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From electric charging to supply chain management, InMotion Ventures preps Jaguar for a sustainable future

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Since InMotion Ventures , the independent investment and incubation initiative set up by Jaguar Land Rover , launched in 2016 the firm has focused on backing companies across the mobility space broadly. Sustainable supply chains aren’t the only priorities Peck laid out in a recent interview with TechCrunch.

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Sustainability data platform Worldfavor fuels up for ecosystem opportunities

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More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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Pursuit closes $10M fund to spin up a self-sustaining job training program

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Pursuit has raised $10 million in funding for a promising and potentially self-sustaining new model for training up new tech workers in which learners only pay when they land a real position. “It means we’ll be able to help a thousand people over the next few years, and it makes us financially self-sustaining.

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Jet co-founder Nate Faust is building a more sustainable e-commerce experience with Olive

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Walmart says it will discontinue Jet, which it acquired for $3B in 2016. Plus, Olive is starting with apparel because “there’s not that same expectation of speed” that you get in other categories, and because the items cost enough that the delivery economics still work out, even if you only order one product in a week.

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Flutterwave acquires Disha, a creator platform that planned to shutter in February

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While Flutterwave has been rumoured to acquire some startups in the past, this is its first public announcement of any acquisition since launching in 2016 to tackle Africa’s payments problems. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business.

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Avnet CIO: Navigating the cloud and AI landscape with a practical approach

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What were seeing is in line with much of the research, including what IDC has published in relation to the costs about compute, cooling and sustainability. In 2016, he transferred to the Phoenix corporate headquarters to take on the global application and business relationship management role. Avnet named him CIO in 2019.

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For SaaS startups, differentiation is an iterative process

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But as tech industry watchers know only too well, large funding rounds and valuations are not foolproof indicators of sustainable growth and longevity. To scale sustainably, grow its customer base and mature to the point of an exit, a SaaS startup needs to stand apart from the herd at every phase of development.