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Congruent Ventures Backs Ideas Promising Sustainability Without Compromise
From demolition debris recycling to imitation chicken, Congruent Ventures has taken a markedly different approach to investing than many of its social...
Fairbnb Aims to Be Ethical Alternative to Airbnb
Some of Europe’s most beautiful cities are being overrun by tourists renting through websites including Airbnb, Expedia’s HomeAway and VRBO, destroying the...
Unshackled Ventures Aims to Solve the Unique Challenges of the Immigrant...
From founding groundbreaking companies to fueling the workforce and reinvigorating neighborhoods, immigrants have shaped the U.S. economy since it began. While coming...
Refugee-Founded Blockchain-Powered Identity Platform Raises Seed Capital
A pepperoni pizza delivery to Ter Apel refugee camp in northeastern Holland inspired a Blockchain-powered system that one day may enable millions...
Xooox, British Ridesharing Startup, Offers An Ethical Alternative To Uber
Uber has grown in a decade to become the world’s largest ride-hailing company, with a market cap of $74 billion, and handling...
Investing in Sustainable Farms to Avoid Volatility from Climate Change and...
As President Trump tweets about unfair trade, and climate change reshapes the global weather map, the image of farmland as one of...
Biotech Startup Is Vying to Improve Memory Through Brain Implants
If Nia Therapeutics succeeds, brain chips will enter medical clinics in three years that will provide memory generation for all patients suffering...
Landed, After Latest Funding, Looks to Expand Teacher Down Payment Program...
Many teachers around the country struggle to purchase a home. In wealthy districts where educators face expensive real estate options, the problems...
How Skilancer Solar Is Fusing AI and Robotics For Next-Gen Cleantech
Clean energy pundits vouch that solar power will eventually leave its dirtier counterpart -- coal -- in the dust.
Liesel Pritzker Simmons Pours Heart, Hyatt Fortune into African Social Projects
First, it must be said, it’s good to start any endeavor with a lot of money.
Liesel Pritzker Simmons...
Silo Shines a Light, Smooths Kinks in Agricultural Supply Chain
Ten years ago, Ashton Braun was pricing and shipping coffee for export as a commodities trader in Southeast Asia. His experience in...
Hermes Management: Why Some ESG Investors Take On ‘Dirty’ Investments
Hermes Investment Management makes no excuses for investing in “dirty” industries.
Even as the $43 billion London-based asset...
Blockchain Finance Uses SMS Texts to Help African Farmers
Global brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev has a new way to ensure that the African farmers who grow cassava for its burgeoning business in...
Israeli Company Gives Farmers Clear Crop Imaging to Boost Yields
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Taranis combines military-grade optics...
From Automating Arabic News to U.S. Financial Industry: How Narrativa Is...
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David Llorente wasn’t happy. Day...
How This Small Tel Aviv Impact Fund Wants to Move the...
Six years ago, Vanessa Bartram started Zora Ventures to invest in early-stage Israeli tech startups, with an ambition that some of the companies would...
Zebra’s Artificial Intelligence Speeds Up Diagnosis for Patients
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Diagnostic-imaging company Zebra Medical...
The Fintech Startup Taunting U.K. Banks Out of the Stone Age
U.K. mobile-first bank Monzo sent a warning shot across the bow of the financial industry in 2016 when it needed just 96...
Despite Teething Troubles, Indian Solar Shines Brightly
As Narendra Modi begins his second term as India’s prime minister, the country’s renewables sector is set for a significant boost that...
Streamroot’s Tech Aims to Improve “Viewing Experience,” Reach Wider Audiences
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Delays and interruptions in the delivery of content mean the loss...
Obvious Ventures Pushes Silicon Valley to Invest With Purpose
The partners at Obvious Ventures aren’t big fans of the term impact investing. Instead, they have coined another phrase for what they...
The Beekeepers of Notre-Dame: the French Beekeeping Startup Eyeing U.S. Market
After the fire that destroyed the roof and spire of France’s Notre-Dame Cathedral, there was a piece of good news: the bees...
Matt Diserio: Why “Water is the New Oil”
When President Trump signed a measure in April to address a 19-year decline in the flow of the Colorado River, it was...
Bank ‘with a Conscience’ Bets on Socially Responsible Consumers
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Andrei Cherny is not your typical banker.
He had written speeches for...
Greenprint Partners’ Nicole Chavas: “Investing in our infrastructure is absolutely essential.”
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Greenprint Partners, a Chicago-based B Corp founded by female entrepreneurs, believes that existing water-drainage infrastructure can...
Meet the Startup Aiming to Outsmart the Big Guys and Insure...
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Over the past decade, mobile phone technology has provided access to...
From Fertility to Fintech, Chiratae Ventures Tackles India’s Big Problems
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Chiratae Ventures has made a name for itself in India’s fast-growing venture capital scene with investments...
Frontier Tech VC Pioneer Nisa Amoils Sees Opportunity in Finance’s Gender...
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Nisa Amoils, named one of 30 Women in Venture Capital to Watch by Business Insider in 2018, had...
Why France’s Biggest Venture Firm Is Bullish on Africa
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Partech, one of France’s oldest and Europe’s biggest VC firms, didn’t want to miss the boat...
Rohitesh Dhawan: A balanced energy mix is going to create “very...
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Whether you think climate change is real or not, global insurers, investment funds, many corporations and...