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

TechCrunch

Systemiq’s past deals include climate data company Jupiter , shipping data firm Nautilus Labs (whose co-founder later launched Bedrock ) and ESG-focused investing startup OpenInvest. Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . Last year, OpenInvest sold to J.P.

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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. The goal by 2030 is to establish an inclusive investment ecosystem, a support network for social enterprises, and position Bradford as a hub for social innovation and enterprise.

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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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Investing in Capacity Building: The Overhead Pledge

EntreWorks Consulting

Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. They can raise money for specific projects, but can’t invest in their people or in building up their organizations. Let’s hope that other foundations and other funders embrace this message as well. They fund projects, not organizations.

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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. The $12 million investment closed last year. Image Credits: Jitx.

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Startup Pitching 301

Paul G. Silva

These are the projections for a royalty-based investment fund. Entrepreneurs tend to explain to funders how they will spend money. Consult with teammates and mentors to create a list of the 3-7 high-priority questions your audience will ask. . Here is the normal way (BAD!!!!). This brings up lots of uncomfortable questions.

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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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