TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Meet Neoplants , a French startup that is designing genetically modified houseplants so that they can absorb air pollutants. Neoplants targets specifically a group of indoor air pollutants that can’t be efficiently captured by traditional air purifiers. Most air purifiers focus on particulate matters. “Our

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Uber has offloaded its air taxi enterprise Elevate to Joby Aviation, the last of several moonshots to be sold by the ride-hailing company in a pursuit to stick to its core business and reach profitability. Joby was the first partner to commit to deploying air taxi services by 2023.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 26, 2017

Four simple ways to improve air quality around you and your employees. If you’re looking for a way to make a meaningful difference at your workplace, consider improving the air quality. Demonstrating your company’s dedication to employee health and contentment is yet another benefit to addressing air quality.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JUNE 22, 2016

EO interviewed EO New Delhi member, Jai Dhar Gupta, to learn how he’s using entrepreneurship to tackle air pollution. . From that point on, I started educating others about air pollution. What are the effects of air pollution on one’s body, and how can we stay healthy? Today, the entire world is plagued by air pollution.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

It’s a story as old as time: Pull CO 2 out of the air, wave your magic chemistry stick at it and bottle it as vodka and perfume. The Air Company sells vodka , hand sanitizer and eau de parfum , and just raised a Series A to double down on its commitment to the planet. Image Credits: Air Company. Well, that and martinis.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

Joby Aviation — the publicly-traded electric air vehicle company with a current market cap of $3.1 billion — has received the necessary certification from the Federal Aviation Administration to begin on-demand commercial air taxi operations, the company said on Thursday. ” Joby Aviation eVTOL aircraft prototype.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Addressing the impact of Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) — also called Urban Air Mobility (UAM) — on urban planning and development is a critical step in moving the future of mobility off the road and into the air. What role should it play — in existing cities and when designing future urban transportation systems?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Combined with safe and permanent storage, direct air capture has the potential to get the carbon cycle back in balance,” said Børre Jacobsen, the managing director of Northern Lights, in a statement. “Direct Air Capture will need to grow at a gigaton scale. “Direct Air Capture will need to grow at a gigaton scale.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2021

Elroy Air has raised a $40 million Series A, including financing from Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm, to ramp up the build, testing and validation of its inaugural autonomous cargo drone. Its propulsion system is a key differentiator between Elroy Air’s product and companies that are building eVTOL air taxis, like Joby Aviation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

A few years later, after the transportation company he founded Bridgj was acquired by Singapore-based Transit Systems, he started thinking about how he could bring the innovations that were taking place in autonomous ground transportation to the air. The company also announced that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding and $21.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Way back in 2015 we covered the launch of the Atmotube, a small, innovative, portable air quality monitor which went on to receive a number of awards after its CES debut. Since rebranding as ATMO , the company, co-founded by Vera Kozyr , is now launching the Atmocube , an indoor air quality monitoring system for businesses and enterprises.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Ultrahaptics went on to raise $23 million, begin to interest car companies , and later absorb the much-hyped Leap Motion, which, it turns out, was a match made in heaven, by uniting both hand tracking and mid-air haptics. So Ultraleap is already working with DS Automobiles and Hosiden on new mid-air haptics experiences.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The companies will collaborate to ensure that AIR’s eVTOL for personal ownership is capable of marine operations such as yacht transport and resupply. The post [Air EV in PR Newswire] AIR partners with SeaKeepers, empowering yachters with eVTOL flight capabilities appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

court to be due to air pollution. Only a year after Ella Kissi-Debrah died, another mother also became concerned about the effects of air quality on her daughter’s asthma and decided to do something about it. I released it as a project for my community to monitor air quality.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Air taxis may still be pie in the sky, but there’s more than one way to move the air travel industry forward. Co-founder James Dorris believes that this fast, stable VTOL craft is the key that unlocks a new kind of local air travel, eschewing major airports for minor ones or even heliports.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

OCTOBER 24, 2022

One of the most promising of the engineered approaches to removing carbon from the atmosphere is direct air carbon capture (DAC). In DAC, air is run through a device which captures C02 and air is returned from the device with less CO2. The captured CO2 is then sequestered underground or used for fuel or something else.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Crowdsourcing the shipping world : Backers delivered $80 million to Xeneta, on a $265 million valuation, for the Norway-based company’s crowdsourcing approach to determining air and sea freight rates, Ingrid reports. Brian has more.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Santos and Cavero were inspired to begin their experiments with direct air capture by an article describing some research into plants’ declining ability to capture carbon dioxide that Santos read on Caltrain on his way to work back in 2019. Current Direct Air Capture companies sell their CO2 from somewhere between $600 to $700 per ton.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 23, 2023

Meet The Man Using Tech To Revolutionize Corporate Air Travel w/ Sarosh Waghmar was originally published in Entrepreneur's Handbook on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. We hope you enjoy the episode and don’t forget to share it with others.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The post [Air EV in Forbes] Developing a product and ramping it up appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. But behind the scenes of the devices, apps, vehicles and other “miraculous” products we seem to take for granted is a universe of research and development that goes into every innovative new product. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

Palo Alto-based Archer is looking to ultimately scale production to the point where it can produce “thousands” of its eVTOL aircraft per year, for use in future air taxi services serving cities globally.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2024

At CES 2024, French startup Neoplants is showing off its progress with its houseplants that work as air purifiers designed for the home. The bio-engineered plants can, according to the company, replace 20 “regular” houseplants, as measured by how many pollutants the plants can remove from the air.

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OurCrowd

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The collaborative R&D will enable significant industry advancement, building one of the first motors designed specifically for mid-sized eVTOL aircraft Read more here.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 24, 2020

The post [Portfolio companies in CTech] These startups will make your air travel healthier and safer appeared first on OurCrowd. Here are 11 that he thinks could transform the way we travel once borders open up again. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Runway, a startup that emerged from the challenges that faced Rent the Runway’s first iOS team, is now exiting beta and launching its service that simplifies the mobile app release cycle — or, as the team describes it, offers “air traffic control” for mobile releases.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Archer Aviation, the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle startup, has partnered with India’s travel and hospitality conglomerate InterGlobe Enterprises to launch an all-electric air taxi service in the country in 2026. to experience its ambitious air taxi […] © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What it means to be an entrepreneur in 2022 Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The post [Edgybees in PR Newswire] Edgybees Wins Multiple AFWERX Contracts to Enhance US Air Force Situational Awareness appeared first on OurCrowd. Read more here.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Cleantech startup Airly wants to help communities around the world improve air quality with affordable sensors and software that provides actionable insights. Cities include Warsaw, where Airly has installed 165 sensors, which the company says is the largest air quality monitoring network in Europe. million since March 2021.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle company Archer Aviation plans to start air taxi operations in Abu Dhabi in 2026, making the city its first international market outside the United States.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

APRIL 12, 2023

Six months ago, I wrote about Direct Air Carbon Capture and ended with this: I remember hearing that “we’ve spent hundreds of years taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into our atmosphere and we are going to spend hundreds of years taking carbon out of the atmosphere and putting it back into the ground”.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 23, 2016

The post Clearing the Air: What I’ve Learned from Mountaineering appeared first on THE BLOG. #EOlooks forward to the new calendar year, with posts, pictures and videos citing upcoming technologies and inspiration for entrepreneurs in 2016. Follow us on Facebook , Twitter , Instagram and LinkedIn for daily posts!

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OurCrowd

APRIL 4, 2022

The post [Freightos in FreightWaves] Air Canada wants more cargo jets 3 months after launching service appeared first on OurCrowd Blog. Read more here.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 11, 2020

The air scrubber technology used is the enVerid HVAC Load Reduction (HLR) “smart scrubber” – the AHR Expo Innovation Award-winning technology was developed and provided by enVerid Systems in partnership with O’Dell Associates. Read more here.

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 6, 2023

“ The Air Jordan Drop So Hot It Blew Up an Alleged $85 Million Ponzi Scheme [Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou and Kim Bhasin/Bloomberg] – My goodness ZIRP and COVID was a perfect storm for a ton of fraud. “ I’ve been burned by entertaining preemptive rounds on multiple occasions. It’s like touching the hot stove repeatedly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Working in the world of disability insurance for a decade, Colin Nabity felt not everyone could access this type of insurance due to its nature of it being difficult to understand and underwrite. Disability and critical illness insurance is typically income protection should someone be too sick or hurt to work. An average of 5.6%

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Air Force denied a recent request from Varda Space Industries to land its capsule at a Utah training area, pushing back the startup’s plans to show off the fruits of its in-space manufacturing, TechCrunch has learned. The company is also still awaiting a reentry license from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, a USAF […]

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