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. These markets make up 32% of Africa’s population, 51% of the continent’s mobile network connections, 50% of its professional developers and 51% of its GDP. from 2010 to 2019. “By The continent’s investment story.

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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. trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 As part of our global environmental strategy, Impact Hub is dedicated to supporting green ventures in scaling their solutions rapidly.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Series A was led by SEB Private Equity, which is part of Nordic corporate bank SEB, with existing investors Brightly Ventures and Spintop Ventures also participating. million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas. The raise brings Worldfavor’s total raised to date to €13.4

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Scaling green ventures: meet the innovators accelerating climate action In a world echoing with the urgent call for environmental change, the Impact Hub Network is committed to supporting innovative green ventures for a brighter tomorrow. trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 The total investment needed amounts to $9.2

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

based commercial EV startup turned publicly traded company, slashed its delivery plans from 400 vehicles to 20 as it postpones development of its battery-electric buses and shifts gears to focus on vans. Driverless cars shouldn’t be a race, NYT’s Shira Ovide writes. Arrival , the U.K.-based

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. What does it look like when it’s fully developed? What do you hope it looks like?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

SoftBank and Mubadala are joining private equity and financial investment giants Oaktree, UBS Asset Management and the European venture capital firm Target Global in providing the cash for the massive equity financing. on potential partnerships). .” Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images). As REEF acknowledges, cities are the future.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Numi’s products are still in development, but the company is already boasting about a moonshot-sized goal — to capture 30% of the seafood market in 10 years. That’s a whole lot of potential mouths to feed; seafood consumption is poised to nearly double by 2050, per researchers at Stanford. – Harri Weber.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. ” 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. It’s a lens through which we attempt to view technology at large.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Having the opportunity to learn from the founders you back is by far one of the most rewarding parts of being a venture capital investor. the company’s DNA is wired with an urgency that meets the moment: the United Nations has predicted that by 2050 we will need up to 50% more food to meet a rising population and growing middle class.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

stake, in order to launch a joint venture. Octopus will own 30% of the venture, with Tokyo Gas owning the majority. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has set a target of reaching net-zero by 2050. Residential renewable energy developer Swell is raising $450 million for distributed power projects in three states.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

million in a round led by Boston fund One Way Ventures for its longevity company that will leverage AI to maximize people’s health span. 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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The deal could pave the way for a new business that would offer carbon capture and sequestration services to commercial enterprises around the world, if the joint venture between Climeworks and the newly formed Northern Lights company is successful. We are enthusiastic about this collaboration with Climeworks.

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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. Don’t miss this important and fascinating discussion about t he impact of air mobility on urban planning and development. .

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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. million in a seed round in 2021, led by MS&AD Ventures, and is now back with $16 million in Series A funding. The company raised $5.65 This time, Deere & Co.

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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2021

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. The global population of people older than 65 will reach 1.5

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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. Decarbonization Partners, for example, is a joint venture between BlackRock and Temasek.

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AsiaTechDaily

JUNE 26, 2023

The funding was secured through the issuance of new shares to investors, including Osaka Gas, Century Tokyo, Sumitomo Mitsui Auto Service, and Pegasus Tech Ventures. Japan’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and transitioning to a decarbonized power supply underscores the importance of expanding the adoption of EVs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund and Revaia are also participating in the investment. Some existing investors are also putting more money on the table, such as Hi Inov and Statkraft Ventures. 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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Investors include Flexport, Transmedia Capital, Signal Ventures, Motion Ventures, Rebel Ventures, Y Combinator (Greywing was part of its winter 2021 batch) and Entrepreneur First. Rainmaking launches Motion Ventures to boost innovation in the maritime industry. million in seed funding. of the world’s commercial fleet.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Today, the Singapore-based firm announced the launch of Wavemaker Impact , a venture builder that identifies potential business opportunities, finds seasoned entrepreneurs to turn those ideas into startups and acts like a co-founder as companies scale. Wavemaker Partners doesn’t just want to invest in climate tech and sustainability startups.

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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. The team has landed a $1.7

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Dream It

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to United Nations data, by 2050, one in six people in the world will be over age 65, up from one in 11 right now. Meanwhile, in Europe and North America, by 2050, one in four people could be 65 or older. Today, the startup is announcing $8 million in Series A funding co-led by S3 Ventures and Tensility Venture Partners.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Blackbird and Prosperity7 Ventures, an Aramco Ventures growth fund, co-led the Series A and was joined by Toyota Ventures, Square Peg Capital, Grok Ventures, Cavallo Ventures, Peakbridge, Tenacious Ventures, HostPlus Super, NGS Super and Pavilion Capital.

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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. . Investors include the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), and existing bakers W23, the venture capital arm of Sydney-based supermarket giant Woolworth , and Main Sequence. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

million/£14 million) in Series B fundraising from Element Ventures, MiddleGame Ventures, Nineyards Equity and Visa, to expand its open banking technology to banks globally. Step in Minna Technologies , which sells in its subscription management services into banking apps. It has now raised $18.8 million (€15.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The seed round was led by Astanor Ventures and followed on by a group of investors, including XAnge, Blue Horizon and Nucleus Capital. As I noted already this week , alternative proteins is a hot space attracting both startups and venture capital. This is Brandes’ second venture in alternative protein.

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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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