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DECEMBER 13, 2022

The startup’s customers include companies in the pesticide, chemical, textile pigments, electronics and pharmaceutical sectors that are regulated by strict discharge limits. Oxyle’s wastewater treatment was developed five years ago by co-founder and CEO Dr. Fajer Mushtaq during her doctoral research at ETH Zurich.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

CEO Brian Spears has a chemical engineering background and co-founded the company, which makes meat from animal cells, in 2018 after spending 12 years developing research laboratory and industry automation. “We

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Capgemini

JULY 14, 2023

Insights derived from top-quality data can help manufacturers avoid disruptions in their supply chains – or at least mitigate the effects of climate change – by making these vital operations more sustainable. What is a sustainable supply chain? But sustainability is more than just being green. Christopher Scheefer: Sure.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

“Sugar is a massive consumer of water and in contrast, there’s big sustainability pitch for what we do. The World Health Organisation’s first global report on diabetes found that 422 million adults live with diabetes, mainly in developing countries. the raw materials are products of the current agricultural industry.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

Hong Kong-based drug discovery and development company Insilico has secured fresh capital at a time that its CEO described as a “biotech winter.” “Prosperity7 inspired us to look into sustainable chemistry,” said Zhavoronkov.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Atarraya , creator of Shrimpbox, a sustainable “plug-and-play” shrimp farming technology, is swimming to the surface after being in stealth mode since 2019. We wanted to make the shrimp business more sustainable and more efficient without destroying the environment,” Russek said. “We million in Series A dollars, and a new U.S.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Other participants included agriculture and food tech venture firm AgFunder, sustainability-focused Aera VC and Better Bite Ventures, along with Singapore-based produce importer Ban Choon Marketing and former Sequoia Capital partner Warren Hogarth. The company, which uses mushrooms in its meat alternatives, has raised $6.5

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

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. Industrial chemicals.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Discovery and research of new molecular compounds is an expensive business, with development costs exceeding $10 billion per substance in some cases. Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Quantum technology: Is it a part of the solution for some of our biggest sustainability challenges? Facebook Twitter Linkedin Society must find a way to act on climate change, deliver on net-zero ambitions and meet long-term goals for sustainable development. Gireesh Kumar Neelakantaiah 23 Nov 2022.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Groundwater supplies worldwide are under serious threat due to population growth, industrial development, overuse, climate change and poor water management. Among the biggest recipients on our list is Boston-based Gradiant , a sustainability-oriented startup focused on wastewater treatment.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2024

Instead, organizations must build frameworks and capabilities that allow for continuous adaptation to changing circumstances—from collaborative structures to business models, sustainable production, and contributing to a healthier work/life balance for employees. Invest in creativity for radical innovation.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The startup is developing materials from seaweeds such as Macrocystis pyrifera, one of the planet’s most renewable and regenerative organisms, creating yarns and fibers that don’t rely on petroleum or toxic chemicals. “Sustainability is no longer a luxury; it has become a requirement,” Callaghan said.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

“We don’t give either a competitive edge, but we can as a whole have better alternatives for sustainability in space.”. We want to be the Dow Chemical of space,” Schiel said. “We By 2025, Schiel said he hopes every spacecraft will have a RAFTI on it.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. With just over a 1.5%

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

During COVID-19 lockdowns, for example, specialty chemicals manufacturer Albemarle developed a VPA to provide self-service assistance to over 7,000 employees at home, including a natural language interface with a chat bot, and enough AI to help people interface seamlessly with several business applications at a time.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

AgBiome , developing products from microbial communities, brought in a $116 million Series D round as the company prepares to pad its pipeline with new products. Obloj said AgBiome is operating in a $60 billion market where the problems include products that put toxic chemicals into the ground that end up in water systems.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

XFuel is currently making marine- and diesel-grade fuels and developing aviation fuels. “It The focus here was to develop a technology to be able to produce fuel at a comparable or lower price point than fossil fuels. Today, the Dublin-based startup announced an €8.2 Ball, when pressed, wouldn’t be more specific than that.).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

When the company first started developing prototypes of its devices that attach to water coolers, the company’s founders, Josh Santos and Daniel Cavero, did what all good founders do, they started building in their backyard. Noya’s tech works by adding a blend of CO2-absorbing chemicals to the water in the cooling towers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Designing and manufacturing pouches, slabs or cylinders filled with volatile chemicals that are capable of recharging ever more quickly is far from easy. We basically leverage AI/ML to speed up the development process to find the most optimum design.” “Batteries are hard,” an expert once said. He wasn’t kidding.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

We have biological approaches that include ecosystem restoration, seaweed cultivation and iron fertilization; chemical solutions where you use minerals to lock dissolved carbon dioxide into bicarbonates; and electromagnetic approaches that store carbon by running electric currents through seawater.” We spoke with: Daniela V.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

While Holy Grail has a long development and testing phase ahead, the idea has captured the attention and capital from well-known investors and Silicon Valley founders. Pereira said the company will instead use electricity to control a chemical reaction that bind to the CO2. Holy Grail recently raised raised $2.7

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

Startup Carbon Clean announced earlier this week that it raised $150 million in a Series C that provides it with a sizable war chest to continue the development of its modular carbon capture system. After all, the world needs to eliminate emissions on a vast scale, and the technology benefits from a certain amount of scale.

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CIO

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. How does that work?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2023

Italian climate startup Energy Dome , which has developed a “CO 2 Battery” for storing renewable energy, has closed a €40 million (~$44M) Series B round — bringing the total raised for its novel energy storage solution to €54M (or just shy of $60M).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Meat alternatives are known to have some chemical preservatives and other hard-to-pronounce ingredients in them, which can defeat the purpose of seeking out a healthier option. There are even startups looking into that, like Shiru, which recently raised $17 million to develop more healthier bonding agents for meat.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There’s a lot of value in waste; just ask metals processing company Nth Cycle , which has developed a technology to help mining and recycling companies recover every bit of critical minerals from their operations. We’re really only innovating on the chemical recycling side of things,” she said. “We’re

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

After revealing its first fund just last year, a $100 million pool of investment capital dedicated to early stage startups focusing on sustainable food development, clean energy, health innovation and new space technologies, Prime Movers Lab is back with a second fund.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

China through its mining companies and battery manufacturers is currently in the lead , thanks to a years-long push to control both the supply of lithium and develop massive new manufacturing capacity to meet global demand. Meanwhile, privately-held and venture-backed startups are developing other recycling solutions.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The resulting representation is richer and more complex, a more complete picture of a molecule than you’d get from its chemical formula or a stick diagram showing the different structures and bonds. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

Free to Feed is developing test strips that identify different food proteins in breast milk, helping breastfeeding mothers better determine what proteins are leading to an allergic reaction. Avalo.ai : Using interpretable machine learning to identify genes (and what said genes do) in plants at a much faster pace to help develop better crops.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change. ” Climate resiliency .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

We might not normally pause on this kind of development, especially in a market where dozens of startups are announcing funding every day, but this deal stood out for a few reasons. Earlier this week, Thirteen Lune , a direct-to-consumer beauty platform that was launched last year in LA, announced $3 million in seed funding.

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Capgemini

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These include supply chain volatility, sustainability, government investments, generative AI, geopolitical tensions, equality, and the tremendous opportunities in automotive. As the earth’s ability to provide what we need decreases, the need to act on sustainability is increasing. Companies should design for sustainability.

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TechCrunch

MAY 27, 2022

That’s because textiles usually get their hues from toxic chemicals, and the resulting wastewater — laden with dyes, acids and formaldehyde — destroys rivers, such as those surrounding Dhaka , the capital city of Bangladesh. Beyond microbes, other businesses aiming to crack sustainable dyes include Alchemie , a Cambridge, U.K.-based

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

That’s why technologies coming from companies like Malta , an energy storage technology developer that just raised $50 million in new financing, are attracting attention and venture capital investment. That modified design is what’s now being developed by Malta, which spun out from X in 2018. ”

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Perficient

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A new Morningstar survey indicates that 90% of companies are developing an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) strategy. You must sustain a positive relationship with the people and institutions in which you do business. The future of energy is growing more sustainable as we speak. The Value of ESG.

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