TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2022

Starship Technologies is describing this as a “quasi-equity facility”, meaning there is a venture loan involved in the mix. First, it has been looking to promote more sustainable forms of transportation, both to reduce emissions and to reduce traffic on the roads.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Online shopping and speedy delivery through services like Instacart and Amazon Prime are the height of modern conveniences, but for many consumers who care about sustainability and e-commerce’s impact on the environment, every box and plastic bag deposited on their doorstep is also accompanied by a feeling of guilt.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Many consumers and companies want to reduce their impact on the environment but may not know where to start or how to sustain the necessary changes. He argues that sustainability and climate action doesn’t need to be complicated. want businesses to help them be more sustainable. want businesses to help them be more sustainable.

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CIO

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

CIO ASEAN is proud to announce the winners of the 2024 CIO100 Awards – recognising the top technology leaders and teams across Southeast Asia and Hong Kong who are driving innovation and influencing rapid change. These are in addition to CIO100 awards in the US, UK, and the Middle East. …

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CIO

DECEMBER 17, 2024

As CIO of Avnet one of the largest technology distributors and supply chain solution providers Im responsible for the organizations IT stack and oversee digital transformation and strategy. Max Chan is a skilled, visionary technology executive serving as the CIO at Avnet. Avnet named him CIO in 2019. Dont just try everything.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Disha was founded by Evans Akanno, Rufus Oyemade and Blessing Abeng in 2019. With Flutterwave, we now have a way to drive both value for creators and revenue to sustain the business. Oyemade will continue to lead the technology behind the product with a new role as software and architectural lead.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

From vehicle design and data to safety reporting and infrastructure, these five innovative moments have helped fuel the global growth of shared e-scooters and are helping lead cities into a healthier, more sustainable future. #1: 3: Comprehensive industry safety report released (spring 2019). 1: Shared scooters launched (fall 2017).

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2021

Electric aviation startup Beta Technologies closed a $368 million Series A funding round on Tuesday, with investments from Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund. Giving EV batteries a second life for sustainability and profit.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition for SaaS companies. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2021

It follows a $3 million seed round raised in late-2019. The company’s robotics technology specifically targets rebar, using robotics to assemble the foundational building material at a fraction of the time. “At Robotics in general have been a massively popular investment target during the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

Using artificial intelligence, drones and other robotics, its technology helps track and assess the health of these crops, including identifying when trees are sick, tracking pests and diseases, and analytics for better yield management. . Naspers Foundry, the lead investor in this Series B round, was launched by Naspers in 2019 as a 1.4

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2021

The company has already piloted its technology through a partnership with Oatly , the Swedish oat milk maker. Sustainability is at the core of everything we do, and we work hard to lower our emissions across the board. Argo, a developer of self-driving technology, is now worth $7.5 billion investment announced in 2019.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

The London-based company’s technology is built on the Salesforce and Google Cloud platforms so that consumer goods companies can digitally transform product distribution and customer engagement to combat issues like unprofitable promotions and declining market share, Aforza co-founder and CEO Dominic Dinardo told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

As nations around the world race to reduce their environmental footprint and embrace more sustainable methods of production, finding a way to remove carbon from the metals business will be one of the most important contributions to that effort. One startup that’s developing a new technology to address the issue is Boston Metal.

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CIO

APRIL 16, 2025

For example, in 2019 less than a fifth of ITDMs (19%) reported dedicating significant time to IT strategy, compared to almost half (46%) today. 5] However, with more headspace to think strategically about the future, IT leaders are proactively addressing barriers with new technologies instead of reactive measures.

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CIO

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The advent of new technologies has accelerated the rate of innovation and disrupted the business landscape as we know it. As the pace of innovation speeds up, tomorrow’s front runners are those who readily embrace disruptive technologies to spearhead new business models and capture new avenues of growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

Okra Solar walked away with the trophy and a giant check at our 2019 Shenzhen Hardware Battlefield event. Our Mesh-Grids leverage IoT and automation to make last-mile electrification affordable and sustainable — even for the most remote villages on the planet. million new round (it’s a nice photo; we used it on this post , too).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It is another milestone in our journey to make mobility safe, affordable, accessible, and sustainable by deploying high-performance technologies and operators. The founders quickly realized that introducing electric vehicles would be the natural next step, and in 2019 MAX kickstarted their electric mobility journey.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2021

million in seed funding, capital it will use to further develop its technology and expand its operations in Europe and in the U.S. Founded in March 2019 and launched that September, Skyqraft provides what it calls “smart” infrastructure inspections for powerlines.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2021

The company develops blockchain platforms that can work with financial institutions’ existing infrastructure, and its core technology is also used in GreenSTACS for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investments. Its core solution is a technology stack that is built around STACS blockchain. million USD in pre-Series A funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Energy X was founded in 2019 by co-CEOs Sean Park and Tom Hong. That’s when the duo pivoted from their first startup — a sustainable architecture crowdfunding platform, called Xquare. Since its inception in 2019, the startup says it has sealed 573 deals, which it estimates are worth 1.6 trillion won ($1.3

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2023

trillion by the end of the decade “to advance long-term solutions that address climate change and contribute to sustainable development.” Part of JPMorgan’s focus on sustainability is undoubtedly a reaction to changing political and consumer sentiment around the climate and the adverse impact on people.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

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. I spoke with Sopoong chief executive Max Sang-Yeop Han , a serial entrepreneur who joined Sopoong in 2016 and acquired the firm in 2019, to learn about the VC’s plans.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2022

While the New Zealand-based company is still at an early stage – it’s about halfway through its proof of concept – if Humble Bee is successful, its bioplastics are likely to make it into the sustainable textiles industry. Humble Bee, which just raised $3.2 “It’s resistant to acids and bases. .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

based company, founded in 2019 by Jevan Nagarajah, is still in the R&D phase of developing animal-free cheeses using precision fermentation. While other food tech companies are tackling softer cheeses like mozzarella or whey proteins, Better Daily is targeting hard cheeses, a process that is more complex, in a more sustainable way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Other investors included Uber as well as Lee Jacobs and Cyan Banister’s Long Journey Ventures, Western Technology Investment, Scott Banister, Farhad Mohit and Postmates co-founders Bastian Lehmann and Sean Plaice. Image Credits: Serve Robotics. Postmates revealed its first Serve autonomous delivery bot in December 2018.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

The company’s approach to distributed database technology is novel. The company is now aggressively expanding into the database-as-a-service space, offering its own technology in a fully managed package, expanding the spectrum of clients who can take immediate advantage of its products. It’s considered a double unicorn.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

We first covered the NUMA Group (then called Cosi) back in 2019 when it raised €5 million for its “full-stack” hospitality alternative to boutique hotels, and then later on when it raised €20 million. It partners with investors, property owners, developers and hotel operators to create technology-based units. ”

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

as much as was raised by the region’s technology upstarts in the first half of 2020 and easily crests previous full-year records set in 2020 and 2019. The data coming out of the continent is staggering: According to a Dealroom report , some €49 billion was raised by European startups in the first six months of 2021. That’s 2.9x

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Dispatch Goods co-founder and CEO Lindsey Hoell started the company in 2019 to build out an infrastructure that takes on the heavy lifting of recapturing plastic containers, freezer packs and packaging. Hoell met her co-founder, Maia Tekle, through the Sustainable Ocean Alliance while she was launching Dispatch Goods.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“We’re seeing tremendous demand on the enterprise and government side,” said Gabe Dalporto, Udacity’s CEO who joined the company in 2019. How do they make sure their own businesses are equipped with the right technology, and the expertise of people to run it, for this latest and future iterations of “work”?

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Agile Alliance

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I work for ThoughtWorks, a leading global technology consulting firm. Since June 2019, I have been leading an engagement with one of Thailand’s largest banks for an organisation wide digital transformation.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 28, 2021

At the end of 2019, N!CK’S Magnus Jakobson, investment director at Kinnevik, said he has been investing in the food space for a few years and says the industry is attractive due to the multiple tailwinds of sustainability and health happening at the moment, which is driving demand and the upstream ability to build brands.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And Lightyear, a six-year-old startup that debuted its prototype back in 2019 , which had previously raised more than $100 million in funding. So far, the company has pre-sold 150 of these vehicles, and it has capacity to build nearly 1,000 — an indication that the initial product is more a show of technology than anything else.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“I hope that what we’re doing now can inspire others to go out and try to incite change as well and use technological solutions like ours to help try to reverse climate change.” ” The company made its debut in 2019 with the world’s first alcoholic beverage made directly from carbon dioxide, Air Vodka.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 3, 2023

AlterPacks is tackling both issues with technology that turns food waste into takeout boxes and other containers. Founded in 2019 to tackle single-use plastics, AlterPacks’ main raw material are spent grains, a by-product of manufacturing foods like beer. Spent grains are usually used for animal feed, fertilizer or disposed of.

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