TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s hoped that if carbon dioxide could be converted at the point of emission, we could deal with the climate crisis a lot faster and create a sustainable carbon economy. Zurich-based Climeworks is capturing CO 2 from the air via commercial carbon dioxide removal technology, and has raised $784 million so far. SecondCircle founders.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s that old chestnut: You are a fancy-pants brand wanting to make a product that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside because you only use fair-trade, sustainably grown ingredients and materials, but you don’t know where to turn. “Early in my career, I joined the Air Force and I wanted to work on hard problems.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Soelect, a battery technology startup based in North Carolina, has closed an $11 million Series A round. It plans to use the fresh capital to scale its fast charge-capable anode technologies that might enable the next generation of batteries for electric vehicles. Can solid state batteries power up for the next generation of EVs?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The startup’s customers include companies in the pesticide, chemical, textile pigments, electronics and pharmaceutical sectors that are regulated by strict discharge limits. While earning her masters, Dr. Mushtaq worked with synthetic chemicals to develop new nanomaterials for biomedical applications. Oxyle’s team.

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CIO

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Sustainability is a major priority in business boardrooms already, and pressures from regulators, shareholders, board members and employees are likely to further drive this trend. There is a clear company risk in not being sustainable, both to the planet and to the business. Businesses need to do more than just track carbon output.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

To get its slice of $90 billion PCB manufacturing pie , Tokyo-based startup Elephantech has developed an eco-friendly PCB called P-Flex , using inkjet printing-based electronic circuit manufacturing technology which it says reduces carbon emissions by 77% and water consumption by 95% compared to conventional processes.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2022

With Katakem, Oliverio aims to develop what he calls a “robot chef” for chemists — a device that makes chemical reactions more consistently reproducible while accelerating the experimental process. “The production of a chemical product is strictly regulated and standardized. Image Credits: Katakem. million ($1.27

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CIO

DECEMBER 6, 2023

British multinational packaging giant DS Smith has committed itself to ambitious sustainability goals, and its IT strategy to standardize on a single cloud will be a key enabler. Before we were quite fragmented across different technologies. Much of our digital agenda is around data.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Part of that comes from the need to closely examine every relevant molecule, studying its chemical composition and interactions as well as its physical structure at the atomic level. So far, Nanome has worked largely on projects with companies in the food and beverage industry, as well as another to develop more sustainable batteries.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Humanity has come to the limits of nature many times in the past, and has overcome them with technology. We have always adapted ourselves to our environment; changing our technology and behavior due to environmental change is part of our history. It isn’t enough. Global cement production emits nearly 2.5 Leather and fabrics.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. Verdi , EyeGage , Animal Alternative Technologies , RoboDeck , Adventr.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A big leap of technology. “I’ve always been passionate about sustainability and climate. “Since then, I have been really focused on sustainable materials research. “Since then, I have been really focused on sustainable materials research. When we founded Rubi, it all just clicked together.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

CEO Brian Spears has a chemical engineering background and co-founded the company, which makes meat from animal cells, in 2018 after spending 12 years developing research laboratory and industry automation. “We The cultured meat landscape is gaining new entrants as the technology has evolved. Food and Drug Administration.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2022

. “Prosperity7 inspired us to look into sustainable chemistry,” said Zhavoronkov. The same technology can also be applied to find novel and useful molecules for sustainable chemistry, an emerging area to which Aramco has devoted much effort, the founder explained.

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Crunchbase News

APRIL 25, 2024

The responsibility for building and maintaining an efficient and sustainable data center falls to the operators. It’s time for stakeholders to prioritize sustainability and work toward a future where AI innovation is groundbreaking and environmentally responsible. The stakes are high, and the time to act is now.

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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. Its sweet spot is early-stage ventures from seed to series A stages across South Korea and Southeast Asia.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The company is in the process of filing patents for the technology, so he declined to be too specific about many characteristics of the device, including what it will be made out of. The current technologies, they are very complex. 4 sustainable industries where founders and VCs can see green by going green.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2022

The greens require no pre-washing and are grown without pesticides, herbicides or chemicals. “We We are proud to bring Crop One’s best-in-class technology to this innovative food production facility alongside our joint venture partner,” said Craig Ratajczyk, CEO at Crop One., in a written statement.”

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CIO

AUGUST 4, 2023

Initiated in 1869, with an expansive legacy built on the shoulders of giants such as Westinghouse (which gives it the name Westinghouse Airbrakes technology), Edison and Faiveley, WABTEC has been pioneering force in modern transportation solutions. Technologically, we’re looking at drone-based monitoring of railways in the future.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Noya’s tech works by adding a blend of CO2-absorbing chemicals to the water in the cooling towers. What this initial model allows us to do is fine-tune our capture technology while building up long-term to go to market.” “One of the things that makes us excited about this technology is that in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2022

Typically, the technology is a large-scale affair. After all, the world needs to eliminate emissions on a vast scale, and the technology benefits from a certain amount of scale. But there are still many smaller sites, from cement kilns to chemical plants, that are currently wedded to fossil fuels but still need to be decarbonized.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2021

Other startups and established businesses also have technologies that could allow them to enter this new market. Those would be businesses like Geltor, which is currently focused on collagen, or Solazyme, which makes a range of bio-based specialty oils and chemicals. “

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

The focus here was to develop a technology to be able to produce fuel at a comparable or lower price point than fossil fuels. The result, he said, is a demonstration plant in Spain that “proves out the technology that we have and the modularity that we’re trying to encompass here.”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Machine learning has, of course, accelerated work in many fields, biochemistry among them, but he felt that the potential of the technology had not been tapped. billion to spend on sustainability and health-focused biotech. “We represent the molecules more naturally: as graphs. .” ” Flagship Pioneering raises $1.1

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

The startup is developing materials from seaweeds such as Macrocystis pyrifera, one of the planet’s most renewable and regenerative organisms, creating yarns and fibers that don’t rely on petroleum or toxic chemicals. This prompted the question: Is there a way to design better products and more sustainable materials themselves?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Professors can upload their syllabus, integrate other technology like Zoom, Google Docs, etc., The hope is to reduce chemical fertilizer use, increase crop yields and help farmers grow sustainably. The startup is currently operating in NYC.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

There’s a lot of value in waste; just ask metals processing company Nth Cycle , which has developed a technology to help mining and recycling companies recover every bit of critical minerals from their operations. We’re really only innovating on the chemical recycling side of things,” she said. “We’re

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Starting in 2015, IndieBio has provided resources to founders solving complex challenges with biotech, from fake meat to sustainability. The company is building a series of reactors that could take your old plastic bottles and cardboard boxes, extract chemicals and fuels, and sell that fuel to refineries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2023

Stephan Feilhauer, managing director of clean energy at S2G Ventures stressed the viability of technologies like offshore wind as commercial alternatives to fossil fuels: “Offshore wind has established supply chains across the globe. Offshore wind is the only ocean-based renewable technology that meets these criteria today.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

We were getting ready to deploy that version of our technology later on this year,” Santos, CEO of Noya , told TechCrunch+. “We Each unit contains an activated carbon monolith that serves as scaffolding for their sorbent, the chemical that binds carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The next year of work was fruitful, by all accounts.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 27, 2021

After revealing its first fund just last year, a $100 million pool of investment capital dedicated to early stage startups focusing on sustainable food development, clean energy, health innovation and new space technologies, Prime Movers Lab is back with a second fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Former technology journalist Courtney Boyd Myers co-founded AKUA with Matthew Lebo five years ago after seeking out a career where she could leave a legacy and fulfill her mission of reversing climate change. The global meat substitute market was valued at $4.51

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

That’s one reason why DuPont is making a push to prove out its extraction technologies. Current processes for mining lithium are bad for the environment (to put it mildly), involving heavy use of toxic chemicals and increasingly scarce water resources. Other solutions to the lithium problem are attracting investor attention, too.

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Crunchbase News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Funding to startups working on water purification- and conservation-related technologies has not dried up in recent quarters, even amid a broad global contraction in venture investment. Among the biggest recipients on our list is Boston-based Gradiant , a sustainability-oriented startup focused on wastewater treatment.

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Xebia

JANUARY 19, 2024

The fusion and exponential growth of technologies that allow man and machine to "merge" will impact society, organizations, and people in ways we can barely imagine. Technological advances- ments are driving us forward so fast that today’s consumers can no longer imagine what they will want tomorrow.

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CIO

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Many technology leaders already worked with AI for over a decade for things like predictive maintenance and supply chain planning. Others explored how the new technology could help write code or create content. New technology enabled new solutions 2023 was also a year of new solutions.

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Protera

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In recent years, technology advancements like cloud computing, data analytics, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices have created new opportunities for chemical companies but also new pain points as they’ve been required to move out of their comfort zones to digitally transform. Enter: cloud modernization. 1: Flexible infrastructure.

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