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JULY 10, 2022

USV TEAM POSTS: Hannah Murdoch — Jul 6, 2022 Investing in Climate Adaptation Albert Wenger — Jul 5, 2022 Progress vs. Categories Nick Grossman — Jul 2, 2022 USV Algorand Transparency Statement, Q4 2021 – Q2 2022.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Data can reveal insights into a country’s economic health, cost of doing business, business climate and labor quality. . While they might not be the best in any one category, they generally offer an environment that is amenable to startups in terms of business costs, business climate, labour quality and strength of the economy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Mitigating the effects of climate change and pollution is a global problem, but it’s one that requires local solutions. The interconnected crises of climate change, public health and environmental justice urgently require lasting solutions,” said Herzl, in a statement. Image Credits: Greg Epperson/Getty Images.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The SDGs are 17 goals and 169 targets to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change by 2030. Unfortunately, our current linear economy produces enormous amounts of waste—and electronic waste is one of the fastest-growing categories to address. Earth’s population is expected to swell to 9 billion people by 2030.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2022

It can also apply carbon emission factors to procurement categories (such as delivery, accommodation, electricity, and travel). “We Global emissions are still rising fast, and we need immediate and meaningful climate action across the world.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Helping fuel that demand is the need for banks to attract and retain a generation of customers that increasingly care about sustainability and the need to tackle climate change. Image Credits: Meniga. Last month, Íslandsbanki became the first Nordic bank to implement Meniga’s Carbon Insight solution into its own digital banking offering.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. Anyone looking to make a quick buck should avoid the category at all costs. No one can accuse the category of being a hype bubble. What categories are the most underserved by robotics startups? Absolutely.

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Dream It

APRIL 8, 2020

Jason Calacanis ( @jason ), angel investor in many category-defining companies, including Uber, Thumbtack, Wealthfront, Robinhood, and Calm, says you absolutely should. Obviously, investors will be more conservative in this economic climate. Where should you focus if you’re trying to raise right now?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. But for category leaders, there’s potential for significant upside. What would you say is the difference between the two?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2022

is a really apt term is I’m just naming certain categories of software that I know well, but I fail to see a future where all of those [categories], given the advances in compute and data and algorithms, don’t get more intelligent. Visual generation is not an existing software category. The reason I think that software 3.0

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Shaun Abrahamson, Urban Us Our goal for the Urban Us portfolio is to play a major role in getting the world’s largest cities to zero emissions, while also reducing climate-related risk by a factor of 10 for people and assets. We expect physical infrastructure to become much larger, driven by climate adaptation and mitigation.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Climate change is a problem important and pressing enough that investors have begun to grasp the opportunities that arise when trying to solve it. Climate change used to be more focused on terrestrial operations. The world’s oceans and its climate have always been tightly coupled. Climate change has been a topic for decades.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. Climate + CleanTech. Space + Security.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

On Earth Day, April 22, SOSV published the SOSV Climate Tech 100 , a list of the best startups that we’ve supported from their earliest stages to address climate change. A TechCrunch story captured the investment perspective, and an SOSV post went deeper into the companies’ category breakdown and founder profiles.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

One of Shelf Engine’s first celebrity investors was Joe Montana, and Kalb said partnering with celebrities enables the company’s mission to eliminate food waste and address the climate crisis to be made more aware. B2B software is not as glamorous, but the climate has become a big issue and something many celebrities care about,” he added.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

And Heura is taking credit for 80% of local plant-based category growth (although it should be noted that Spain remains one of Europe’s biggest consumers of animal-based meat so growth of alt-proteins is starting from a low base). But the plant-based meat category has been deflating somewhat of late after earlier heavy hype.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It will also deliver unprecedented opportunity for entrepreneurs — and the investors backing them — who can turn their climate tech ideas into commercialized products and services, whether that’s plant-based foods, carbon capture, electric vehicles or battery recycling. Are people ready for climate tech?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

How is the current economic climate impacting your deployment strategy for the next year? based early-stage investor: My goal is to deploy the same amount every year, but the climate has led to far less interesting companies/founders raising rounds, so I will probably deploy 20%-30% of what I want to.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

The strategy is to divide countries into four categories based on market development and specific risk profiles. In matured markets such as South Africa, Adenuga said BII will have an on-the-ground presence and offer its full suite of services ranging from climate finance, funding for financial inclusion, and equity and debt financing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

While an allegory, this political piece reflects the climate reality for many. Despite this sizable footprint and impact on climate, lack of awareness and the real estate industry’s sluggish pace of tech adoption have hampered action until recently. Climate technology solutions across the real estate value chain.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2016

Invoca is the market leader in a hot and growing category: marketing automation for telephony driven by the explosion in smart phones where a phone call is a single click of a button. We cut price and doubled down on an aggressive campaign to call back people who had been on the fence given the economic climate of prices dropping.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

The key element in the new eco-score that’s coming up is that there will be some differences within a product category because ingredients and farming methods are different,” Asdaghi said. You can’t have a true climate strategy if you don’t have some collaboration across the chain,” Asdaghi said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Because soils constitute the largest carbon sink outside oceans , the planet is going to need sustainable farming practices to deal with the climate crisis. It will also launch a web3-based DAO called Solid World to help farmers and other carbon projects finance CO 2 sequestration.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. . The reason we’re all here – the XTC Category and Special Awards Winners get their chance to pitch their transformative tech ideas to a panel of expert judges and hear their feedback.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2022

If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. The five-year-old firm is targeting $100 million for its second seed-stage fund, and it’s doing so smack in the middle of a climate-tech dealmaking boom. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

New Age Meats is starting with sausage because it is one of the foods that had the fastest way to market, but the company will eventually move into other meat categories like beef and chicken, Spears said. The investment follows $7 million of seed rounds previously raised from a group of backers including RXBAR founder Peter Rahal.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

New data from Battery, for example, details a corporate software spending climate that is far from moribund; for startups that sell software to other companies , this is great news. Let’s dig through the good news first and then discuss which software categories are lagging behind their peers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2023

The 10 speakers — in each category — who receive the most votes will present their topics at the show. You pick the sessions you want at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Specifically, you help decide which of the 17 roundtable discussions and 15 breakout sessions will earn a spot on the Disrupt agenda.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

. “We are convinced that startups will continue to be key in providing the innovation required to finally bring the digital world to the real world, and that they will help produce industrial goods in a sustainable manner and thus strengthen supply chains and tackle climate change.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2022

As the global startup market digests a changing valuation environment and climate for venture investment, not every sector is taking the same amount of damage. Instead, it’s the tried-and-true software-as-a-service (SaaS) category that appears to be in the best shape to fend off a slowdown in private-market investment.

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Y Combinator

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The biggest categories were in engineering (35%), sales (17%), operations (15%), and marketing (13%). YC has been investing in a wide range of startups – from climate to collectibles to asteroid mining – so you can find one that aligns with your passions and interests.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

I also think that femtech is a hyped category but funding as well as renown exits are still missing. How should investors in other cities think about the overall investment climate and opportunities in your city? What are you looking for in your next investment, in general? I am looking for easy, scalable solutions with a great team.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We are also developing even more affordable products in existing product categories – sofas and mattresses,” said Kouskalis. We were impressed by MoKo’s climate friendly local production capabilities. Digital-first brand. This, they say, has helped the team to work efficiently and increase production.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2023

That’s where UiPath and the larger automation market — robotic process automation, or RPA — may have an edge on other software categories. Today’s cost-conscious business climate could give RPA a boost by Anna Heim originally published on TechCrunch Let’s talk about it.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

With the climate crisis looming, lots of companies want to do their part. We started Pledge to enable any company to launch high quality and verified climate products in the easiest and fastest way possible.”. But asking customers to “offset the CO2 emission of this delivery” is usually a hammer to crack a nut.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

The fresh cohort includes startups that are attempting to introduce tools to simplify workflows as well as solve bigger challenges including climate change. Some noteworthy startups from earlier Surge cohorts include Doubtnut, Scaler Academy, Khatabook, Bijak, Classplus, Hevo Data, Juno, Atlan, BukuKas, Plum and Apna Club.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

. “Yet we have also seen a significant increase in [average contract value] from purchase to renewal in mission-critical and sticky software categories, like CRM or email.” Meanwhile, Aisha writes that TikTok overhauls its community guidelines , adding some new policies on AI and climate misinformation. Ivan reports.

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