Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Much of the event’s content was shaped by its founder’s personal influences and world view. “I

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TechCrunch

JULY 5, 2022

The seed is led by Franco-German VC XAnge, with participation from London-based VC firm Nordstar, as well as a number of business angels and serial founders, including Gustaf Alstromer (partner at Y Combinator), Sundeep Ahuja (partner at Climate Capital), Lea-Sophie Cramer (founder at Amorelie) and Anselm Bauer-Wohlleb (Alasco, Stylight).

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. May had a focus on living more sustainably before founding Rebundle, she said, and was aware of the irritation that plastic extensions can cause.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 20, 2019

A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

“LanzaJet’s technology opens up a new and exciting pathway to produce SAF using an AtJ process and will help address the aviation sector’s urgent need for SAF. Upon completion it would be the first commercial-scale plant for sustainable synthetic jet fuel, with a capacity of 10 million gallons per year.

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TechCrunch

MAY 20, 2022

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Suzanne Fletcher, venture partner, Prime Movers Lab.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Financial gains will come, but lead generation and monetary ROI cannot be the primary motivators (money alone is never a sustainable driver for anything, I’ve learned). A podcast is a marketing channel – and it can be a key part of a strategic marketing mix. The results and impact a podcast creates far outweigh the challenges.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. Over the next few decades, I expect forces in Washington DC to use economic and monetary policy to attempt to rebalance the trade relationship between the world’s two most dynamic countries.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

Funding of women-founded startups remains significantly lower than those that are gender-mixed While women entrepreneurs are making significant strides in startup formation, they continue to struggle to gain access to funding on par with men. In contrast, male-only founded U.S. According to the PitchBook data, in 2022 U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

The new funding will be used for AlterPacks’ commercialization, including production and supply, in markets like Asia, Australia and Europe. Founded in 2019 to tackle single-use plastics, AlterPacks’ main raw material are spent grains, a by-product of manufacturing foods like beer.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Company co-founder and CEO Robert Ross says that the company has grown customers 5x since the startup’s A round last year , and they are seeing customers get creative with how they use run books. So that’s been a really nice thing to see,” Ross told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as population continues to increase, more crops are being forced indoors to secure greater crop yields. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and expand commercial collaborations.

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Jason Malki

JULY 12, 2024

Most notably, they were the Co-Founders of Qutie LGBTQ+ Social App. Jordan has an extensive background with 15 years of experience in wellness, personal training, and mixed martial arts. Can you share your personal journeys from being a startup founder to becoming a venture capitalist?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

an Sümer, CEO and founder, said: “The size of today’s funding round by an extraordinary investment consortium underscores the tremendous market potential that lies ahead of us. A year and a half later Europe’s landscape for on-demand delivery continues to be a highly volatile, high cash burn mix.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

And given the current emphasis on achieving cost efficiency to extend runways in the broader startup ecosystem, it appears investors are open to insurtech startups that can build a sustainable business model, regardless of it including embedded insurance. There’s another reason why fundraising is harder for insurtech founders in 2023.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By Harmony Major, founder of Radical Growth Guru. For smart founders wanting to ditch blocks and boost growth, it’s the “it” thing to master. Despite the right product, pricing, and positioning mix, droves of founders still aren’t finding the right combo of strategy and moxy to hit their most coveted targets.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

The company was valued at $680 million prior to this round, Gorgias co-founder and CEO Romain Lapeyre told TechCrunch via email. At the time of the Series B, it was supporting more than 4,500 stores with its technology that brings all of the channels that shoppers use to contact online stores into one feed for each company.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2021

Other European real estate and venture capitalist investors participating include Kaamos, Superangel, United Angels and NREP (via its anchor investment into the 2150 venture capital fund, which promises to back sustainable urban technologies). It also pitches itself on being more sustainable.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

based startup which uses machine learning technology to analyze a variety of visual data like satellite imagery and lidar with the goal of boosting accountability and credibility around carbon offsetting projects, has fast followed a $5.8 “We have a mix of customers spanning corporate buyers, traders and exchanges,” it adds.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The Dubai-based VUZ says that this round which has seen it onboard a mix of U.S.- Founder and chief executive officer Khaled Zaatarah launched VUZ, formerly 360VUZ, as a platform to bridge the gap between physical and virtual worlds by offering premium immersive content to a global audience.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

unicorn goPuff is also in the mix — having acquired UK startups Fancy and Dija. “This means, we provide our ready-to-go IT platform that other companies can use to launch their own quick-commerce stores,” notes Kholiaznikov. Another differentiating twist to its model is the aforementioned open Q-Commerce play.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

A startup tapping into the concept of the circular economy, where people don’t buy items outright but pay an incremental amount to use them temporarily, has raised some funding to scale its business in Europe and beyond. The fresh funding allows us to bring these possibilities to even more people across the world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2021

“We operate in an extremely competitive and well-funded industry, and this round allows us to have a long-term mindset when it comes to doubling down on our different markets,” says co-founder and CEO Miki Kuusi in a statement. We do this by handling the complexity of the delivery on the restaurant’s behalf”.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Oakland-based Eclipse Foods doesn’t want its sustainable, plant-based dairy products to be just another substitute; they want it to be so similar to conventional dairy in taste, texture and functionality that you won’t be able to tell the difference. It’s giving optionality to consumers.”.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

Third, and finally, he thinks that strong business incentives and for-profit businesses specifically are the most sustainable way to make impact last — not nonprofits or government organizations. Today, Hezarkhani is the CEO and founder of Parthean , a personal finance monitoring and education app that just raised $1.1

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Revolution

MAY 21, 2019

Meet the five winning founders from Rise of the Rest 8.0 Atomos is building the railroad of space using high-powered electric propulsion space tugs to move satellites to any orbit beyond low Earth orbit. Florida is the gateway to space for us! What does your company do? Why did you launch your startup in your city?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Series A is pegged for launching in the US (slated for Q1 this year) and the EU (Q2; where it’s eyeing Italy, France and Germany for starters), as well as expanding the product’s capabilities and feature-set with a focus on the buzz around Web3 and digital collectables. For now, Twig accounts are only available in the UK.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 23, 2022

MDI-KB’s Centauri and Alpha JWC Ventures are joined by existing investors, Number Capital, Arise, iSeed SEA, Irvan Kolonas, as well as Alto Partners Multi-Family Office, Mahanusa Capital, Kopi Kenangan founder James Prananto, and a number of strategic follow-on investors.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

and yes, I’m intentionally not throwing DAOs or web3 in the mix here as just doesn’t yet deserve implied parity). Lot of people I’ve known for many years certainly aren’t returning emails the way they used to. But like I said, it’s hard, and it must become easier. I’ve heard many fast and hard passes.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

During the initial onboarding process, users are first asked to select topics that interest them — such as databases, developer tools or data science — and then they sign up using either their email address or credentials associated with Facebook, Google, GitHub, or Apple. So what, exactly, is Daily.dev hoping to bring to the mix?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Now the bad news: some venture capitallists have a bias against startups with an explicit positive social impact, on the grounds that they have a smaller addressable market, and that the founders are not sufficiently focused on creating shareholder wealth. Aspen Tech Policy Hub. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Google for Startups Accelerator.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Xurya’s Managing Director and Co-Founder, Eka Himawan said, “We appreciate the trust given by Mitsui, Surya Semesta Internusa, our partners, and Xurya customers. The funding will be allocated to support the expansion of solar power development to accelerate the clean and sustainable energy transition for companies in Indonesia.”

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

What’s changed isn’t the market or its potential, but rather the perception that ambitious and sustainable companies can truly be built in education. And finally, note that Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn is coming to Disrupt, so make sure to grab your tickets because the conversation will continue there.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. The product, a single cell protein it’s branding Solein, is essentially an edible bacteria; a single cell microbe grown using gas fermentation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

We decided to raise again at the start of the year,” co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve told me. Now, we are self-sustaining and will be until we reach profitability.”. Alan’s founders have been clear about their vision from the very beginning. We’ve been receiving some investment requests.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

A growing number of people are looking for ways to live more sustainably amid increasing concerns over the environment and what we humans keep doing to pollute it. Sometimes those resources were used goods being passed on or sold cheaply to others: it opened the door to a different way of thinking for a lot of people.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2022

The Berlin-based Gorillas, which also focuses on fast-delivery of groceries and essentials, raised $1 billion last autumn and like its rival out of Turkey, Getir , has been using some of that cash to buy up or invest in would-be competitors in other markets, for example Frichti in Paris. “It’s not a sustainable foundation.”

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