American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Hauwa Ojeifo , founder of a movement that gives mental health a voice in Nigeria, so those with mental health conditions can tell their stories and co-create solutions. She is the founder of the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa. She is the co-founder of the School of Leadership Afghanistan. She founded She Writes Woman.

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health economic growth entrepreneurship leadership 92

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The investment came from the Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the Ecosystem Integrity Fund , which led the company’s latest round, alongside previous investors Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Horizons Ventures , Shell Ventures and Summa Equity. million cash infusion. million grant from the U.K.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

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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funders energy sustainability opportunity 89

TechCrunch

JULY 22, 2022

In a statement, the German VC said it exclusively backs tech with the potential to remove “100 million tonnes” — that is, 100 megatonnes — “of carbon from the atmosphere yearly by 2040.” ” Other investors in the latest round include the EU’s European Innovation Council and Tencent.

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VC innovation capital development 94

TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Our airspace is going to get more crowded than ever, but most companies today are concentrating only on hardware development,” said Terra Drone CEO and founder Toru Tokushige , who is also serving as the CEO of Terra Motors, which develops electric vehicles. trillion by 2040, according to Terra’s IR deck. . and Southeast Asia.

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accelerator transportation construction enablement 89

Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

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. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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construction investing investment opportunity 259

Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Other options for workers can be taking collective action, solidarity unionism, forming independent unions, employee resource groups (ERGs), guilds, joining a worker center, new innovations/ideas, etc. HW: Frank is venture backed. Look, socialists hate venture capital, and venture capitalists hate unions. Intentionally.

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