Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Innovate UK KTN has chosen 13 startups to participate in its sustainability accelerator programme. Companies selected fall across the broad themes of Net Zero, Circular World, Society, Health and Food. Zelemiq – A technology company developing solutions for the growing health tracker and medical device market.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. 1 killer in the country.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

It's debatable whether venture capital is the best way to fund cleantech startups at scale. But the reality is that an influential incubator or fund is often the first rung on a cleantech startup's ladder to growth. The full Trailblazers list includes buzzed-about startups such as Dandelion , Leap and Heliolytics.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

Indian insect biotech startup Loopworm has raised $3.4 Loopworm is the first Indian technology startup to farm insects for animal feed. The investment is Omnivore’s second investment under its OmniX Bio initiative, which backs early-stage agrifood life science startups. . Regional fundraising.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 30, 2020

ImpactAlpha, January 30 – After eleven years and more than 100 investments in early-stage startups, Village Capital is getting into the fund management business. Village Capital is looking to build a “family The post Village Capital kicks off fund strategy with MetLife-backed financial health fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The latest iteration of the Greentown Launch corporate partnerships accelerator, the Healthy Buildings Challenge is focused on solutions that optimize for the health of people and the climate and aims to foster collaboration between Saint-Gobain and the participating startups, with support from MassCEC. Somerville, Mass.,

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 20, 2020

launched the Operating Principles for Impact Management a year ago to combat “impact washing” and bring “greater transparency, credibility, and discipline to the impact investing market” (see, “A deadline looms for transparency in impact investing”). The International Finance Corp. Tideline is sponsoring Agents of Impact Call No.

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Better Ventures

AUGUST 20, 2020

Startups on the Forefront of the Evolution of Tele-Behavioral Health One of the biggest “new normals” to come out of the COVID pandemic is of course telemedicine. Perhaps no category is better served by telemedicine than behavioral health. Taking two hours off of work! More forms!

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Impact Alpha

MAY 8, 2023

ImpactAlpha, May 8 – Dental care is often an afterthought in global health. The post How impact incentives brought a dental care startup back to its roots in rural Ecuador appeared first on ImpactAlpha. But as anyone who’s had a toothache knows, it can.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

#Greentown10 is a celebration of the startups, partners, ecosystem collaborators, and other climate champions who have worked together over Greentown’s first decade. Both startups and corporates have enormous roles to play in tackling the climate crisis, and their impact is most significant when they work together.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 30, 2020

New research, growing automotive industry interest and an expanding startup ecosystem suggest that that could now finally be changing. Solutions are within reach, with a growing group of technology startups and major automakers working to advance the second-life battery segment as EV sales continue to increase.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 30, 2020

Featured: Returns on Investment podcast ‘ESG investing’ crosses the chasm from early adopter to early majority. Greetings, Agents of Impact! In the now-classic model of technology adoption, the most difficult step is expanding from aspirational visionaries to hard-nosed pragmatists.

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CleanTech San Diego

JUNE 14, 2021

SCEIN is an accelerator program for clean energy startups based in San Diego, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Imperial counties that are developing technologies to help California meet its clean energy goals. Cleantech San Diego launched the program in 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Paul Marshall is the chairman and chief investment officer of Marshall Wace, a London-based hedge fund that he co-founded in 1997. Marshall Wace is now one of the world’s largest hedge funds – an investment vehicle that bets on rising and falling share prices – with around $63 billion (£51.9 billion) in assets under management.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

We’re seeing this calculation reflected in many ways, from massive asset manager BlackRock’s decision to move away from investments in coal and other global-warming-causing industries, to the maintenance and planning failures that led to the power-line-sparked wildfires that forced Pacific Gas & Electric into bankruptcy last year.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Tibor Toth, managing director of investments at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, spoke to Greentown members as part of a virtual Investor Speaker Series. Here is the panelists’ top advice for startups navigating this unprecedented time: Investors’ biggest focus right now is your leadership—and that should be your focus, too.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Transformation will stall or fail if there is no alignment between business strategy and culture, and there is a lack of investment in the workforce. In general, organizations "try" to innovate from within, and water is a public health issue, so utilities can’t take risks. The competition is the status quo (the installed base).

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Greentown Labs

MAY 18, 2021

May 18, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation (MCHC) have selected six startups for the KAITEKI Challenge that are innovating in the areas of alternative proteins, plastics, and packaging. Somerville, Mass.,

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Better Ventures

MARCH 4, 2020

Harnessing Ubiquitous Computing and Novel Data Science for Better Health Outcomes Image credit: Vigyanix blog. This series of events just saved the health system hundreds of thousands of dollars and may possibly have saved your life. Our health system is built to be reactive and episodic. Imagine having a heart attack.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 25, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate technology for social change, announced its first scale-up project investment in Dollaride to unlock funding to scale its mobility technology for transit deserts in its New York market and nationally. The health hazards of living in a transit desert can be severe.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems. Among the emerging U.S.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

During a time when the investing forecast is uncertain, the government’s non-dilutive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants can provide great opportunities for startups to get funding in the door. . Here are the top things startups need to know about AFWERX: 1. AFWERX is fast. AFWERX has three phases.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

JUNE 8, 2022

Ocean health is closely tied to human health, and ocean-based climate solutions, including carbon sequestration and marine renewable energy, will play a critical role in combating such deleterious impacts of climate change. SeaAhead has co-invested alongside its fellow Blue Angels. What is Bluetech?

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

ImpactAlpha, November 30 — The telecommunications company launched the fund to invest in local and international impact startups focused on improving health, agriculture,

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 13 – Venture capital firm S2G Ventures invests in sustainable agrifood technology. It’s now expanding into ocean health and sustainable seafood. S2G’s Oceans and Seafood fund will back early- and growth-stage startups developing science and.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

During a time when the investing forecast is uncertain, the government’s non-dilutive Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants can provide great opportunities for startups to get funding in the door. . Here are the top things startups need to know about AFWERX: 1. AFWERX is fast. AFWERX has three phases.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

BlocPower , a New York-based startup, wants to flip that path to adoption upside down. This week, the company announced a Series A funding round to the tune of $63 million, led by The Goldman Sachs Urban Investment Group. Many clean energy technologies save money over time, so upfront finance can be a great investment.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Three investors and more than 70 Greentown Labs community members connected virtually in late March to discuss topics that are top of mind for many startups right now: how to build company resilience, manage investor relationships, and fundraise in an uncertain economy. But what if you were planning on fundraising?

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Better Ventures

JANUARY 9, 2023

We were particularly excited to meet the founders of Aja Labs , a startup focused on creating the next generation of safer-for-people and safer-for-the-planet fibers. Their approach to melding the worlds of beauty and materials science made perfect sense for one of our first Fund IV investments.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup Jim Giles Fri, 06/04/2021 – 02:30 Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

11 – Render Capital, a new new fund from Louisville impact investing firm Access Ventures, will provide early stage equity, debt and revenue-based financing of up to $250,000 to entrepreneurs in Louisville and southern Indiana. ImpactAlpha, Feb.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 9, 2021

The partnerships-focused accelerator program is accepting applications from startups with innovations for the built environment. Startups with solutions at the prototype stage or beyond are encouraged to apply. Somerville, Mass., June 15 at 1:00 p.m.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup Jim Giles Fri, 06/04/2021 – 02:30 Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. The startup is backed by unusually diverse array of funders. It’s exciting to see so many startups targeting the problem of food waste.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Through our Better Ventures PreSeed program and backed by our recently launched second fund, we will invest $100,000 in 10 pre-seed stage startups, with an emphasis on companies based in Oakland, CA and those started by UC Berkeley founders. To be considered for an investment, entrepreneurs should apply here.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

Salmon is very efficient, from a carbon perspective, protein to begin with," said Heather Tansey, sustainability lead for animal nutrition and health at Cargill. In 2019 , Cargill partnered with InnovaFeed, a startup focusing on bringing plant-based and insect proteins to animal and fish feeds. In 2018, salmon aquaculture peaked at 2.68

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Better Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The BV Investment Team Better Ventures backs the most important companies of tomorrow that are building a sustainable, healthy, and equitable society. This is the first in a series of posts on our investment themes, which will be followed by deeper dives into each of the three categories below.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 5, 2017

While still some way away from consumer acceptance across the board, some startups are using insects — known to be much more efficient than cattle and other mammals at converting feed into protein — into food products. These insect food startups have an emphasis on sporting consumers with insect bars and snacks that are high in protein.

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