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NJEDA Establishes New Jersey Green Bank to Advance Climate Goals

American Entrepreneurship

The NJGB will make investments through debt, credit enhancements, and other financial vehicles to attract private capital to enable the state to reach its climate goals. The NJGB will inject capital into New Jersey’s clean energy economy and support green businesses and good-paying jobs in the field.

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Batteries have become VC and PE’s most electric investment opportunity

TechCrunch

Venture capital firms aren’t unusual in the battery world. Batteries are normally considered a high-risk, high-reward investment; the sort of thing that venture capital is made for. There are myriad reasons why both venture capital and growth equity are diving into batteries. in 2035 and France in 2040. So what changed?

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How to get superior returns in VC

David Teten VC

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. It seems reasonable to assume that USV’s investment strategy (i.e., Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” – Network.

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Australian QuintessenceLabs grabs $25M to scale quantum-safe cybersecurity solutions

TechCrunch

The latest funding was led by Main Sequence and TELUS Ventures , with participation from Mizuho Financial Group-backed InterValley Ventures and Capital Property Group. . The company will implement a planned geographic and sectoral expansion strategy as the world starts to reopen around 2022, he mentioned. . ” . .

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EVs to power Kenya’s bus rapid transit system

TechCrunch

But the situation is about to change following an announcement that the new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) network in the country’s capital, Nairobi, will only be operated by green (electric, hybrid and biodiesel) vehicles. The uptake of electric vehicles in Kenya currently stands at 5% — a majority of which are private vehicles.

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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. Few AEC firms are actually re-thinking their innovation strategies to gain competitive edge, or even simply survive.

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Request for Startups: Climate Tech

Y Combinator

Successful companies will need founders that will be able to raise significant funding and will need successful strategies to maintain healthy margins in the early days and while scaling. These opportunities may not be as straightforward as they might seem. Consumer energy efficiency customization.

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