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Accelerate at Circularity 20: Fast-Pitch Competition

GreenBiz

Taj Eldridge, senior director of investments at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI).

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Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity

GreenBiz

Music in this episode by Blue Dot Sessions, AdmiralBob 77, Stefan Kartenburg and Lee Rosevere: "Throughput," "Our Fingers Cold" and "Hundred Mile — Atmospheric" (Blue Dot); "Two Guitars" (AdmiralBob 77); "The Vendetta," "Guitale's Happy Place" and "Arc de Triomphe" (Kartenburg); "Curiosity" and "I'm Going for a Coffee" (Rosevere).

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Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life

GreenBiz

For Eldridge, one exciting thing about circular startups is that they're working with communities that otherwise might not be thinking about environmental issues. This GreenBiz tradition began in 2012 at its VERGE events, offering a venue where startups make a 2.5-minute minute pitch of their technology to the audience.

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How racism manifests itself in clean energy

GreenBiz

We have a lack of jobs, we have a lack of access, we have a lack of money in communities," said Taj Eldridge, senior director of investment at Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator ( LACI ). Eldridge echos this sentiment, noting that white professionals are often disconnected from the deep bench of talent in the African American community.

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Top Climatetech Investors Discuss the IPCC Report’s Call to Action

Greentown Labs

To explore the many facets of the IPCC report’s impact on investing, our Investor Speaker Series convened three leading investors: Dan Goldman , co-founder and managing director of Clean Energy Ventures ; Taj Eldridge , general partner of Include Venture Partners ; and Christina O’Conor , vice president of Congruent Ventures.

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Accelerate at Circularity 20: Fast-Pitch Competition

AGreenLiving

Speakers Taj Eldridge, senior director of investments at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) Monique Mills, head of the Startup Catalyst at the Advanced Technology Development Center at Georgia Institute of Technology Shana Rappaport, Executive Director at GreenBiz Holly Secon Tue, 09/08/2020 – 20:35 Featured Off.

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Interactive Rewind — How Investors Are Breaking Down Barriers

Elemental Excelerator

Taj Ahmad Eldridge, General Partner at Include Venture Partners , pointed out that while VCs deployed a record $150 billion in 2020, only $1 billion of that went to Black founders. ” Sara Chandler and Taj Ahmad Eldridge. “ That’s what the future is going to be about, ” Taj said.