opportunity-like-this-in-decades","title":{"rendered":"Investors Haven\u2019t Seen an Opportunity Like This in Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/investors-havent-seen-an-opportunity-like-this-in-decades.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hyperloop One has received a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virgin.com\/richard-branson\/introducing-virgin-hyperloop-one-worlds-most-revolutionary-train-service\" rel=\"noopener\">significant investment in Hyperloop One<\/a> \u2014 the official figure hasn\u2019t been revealed, but it\u2019s enough that the Hyperloop tech startup, which aims to create networks of high-speed transportation tunnels to various locales across the globe, has changed its name. Virgin Hyperloop One is the entity\u2019s official moniker going forward, which is quite a mouthful.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Hyperloop One\u2019s rebrand will mean it gains from association with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson, whose high-tech transportation exploits include Virgin Galactic and other space-based ventures. The goal of the company under the rebrand remains the same, and it\u2019ll continue to explore the best places and partners for deploying its high-speed transportation tech, which will zoom pods at high speed down extremely low-pressure tubes to reduce trip times over land from hours to minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The money isn\u2019t the only connection between Hyperloop One and Virgin; the Hyperloop company\u2019s president of engineering, Josh Giegel, is a former Virgin employee. Branson noted in a blog post that he also visited Hyperloop One earlier this summer to view its technology first-hand, at the Hyperloop One DevLoop test track site in Nevada, outside Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/10\/12\/hyperloop-one-becomes-virgin-hyperloop-one-with-virgin-group-investment\/?utm_source=tcfbpage&sr_share=facebook\">https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/10\/12\/hyperloop-one-becomes-virg...e=facebook<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperloop One has received a significant investment in Hyperloop One \u2014 the official figure hasn\u2019t been revealed, but it\u2019s enough that the Hyperloop tech startup, which aims to create networks of high-speed transportation tunnels to various locales across the globe, has changed its name. Virgin Hyperloop One is the entity\u2019s official moniker going forward, which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":431,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/431"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}