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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

It is now ‘warming’ up to ocean conservation,” Daniela Fernandez, managing partner of Seabird Ventures, told TechCrunch. Our planet is 70% ocean, so the urgency of facing and solving climate change can only be properly addressed if we include the ocean in the equation,” said Rita Sousa, partner at Faber Ventures.

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How to get superior returns in VC

David Teten VC

Traditional venture investing is challenging. a “Bitcoin Fund”, a “Social Media Fund”, a “Nanotech Fund”), you’re going to raise capital from Limited Partners who are very focused on Theme X. My colleague Victor Wang observes that Union Square Ventures is a particularly good example of the power of a correct thesis.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. One of the most common areas of attention respondents highlighted were startups focused on construction and manufacturing.

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Newsletter: Medical selfies are the next big thing + Back on the road in Dubai

OurCrowd

IT trailblazer and OurCrowd portfolio company JumpCloud has more than doubled the total amount of capital raised, after adding $225M in its latest funding round, The Register reports. Atlassian Ventures and the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund played major roles in the latest raise. JumpCloud raises $225M, more than doubling total funds.

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Newsletter: OurCrowd Summit: Early bird offer ends Dec. 1

OurCrowd

Venture capital is still the engine driving the Israeli economy and we’re delighted that even with this slowdown, OurCrowd has passed a landmark of $2B in investment commitments, as I told Laura Cellier on i24 News. Morgan Stanley estimates the flying car market will reach $1.5T Sign NDA to Learn More.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Community coordination to encourage whole-block electrification. Lithium, cobalt, nickel, graphite, manganese, and other rare earth metals are in increasingly short supply as demand scales up – the demand for lithium alone is estimated to grow between 13-42x by 2040. Alternative energy storage systems (e.g. thermal storage).

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

So a sincere hope of mine in building Frank isn’t that we’re right, it’s that we can be part of growing an ecosystem or community of folks building tools specifically for worker power (LaborTech). HW: Frank is venture backed. Frankly, raising capital to work on this problem is and was privilege. I don’t know.