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NJEDA Seeks Information to Support Commercial Building Decarbonization Projects

American Entrepreneurship

WHAT: The NJEDA is exploring the creation of programs, especially around project financing, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from existing and new commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings within the state. The RFI can be found at [link] with responses due by July 6.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

AI has also begun to play a bigger role in the construction supply chain, production scheduling, labor management, insurance and financing, risk assessment etc. According to UN forecasts, the number of people living in cities is expected to double by 2050, growing from 3.5 Innovative new startups are continually entering the space.

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Now Is the Time for Racial Equity in the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

Forward Cities

The statistics presented included infant mortality, maternal mortality, reduced life expectancy, educational achievement gap, income gap, school suspensions and discrimination in banking and finance. Val Tate from the Indianapolis Inclusive Innovation Council offered her appreciation of the presentation, “It was deeply moving.

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Plastic: The Problem And Its Impact

Impact Hub

This blog post is part of a wider campaign aiming to share knowledge about environmental challenges within our communities. Plastic waste is expected to quadruple from 2010 to 2050 and global recycling capacity will only cover 1/3 of the waste. By 2050, it is predicted that there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans.

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener

TechCrunch

trillion every year between now and 2050, according to McKinsey. Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn. We are also spending significant time in areas like IoT and sensors, where innovations can have a potentially big impact on the climate.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

” Here is what they told me: Peter Barrett, Playground Global: Why the venture community decided to call in an airstrike on their portfolio companies is quite beyond me. How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? I asked a few investors, “How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups?”