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Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity

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“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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Intellihot stokes a more efficient fire under your office boilers

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Founded in 2009, Intellihot has been on a mission to make commercial buildings more efficient, by improving the cost and physical footprint of keeping building H 2 O nice and toasty. The round was led by investors Aegon Asset Management and the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund. .

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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“Gabriel is the Director of Innovation, focused on mobility and energy, for Elemental Excelerator, a climatetech accelerator founded in 2009 in Hawaii. “Victoria is General Partner at Prelude Ventures, where her climate tech investments span mobility, food and agriculture, clean energy, sustainable apparel and carbon markets.

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Daily Crunch: ‘Copy-from-China’ social media app Lemon8 squeezes its way into US top 10

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VCs to recommerce startups: Let’s pop some tags Image Credits: Kinga Krzeminska (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Thanks in large part to Gen Z’s interest in sustainable shopping, recommerce is soaring to new heights, and VCs are looking for the come up.

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A road map for climate investors

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Regulation will help incentivize corporations to clean up, but only technology can solve the intractable problem of sustainably giving us what we desire. The heights of dirty industry need to be toppled and rebuilt from scratch with a new goal in mind: Sustainable production for hundreds of years to come. Leather and fabrics.

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Inside Intermax’s ambitious journey to be a sustainable cloud leader

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A fleet of green data centers and a well-advanced plan to stop using fossil-fuel powered vehicles are among the key steps driving Intermax’s mission to be the most sustainable cloud services provider in the Netherlands. The company began its sustainability journey more than a decade ago. “We

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Tiger Global is earning its stripes in Africa

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However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. Awoyemi noted how the firm, in 2009, committed to investing in Jobberman on the spot, with cash coming in a month later. In the aughts, Tiger Global participated in just 30 deals, according to The Generalist , a newsletter on topics around tech and crypto.

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