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AMP Robotics attracts investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund

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AMP Robotics , a Denver, Colorado-based startup creating robotic systems that can automatically sort recyclable material, today announced that it extended its Series C round to $99 million, thanks to an investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund. That’s up from $91 million when the round closed in November.

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Novoloop says it’s worked out how to upcycle plastic waste, raises $11M Series A

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Upcycling polyethylene (the normal ubiquitous plastic we are all familiar with) into high-value plastics that can compete with “virgin” plastic (meaning plastics made directly from petro-chemicals) is a fiendish problem to solve. Novoloop is setting out to transform plastic waste into high-performance chemicals and materials.

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Will enterprises soon keep their best gen AI use cases under wraps?

CIO

Normally, a CCO develops ideas about what the market needs and communicates them to a design team, which produces sketches to then be reviewed by the CCO. The victors may not be the greatest innovators, but they’ll be the best at protecting their innovations. It takes several iterations over weeks to get the drawings right.

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Balance raises $56M to tip the one-click checkout scales in favor of B2B merchants

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“For years, the consumer has led the charge in modernizing how we transact, but innovation in B2B commerce has lagged far behind the B2C space,” said Kirsten Green, founder and managing partner at Forerunner, in a written statement. Commoditized goods are now trading online, but face an inefficient market.

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Microsoft offers Dynamics users fresh incentives to move to the cloud

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The Accelerate, Innovate, and Move program (AIM) covers a broad range of on-premises business applications, including Dynamics AX, Dynamics CRM, Dynamics GP, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics SL, and Dynamics 365 Business, Microsoft said. Our customers and partners have been telling us that generative AI is giving them a new reason to move to the cloud.

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Has a startup finally found one of food science’s holy grails with its healthy sugar substitute?

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Their company, Cambridge Glycoscience could claim a huge slice of a market worth at least a $100 billion market, they said. The first viable, non-toxic chemically derived sugar substitute was discovered in the late 18th century by a German chemist. Those chemicals.

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Will quantum computing remain the domain of the specialist VC?

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Market trends are the best indicators we have to judge the maturity of the quantum industry. McKinsey expects the chemical and pharma industries to be the first potential users of quantum computing, enabling the accurate simulation of larger numbers of atoms and molecules, which is not possible today using classical supercomputers.

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