Last week, over 1,500 entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors, and policymakers joined us at Newlab Brooklyn for New Climate Futures, closing out Climate Week with powerful discussions on commercializing tech for a sustainable future. 🌍
STOP THE PRESS! Cultivated meat was just approved by the FDA! Doesn’t mean you’ll see @upsidefoods at the grocery store soon though. They still need USDA approval (probably a longer process than FDA) and there are still scale hurdles. But this is progress! https://t.co/zUF07dnUlQ
@RohdeAli@abhijeetpatra88@beondeck appreciate you building this! it's awesome. any chance you could make the Airtable copy-able / allow the data to be synced? would help our founders when they are trying to create their own outreach list
George Heilmeier was one of America's great engineers & a DARPA director.
In 1992, he laid out how to:
• Enable game-changing innovations
• Fix tech transfer
But: 30 years later, our innovation process still fails us.
Why?
What's the framework to fix it? 🧵
"The time is right to build infrastructure businesses to scale cellular agriculture."
The Newlab Venture Studio is working toward a future of animal and plant products without the animals and plants.
Image: Nick Counter
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Today, @drinksanzo is announcing our $10mm Series A.
Our mission has been simple, yet I suppose ambitious, enough: to bridge cultures.
But tho an important milestone, this was by no means a guaranteed step in our journey (1/n)
https://t.co/7bBmzZxEEJ
https://t.co/H9QIYfRT4S
If you’re thinking of joining an early stage startup, especially in a senior role, you need to think like a VC
I’ve personally left life-changing $ on the table because I didn't know the right questions to ask
Sharing a partial list below
Can’t argue with @asanwal and @CBinsights data
NY is 🔥
You can feel the energy and excitement throughout the city. Thanks @fredwilson for calling that out in today’s @avc blog
I have *logged on* to share that
I am hiring an Associate who will work with me in @newlab's venture studio. They will manage EIR programs, identify and research new business opportunities, and ultimately support founders to launch new ventures
JD: https://t.co/Pfz9EH3lSe
Metrics for Series A rounds are much less clear than they used to be. Different investors have different frameworks for evaluating opps. But there are still signals that every investor looks for.
More here https://t.co/fEtuvvKSpr
And thread 👇
1/11
having reviewed thousands of apps for our 25+ interns and 180+ @ventureco_op members, I'm both hyped and terrified to share that we're hiring an associate!
this is our first full-time investment team addition since I joined Laconia in 2017 😌 let's go!
https://t.co/HCauaJFUt4