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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Venture Capital is a tricky industry. Internally at Upfront Ventures we talk about “high consensus” vs. controversial deals with “high conviction.” As Venture Capitalists we take some near-term bets and some higher beta deals with more risk and more upside if they work. Far from it. Startup Lessons'

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Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Global Transport Receives Airbus Ventures Funding

American Entrepreneurship

With AI bursting all around us and the James Webb Space Telescope sending back stunning images from the universe, new and bold ventures continue to emerge. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport. Both are very important and necessary to achieve one-hour global travel.

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

TechCrunch

million in pre-Series A funding led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital, with participation from Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns and Blume Funders Fund. Freightify can be integrated with freight forwarders’ existing transport management systems, which track the movement of cargo.

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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. Abbeel’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, Rolling Stone, Wired, Tech Review and (of course) TechCrunch.

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

TechCrunch

If you ask me, climate tech investor Contrarian Ventures isn’t so contrarian anymore. ” 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. .”

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

TechCrunch

.” In practice, it’ll fund key areas like regenerative land use, oceans, transportation and the circular economy. Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . Last year, OpenInvest sold to J.P. Systemiq was co-founded by McKinsey veterans Jeremy Oppenheim and Martin Stuchtey.

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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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