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How adaptability during a pandemic transformed this YLAI Fellow’s Honduran sustainability company

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

In 2015, she was able to merge these two passions together to create her company, Beleaf. Beleaf is a sustainable fashion company that uses scraps to “upcycle” and create new clothing and accessories. Reducing waste in fashion requires “upcycling” materials in new, innovative ways. By Angie Garozzo. What is Beleaf?

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Bringing the Mediterranean Way to the Masses

Revolution

CAVA’s founders had a vision to bring heritage, heart, health, and innovation to the fast-casual sector. Our partnership with CAVA began in 2015, when the Mediterranean fast-casual chain had just a dozen locations in D.C., Balancing discipline with innovation: Running a restaurant is hard. Maryland, and Virginia.

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Empowering millennials in Peru to take action volunteering

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Here, she learned more about volunteerism and also learned about the United Nations Agenda for Sustainable Development. “It Seeing the difference between the two countries and the difference in programming between them,” as well as the emphasis on sustainability, she thought to herself, “why are we not talking about this in Peru?”

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Spinning out from the cryptocurrency hardware developer Bitfury, LiquidStack pitches a data center cooling tech

TechCrunch

It was first acquired by Bitfury in 2015 after building a two-phase immersion cooling 500kW data center in Hong Kong, that purportedly cut energy consumption by 95% versus traditional air cooling technologies. Later, the companies jointly deployed 160 megawatts of two-phase immersion-cooled data centers. billion last year.

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Airwallex announces appointment of Kai Wu as CRO, APAC GM

AsiaTechDaily

Airwallex is truly on the forefront of driving innovation and change in the digital economy. With the continued growth and expansion of Airwallex, Kai will play a pivotal role in increasing the company’s revenue growth in a scalable and sustainable manner. Airwallex continues to scale to new heights.

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10 years, 10 moments with Gabriela Gandel

Impact Hub

Here are 10 impactful moments that led us to become the largest global network that supports social entrepreneurs and innovators. And, looking now at 102 Impact Hubs across 60 countries and 24.000 entrepreneurs and innovators supported, it looks like we were right to believe so. Global leadership pioneering meetings.

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TravelPerk adds $115M to equity and debt Series D, discloses unicorn valuation

TechCrunch

In total, it has raised $409 million since being founded back in 2015. It has solidified its leadership position over the last two years in challenging times for the travel industry, emerging stronger than ever. The startup is also ploughing money into developing what it bills as “sustainable” travel solutions.

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