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8 investors weigh in on the state of insurtech in Q3 2022

TechCrunch

“Short term, it might be more difficult to raise at valuations we have seen before the public market adjustment, but with a strong business model and an experienced management team that understands the market and growth KPIs, it is possible,” she said. How does the insurtech landscape in emerging markets compare to developed markets?

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Sustainability data platform Worldfavor fuels up for ecosystem opportunities

TechCrunch

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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CIOs rise to the ESG reporting challenge

CIO

What were once theoretical goals around environmental, social, and governance issues are rapidly evolving into mandatory efforts. Birgit Fridrich, who joined Allianz as sustainability manager responsible for ESG reporting in late 2022, spends many hours validating data in the company’s Microsoft Sustainability Manager tool.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. The firm invests in companies working on issues of livability, sustainability or economic vitality and often have a lot of regulatory and political challenges.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Lordstown Motors’ woes, how co-CEOs work, Brian Chesky interview

TechCrunch

“But there’s more to the Lordstown mess than merely a single bad quarter,” writes Alex Wilhelm. As I described in Part 2 of this EC-1 , that staffing efficiency is partly due to its culture and who it hires. You can’t go 80 miles an hour, slam on the brakes, and expect nothing really bad to happen.

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

It’s a little hard to believe that it’s been over ten years now since the first early enterprise social networks (ESN) emerged on the market to make their initial forays into our organizations. Looking in the ESN Mirror: Far Too Much Attention on the Tools.

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Connecting the Dots

A List Apart

Beyond functioning in this manner because “it’s the right thing to do,” quality of work, loyalty internally (team) and externally (users), and product innovation are all benefits to reap. Greater Good Studio (GGS) is a social impact-focused human- centered design firm co-founded by Sara Cantor Aye and George Aye. For the Greater Good.