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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Venture Capital is a tricky industry. When the early teams: angels, lowercase capital & first round capital funded Uber they had no idea it would be one of the most revolutionary ideas of our time. I’m an equal opportunity funder but having a personal mission a few deals can be healthy, too. Far from it.

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Freightify lands $2.5M to make rate management easier for freight forwarders

TechCrunch

million in pre-Series A funding led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital, with participation from Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns and Blume Funders Fund. Freightify can be integrated with freight forwarders’ existing transport management systems, which track the movement of cargo.

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

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

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From ‘literally zero’ experience to $100M, this VC is raising his second climate tech seed fund

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.” He’d recently left an inflation-trading job at Bank of America, where the work was “not fulfilling in the slightest,” Peciulaitis said in a nod to the bank’s reputation as a major funder of fossil fuels. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

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She matches startups with potential funders and customers, connects students and talent to potential employers and works with academia to commercialize research. Previously, she was a partner at Ajax Strategies where she led midstage investments across energy, transportation, agriculture and industrial applications.

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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

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The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way. The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. They’ve raised $15.5

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10 investors predict MaaS, on-demand delivery and EVs will dominate mobility’s post-pandemic future

TechCrunch

The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just upend the transportation industry. Rachel Holt , co-founder and general partner, Construct Capital. COVID-19 disrupted virtually every sector of the transportation industry. What is the fundraising model of success for transportation startups of the future?