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Japan’s Terra Drone lands $70M Series B funding to accelerate global expansion 

TechCrunch

trillion by 2040, according to Terra’s IR deck. . The global drone surveillance market is expected to grow to $476.5 million in 2028 , from $142 million in 2021. The global UAM market is projected to increase to $1.5

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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

As I’ve said many times before, women need to be in a position to make decisions, control resources, and shape policies and perspectives, and I want to accelerate progress toward that vision,” French Gates states. Overall, improvement in women’s health could add as much as $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040.

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Decentralizing the Electric Grid

Andreessen Horowitz

Currently, we face a critical challenge: our electricity demands — expected to nearly double by 2040 due to factors like AI compute, reshoring , and “electrification” — are soaring, but our grid infrastructure and operations struggle to keep pace. But scaling hundreds of gigawatt-hours of batteries will also require expanded supply chains.

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ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell and Bill Gates-backed fund

TechCrunch

The governments are going to come in and say we’re going to force the acceleration of the vehicle generation turnover,” he said. For corporate investors like Amazon that have committed to decarbonize by 2040, the innovations and industry adoption can’t happen quickly enough. But] we are already too late.

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Sydney-based quantum sensing startup Q-CTRL raises $25M Series B led by Airbus Ventures

TechCrunch

It also will continue to invest in developing its quantum control for quantum computing and quantum sensing for acceleration, gravity and magnetic fields, Biercuk added. Q-CTRL and Quantum Machines team up to accelerate quantum computing. To date, the company has raised more than $43 million (60 million AUD) in total capital. . “Q-CTRL’s

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

The main thing is getting construction companies and contractors to accelerate their adoption of the tech and the labor shortage issue is putting substantial pressure on them to act. We have also staffed our URBAN-X accelerator program with dedicated experts to provide software and hardware support.

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How to get superior returns in VC

David Teten VC

Some VCs have identified a number of new advantages that distinguish them in the marketplace: – Portfolio acceleration. An extreme example of portfolio acceleration is the approach of Y Combinator and the other accelerators. – Incubating companies. They get in early and cheap with very attractive economics.

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