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

TechCrunch

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. Hydrogen hasn’t been crowdsourced across the startup community because there just wasn’t a market for it, but I think the market may be emerging.”.

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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

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Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. billion in 2050. Lawrence Kosick.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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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. and China.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

And we back a lot of immigrant founders, usually building companies, not cities. 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. Katherine: Yeah. And we’ve purchased about 60,000 acres in that area.

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REEF Technology raises $700M from SoftBank and others to remake parking lots

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The money will be used to scale from its roughly 4,800 locations to 10,000 new locations around the country and to transform the parking lots into “neighborhood hubs,” according to Ari Ojalvo, the company’s co-founder and chief executive. It’s a different project, but it also has a number of supporters.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. ” 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. Will we see more closures? More M&A?