Apeel featured as Sustainability and Climate Change Disruptor in OZY

“Nothing good lasts forever — especially good, but perishable food. Enter Apeel Sciences, which is on a quest to improve the shelf life of avocados and other fruits and vegetables in retail chains. Aided by a $100,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the California-based startup launched in 2012 with the aim of cutting down on global food waste and improving sustainability.”

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Alexsis St. James
Britain's tech industry needs to address its gender gap and invest in women

To target the female funding gap, Ada Ventures and Merian Ventures are partnering with London & Partners, HSBC UK, Wilson Sonsini and FieldHouse, to launch Beyond HERizons, a new 12-month programme from Silicon Valley Comes to the UK designed specifically to support the investment journey of female founders. The Beyond HERizons inaugural cohort will support fifteen incredible female entrepreneurs for a full year, with a programme designed to support access to investment.

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Alexsis St. James
Put women at the heart of a post-pandemic tech boom

In a op-ed printed by The Telegraph, Merian Venture’s founder Alexsis de Raadt St James and Imperial College London President Alice Gast, together argue that supporting women in tech will be essential to recovery from the pandemic. They present arguments for business, governments, and universities to step up and do more to drive change. “Women have been disproportionately affected by the economic fallout of the pandemic. This is in part because they are underrepresented in industries that have continued to grow.”…

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How Not To Commit To ‘Net Zero’: 5 Common Carbon Strategy Mistakes

A target for carbon neutrality is the must-have centrepiece for your brand’s sustainability communications strategy. But as organisations queue up to add their net zero strategies to the pile, a number of common pitfalls are emerging. These mistakes threaten not only the integrity of their communications, but the future of our planet.

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Honeycomb Introduces Refinery, a New Solution to Optimize Observability for Enterprises at Scale

Honeycomb.io, a Merian Ventures portfolio company,has introduced Refinery, their latest solution to help enterprises refine their observability data at scale. Managing large, complex applications means dealing with potentially hundreds of billions of events per month.

Refinery collects 100 percent of telemetry data and provides multiple ways to observe only the events that best represent important system changes, resulting in a high-fidelity debugging experience while also controlling costs.

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How Provenance’s Transparency Framework helps beauty brands communicate product impact

The beauty industry isn’t good at opening up when it comes to ingredients and impact. But the ‘values shopper’ cohort is growing, and brands need to step up to meet their expectations. Supply chain transparency is a difficult issue for brands.

Provenance, a Merian Ventures portfolio company, believes every product should come with accessible, trustworthy information about origin, journey and impact. Through Provenance’s Transparency Framework, we’re helping beauty brands deliver exactly this.

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