Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our case for the magnetic force of purpose leading to a sustained competitive advantage is as follows: Founders are intrinsically motivated to succeed because they care deeply about solving a big problem. Let’s take a look at the numbers. Unfortunately, according to the respondents, only 37% of companies have a strong purpose.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 5, 2019

With big-name CVC investors like ADM Ventures and Danone Manifesto Ventures, Sustainable Bioproducts is preparing to unveil new plant-based product offerings targeting what it describes as the white space in the plant-based segment. For now, the products that the Chicago-based biotech startup plans to launch are a complete secret.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

Despite traditional venture’s focus on software and asset-light business models, half of the deal activity in climate tech goes towards sectors requiring physical assets such as hardware, deeptech, biotech, consumables, or project development.  Temasek, GIC, and TPG Rise) and newer entrants such as Goldman Sachs and Altor.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 10, 2023

Now the CEO of Rubi Laboratories , Mashouf wants to clean up the industrial sector and create processes that harness the powerful systems of the natural world to create a sustainable manufacturing ecosystem. Read more about the industry’s footprint in our sustainable fashion deep dive ]. spinning, weaving, and knitting).

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

We're seeing an acceleration of interest and excitement about sustainability through the pandemic, an overall awakening of the life science industry to sustainability. At universities and corporations alike, addressing emissions and waste in labs can significantly drive down costs and further sustainability commitments.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 13, 2018

This technology has been around for a long time,” said Jeremiah Fasano, a consumer safety officer focused on biotech and food additive safety at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Even industry supporters posed questions about how a cultured meat product will respond in packaging.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 13, 2018

This technology has been around for a long time,” said Jeremiah Fasano, a consumer safety officer focused on biotech and food additive safety at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Even industry supporters posed questions about how a cultured meat product will respond in packaging.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The Future Food-Tech Summit returns to London and brings together over 500 leaders, senior executives, pioneering innovators and VCs from around the globe. The international innovation and networking summit offers a platform to share ideas, cultivate high-impact partnerships and push forward new solutions to the food system’s most pressing issues.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JUNE 23, 2020

Held annually in New York, San Francisco, London and Singapore, the Future Food-Tech Summit is an international networking event, bringing together 400+ leading food brands, entrepreneurs and investors to showcase solutions, share ideas and create new alliances to accelerate the adoption of new technology solutions.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

MARCH 19, 2020

Future Food-Tech is a world-leading event series focusing on the most disruptive technologies transforming our food system. The flagship event, held in the innovation capital of the world – San Francisco – brings together 800+c-suite food brand executives, investors and entrepreneurs to share ideas, network, collaborate and invest.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

French biotech start-up Carbios is making rapid progress working with some of the world's biggest fashion brands to deliver a new approach to polyester recycling. This is the future a biotech startup called Carbios and a group of well-known sportswear brands are working toward. Which, incidentally, is a lot of stuff.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 19, 2021

.” We’re seeing an acceleration of interest and excitement about sustainability through the pandemic, an overall awakening of the life science industry to sustainability. At universities and corporations alike, addressing emissions and waste in labs can significantly drive down costs and further sustainability commitments.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

Now the coronavirus crisis has ensured the decade will start with a sharp reduction in annual emissions, but the question as to whether emissions will now rebound or begin a sustained decline rests to a huge degree on the decisions governments make as they mobilise their imminent economic stimulus packages. Do what works.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 16, 2024

  🌾 FA Bio , a Harpenden, UK-based sustainable agriculture bio-products developer, raised £5.3m ($6.7m) in Series B funding from Clean Growth Fund, Pymwymic, and Ship2B Ventures. The state aid package marks the first time the EU has allowed individual state aid to match IRA subsidies. and its juicy IRA incentives).

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. Two steps forward, one step back: the sustainable business cha-cha, as I've long described it. Companies have been steadily hiring sustainability professionals for years, but things this year jolted into a higher gear. Here are five trends worth noting.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

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