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. It’s these twin problems that Samir Ibrahim and his co-founder at SunCulture , Charlie Nichols, have spent the last eight years trying to solve.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 4, 2024

The climate tech startup was launched through a combination of highly skilled climate technologists and notable investors Following several years of research and development, Alphabet’s X – the moonshot factory has taken a major step forward in commercializing low-cost Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology.

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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. To develop its technology, Climeworks has raised more than $150 million from investors, including the Swiss lender Zuercher Kantonalbank. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Food production is both energy and water-intensive (“fun” fact: agricultural irrigation uses 70% of water worldwide ) and with the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 , it strikes me that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to use a bit less water to grow our food.

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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. That’s what InnerPlant founder and CEO Shely Aronov is trying to do with her startup that uses plant physiology to gather loads of data to make farming more efficient and sustainable.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

ZeroAvia is now developing and testing the certification-ready ZA-600 powertrain, which can fly a 10 to 20-seat aircraft up to 500 miles, the company said. “By 2050 everybody wants to be zero emission and net zero. 2050 is one vehicle lifetime away. It will also require government intervention.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Joe Devon is the co-founder of Diamond , a digital agency that builds accessible experiences. He is also a co-founder of Global Accessibility Awareness Day and chair of the GAAD Foundation. Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

“Some of these bugs only live as adults for like five days, so by the time you know you have a problem, the problem has already taken root and is now a bigger problem,” said Eamonn Keogh, a co-founder of FarmSense. Assisting on the development and deployment are entomologists and field specialists, including co-founder Leslie Hickle.

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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. Still, most startups persist in releasing products aimed at serving younger users, says Lawrence Kosick, co-founder of GetSetUp, an edtech company that targets 50+ learners.

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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. 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. from 2010 to 2019. “By

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. 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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The EU program aims to support homegrown startups to scale and the accelerator’s 2023 work program included “environmental intelligence” among a number of green tech areas of focus, aligning with the bloc’s overarching goal of becoming ‘climate neutral’ by 2050.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Many vessel operators are committed to bringing down carbon emissions for ethical reasons; they also need to comply with the International Maritime Organization 2030 and 2050 Decarbonization Targets. Greywing was created in 2019 after founders Clarke and chief technology officer Hrishi Olickel met at Entrepreneurs First in Singapore.

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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. As you can see, Deepki develops a highly specific SaaS platform for clients with very specific needs. Some existing investors are also putting more money on the table, such as Hi Inov and Statkraft Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

Founders and mentors/advisors (aka “fellows”) associated with the program include former policymakers, engineers and VCs, including former engineers at Google DeepMind, Songkick tech builders, an ex VP of Policy for Facebook, a former U.K. such as those seeking to develop greener products or cleaner industrial processes, etc.).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

” That pre-COVID transformation that Pichette is referring to is Hopper’s shift from being essentially a machine learning-powered lowest fare finder to what co-founder and CEO Fred Lalonde says is really much more of a fintech company. “Price freeze is a good example.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Labrie is the CEO and founder of the pre-seed startup GreenForges , an underground farming company founded in 2019 looking to take vertical farming technology underneath buildings. It’s a relatively low number; we’re talking 2 to 5% range for the cities of 2050. But Philippe Labrie is looking down.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wavemaker Impact’s founders: (from left to right) Quentin Vaquette, Doug Parker, Marie Cheong, Paul Santos, and Steve Melhuish. Wavemaker Impact is planning to a raise $25 million for its first fund and is currently looking for founders. Wavemaker Partners doesn’t just want to invest in climate tech and sustainability startups.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Worldfavor co-founder and CEO, Andreas Liljendahl, says he welcomes the thickening pack of sustainability reporting players — envisaging a future of rich collaboration and startup opportunity to cater to increasingly comprehensive and intertwined reporting requirements. .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The new institute will be headquartered Cambridge, Massachusetts and led by Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert, who transitioned away from the CEO role at the end of 2019, leaving longtime COO Rob Playter to take the reins. Driverless cars shouldn’t be a race, NYT’s Shira Ovide writes. Arrival , the U.K.-based

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2021

More than half the world’s population currently lives in cities – a proportion that will reach 70% by 2050 – which account for approximately 80% of GDP generated worldwide. But increasing inequality and exclusion in urban areas are undermining development progress – and threatening many lives.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And we back a lot of immigrant founders, usually building companies, not cities. And so, I think when people look back in 2050, they might say that this was one of the most interesting and lasting and impactful partnerships between the government and the military and Silicon Valley in the country. Katherine: Yeah.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2020

There are now about 50 million people with dementia globally , a number the World Health Organization expects to triple by 2050. one of Japan’s largest pharmaceutical companies, and Kuldeep Singh Rajput, the founder and chief executive officer of predictive healthcare startup Biofourmis. million in pre-seed funding.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In an interview with TechCrunch, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said that expanding into Africa presents the company with “an enormous opportunity,” adding that Stripe is planning for “a longer time horizon” than most other companies: “We are thinking of what the world will look like in 2040-2050.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

gigatons of carbon dioxide every year by 2050. . According to CIEL (Center for International Environmental Law), plastic production and incineration could produce 2.8

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Vow co-founder and CEO George Peppou told TechCrunch that scaling and manufacturing are the biggest single costs for the company and a driver for going after funding. To put this in perspective, it is feared that as the human population nears 9 billion by 2050 , a meat-centric diet will not yield enough calories to feed everyone.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

IDC predicts that by 2050, 50% of the world’s largest enterprises will focus the majority of their businesses on digitally enhanced products, services and experiences. Subscriptions are even coming from car makers such as Volvo. Volvo’s car subscription service sounds like good way to get the new XC40.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

Indeed, he was brought into Toca in 2019 to transform it from a manufacturing business that sells Major League Soccer teams a ball-tossing machine that Lewis had developed, to the services business it has become. He spent 14 years before that as an SVP with Universal Parks & Resorts.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Many companies in the alternative protein space are in the technology or product development phase, but scale is what will make-or-break it for some companies. Planetary is primarily working with fermentation companies, those using biomass and precision fermentation techniques to create meat and dairy alternatives.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

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. on potential partnerships). .” Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images).

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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. Today, about half the world’s habitable land is devoted to agriculture, yet even that amount can’t provide everyone with the sort of diet enjoyed by people in developed countries. Everything will just die, basically.”.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

And while the accelerator says it only looks at founders when investing in startups, not sector, category or idea, more money in the pipeline may be empowering enough to attract a different cohort of founders. Enter Integrated Reasoning , a startup that claims to be developing hardware for solving these sorts of problems in the cloud.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. Amid late last week’s slow news cycle, someone reached out to ask if I’d like to interview Brooks on the occasion of his receiving the IEEE Founders Medal at the IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony in May. More M&A?

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