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Furno bets that super-efficient, modular kilns will turn the cement industry upside down
The cement startup promises to slash carbon emissions in the process, helping the company raise a $6.5 million seed round.
Material Evolution raises $19M to decarbonize the cement industry
In the industrial world, cement is about as omnipresent as materials get. But despite its clear and obvious utility, cement is responsible for some 8% of global CO2 emissions —…
Carbon Re spins out of academia-land to take on cement pollution
Spinning out of top U.K. universities Cambridge University and UCL, Carbon Re just raised £4.2 million ($4.8 million) in a bid to tackle the gigatonnes of carbon emissions spewing forth…
Guesty books $170M to double down on property management tools for Airbnb and other rental platforms
Platforms like Airbnb have boomed with more consumers (and business users) than ever before keen to stay in private properties when traveling or working away from their usual home base.…
5 construction tech investors analyze 2022 trends and opportunities
“It is difficult to find a project manager who is willing to take the risk to implement bleeding-edge tech on their project,” said Heinrich Gröller, a partner at Speedinvest.
Perceptron: AI mixes concrete, designs molecules, and thinks with space lasers
Welcome to Perceptron, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup of AI news and research from around the world. Machine learning is a key technology in practically every industry now, and there’s far too…
Two weeks ago, 50 founders and investors shared their insights on how the world can tackle the planetary “Code Red” with over 2,000 participants at the inaugural SOSV Climate Tech…
Climate in the last decade has been unprecedented in many ways, none of them good. Wildfires in California have consumed entire towns; thousands of miles away, New Yorkers inhale the…
