TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

I knew the organization primary through its consumer hardware companies — a primary focus when it was founded, back in 2014. I’ve visited Brinc’s headquarters the last few times I’ve been to Hong Kong, and been impressed with the range of different startups the accelerator works with.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 24, 2022

They are the ones who will sustain promising NFT projects as they face inevitable moments of volatility. The first NFT was created in 2014 and was sold only last year. That’s because the real value of any NFT project lies with the people building it.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2022

He and his wife, who are passionate about sustainability, tried buying secondhand to furnish the apartment when they moved into a new place in 2014. Their vision has transformed the circular economy for used furniture and created a next-generation home décor marketplace with sustainability and environmental impact at its core.” .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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ParkMyCloud

MAY 14, 2020

Google Sustainability is an effort that ranges across their business, from the Global Fishing Watch to environmental consciousness in the supply chain. That’s why Google’s sustainability efforts for data centers and cloud computing are especially important. . Google Cloud Sustainability Efforts – As Old as Their Data Centers.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2022

MoKo was founded in 2014, initially as Watervale Investment Limited, an entity that sought to fix raw material supply issues for furniture manufacturers. The company is a leading innovator in the industry because they’ve turned sustainability into a remarkable commercial advantage.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

The trio met while working at RelateIQ, a company Salesforce bought for $390 million in 2014. We enable a new way of working that genuinely respects people’s time and helps create a healthy, sustainable future of work.” The company was founded in 2016 by Gary Lerhaupt, Matt Martin and Mike Grinolds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Twiga starts commercial farming, looking to guarantee quality, sustain supply. Twiga, co-founded by Njonjo and Grant Brooke in 2014, joins the growing list of startups in Africa and across the globe downsizing amid a slowdown in VC funding, which has made capital for operations and growth hard to access.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2021

Founded in 2014, Everli lets customers order from local supermarkets for delivery. FITEC (part of Fondo Italiano d’Investimento), 360 Capital, Innogest, and DIP also followed on. Everli, formerly called Supermercato24, says it will use the injection of capital to accelerate growth and further expand its international footprint.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Chief executive officer and co-founder Francesca Chia founded GoGet in 2014. Chia said GoGet’s “vision is to bring flexible work to the world in a sustainable manner.” The startup decided to focus on gig workers because there is a labor gap in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) countries, she told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

In 2014, Micromax poached Samsung’s country head for mobile and digital imaging Vineet Taneja and appointed him the CEO. The Indian government, in September 2014, introduced its flagship ‘Make in India’ program, schemes to incentivize global manufacturers to localize production in the country.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

He, Brodsky and Green had joined Uber around 2014 and 2015, while Kashuk joined later in 2017. Some of the first customers of the Unfolded platform have been in agtech, including a company called Indigo Agriculture , which focuses on helping farmers grow crops and livestock sustainably.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

The new investment brings Joywell’s total funding to $38 million since the California-based company’s inception in 2014 by Alan Perlstein and Jason Ryder. As a part of the investment, Piva partner and co-founder Adzmel Adznan will join Joywell’s board.

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CIO

AUGUST 28, 2023

For Petrosea — a multi-disciplinary mining, infrastructure, and oil and gas services company in Indonesia — attention shifted to pursuing more sustainable operations with lower carbon emissions. Sustainability performance information could only be gleaned by using a manual system to collect, consolidate, and analyze data.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Existing investors, including co-founder of Facebook Dustin Moskovitz, Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and notable sustainable tech investor Capricorn Investment Group also participated in the round. million round back in 2014 , when the company said it would be able to get net power generation of fusion up and running within three years.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Founded in 2014 by James Paterson and Benji Meltzer, Aerobotics is currently focused on building tools for fruit and tree farmers. South African consumer internet giant Naspers led the round through its investment arm, Naspers Foundry , investing $5.6 million, according to Aerobotics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2023

Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Supply chain Sesamm founders Pierre Rinaldi, Sylvain Forté and Florian Aubry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

However, Tiger Global limited its activity in Africa from 2009 to 2014. And the bets from Tiger Global — and other investors such as Goldman Sachs, which backed Jumia in 2014, and Kinnevik AB, a Swedish firm that invested in IROKO and Konga — was that they would become big winners in the next 10 years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2021

After years of sustained growth, the pandemic supercharged the outdoor recreation industry. There was a 72% increase in people who camp more than three times a year between 2014 and 2019, mostly spurred by young millennials, young families with kids and nonwhite participants.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

The startup, which was founded in 2014 and came out of stealth in March, said Tuesday it has partnered with Japanese petroleum and energy company Eneos to jointly deploy and operate battery swapping infrastructure in Japan. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2021

“They had users and in Silicon Valley, there was this notion that if you have users, you can turn anything into money,” said Bing Gordon, the Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) partner who led Duolingo’s $20 million Series C in 2014. Suddenly, success isn’t defined merely as cash-flow breakeven with a long-term sustainable business.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 11, 2024

Large early-stage deals in Europe in Q1 went to several sustainable energy companies that raised sizable Series B deals. The venture capital ecosystem in Europe grew every year from 2014 through 2021. In 2021 alone, funding more than doubled.

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CIO

JULY 27, 2022

It was a modest start but today we spend almost 10 times more than in 2014 on the Azure Cloud subscriptions. The primary goal is to sustain and enable businesses to operate efficiently with certain proven innovations. What would be your parting shot to other Africa-based enterprises looking to adopt cloud, AI and machine learning?

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

billion raised by sustainability and infrastructure investment firm Generate Capital. Founded in 2014, the company has raised $4.2 Watershed , $100M, climate: San Francisco-based Watershed, an enterprise sustainability platform, locked up a $100 million Series C at a $1.8 Check out last week’s biggest funding rounds here.

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QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Welcome to the June 02nd 2014 Carnival of Leadership Development. Schroeder Blog demonstrates how leaders can realize a sustainable, substantial competitive advantage in the marketplace – and create a more engaged workforce in the process. Find more in the post “ Delegation is the Killer App for Leaders ” ( @coachwmbliss ).

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

A 2014 World Bank report found the industry goes through about 9 billion cubic meters of water per year — roughly five and a half times more than what New York City consumes in the same period. Beyond microbes, other businesses aiming to crack sustainable dyes include Alchemie , a Cambridge, U.K.-based Image Credits: Colorifix.

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CIO

MAY 18, 2023

For understanding teams “CTOs and CIOs who work for organizations that are struggling to deliver value sustainably will greatly benefit from reading Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow (IT Revolution Press, 2019) by Manuel Pais and Matt Skelton,” says Peter Kreslins Jr., CTO and co-founder of Digibee.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

While the startup reported reaching profitability with its search business back in 2020 he says it remains focused on scaling — saying its too early to consider an IPO at this stage (NB: Holidu was founded back in 2014). “With close to 20,000 Bookiply properties we consider it still ‘early days’ for us,” he said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Founded in 2014, the company has raised nearly $500 million in venture capital — most recently at a $2.3 Once derided for tasteless vegetables and wild-eyed (read: unprofitable) schemes, vertical farms are increasingly compelling thanks to progressive technological improvements and more efficient designs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

When Andela launched in 2014, it built hubs in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda to source, vet and train engineers to be part of remote teams for international companies. However , after noticing that this model wasn’t sustainable, it began to make changes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

This was basically the premise behind Amazon Prime Now, which the e-commerce giant launched the service in 2014. Finally, high basket sizes and no wastage means the company has a much stronger path to a sustainable business model over the long run. Balderton is fortunate to be backing arive as it scales rapidly across Europe.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2022

Nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors (including Blue Origin and Boeing) for the opportunity, the agency said it would be opening competition for a second lunar lander under a new contract called Sustaining Lunar Development. The heavy-lift rocket has been under development since 2014. (H/T

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Planbox

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, a pioneer in agile innovation management solutions, has successfully completed ISO/IEC 27001:2013, 27017:2015 and 27018:2014 audits, certifying that the company meets the strictest information management and cloud security requirements conforming with globally recognized standards.

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Crunchbase News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Founded in 2014, the company has raised $4.2 The Carson City, Nevada-based battery recycling startup creates sustainable materials for circular EV supply chains. The raise came just about 18 months after it raised $1 billion in 2021. billion, per Crunchbase. Rowe Price Associates.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Between 2014 and 2021, the tech industry only increased black representation by 1%, according to data from the Kapor Center. estimates that, at current tech hiring and promotion rates, it will take 95 years for Black employees to reach “talent parity” (12% representation) in the private sector.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

They believe that sustainability and positive living is less about a philosophy and more about making better, deliberate choices every day. The company is committed to building a unique and better class of products that blend quality with modern performance while leaving the planet a little better than they found it.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 31, 2014

1, 2014) it’s going to launch in a big way – via a Kickstarter campaign. And yes, we would like to turn a profit – mainly, to be able to sustain the enterprise well into the future. One that goes well beyond profit. This business has recently been created by the 3 of us, and on Monday (Sept.

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