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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

2007 marked an important milestone for the Earth’s cities. More than four billion people work, live, and sustain themselves in the metropolis. Technological leaps have enabled many (though by no means all) of us city-dwellers to sustain ourselves adequately, despite breaking our traditional connection with agricultural life.

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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with €20M Pepea fund

TechCrunch

The fund will invest in businesses in sustainable agriculture, energy, clean mobility, logistics, and waste management sectors, which produce basic goods and services that represent a huge proportion of household spending for lower-income communities.

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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

Today, pitch competitions, incubators, accelerators, VCs and angel groups proliferate. Venture Kick was launched in 2007 with the vision to double the number of spin-offs from Swiss universities and draws from a jury of more than 150 leading startup experts in Switzerland. Also sustainability will hopefully be put back on the agenda.

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Ycombinator - Where unicorns are born

Don Dodge

Ycombinator is the largest and most successful startup incubator in history, and it was started right here in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Startup incubators and accelerators are everywhere today, but were relatively unknown when Ycombinator started 10 years ago. Ycombinator, the incubator of billion dollar unicorns, is a unicorn itself.

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Aspire Impact and global leader Impact Hub to launch the Impact Startup Support program in India

Impact Hub

hundreds of incubators and accelerators, giving the impact start-up ecosystem the much-needed. incubators and accelerators, connecting them with a global peer network in 100+ cities across 60+. 16,500+ change driven entrepreneurs in 100+communities, 450 incubation, acceleration and scaling. Some of them. Impact Hub builds.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

Consumer debt relative to incomes has risen to an all time high reaching 138% of 2007 (obviously that’s not sustainable!) Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”.

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$100K Thomas J. Fogarty Prize Accepting Nominations to Recognize Medtech Innovators

American Entrepreneurship

Understanding the struggles of medtech innovation firsthand, Dr. Fogarty founded Fogarty Innovation in 2007, an incubator dedicated to mentoring and accelerating the development of medical technology startups. His first major commercial success came in 1969 when Edwards Laboratories recognized the potential of his balloon catheter.