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Is ocean conservation the next climate tech? 7 investors explain why they’re all in

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Our systems are at a point where it is more productive to work with nature than against it,” said Sanjeev Krishnan, chief investment officer at S2G Ventures. People have been looking at solving these problems in the wrong way,” said Daniela Fernandez, managing partner at Seabird Ventures.

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InstaDeep’s acquisition is a classic case of an African startup gone global 

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The bootstrapped company — which didn’t receive outside capital until 2018 — depended on original AI research that Beguir published , which led to the startup being discovered by specialized clients who later became partners and investors, such as DeepMind, Google and its future acquirer BioNTech. That was crazy.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective?

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

provides aquatic data collection services and aquatic drones that work in pods of 1- 20 to collect data at unprecedented scale at orders of magnitude less cost. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. Jaia Robotics Inc. Jaia Robotics Inc.

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Indonesian consumer research startup Populix gets $1.2M in pre-Series A funding

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million in an oversubscribed pre-Series A round led by returning investor Intudo Ventures, with participation from Quest Ventures. million since it was founded in January 2018, including a $1 million seed round also led by Intudo. That gives us a chance to disrupt it, in the sense that it has always catered to the big clients.

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