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Rise Gardens grows with $9M Series A to help anyone be an indoor farmer

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As more consumers embrace plant-based diets and sustainable food practices, Rise Gardens is giving anyone the ability to have a green thumb from the comfort of their own home. Though he began in 2017, Adams, who has a background in sports technology, said he spent a few years working on prototypes before launching the first products in 2019.

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Yummy’s super-sized round helps grow its delivery, ride-sharing super app in LatAm

TechCrunch

Today, the free super app provides delivery of items — from food to medicine to clothing — ride-sharing, grocery delivery in under 20 minutes and the purchase of experiences like concerts and sporting events. The company has also moved on from its initial markets of Venezuela and Bolivia and into Peru and Panama, Zavarce told TechCrunch.

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Reverse Logistics: The Role of Software in Returns Management

Altexsoft

Other benefits of effective returns management would be faster service and turnover, customer retention, increased sustainability, and reduced losses. Some of these tools are specifically designed to solve the needs of, say, eCommerce vendors (e.g., Global sport company processes twice as much returns as before. ReverseLogix ).

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Experiential Travel Explained: Players, Distribution Landscape, and Opportunities

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It can be something safe (for the most part) and moderately active like camping or hiking – or more on a sports and even adrenaline-rush side, like skydiving, rafting, bungee jumping, mountain climbing, and so on. Sustainability strategy. Meanwhile, adventure travel is more about physical activities. Here are some ideas.

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Crypto-driven marketplace Zora raises $2M to build a sustainable creator economy

TechCrunch

Dee Goens and Jacob Horne have both the exact and precisely opposite background that you’d expect to see from two people building a way for creators to build a sustainable economy for their followers to participate in. It’s a marketplace with two main components but one philosophy: sustainable economics for creators. .