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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

TechCrunch

They raised an angel round to start Victory Farms before launching in mid-2016 to serve a market with about a $1.5 As much as Victory Farms is profit and growth-oriented, Rehmann said it is worth highlighting that the company is working toward becoming the world’s most sustainable tilapia platform. billion fish deficit.

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Affirm files to go public

TechCrunch

Again, comparing the company’s most recent quarter to its year-ago analog, Affirm’s net losses dipped to just $15.3 That one-time profit, along with its slim losses in its most recent period make Affirm appear to be a company that won’t hurt for future net income, provided that it can keep growing as efficiently as it has recently.

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Telefonica is working to help enterprises decarbonize their operations

CIO

degrees Celsius, and our executive committee approved the goal of achieving net zero emissions by 2040 across Telefonica’s entire value chain,” says Ribaya. Since 2016, we have reduced all our emissions by 51%, and in our primary markets, 100% of the electricity we consume comes from renewable sources.

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In the gig economy, a cybersecurity divide

The Parallax

In 2016, according to the Pew Research Center, 8 percent of Americans earned money from a gig platform. The National Bureau of Economic Research also concluded that year that “all of the net employment growth” in the United States between 2005 and 2015 was in “ alternative work arrangements ,” including online platform-driven gig jobs.

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Data-driven iteration helped China’s Genki Forest become a $6B beverage giant in 5 years

TechCrunch

After selling ELEX Technology, Tang didn’t go back to the business that netted him his first pot of gold. By 2016, China was shipping 30 billion packages a year , already accounting for 44% of global shipments. It was what led Zhang Yiming to create ByteDance, and Lei Jun to found Xiaomi. per package wholesale as of this year.

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How companies are innovating in the energy sector

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

When leaders from 193 countries created a plan labeled the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015, it was the beginning of a new era of hope and possibilities. The ambitious goals promised equitable, sustainable growth for today’s and tomorrow’s generations by 2030. In 2016, OECD invested USD16.6 Fast forward to 2018.

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Vertical Farming Venture Capital Has Dried Up, But Startups Are Still Planting Seeds

Crunchbase News

Plenty is also the best-capitalized of its cohort, having raised over $940 million between 2016 and 2022 from SoftBank and other venture backers. In its final annual report before the filing, AppHarvest reported a net loss of $177 million on sales of less than $15 million. Vance among its board of directors.