sustainability

Pitch Deck Teardown: Geodesic.Life’s $500K pre-seed deck

While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings.

Celadyne coats membranes with nanoparticles to make hydrogen fuel cells more efficient

The material could drastically improve the durability of existing fuel cell designs while also improving the efficiency of hydrogen production by 15%-20%.

These founders want a more ethical company structure for startups

Called Regenerative and Circular Operations, this organizational model aims to be a practical approach to integrating sustainability at the core.

5 ways construction tech founders can win in 2024

Construction tech founders should consider how their products can serve construction and real estate customers.

Samsung renews its green cred at CES

We’ve heard “reduce, reuse, recycle” used ad nauseam, but at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, Samsung follows in Apple’s footsteps, doubling down on that, dedicating a significant amount

6-point checklist for making sure your sustainability tech pitch is newsworthy

Show journalists and their readers that sustainability is no longer a side issue or just a worthy cause. It’s our duty to help Mother Earth.

Agtech leaders dish on untapped and overlooked opportunities for founders

Lab-grown meat is buzzy for a reason. The ick factor is palpable, and the benefits of scaling alternatives to factory farming are enormous. Yet, plenty of other crucial corners of agriculture often go

6 surveys that will get you prepped for Disrupt

Just in case you're wondering what's happening in the sectors that we're going to talk about at Disrupt, we've put together a handy primer of surveys.

Do Apple’s environmental claims live up to its own highly polished hype?

Apple has made some bold claims about its environmental impact. Can the new Series 9 watch live up to them?

Al Gore and Lila Preston question everything in their firm’s new climate report

Every year for the past seven years, Generation Investment Management, the sustainability-focused public and private equity firm co-founded by former U.S. vice president Al Gore, has published a susta

Walmart to drop plastic mailers, let customers bring their own bags to order pickup

Walmart announced this morning it will be reducing plastic across its e-commerce operations in a number of ways, including shifting from plastic mailers to recyclable paper bag mailers and allowing cu

Device42 tunes IT infrastructure tooling to measure carbon emissions

Device42, a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use

Disrupt 2023 — we’re shipping a big new release

If the past few years, and even the past week, has reminded us soundly of anything — it’s that the startup world will never be predictable. To meet the changing startup landscape, we’re ref

IntegrityNext raises $109M for a platform to audit supply chains for ESG compliance

The funding is coming from a single investor, EQT Growth, and it will be used to continue building the breadth of the platform as well as the company's go-to-market position.

Here’s when Tesla CEO Elon Musk will finally reveal his Master Plan 3

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Wednesday that he will present the long-awaited and often teased Master Plan 3 during the company’s investor day March 1. Tesla’s investor day will be held at t

Want to buy an EV or heat pump? New coin will help you defray the costs

Fintech startup Future offers a debit card that incentivizes climate-friendly purchasing behavior, and today it’s introducing a way to let people sell their own carbon credits.

Web3 could help fashion become more sustainable

Fashion is one of the most polluting sectors in the world, accounting for up to 10% of the world’s carbon dioxide output. Can web3 help?

Singapore-based Alterpacks turns food waste into food containers

Food waste and food packaging take up a significant portion of the world’s landfills. Alterpacks is tackling both issues with technology that turns food waste into takeout boxes and other containers

Female Invest acquires sustainability-focused investment platform Gaia Investments

When Female Invest launched in 2019, it did so with the goal of creating a community where women who wanted to invest in the stock market, but weren’t sure where to start, could gain the knowled

Makersite lands $18M to help companies manage product supply chains

In 2018, Neil D’Souza, a software engineer by trade and previously the VP of product development at Thinkstep, came to the realization that his 10-plus-year effort to solve enterprise product challe
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