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Meet the YC Winter 2024 Batch

Y Combinator

What we call “the office” has very quickly become more of a campus, and the energy of this campus is unlike anything else in startup land. As Jared Friedman put it recently : YC’s new home is the most concentrated focal point the early stage startup ecosystem has ever seen.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.”

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The Next Wave of Climate Tech

Revolution

Awareness is higher; the technology and data exists; and the global community understands and is invested in progress.” These weren’t a match with the venture model as they were hard to scale, capital intensive, took many years to commercialize, and many of them relied on renewable energy sources that were astronomically expensive.

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Without Black representation in climate tech, ‘the planet will burn’

TechCrunch

Historically, the Black community in the U.S. Relegated for decades to a vulnerable economic and social class, the community is nearly always at risk of facing the brunt of natural disasters, no matter where they occur. The Black climate tech community is growing, according to investors and founders TechCrunch+ spoke to.

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Biotech Startup Automera Raises $16 Million in Series A Round Led by ALSP and ClavystBio

AsiaTechDaily

ALSP’s Executive Vice President and Automera board member, Alice Chen, expressed ALSP’s collaboration with the Singapore biotech community to enhance the technological advancements and programs being developed by Automera.

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Gregslist – The Strange Attractor

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Igniting Startup Ecosystems. What ignites a startup ecosystem? Thriving startup ecosystems are good for the economy, good for society, and good for pretty much everyone. Thriving startup ecosystems are good for the economy, good for society, and good for pretty much everyone.

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Forge North Coalition Announces First Close of Fund to Invest in Black, Brown and Women Entrepreneurs in Minnesota

American Entrepreneurship

Lead investors include Allianz Life, Allina Health, Xcel Energy, and Abōva. This first close is a great step for further driving inclusion and innovation among our startup community in the Twin Cities,” said Jasmine Jirele, President and CEO, Allianz Life. Paul startup ecosystem.