AsiaTechDaily

MAY 3, 2023

The platform aims to support 100,000 creators by 2025, tapping into India’s $100B commerce market. Co-founder Ashwarya Garg envisions the startup as a way to fairly reward creators for their influence on consumer behavior and drive 30-40% of all eCommerce.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Xurya’s Managing Director and Co-Founder, Eka Himawan said, “We appreciate the trust given by Mitsui, Surya Semesta Internusa, our partners, and Xurya customers. 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 29, 2022

Kaiyo founder and CEO Alpay Koralturk said in an interview with TechCrunch that he was familiar with the hassle of buying and selling furniture after moving five times in five years in NYC. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Nevertheless, investors are optimistic about their prospects in the country and feel that the global slowdown is helping founders focus more on building and strengthening their core business. Focus on growth with good economics and don’t “buy” growth, as that will come with poor economics and hence is not sustainable.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 19, 2022

Register Global venture capital firm Antler has committed to investing $100 million by 2025 to at least 300 startups in Southeast Asia , according to an announcement. The plan is to enable founders to launch and grow early-stage startups in the Southeast Asian region over the next four years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

million of founder capital. He began working with plant-based meat after serving as general manager of Country Foods, a Singaporean importer and distributor that focuses on innovative, sustainable products. This is the first time the startup has taken external investment, and the funding exceeded its original target of $7 million.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JULY 13, 2022

a leader in sustainable fertilizer technology, has announced additional. The global phosphatic fertilizer market is expected to reach $78B by 2025. amount of applied fertilizer,” said Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Hunter Swisher. joined the team as Chief Operating Officer and Vice President of Sustainability.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Novel Farms co-founders Michelle Lu and Nieves Martinez Marshall. Still, she doesn’t expect to get the pork loin into the hands of consumers until 2025, with commercial plants coming online in 2026, followed by mass production in 2027. The products are made from cultivated fish cells and plant protein. Image Credits: Novel Farms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

We initially built our products to service the demands of gig workers in the food delivery industry,” Mina Nada, Zoomo CEO and co-founder, said in a statement. billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate of 11%. The online food delivery industry is no different, with a market that’s expected to reach $192.16

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

Tyler Huggins, co-founder and CEO of Meati Foods, told TechCrunch that the company wasn’t actively seeking additional capital, but had decided to keep the Series C round open due to additional investor interest. When I spoke with Huggins in 2022, he mentioned the company’s goal of reaching a $1 billion in revenue run rate by 2025.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Notably, both Northrop Grumman Corporation and Lockheed Martin Ventures also participated, the first time the two contractor-rivals have done an investment together, Orbit Fab co-founder Jeremy Schiel told TechCrunch. We don’t give either a competitive edge, but we can as a whole have better alternatives for sustainability in space.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

When given the name of a VC-backed company, VC Exit Predictor generates a score on the probability that it’ll be acquired, go public or not exit due to becoming self-sustaining or experiencing any event (e.g., have a female founder. bankruptcy) that prevents an exit.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Product-founder fit is essential, too. 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. In fact, mission-driven team members perform better and stay at the company longer than those only motivated by their paychecks.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 2, 2022

Chandran Nair, GIFT Founder, and GIFT.ed Curriculum design, sustainability and environmental science, behavioral psychology, UI/UX design, and product management are among the skillsets of GIFT.ed’s founding team. Chairman said there has been a need to radically rethink global economic systems has been apparent for 10 years.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Together we will bring mobility to a billion and sustainability to the future,” said Bhavish Aggarwal, founder and chief executive of Ola, in a statement. Aggarwal, pictured above, is also the founder and chief executive of Ola Electric. I thank our existing investors and welcome new ones to Ola.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Co-founder and CEO Josh Matthews says that the proceeds will be put toward expanding Apkudo’s engineering teams, building out the company’s go-to-market function and establishing a physical presence outside of the U.S. billion in 2025 from $14.3 billion in 2019, according to Markets and Markets.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If the world is to reach net zero, and avoid climate disaster , it needs to make every product sustainable, and that means every purchase. Also participating is Pirate Impact (the family office of Fabian & Ferry Heilemann) and Michael Wax, founder and CEO of Planetly Benedikt Franke.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The company intends to use the funds to add 10,000 new electric vehicles to its platform with the end goal of achieving 100% EVs by 2025. m , a startup that provides optimized transportation services for school-age children, has announced the close of a $130 million Series D raise, bringing its total funding to more than $200 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The investment — which co-founder and CEO Eerik Oja called a bridge round — is a prequel to a larger Series A round next year. Planet42, though based in South Africa, has Estonian roots due to the founders’ heritage: Oja and CFO Marten Orgna founded the company in 2017. Planet42 founders (Marten Orgna and Eerik Oja).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

trillion by 2025. Bloomreach co-founder and CEO Raj De Datta. Personalization is a 20-year-old technology, but so much on the web is still generic — that has to change,” co-founder and CEO Raj De Datta told TechCrunch. “We Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization. Image Credits: Bloomreach.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

He particularly was interested in speaking with Oak HC/FT because of its global presence and approach to bringing together its portfolio companies around tips and advice for founders. Since e-commerce and logistics companies, like Amazon, came to Mexico, there has been much infrastructure created around this industry, Patjane said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Currently, alternative protein makes up just about 2% of the animal protein market, but it is expected to increase more than 7x by 2025. “We Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, said the movement is here even if people are not buying a lot of lab-grown meat yet. “It Image Credits: Nicholas YEO / AFP / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

Preorders of the Afeelas are scheduled for the first half of 2025, the companies said, with sales to begin sometime same year. And last but not least, Found sat down with Brex co-founder and co-CEO Henrique Dubugras to chat about his corporate credit card and expense management startup. TechCrunch+. Don’t subscribe to TC+ yet?

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

For us, looks both at becoming a CO2 Neutral Coworking community by 2025 (and eventually net zero) but goes further by looking at all our operations and aims to fully integrate the topic in a locally fitting manner. Lastly, to role model through our spaces. Q: Which two actions are you personally most excited about?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

His leadership at Proterra was first and foremost about increasing access to affordable, sustainable solutions and shaping a zero-emission transportation future for the benefit of our planet and the health of our communities. His work as a partner at and Kleiner Perkins was dedicated to leading the sustainable transformation of industries.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The company’s latest round of funding was led by the Swiss natural gas, methanol and agricultural conglomerate Proman, with participation from previous investors Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the nearly ubiquitous backer of renewable energy and sustainable startups, and Alfa Laval, which makes industrial filters and heat exchangers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Even the largest landfills in Indonesia are at (or nearing) capacity , and the government has set an ambitious target of 30% waste reduction by 2025. Junerosano said Waste4Change differentiates from traditional waste management solutions by providing an end-to-end solution, with a focus on sustainability and zero waste.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“As per Jungle Ventures’ calculations, the total value of the region’s digital companies is around $340 billion today and is estimated to grow to $1 trillion by 2025,” says founding partner Amit Anand. Just shine a light on your SaaS portfolio, according to CEO and co-founder of Zylo, Eric Christopher.

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StartupNation

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The resale economy, re-commerce as it is known, is estimated to grow $77 billion by 2025 amid growing consumer awareness of fashion and electronic waste impact on the environment. Those buyers are driven by issues relating to sustainability. They’re just an example of the thriving businesses seeing massive growth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2021

The company aims to have its first product approved by European regulators by 2023 and notching commercial sales by 2025. Rick Klausner, the former executive director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and a founder of Juno Therapeutics, GRAIL, and Mindstrong Health, after leaving Illumina where he served as chief medical officer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

This week, we published a four-part series about how Klaviyo co-founders Andrew Bialecki and Ed Hallen bootstrapped their startup into an e-commerce marketing automation platform now valued at $4.15 By 2025, 463 exabytes of data will be created each day, according to some estimates.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Our vision is to help 10 million workers get the right jobs by 2025 and help organizations navigate efficiently through the wave of change.”. Labor leaders and startup founders talk how to build a sustainable gig economy. Retrain.ai is the first investment by Square Peg’s new $450 million fund.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 16, 2022

This is what it looks like: “Following the most significant supply chain disruptions of the modern era, there’s only room left for innovation,” co-founder and CEO Romain Moulin said in a statement. Following today’s funding round, the startup plans to hire 500 engineers by 2025 and continue its push in North America.

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TechCrunch

JULY 21, 2022

At that time, co-founder and CEO Tyler Huggins, who started Meati with Justin Whiteley, had 30 employees and was starting a pilot plant. We will set the gold standard for how we can produce in a clean, nutritious, delicious and sustainable way.”. Fellow companies include Perfect Day , MyForest Foods and Fable Food.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We decided to raise again at the start of the year,” co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve told me. Now, we are self-sustaining and will be until we reach profitability.”. Alan’s founders have been clear about their vision from the very beginning. By the end of 2025, Alan wants to reach profitability.

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TechCrunch

JULY 26, 2022

Four years and hundreds of long lines later, the truck is still there, but the company is taking on what co-founder Nile Dreiling calls “a stale $40 billion donut industry ” by expanding its presence into brick-and-mortar locations in Los Angeles after raising $9 million in financing.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 30, 2022

This inspired its founders Minette Navarrete, Dan Siazon, and Christian Besler to pitch for a pioneering evergreen fund to the Globe board, starting with $2.5M Committing to enabling startups When Kickstart was established in 2012, the Philippine startup ecosystem was at its nascent stage. on its first year.

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