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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

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based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. The incubator was founded by Baroness Bryony Worthington, who was the lead author of the U.K.’s

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SunCulture wants to turn Africa into the world’s next bread basket, one solar water pump at a time

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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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The biggest moonshots in YC’s S22 batch

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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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GreenForges digs deep to farm underground

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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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Mistaking performance for competence

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That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. Amid late last week’s slow news cycle, someone reached out to ask if I’d like to interview Brooks on the occasion of his receiving the IEEE Founders Medal at the IEEE VIC Summit and Honors Ceremony in May. More M&A?