Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Circularity tales: Accelerating green impact in Barcelona The inaugural edition of “Raíz,” organised by Impact Hub Barcelona, showcased a diverse cohort of innovative startups committed to integrating circularity principles into their business models.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The climate tech startup is addressing the surging global demand for reputable (verifiable) climate credits, project development and management of corporate net-zero and sustainability activities. The Orange County ecosystem continues to expand via a collaboration that was established in 2022. EMC Squared is another member.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

-based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

TechCrunch is excited to announce the six companies pitching in person and onstage at TC Sessions Mobility 2022. This adds capacity into an area, allowing higher density and more profitable developments. “DIMO enables a new class of mobility applications to be built by developers on real world data. Mar received her Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

For the first time, the sector attracted over 1,100 unique investors in 2022, which in turn resulted in a record fundraising haul of $6.5 In Africa, incubators, accelerators, angels and seed investors easily outnumber larger funds — simply because it’s much harder to raise a large fund here. billion, according to data from Partech.

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. But the startup’s premise is also that more sustainable forestry management can generate extra carbon credits for forest owners, too.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 4, 2023

And with lockdowns now a thing of the past, we predict travel to also increase from 2022 levels which is a great sign for the industry and for business. Accelerated digital transformation. Continued focus on sustainability. Investors and consumers prefer businesses that prioritize ecological impact and sustainability.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2021

What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? Circularity-focused incubation and acceleration programs already exist, but there are two problems: There aren’t enough of them to transform the private sector as a whole. of the global economy is circular.

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Revolution

JULY 21, 2022

The new funding for the meat alternative startup will support rapid retail expansion, continued product development and product capabilities Meet Meati ?—?the Enter Meati: the great-tasting, sustainable, nutrient-rich, form-flexible solution filling the gap in the meatless meat market. The funds will: ? Giga Ranch?—?capable

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 2, 2024

(May 1, 2024) – Yesterday, Governor Phil Murphy, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) joined company leaders to cut the ribbon on HAX, LLC’s newly constructed United States flagship headquarters located at 707 Broad Street in Newark. headquarters.

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In Spring 2022, adidas announced its partnership with Impact Hub and Blavity.org to launch a new program called Cultivate & B.L.O.O.M. Building Legacies Out of Movements), an accelerator program for social entrepreneurs of color. The first cohort kicked off in July 2022 and will graduate in March 2023. .

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Revolution

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

In 2017, we partnered with iconic leaders in American business to turn the thesis we developed on the road — that great companies can start and scale anywhere when given a chance — into an investment vehicle. We dive deeper into the definition in our 2022 Annual Report. Plastomics: St. Louis, MO St.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 23, 2022

For 2022, the United Nations (UN) theme for the commemoration of International Women’s Day was ‘Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow’ – celebrating the work of women and girls in fighting climate change and ending the COVID-19 pandemic. Accelerate 2030: supporting groundbreaking women innovators.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In June 2022, Impact Hub Barcelona ended on a successful note the first edition of “Raíz”, a programme focused on supporting and incubating startups and new companies that want to integrate circularity principles into their business models and value propositions. . Meet the 5 participating startups of Raíz’s first edition.

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HPA

DECEMBER 8, 2021

HPA participated in the round, which included participation from other investors including Supply Change Capital, Aera VC, Sustainable Food Ventures, Hanfield Venture Partners, Lifely VC, Conscience VC, Kingfisher Capital, Big Idea Ventures, among others. This funding round was a milestone in the category of seafood alternatives.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

It occurred to him that automation and robotics could make the drug development process more predictable, and so he founded Katakem , one of the startups in the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield 200. ” To Oliverio’s point, drug development today is a lengthy and expensive endeavor. . Food and Drug Administration. million ($1.27

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Its fundraising endeavors culminated in May 2022 when Jungle Ventures closed its fourth fund with $600 million. This initiative marks a strategic move to facilitate startups’ growth beyond the early stages, ensuring they have access to essential capital for sustained development and expansion.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

However, by 2022 (with most pandemic restrictions in the rear view mirror and financial markets facing challenges), investors began gravitating towards perceived safe havens, as reflected in the data. Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S.,

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

million in new pre-seed capital, Synonym Biotechnologies has begun the development phase for its first productized bio-manufacturing facilities for non-pharmaceutical applications. We plan to use the capital to catalyze our facility development efforts,” CEO Shenderovich said. Armed with $6.3 The company is also channeling the U.S.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

The total funds obtained through series A reached $33 million or equivalent to IDR 510 billion on October 20, 2022. The funding will be allocated to support the expansion of solar power development to accelerate the clean and sustainable energy transition for companies in Indonesia.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Thousand Faces , a web3 community-based investment group, hosted its demo day on Wednesday with the top 10 startups from its Female Founder Accelerator program. The demo day coincided with International Women’s Day and featured women-led businesses focused on sustainable development goals (SDGs).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

So Full Harvest got busy developing some technology that includes a spot marketplace with a matching algorithm and visibility so that buyers could see what suppliers had available. Apeel bites into another $250M funding round, at a $2B valuation, to accelerate fresh food supply chains.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombian adults who hold a banking product rose from 55% to over 90%.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 11, 2023

The firm established 1Billion Accel in 2022, a subsidiary that manages angel funds in Korea. As both a venture investment firm and an accelerator, the company manages a diverse portfolio of over 15 startups with global growth potential.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 10, 2023

An illustrative initiative from 2022 saw an amalgamation of key automotive entities from Gyeonggi Province and Pangyo Techno Valley, birthing the “Future Car Valley” This endeavor, driven by city, county, academia, and industry confluence, seeks to pioneer automotive technological advancements and refine manufacturing paradigms.

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 24, 2023

A recent survey by the Gyeonggi Business & Science Accelerator of 1,642 businesses in the valley revealed that content-focused companies constitute about 10%, with 161 firms in total. The purpose of the event was to discover excellent small and medium-sized gaming developing companies and strengthen their capabilities.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Founded in 2022, Charged Indonesia aims to provide sustainable mobility options that are competitive in affordability and practicality for Indonesian customers as compared to traditional combustion motorcycles. million in its inaugural funding round anchored by Singapore-based DeClout Ventures , the corporate venture arm of DeClout.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

a leader in sustainable fertilizer technology, has announced additional. This investment helps accelerate our commercial launch by supporting this year’s. commercial trial program, strategic development partnerships, and enables product to be. joined the team as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Kenya-based agritech Apollo Agriculture , which helps farmers access high-quality farm inputs, financing and markets, plans to double the number of farmers it is serving by the end 2022 and to introduce other products that deliver more value per acre of land. We are also continuing to develop products that deliver more value per acre.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 31, 2023

Register Taiwan-based WeMo Corp , a pioneer in urban mobility technologies , today announced raising $15 million in its Series A+ funding round led by AppWorks , with participation from Taiwan National Development Fund. Revenue has returned to pre-pandemic levels, recording double-digit growth.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2023

Julie Gerdeman, Everstream’s CEO, says that the fresh capital will be put toward product development, hiring and customer success efforts. “Everstream has grown revenue 30x from the initial investment made by Columbia Capital three years ago and was successful in doubling the business in both 2021 and 2022.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Cortical combines synthetic biology and human neurons to develop what it claims is a class of AI, known as ‘Organoid Intelligence (OI)’. Cortical Labs’ technology first appeared in the scientific journal Neuron in October 2022, demonstrating that neurons in a petri dish can be encouraged to play the computer game Pong.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

More than $178 million was pumped into alternative seafood in the first half of 2022, and the market’s value is poised to reach $1.6 We see the alternative seafood industry achieving key technical and economic milestones faster than the alternative meat space, which indicates a potential for continued acceleration,” he said.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 14, 2023

October 12, 2023) – The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board today approved the first investment in an emerging New Jersey company from the New Jersey Innovation Evergreen Fund (NJIEF). The NJIEF, launched in 2022, is a groundbreaking tool to increase access to strategic resources and venture capital in New Jersey.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Participants ran the gamut from fintech and sustainability to edtech and developer tools, and several stood out from the rest of the pack.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 15, 2024

This growth gap was further exceeded from 2022 to 2023, reaching 4.5 The study showed the astounding pace of growth of women-owned businesses compared to those owned by men. Between 2019 and 2023 women-owned businesses grew at nearly double the rate of those owned by men. trillion. “To

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The startup told TechCrunch that it will use the funding to enter Ghana and Egypt by the end of the first quarter of 2022, and other additional markets in Francophone, East and Southern Africa by the close of the same year. Nigerian mobility tech startup Metro Africa Xpress Inc. (

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