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Apple’s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies

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Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change. Mosaic Global Transportation (Founder: Maurice H.

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What if all startup accelerators promote circularity?

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What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? One garbage truck of textiles is landfilled or incinerated every second – representing a lot opportunity of USD 100 billion annually. How will this look like and how will it impact ventures going through these programs?

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Circularity Tales: accelerating the transition in Rwanda

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These raw materials are finite, and to exacerbate the situation, the used products are largely dumped in various landfills, missing the opportunity for extra value creation, and adding pressure to the environment. What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity?

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Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

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“I saw a massive opportunity and few people going after it,” Lewis told TechCrunch. The following interview, which has been edited for brevity and clarity, is part of an ongoing series that focuses on founders in the transportation sector. TechCrunch+ is having a Memorial Day sale. What do you think made Convoy stand out?

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Pull Systems launches out of Up.Labs-Porsche partnership to tackle EV performance

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“We see a great opportunity for us to automate a lot of what is essentially the rules based kind of conclusions for these different software updates.” It’s not a corporate accelerator or incubator either, although it is building startups and working with corporations.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

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Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. We’re going to have a much bigger opportunity by focusing on some not-so-sexy stuff.”. .”

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8 founders, leaders highlight fintech and deep tech as Bristol’s top sectors

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Bristol is also home to an important startup accelerator, SETsquared. A collaborative effort by the five universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey, the accelerator has supported over 4,000 entrepreneurs and helped their startups raise a total of £1.8 This offer is only available to readers in the U.K.

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