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Appleā€™s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies

TechCrunch

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?

Impact Hub

What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? Circularity-focused incubation and acceleration programs already exist, but there are two problems: There arenā€™t enough of them to transform the private sector as a whole. of the global economy is circular.

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

TechCrunch

SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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Circularity Tales: accelerating the transition in Rwanda

Impact Hub

What if all startup incubators and accelerators took the step towards integrating design principles that foster circularity? Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular.

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Why Convoyā€™s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

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. We were excited to work with them because they’re an incubator and accelerator, so their whole system is designed around helping founders succeed.

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E-mobility startup Charged Indonesia raises $4.5m to launch electric motorcycles

AsiaTechDaily

The lead investor, DeClout Ventures, is the corporate venture arm of DeClout, a builder of next-generation ICT companies that invests in, incubates and scales companies to become global or regional market leaders.

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LexxPluss expands into US with its warehouse robots

TechCrunch

” To help address the problem, Aso co-founded LexxPluss , a now two-year-old, Japan-based startup that designs and develop autonomous mobile robots to transport loads and optimize workflows within warehouses and logistic sites. with a fresh injection of about $10.7 million (1.45 million (5.26 billion yen). million (1.45 million (5.26