TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While that seems like common sense, most communities around the world don’t have tools that can monitor emissions and pollutants at the granular levels they need to develop plans that can address these pollutants. “We’ve built a platform that enables hyperlocal measurement. Image Credits: Greg Epperson/Getty Images.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Scaling green ventures: meet the innovators accelerating climate action In a world echoing with the urgent call for environmental change, the Impact Hub Network is committed to supporting innovative green ventures for a brighter tomorrow. At Impact Hub, we are dedicated to supporting green ventures in scaling their solutions rapidly.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

Consequently, the Bay Area experienced a surge, capturing over one-third of all early-stage venture funding in the U.S., Roads, bridges, and transport will make or break a city’s ability to grow its startup ecosystem and talent pool. marking its highest level since 2017. Seed- and Early-Stage U.S, Infrastructure touches everything.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

MAX ) is planning to enter more markets across Africa as it races towards formalizing the continent’s transportation sector after securing $31 million in Series B funding. It is another milestone in our journey to make mobility safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable by deploying high-performance technologies and operators.

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. Entrepreneurial development in rural areas is needed now more than ever.

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AsiaTechDaily

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The program has two distinct courses: The “Train” Track: Tailored for entrepreneurs prepared to launch with viable business plans, this track involves a 3-month venture-building program where participants receive a monthly stipend of $1,500 SGD.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and we work hard to lower our emissions across the board. Argo, a developer of self-driving technology, is now worth $7.5 That’s just scratching the surface of the money that’s pouring in to autonomous, electrified transport. billion investment announced in 2019.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

million in its inaugural funding round anchored by Singapore-based DeClout Ventures , the corporate venture arm of DeClout. Founded in 2022, Charged Indonesia aims to provide sustainable mobility options that are competitive in affordability and practicality for Indonesian customers as compared to traditional combustion motorcycles.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 31, 2021

How can we reinvent packaging for a more sustainable and better future? As a curious company with a constant drive to enable people to live a better everyday life within the limits of the planet , they are also invested in making packaging alternatives more sustainable and safer – to both people and our planet. Pitch to IKEA.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2024

Our mission is to go the distance by innovating at the heart of cement production and operating as a complement to other technological developments in the cement space,” explains Gurinder Nagra, Furno founder and chief executive officer. The demand for cement has grown exponentially over the last few decades as global development expands.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Lyft, Redwood Materials partner to recycle shared e-bike and e-scooter batteries “The goal of this fundraising was to accelerate the industrialization of our sustainable recycling process, which has been developed over years of research. For this round, 10x Founders also joined.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 4, 2023

Moreover, both companies plan to deploy joint renewable energy infrastructure for sustainable mobility endeavors. Through this fruitful partnership, Gentari and BMW are exploring various possibilities to advance the adoption of EVs in Malaysia , facilitating convenient and eco-friendly transportation options for consumers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

The judges for this pitch-off will be Yoon Choi (Muirwoods Ventures), Mar Hershenson (Pear VC) and Gabriel Scheer (Elemental Excelerator) on day one; and Sven Strohband (Khosla Ventures), Victoria Beasley (Prelude Ventures) and John Du (GM Ventures) on day two. Yoon Choi — Muirwoods Ventures. Alright, alright. .

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. A message from reporter Aria Alamalhodaei: “For the time being, your favorite mini-roundup of transportation policy news will be taking an extended hiatus. Tthe transportation world lost one of its leaders this week. A few items before jumping in.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The deal could pave the way for a new business that would offer carbon capture and sequestration services to commercial enterprises around the world, if the joint venture between Climeworks and the newly formed Northern Lights company is successful. Corporate sustainability initiatives may open doors for carbon offset startups.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. The fourth round of the Transit Tech Lab has launched and is looking for technologists to submit ideas on ways to restore customer confidence in public transportation, improve resilience to weather extremes, and further reduce the region’s carbon footprint.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

As a greater share of the transportation market becomes electrified, companies have started to grapple with how to dispose of the thousands of tons of used electric vehicle batteries that are expected to come off the roads by the end of the decade. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Additional investment came from Iris Capital, with strong participation from current investors, including Rider Global, Northzone, Cherry Ventures and the Italian venture fund H14. It also displays an emissions rating for possible transport options, allowing companies to track carbon emissions.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. First, it has been looking to promote more sustainable forms of transportation, both to reduce emissions and to reduce traffic on the roads. It has now made more than 2.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2022

In a sign that the market for logistics and transportation tech isn’t cooling (economic downturn be damned), HyperTrack , a startup offering APIs for freight order planning, assignment and tracking, today closed a $25 million Series A funding round. Business demands speed-to-market while development roadmaps continue becoming delayed.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2021

So what do we do about it, and how do we allocate our money, time and brainpower to develop solutions? While technological progress has been on an encouraging trajectory in energy and in transportation thus far, we are nowhere near done, especially in real estate and critical infrastructure. The financial imperative.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The investment came from the Bill Gates-backed Breakthrough Energy Ventures and the Ecosystem Integrity Fund , which led the company’s latest round, alongside previous investors Amazon Climate Pledge Fund, Horizons Ventures , Shell Ventures and Summa Equity. million cash infusion. million grant from the U.K. ”

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Revolution

JANUARY 10, 2019

Over the years, many of Revolution’s investments such as Zipcar, Sweetgreen, and Optoro have experienced explosive growth brought about by their ability to develop sustainable alternatives to problems consumers and businesses were facing in sectors like transportation, food, and e-commerce.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Main investors include TMT Investments, TLF Ventures, Flyer One and others.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

Fez Delivery , a Lagos-based last-mile logistics startup with hubs across Nigeria, has raised $1 million led by pan-African investor Ventures Platform with participation from Voltron Capital, Acasia Ventures and other angel investors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Serve Robotics, a name taken from the autonomous sidewalk delivery bot that was developed and piloted by Postmates X, has raised seed funding in a round led by venture capital firm Neo. It plans to ramp up research and development in the San Francisco Bay Area and expand its market reach through new partnerships.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

-based online university platform Nexford University has raised $8 million in a Series A round co-led by New Markets Venture Partners and Learn Capital, two prominent edtech venture capital firms in the U.S. that have invested in Pathstream, Udemy and Coursera. The West African country is the only market where the U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2023

Customers expect fast deliveries with visibility into each step, but costs — including transportation and raw materials costs — are rising thanks to inflation and other factors. Tive , a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raised $54 million last April. Overhaul’s monitoring dashboard.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 4, 2021

Market analysis: Our readers want to learn more about the latest developments in emerging technology sectors from people who have some sort of special viewpoint into the action. But the hopes of today, from personal well-being to the prosperity of cities to a sustainable planet, often feel out of reach. Alternative fundraising.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 4, 2022

million) on the back of strong demand for its tech from companies working in transportation and energy infrastructure. As with the larger opportunity in enterprise IT, big data players like LiveEO are essentially the second wave of that development: applications built leveraging that infrastructure. opens in a new window) license.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. million in a Series A2 round led by Blue Bear Capital and HSBC Asset Management with participation from Riverstone Holdings and Capnamic Ventures. Channel19 , a startup that developed software for refrigerated trucking companies, raised $2.7

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Before fintechs became the standouts of the African tech ecosystem, it was startups in the online logistics and transport space in Africa linking on-demand apps to move people and goods around the continent that was all the rave. He also detailed how the company faced them and its current state of stable growth and sustainability.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Founded in 2012, the accelerator is focused on developing early-stage companies tied to the University of California system. Building on technologies developed in the stem cell research labs of UCSF, EndoCrine is looking to commercialize a better way to discover and develop drugs. Image Credits: EndoCrine Bio, Inc. The Hurd Co.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2020

After scoring a job at the development firm Dalberg, then working in India and Ethiopia, Pal returned to the U.S. She initially thought she’d focus on transportation, but her mind kept returning to consumer consumption habits and the potential to reduce CO2 emissions by targeting consumer behavior.

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