Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Together, we aim to mitigate the negative impact of climate change and help to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming below 2°C by 2050. Christian Møller-Holst, CEO & Founder of Goodwings explains, “Flying, staying in hotels and even eating. About Impact Hub.

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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

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

JANUARY 10, 2022

There’s no stopping innovation, however, and alternative sources of protein are increasingly becoming a choice people would rather make. 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.

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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. This injection of $369 billion of government money is aimed at supporting and developing clean energy technology, manufacturing and innovation.

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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

it took in last month via an EU innovation grant under the bloc’s EIC Accelerator program. We first talked to Tanso back in fall 2021 when its trio of founders had just nabbed pre-seed funding. Tanso’s customers number in double digits at this point, per co-founder and CPO Gyri Reiersen.

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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. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Is that useful?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

The Subak incubator launched last summer — with a goal of making a tangible difference to not-for-profit climate action by linking eco-minded entrepreneurs and projects with an ecosystem of tech innovators who know how to scale projects and create global impact. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And we back a lot of immigrant founders, usually building companies, not cities. Jan: California Forever is an attempt to make sure that the Bay Area remains the center of innovation and prosperity that it’s been for the last 50 years. And so, it makes me upset and it makes me want to work on building it and making it better.

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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. So people are adding more of these services, and we credit that to the product innovation.”

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Forward Cities

JUNE 27, 2019

Deena Hayes-Greene, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Racial Equity Institute (REI) LLC. Val Tate from the Indianapolis Inclusive Innovation Council offered her appreciation of the presentation, “It was deeply moving. 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. StradVision , a South Korean perception processing company for AVs and ADAS, closed a $88 million Series C.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

He was previously the founder and CEO of Weebly, which sold to Square in 2018. He also is the co-founder of the GSB 20|20 Fund and a digital marketing company. 2° C, we need to reduce emissions to about 45% lower than 2010 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero by 2050. David Rusenko is a full-time climate tech investor.

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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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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

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. 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?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Worldfavor co-founder and CEO, Andreas Liljendahl, says he welcomes the thickening pack of sustainability reporting players — envisaging a future of rich collaboration and startup opportunity to cater to increasingly comprehensive and intertwined reporting requirements.

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