TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Often, industries that have great potential to be disrupted are also the most resistant to adopting bleeding-edge technology. Even so, investors are backing startups bringing robotics, data management, automation and augmented reality into the construction process. With the industry representing about 6.3% of the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

. “The target customers are corporations — or basically any company that already is public or is considering becoming public,” explains Orly Glick, CEO and co-founder at ESGgo. The product itself is focused on data collection; from the first 50 companies ESGgo spoke to, they learned that there were no tools available.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

The investment was AfricInvest’s first involvement in an AI startup, a decision based on InstaDeep’s founders selling a global vision to the Pan-African private equity firm. One of the reasons we founded InstaDeep was to show that there was real potential and opportunity for AI in Africa. In 2019, InstaDeep raised an $8.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Founders and investors have started to look for opportunities to conserve, and even enhance, the ocean’s resources rather than exploit them. While energy and agriculture are further along the J-curve, the oceans sector is more nascent but presents an investable opportunity that impacts almost every sector of the global economy.”

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Some of the opportunities involve machines, while an equal amount of opportunity lies in the software behind the machines. Finishing is the ripest for disruption. We are early in automating surveying, planning, marking and completing basic construction tasks using robots of various kinds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Besides my experience, I read and talk about diversity in tech every day, so when I was offered a chance to speak to three founders from underrepresented groups at TechCrunch Disrupt, I was eager for the opportunity. 3 founders share strategies for navigating bias and building confidence. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

Congressional committees have held scores of hearings, lawsuits have been filed and legislation has been introduced to regulate privacy and data collection. NVCA-Pitchbook data on acquisitions and IPOs back up the sentiment of founders when it comes to likely exit opportunities.

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