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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

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With its $25 million Series B funding — which takes its total funding to over $42 million — Banyan Infrastructure is seeking to align sustainable project finance with the technology it is meant to support and develop. Furthermore, Banyan announced that Juan Muldoon, partner at Energize, has joined its board of directors.

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Forward Cities

Q: What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? I think this should be a wake-up call to all entrepreneurial support providers. Q: What is your deeper “why” behind your commitment and work to support inclusive entrepreneurship in Kansas City? And I continue to.

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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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More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

While we anticipate the VC fundraising environment will become more cautious across the board, we don’t see robotics being uniquely impacted. Warehouse inventory is one of the more intriguing applications I’ve seen for drones in recent years, levering their on-board image processing to keep track as goods move in and out. Fair enough.