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Appleā€™s sustainability-focused Impact Accelerator invites first 15 Black- and brown-owned companies

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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. Mosaic Global Transportation (Founder: Maurice H.

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SmartRyde, a Japanese online platform for airport transfers, spurs global expansion with Series A

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SmartRyde , a Japanese online pre-booked airport transfers service platform, is a marketplace that connects travelers to local transportation operators/online travel agencies (OTAs). SmartRyde announced today it has secured a $1.6 It will also use the funding for global expansion, Kimura said.

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What if all startup accelerators promote circularity?

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What if all startup incubators and accelerators integrated design principles that foster circularity? Circularity-focused incubation and acceleration programs already exist, but there are two problems: There arenā€™t enough of them to transform the private sector as a whole. of the global economy is circular.

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Why Convoyā€™s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

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The following interview, which has been edited for brevity and clarity, is part of an ongoing series that focuses on founders in the transportation sector. We were excited to work with them because they’re an incubator and accelerator, so their whole system is designed around helping founders succeed.

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LexxPluss expands into US with its warehouse robots

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” To help address the problem, Aso co-founded LexxPluss , a now two-year-old, Japan-based startup that designs and develop autonomous mobile robots to transport loads and optimize workflows within warehouses and logistic sites. with a fresh injection of about $10.7 million (1.45 million (5.26 billion yen). million (1.45 million (5.26

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Spainā€™s ten-year plan to put startups in the economic driving seat

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Hence the parallel goal of tackling a variety of gaps (territorial, gender, socio-economic, generational and so on) that might otherwise be exacerbated by a more single-minded rush to accelerate the size of the digital sector. We accelerate also that path — into innovative entrepreneurship system. “First is investment.

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Pull Systems launches out of Up.Labs-Porsche partnership to tackle EV performance

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Itā€™s not a corporate accelerator or incubator either, although it is building startups and working with corporations. An investment committee that includes UP.Labs, Porsche and UP.Partners, narrows them down to the final pair that the team will start incubating.