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Better Ventures closes $32 million fund to spur early impact tech

Impact Alpha

Since 2011, the founders of Better Ventures have provided first-in investment capital to founders of 27 impact tech companies. ImpactAlpha, October 7 – Breakthrough technology is time and resource intensive to get off the ground.

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Greentown Go Make 2023 with Shell Announces Startup Cohort 

Greentown Labs

Circularise (Den Haag, Netherlands) develops a blockchain platform that provides digital product passports for end-to-end traceability and secure data exchange for industrial supply chains. and Houston, Texas, Greentown Labs is home to more than 200 startups and has supported more than 525 since the incubator’s founding in 2011.

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Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation and Greentown Labs Announce the KAITEKI Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

Circularise’s traceability software, built on blockchain technology, enables companies to make material information easily accessible to customers and regulators, without sharing sensitive and proprietary material composition information. With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding.

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Can Facebook, Google and Microsoft inspire data center innovation at Climate Week?

EDF + Business

Nonetheless, according a soon-to-be published EDF report on how businesses are using “ Fourth Wave ” technologies (like AI, automation technologies, blockchain, data analytics and sensors), only 59% of business leaders surveyed are currently investing in innovative tech with sustainability and profitability in mind. Alphabet (Google).

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. Teaching a group of sixth graders about systems design, 2011. So, when you asked, "What is the next big opportunity?" it is design. But safe and circular.

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The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down

Mearth

The Bitcoin Blockchain Helps Hold A Botnet From Being Taken Down. A strategist’s guide to blockchain examines the potential advantages of this essential innovation—and also suggests a way forward for financial institutions. Blockchain also has potential functions far beyond bitcoin and cryptocurrency. Gox in 2011.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. So, when you asked, “What is the next big opportunity?” ” it is design. It is design for next use in the circular economy.