TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In order to support a buildout of renewable energy, which tends to over-generate electricity at certain times of day and under-generate at others, the grid is going to need a lot of batteries. They all see the future as, the energy mix is shifting. Stationary energy storage may have a different future.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 17, 2023

With the goal of getting the world to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, Breakthrough Energy’s fellows program seeks to help innovators accelerate their clean technology. Breakthrough Energy was founded by Bill Gates in 2015 to solve the climate crisis.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 24, 2020

Instead, his manager told him that these kinds of crises accelerate change and that he should embrace them. Since then, I’ve been asking myself, what changes will this crisis accelerate? Obviously, telecommuting/videoconferencing adoption will have accelerated. These types of crises accelerate change.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

Husk Power Systems , a clean energy company that has been at the forefront of fueling rural electrification since 2008, is planning to launch 500 solar mini-grids in Nigeria over the next five years. “We welcome the Energy Compact commitments made by Husk Power and appreciate their leadership. Image Credits: Husk Power Systems.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2024

But none of that will matter if we don’t accelerate our focus on our warming planet. So this pain and suffering will force an acceleration of the energy transition from carbon to clean energy. The new energy stack has been coming together for the last decade but slowly and very much under the radar.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 11, 2023

Register TablePointer Pte Ltd , a Singapore-based start-up that provides Energy-Efficiency-as-a-Service (EEaaS) solutions , has secured more than $3 million in an oversubscribed seed funding round led by Wavemaker Partners , AgFunder, ENGIE, and Steve Melhuish.

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Continuations

AUGUST 19, 2022

He also proposes one historic escape mechanism from such a collapse: a big energy unlock. We had a shot at that i n the 1960s when we started building nuclear power plants , but then starting in the 1980s we instead chose to focus on energy efficiency. That has us now caught in a low energy trap. Less energy.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Longer-term energy storage is a drag, and a lot of battery tech has been focusing on “how quickly can we charge these batteries so I can drive my EV for another couple of hundred miles.” The heat is stored in a thermal energy storage device.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Register Singapore-based InterContinental Energy has secured $115 million in equity investment to advance its mission of scaling up green hydrogen production. The infusion of capital from GIC and Hy24 will be crucial for the company in advancing InterContinental Energy’s green hydrogen projects.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

It’s a moment happily eternalized in a new press release announcing the renewable energy startup’s $2.1 Explorer Investments and Didendum led the round, which also featured participation from Schneider Electric Energy Access and the Autodesk Foundation. million new round (it’s a nice photo; we used it on this post , too).

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AsiaTechDaily

AUGUST 30, 2023

Register Indonesian coal mining firm TBS Energi Utama Tbk (TOBA), has successfully acquired Asia Medical Enviro Services , a leading medical waste treatment startup based in Singapore. With this move, TBS Energi Utama plans to diversify its business portfolio beyond coal mining.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 17, 2021

Among Apple’s more recent social good initiatives is the Impact Accelerator, an effort launched about a year ago intended to find and elevate minority-owned small businesses taking on sustainability and climate change. Apple announces new projects related to its $100 million pledge for racial equity and justice.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

OCTOBER 23, 2023

A groundbreaking advancement in electric vehicle (EV) charging technology is set to transform the industry as Greenville-based startup, Advanced Power & Energy, secures a significant investment of $500,000 from the Mercer County Innovation Fund, in collaboration with Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central & Northern Pennsylvania.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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AsiaTechDaily

APRIL 24, 2023

Register ZEBOX , a global accelerator founded in 2018 by the Chairman and CEO of the CMA CGM Group, Rodolphe Saadé, has launched its Asia Pacific hub in Singapore. The post ZEBOX expands global accelerator network to Singapore with Asia Pacific hub Launch first appeared on AsiaTechDaily - Asia's Leading Tech and Startup Media Platform.

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Revolution

MAY 11, 2023

The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.” There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JANUARY 1, 2021

As I wrote yesterday , I think the trends that were accelerated in 2020 will not reverse in 2021, although the slope of the adoption curves will likely flatten a fair bit. And we have sectors of our economy like retail, commercial real estate, carbon based energy, and more that will never be the same. We will see it accelerate in 2021.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 15, 2023

When you waste energy looking left and right instead of staying focused on the path in front of you, you will lose ground. Where awareness goes, energy flows ; it is your choice where to invest your time, energy and attention—growth will mean fewer, deep relationships and limitless acquaintances. How did she get there?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

One of the largest solar companies in Africa and Asia, Sun King , has raised $260 million in series D funding to deliver off-grid energy technologies to more people across the two continents. Shell-founded startup fund receives $13 million from Canadian DFI to accelerate clean energy access in Africa. Image Credits: Sun King.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The world around us is being disrupted by the acceleration of technology into more industries and more consumer applications. Society is reorienting to a new post-pandemic norm?—?even even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. each with partners as the lead. Where are Things Headed for VC in 2031?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

is on a mission to accelerate the decarbonization of buildings by using AI-generated efficiency savings to encourage electrification of commercial real estate — wooing buildings away from reliance on fossil fuels to power their heating and cooling needs. Y Combinator-backed Kapacity.io

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Most were built for an era when the knowledge about energy consumption just wasn’t available in the way it is today. With energy becoming more expensive, and energy security ratcheting-up as a geopolitical issue, tech startups looking at this problem have been proliferating. Home energy assessment startup Enter raises €19.4M

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a statement, VFlowTech that it will use the funds to set-up a 200 MWh production line capacity and scale up the manufacturing of its 250 kWh modular vanadium-based long duration energy storage solutions. Kumar said that conventional energy storage technologies such as lithium-ion and lead acid batteries have limited functionality.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 24, 2023

Contributed to EO by Chantel Cohen, an Atlanta EO Accelerator participant who founded CWC Coaching & Therapy to help entrepreneurs and professionals alike find a healthy sense of work-life integration and create the lives they always imagined. And remember, you don’t need to be in crisis mode to take advantage of mental health services.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 19, 2023

Oftentimes, people take for granted what fuels their capacity to function on a day-to-day basis: their energy. Tony Schwartz, founder of The Energy Project, proposes that although time is a finite resource, energy can be systematically replenished. As a result, energy levels continue to burn out throughout the rest of the day.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2021

We started 10 years ago by using only alternative energy in our offices. The first step was to switch to alternate energy 10 years ago. We only use electricity from regenerative energy sources. The screens also run on green energy. He recently shared some of the changes and inventions his team has initiated. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

million in seed funding, three months after setting up operations in East Africa’s biggest economy , to provide clean-energy mass transit vehicles in a country that is heavily-reliant on fossil-fuel buses. Both companies have set their eyes on the mass transit sector, which is slowly shifting to clean-energy options.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 8, 2022

Even to outsiders, the inner workings of startup accelerators has become familiar: pumped up on camaraderie and energy drinks, scrappy founders do product demos onstage before a room full of buzzy journalists and investors. Accelerators have an interesting role to play here.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2022

EnCharge AI , a company building hardware to accelerate AI processing at the edge , today emerged from stealth with $21.7 In contrast to the “volatile” memory prevalent in today’s computers, non-volatile memory can retain data without a continuous power supply, making it theoretically more energy efficient.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 11, 2024

To seize a future of energy abundance, we must simplify the generation, transmission, and consumption of electricity; this entails decentralizing the grid. This is a critical ratelimiter and cost driver in our energy transition. Of course, such evolutions breed new challenges, and we need innovation to bridge the gap.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We are seeing structural declines in the importance of massive sectors like carbon based energy, commercial real estate, retail, and more. 2/ Electric vehicles/batteries/software gain when fewer and fewer consumers are buying gasoline from the carbon energy sector. And that is a good thing for society.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 22, 2018

Having someone you admire invest time and energy in your goals builds successful companies and careers. Louis, I helped found UMSL Accelerate , an entrepreneurship certificate program that’s organized and taught by practicing entrepreneurs, and grounded in the principle of experiential learning. But the rewards are boundless.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

JULY 13, 2021

Driven by advances in technology, a computer in everyone’s pocket, ongoing changes in the healthcare system accelerated by the pandemic, among other forcing functions, we are seeing more and more healthcare being accessed in our homes vs in the doctor’s office. This does not mean that doctors are needed less.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

Other notable customers include Swedish heavy-duty truck manufacturer Scania and energy storage company Fluence. The Swedish company aims to distinguish itself from other battery manufacturers by producing batteries using renewable energy for the manufacturing process. In July 2020, the company inked a $2.3

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. We both wanted to put energy into GRP’s platform of services that provide more value to our investments than merely capital.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

But once we see the results of taking action, we can cultivate, step by step, a new way of doing things that will change our productivity levels, our energy and, most importantly, the successful outcomes we all want to achieve. I’m no longer reactive, but rather focus my energy on accomplishing specific goals.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Powerlines are infrastructure—things that might take longer to put together, but they keep the energy going over the long term. That conference accelerated adoption, but there was already some adoption in the community. That’s why Foursquare didn’t quite take off in the same way in 2009.

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