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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

Companies across industries are committing to maximizing sustainability within their operations — and IT is at the heart of most of these efforts. In its Worldwide Sustainability/ESG 2023 Predictions , analyst firm IDC sees digital and sustainability transformations converging. Now is no time for sideline sitting, however.

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Linktree raises $10.7M for its lightweight, link-centric user profiles

TechCrunch

Selena Gomez , for example, links to her latest songs and videos, but also her Rare Beauty cosmetics brand, her official store and articles about her nonprofit work. We had the option to just continue to grow sustainably, but we wanted to pour some fuel on the fire,” Zaccaria said.

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

TechCrunch

based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. pre-seed to help industrial manufacturers do sustainability reporting. Tanso nabs $1.9M

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

TechCrunch

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. The ultimate 4g lte modem for fast internet anywhere in the world.

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This startup is setting a DALL-E 2-like AI free, consequences be damned

TechCrunch

In 2019, he co-founded Symmitree, a project that aimed to reduce the cost of smartphones and internet access for people living in impoverished communities. Having graduated from Oxford with a Masters in mathematics and computer science, Mostque served as an analyst at various hedge funds before shifting gears to more public-facing works.

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Boston’s university-to-startup pipeline defies downturn to grow and diversify

TechCrunch

Embracing entrepreneurship “We’ve seen an extraordinary rise of entrepreneurship focused programs,” said Cait Brumme, CEO of nonprofit startup community MassChallenge. We are seeing an explosion of entrepreneurs applying bioengineering technology to public health, climate biotech, food, agriculture, and sustainability.”

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

If you do an internet search for ‘data-driven disruption’ you can find articles about almost every industry being disrupted by digitalisation and new applications of data. While there are instances of data-driven efforts in the nonprofit sector, they are not as widespread as they can be.