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Woodchuck Raises $3.75M to Combat Construction Waste Crisis with AI-Driven Biomass Energy Platform

American Entrepreneurship

The Michigan based startup empowers contractors, manufacturers, and energy producers to reduce costs, meet sustainability goals, and contribute to a cleaner energy grid through its AI platform that uses machine vision and data modeling to improve the quality and consistency of biomass. million seed funding round. million seed funding round.

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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Fintech startup Parafin innovatively tackles this challenge through its embedded finance infrastructure used by partners such as DoorDash, Amazon, and others. Founded in 2020 by Poddar and Vineet Goel, the startup has provided nearly $1 billion in annual funding for tens of thousands of small businesses in the U.S. and Canada.

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8 Must-Have Tips to Protect Your Startup

StartupNation

Launching a startup is an adventure filled with uncertainty, excitement, and plenty of unexpected challenges. We’ve put together eight ways to safeguard your startup—from how you build your team to managing your finances, and choosing the right tech. It means building a resilient, adaptable, and innovative company.

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Decarbonizing the Already-Built Environment: Inside Carbon Reform’s Utility Partnership

Revolution

Inside the startup–utility partnership that’s testing how we can make existing buildings cleaner, smarter, and ready for a lower-carbon future. You’ve built a climate tech company focused on retrofits, not new construction. But so much of the real challenge and opportunity lies in bringing what’s already here up to speed.

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How One-on-One Mentoring for Entrepreneurs Can Transform Your Business Journey

American Entrepreneurship

On the business side, they face hard decisions about establishing the right marketing strategy for their products and services, gaining timely access to capital to grow their business and dealing with the day-to-day operations. Entrepreneurs are presented with both business and personal challenges as they travel their entrepreneurial journey.

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“I think viewing your board as an audience to be ‘sold’ to instead of a partner in your journey will orient your board to be less trusting and collaborative.” Five Questions with Nilam Ganenthiran, Former President of Instacart

Hunter Walk

For startups, a good Board is better than no Board, but a bad Board is worse than anything. But sometimes the CEO takes the initiative to recruit an absolute gem and that was the case with ResQ , a software startup servicing the hospitality owners and service/repair vendors. I got a text from Apoorva asking if we could reconnect.

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Local, Circular, Resilient: How Cambium is Shaping the Future of Material Supply Chains

Revolution

Examples like the Wood First recycling initiative in Sweden show that a 50% reduction in construction-related carbon emissions can be achieved by repurposing urban wood for public construction projects. Reclaiming wood significantly reduces carbon emissions.