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| 31.10.2024 | 5 Interesting Startup Deals You May Have Missed In October: More Accessible Tech And The Ultimate Weed Wacker | 1 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
This is a monthly column that runs down five interesting startup funding deals every month that may have flown under the radar. Check out last month’s entry here.
While the goblins and ghouls make th... |
| 30.10.2024 | The Green Wave: How Earthodic is Redefining Sustainable Packaging | In a world drowning in plastic waste, Earthodic emerges as a beacon of hope. This Australian startup has recently secured $6 million in funding to expand its innovative water-resistant coating, Biobarc. The investment is a testament to the ... |
| 29.10.2024 | Green packaging startup Earthodic lands $6 million raise to expand water-resistant innovation | L-R: CEO Anthony Musumeci, strategy lead Melissa Mail, operations and sales lead Fiona Donaghey, CTO Albert Tietz. Source: Supplied article-article-body
Australian packaging startup Earthodic has raised US$4 million (AUD$6 million) in an ov... |
| 15.10.2024 | Molg: Circular Manufacturing Processes Company Raises $5.5 Million (Seed) | Molg announced the closing of $5.5 million in seed funding to scale the company’s circular manufacturing processes for electronics and electrical components. Closed Loop Partners’ Ventures Group led the funding round, which included partici... |
| 07.08.2024 | How Can U.S. Composting Scale? Composting Consortium Launches New Report and Partners with Composters and Municipalities to Scale Organics Infrastructure Across the U.S. | Municipalities and composters play a critical role in developing robust composting infrastructure and collection programs that divert organics from landfill.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Composting Consortium, a collabo... |
| 25.04.2024 | BlueTriton Brands Extends Environmental Plans with New 2030 Impact Goals in Water, Climate and Packaging | STAMFORD, Conn., April 25, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, BlueTriton Brands, Inc. ("BlueTriton"), a water and beverage company in North America, released its 2030 sustainability goals as a part of the company's ongoing efforts to fur... |
| 16.04.2024 | Does Compostable Packaging Actually Break Down? Composting Consortium Reveals Groundbreaking Findings from Largest Field Test in North America | Data in new report reveals that certified food-contact compostable packaging breaks down successfully at commercial composting facilities that meet reasonable operating parameters.
NEW YORK, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Compost... |
| 12.10.2023 | サーキュラーエコノミーの興隆：ビジネスと研究の最新動向 ～浮かび上がる欧州の関心の高さ～ | アスタミューゼ株式会社（本社:東京都千代田区、代表取締役社長 永井歩）は、環境問題の解決やサステナビリティにおいて重要な「サーキュラーエコノミー」に関する技術領域において、弊社の所有するイノベーションデータベース（論文・特許・スタートアップ・グラントなどのイノベーション・研究開発情報）を網羅的に分析し、動向をレポートとしてまとめました。
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| 26.07.2023 | Study: Composting circularity compromised by lack of consumer understanding | NEW YORK — According to the Composting Consortium and Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI), the market for compostable packaging is expected to grow 17% from 2020 to 2027. As demand grows for a more circular packaging landscape, misconcep... |
| 19.10.2022 | Celebrate National Reuse Day with the “Most Innovative Reuse Company" | “We are thrilled to be partnering with Reuse Seattle as the first reuse company in the region and we are delivering real results to the community.” – Michael Martin, r.Cup’s CEO and Founder
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| 22.08.2022 | 99Bridges Sustainability Operating System is On-Track to Help Remove Single-Use Plastics From the Environment | David Thompson, Tech Times 22 August 2022, 01:08 pm
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The world is being overrun with plastic, 380 million tons of plastic are produced each year and 50% of it is for single-use purposes. The problem of plastic waste is fa... |
| 24.06.2022 | Cybersecurity looks like a safe haven in private finance | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
“A good half of the art of living is resilience,” the philosopher Alain de Botton once said. For ... |
| 10.06.2022 | Porsche is testing out a new venture strategy. Here’s how it works | This is the web version of Term Sheet, a daily newsletter on the biggest deals and dealmakers. Sign up to get it delivered free to your inbox.
German luxury car manufacturer Porsche, which Volkswagen is prepping to spin off and take public,... |
| 24.05.2022 | Greyparrot preens $11 million in Series A round | Greyparrot, a London-based startup set on managing and reducing waste through AI, has closed an $11 million Series A funding round led by newly launched ESG-focused firm Una Terra. The capital is slated to help the startup focus on increasi... |
| 17.05.2022 | Coca-Cola: 'Recycling rates aren’t dramatically shifting' | With an ambitious goal to use at least 50% recycled material in its packaging by 2030, The Coca-Cola Co. is confronting the limited availability of food-grade recycled plastics, which the Independent Commodity Intelligence Services’ Mechani... |
| 02.05.2022 | Big brands targeted for plastic reduction and refill commitments in 2022 proxy season | As the noisy battle over plastics continues to intensify in legislative and public debate, the behind-the-scenes tactic of shareholder advocacy has seen numerous developments this year.
Shareholder resolutions are non-binding in the U.S., b... |
| 23.02.2022 | 14 climate tech investors share their H1 2022 strategies | Almost the same size as Florida, global warming has made Antarctica’s Thwaites Glacier increasingly unstable. This month, researchers are attempting to reach the “Doomsday Glacier” for study, but icebergs are slowing their progress.
The cli... |
| 23.02.2022 | Climate investment is heating up with more than $40B invested across 600+ deals in 2021 | 2021 was a hell of a year for startups operating in the climate space. Globally, around 1,400 investors are looking at the next generation of companies that are tackling climate change. They deployed more than $40 billion across more than 6... |
| 08.02.2022 | Apkudo Completes $14.4 Million Growth Round, Led by Closed Loop Partners, to Expand Smart Global Device Ecosystem | “The circular economy is changing how consumers and businesses manage their electronic devices; the second and third life of a device is now something that every one of us needs to consider.” - Josh Matthews, Co-founder and CEO of Apkudo
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| 24.01.2022 | Unilever : “Why can't you cut your use of virgin plastic faster?” | We've pledged to halve our use of virgin plastic by 2025. The two most important ways we plan to achieve this is by ramping up our use of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR), and by eliminating over 100,000 tonnes of plastic from our packa... |
| 13.12.2021 | Closed Loop Partners' Venture Capital Group Raises $50+ Million Fund II to Scale Breakthrough Circular Economy Solutions | NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Closed Loop Partners' venture capital group––the Closed Loop Ventures Group––announced the successful close of its second fund, surpassing its $50 million target to scale breakthrough circular economy... |
| 09.11.2021 | Closed Loop Partners Collaborates with PepsiCo, the NextGen Consortium & Other Leading Brands to Advance Composting Infrastructure & Recover Compostable Packaging and Food Scraps | NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners announced the launch of the Composting Consortium, together with Founding Partners PepsiCo and the NextGen Consortium. PepsiCo and the... |
| 20.10.2021 | McDonald : Starbucks and McDonald's Deploy Additional $10 Million with NextGen Consortium to Accelerate the Circularity of Foodservice Packaging & Address Urgent Waste Challenge → | Oct 20, New York, NY -- Today, Closed Loop Partners announced an additional $10 million commitment from the NextGen Consortium 's Founding Partners, Starbucks and McDonald's, to continue the Consortium's work: identifying, accelerating and ... |
| 20.10.2021 | Starbucks and McDonald's Deploy Additional $10 Million with NextGen Consortium to Accelerate the Circularity of Foodservice Packaging & Address Urgent Waste Challenge | NEW YORK, Oct. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Closed Loop Partners announced an additional $10 million commitment from the NextGen Consortium's Founding Partners, Starbucks and McDonald's, to continue the Consortium's work: identifying, ac... |
| 20.10.2021 | Yum Brands : extends partnership with NextGen Consortium to accelerate circular foodservice packaging solutions | Yum! Brands extends partnership with NextGen Consortium to accelerate circular foodservice packaging solutions
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| 12.08.2021 | CVS, Walmart And Target Consort To Solve The Plastic Bag Problem | Plastic bag hanging from a twig. (Photo by Sally-Ann Norman/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty ... [+] Images)Getty Images |
| 26.05.2021 | CHF2.1 million for making high-tex more sustainable | Dimpora’s initial focus lies on the outdoor and active apparel market. Current market leading solutions use potentially harmful chemicals, and safer alternatives usually lack in performance. Dimpora developed a novel approach enabling the m... |
| 26.05.2021 | CHF2.1 million for making high-tex more sustainable | |
| 26.05.2021 | NOVA Chemicals : Closed Loop Partners Launches Multi-Million Dollar Circular Plastics Fund with Dow, LyondellBasell, & NOVA Chemicals to Accelerate Investment in Plastics Recycling Infrastructure | This partnership represents an initial investment and an invitation to stakeholders across the plastics recycling value chain to join forces with this catalytic capital strategy
New York, NY (May 26, 2021) - Today, three leading plastics an... |
| 02.03.2021 | Nine Ways To Ditch The Single-Use Plastic Bag | The PlasticFri solutionPlasticFri |
| 17.02.2021 | Argentine ag blockchain platform ucrop.it raises seed funding | Traceability continues to be an area of interest for various stakeholders in the agrifood supply chain, particularly after Covid-19 raised questions about the safety of our food system.
“We are solving a verification problem, which is to un... |
| 16.02.2021 | Closed Loop Partners joins with CVS Health, Target & Walmart to Announce Winners of "Beyond the Bag" Innovation Challenge | NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners announces the nine winners of the Beyond the Bag Challenge: ChicoBag, Domtar, Eon, Fill it Forward, GOATOTE, PlasticFri, Returnity, SmartC a... |
| 01.02.2021 | The Ultramarine Ocean Summit Aims To Promote Ocean Conservation | The Ultramarine Ocean Summit will bring together scientists, artists, filmmakers, and ... [+] conservationists for a common cause: ocean protection.getty |
| 30.07.2020 | Walmart, Target & CVS Establish Alliance To Replace Plastic Bags | 11 2
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Some of the biggest supermarket chains in the U.S. including Target, Walmart and CVS will be teaming up to remove plastic bags from their operations. Called the Beyond the Bag Initiative, the multi-year collaborat... |
| 16.07.2020 | EXCLUSIVE: Sericulture startup Mori raises $12m Series A to preserve food with silk | So, common sense was wrong. It turns out you can eat silk! But before you drag out that Kimono of yours and swiftly devour it in celebration, hold on a second — you need a crucial bit of cutting-edge protein extraction technology first.
Ent... |
| 16.01.2020 | Some cool news: Refrigerator developer Rebound Tech closes $5m Series A | Rebound Technologies, a refrigeration technology development firm, has closed a $5 million Series A funding round.
The lead investors were Clean Energy Ventures and Skyview Ventures, with participation from Autodesk Foundation, the philanth... |
| 05.12.2019 | Circulate Capital Launches US$106M Ocean Fund To Fight Asia Plastic Pollution | 26 1
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A US$ 106 million Singapore-based venture fund, The Circulate Capital Ocean Fund (CCOF) has just been launched by Circulate Capital to become the world’s first investment fund dedicated to address the plastic cris... |
| 11.10.2019 | $120 млрд — новая индустрия переработки пластика | Каждый день нам подсовывают негативные новости в СМИ, грозят грядущем «апокалипсисом» и призывают бороться с потреблением полимеров (пластмасс). И всё же пластик — скорее наше спасение, чем проклятие.
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| 02.09.2019 | What happened to those GM spider goats with the silky milk? | This really was an extraordinarily wacky and perhaps controversially ‘Homo Deus’ news story — GM goats who had been transplanted with a spider’s silk-making genes to transform their milk into something much less drinkable and much more silk... |
| 14.12.2018 | Nestlé Waters North America Director of Sustainability on reducing PET waste: ‘It’s not just a lofty ambition’ | “This is now part of a seven-year journey of putting our money where our mouth is in terms of developing this and procuring our suppliers to make sure that we get food grade recycled plastic and it meets FDA quality standards and it meets o... |
| 16.10.2018 | Amazon invests $10 million in Closed Loop Fund to improve curbside recycling in the U.S. | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Amazon is investing $10 million in Closed Loop Fund, a project finance fund that invests in sustainable manufacturing technologies and ... |
| 16.10.2018 | Amazon invests $10 million in Closed Loop Fund to improve curbside recycling in the U.S. | Amazon is investing $10 million in Closed Loop Fund, a project finance fund that invests in sustainable manufacturing technologies and recycling infrastructure.
Founded in 2014, Closed Loop Fund constitutes part of the broader Closed Loop P... |
| 16.10.2018 | Amazon puts $10M in Closed Loop Fund to make recycling easier in more American cities | Amazon announced today that it has invested $10 million in Closed Loop Fund, which finances the creation of recycling infrastructure and services in U.S. cities. In a statement, the e-commerce behemoth claimed that its investment will keep ... |
| 14.09.2018 |
Eat Your Food, and the Package Too
| Around tables strewn with Exacto knives, bowls, cutting boards, tape, funnels, and bags of hemp powder, mushroom parts, and sugar, a dozen graduate students from the packaging and industrial-design departments at Pratt Institute, in Brookly... |
| 19.07.2018 | Archenemies Starbucks and McDonald’s team up on sustainable cup | Originally Published by:
Alec Baldwin chased by waitress with check Restaurant faces backlash after shaming teen who paid bill with quarters Restaurant calls out young girl on Facebook for stealing tip
While the two multibillion-dollar comp... |
| - | Covid-19 worsened the single-use plastics problem. Here’s why it could also fuel solutions | The pandemic disrupted retailers’ efforts to reduce use of non-recyclable plastics, from grocery bags to plastic forks.
Some grocers, such as Giant Eagle, brought back single-use plastic bags at stores and some states postponed enforcement ... |
| - | The next generation of sustainable functional membranes is on the way | dimpora AG closed a seed financing round with High-Tech Gründerfonds, Safer Made, and Closed Loop Partners as lead investors, joined by several other local and international investors, some with ties to the textile industry. The waterproof ... |
| - | Greyparrot preens $11 million in Series A round | Greyparrot, a London-based startup set on managing and reducing waste through AI, has closed an $11 million Series A funding round led by newly launched ESG-focused firm Una Terra. The capital is slated to help the startup focus on increasi... |
| - | Walmart tests ways to ditch single-use plastics, as climate advocates urge the retailer to go faster | Walmart is testing reusable tote bags as part of its direct-to-fridge delivery service, InHome, which is expanding across the country.
The pilot project is part of a broader effort by the retail giant to deliver on a pledge to move toward r... |
