TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

The longevity space is a growing sector for tech startups. Longevica’s CEO Aynar Abdrakhmanov, backing up his company’s aim to tap the desire for people to live longer, said: “According to the WHO, by 2050, 2 billion people will be 60+ years old. And Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin invested $2.4 Late last year Humanity Inc.

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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. million jobs due to Google’s $1 billion investment in the continent. The continent’s investment story. From 2020 to 2021, it grew 2x faster than global startup funding, it said.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Register The startup ecosystem, including Pangyo Techno Valley, is rapidly aligning with the ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) trend. Their heightened interest is reflected not just in their demand for ESG reports but also in surging investment volumes.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

This will be used to strengthen venture capital ecosystems and invest in early-stage companies in order to address development challenges through technological innovations in climate, health care, education, agriculture, e-commerce, and other sectors. But despite all these, growth potentials remained enormous across these regions.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register Singapore-based InterContinental Energy has secured $115 million in equity investment to advance its mission of scaling up green hydrogen production. “We launched Hy24 to catalyze the development of the hydrogen industry at scale by investing in hydrogen leaders and entrepreneurs,” stated Hy24 CEO Pierre-Etienne Franc.

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2023

This strategic partnership will help catalyze the investment in companies that are making substantial contributions towards the global target of achieving a net-zero economy by 2050, according to the announcement.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In an interview with AsiaTechDaily, Low said the rapidly aging population, rising number of diseases and healthcare cost, and poor dietary habits, among others will be among the factors that will increase the need for startups in the industries mentioned above. What types of companies/sectors do you look to invest in?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

But one of the things I’ve learned on my journey in co-founding my latest startup is that technology should be enabling and accessible to all, and nowhere is this more critical than for empowering our older adults. billion in 2050. Older adults are one of the most underrepresented audiences for new technology products and platforms.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

It’s the background of the team that first attracted investors like Pia d’Iribarne, co-founder and managing partner, New Wave , which made their first climate-focused investment into the software developer. . “ We decided to invest before we even closed the fund,” d’Iribarne said of the investment in Sweep.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

So it also didn’t surprise anyone that this reduction would trickle down into other regions; for instance, eight startups in Africa got into the accelerator this summer compared to 24 from the previous batch , representing a 60% reduction. Therefore, it is plausible that being an in-person event has led to fewer African startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

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. government minister and a former MD of Microsoft for Startups U.K. and CEO of Code First: Girls, among others.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

based distributed, spatial computing startup that’s setting out to build the infrastructure for the burgeoning metaverse, has closed a $30 million seres A round of funding from a high-profile cast of investors including Epic Games and Tencent. Epic investment. Hadean , a U.K.-based and metaverse applications.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

And that investment trend shows no sign of slowing any time soon. During his career, he has been recognized as an innovative executive with a reputation for transforming startups into global businesses. Gysin and Sigari bring an abundance of knowledge and experience in eVTOL and UAM from both the builder and investor point of view.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Wavemaker Partners doesn’t just want to invest in climate tech and sustainability startups. He says the firm has already identified over 50 issues that startups can address in sectors like land use and carbon sinks, agriculture and food, industrial processes and energy. It also wants to help build them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. trillion every year between now and 2050, according to McKinsey. What is your investment thesis for proptech in 2023?

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 4, 2024

The climate tech startup was launched through a combination of highly skilled climate technologists and notable investors Following several years of research and development, Alphabet’s X – the moonshot factory has taken a major step forward in commercializing low-cost Direct Air Capture (DAC) technology.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

The latest investment gives AgBiome over $200 million in total funding to date. As a result, Uknes said he was particular about the kind of investment partners that would work best toward that goal. We don’t want to pollute the Earth, but we have to find a way to feed 9 billion people by 2050,” Obloj said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

With its first electric vehicle now outselling the quintessential 911 sports car, the German automaker is responding by upping its bet on EVs, in part via a hefty investment in lithium-silicon battery developer Group14 Technologies. The startup claims that its SCC55 material can store 50% more energy than traditional graphite anodes.

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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 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. What happens to her green card process?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Investments in this sector are heating up, though. 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. Also known as cultivated or lab-grown meat, this process uses cells from animals to make meat without slaughter.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Enter FarmSense, a Riverside, California-based agtech startup attempting to solve the insect pest problem. It disincentives investment in technologies that would raise income on average, because the future is unknown,” Carter said. Risk can keep people poor. Image Credits: FarmSense.

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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. Investors are hungry for startups to throw their money at, but VC funding isn’t always the right option at all times or for every startup.

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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. “We have to double the amount of food we have to create by 2050, and if you look at where there are enough resources to grow food — all signs point to Africa.

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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. “By 2050 everybody wants to be zero emission and net zero.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Canadian travel startup Hopper has raised a $170 million Series F round, led by Capital One. “And second is our thesis at Inovia — we invest in companies with the mindset of, ‘Does this company have a shot at being a global company? .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. People deciding whether to invest in accessibility often ask themselves how many people are going to use the feature. The startup advantage. Here’s what it reveals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Based in the Netherlands, blossoming agtech startup Source.ag The Series A funding, led by Astanor Ventures and including investments from Acre Venture Partners and several of the Netherlands’ leading greenhouse operators, will enable the development of two new products: Source Cultivate and Source Control.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2022

French startup Deepki has raised a $166 million Series C funding round (€150 million). Bpifrance’s Large Venture fund and Revaia are also participating in the investment. 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

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. .” Image Credits: Worldfavor.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

Munch-based climate tech startup Tanso , which sells software to help industrial manufacturers carry out sustainability reporting and carbon accounting, has banked €6.5 million in early stage growth funding. it took in last month via an EU innovation grant under the bloc’s EIC Accelerator program.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

But companies will also need help acquiring and operating their EV fleets — and this is where a new startup called Papaya is setting out to play its part. recently announced as part of its $1 trillion infrastructure bill. ” And to help take things to the next level, the London-based company today announced that it has raised $3.5

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Old-school systems probably didn’t quite do it for old-school oil and gas investments, but they damn sure don’t cut it for newer, greener, more sustainable technologies. trillion per year investment gap in renewable infrastructure that is required in order to meet our net zero targets by 2050.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Investment in European micromobility businesses quadrupled since 2020 compared to 2018-2019, and that really may be the space to watch considering Europe has far more dense cities than the U.S. The EV startup-gone-SPAC did tout its access to enough capital to see it through the rest of 2022. billion into shared micromobility companies.

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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. Matthew Walker: S2G Ventures managing director of food and agriculture Matthew Walker has more than 10 years of experience in venture capital, investment banking and securities law.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 18, 2022

About 430 million people suffer from moderate to complete hearing loss worldwide, a number expected to rise to about 700 million by 2050. Ascend BioVentures is a virtual pharmaceutical accelerator focused on supporting startups focused on preclinical drug development. For more information, visit www.otologicpharma.com.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

According to a recent McKinsey report , reaching net zero by 2050 could require a 60% increase in capital spending on physical assets compared to current levels. The total investment needed amounts to $9.2 trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 trillion annually allocated to low-emissions assets and enabling infrastructure.

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