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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. So why is this a moonshot?

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Mistaking performance for competence

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In addition to the usual story roundup, I’ve asked a small cross section of investors a simple question with a complex answer: How will the SVB events impact robotics investing and startups? Of course, many — or even most — of the firms investing in those companies have strong presences in the South Bay and/or SF.