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Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality 

TechCrunch

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. By that same token, the new Climate Fund seeks to invest in startups that can help Toyota accelerate its goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Is there a creed in venture capital?

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Innovative businesses that support local communities

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

YLAI Network members Juliana Nieva de Castillo from Tucumán, Argentina and Julio César Bueno Cruz from Cali, Colombia illustrate two forms of social innovation and community support through unique business concepts. World Bank experts say that without urgent action, global waste will increase by 70 percent of current levels by 2050.

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Impact Hub Scaling Green Ventures: Meet The Innovators Accelerating Climate Action

Impact Hub

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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Scaling green ventures: meet the innovators accelerating climate action

Impact Hub

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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New report examines Africa’s growth in the digital economy and VC investment landscape

TechCrunch

The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050. New York-based Endeavor is a global community of “high-impact” founders across almost 40 underserved markets in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. The continent’s investment story.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

We’re proposing to build a dynamic walkable community on a portion of the property, and then surrounded with open space and renewable energy, both wind and solar. And because we didn’t do that, even the communities in the Bay Area were beginning to completely break in terms of social fabric. Why am I working on it now?

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Extra Crunch roundup: 3 lies VCs tell, betting big on Kubernetes, NYC’s enterprise boom

TechCrunch

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?