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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Similarly we backed another great team out of MIT called GroveLabs that is building a company to allow you to grow fresh vegetables, herbs and some fruits in your kitchen with no pesticides, no transportation and greatly reduced water consumption. Startup Lessons'

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Venus Aerospace’s Hypersonic Global Transport Receives Airbus Ventures Funding

American Entrepreneurship

The convergence of technology, talent and funding now makes the vision of one-hour hypersonic global transport within reach—so say the co-founders of Venus Aerospace and its most recent funder Airbus Ventures. They assembled a team of top industry talent to develop and build cost-effective one-hour global transport.

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Freightify lands $2.5M to make rate management easier for freight forwarders

TechCrunch

million in pre-Series A funding led by Nordic Eye Venture Capital, with participation from Tradeworks VC, Venture Catalysts, 9Unicorns and Blume Funders Fund. Freightify can be integrated with freight forwarders’ existing transport management systems, which track the movement of cargo. The startup announced today it has raised $2.5

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Systemiq secures $70 million to fund early-stage climate tech founders

TechCrunch

.” In practice, it’ll fund key areas like regenerative land use, oceans, transportation and the circular economy. Morgan , the world’s top funder of fossil fuels. . Last year, OpenInvest sold to J.P. Systemiq was co-founded by McKinsey veterans Jeremy Oppenheim and Martin Stuchtey.

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Covariant, MassRobotics and The Engine discuss the road from lab to market at TC Sessions: Robotics

TechCrunch

She matches startups with potential funders and customers, connects students and talent to potential employers and works with academia to commercialize research. Previously, she was a partner at Ajax Strategies where she led midstage investments across energy, transportation, agriculture and industrial applications.

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From ‘literally zero’ experience to $100M, this VC is raising his second climate tech seed fund

TechCrunch

.” He’d recently left an inflation-trading job at Bank of America, where the work was “not fulfilling in the slightest,” Peciulaitis said in a nod to the bank’s reputation as a major funder of fossil fuels. In 2017, PitchBook recorded 578 climate tech deals globally, altogether worth $12.5

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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

TechCrunch

The structured, semisolid fuel is more stable and easier to transport than other fuels, and burns in a very predictable way. The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. They’ve raised $15.5

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