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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

TechCrunch

Now, the company has a new name, Supplant, and $24 million in venture capital financing to start commercializing its low-cost sugar substitute made from the waste materials of other plants. “Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. Those chemicals.

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As the head of Helios’ new VC arm, Wale Ayeni sees value in frontier markets

TechCrunch

This appointment comes a month after Ayeni left the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, where he led venture capital investments across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia for over 5 years. The firm manages funds totaling $3.6 and later with Qualcomm.

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Q&A with Meg Salyer

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Salyer served as a member of the Council Finance Committee, Council Economic Development Committee, and as chairman of the Council Social Services Committee. She served as the first woman president of the Rotary Club of Oklahoma City, (2003/2004), one of the largest Rotary Club in the world. Meg retired from the Council April 8, 2019.

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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. (PS.there are various companies in this article I have or have had business involvements with. Reader beware.). Open Government. Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. What's the business model?

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The Characteristics of a Billion Dollar Consumer Hardware Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Founded in 2004, GoPro is about 10 years old and during the past few years has witnessed spectacular growth. Of course, GoPro does have a debt line of about $100M to finance inventory. First, to understand GoPro’s business better. Third, to draw conclusions for other hardware startups.

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