Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 29, 2021

During the event, three keynote speakers discussed case studies and shared resources, experiences and ideas in leading sustainable organizations: Gonzalo Munoz , Co-founder and CEO, TriCiclos. Jay Coen Gilbert , Co-Founder of B-Lab and Co-chair of Imperative 21. Jennifer Case , President and CEO, New Leaf Biofuel.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Lawrence Kosick is the co-founder of GetSetUp , the largest online learning community designed specifically for older adults. 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. Lawrence Kosick.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

By that same token, the new Climate Fund seeks to invest in startups that can help Toyota accelerate its goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050. Toyota Ventures has been an invaluable partner for Boxbot since they invested in our seed round in 2018,” said Austin Oehlerking, co-founder and CEO of Boxbot, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Co-founders Rachel Delacour and Nicolas Raspal were the co-founders of BIME Analytics, which was acquired by Zendesk. The new European climate-focused investment firm 2050 , and La Famiglia , a fund with strong ties to big European industrial companies, also participated alongside several undisclosed angel investors from the Bay Area.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2023

On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. Charles Denby: Berkeley Yeast co-founder and CEO Charles Denby is a scientist turned entrepreneur. In case you missed it, July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. clean diesel).

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

She said 65% of Asia’s population will be elderly by 2050 and with that the cost of elderly healthcare is expected to grow by 5X from 2030. Aside from market forecast, Low also tells AsiaTechDesk about The Hive Southeast Asia, the mistakes founders make when raising money, and the other sectors that will see increased interest.

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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. Some existing investors are also putting more money on the table, such as Hi Inov and Statkraft Ventures. This represents a huge market opportunity for Deepki.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

“India is home to one of the world’s youngest populations, and by 2050, it is expected to account for over 18% of the global working age population,” said Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairperson and CEO, Salesforce India, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

The company’s co-founder and CEO Rachel Delacour sold her previous startup to Zendesk , and was left with a big enough chunk of change that she didn’t need to work again. ” Rachel Delacour, CEO and co-founder at Sweep. Image Credits: Sweep. ’ These companies are not new, they are not digital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

trillion per year investment gap in renewable infrastructure that is required in order to meet our net zero targets by 2050. The climate founders’ guide to the Inflation Reduction Act The $25 million funding round was led by climate software investor Energize Ventures.

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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. 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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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

The outlook is bleak: The United Nations estimates food production will need to double to feed the nearly 10 billion people expected to populate the planet by 2050. Josh Tetrick, co-founder and CEO of Eat Just, said the movement is here even if people are not buying a lot of lab-grown meat yet. “It

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For Val Miftakhov, the founder and chief executive of ZeroAvia and a serial entrepreneur whose last company, eMotorWerks, was sold to Enel, the flights prove out his thesis that hydrogen power is the answer for the aviation industry. “By 2050 everybody wants to be zero emission and net zero. 2050 is one vehicle lifetime away.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2022

But a United Nations report estimates that we’ll need to double global food production by 2050 to meet the needs of 10 billion people. Rising demand for meat is driven in part by the rise of a global middle class. In an in-depth post, Fernandez explains alternative financing for startups, and how to tell which option is right for you.

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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

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. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green. We are enthusiastic about this collaboration with Climeworks. miles below the seabed in the North Sea. “This awareness.

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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. The co-founders have a balance in backgrounds. – Harri Weber. – Haje Kamps. hospital systems.

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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

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. and China.

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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. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K.

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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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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. Kamran Rashid , Co-Founder and CEO of Impact Hub Bradford.

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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

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

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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Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

Deena Hayes-Greene, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Racial Equity Institute (REI) LLC. For those that need to hear the business case for racial equity, REI shared a great reality check- “by 2050, (I’ll be about 70 y.o.), So normal that for many it feels innocuous. However, it is anything but. racial equity gap.

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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. BMW and Toyota will team up to produce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles starting mid-decade.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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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

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

JUNE 29, 2021

The newest round of funding for Toca comes from earlier investors WestRiver Group, RNS TOCA Partners, and D2 Futbol Investors; they were joined by new investors, including angel investor Jared Smith, the co-founder and former COO of Qualtrics.

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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

APRIL 19, 2022

Brandes also expects the supply chain to look different in two years due to the market being so large and alternative protein products in demand, especially with the need to feed a global population that will be 9 billion by 2050. The Good Food Institute reported that this particular sector raised $1.7 We are also already looking for U.S.

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