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Founders from MIT With a Plan to Change How We Grow and Eat Food

Both Sides of the Table

Tack on the challenges with land, bee population decline, heavy use of ecologically destructive fertilizers and pesticides and extreme food waste and this adds up to a real global challenge. . The initial investment certainly wasn’t a consensus decision at Upfront, but that’s how we invest. We loved the idea. With conviction.

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Rebuilding the California Dream 

Andreessen Horowitz

California has long been ground zero for the new: new technologies, new frontiers, new arts and culture. From a cultural perspective, I grew up on a diet of Hollywood culture and movies and TV shows. And so, there’s a lot of cultural heritage and history of that. And I think there were two influences.

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5 Tips for Making Time to Make a Difference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In essence, he has affected a widespread and sustainable change in economy and culture throughout his corner of the world. Maximize your impact by investing your time wisely. For a detailed description of how Vishal has cultivated a culture of entrepreneurship in small villages across Kolhapur, turn to our companion piece in Inc.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support.

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Entrepreneurs reflect on value of i2E’s e3 mini-accelerator

Innovation 2 Enterprise

We have a mission at i2E to invest in entrepreneurs and help them build successful high growth companies right here in Oklahoma. PLANT SEADS – Tulsa-based Plant Seads – an acronym for Sustainable Ecology, Adaptive Design – has a mission to create long-term sustainable vertical gardening solutions to benefit the environment.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. So it will be something of a milestone. So that’s our job.” France and Germany.

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Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

TechCrunch

“It’s all an investment into the future,” says CEO and co-founder Dr Robert Gerlach. At the same time, food is of course cultural, personal and, at times, political — what we eat (or don’t) can often be incredibly polarizing. ” The startup’s work doesn’t stop there.