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Meet retail’s new sustainability strategy: Personalization

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Sindhya Valloppillil is the founder and CEO of Skin Dossier, a venture partner at Next Gen Ventures, a freelance writer and formerly a beauty industry executive and marketing professor. It may not be as glamorous as D2C, but beauty tech is big money. Smart packaging with IoT and distributed ledger technology.

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Proptech in Review: 3 investors explain why they’re bullish on tech that makes buildings greener

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We asked three venture capital firms investing at the intersection of proptech and climate tech about how a focus on reducing emissions can trim a building’s carbon footprint and offer new opportunities for returns. There’s a lot of overlap between construction tech and proptech. It’s the last day of the TechCrunch+ Cyber Monday sale

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How well did Israel’s cybersecurity industry do in 2022?

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Yuval Krigel is an associate at YL Ventures who focuses on deal sourcing, technological due diligence and providing value-add support to the firm’s portfolio companies. billion over 109 funding rounds), it seems that 2021 was a blip on the radar, and that the industry is returning to where it left off in 2020.

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Banyan wants to unlock financing for a (more) sustainable future

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When it comes to sustainable infrastructure development, technology is making terrific leaps and bounds. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. Streamlined, and indeed sustainable, it ain’t. The theory is that it will make investment in sustainable infrastructure a more attractive proposition, too.

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14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies

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Last year, round sizes for climate tech startups quadrupled, with more than 600 investments totaling over $40 billion. What is your climate tech investment thesis in H1 2022? Which technologies are you paying attention to right now? electric scooters, replaceable battery technologies) generate a high volume of e-waste.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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” is a staple of Gen X humor, since it reaffirms the cynical viewpoint that technology frequently fails to deliver on its lofty promises. The industry went from being speculative to competitive in a flash, thanks in large part to advances like composite materials and battery density. Sustainable travel at the forefront.

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Colgate-Palmolive, Coca-Cola and Unilever join AB InBev’s sustainable supply chain accelerator

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A clutch of the world’s largest consumer products and food companies are joining Budweiser’s parent company Anheuser-Busch InBev in backing an investment program to support early-stage companies focused on making supply chains more sustainable. Applications for the latest cohort will be due by May 31, 2021.