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Bill Gates just invested in a startup that's trying to stop cows from burping and farting so much
What do a billionaire philanthropist, a climate tech firm, and fewer cow burps have in common? Just ask Bill Gates, whose investment firm Breakthrough Energy Ventures, or BEV, led a $12 million seed funding round into an Australian climate tech firm working to reduce methane emissions — like those from cows.
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Billions of people still lack high-speed internet. This S.F. company is building satellites to change that
Inside a warehouse at San Francisco’s Pier 70
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Investing in Startups: What You Need to Know and Why You Should Consider It
If you’ve watched The Social Network, you may remember that billionaire Peter Thiel, a serial entrepreneur and successful venture capitalist, was one of the first outside investors in Facebook. Thiel invested $500,000 in 2004 for a 10.2% stake in Facebook.
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Startup backed by Tesla investor promises $300,000 flying car by 2025: 'This is not more complicated than a Toyota Corolla'
The promise of a future filled with flying cars is nothing new. For decades, futurists have touted the dream of your car lifting off and soaring above a traffic jam. So the most interesting part of a recent prototype announcement from Santa Clara, California-based Alef Aeronautics may not be the car itself, which Alef says will be able to take off into the air vertically and fly like a helicopter up to 110 miles on a single charge.
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An Australian startup is "growing" water for drought-parched California
Water is California's most precious commodity these days, as the state endures a drought that scientists are calling the worst in 1,200 years. State officials say more than 1,200 wells have run dry this year, a nearly 50% increase over the same period last year. California's water crisis is most severe in the San Joaquin Valley, the country's most productive agricultural region. This year's snowmelt and rain have not been enough to replenish already-depleted groundwater supplies.
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The Underserved Market of Menopause
The history, market opportunity and investment outlook for the traditionally taboo space of menopause.
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Startup Valuations Entrepreneurs Should Be Aware Of
Startup valuations can be a tricky business. Just take a look at Flow, a real estate company that's still in its early stages. Despite not even being built yet, it was valued by investors at over $1B - and the founder, Adam Neumann, is far from an upstanding citizen.
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Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses’ backs
You’ve heard of side hustles. Now, we’ve got side startups.
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Meet the First Indigenous Woman to Close a Series A. Her Startup Is Worth $40 Million
Bobbie Racette was once the hesitant face of Virtual Gurus, the Canadian tech company she started, but she has since embraced her identity.
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The Speedy Downfall of Rapid Delivery Startups
Companies that promise groceries delivered in 15 minutes surged during the pandemic—but are now in retreat.
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Startups raise millions for lunar rovers and asteroid mining
Two startups recently raised a combined $25 million in seed rounds to advance plans for lunar and asteroid missions, showing continued interest in space startups despite broader market uncertainty. Lunar Outpost announced May 24 it raised a $12 million seed round from several investors. Explorer 1 Fund led the round with participation from Promus Ventures, Space Capital, Type 1 Ventures and Cathexis Ventures.
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Startup offers $800-a-month bunk bed 'pods' in Bay Area home
For $800 a month you could live in a tiny bunk bed-style pod with 13 other roommates in the Bay Area. Eight-month-old startup Brownstone Shared Housing has come under the spotlight this week after an Insider profile on the company revealed what it looks like inside the Palo Alto home with 14 tenants each living in a "pod."
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How Anne Hathaway’s Bold Performance Saved ‘WeCrashed’: Column
Television, this spring, has been full of stories of real-life people struggling against the petty matters of their respective realities and reinventing themselves as heroic figures. On “The Dropout,” Elizabeth Holmes (Amanda Seyfried) pushed past the limits of science to declare herself a genius, no matter how unrealistic her putative accomplishments; on “Inventing Anna,” Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) made herself into a wealthy woman of leisure, despite having neither wealth nor, in her endless gyrating calculations, leisure time.
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The US military is partnering with a startup to build 3D-printed barracks in Texas
The US Department of Defense and Icon will print the three 5,700 square-foot training barracks over the next 10 months in Texas, which will become the largest 3D-printed structures in North America.
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Fast's collapse won't be unique
Around 450 people lost their jobs, and investors like Stripe, Addition and Index Ventures lost around $120 million.
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Another startup joins race to provide high-speed lunar communications
Aquarian Space said March 17 it has raised seed funding to deploy a high-speed communications network for the moon to meet anticipated demand from government and commercial lunar missions. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Draper Associates, an early SpaceX investor, has injected $650,000 in Aquarian Space to support plans to deploy its first lunar satellite in the first quarter of 2024.
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WeCrashed Review: Anne Hathaway Steals The Show In A Sleek, Seductive Tale Of A Startup Gone Wrong
The writing is already on the wall for WeWork, the wildly profitable (but exorbitantly expensive) brainchild of co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann (Jared Leto, once again affecting an outsized accent), when "WeCrashed" throws viewers headfirst into the plot with its very first scene. Based on the Wondery podcast "WeCrashed: The Rise and Fall of WeWork," the Apple TV+ series from creators Lee Eisenberg ("The Office," "Good Boys," "Little America") and Drew Crevello documents the whirlwind years leading up to the make-or-break moment when the co-working space company is set to go public ... or not.
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'Don't be Google': The rise of privacy focused startups
Google once used the slogan "don't be evil" to distinguish itself from its competitors, but now a growing number of pro-privacy startups are rallying to the mantra "don't be Google". They are taking on Google Analytics, a product used by more than half of the world's websites to understand people's browsing habits.
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70% Of Startups Offer Remote Work Options As Hiring Heats Up, Y Combinator Data Shows
Startup hiring during the pandemic boomed, as did the expansion of remote roles. That’s according to Y Combinator, the influential startup accelerator, which quietly launched its Work at a Startup platform back in 2018 to help companies hire the right people.
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Tech Startup Reveals Fully Autonomous Delivery Robot at CES: Meet the Ottobot
The world's biggest tech show is back. Today, January 5th, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opened its gates to all sorts of innovative and crazy machines. On-site made its apparition a fleet of autonomous robots as well. Called the Ottobots, these small robots are designed to deliver goods both indoors and outdoors.
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