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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life. This is where the seed for the Feeding the City incubator was planted. Networks for change. Photo: Sutton Community Farm. Feeding the City.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. The country’s Federal Commission for Technology and Innovation (KTI) supports CTI-Startup and CTI-Invest, providing startups with investment and support. Ten years ago startups were unusual. What are some overlooked opportunities right now?

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

The fact of the matter is, most startups, particularly ones built by young professionals with no network and no track record, aren’t going to get funded. You can tell me all you want about how many patents were filed at Columbia or wherever, or what they do in revenues—the future of the innovation in NYC is not in hard technology.

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Spain’s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

TechCrunch

He highlights a couple of priority projects: One to create a network to link entrepreneurs and policymakers with the wider ecosystem, and another to connect incubators and accelerators to build out a national support network for founders — both of which have been inspired by approaches taken in other European countries.

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