OurCrowd

JUNE 6, 2021

This $5M Series A-1 round is being led by Israeli VC firm HIVE 2040 at a pre-money valuation of $11M. OurCrowd is expanding its operations in the Gulf, led by Dr. Sabah al-Binali, Venture Partner and Head of the Gulf Region. Learn More. UAE: Gateway to half the world.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We just wrapped up a three-day virtual event that included discussions and interviews with some of the most notable people in technology, media, government and venture capital. The amount of plastic pouring into our oceans is set to triple by 2040, and most un-recycled plastic in the world is generated by consumer packaged goods.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Q-CTRL , a Sydney-based startup that provides quantum control engineering solutions, announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B led by Airbus Ventures with participation from Ridgeline Partners, Main Sequence Ventures, Horizons Ventures, SquarePeg Capital, Sierra Ventures, DCVC, Sequoia Capital China and InQTel. .

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 2, 2023

The 2nd Pangyo Business Support Hub with Drone Enterprise Support Center (Photo = beSUCCESS) In a bid to foster startups and venture companies that will lead the future drone and UAM market, the Korea Institute of Aviation Safety Technology has been operating the Drone Startup Support Center since 2017. trillion in 2040.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The lead investor of this round is World Fund, while previous investors include Vsquared Ventures and Speedinvest. “World Fund only invests in startup technologies that can save at least 100 megatonnes of CO2e annually by 2040. For this round, 10x Founders also joined.

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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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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. Ideas: Solutions for automating and streamlining non-venture financing of climate tech.

energy

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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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2022

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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In addition, 2040 Foundation participated, along with existing investors The Engine, Safar Partners, Prime Impact Fund, Embark Ventures and Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. Today, the company announced a $38 million Series B. The round was led by NGP ETP, a firm that focuses on investments that lower carbon emissions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2022

The move represents an important landmark for FedEx in its stated goal to have an all-electric delivery fleet and be carbon neutral around the world by 2040. Let’s dig a bit deeper into that last. My colleague Aria Alamalhodaei wrote a two-part series on the trends shaping the eVTOL space. Nikola has come to a resolution with the U.S.

micromobility

TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

In China, 60% of journey-miles may be autonomous by 2040, according to a recent report by McKinsey & Co. Sony and Honda have signed a memorandum of understanding to explore their intent to build a joint venture focused on the development and sales of new electric vehicles, as well as a new “mobility service platform.”

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OurCrowd

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

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 OurCrowd has an allocation in Air EV’s current funding round.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The latest funding was led by Main Sequence and TELUS Ventures , with participation from Mizuho Financial Group-backed InterValley Ventures and Capital Property Group. . Australia’s quantum technology is projected to generate more than $4 billion in revenues and 16,000 new jobs by 2040, as per the report. . ” .

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In an interview with TechCrunch, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said that expanding into Africa presents the company with “an enormous opportunity,” adding that Stripe is planning for “a longer time horizon” than most other companies: “We are thinking of what the world will look like in 2040-2050.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

Global plastic use is expected to double by 2040 , with most plastic sent to landfills and only 13 percent recycled. Investors include the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), and existing bakers W23, the venture capital arm of Sydney-based supermarket giant Woolworth , and Main Sequence. .

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