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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

TechCrunch

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. Older adults are the most underserved demographic for the tech world. They’re also one of the fastest-growing age cohorts. per year (compared with 0.8%

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The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch

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That’s a whole lot of potential mouths to feed; seafood consumption is poised to nearly double by 2050, per researchers at Stanford. Another part of me just can’t get over how fantastically bleak it is to essentially enable people to sell a part of their future net worth to investors. – Harri Weber. – Kyle Wiggers.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

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The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. Photo: Kina Mama. A translocal collaboration is born.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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Finishing is the ripest for disruption. According to UN forecasts, the number of people living in cities is expected to double by 2050, growing from 3.5 Nearly two years ago, we set up our first credit fund to provide products like asset and project finance and built out financial tools focused [on] asset-enabled businesses.

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TrueCircle scoops $5.5M to use AI to drive recycling efficiency

TechCrunch

So the disruption potential — and revenue ‘opportunities’ — look huge. We have a chance here to disrupt a $20BN per year industry through a much more digitalized trading infrastructure.” Problems that scale all over the globe, too. “I think this is the thing that gets us all super excited. .