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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

More than four billion people work, live, and sustain themselves in the metropolis. Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. Photo: Global Climate Strike 2019, Lausanne. Photo: Kina Mama.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. They invest in companies that are disrupting traditional retail and consumer experiences. The broad portfolio includes companies disrupting traditional markets.

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Bringing the Mediterranean Way to the Masses

Revolution

Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Now their company is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Maryland, and Virginia.

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Kaiyo gets $36M Series B for its secondhand furniture marketplace

TechCrunch

Kaiyo , an online marketplace for secondhand furniture, says it has helped the impact by keeping nearly three million pounds out of landfills since its launch in 2015. . He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. billion in 2018.

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Liminal Raises $17.5 Million in Series A2 Funding to Catalyze Production of Safe, Reliable, High-Quality EV Batteries

American Entrepreneurship

This syndicate demonstrates significant and accelerating progress towards our goal of facilitating a clean energy future.” Northvolt’s intention is to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and electrified society. ArcTern Partner and U.S. Visit liminalinsights.com for more information.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. InstaFreebie Accelerating great stories and big ideas.

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Proving that chatbots are alive and kicking, Quiq raises $25M

TechCrunch

“Quiq was founded in 2015 to solve the huge gap between the way consumers were forced to communicate with their favorite brands and how they preferred to communicate with family and friends,” Myer told TechCrunch via email. “Phone calls are disruptive and time consuming, email is slow and impersonal.