Founder Spotlight – the 100-mile endurance run to fight human trafficking
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Our founder, James, completed the 100-mile Run Rabbit Run endurance race on September 18 in 32 hours. He saw two sunrises, a nearly full moon and nature in all its divinity.
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Learn more about the prevailing issue of human trafficking from the United Nations, Polaris, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
Circular design and tech company Pentatonic has teamed up for a joint venture with philanthropist, supermodel, and investor Natalia Vodianova to create Masuku, a line of face masks made with 100% percent recycled and recyclable materials. The mask features a fully compostable air filter with a greater filtering efficiency than the standard blue single-use surgical mask. While single-use masks take roughly 450 years to decompose, the masks created by Masuku have “no impact on the planet,” Vodianova said.
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Kleos Space, a Luxembourg-based company that recently launched its first cluster of radio frequency mapping satellites, has raised $13.8 million and is now poised to launch the second cluster of satellites by mid-2021.
David Yarrow, world-renowned photographer, takes CBS News behind the scenes in this video interview where viewers get a peek inside some of his most famous shots.
Engineers Without Borders USA has launched an international competition in an effort to bring energy-efficient refrigeration to off-grid communities in developing countries. The Chill Challenge, focused on affordability and sustainability, will award grants of $25,000 to $50,000 to as many as 10 teams to develop proof of concept prototypes of off-grid refrigeration solutions. The challenge is open to pretty much anyone who’s interested in refrigeration technologies—from backyard inventors to global companies.
SEPTEMBer 2019
Circular economy firm Pentatonic will be working with Burger King to repurpose and recirculate plastic toys from kids’ meals in the UK. In addition to removing toys altogether from kids’ meals, Burger King is also asking people to place toys from prior meals in “plastic toy amnesty bins” at Burger King locations. With the help of Pentatonic, the toys will then be melted down and recycled into things that are actually useful, like play areas and surface tools.
April 2019
With technology focused on early stage breast cancer autoimmune disease detection, Inanovate Inc. is a life science company that’s making an impact. Inanovate has secured an investment of $3.1 million on a Series C financing round that “will allow our company to implement our development plan through the next 18 months,” said CEO David Ure.
April 2019
Award-winning digital identity authentication leader Payfone has closed out a $24 million funding round, with a majority investment by TransUnion and with participation from existing investors Synchrony, MassMutual Ventures,and Wellington Management LLP.
Payfone plans to upgrade its existing products, including an integration of its Trust Platform™ and Trust Score™ that allow businesses to approve transactions instantly while thwarting fraud.