American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 30, 2024

The company recently moved much of its operations to a temporary site on Reads Way in New Castle near where construction on its new facility is ongoing. Their decision to grow in Delaware will help make our environment more sustainable and add jobs to our state.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2022

Three ways VC firms can construct sustainably diverse portfolios. Wing VC, which tracks financings by Silicon Valley’s most “elite” VC funds, reports that the median Series A financing by these firms grew by 38%, and corresponding pre-money valuation by 71%, both off previous record highs recorded in 2020.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Financing the future startup nation. Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

These predevelopment costs are necessary for the developer to incur before they can seek short-term construction financing. The Emerging Developer Fund will further the administration’s efforts to break barriers and foster growth,” said New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency Executive Director Melanie Walter.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The startup’s co-founder and CEO Mostafa El-Beltagy told TechCrunch that the mortgage financing plan is part of their strategy to introduce new products that are aligned with clients’ needs, ensuring sustainability for their business. This leaves a financing gap for pre-owned mortgages that Nawy now aims to bridge.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Although the Mount Holly-based restaurant, bakery, and catering service had a well-constructed website, the consulting firm helped the business add Google search words and social media to their website in order to increase traffic, and the owners learned how to use analytics to track success.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Investors include CCB Trust, a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, GGV Capital and real-time communication solution provider Agora, a long-time partner of Cocos. These revenue streams have been able to sustain Cocos, but the company is ready to accelerate growth, which is why it sought outside financing.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities. AI Stage: Covers the latest artificial intelligence tech related to NLG, speech recognition, virtual agents, biometrics, RPA, deep learning platforms, reactive machines, and P2P networks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Sustainable travel at the forefront. Infrastructure bill could promote lean construction via data capture. There’s a lot of excitement about construction tech among investors and entrepreneurs, but general contractors aren’t nearly as enthusiastic. Mainstream attention is increasing. An emphasis on noise pollution.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Overall, 40% of financing rounds had an angel representative of some sort (Director or Observer) at the close of the round and 70% of angel groups had at least one Board or Observer seat among their portfolios of 2022 deals. The median number of Director seats held by angel groups for their 2022 investments was 4.5, with an average of 5.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

billion boost from Generation Investment Management , a sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by Al Gore. I think I’ll use my credit card : Mary Ann reports that payments and software startup SpotOn has closed on $300 million in a Series F financing that values the company at $3.6 Startups and VC.

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StartupNation

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Dig deep into the documentation and see if the company is in a strong financial position and if they have a sustainable business model. They can include lease costs, construction and/or renovation costs, equipment costs, purchase of inventory and the ability to cover operations for up to six months.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

financing back in 2005, “climate change” was some future event. The next Jack Dorsey needs to create a new cement or other building material to create sustainable buildings. The next Steve Jobs needs to figure out how to consume, produce and transport water sustainably. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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Onevest

APRIL 21, 2015

Without this there is little point providing financing because there is no direction or plan to help you generate returns. Sustainability: Some startups by their very nature may be “flash-in-the-pan.” It's important that you as an investor know how you are going to make your money back with a suggested timetable in place.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Oklahoma’s Technology Business Finance Program (TBFP) Seed Fund is a nationally recognized best practices example of legislated early stage capital that has stood a 20-plus year test of time. Certain industries, for example real estate or finance, may be excluded. Some credits are transferable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The built environment’s whole process — including materials manufacturing, construction, heating and electricity, maintenance and demolition, drives an estimated 40% of greenhouse gas emissions globally. That’s when the duo pivoted from their first startup — a sustainable architecture crowdfunding platform, called Xquare.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2023

Like its original bird feeder, Bird Buddy’s new feeder — which features recyclable and sustainable materials — has a camera that’s triggered by motion, which prompts it to take photos of bird visitors. Billions for Bezos : Amazon secured an $8 billion loan, according to a filing with the U.S.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

Kyle Wiggers says several trends are driving VC interest in the future of work: In a down market, investors are looking for sustainable growth, “which tend[s] to be found among longer-lasting, ironclad business-to-business contracts for software tool suites.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Juno , a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 30, 2023

Marqeta has agreed to acquire two-year-old fintech infrastructure startup Power Finance for $223 million in cash, marking the first acquisition in the publicly-traded company’s 13-year history. Founded in early 2021 by Randy Fernando and Andrew Dust, New York-based Power Finance announced last September that it had raised $16.1

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Ryan Popple , a former active duty Army officer and early member of Tesla’s finance team who rose through the ranks before leaving to become a partner at Kleiner Perkins and CEO of electric bus manufacturer Proterra, died unexpectedly at 44 years old. Construction will begin in summer 2022 with production beginning in 2024.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook and the chief executive and co-founder of Asana, also participated in the round.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 26, 2015

Make sure you and your employees create good, sustainable work habits. Encourage, praise and criticize constructively. In the face of a new calendar year, here are 26 ways to improve and/or maintain office productivity: 1. Encourage a healthy work ethic. Be flexible about individual work styles.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Are we putting our energy into sustaining those relationships by being there to offer counsel or introductions? So, for example, when I first started here back in 2012, there was a ton of energy being put towards building a network of executive relationships that is now somewhat more about sustaining those relationships.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They started on the construction of a solar electric vehicle pre-prototype to prove that renewable energies can help solve the transportation emissions problem, and by 2015, they had a working model. “We came up with a vision to integrate solar on every vehicle and thought, Okay, what do we need for that?”

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Impact Hub

MAY 20, 2020

And there has never been a better opportunity than there is now to explore new methods of constructing and building a better tomorrow. This is a decade like no other, yet with turbulence comes reflection and change. An Opportunity To Tear Down Old Structures And Start Again.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

Planetary , a Geneva, Switzerland-based food tech company, is tapping into a new $8 million cash infusion to construct an industrial-scale production facility so that its customers leveraging fermentation technology can create and scale their alternative proteins quicker. In 2019, he started at Peace of Meat, which focused on cultivated meat.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Developing construction systems to create infrastructure and habitats on the moon, and eventually Mars, with NASA. These are just some of the things that Austin, Texas-based construction tech startup ICON has been working on. The financing brings ICON’s total equity raised to $266 million.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

While a portion of that is from the energy and materials required to construct buildings, the lion’s share — nearly 90% on an annual basis — comes from their use. There’s a lot of overlap between construction tech and proptech. We hear people make this distinction between proptech and construction tech all the time.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2022

At the time, Topi was somewhat vague in terms of what its actual product would be, but the company today announced its first product in partnership with German electronics retailer Gravis , and unveiled a fresh $45 million in equity and debt financing. . Hardware-as-a-service.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One of those companies, Oakland-based Mighty Buildings , just raised $40 million in Series B funding for its quest to create homes that it says are “beautiful, sustainable and affordable” using 3D printing, robotics and automation. For example, it says it can 3D print a 350-square-foot studio apartment in just 24 hours.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

” The financing brings the San Mateo, California-based company’s total raised since its 2008 inception to $600 million. At first, the company was focused on construction ADUs (accessory dwelling units), but now it is building multi-family homes and single-family homes at scale. .

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Not today, neighbor : Haje covered how Ergeon enables anyone to order construction projects like fences, driveways and more. The ability to raise capital is less impressive than finding sustainable ways to build a growing base of paying customers. This was something the Meta-owned unit was testing, so go forth and pin!

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Assess Your Professional Skills: Take an inventory of existing skills that can be used when starting up a business apply to a startup that includes sales, marketing, operations, financing, human resources, hiring, communication networking, problem-solving, and more. Seek out financial advice because it takes time to improve a score.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

An easing of laws around the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) around the U.S. What followed was an over a year-long nightmare and process around the feasibility, permitting and construction,” Czarnecki recalls. has opened up opportunities for companies that build such structures. Cottage is one such company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

Categories like construction, agriculture and health care, among others, were very much looking to automate. It’s just a financing question. If you’re an investor and would like to participate in future surveys, fill out this form. Investments began flooding into robotics around this time.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Fifth Wall led the financing, which notably also included participation from returning backer Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and new investors DoorDash CEO Tony Xu and StockX CEO Scott Cutler. Neighbor , which operates a self-storage marketplace, announced Wednesday that it has raised $53 million in a Series B round of funding.

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