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Pina Earth gets seed backing to grow sustainable forestry carbon credits

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million seed round of funding a year after being founded and a few months since it presented at the accelerator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day in March. But the startup’s premise is also that more sustainable forestry management can generate extra carbon credits for forest owners, too. Are carbon offsets b t?

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Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch)

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We can’t check out every investing outfit’s demo day. “Burst is the first DeFi-powered bank for Generation Z – we use DeFi to help our users earn more. Teams using SAVVI have seen a 1,500% ROI over traditional ML methods.” ” Bonfire. Founders: Matt Alston (CEO), Melissa Zhang (CTO).

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How Rani Therapeutics’ robotic pill could change subcutaneous injection treatment

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Once there, the reactants mix and produce carbon dioxide, which in turn inflates a small balloon that helps create a pressure difference to help inject the drug-loaded needles into the intestinal wall. “So Next-gen skincare, silk without spiders and pollution for lunch: Meet the biotech startups pitching at IndieBio’s Demo Day.

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Solar Foods wants to replace industrial animal farming with a high-tech protein harvest

TechCrunch

The industrial biotech startup is working on bringing a novel protein to market — one it says will offer a nutritious, sustainable alternative to animal-derived proteins. The product, a single cell protein it’s branding Solein, is essentially an edible bacteria; a single cell microbe grown using gas fermentation.

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Parthean cares about personal finance so you don’t have to

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Third, and finally, he thinks that strong business incentives and for-profit businesses specifically are the most sustainable way to make impact last — not nonprofits or government organizations. Check out these startups from Pear’s Demo Day (there’s usually a breakout or two in the bunch).

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

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A new wave of Revenue-Based Investors are emerging who are using creative investing structures with some of the upside of traditional VC, but some of the downside protection of debt. Revenue-Based Investing (“RBI”) is a new form of VC financing, distinct from the preferred equity structure most VCs use.

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Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network

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Estonia-based Membo — which is backed by Y Combinator and will be presenting at the incubator’s Summer 2021 Demo Day next week — is aiming to take a slice of the premium end of grocery shopping in Europe and a bite out of supermarket giants’ continued dominance of the traditional weekly food shop. .