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NJEDA Establishes New Jersey Green Bank to Advance Climate Goals

American Entrepreneurship

The Murphy Administration has taken significant steps to meet the ongoing challenges of climate change and has set several clean energy targets, including 100 percent clean electricity by 2035,11 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2040, and 50 percent economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2030.

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

TechCrunch

Rather, it’s more likely that VC and PE have sensed that the world is changing, and they’re adjusting their strategies accordingly. in 2035 and France in 2040. “Too much money” might explain the size of some of these bets, but it doesn’t explain their existence. Countries across Europe began announcing bans in the late 2010s.

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Nearly $4M in Grants to Support Offshore Wind Workforce Training Approved by NJEDA Board

American Entrepreneurship

This is another step towards achieving 11GW of offshore wind by 2040 while creating a better future for the next generation.” The grant recipients will use the funding to provide skill development, workforce training, job placement, and other related services to develop, implement, or expand workforce development initiatives in offshore wind.

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How to get superior returns in VC

David Teten VC

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.” He points out that Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have virtually identical strategies. – Thoughtful fund management. – Incubating companies.

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

TechCrunch

The company will implement a planned geographic and sectoral expansion strategy as the world starts to reopen around 2022, he mentioned. . Australia’s national science agency CSIRO recently released a report on Australia’s quantum industry in which it forecasts an $86 billion global market size in the quantum industry by 2040.

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EVs to power Kenya’s bus rapid transit system

TechCrunch

The BRT was proposed by the NAMATA in a 2019 report as a strategy for easing traffic congestion in Nairobi, where over three million commuters spend an average of 57 minutes everyday on short journeys. For efficiency of administration, the commuters will also be required to pay using digital prepaid technologies.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Robotics and automation are not only important, but they are also likely the only way to address the challenge of delivering the built environment we need by 2040. Few AEC firms are actually re-thinking their innovation strategies to gain competitive edge, or even simply survive.