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Malaysia’s Mosti Prioritizes Tech Innovation and Startup Ecosystem in its Annual Budget

AsiaTechDaily

Register Malaysia’s Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation ( Mosti ) plans to push emerging technology and promote Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education within the framework of Budget 2024. million electric vehicles (EVs) on Malaysian roads by 2040.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Robotics and automation are not only important, but they are also likely the only way to address the challenge of delivering the built environment we need by 2040. Innovative new startups are continually entering the space. A key trend I’m watching in construction robotics is the rise of prefab and modular construction.

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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

Overall, improvement in women’s health could add as much as $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040. “I’ve already begun directing substantial, unrestricted grants to a wide range of organizations doing critical work to support women and girls in the United States.”

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

TechCrunch

For corporate investors like Amazon that have committed to decarbonize by 2040, the innovations and industry adoption can’t happen quickly enough.

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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. . We will be able to scale up operations and innovation faster.” . 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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World Fund joins $128M bet that quantum can deliver climate breakthroughs

TechCrunch

In a statement, the German VC said it exclusively backs tech with the potential to remove “100 million tonnes” — that is, 100 megatonnes — “of carbon from the atmosphere yearly by 2040.” ” Other investors in the latest round include the EU’s European Innovation Council and Tencent.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Just offshore wind alone has the potential to meet global electricity demand by 2040, according to the IEA, which is well in excess of all offshore oil and gas production today. But today, it increasingly means tapping the enormous energy represented by the ocean’s winds and waves.

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