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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. Startup Lessons' Almost nobody believed and now look at it. Online education.

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Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Global Transport Receives Airbus Ventures Funding

American Entrepreneurship

The convergence of technology, talent and funding now makes the vision of one-hour hypersonic global transport within reach—so say the co-founders of Venus Aerospace and its most recent funder Airbus Ventures. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport.

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Freightify lands $2.5M to make rate management easier for freight forwarders

TechCrunch

Freightify , a startup that refers to itself as the “Shopify for maritime freight,” provides white-label rate management and e-booking tools that freight forwarders can use to set up online stores, reducing the time they need to spend on administrative work. The startup announced today it has raised $2.5

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

TechCrunch

Robotics startups require expensive equipment — like industrial-grade sensors, 3D printers and controlled environments — for building and testing prototypes. She matches startups with potential funders and customers, connects students and talent to potential employers and works with academia to commercialize research.

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Systemiq secures $70 million to fund early-stage climate tech founders

TechCrunch

Systemiq Capital , a backer of early-stage climate tech startups, says it has secured $70 million to kick off its second fund. The London-based VC aims to raise as much as $130 million more; that would mark quite a step up for the firm, which says it has funneled $30 million into 19 startups since 2018.

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From ‘literally zero’ experience to $100M, this VC is raising his second climate tech seed fund

TechCrunch

.” He’d recently left an inflation-trading job at Bank of America, where the work was “not fulfilling in the slightest,” Peciulaitis said in a nod to the bank’s reputation as a major funder of fossil fuels. The firm backs emerging startups in Europe as well as Israel, but nowhere else in the Middle East.

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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

TechCrunch

The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way. The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. They’ve raised $15.5

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