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Systemiq secures $70 million to fund early-stage climate tech founders

TechCrunch

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . ” In practice, it’ll fund key areas like regenerative land use, oceans, transportation and the circular economy.

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Small Business Resources Essential for Starting a Business

American Entrepreneurship

The following is a list of helpful resources for an entrepreneur starting a small business: Public & Private Grants to Small Businesses Having sufficient capital is a major challenge for starting and growing a business. Small Business Administration (SBA) and offer free or low-cost consulting, training, and assistance to entrepreneurs.

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Nuview emerges from stealth with plans to map the Earth using lidar

TechCrunch

Graumann, an Earth observation (EO) industry veteran who was most recently consulting for EO companies and startups with his company TerraMetric, said he repeatedly heard from customers who wanted to fuse their dataset with lidar data. Graumann said the idea for the company “struck [him] like a thunderbolt.”

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Impact Hub Bradford: journey in inclusive innovation

Impact Hub

Local Access Programme: building resilience and social innovation In collaboration with Access and Big Society Capital, Impact Hub Bradford leads a consortium that secured £6.6 This programme, born out of extensive consultation and codesign, focuses on social innovation, offering a blended investment approach.

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Jitx wants to change the way engineers design circuit boards using code

TechCrunch

The startup began as a design consultancy helping companies design circuit boards, but they discovered this way of bringing more automation to the design process and began building the solution they have today, originally for themselves, before making it into a product. Image Credits: Jitx. The $12 million investment closed last year.

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Tech Nation looks for new home as UK Gov hands tech ecosystem contract to Barclays

TechCrunch

We have exhaustively explored whether Tech Nation could continue without core government grant funding, but have concluded after extensive consultation that this is not an option.” “There’s such a gap in equity for Northern funders still.

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Startup Pitching 301

Paul G. Silva

Entrepreneurs tend to explain to funders how they will spend money. Bad example: “This round of financing will be used primarily on working capital to keep us alive until we’re ready for the next stage.”. Consult with teammates and mentors to create a list of the 3-7 high-priority questions your audience will ask. .

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