TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Fernandez, founder and CEO, Sustainable Ocean Alliance (Seabird Ventures) Climate change is the elephant in the room. In particular, the philanthropic community is just starting to recognize that there is an urgent need to support efforts to develop ocean-based climate solutions. We spoke with: Daniela V.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Sustainability Stage: Tackles social and environmental solutions such as urban mobility, sustainable tech, green infrastructure, and new mobilities. CTA: Want to reach the biggest funders, founders and Disruptors? Sessions will include DeepMind and Benchmark. Sessions will include GitHub, Cloudflare, and Atlassian.

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Impact Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

Participants leave their programmes equipped with the tools and networks necessary for sustainable growth and success, demonstrating Impact Hub Bradford’s dedication to making a lasting impact in their community. The hub’s approach revolves around creating opportunities and benefits for women, young people, and people of colour.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

At Forward Cities we are committed to being a resource for cities ready to take these steps and fostering opportunities for shared learning and collaboration between cities, and we are keen to collaborate with funders and other regional and national organizations who share this commitment. Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The goal of EBLP is to collaboratively design, build, test, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will accelerate adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. Pava LaPere , Co-Founder & CEO at EcoMap (Sustainability Working Team).

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment. To date, our community has reached over 25,000 such impact-driven enterprises.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

If you slept on it, Accelerate2030 is the world’s leading program for entrepreneurial solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals. They believe in the power of business for transformative change and catalyze innovative startups in emerging and developing economies. .

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Though evidence, globally, shows otherwise, we’ve not yet had success in convincing the power players to adopt this as a priority in economic and community development. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. There are some positive signs today.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. The success of small/local business is incredibly vital for a sustainable economy.

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Surdna Foundation

AUGUST 3, 2020

In 2019, the Surdna Foundation Sustainable Environments team set out to better understand grantees’ progress to advance racial justice and deepen their participatory grantmaking and equitable evaluation practices. Takeaways for Funders. Funders should not see themselves as a separate entity, but rather a vehicle for change.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 3, 2024

Angels often make their first real impact post-investment by helping a portfolio company develop a “real” Board, by insisting on documented processes, key metrics and measures and a more rigorous approach to corporate oversight and accountability. Board Observer roles were almost equally part of priced equity or convertible note deals.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

With money from the Queensland University of Technology, where he is a professor of robotics, Dunbabin’s team developed a prototype underwater robot to reseed dying reefs with tiny coral larvae. They’ve been absolutely a dream funder.”. That makes Oceankind one of the biggest non-governmental funders of ocean science in the world.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

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. Shifting power.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There’s a lot of value in waste; just ask metals processing company Nth Cycle , which has developed a technology to help mining and recycling companies recover every bit of critical minerals from their operations. There, she received $500,000 in funding to scale the technology and prepare it for demonstration to private funders.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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Forward Cities

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Forward Cities is a national leader in developing and applying research tools that support communities to better understand the inner workings of their entrepreneurial ecosystems. Forward Cities is a national nonprofit equipping communities and regions to grow and sustain more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems. POSITION SUMMARY.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. Franklin County, Forward Cities. Side Hustles to CEOs.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. FRANKLIN COUNTY, FORWARD CITIES. Side Hustles to CEOs.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

Over time, we’ve developed a strong conviction that certain types of people, and certain combinations of those types, are many times more likely to productively persist in the way that eventually produces startup success. But it is also vulnerable and subject to decay at every step.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Existing backers such as Nextview Ventures and Florida Funders also put money in the round, in addition to a number of insurance and logistics groups such as Flexport. So we developed our own underwriting methodologies or underwriting tools into the operations and had the lowest incident rate in the industry.”.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

We take tech experts, teach them the policy process through an in-residence fellowship program in the Bay Area, and encourage them to develop outside-the-box solutions to society’s problems. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 21, 2021

Forward Cities is a national leader in developing and applying research tools that support communities to better understand the inner workings of their entrepreneurial ecosystems. Forward Cities is a national nonprofit equipping communities and regions to grow and sustain more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems. About Forward Cities.

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