TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Just some of these investors include Google co-founder Larry Page, United Therapeutics founder Martine Rothblatt, UP.Partners co-founder Cyrus Sigari and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun — along with corporations such as Airbus, American Airlines, Boeing, Honda and more. . What are the costs and benefits?

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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 18, 2021

The new round — a Series C — for the Hyderabad-headquartered startup was led by Salesforce Ventures, the venture arm of the American enterprise giant. This is one of Salesforce Ventures’ rare investments in Asia. Salesforce Ventures is exploring more investment opportunities in India, he said.

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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

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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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund and Revaia are also participating in the investment. Some existing investors are also putting more money on the table, such as Hi Inov and Statkraft Ventures. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The investment came from the Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the Ecosystem Integrity Fund , which led the company’s latest round, alongside previous investors Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Horizons Ventures , Shell Ventures and Summa Equity. 2050 is one vehicle lifetime away.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Investors include Flexport, Transmedia Capital, Signal Ventures, Motion Ventures, Rebel Ventures, Y Combinator (Greywing was part of its winter 2021 batch) and Entrepreneur First. 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

MARCH 9, 2021

The deal could pave the way for a new business that would offer carbon capture and sequestration services to commercial enterprises around the world, if the joint venture between Climeworks and the newly formed Northern Lights company is successful. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green.

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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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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

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

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. Perhaps there is a venture market for the future of flight.

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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. The continent’s investment story.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And we back a lot of immigrant founders, usually building companies, not cities. And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked. Katherine: Yeah.

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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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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

The seed round was led by Astanor Ventures and followed on by a group of investors, including XAnge, Blue Horizon and Nucleus Capital. As I noted already this week , alternative proteins is a hot space attracting both startups and venture capital. This is Brandes’ second venture in alternative protein.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

gigatons of carbon dioxide every year by 2050. . Investors include the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), and existing bakers W23, the venture capital arm of Sydney-based supermarket giant Woolworth , and Main Sequence. .

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2021

million/£14 million) in Series B fundraising from Element Ventures, MiddleGame Ventures, Nineyards Equity and Visa, to expand its open banking technology to banks globally. Step in Minna Technologies , which sells in its subscription management services into banking apps. It has now raised $18.8 million (€15.5

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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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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Via TechCrunch by Arman Tabatabai: Venture capital has been flooding the various subverticals under the robotics umbrella in recent years, and the construction space is one of the largest beneficiaries. Last November, we surveyed 13 of the top robotics-focused VCs to find out which areas of robotics are exciting them most going into 2020.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to the accelerator, the decision to downsize the S22 batch — significantly smaller than its most recent batches — was a result of the economic downturn and changes to the venture funding environment this year. When it comes to ‘bets,’ a reminder that we don’t invest due to the sector/category/idea; solely the founder.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The Series A was led by SEB Private Equity, which is part of Nordic corporate bank SEB, with existing investors Brightly Ventures and Spintop Ventures also participating. million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas. The raise brings Worldfavor’s total raised to date to €13.4

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The money will be used to scale from its roughly 4,800 locations to 10,000 new locations around the country and to transform the parking lots into “neighborhood hubs,” according to Ari Ojalvo, the company’s co-founder and chief executive. It’s a different project, but it also has a number of supporters.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why so much of our robotics coverage revolves around startups and venture funding. That’s doubly the case if you’re a founder who can see the end of the runway looming on the horizon. Murielle Thinard McLane, Intuitive Ventures: Robotics capitalization strategies will shift. Will we see more closures?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The round is led by Chris Sacca’s climate focused Lowercarbon Capital fund, with participation from Passion Capital, Giant Ventures and firstminute Capital, as well as the founders of companies including Revolut, Monzo, Infarm and Unity investing in a personal capacity. The pre-seed is notable for its size.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Vow co-founder and CEO George Peppou told TechCrunch that scaling and manufacturing are the biggest single costs for the company and a driver for going after funding. To put this in perspective, it is feared that as the human population nears 9 billion by 2050 , a meat-centric diet will not yield enough calories to feed everyone.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Food production is both energy and water-intensive (“fun” fact: agricultural irrigation uses 70% of water worldwide ) and with the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050 , it strikes me that it wouldn’t be a bad idea to use a bit less water to grow our food.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

In an interview with TechCrunch, Stripe CEO Patrick Collison said that expanding into Africa presents the company with “an enormous opportunity,” adding that Stripe is planning for “a longer time horizon” than most other companies: “We are thinking of what the world will look like in 2040-2050.”

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