Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

I am at once proud of and awed by Jonathan, whose dual-track passion for the future of food and the future of Appalachia has brought him to tears more than once since we first invested in early 2018. Our foundational investment thesis at Rise of the Rest is a simple one: we see opportunity first through the lens of geography.

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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

APRIL 23, 2021

Longevica’s CEO Aynar Abdrakhmanov, backing up his company’s aim to tap the desire for people to live longer, said: “According to the WHO, by 2050, 2 billion people will be 60+ years old. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested in Unity Biotechnology , which is developing drugs to treat diseases that accompany aging.

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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 new investment gives InnerPlant $22 million in total funding to date as it prepares to launch its first soybean product, in 2024. This time, Deere & Co.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Over the past decade, some of the biggest names in the tech, VC, automotive and aerospace industries have poured millions of dollars into developing electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. We’ll be announcing a third panelist soon.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

It’s the background of the team that first attracted investors like Pia d’Iribarne, co-founder and managing partner, New Wave , which made their first climate-focused investment into the software developer. . “We officially invested in December or January.”

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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

MAY 4, 2022

With its first electric vehicle now outselling the quintessential 911 sports car, the German automaker is responding by upping its bet on EVs, in part via a hefty investment in lithium-silicon battery developer Group14 Technologies. billion investing giant has a tendency to talk out of both sides of its mouth.

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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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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. About 430 million people suffer from moderate to complete hearing loss worldwide, a number expected to rise to about 700 million by 2050. President, Autigen and CEO of Ascend BioVentures.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund and Revaia are also participating in the investment. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The investment came from the Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the Ecosystem Integrity Fund , which led the company’s latest round, alongside previous investors Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Horizons Ventures , Shell Ventures and Summa Equity. “By 2050 everybody wants to be zero emission and net zero.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. The latest investment gives AgBiome over $200 million in total funding to date. The company, based in Research Triangle Park, N.C.,

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The investment breaks down into a €4 million seed raise, led by Cologne-based investor Capnamic, with existing investors including as UVC Partners also participating; and €2.5M Munch-based climate tech startup Tanso , which sells software to help industrial manufacturers carry out sustainability reporting and carbon accounting, has banked €6.5

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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. The total investment needed amounts to $9.2 trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 trillion annually allocated to low-emissions assets and enabling infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Assisting on the development and deployment are entomologists and field specialists, including co-founder Leslie Hickle. Shailendra Singh — the company’s CEO who has developed systems for wireless and cellular networks as well as security — works on the hardware side. Risk can keep people poor.

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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. The total investment needed amounts to $9.2 trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5

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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. Regulations can define the best places to build and invest. Regulations can define the best places to build and invest. The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

such as those seeking to develop greener products or cleaner industrial processes, etc.). It wants to help to drive investment in technology needed to decarbonise energy grids through 24/7 energy tracking. EnergyTag : Another energy-focused startup with a mission of accelerating the shift to renewable energy.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. In short, developing accessible digital products helps you reach a much larger audience, which will include you, your co-workers and your family. Here’s what it reveals.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. About 10 percent of our time.

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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. That’s a whole lot of potential mouths to feed; seafood consumption is poised to nearly double by 2050, per researchers at Stanford.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wavemaker Partners doesn’t just want to invest in climate tech and sustainability startups. Vaquette and Cheong first met the Wavemaker team when it invested in TablePointer , an energy efficiency startup that was one of the first companies to emerge from ENGIE Factory. “To It also wants to help build them.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Last March, Hopper raised $70 million in a round that saw Inovia Capital actually make its first investment in the startup — essentially at the very moment that things looked most bleak for the travel industry in general, and in particular for airfare-focused Hopper.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Investment in European micromobility businesses quadrupled since 2020 compared to 2018-2019, and that really may be the space to watch considering Europe has far more dense cities than the U.S. Hummingbird partnered with engineering firm Prodrive to create a plant-based e-bike called the flax Hummingbird. Arrival , the U.K.-based

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And we think that, particularly with American Dynamism and this revival in interest in investing in defense innovation, there’s a real opportunity to bring some of that back to Northern California. What does it look like when it’s fully developed? What do you hope it looks like?

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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. What is your investment thesis for proptech in 2023?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

At its core, Hadean is all about helping developers scale their codebase to support software that requires significant computing power, something that Minecraft demands particularly when it involves multiplayer engagement across the internet. Epic investment. A virtual world as illustrated by Hadean Image Credits: Hadean.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Even after the collapse of WeWork, the investors are doubling down on a similar business model as part of a syndicate investing $700 million into REEF Technology. Meanwhile, REEF Technology and Oaktree are collaborating on a $300 million real estate investment vehicle, the Neighborhood Property Group, as Bloomberg reported on Monday.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

But it’s hoping to develop more sophisticated tools, and even some form of automated auditing, whereby it would be applying machine learning technology that could identify anomalous-looking claims or changes to reporting history in order to catch erroneous reporting. . And we are super happy with that.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Of course, many — or even most — of the firms investing in those companies have strong presences in the South Bay and/or SF.

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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. For Kamman, Source.ag ” Source.ag

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