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LA-based A-Frame, a developer of celebrity-led personal care brands, raises cash for its brand incubator

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“For us the calculus was to look at personal care and see what categories need to be reinvented because of sustainability,” said Bloom. “We first invested in Avametric at Initialized in 2013 and he had experience prior to that as well. Other directors include Columbia Care chief executive, Nicholas Vita, and John D.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Christina Theodoraki

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These can be policy makers, entrepreneurs, students, incubator managers and staff, universities, professors, educators and researchers, or just citizens. I knew that I should come to a position that help to increase the sustainability and evolution of the ecosystem. Incubators’ coopetition strategy in the start-up incubation ecosystem.

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Mr Eazi, Black Coffee and Ajebutter22: The African music artists backing startups

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Thus, for Black Coffee , who backed Andela, a tech talent incubator and unicorn launched from Lagos in 2015, his win meant Africa’s tech scene could, for the first time, brag about having a homegrown Grammy Award-winning artist as an investor in its startups. Europe and globally. .

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Green Energy Makes Business Sense

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In 2019, venture and private equity investment in cleantech was estimated between $9 and $16 billion, up from less than $500 million in 2013. H2Pro is developing production technology to enable the wide scale adoption of sustainable hydrogen fuel.

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Mistaking performance for competence

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We had to fight like crazy in Chicago in 2013 to get approval for that. Years ago, Melonee Wise told me Fetch was still building Willow Garage–style research robots because they’re a great recruitment tool, but you can’t really sustain a business on them. All robots at shows were in cages, and now they’re not. automotive industry).”

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As it shifts focus from DIY computer kits, Kano spins out its creative software suite as a standalone business

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company has been shifting its focus away from its build-your-own PC roots in pursuit of profitability and longer-term sustainability. Founded out of London in 2013 , Kano has brought various products to market through the years designed to teach the building blocks of computing to children. The move comes as the U.K.

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Nym gets $6M for its anonymous overlay mixnet to sell privacy as a service

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Commenting in a statement, Will Wolf of Polychain Capital, said: “We’re incredibly excited to partner with the Nym team to further their mission of bringing robust, sustainable and permissionless privacy infrastructure to all Internet users. “The thing with a small network is it’s easy for random people to observe this.

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