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. The total investment needed amounts to $9.2 trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5

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Source Link

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Through our work with affiliates that include IASourceLink , SourceLink Nebraska , NetWork Kansas , MOSourceLink , Launch Network and more, we’ve learned first-hand the struggles rural business owners in America experience and how building a network of entrepreneurial support can solve for those challenges.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 4, 2023

From the hands of farmers to the plates of consumers, the journey of food involves a multitude of actors operating within a complex network. As food moves through supply chains and transport networks, it undergoes distribution , ultimately reaching household consumption.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 13, 2023

Register The third edition of BEYOND International Technology Innovation Expo (BEYOND Expo) returns to its real-world conference format in Macao from May 10 to 12, 2023. The BEYOND Sustainability Summit will focus on green cities and infrastructure, alternative energy solutions, green transportation, food and agriculture, and green logistics.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

billion tonnes of goods that are transported by road freight in the U.K “With this initial deployment, we’re looking forward to better understanding the potential role electric trucks can play in our transport operations,” Archana Jagannathan, PepsiCo UK’s head of sustainability, said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The support and knowledge of this investor group will catalyze BasiGo in its mission to make East Africa a leader in inclusive, sustainable bus transport,” he said. BasiGo plans to supply over 1,000 mass transit electric buses to transport operators in Nairobi over the next five years. Image Credits: BasiGo.

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Impact Hub

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Play Sense Innovation specialises in designing and developing innovative eye movement software tailored for children and ALS patients. Beyond the immediate impact on users’ lives, Sense Innovation’s work contributes significantly to advancing education equality.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 12, 2023

This realisation has been the driving force behind Impact Hub Network’s work for over 15 years, and today, we’re more committed than ever to taking serious climate action. They use a regional energy supply that is fully under their control to ensure it comes from sustainable sources.

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Haystack

AUGUST 31, 2018

As Fred Wilson noted yesterday , as technology networks mature and spread into new markets (including devices, like scooters), the complexities associated with investing in “atoms” vs “bits” raise many issues. I believe it is important to consider the time in which Uber and Airbnb grew their networks.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

It’s not any news that the world is a little bit off track when it comes to achieving its sustainability objectives. When it comes to exercising and applying sustainability principles in different sectors, mobility is (or at least should be) a priority. The Tourism Innovation Academy: Supporting early-stage tourism startups.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 22, 2018

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. What are some techniques for innovating around these challenges?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

We deploy sensor networks that combine mobile sensing where we use fleets of vehicles as a roving network. Aclima has built an expansive mobile and stationary sensor network that generates billions of measurements about our most critical resources every week,” says Dr. Ingo Ramesohl, managing director of RBVC, in a statement.

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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 . Water and power infrastructure .

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StartupNation

MARCH 17, 2021

Furthermore, with the innovation 5G enables, we can transform industries like education and healthcare, job and skills training, civic engagement and even public services. Segmentation can deepen the digital divide, restrict innovation and even limit much-needed digital transformations of health, education and transportation.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

“Swyft is a new form of urban mobility, using autonomous cabins on lightweight cable infrastructure to solve transportation problems in densely developed areas including corporate campuses, airports, universities and tourism districts. .” Swyft Cities (Mountain View, CA) — Presenter: Jeral Poskey, CEO. Mar received her Ph.D.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Hunt Transport. Working with co-founder Ryan Matthews, the former director of technology for the Austin-based high-end retailer Kendra Scott, Richter has set up a business that can tap into both the demand for better customer service for the return of large items and the growing call for greater sustainability in the furniture industry.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 9, 2023

This realisation has been the driving force behind Impact Hub Network’s work for over 15 years, and today, we’re more committed than ever to taking serious climate action. So grab a seat and get ready to be inspired by the valuable insights, strategies, and advice shared by these impactful teams as they pave the way for a sustainable future.

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Impact Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

These are some of the questions that the Impact Hub Global Network has been exploring over the past year. From the initial questions, the network moved to testing and piloting with local Impact Hubs. How would this impact ventures going through these programs and the environment at large? . The six startups embedding circularity.

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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. EO is the only global network exclusively for entrepreneurs. .” And in that journey, he found a beautiful loop of thoughts-action-effort-outcome that leads him to feel accomplishment.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 3, 2019

This program is run in partnership with the social entrepreneurship network Impact Hub — one of the world’s largest communities for positive change — and draws on their expertise to find and boost ventures that remove barriers to sport for girls. At adidas, we believe that through sport, we have the power to change lives.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

We are excited by environmental and sustainability sector, which we invest in. It will develop more in the direction of sustainability (at least, we believe so). We have a couple of funds that are actively looking for innovative companies to invest in. Definitely lack of capital, network and “how-to-scale” skillset.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

MARCH 25, 2019

Paldara Pharmaceuticals is developing an innovative microbial gel coating to be used with existing catheters to reduce Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) by 99%. coli as an innovative method of disinfecting medical equipment without damaging expensive electronics used by health care professionals. . Paldara Pharmaceuticals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2022

Moove , an African mobility fintech that provides vehicle financing to drivers of ride-hailing platforms like Uber and other gig networks, has raised $105 million in new Series A2 financing. New investors such as AfricInvest, MUFG Innovation Partners, Latitude and Kreos Capital participated.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 26, 2023

million from GSX-listed transportation firm ComfortDelGro Corporation. In all, Shift4Good hopes to raise 300 million Euros for this venture fund as the company eyes to deploy into early-stage startups that are decarbonising the transportation industry in Europe and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

Though logistics and supply chain economics certainly have their share of innovation on the data and services side, the ships and shipping companies themselves have stagnated. The feds will be looking into price fixing (and in fact just passed a law ), but supporting a sustainable American alternative is kind of a no-brainer as well.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 8, 2024

Barriers to access also raise questions around health equity and the ethical code for distributing innovations to society evenly. We look forward to hearing from any and all builders who are addressing the new drug delivery problem by developing sustainable ways to deliver miracle drugs to the patients who need them.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

That’s a dramatic shift in urban transportation by any measure, and it prompts a simple but important question: How did we get here? Today, they’re on track to surpass half a billion rides globally by 2021, far outpacing early growth in the carbon-heavy ride-hailing industry founded by Uber in 2009. 1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Innovation may help position U.S. Neither was the Interstate Highway System the first controlled-access highway network, but today it’s far more extensive than the Autobahn, and until a decade ago, was the most extensive in the world. may seem behind, but is it hopelessly so?

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StartupNation

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In 2020, they were named one of the Best Places to Work in Financial Technology 2020, and the TAG FinTech ADVANCE program recognized Autobooks as one of the most innovative U.S. The co-founders are looking for entrepreneurial candidates who are “obsessed with finding a better way” and feel free to innovate. FinTech companies.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

The founders also took in grant money from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research fund during an earlier R&D phase developing the network tech. Suddenly network level adversaries were front page news. And the team behind Nym thinks conditions look ripe for general purpose privacy-focused networking tech to take off too.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 8, 2019

Once a year, the top leaders from Impact Hubs around the world come together for the Global Gathering, where in one of our locations they review, shape, and decide on the strategy and governance of our network. Back in 2002, food transportation accounted for almost 20 billion vehicle miles. Here’s how: 1. Keep It Local.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

In 2017, Veev Group began to focus on prefabrication capabilities, and by 2018 it formally pivoted to what it described as “a vertically integrated developer focused on building innovation.” In 2019, the company name changed from Dragonfly Group to Veev.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Out of the images collected with the WingtraOne drone Investors in Wingtra’s Series B in aerial mobility fund DiamondStream Partners, EquityPitcher Ventures, Verve Ventures, Ace & Company, the European Innovation Council Fund (EIC Fund), Ace & Company and Spring Mountain Capital Founder John L.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2019

And, they require stakeholder buy-in for sustained execution. Fixing a car is complicated; fixing a city’s transportation infrastructure is complex. We know a lot more today than we did in the past about the importance of networks. Strong networks yield robustness, efficiency and reliability.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 18, 2021

Evette Ellis and Ben Schippers took to the main stage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2021 to share how their companies capitalized on the new opportunities presented by the electric transportation revolution. Few people are more closely tapped into the innovations in the transportation space than investors. Image Credits: TechCrunch.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 13, 2020

For Impact Hub, it made the liquid and digital elements of our network more important than ever, and at the same time encouraged us to reflect and pivot certain aspects of how we operate and how we provide support to Impact Hubs and our members across the globe. The crisis is an opportunity to create impact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

Paz will deploy the Gogoro Network GoStations at its gas stations and other appropriate consumer-centric locations, said Gogoro, noting that it plans to start with 10 battery swapping stations, or GoStations, at launch, and will expand to 35 this year. “We

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