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Sustainable e-commerce startup Olive now ships beauty products, in addition to apparel

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Earlier this year, a startup called Olive launched its new shopping site and app with the goal of making e-commerce more efficient, convenient, and sustainable by offering a way for consumers to aggregate their orders from across retailers into single shipments that arrive in reusable packaging, not cardboard. consumers on both coasts.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

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Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Last year, 34% of survey respondents said they were using a flexible pricing model. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

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Like other online clothing resale businesses, Curtsy aims to address the needs of a younger generation of consumers who are looking for a more sustainable alternative when shopping for clothing. To date, Curtsy has raised $14.5 Image Credits: Curtsy. “One of the things we realized quickly is Gen Z does not really have printers.

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Grocery delivery startup Membo is hungry to build a Europe-wide, local food producer network

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So grocery freshness is an especially difficult USP for such apps to compete on. Membo’s bet is that delivering quality groceries is ultimately the more sustainable app business to be in. The question then is how large is the market for freshness and quality in the grocery space versus hyper-quick, push-button convenience.

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Personalized nutrition startup Zoe closes out Series B at $53M total raise

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And the fact of the matter is that life is messy and people do not eat even according to these rules of thumb so I think part of the challenge is… [to] educate and empower people for their messy lives and their lifestyle to actually make better choices and apply them in a way that’s sustainable and motivating so they can be healthier.

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Berlin’s Yababa snags $15.5M to scale a multicultural grocery delivery biz across Europe

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This means the logistics element looks easier to streamline (and sustain) vs the likes of q-commerce platforms like Gorillas et al (meaning potentially burning less investor cash). “Basically our USP does not revolve around how fast we deliver a product.

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‘Capgemini Earthlings Ecopreneur’ Platform empowers employees towards reaching net zero goals – Powered by Google Cloud

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Thus, a common platform, that helps all its employees, to record and track the individual or collaborative contribution towards sustainability becomes critical. However, almost no organizations have an exclusive employee application solely dedicated to the cause of sustainability. What problem do we wish to solve?