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Hong Kong’s Brinc Launches Climate Tech Program to Support Early-Stage Startups in Carbon Dioxide Removal Solutions

AsiaTechDaily

Register Hong Kong-based Brinc, a renowned global venture accelerator, has announced the launch of its Climate Tech program, specifically tailored for early-stage startups in the field of climate technology. Headquartered in Hong Kong Brinc is a prominent global venture accelerator that operates 13 accelerator programs across seven countries.

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Circularity Tales: environmental entrepreneurship in Dakar

Impact Hub

Named “Wërngël-Bi”, a term in Wolof that translates to “The Circle”, the circularity programme at Impact Hub Dakar supported different entrepreneurs carrying out projects that ranged from eco-construction to ecological toilets. Founder of the Cactus Innovation venture, El Hadji Malick Sagne was another participant of the programme.

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

TechCrunch

Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. These are the investors we interviewed: Jasmin Heimann, partner, Ringier Digital Ventures. Philipp Stauffer, partner, FYRFLY Venture Partners.

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

TechCrunch

The broad-brush goals for the strategy are to increase growth in startup investments; attract and retain talent; promote scalability; and inject innovation into the public sector so it can bolster and support Spain’s digital development. “What we do is that work of coordination with all the ministries.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. Pet Angel Pet Angel is the premier pet death care company providing unparalleled cremation services to Veterinarians within a national B2B rollup strategy.

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Why Yelp should pay attention to not shooting itself in the face (and what ripping off Foursquare and taking big money from Elevation mean)

This is going to be BIG.

Undoubtedly, that kind of strategy will actually work against Yelp in today’s ecology. Given that the people that actually pay Yelp, venues, only care about reach—by scaring off innovative partners who might want to work with the company, Yelp is doing a disservice to its long term value creation strategy for itself and its customers.

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