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Sweden’s Volta raises $260M at a $490M valuation to get its all-electric trucks into production by the end of this year

TechCrunch

Real estate investment firm Byggmästare Anders J Ahlström (like Volta, based in Stockholm), supply chain services giant Agility, and B-FLEXION (formerly Waypoint Capital) also participated. Volta’s wider business strategy will be based both on selling trucks as well as offering its vehicles on a trucking-as-a-service model.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Before starting Root Ventures, I was the CTO of an investment firm with nearly $30B in commercial real estate and construction projects, so I have seen the inefficiencies (and consequently opportunities!) This is an indication that the industry is ready for disruption. Under-heated.

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Why Coworking Will Thrive Post-WeWork

GCUC

We looked at some real estate together, spent time in Austin, and they flew me up to New York to explore working for WeWork and selling them my brand and conference. I sat in his office while he negotiated a real estate deal. Coworking is that disruption. I didn’t do it. He also had a cunning smile and quick wit.

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Daily Crunch: Andreessen Horowitz backs Synonym’s development of ‘fermentation farms’

TechCrunch

Hot damn, it’s happening: A bunch of the TechCrunch team are on airplanes, aeroplanes and other spellings of flying vessels to come join us in San Francisco for Disrupt. Lauren S made us a user’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt along with a guide to all the receptions, parties and other cool extracurriculars. See you soon! Startups and VC.

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Doing well by doing good: Impact investing & the OurCrowd Impact Fund

OurCrowd

Add to that social consciousness and entrepreneurial drive the fact that millennials will make up some 75% of the workforce by 2025, and it’s clear that social entrepreneurship — funded by impact investing — is going to be a major force in the economy. . Their annual turnover outperformed that of businesses started by boomers by 43%.