how Bengaluru and Hyderabad can strengthen their entrepreneurship ecosystems

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Plant-based food startup Next Gen lands $10M seed round from investors including Temasek – TechCrunch

Singapore is quickly turning into a hub for food-tech startups, partly because of government initiatives supporting the development of meat alternatives. One of the newest entrants is Next Gen, which…

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Metal 3D printing company Markforged announces plans to go public via SPAC – TechCrunch

Big morning for Massachusetts tech companies planning to go public via SPAC. Shortly after Berkshire Grey unveiled its intentions, Watertown-based Markforged has announced its own plans. The metal 3D printing…

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[Startup Bharat] Rourkela-based Greenhive is offering sustainable, plastic-free alternatives for daily use ite

Growing concerns related to increasing plastic pollution in India are no longer news. According to a report by the Confederation of Indian Industry, India consumes 16.5 million tonnes of plastic…

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Spain’s Wallapop raises $191M at an $840M valuation for its classifieds marketplace – TechCrunch

Through all of the last year’s lockdowns, venue closures, and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed to slow the spread of Covid-19, shopping —…

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The carbon offset API developer Patch confirms a $4.5 million round led by Andreessen Horowitz – TechCrunch

Patch, the carbon offset API developer, has raised $4.5 million in financing to build out its business selling customers a way to calculate their carbon footprint and identify and finance…

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Malta’s energy storage tech to stabilize electricity grids reliant on renewables gets $50 million – TechCrunch

As energy grids transition away from fossil fuels and toward the use of zero emission sources of power from primarily renewable energy sources, they’re going to need an ability to…

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Noya Labs turns cooling towers into direct air capture devices for CO2 emissions – TechCrunch

Not every company’s founders find themselves on a first name basis with the local bomb squad, but then again not every company is Noya Labs, which wants to turn the…

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