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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Tech that serves to conserve the oceans while using it to replace older, more harmful means of generating energy and food seems to be one such opportunity. The open ocean also contains tremendous amounts of energy. But today, it increasingly means tapping the enormous energy represented by the ocean’s winds and waves.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

On the one hand, you’re over paying for every investment and valuations aren’t rational. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. That used to be called A-round investing. The biggest change for us in early-stage investing is that we now need to commit earlier.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

And even though robotics is weathering the current slowdown in venture funding better than other tech sectors, it’s still too easy for innovative inventions to remain stuck in the lab. Milo Werner is a general partner at The Engine, a VC firm that helps deep tech companies bridge the gap between discovery and commercialization.

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5 tips for scaling your green startup during a funding drought

TechCrunch

CB Insights forecasts a roughly 20% drop in total VC investments from Q1 to Q2, leaving ambitious young companies scrambling to fight for scraps. Whether it’s dedicated impact funds or value-based venture capital firms, funders tend to back companies that have demonstrated their ability to scale.

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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. I fly home Friday night, weekend on the soccer field with the kids and head into a Monday partner meeting that will be contentious because there are two controversial investment decisions to make. everything.

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Circularity Tales: Accelerate2030 piloting the transition

Impact Hub

They believe in the power of business for transformative change and catalyze innovative startups in emerging and developing economies. . If you slept on it, Accelerate2030 is the world’s leading program for entrepreneurial solutions towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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Imagine what the diversity of ownership and in the workforce would look like if people with the means to invest would care as much about social and human return on investment as they do about potential profit. To date, less than 1% of founders who are venture backed are Black; and women founders receive just 9% of investment capital.