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F1 tech in everyday use
How F1 technology has found its way into everyday use Competing in F1 costs so much cheddar. The combined parts of a single F1 car runs up to $20m (the engine can make up ~90% of the cost). Meanwhile, the top teams employ 100s of people and spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to win…
Read MoreA Falling Star
3 BIG STORIES 1. A Falling Star Starry, a company looking to disrupt the broadband industry, announced the completion of a $1.76B SPAC deal with FirstMark Horizon Acquisition Corp. with proceeds of $176M. The company wants to create an over-the-air internet system (vs. fiber/underground) to give strong internet to the masses. Starry also raised $400M from KKR, FirstMark,…
Read MoreThe Future Of Interstate Cannabis Commerce
It’s easy to sell products on a national scale. While interstate commerce is one of the easiest things for a traditional company to offer – the opposite is true for cannabis companies today. The Growth Of E-Commerce Anywhere from 12 to 24 million e-commerce stores exist online in 2022 – with more e-commerce stores being…
Read MoreFemale VC Funding Data… Obscured?
VENTURE Female VC Funding Data… Obscured? A colleague sent me an article this week where the author argues that the data measuring venture capital dollars reaching female-founded startups is obscured, and there are more positive trends we could be seeing. Woah. This article should be going viral. The idea that the 2% metric I’ve relied on in everyday…
Read MoreEnergy security
What’s up: Russia invaded Ukraine, shocking most of the world and even expert analysts, in whose estimation Putin was mainly posturing. A ton has happened since. As far as climate tech is concerned, the things I’ve most keenly been watching are countries’ short-term responses and medium-term plans. For countries dependent on Russian oil & gas…
Read MoreRounding up Q1 ’22 in climate & climate tech
1. ENERGY SECURITY What’s up: Russia invaded Ukraine, shocking most of the world and even expert analysts, in whose estimation Putin was mainly posturing. A ton has happened since. As far as climate tech is concerned, the things I’ve most keenly been watching are countries’ short-term responses and medium-term plans. Countries dependent on Russian oil…
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