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Batteries have become VC and PE’s most electric investment opportunity

TechCrunch

For the better part of a decade, VC firms and growth equity funds have plowed nearly $42 billion into battery technology startups across almost 1,700 deals, according to an analysis by PitchBook and TechCrunch. And if the risks from battery startups are tough for VCs to stomach, then it’s an even harder pill for growth equity to swallow.

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Female-founded climate and construction tech startup backed by Mark Cuban

American Entrepreneurship

Early stage climate tech VC firm Anthropocene Ventures also joins Kind Designs’ seed round. Rapidly growing climate and construction tech startup Kind Designs gained the support of entrepreneur Mark Cuban and VC firm Anthropocene Ventures for its $5 million seed round.

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“Workers are mad and no longer willing to sit idly by being spoon fed ‘we’re family’ b t from bosses:” Logan LaHive is Helping Employees Organize & Collectively Bargain. But Did He Compromise His Own Vision By Taking Venture Capital for the Startup?

Hunter Walk

I’m no policy wonk, nor do I put much faith in our current political landscape to enact sustained change (even though you’d really expect better ROI on the $Billions that Labor has funneled to Dem politicians over past few decades). It is a certainty that things are and will change… How fast? I don’t know.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Here’s everything you missed at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

TechCrunch

The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success. The amount of plastic pouring into our oceans is set to triple by 2040, and most un-recycled plastic in the world is generated by consumer packaged goods. The whole package: How plastics and sustainability startups achieve success.