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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

TechCrunch

Startups that deliver sustainable personalization solutions that also improve business for retailers and brands fall into three categories: AR virtual try-on with shade matching. Advanced virtual fitting rooms with VR/AR for fashion.

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Accelerating AI at scale without sacrificing security

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Examples include the 2008 breach of Société Générale , one of France’s largest banks, when an employee bypassed internal controls to make unauthorized trades, leading to billions of dollars lost. Ensuring these elements are at the forefront of your data strategy is essential to harnessing AI’s power responsibly and sustainably.

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Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity

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“We looked back historically over the last decade and a little bit more, and it turns out that even during the 2008-2009 economic downturn, the space industry continued to grow at 7% per year,” Crawford said, adding that they saw almost no correlation between the performance of the Global S&P 1200 and the space industry.

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Sustainability and Being Green – Do Your Customers Actually Care?

Women on Business

Do consumers actually care if our business is sustainable or “green”? Sustainability is something of a buzz word that people throw around casually and in daily conversation. Likewise if a consumer believes their buying decision can have a direct impact on the environment they are more likely to chose a sustainable option.

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Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction

TechCrunch

As an entrepreneur and venture capitalist who has lived through two downturns (the post-2000 internet bubble bust and the post-2008 financial crisis), I know that entrepreneurial innovation is always alive and that company-building is a marathon, not a sprint. And the past few weeks of geopolitical challenges only added to the bleak scenario.

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Korean VC Sopoong closes $8M fund for startups focused on environmental impact

TechCrunch

Though some businesses may never be truly sustainable, a venture firm in Seoul argues that emerging climate-tech startups will help big manufacturers do better overall. Sopoong was launched in 2008 by Jaewoong Lee , who co-founded South Korea’s largest internet portal operator Daum Communication, which merged with Kakao in 2014.

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Kenyan insurtech startup Pula raises $6M Series A to derisk smallholder farmers across Africa

TechCrunch

When Goslinga met Njeru in 2008, she worked for Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA). Social enterprises like One Acre Fund, startups like Apollo Agriculture, and agribusiness giants like Flour Mills and Export Trading Group are also among Pula’s clients. Co-CEOs with agricultural backgrounds.

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