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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

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Two years ago, South Korea unveiled a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. Getting there will be another story.

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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Its one-year+ accelerator program is specifically focused on startups that are trying to come up with innovative ways to use and share data to tackle climate change, rather than being more broadly open to climate startups of all stripes (i.e. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K.