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In Marketplace Tech's series, "How We Survive," explores how tech can help the world adapt to climate change.
This recent series installment tackles venture capital's role in climate tech and what it is doing to invest in climate tech.
According to Scott Kupor, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a firm that helped kick-start Skype, Twitter, Facebook and Airbnb, the venture capital community is "a little shy about climate tech."
Paul Kedrosky, who runs SK Ventures, echoes this sentiment since it's easier to fund products that are purely digital, like apps or social networks, than it is to get into real-world tech, like batteries and storage or infrastructure. And there are also many others who are frustrated and recommends the entire tech industry to step up, like what Seth Bannon, founding partner at San Francisco-based venture capital firm Fifty Years, advises.
The installment concludes that when it comes to funding tech to tackle and address climate change, the venture capital industry is still "in the shallow end of the pool." Read the Entire Article
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In an NPR (Nonprofit Quarterly) essay based on a talk delivered to the 2018 fellowship class of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) at Penn Center in St. Helena Island, South...more
Foundation: Knight Foundation
Niantic Inc. shared the outcomes of the first ever symposium, "Augmenting Cities: A Playful Path to Community," hosted in partnership with the Knight Foundation to leverage the latest Augmented...more
The Exelon Foundation and Exelon Corp. launched a $20 million climate change investment initiative to fund startups in Atlantic City, Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and...more
Foundation: Solar Impulse Foundation
In a World Economic Forum report, Alzbeta Klein, Director and Global Head, Climate Business, International Finance Corporation (IFC), shares how businesses are using efficiency and innovation to...more
According to Tom Vander Ark, CEO of Getting Smart, the world is living in a new era shaped by two human-made forces: artificial intelligence and global warming. Vander Ark explains that this new...more
In a collaborative research initiative of the MoALD (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development), titled "Civil Society collaboration in measuring impact of adaptation investments: the case of...more
The 2019 Social Entrepreneurship Awards run by the Schwab Foundation has recognized three African entrepreneurs. The social entrepreneurs from Africa are Kennedy Njoroge, co-founder of Kenyan...more
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) has committed to invest $1 million in SustainVC Impact Fund II, a $25 million fund supporting early-stage companies focused on social and...more
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) aims to find, accelerate, and scale solutions that address environmental issues as well as create economic opportunity for local communities. In partnership with...more
New College of Florida students Daniel Schell and Emiliano Espinosa organized a Social Entrepreneurship Conference. The conference, held Sept. 21, 2019 at New College in Sarasota, brought together...more
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UN Green Climate Funding Can Power the World’s Poor
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change is setting up its new Green Climate Fund to “provide support to developing countries to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
