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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

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Marie Ekeland has unveiled her next act — and it’s a new fund called 2050. With 2050, Ekeland is going back to the drawing board with a different vision when it comes to investment thesis, fund structure and the firm’s own values. As the name suggests, 2050 has a lot of time to think about these issues.

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ZEBOX, an incubator for supply chain startups, launches its Asia hub in Singapore

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The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

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Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015. Despite this, the relative universal appeal of accessibility as a principle does not mean that it will be as easy as explaining the need and getting people on board to make major organizational changes.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

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But a United Nations report estimates that we’ll need to double global food production by 2050 to meet the needs of 10 billion people. As capital gets further commoditized, early-stage investors are going back to the drawing board to see what is truly — and excuse my language here — a value-add service.”.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

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banks and credit card company is also coming on board as a strategic partner, to launch Capital One Travel, which is the first instantiation of Hopper’s new B2B platform, Hopper Cloud. And the answer was we’d be done in 2070, and then even if you double the number of people doing it, it was 2050.”

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Sustainability data platform Worldfavor fuels up for ecosystem opportunities

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Liljendahl says the team tackled the ‘chicken & egg’ startup problem by focusing on getting larger entities on board, leveraging those businesses’ sway over their own supply chains to encourage tranches of suppliers to sign up and start reporting data. Image Credits: Worldfavor.

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Nia Richards

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The 2019 Institute for Policy Study on the national racial wealth gap reported if the trajectory of the past three decades continues, by 2050 the median White family will have $174,000 of wealth, while Latino median wealth will be $8,600 and Black median wealth will be $600. We all play a role in these stats. And I continue to.