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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Lawyers and accountants tend to err on the conservative side, leading to a low failure rate of businesses but less “moonshot innovation,” shall we say. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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China’s Ellipspace Receives 100 Million Yuan Funding for Satellite Innovation

AsiaTechDaily

Founded in 2020, Ellipspace specializes in developing advanced satellites capable of integrating remote sensing technology. By leveraging its advanced capabilities, the company strives to collaborate with its clients and drive innovation in these sectors. The funding round was led by Yulin Fund, with participation from Changsheng Fund.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) in their ‘ The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2020 ’ report, sound the alarm loud and clear about the growing impact of what we eat. Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3 trillion USD by 2030. Feeding the City.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “We are not only focusing on innovative entrepreneurship.

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Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

TechCrunch

The August 2020-founded startup has just closed a €6.5 ” Seed funding. million seed raise, led by Berlin-based food and green tech investor, Green Generation Fund to plough into further product dev and international expansion, as it races to get more farmers farming greener. ” So, yeah, uncanny.).

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Eflex Intelligent digital energy for homes and small business 2020 Lumme Lumme Health is a digital behavioral health company with a radically superior approach to facilitating success with weight management and problematic eating patterns. Tursus Developing innovative back-office solutions for the point-of-sale industry.

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Life of Purpose: Madison Bachman Followed Her Passion to Research Baboons

StartupNation

The organization embraces innovation, education, ecological research, and natural landscape restoration. 21, 2020, in DBusiness, and Oct. 30, 2020, on StartupNation. In turn, Wild Alliance strives to dissolve the existing boundary between “them and us,” while restoring interspecies connection. Originally published Sept.