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BrainScope Surpasses Primary Endpoints in Multi-Year Department of Defense-Funded Validation Study for New Concussion Assessment Capability
BETHESDA, MD. July 25, 2019 – BrainScope announced today that it has successfully completed a nearly five year, $9.9 million U.S. Department of Defense research contract supporting the development and validation of an objective marker…
Could Trees Be the New Gravestones?
A California start-up wants to “redesign the entire end-of-life experience.” The answer to “eternity management”? Forests. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Death comes for all of us, but Silicon Valley has, until recently, not come for…
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Farmers will be affected by India tariffs: Farmers Business Network CEO
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Farmers Business Network CEO Amol Deshpande on the new NAFTA trade deal and how farmers will be affected by the tariffs imposed by India. View video on Fox Business.
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Revolution Foods Talks About Keeping School Meals Healthy On Capital Hill
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Today CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest), @AmHeartAdvocacy, @RevolutionFoods and our partners are helping @RepSusieLee bring together food service directors, nutrition experts and a local parent on Capitol Hill to talk about school…
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Better Place Forests Sells the Rights to Scatter your Ashes Under a Redwood
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Better Place Forests sells the rights to scatter your ashes under a redwood. Prices start at $2,900, but can soar to $36,000. Sandy Gibson hates cemeteries. The serial entrepreneur, who lost both his parents at…
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Revolutionary new edible food coating made from seeds and fruit pulp will stop bananas going mouldy and veg shrivelling up
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Fruit and vegetables will stay fresh for up to three times longer thanks to a new ‘natural and edible’ coating hailed as a breakthrough against food waste. It is made from plant-derived materials found in…
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Investors Are Changing Business. Americans Can Do the Same for Public Lands
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While members of Congress debate if and how the nation should address the threats posed to our environment by climate change, shareholders in some of our nation’s most influential and impactful companies are not waiting…
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Crain’s 2019 Notable Women in Tech: Christina Sass
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Christina Sass Co-founder and president, Andela Christina Sass is the co-founder and president of Andela, a software engineering firm that develops distributed engineering teams to support global tech companies. Andela places particular emphasis on cultivating…
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New Collaborative Looks to Make Market-Rate Investments with Conservation Impact
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Impact Capital Managers (ICM), a network of impact-focused venture capital and private equity funds, is out to disprove the notion that investing for impact requires sacrificing financial return. On the contrary, ICM members aim to match…
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VC-backed UrbanSitter buys Sitter Inc
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UrbanSitter has acquired Denver-based Sitter Inc, a creator of an app that helps parents to find, book and pay babysitters. No financial terms were disclosed. UrbanSitter’s backers include Advance Venture Partners, Canaan Partners, DBL Investors, First Round Capital, Match…
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AMS Announces Solar and Storage Partnership with 38 Degrees North and John Hancock
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — AMS, an energy management services company with projects across the United States, today announced the establishment of a solar and storage energy partnership with 38 Degrees North, and John Hancock and…
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Impact Investing Trends in 2019 Include Greater Focus On Gender
A wave of satellites set to orbit Earth will be able to pinpoint producers of greenhouse gases, right down to an individual leak on an oil rig. More than a dozen governments and companies already…
