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Accelerating Aerospace Organizational Innovation, Speed, and Resilience with Digital Technologies

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Their products, research, and technologies are changing the way the world works. The impact of space technology, on other industries, is wide and vast, and the innovation ripple of research has spurred many high-profile products, including Teflon and CAT scans, as well as many more developments from NASA.

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Founders must show investors that sustainability is more than lip service

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During his 20-year career, Todd has been involved in financing and building over 150 venture and growth-stage companies in the media, consumer, technology, education and healthcare sectors. So what exactly do founders need to put in place to demonstrate that they’re on the right track when it comes to sustainability?

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AgBiome lands $166M for safer crop protection technology

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The microbes already discovered are used by humans for things like pharmaceuticals, food and agriculture. Due to its safer formula, Howler can be used as the last spray in the program, and its differentiator is a shorter re-entry period — farmers can spray in the morning and be able to go back out in the field in the afternoon. “We

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Industry clouds prove their business value

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More challenging, its spin-off from Actelion following Johnson & Johnson’s acquisition meant there were no systems or technology platforms. Veeva’s life sciences cloud, for example, not only handles Idorsia’s regulatory, sustainability, and commercial processes but also provides predefined FDA formatting. I have a unique setup.

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Nanome raises $3 million to help scientists get up close with molecular structures in VR

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McCloskey thinks that Nanome’s platform has become even more relevant during the COVID-19 pandemic, as researchers might be forced to work remotely on occasion, limiting their access to in-lab technology and software. But they have plans to use this new funding to expand into pharmaceutical chemistry, synthetic biology, and even education.

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Funding Is Still Flowing Strong To Water-Focused Startups

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Funding to startups working on water purification- and conservation-related technologies has not dried up in recent quarters, even amid a broad global contraction in venture investment. Groundwater supplies worldwide are under serious threat due to population growth, industrial development, overuse, climate change and poor water management.

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

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Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed. These products don’t get at the full potential for cellular technology according to Daan Luining, Meatable’s chief technology officer. ” For Meatable right now, price remains an issue.

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