News Archive.

  • Satellites Are Capturing the Protests, and Just About Everything Else on Earth

    June 10, 2020 | Bloomberg

    This year has brought immense change, much of it immortalized in high-resolution images from space. As protesters gathered in Washington over the weekend, their march across the city was documented by photography satellites flying overhead….

  • The future of Impact Investing

    June 8, 2020 | Kayo Conference Series

    Join Kayo Founder and host, Lindsay Burton, and featured trailblazer Nancy Pfund, Founder and Managing Partner of DBL Partners, for a discussion on impact investing and the current state of venture capital.

  • It Takes a Village to Succeed in Climate Tech

    June 4, 2020 | GreenBiz

    Solving climate change depends, to some extent, on technological innovation. The world’s leading climate authority, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), published a landmark 2018 report highlighting the urgency of limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius….

  • Next Million Dollar Startups

    May 31, 2020 | Forbes

    For the sixth year in a row, Forbes has teamed up with TrueBridge Capital Partners to search the country for the 25 fastest-growing venture-backed startups most likely to reach a $1 billion valuation. TrueBridge asked 300 venture capital…

  • Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million

    May 26, 2020 | GreenBiz

    This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. What’s more, the funding pushes the Santa Barbara, California-based company’s valuation…

  • Mapbox and SoftBank form joint venture to provide mapping tech to Japanese developers

    May 22, 2020 | Tech Crunch

    SoftBank Corp. and Mapbox, the mapping data company that competes with Google and Here, announced that they have established a joint venture called Mapbox  Japan. Learn more by visiting Tech Crunch

  • Business As Unusual: Reopening In A Mid-COVID World

    May 20, 2020 | Crunchbase Daily

    Revolution, the Washington, D.C., investment led by America Online co-founder Steve Case, hosted a virtual roundtable on May 15 for an afternoon chat about “Reopening for Business in a World of Social Distancing.” It was…

  • SF based company honors fallen COVID-19 frontline heroes with $1M in memorial trees

    May 12, 2020 | The Wall Street Journal

    A San Francisco-based startup company launched an initiative to honor frontline heroes who have died fighting the COVID-19 pandemic — offering free memorial trees and services for hundreds of families. Visit Kron4.com to learn how…

  • How You Can Help Workers Who Have Lost Their Jobs Due to the Coronavirus

    May 9, 2020 | The Wall Street Journal

    Many workers have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, whether they are delivery people or farmworkers, or those who have lost their jobs, like restaurant employees or domestic help. Visit The Wall Street Journal…

  • Online Virtual Babysitters

    May 9, 2020 | The New York Times

    Does Online Babysitting Work? Babysitting platforms and start-ups are scrambling to switch to screen-based child care. Experts say it can work for short breaks. Visit NYTimes.com to learn more.

  • How San Francisco Unified feeds school families in the time of coronavirus

    April 22, 2020 | San Francisco Chronicle

    On Mondays at school pickup locations around the city, the bags of food for each child are filled with enough breakfast, lunch and dinner for two days; on Wednesday, they’re loaded with enough for three…

  • Fireside Chat-EarthX Summit April 2020- DBL’s Past, Present and Future

    April 22, 2020

    View the Live Stream by Clicking Here.  Please join us on April 23rd at 1:35PM Click here to learn more and to register. Featuring: Nancy Pfund (DBL Partners, Founder & Managing Partner and National Geographic…