RxDiet is an Axios deal of the day! Congrats to their team on their $3M seed round. The company is reimagining food as medicine. They partner with health plans and at-risk organizations to engage the most vulnerable, chronically-ill, members or patients with medically tailored, fresh ingredient delivery and behavioral & dietary guidance. https://lnkd.in/gDTbNdJx Learn more about the company: https://www.rx-diet.com/
Better Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Oakland, California 9,877 followers
Backing founders on a mission to build a better world
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Better Ventures is a venture capital firm that provides funding and support to companies creating scalable solutions to some of the world’s biggest challenges. We believe in the power of technology to address the big issues of our time, from job creation to education to environmental sustainability. Given the magnitude of the world’s problems and the enormous market opportunities they represent, it takes the best and brightest minds armed with the best resources to address them. These are the people we seek to back – entrepreneurs committed to using the tools and methodologies of the modern technology startup to address big global challenges. We're thinking big and expecting big results, and so are the entrepreneurs we back. Better Ventures is the evolution of Hub Ventures, a successful startup accelerator for entrepreneurs building a better world.
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🚀 Excited to announce our investment in Matereal, a groundbreaking materials science startup on a mission to detoxify and decarbonize the plastic chemicals industry! 🌍✨ They announced their $4.5M seed round today. Polyurethane is everywhere—furniture, apparel, luggage, and more. While PU’s durability and flexibility make it indispensable, its traditional manufacturing process is harmful to both the environment and human health, relying on toxic isocyanates. Enter Matereal, with their innovative solution to this pressing problem. Matereal’s flagship product, Polaris, is a non-isocyanate polyurethane (NIPU) for use in coatings, films, and adhesives, with textiles and outdoor gear as the initial markets. This sustainable alternative uses green chemistry, replacing harmful isocyanates with bio-based feedstocks like linseed oil and captured CO2. Matereal’s vision extends beyond PU. Their AI-powered platform aims to discover and optimize new sustainable polymer formulations across the plastics industry. Leading Matereal is CEO Jacqueline Ros Amable, supported by a stellar team including Dr. Philip Pienkos, Ben Galphin, Jordan Harris, and Blake Yeager. Their collective expertise in materials science, green chemistry, and AI-powered formula discovery is pushing the boundaries of sustainable manufacturing. We’re thrilled to support Matereal alongside Collaborative Fund and look forward to their continued success in building a more sustainable future. Here's to a cleaner, safer planet and people! Wes Selke #Sustainability #MaterialsScience #Innovation #GreenChemistry #AI #Investment #FutureOfMaterials #Matereal Learn more about Matereal and their revolutionary approach here: https://lnkd.in/gTZac4dA Read about their seed round: https://lnkd.in/g7tktfHw
Revolutionizing Polyurethane: How Matereal is Pioneering a Safer, Greener Future
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If you're involved with carbon verification or forest science, or simply curious about LiDAR technology, check out these insights from our Remote Sensing Scientist, John Kilbride. Discover how LiDAR provides precise measurements of carbon stocks along with some useful resources and methods. Follow the links below to learn more about this technology. ⤵ #LiDAR #Forestry #CarbonMapping #RemoteSensing
LiDAR is the most accurate remote sensing method for measuring forest structure and estimating carbon stocks. I have spent the past month working on crunching a large number of LiDAR acquisitions to map carbon stocks. While I typically utilize Python for data science/processing remotely sensed data, the R ecosystem really seems leagues better when it comes to LiDAR processing. The lidR package makes processing large acquisitions a breeze and includes a lot of quality-of-life features if you are compute-limited and/or need to inject specialized logic into your workflow. The LAScatalog processing engine, in particular, makes parallel processing of thousands of individual tiles into seamless maps of canopy structure simple. If you are compute-limited, it also includes features that make processing on a laptop or older computer very simple (e.g., chunking large tiles into smaller subsets). The lidR book is an incredible resource to learn about LiDAR processing for forestry/carbon mapping. The majority of the most common algorithms used in forestry literature are covered. Shout out to my colleague Tristan RH Goodbody at Renoster, who helped write the docs! A much less known package is “lasR.” This software library performs almost all computations using C++ and is incredibly fast. Seriously, if you are regularly using lidR to derive normalized point clouds or digital terrain models, you need to check it out. It has saved us thousands of dollars in cloud computing costs. It was developed by Jean-Romain Roussel, the same savant who was the lead developer on lidR. For my needs, I settled on a workflow that uses lasR to do most of the initial processing before swapping over to lidR for some more specialized logic. Links to some of the resources I mentioned: lidR Bible: https://lnkd.in/gd-U73dn lidR GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gaDg8y8B lasR GitHub: https://lnkd.in/gQh7rDkn If you are interested in using LiDAR for carbon verification or forest science, here are a few papers that are commonly cited: Lefsky et al. 1999: https://lnkd.in/gDtXDXdN Lefsky et al. 2002: https://lnkd.in/gCnKYpGW Zolkos et al. 2013: https://lnkd.in/gCTH-GvW
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A well deserved award fro the Cypris Materials, Inc. & BASF teams! Congrats!
I am incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to accept the prestigious Red Dot Design Award alongside Mark Gutjahr last week. This award recognizes the collaborative work between BASF and Cypris Materials, Inc. on #ZENOMENON, one of BASF Auto Trend's key colors of the year in 2023-2024, showcasing our commitment to innovation and excellence in coatings. A big thank you to everyone at BASF and Cypris Materials, Inc. who contributed to this achievement! More on this achievement can be found on Cypris' website here: https://lnkd.in/gjqkbHpA Also more from Paint & Coatings Industry Magazine here: https://lnkd.in/gziKP-s4
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Are you passionate about fixing the carbon markets? Are you an experienced sales person looking to join a climate startup? Look no further than this AE role at Renoster! More info and link to apply below.
Renoster is hiring! We're looking for a salesperson with experience in the carbon markets and with b2b sales. We're looking for someone who's passionate about fixing the carbon markets and ceaselessly advocating for high quality carbon. The role is really about teaching people how to think about nature-based carbon, and helping them (with Renoster) navigate the complex carbon markets to find the greatest projects to support. Folks can apply here. Thanks! https://lnkd.in/gwRqwvxa
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I am delighted to share the news of Debut’s expanded partnership with L'Oréal entailing the creation and scaling of more than 10 bio-identical ingredients crucial for global sustainable beauty. Debut is committed to a strong, continued partnership with L’Oréal for large-scale biomanufacturing that is transforming global supply chains, and making biotech beauty accessible for all.
Thank you very much to WWD and Kathryn Hopkins for covering the news of Debut’s expanded partnership with L'Oréal to develop and scale biotech ingredients crucial for sustainable beauty. Debut will be developing more than a dozen vital, bio-identical ingredients that will replace conventionally sourced ingredients currently used in L’Oréal global beauty brands across skin, hair, fragrance and color cosmetics. Read on for more details: https://lnkd.in/eDX_QfFk #Biotechbeauty #biotechnology #bioidenticalingredients #biomanufacturing #sustainableingredients #sustainablebeauty #futureofbeauty
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Huge congrats to the Rock Rabbit team for being declared the winner of DeltaClimeVT Business Accelerator Energy 2024! The company is on a mission to make incentives for green home upgrades fast, easy, and reliable.
We are excited to announce Rock Rabbit as the winner of DeltaClimeVT Business Accelerator Energy 2024. Burlington Electric Department awarded a pilot project to Moduly. Eight incredible companies focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions by enabling the acceleration of electrification worked hard over the past three months and graduated June 13 at Main Street Landing! https://lnkd.in/gYmSDP-8 Congratulations to the 13 entrepreneurs from Rock Rabbit, Moduly, Bidirectional Energy, ELECGRID, EMPEQ, Induction Food Systems, Noteworthy AI, and EarthEn. Thank you to our mentors, partners and sponsors of DeltaClimeVT Energy 2024: Jane’s Trust Foundation, Burlington Electric Department, Vermont Public Power Supply Authority, Efficiency Vermont, Green Mountain Power, VSECU, Vermont Electric Coop, Vermont Gas Systems (VGS), Vermont Economic Development Authority (VEDA), The Vermont Community Foundation, Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO), and Dinse, P.C.. DeltaClimeVT Managing Director: Geoff Robertson ecosVC Facilitators: Joseph Steig, Judy Giordan
Rock Rabbit wins the Vermont-based DeltaClimeVT Energy 2024 climate economy business accelerator; Moduly secures pilot
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✨ Start-up of the month: Zya We speak to Josh Sauer, PhD, co-founder and CEO of Zya, a #foodtech company that has developed an innovative substance that, when added to sweet foods, can convert some of the sugar into fibre during digestion. Click the link in the comments to read the full interview.
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We're thrilled to share that our SOCAP Open session proposal "The Future of Food: Food as Medicine & Addressing Food Accessibility" has been selected for #SOCAP24! Thank you to everyone who voted for the session! Join us in San Francisco October 28 to 30 for this multi-day, action-oriented event where investors, entrepreneurs, and social impact leaders convene to accelerate progress against the world’s toughest challenges through market-based solutions. See you there! SOCAP Global https://bit.ly/3TaQbzZ Wes Selke
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📢 We're proud to announce our newest portfolio company, Doowii, Inc. Doowii is an AI-driven data analytics solutions for educators and has built a sophisticated and intuitive platform that plugs into a school’s existing data sources. They closed a $4.1M fundraising round to advance their mission and we're excited to support such innovative efforts to enhance educational outcomes. Congrats to the entire Doowii team! 🚀 Check out the full press release here: https://dub.sh/3OWR1Eo. #EdTech #AI #DataAnalytics #Education #Startup #Innovation
Doowii Announces Successful Closure of Fundraising Round, Securing $4.1 Million to Advance AI-Driven Data Analytics for Educators
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