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. trillion annually allocated to low-emissions assets and enabling infrastructure.

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

The rush to grow, outrun, and disrupt runs in the lifeblood of today’s entrepreneurs, driving their fervor and enabling them to capture markets from giants of industries too big to maneuver in a quickly changing landscape. Startups are the embodiment of frenetic action.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

“We need to create awareness with different stakeholders to ensure that battery recycling is given the attention it deserves to enable a circular economy in battery usage.” The lead investor of this round is World Fund, while previous investors include Vsquared Ventures and Speedinvest.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 15, 2024

Furno’s innovative design also allows producers to build cement plants that are compact and cost-efficient, and enables them to add incremental capacity as needed. The Furno Brick helps mitigate these costs by enabling pre-fabrication and standardization, thus drawing down production, installation and permitting expenses.

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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.

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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

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. The tech-enabled startup, launched by Fadl Al Tarzi in 2019, is filling affordability and relevance gaps in education.

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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 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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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 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. ” Climate resiliency .

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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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Impact Hub

JUNE 3, 2019

“She Breaks Barriers” program for ventures removing the barriers faced by girls and young women in sport. It aims to inspire and enable girls and young women under the age of 25 — who at this age are at particularly high risk of being systematically shut out of sport. Teams have the chance to co-create with adidas and win €15,000.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2023

Terra Drone said today it has raised $14 million in Series C funding from Wa’ed Ventures , the venture capital arm of Saudi Aramco , marking the VC firm’s first investment in Asia. ” Note: The original version of this article has been updated to include that Unifly has a presence in Europe and North America.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

million in a seed round in June 2020 and followed it with $10 million in debt from emerging markets-focused venture debt fund Lendable in December. Existing investors include Change Ventures, the lead investor from Planet42’s seed round, as well as Startup Wise Guys, Martin and Markus Villig of Bolt, and Ragnar Sass of Pipedrive.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

A spin-off from LanzaTech , one of the last surviving climate tech startups from the first cleantech boom that’s still privately held, LanzaJet is taking a phased investment approach with its corporate backers, enabling them to invest additional capital as the company scales to larger production facilities.

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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. “We enable more non-experts to use satellite data. Today, a Berlin-based startup called LiveEO , which has built a satellite analytics platform to do just that, has raised €19 million ($19.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2023

The clean tech sector received the greatest VC interest in Kenya, as it accounted for nearly half of the total capital raised by Kenyan private venture-backed companies — buoyed by Sun King’s mega round and M-Kopa’s funding.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Aclima , a decade-old startup founded by Davida Herzl, is looking to solve that problem and has raised $40 million in new funding from strategic and institutional venture capital investors to accelerate its growth. “We’ve built a platform that enables hyperlocal measurement. Image Credits: Greg Epperson/Getty Images.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 10, 2020

As to the challenges that he faced in starting and sustaining a business , Lethlean admits these obstacles provided important lessons. Such a service-based model enables entrepreneurs to become part of a solution. Here are six lessons from his journey as a business owner. THE ESSENCE OF A GOOD BUSINESS IS SIMPLE.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

This results in operational cost reduction by eliminating the need to replace their existing fleet and yields a safer, more efficient and sustainable transportation system,” CEO Raghavender Sahdev tells TechCrunch. The Hurd Co. Image Credits: The Hurd Co. The Hurd Co.’s Publica is Shopify for Digital Content.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

It has raised upwards of $91 million in venture capital to date. M is a fully managed, tech-enabled living space for older adults in the United States. The company also offers add-on services and amenities, including freshly prepared meals, grocery delivery, fitness programming and accompanied transportation. Part of UpsideH?M’s

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OurCrowd

JUNE 10, 2022

I am super excited to be on the platform,” says Nas Daily icon Nuseir Yassin, Founder of Nas Academy , his new company backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners. Amazon praises CropX for supporting sustainability. June 12: Meet Nas Academy Founder Nuseir Yassin. “I The world of education is changing. We help creators on the internet teach.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

“Their expectations for quality commercial vehicles, on demand service, flexible financing and tech enabled security features spurred us to innovate. For enterprise customers, like health food company Cornucopia, e-cargo delivery vehicles like a Trailer Trike or a Covered Trike are used to deliver goods sustainably.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Sustainable travel at the forefront. Transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan interviewed Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko about his company’s transition “from using a hardware-as-a-service model to a take-rate scheme that gives it 10% of any sales made from its card payment-enabled bots.”. Mainstream attention is increasing.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2022

And when it comes to reducing real estate’s climate footprint, according to Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), the path starts with adopting technologies that enable green certifications such as LEED and BREEAM. As the saying goes, you have to spend money to make money. Image Credits: SVB Capital. Design and construction.

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OurCrowd

OCTOBER 10, 2021

The AutoBrains platform is based on a mature self-learning technology which mimics human perception by fusing together multiple sensor inputs including cameras, LIDAR, radar and audio, to create a single representation of space, enabling the system to handle extreme situations like heavy fog or a torrential downpour. Learn More. .

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

How would this impact ventures going through these programs and the environment at large? . Impact Hub Kigali is part of the process and has recently concluded the Circular Economy (CE) Acceleration Program, a unique 6-month program dedicated to enabling startups to become more circular.

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TechCrunch

MAY 19, 2021

German battery analytics software company Twaice has been taking aim at this problem since its founding in 2018, and it announced Wednesday that it has raised $26 million in Series B funding led by Chicago-based Energize Ventures. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 28, 2022

million in Series B funding, co-anchored by global venture firms GSR Ventures and Square Peg. Increasingly, cities are choosing to limit the number of micromobility operators by awarding long-term contracts to the best operators which prioritize managing e-scooters and e-bikes in a sustainable and responsible way.

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Y Combinator

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Problems & Ideas: Financing as a service for building electrification Contractor enablement Finding ways (at scale) to add trust as well as ensure accountability Improving the quote lifecycle to reduce time spent (and truck rolls), automate system design, and improve installed system performance.

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OurCrowd

MARCH 3, 2020

of the world’s greenhouse gases — more than all forms of global transportation combined. Below, are three trends in FoodTech that are poised to make an impact and offer significant potential for growth: sustainability, health and personalization, and supply- chain innovation. Sustainability in FoodTech.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 21, 2021

Now that Ubco’s got a fresh cash infusion from the round led by Seven Peak Ventures, Nuance Capital and TPK Holdings, it hopes to continue expanding into existing verticals, like food delivery, postal service and last-mile logistics. Ubco expects revenue to climb from $2.1 million in 2020 to $8.4

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

When Olive launched in 2021 , it aimed to eliminate waste from online shopping by enabling consumers to order from multiple sites and get products in one reusable package. It’s an area that quite a few venture-backed companies are also attacking, from thredUp to Vinted to Archive.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 11, 2016

I'm excited to announce that Brooklyn Bridge Ventures has led a $1 million round into Agrilyst. On top of that, we're actively trying to cut the distance between where food is created and where it is consumed in order to make it more sustainable. At Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , there's no such thing as too early to have a conversation.

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StartupNation

MARCH 10, 2021

In December 2020, the company announced that they are the autonomous shuttle provider for Autono-MaaS , which is a transportation project in Hiroshima, Japan. Gambyt is a debt-free and fully profitable company that’s been sustainably growing since its founding in 2016. Voxel51 uses computer vision to create insights from video.

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