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Coral Vita cultivates $2M seed to take its reef restoration mission global

TechCrunch

I wrote about Coral Vita late in 2019 when I encountered co-founder Gator Halpern on the Sustainable Ocean Alliance’s Accelerator at Sea. Not that privately funded projects are somehow fundamentally tainted, but this type of restoration work tends to be seen as the milieu of nonprofits and government agencies.

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A year on from Russia’s invasion, Ukrainian startups show astounding resilience

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Around 7,000 tech workers have joined the ranks of the Armed Forces or Territorial Defense Only last month, OneUkraine sprang up from a host of major European tech founders and investors, who plan to provide sustainable humanitarian relief for the Ukrainian people. Finmap A cash flow management service for businesses. It raised €2.5

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

TechCrunch

“We are trying to meet the Paris Agreement , but we can’t meet that without addressing the food system and the way we produce meat, eggs and dairy,” said Sharyn Murray, senior investor engagement specialist at Good Food Institute, a nonprofit advocating for reimagined meat production.

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ICON lands $207M Series B to construct more 3D-printed homes after seeing 400% YoY revenue growth

TechCrunch

Creating single-family homes for the homeless using 3D printing robotics. Delivering what is believed to be the largest 3D-printed structure in North America — a barracks for Texas Military Department. ICON was founded in late 2017 and launched during SXSW in March 2018 with the first permitted 3D-printed home in the U.S.

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Virginia Announces Research Commercialization Awards

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Commonwealth Center for Advanced Logistics Systems (Prince George), Aviation Drop-In Biofuels: Sustainable Supply Chain in Virginia in Support of Farm-to-Fly 2.0 SoundPipe LLC (Charlottesville), Patient Tailored 3D Drug Delivery with Intravascular Ultrasound , Dr. Joseph Kilroy, $50,000, Life Sciences.

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The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

This created a de-facto duopoly long before either company had proven that it has a sustainable business model. However, Hoffman and Yeh do a good job of explaining the conditions in which blitzscaling makes sense: The market has to be really big; there has to be a sustainable competitive advantage (e.g.,