TechCrunch

AUGUST 1, 2022

If the world wants to feed 10 billion people in 2050, it’ll need to find a better way to grow food. million oversubscribed pre-seed round led by The Venture Collective with strategic investments from Nucleus Capital, Ponderosa Ventures, TET Ventures, Day One Ventures and Possible Ventures. The team has landed a $1.7

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Continuations

JULY 5, 2021

Today I am continuing my examination of whether or not capital is the binding constraint for meeting humanity’s needs. Even back in the mid 1800s London had sufficient capital to build out a large scale sewer system. We have long had enough capital to provide everyone in the world with clothing. But what about shelter?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Two years ago, South Korea unveiled a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. “It is a significant signal for large South Korean corporates participating as limited partners of environmental and climate tech-focused venture capitals like us,” Han said. Getting there will be another story.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

An aviator, entrepreneur and investor, Cyrus Sigari is considered one of the world’s foremost experts on the AAM and eVTOL aircraft industries, which Morgan Stanley predicts will become a $9 trillion global market by 2050. And we’ll announce a third expert to the mix soon. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

Existing investors, including Lightspeed India and Sequoia Capital India, also participated in the round, which brings the five-year-old startup’s raise to-date to about $35 million. This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. “We will be leveraging the power of our platform to do a lot more.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Register Healthcare infrastructure, digital health, pharma, and foodtech will be among the industries that will impact the world in 2-3 years, according to Angel Low , principal at early-stage venture capital investor and studio The Hive Southeast Asia. Don’t equate your urgent need with investors’ eagerness to serve you.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

The global real estate sector needs to act now if it is to halve its emissions by 2030 and meet the net zero target by 2050. The company currently has 150 employees across five European capital cities. Clients include AEW, Tikehau, Generali RE, DeA Capital, Allianz Real Estate, Warburg HIH, Azora Capital and Neinver.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The world is headed for a food shortage by 2050 as its population increases, so anything to make it easier for farmers to grow food will go a long way. The company also moved into a large laboratory early this year, and “finally had the place to deploy capital,” Aronov said. Meanwhile, Deere & Co.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

According to a recent McKinsey report , reaching net zero by 2050 could require a 60% increase in capital spending on physical assets compared to current levels. trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 The total investment needed amounts to $9.2 trillion annually allocated to low-emissions assets and enabling infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The world’s food supply must double by the year 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population, according to a report from the United Nations. “We have to double the amount of food we have to create by 2050, and if you look at where there are enough resources to grow food — all signs point to Africa.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2023

On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. Matthew Walker: S2G Ventures managing director of food and agriculture Matthew Walker has more than 10 years of experience in venture capital, investment banking and securities law.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050. The report first highlights the growth of venture capital on the continent over the past six years; within this period, investments in African startups have grown 18x. The continent’s investment story.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

In addition to Coatue, which led the round, existing investors Balderton Capital, New Wave, La Famiglia and 2050 also participated in the round. The platform’s network approach to carbon management helps corporations decarbonize across global supply chains, including for multinational giants like Saint Gobain and JCDecaux.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp According to a recent McKinsey report , reaching net zero by 2050 could require a 60% increase in capital spending on physical assets compared to current levels. trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 The total investment needed amounts to $9.2

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

trillion per year investment gap in renewable infrastructure that is required in order to meet our net zero targets by 2050. and speeding up the rate at which capital can be deployed in sustainable industries. For Greene, Banyan is about moving project finance from Web 1.0

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

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. One of the most notable trends in tech that has emerged during the pandemic is the steady commoditization of capital. Rising demand for meat is driven in part by the rise of a global middle class.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 18, 2022

About 430 million people suffer from moderate to complete hearing loss worldwide, a number expected to rise to about 700 million by 2050. Hearing loss can significantly impact multiple aspects of life, including the loss of the ability to follow spoken conversations. Ascend is based in Oklahoma City, OK.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The outlook is bleak: The United Nations estimates food production will need to double to feed the nearly 10 billion people expected to populate the planet by 2050. Overcultivation, human-made climate change and diminishing sources of water are all contributing to a future where food insecurity will be a gigantic problem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

billion by 2050, and members of this cohort — who are leading longer, active lives — have plenty of money to spend. In a candid guest post, Scott Lenet, president of Touchdown Ventures, writes about the cognitive dissonance currently plaguing venture capital. But has it affected the venture capital market?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Investors include Flexport, Transmedia Capital, Signal Ventures, Motion Ventures, Rebel Ventures, Y Combinator (Greywing was part of its winter 2021 batch) and Entrepreneur First. Today Greywing announced the launch of a new solution that will help vessel operators track carbon emissions created by crew changes, along with $2.5

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s decisions often align with linear economy principles and consumption habits ingrained by capitalism, leading us down the path of increasing waste generation. billion tonnes of waste projected by 2050, as highlighted by the World Bank, a paradigm shift is imperative. To combat the looming 3.40

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

There is growing awareness of the need to build capacity to remove CO 2 from the atmosphere to achieve net zero by 2050. The business is one of the lynchpins in the Norwegian government’s efforts to capture and store carbon emissions safely underground under a plan called The Longship Project.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

.’s 2008 Climate Change Act — and is funded by the Quadrature Climate Foundation, a climate-focused corporate social responsibility initiative launched by algorithmic trading tech firm, Quadrature Capital, in 2019. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K. and CEO of Code First: Girls, among others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s a whole lot of potential mouths to feed; seafood consumption is poised to nearly double by 2050, per researchers at Stanford. I know we are living in late-stage capitalism, but however I turn this, I can’t make this concept feel like anything but rent-seeking. – Harri Weber. – Haje Kamps.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

For example, researchers have found that Jakarta , Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh City are at risk of being underwater by 2050. Much of Southeast Asia’s economy is focused on regions that are especially vulnerable to the impact of climate change. There’s all this data out there about climate change and lot of it is quite academic.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Investors include Siemens AG, Japan Energy Fund and Mirae Asset Capital. . The EV startup-gone-SPAC did tout its access to enough capital to see it through the rest of 2022. Ford reached a deal with DTE Energy to power its electricity supply in Michigan with clean energy, a step toward its goal to become carbon neutral by 2050.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 4, 2022

Today, most of the decisions taken at that stage directly reflect the linear economy principles and the consumption habits instilled by capitalism – which takes us back to waste generation. To avoid some catastrophic 3.40

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And I think our project has an opportunity to be a nightmare for our enemies where, it is an opportunity for the leading venture capital investment funds and individuals in the valley to come together with the military in a location that can accommodate growth for the next 30 years.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

gigatons of carbon dioxide every year by 2050. . 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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The seed round was led by Astanor Ventures and followed on by a group of investors, including XAnge, Blue Horizon and Nucleus Capital. As I noted already this week , alternative proteins is a hot space attracting both startups and venture capital. We are also already looking for U.S. manufacturing sites,” he added.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

AUGUST 5, 2019

World Bank experts say that without urgent action, global waste will increase by 70 percent of current levels by 2050. She informs her clients about products through platforms like Instagram and Facebook, as well as by word of mouth.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

The company — which plans to expand into Asia as quickly as possible (China has been mandated by the country’s leadership to become “ a first-class football superpower ” by 2050) — has now raised $105 million in total funding.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2021

. • “If the world needs to be net zero by 2050, all of us must start today. It’s about our own determination in making capitalism work for everybody.”. • “Please join the Race to Zero. It is our moral imperative to do it now. The world is aligning. Every business, city, investor, school, university and club is invited to join.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

As the Telegraph newspaper first reported last month [paywalled], Hadean initially secured around $18 million in funding from investors including Chinese technology titan Tencent and InQTel , a CIA-backed not-for-profit venture capital firm based in Virginia, U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. trillion every year between now and 2050, according to McKinsey. And the potential market is enormous.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

SoftBank and Mubadala are joining private equity and financial investment giants Oaktree, UBS Asset Management and the European venture capital firm Target Global in providing the cash for the massive equity financing. As REEF acknowledges, cities are the future.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

If SVB rises from the ashes (seems like there is a glimmer of hope thanks to folks like Ro Khanna) — and we act to mitigate the weaponization of concentrated digital media — money may not become impossibly expensive for capital intensive technologies like robotics. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics?

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