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The Unified Theory of Food Investing for Tech VCs

This is going to be BIG.

I don't think that there's much of an investable ecosystem around poop unless you're doing biofuels or chemicals around environmental remediation. The industries involved in getting food literally from farm to table is enormous--bigger than most areas tech VCs are investing in now. An investor in Farmingo is investing in commerce.

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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. . The initial investment certainly wasn’t a consensus decision at Upfront, but that’s how we invest. We loved the idea. With conviction.

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Subscription carbon offsetting platform Ecologi hits $8M total raised, includes General Catalyst

TechCrunch

startup Ecologi , which uses the funds to plant 1 million trees every 10 days in places like Africa and Latin America, as well as doing things like protecting peatlands in Indonesia. In April, Ecologi closed a seed investment round of $5.75 That’s partly the thinking behind U.K. million (£4.05

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EO Members Share Entrepreneurial Trends for the New Year

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Travel is going to be one of the biggest investments companies will make, and it will be well worth it. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being invested in this sector for commercial-scale facilities. Investors and consumers prefer businesses that prioritize ecological impact and sustainability. Immersive customer experience.

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10 Key Buildings in the Brooklyn Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

It's even more relevant now that I've started the first venture capital fund in Brooklyn-- Brooklyn Bridge Ventures --and invested in four Brooklyn based companies. Want to get involved in this community in some way--working for these companies, moving here to start one, angel investing, bringing more creative space online?

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

When Marc Cenedella first started TheLadders, he build the first version himself after investing $350 in MySQL and PHP books to teach himself to code. It’s as if the plan for creating a startup is: Step #1: Come up with an idea. Step #2: Pitch investors. What ever happened to “build it”?

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Five common misconceptions about building a startup in New York City

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Much of the equity investment that goes on happens through people you’d never think of. Just because there’s only a handful of VC bloggers in NYC doesn’t mean there aren’t 100’s… and yes, I mean 100’s of smart, experienced places to turn for investment in NYC. Do you have a Bose radio at home? They’re all doing pretty well.

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