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Marie Ekeland launches 2050, a new fund with radically ambitious, long-term goals

TechCrunch

Marie Ekeland has unveiled her next act — and it’s a new fund called 2050. With 2050, Ekeland is going back to the drawing board with a different vision when it comes to investment thesis, fund structure and the firm’s own values. As the name suggests, 2050 has a lot of time to think about these issues.

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AppHarvest is now APPH: Rise of the Rest’s First Publicly Traded Company

Revolution

the company’s DNA is wired with an urgency that meets the moment: the United Nations has predicted that by 2050 we will need up to 50% more food to meet a rising population and growing middle class. Anna Mason serves on the board of APPH. But in reality –and without jest?—?the

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280 Earth Opens First Direct Air Capture CO2 Plant and Closes $50M Series B Round

American Entrepreneurship

The overall goal is for DAC to be a “negative emissions technology” by 2050. He was also the lead initial investor / first outside board member of Square. “280 To do this the International Energy Agency believes DAC must be ambitiously scaled up to capture more than 980 megatons of carbon dioxide a year.

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ZEBOX, an incubator for supply chain startups, launches its Asia hub in Singapore

TechCrunch

The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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Make accessibility part of your startup’s products and culture from day one

TechCrunch

Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015. Despite this, the relative universal appeal of accessibility as a principle does not mean that it will be as easy as explaining the need and getting people on board to make major organizational changes.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Cell-cultured meat, alternative financing, avoiding tech debt

TechCrunch

But a United Nations report estimates that we’ll need to double global food production by 2050 to meet the needs of 10 billion people. As capital gets further commoditized, early-stage investors are going back to the drawing board to see what is truly — and excuse my language here — a value-add service.”.

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Berkeley Yeast, S2G dish on the future of beer, meat and more at TC Disrupt 2023

TechCrunch

On the bright-ish side, research shows that 69% of Americans want our nation to become carbon neutral by 2050. And Walker sits on the board of Believer (formerly Future Meat Technologies), which focuses on lab-grown chicken; Greenlight, a firm applying RNA tech to agriculture; and Hazel, which focuses on boosting the shelf life of produce.