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Tyson Foods Invests in Lab-Grown Meat Producer Future Meat Technologies
May 4, 2018Tyson Ventures, the venture capital unit of Tyson Foods, has co-lead a $2.2m seed investment in Future Meat Technologies. Based in Jerusalem, Future Meat Technologies is a food tech company that is engaged in non-GMO production of ...
Tags: Tyson Foods, Meat
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Tyson Foods to Launch Several New Products in 2018
Feb 23, 2018Tyson Foods said that it will launch several new products this year and modernize its $1bn brands as part of its transformation into a modern food company. Speaking at the 2018 Consumer Analyst Group of New York conference, Tyson Foods ...
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Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Launch $1bn Venture Capital Fund
Jan 15, 2018The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi automotive alliance has launched a venture capital fund to invest up to $1bn in the next five years. The new entity will act as main interface for start-ups, investors and the venture capital ecosystem to ...
Tags: automotive, Nissan
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US Smoothie Maker Bright Greens Raises $2m in Seed Funding
Jun 19, 2017Plant-based frozen smoothie producer Bright Greens has raised a seed round led by Kellogg Company’s venture capital fund eighteen94 capital. Blu Venture Investors, an early stage investment group based in the Mid-Atlantic, also ...
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Kuli Kuli Secures $4.25m Investment From Kellogg's Venture Capital Fund
Jan 16, 2017Moringa-based products maker Kuli Kuli has secured a $4.25m investment from Kellogg Company's venture capital fund eighteen94 capital in a Series A funding round. InvestEco and S2G Ventures were the other institutional investors featuring ...
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Digitech Venture Capital Invests in Connected Car Company CarForce
Oct 11, 2016Digitech Venture Capital Fund, along with technology incubator Seed Sumo and Jason Calacanis, have invested in CarForce, a company that develops connected cars. CarForce was founded by a former eBay Motors executive and has a stellar ...
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Kellogg Sets up Venture Capital Fund to Invest in Startups
Jun 23, 2016Kellogg Company has set up a new venture capital fund to invest in startups that work on new ingredients, foods, packaging, and enabling technology. The venture fund named eighteen94 capital (1894) will make small investments in companies ...
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Campbell Soup to Invest $125m in Venture Capital Fund to Invest in Food Startups
Feb 19, 2016Campbell Soup is launching a $125m venture capital fund, Acre Venture Partners, to invest in food startup companies, seeking new areas of interest for growth. The company will be the limited partner in the new venture capital fund and ...
Tags: Campbell Soup, Food Startups
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India Plans Massive Overhaul of 1B Lights to LEDs within 3 Years
Nov 12, 2015India will be replacing one billion lights nationwide with energy efficient LEDs within three years, The Economic Times quoted a top ranking Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) official saying. Previous reports from India were mostly ...
Tags: LED bulb, streetlights, LEDs
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Towersec Has The System to Address Automotive Cyber Security Threats
Jul 27, 2015TowerSec has the system to address automotive cyber security threats and is running projects with automakers and suppliers that integrate its ECUSHIELD software technology into vehicles. A just-released Wired article by Andy Greenberg ...
Tags: automobile manufacture, TowerSec, auto parts, auto system, vehcile safety
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SFCE Signed a MOUto Acquire a 51% Ownership Stake in Lattice Power Corp
Mar 26, 2015Hong Kong-based Shunfeng International Clean Energy Ltd (SFCE) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to acquire a 51% ownership stake in Lattice Power Corp of Nanchang, China, which claims to have been the first company to realise ...
Tags: silicon LEDs, LED lighting
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India to Launch a Venture Capital Fund to Provide Equity to Start-up Entrepreneurs
Sep 26, 2014The Government of India, Ministry of Textiles, will soon launch a venture capital (VC) fund to provide equity to start-up entrepreneurs, Santosh Kumar Gangwar, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Textiles, said at the annual ...
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Climate Experts Recently Chose Distributed Nuclear Power to Make a Big Impact on Climate
Feb 19, 2014How would you advise a $100-billion venture capital fund to spend its money on preventing dangerous levels of global warming over the next 100 years? Climate experts recently chose distributed renewable energy, energy efficiency, and ...
Tags: Renewable Power
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IBM Faces a Puzzle That Might Give Even The World's Greatest Detective Pause
Jan 13, 2014IBM faces a puzzle that might give even the world's greatest detective pause: How to grow its "Jeopardy"-conquering Watson supercomputer into a $10-billion business within a decade. The company hopes to boost Watson's profit-making ...
Tags: IBM, Watson, supercomputer, investment
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Silicon Valley VC Initiates to Boost Developer Community in India
Jan 3, 2014Silicon Valley based venture capitalist, Asha Jadeja initiates to boost developer community in India. She organises a Google Glass hackathon at Maker Fest, a non-commercial event, free and open to the publi. The event will be held on ...
Tags: Google Glass, Silicon Valley