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Space manufacturing startup Varda, incubated at Founders Fund, emerges with $9 million in funding

TechCrunch

Things like carbon nanotubes and fiber optic cables, organs and novel materials are all potential targets for a space manufacturing company, because they can conceivably justify the high cost of material transportation. “Nothing we will be doing will be 3D printing,” said Asparouhov.

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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. The fact is this is globally crucial work that needs to start now , not in five or ten years when the correct conservation funds are organized by concerned parties.

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What is transformational leadership? A model for motivating innovation

CIO

Transformational leaders are change agents in the business, who can identify innovative and shifting trends in technology, and then help the organization embrace that change. Find out how to apply transformational leadership at your organization and what it means to be a transformational leader today. |

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What’s New and What’s Next in 2023 for HPC

CIO

Cloud, sustainability, scale, and exponential data growth—these major factors that set the tone for high performance computing (HPC) in 2022 will also be key in driving innovation for 2023. Sustainability : As the HPC market grows, so do the implications of running such energy-intensive and complex infrastructure.

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Dutch startup hub Utrecht emerges from Amsterdam’s shadow

TechCrunch

Our survey respondents think the ecosystem is strong in sustainable energy, medtech, food tech, life sciences, marketplaces, deep tech, gaming and media. The investment scene is described variously as focusing on software, clean tech, life sciences, biotech, organoids, 3D bioprinting, AI and VR/AR. Utrecht is a bit lagging.”

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Armed with $19.5M, LiveEO plots a big data course between satellite geospatial information and industry

TechCrunch

When it comes to geospatial and mapping data and how they are leveraged by organizations, satellites continue to play a critical role when it comes to sourcing raw information. Getting that raw data into a state that can be usable by enterprises, however, is a different story. “We enable more non-experts to use satellite data. “We

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The 10G Challenge: How Corning Leverages Technology to Improve How We Work

CableLabs

To raise awareness about the 10G network , we’ve joined forces with outstanding organizations like Corning to get innovators thinking about how to build technologies that will work on the network of the future with the 10G Challenge. As an organization, Corning’s growth is fueled by a commitment to innovation.