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

Both Sides of the Table

It’s something Yves Sisteron & I have been talking about for years at Upfront Ventures. 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. . eliminating herbicides & pesticides.

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Rebuilding the California DreamĀ 

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. What is your pitch to employers to tell them to come to Solano County? And I think there were two influences.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerlandā€™s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerlandā€™s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners.

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