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Breakthrough Energy Fellows announces 3rd Cohort to accelerate Climate-tech Innovation

American Entrepreneurship

With the goal of getting the world to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Breakthrough Energy’s fellows program seeks to help innovators accelerate their clean technology. Climate innovators are critical players in the fight to solve the climate crisis.

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Salesforce leads $15M investment in Asian HR tech platform Darwinbox

TechCrunch

We are a product-led firm and our focus will remain on innovation in that space,” he said. I’m proud that Salesforce is supporting Darwinbox on their journey as they continue to grow and innovate in this space.” . “We will be leveraging the power of our platform to do a lot more.

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Hopper raises $170M and partners with Capital One on a new cardholder travel booking portal

TechCrunch

This is Hopper’s second raise in a year that has been marked by turmoil for the travel industry, owing to the disruptions caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. And one that’s working really surprisingly well is the disruption insurance.” “But we’ve actually outgrown our pandemic attach rate.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas. trillion USD by 2030.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Finishing is the ripest for disruption. Of the sub-verticals in construction that tend to cost the most (structural support like concrete and steel or mechanical and plumbing), not many can be automated because of the complexity of the task. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

How best would an adversary attack innovation in robotics? Why bother with a cyberattack when a few well-placed uppercased words from apparently reputable sources can wound thousands of our most innovative companies? Rodney Brooks (Rethink Robotics) at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2017. Fair enough.