Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

DECEMBER 18, 2019

La Escombrera changed the rules of the game and has been successful in promoting sustainable products. After selling La Escombrera to competitors in 2019, the company continues to reform construction in Argentina. To combat this, Surcos Argentinos taught sustainable farming to impoverished families in villages far from the capital.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

At a time when America needs to prioritize domestic manufacturing and sustainability, Endera is leading by examplecreating jobs, driving economic growth, and providing cost-effective solutions all while advancing American ingenuity. A Bright Future for Endera Enderas latest funding is a pivotal moment for the company.

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Source Link

APRIL 14, 2021

in 2019 , and even less makes its way to minority women. million “missing businesses” the Center for Global Policy Solutions estimates either aren’t started or are unable to be sustained by people of color because of discrimination. of venture capital funds went to women-owned businesses in the U.S. Those numbers come from the 1.1

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 30, 2025

Founded in 2017 by former Wall Street traders Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo, and Brannin McBee, CoreWeave began as a cryptocurrency mining operation before pivoting in 2019 to become a specialized provider of GPU-based cloud infrastructure for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The company raised $1.5 The company reported $1.92

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Juno , a proptech startup which aims to build more sustainable and affordable apartment buildings, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and Real Estate Technology (RET) Ventures co-led the financing, which brings the company’s total raised to $32 million since its 2019 inception.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early stage startups. SDGs [sustainable development goals]. Apparently that activated the donation center in his brain and the result is this new money. Here at the U.N.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2020

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. He is also a member of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) UAE chapter.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2019

— Steven Kane (@stevenkane) December 26, 2019. 2/ The massive experiment in using capital as a moat to build startups into sustainable businesses has now played out and we can call it a failure for the most part. And so I will. 1/ The emergence of the big four web/mobile monopolies; Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

To continue exploring space sustainably, we must act now. Today’s sustainability crisis in space is the result of 60 years of exploration and utilization that have largely ignored the environmental consequences of space activities and treated satellites and other space assets as single-use objects. Luca Rossettini. Contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 12, 2023

And you can leverage two very powerful forms of innovation, sustaining innovation and efficiency innovation, to scale your business. Sustaining innovation Sustaining innovation grows a business’s share of an existing market.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

MARCH 25, 2021

Álvarez : In 2019, our organization trained members of the civil society, LGBTQ+ leaders, the police, district attorney’s office, and the senatorial office on advocacy and public policy focused on issues like equal pay and sexual harassment in the workplace. People using Lazarillo in the U.S. Don’t only make one change.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2025

Supergut was founded in 2019 by Marc Washington in memory of his sister with a mission to empower individuals to take charge of their health through the power of the gut microbiome.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We’ll just wait until companies that last raised in 2019 or 2020 come to market.” So we stayed close to our investment themes of: healthcare, fintech, computer vision, marketing technologies, video game infrastructure, sustainability and applied biology and we have partners that lead each practice area.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Online shopping and speedy delivery through services like Instacart and Amazon Prime are the height of modern conveniences, but for many consumers who care about sustainability and e-commerce’s impact on the environment, every box and plastic bag deposited on their doorstep is also accompanied by a feeling of guilt.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

million round in 2019 and a $30.2 With the food industry a $6 trillion market, Choco CEO Daniel Khachab told TechCrunch he aims to make the food supply chain more transparent and sustainable in order to help increase margins in the food service sector and combat climate change. The new round comes just over a year after Choco’s $63.7

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 24, 2022

I’m thinking of Hopin, a virtual events company that was founded in 2019. Top VCs have expanded into broader asset managers; is the model sustainable? TC: In the world of startups, power shifts from founders to VCs and back again, but until very recently, it had grown founder friendly to an astonishing degree. What happened?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

From vehicle design and data to safety reporting and infrastructure, these five innovative moments have helped fuel the global growth of shared e-scooters and are helping lead cities into a healthier, more sustainable future. #1: 3: Comprehensive industry safety report released (spring 2019). 1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Its portfolio includes Ellevest , an investing platform for women; Grove Collaborative , a sustainable goods subscription platform; and ThredUp, which has confidentially filed for IPO. In Q3 2019, New England drove 9.3% In April, NextView launched a virtual accelerator for startups to build a more robust pipeline for deal flow.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2022

We believe this consistency in leadership and intuition for where the markets were going in the heady days of 2019–2021 helped us to stay sane in a world that momentarily seemed to have lost its mind and since we have new capital to deploy in the years ahead perhaps I can offer some insights into where we think value will be derived.

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 4, 2023

Founded in 2019, Alterpacks aims to address single use plastics, which is one of the most challenging problems of today. In addition, the team also won the Enterprise Singapore Sustainability Open Innovation Challenge in sustainable packaging. Plug and Play, a global innovation platform, is headquartered in Silicon Valley.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Their intellectual, dynamic and dedicated team shares our aspiration to help buildings become smarter, more sustainable and more positive for the Earth. William Temple, Ampotech CEO and Co-Founder, said they always look for strategic investors that share their passion in energy and sustainability.

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AsiaTechDaily

JULY 18, 2023

Hydroleap , driven by its vision of promoting water sustainability worldwide, will lead its next growth phase in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Back in 2019, Hydroleap secured a funding round of US$1.9 million, with Wavemaker Partners leading the investment. With its recent Series A funding of US$4.4

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. The original conventional wisdom was that capital could be a weapon for the winning company as private markets hold longer, but now as 2019 begins, I am not so sure. This is again a much deeper topic to explore and I will do that in early 2019.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Seven startups begin a six-month program that will make them investment-ready To grow the Orange County, California ecosystem , the RevHub social enterprise incubator was established in 2019. The incubator then partnered with Sustain SoCal to launch Orange County’s first Climate Action Business Incubator (CABI) in December 2023.

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StartupNation

JULY 6, 2021

According to research conducted by iCIMS, from January to May 2019, only six tech positions were filled for every 10 that were open. million people), but as of 2019, this number had plunged to just 12% of private-sector American workers. That has implications, both for employers and employees. When Cisco was named the No.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. Our Mesh-Grids leverage IoT and automation to make last-mile electrification affordable and sustainable — even for the most remote villages on the planet. million new round (it’s a nice photo; we used it on this post , too).

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

The 2019 Business Roundtable CEO statement said that corporate strategy should benefit all stakeholders – including shareholders, yes, but equally customers, employees, suppliers, and the communities in which companies operate. billion in an industry fraught with sustainability and human rights concerns.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition for SaaS companies. These are heady figures for an industry that gained its footing only 20 years ago.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2020

He added that with global supply chains stretched because of the pandemic, the need for a viable, alternative online infrastructure to prototype and produce products locally, to a high standard, and sustainably “has never been more relevant and necessary.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

“What we have seen is that many younger generations are very much open to the idea of sustainable consumption,” co-founder Philip Franta told TechCrunch. “We The company was founded in 2019 by Franta and Fabien Rastouil. Novi is building a B2B marketplace for brands that care about sustainability.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

It follows a $3 million seed round raised in late-2019. The round was led by Tribeca Venture Partners and featured Blackhorn Ventures, Point72 Ventures, New York State and Twenty Seven Ventures. Robotics in general have been a massively popular investment target during the pandemic. Construction startups have also begun to heat up.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

Founded in 2019, STACS has now raised a total of more than $6 million and is preparing to raise Series A funding later this year. GreenSTACS launched last month in a collaboration with Bluecell Intelligence to help companies certify and monitor green and sustainability-related loans and bonds.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

Dinardo and his co-founders, Ed Butterworth and Nick Eales, started the company in 2019. The company raised an undisclosed seed round in 2019 from Bonfire Ventures, Daher Capital, DN Capital, Next47 and Salesforce Ventures. Aforza is Dinardo’s first time leading a company.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

MEMORY VIDEO ( Director: Roy Power | 9 minutes | 2019 ) – At Viva Video: The Last Picture Store, optimistic video store owner Miguel Gomez tries to keep the physical experience alive in an age of digital streaming. After experiencing a rollercoaster of fame, Flynn sets his eyes on his own brick and mortar.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It is another milestone in our journey to make mobility safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable by deploying high-performance technologies and operators. The founders quickly realized that introducing electric vehicles would be the natural next step, and in 2019 MAX kickstarted their electric mobility journey.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Much of this is driven by consumer behavior to reduce waste and have more sustainable consumption of goods. Singapore-based Reebelo , a marketplace for affordable and sustainable consumer electronics, has had a passion for keeping electronics out of landfills since it was started by Philip Franta and Fabien Rastouil in 2019. “In

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