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AI-driven energy startup Octopus hits $2B mark after $200M investment from Tokyo Gas

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Octopus will now launch as a brand in Japan with its trademark 100% renewable electricity operation, which uses an innovative AI and data-based platform to balance loads around the grid. Octopus has a 5% share of the energy supply market and counts 1.8 Australia, Germany and New Zealand. In the U.K., Japanese renewables lag the U.K.

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Rebranded Toyota Ventures invests $300 million in emerging tech and carbon neutrality 

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Startups are experiments in the marketplace, and this is a way for us to understand and get comfortable with where innovations are coming from.” . It not only seeks to bring emerging tech to market, but it also wants to bring new innovations onboard, whether as a customer or an acquisition, according to Adler. .

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Salesforce leads $15M investment in Asian HR tech platform Darwinbox

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Darwinbox, which operates a cloud-based human resource management platform, has raised $15 million in a new financing round as the Indian startup looks to further expand in the country and Southeast Asian markets. We are a product-led firm and our focus will remain on innovation in that space,” he said.

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The gray revolution: Fundraising within the older adult space

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We see an emphasis on young founders (“40 Under 40”), innovative ideas and disruptive challenges to legacy brands, incumbent companies and “old” ways of thinking. One of the best strategies for tech companies that want to serve the older adult market is to focus your value proposition on empowering older adults. billion in 2050.

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Longevity startup Longevica plans to launch supplements based on long-term research

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Longevica’s CEO Aynar Abdrakhmanov, backing up his company’s aim to tap the desire for people to live longer, said: “According to the WHO, by 2050, 2 billion people will be 60+ years old. How and when to build marketing teams at deep tech companies. Late last year Humanity Inc.

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

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There’s no stopping innovation, however, and alternative sources of protein are increasingly becoming a choice people would rather make. The outlook is bleak: The United Nations estimates food production will need to double to feed the nearly 10 billion people expected to populate the planet by 2050.

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ZeroAvia’s hydrogen-powered vision for aviation nets $21.4 million from Amazon, Shell and Bill Gates-backed fund

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government to ensure that its 19-seat hydrogen-electric airplane is ready for the market by 2023. Longtime investor Shell Ventures doubled down on its commitment to ZeroAvia with this round, on the back of the company’s unique approach to integrating various proven technologies to bring hybrid hydrogen-electric flight to market.

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