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10 Zurich-area investors on Switzerland’s 2020 startup outlook

TechCrunch

In a report analyzing Europe’s general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. It grants up to CHF 130,000 per company.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

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Meanwhile, the individual costs to our own health of what we eat will add up to 1.3 This year saw the launch of Feeding the City Accelerate in the UK, which aims to support more established small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working in the realm of sustainable food to scale. trillion USD by 2030.

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Embracing aluminum containers, Uni wants to completely remove plastic packaging from your home

TechCrunch

Most personal care brands barely get caught in the third of those ecological safety nets, but Uni is picking a fight with the industry to change all that. It’s a cursed misfortune that plastic is cheap and abundant — the financial cost of the material doesn’t reflect the ecological impact of that shampoo bottle.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch

Dreiling, who was previously doing ecological engineering in Oregon, teamed up with his sister, Hana Dreiling, a private chef in Kauai, Hawaii, to start Holey Grail Donuts. It’s also kind of like pre-marketing before you open up to get community support, and I don’t know why more people don’t do it. It works.”.

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Finalists in the 2023 $50,000 PA Wilds BIG IDEA Contest Announced!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

In partnership with the PA WILDS Center for Entrepreneurship and with funding support provided by the Appalachian Regional Commission , Ben Franklin Technology Partners’ recent BIG IDEA competition targeted the counties of Cameron, Elk, Forest, McKean and Warren.

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Klim harvests $6.6M seed to get more farmers growing greener

TechCrunch

Klim’s product includes an app that supports farmers to transition to regenerative agricultural methods by helping them set goals and determine the best combination of techniques to apply to their farmland (such as which cover crops to sew for their soil type etc). There’s a financial support side too.

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The True Value of Forests: insights from Switzerland

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The True Value of Forests: insights from Switzerland In the Emmental Valley in Switzerland, 35 experts from diverse sectors came together to address the pressing issues around the value of forests and how to balance their role in supporting human needs with environmental health, particularly in the context of Switzerland’s Energy Policy 2050.

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