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Carbon accounting platform acquired by Sage as ClimateTech heats up

TechCrunch

Terms of the deal were not disclosed but it’s understood Spherics had raised £1.25m in equity financing from angel investors and £300,000 in grants. Bristol seems to be making a habit of Climate Tech, also producing Ecologi Zero , real-time carbon footprinting software for businesses.

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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. . It’s hard to grow enough food to meet these needs, not to mention in a sustainable way and in a world where water is increasingly in short supply.

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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

For instance, 2050 will contribute to Université Paris Dauphine’s class on the ecological challenges of the 21st century. And I’m glad to see that 2050 understands that tech investment isn’t just about financing private companies. Arguably, this is the most interesting part of 2050.

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Fishy business: Rooser raises $23M for its seafood trading platform

TechCrunch

Soon, the plan will be to incorporate more quality control tools, supply chain finance, personalization for buyers and sellers to connect more likely trades; and further down the line, the startup will also bring more business intelligence and analytics into the mix for its customers.

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The Anatomy of a Pitch

Entrepreneur's Handbook

Apophenia is a term that explains this tendency to see patterns in randomness, across domains of finance, art, science, and games of chance. It served us well in the past, yet it’s time to adapt and change, or eventually perish — if the rapid degradation of our ecology is of any guidance. Vigilance and control is how we ensure safety.

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

This is going to be BIG.

It’s often some combination of the idea not being big enough to sustain a venture exit or the company just not being appropriate for venture financing. My company was not well executed enough to achieve venture capital financing—and that wasn’t the city’s fault, it was mine. I was there, too. They’re not “dumb Wall Street money”.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

Teach ‘em Finance and Chase or Accenture will come and pick ‘em up 30 at a time. If schools are going to participate in the growth of NYC’s innovation ecology, they’re going to have to change the way they operate, or they’re going to get lapped and left behind. It was easy peasy.

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