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

TechCrunch

Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . The consulting giant, which pulls in an estimated $10 billion a year in revenue, also has a lengthy history of work with many of the world’s top polluters. Last year, OpenInvest sold to J.P. Systemiq was co-founded by McKinsey veterans Jeremy Oppenheim and Martin Stuchtey.

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Small Business Resources Essential for Starting a Business

American Entrepreneurship

Small Business Administration (SBA) and offer free or low-cost consulting, training, and assistance to entrepreneurs. They also provide a range of in-house services, are a great place for networking with fellow entrepreneurs and can be a source for outside resources that includes funders who attend incubator events and programs.

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Impact Hub Bradford: journey in inclusive innovation

Impact Hub

This programme, born out of extensive consultation and codesign, focuses on social innovation, offering a blended investment approach. 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

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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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Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Global Transport Receives Airbus Ventures Funding

American Entrepreneurship

The convergence of technology, talent and funding now makes the vision of one-hour hypersonic global transport within reach—so say the co-founders of Venus Aerospace and its most recent funder Airbus Ventures. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport.

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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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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. We are also proactively sharing our data with Candid and signing on to data-sharing initiatives, such as the Climate Funders Justice Pledge. Learning together.

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