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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

Revolution

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. In response, AppHarvest has plans to launch 12 large-scale greenhouses by 2025. Anna Mason serves on the board of APPH.

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Plant-based food startup Next Gen lands $10M seed round from investors including Temasek

TechCrunch

The company announced today that it has raised $10 million in seed funding from investors including Temasek, K3 Ventures, EDB New Ventures (an investment arm of the Singapore Economic Development Board), NX-Food, FEBE Ventures and Blue Horizon. Startups making meat alternatives are gaining traction worldwide.

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7 Steps to Become Climate Neutral in an Online World

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Are you an entrepreneur or CEO who has a goal of helping your company reflect the sustainability you want to see for the environment? Experts predict that these emissions will double by 2025. Include employees in the planning process and get them on board. of global greenhouse emissions. Purchase credits. Purchase offsets.

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

TechCrunch

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. Furniture is one of the largest investments consumers make, yet historically, re-selling has posed a significant challenge, making it a major contributor to landfill waste,” said Koralturk.

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How Startups Can Successfully Turn Their Existing Product into a New Offering

StartupNation

This will also make it easier to get the rest of your team on board and embrace this new direction. If you don’t enjoy spending time in this market, or do not have relevant experience, it’s going to be more difficult building and sustaining a meaningful project. Product-founder fit is essential, too.

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Looking to decarbonize the metal industry, Bill Gates-backed Boston Metal raises $50 million

TechCrunch

As nations around the world race to reduce their environmental footprint and embrace more sustainable methods of production, finding a way to remove carbon from the metals business will be one of the most important contributions to that effort. One startup that’s developing a new technology to address the issue is Boston Metal.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Klaviyo EC-1, micromobility’s second wave, UiPath CFO interview, more

TechCrunch

By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates. After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. The venture capital world kicked off its 2021 European investing cycle with enough activity to set the continent on the path that would crush yearly records.