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Oil and gas production generates so much excess methane, it’s cheaper to set it on fire in a process called flaring than it is to capture it for sale or storage.

Just in the U.S., producers flare so much gas that astronauts aboard the International Space Station can identify oil fields 254 miles below in North Dakota and Texas.

Presumably, they can also see Antarctica’s Thwaite Glacier — it’s about the size of Florida, but it’s shrinking because greenhouse gases like methane trap heat in the atmosphere that warms our oceans.

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Cleantech 1.0 was a short-lived boom, but it gave entrepreneurs a better understanding of climate tech, which in turn, has fostered more confidence among investors: 2021 saw a 400

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Katherine Wu leaves Coinbase Ventures to join crypto investment firm Archetype

  Coinbase Ventures investor Katherine Wu is leaving the company for early-stage crypto venture capital firm   Archetype , less than a year after joining Coinbase as a senior deal lead in September. “[T]oday is my last day at coinbase sometimes you take that leap of faith and it just doesn’t land quite right- that’s ok!”  Wu wrote in a tweet  on Friday announcing her departure. Wu will work as a venture partner at Archetype, an early-stage VC founded by Ash Egan, who is an investor in a number of prominent crypto startups including Chainalysis, BlockFi, and FalconX, according to the firm’s website. Egan, who previously co-founded ConsenSys Ventures, has invested in renewable bitcoin miner US BTC Corp. and  proof-of-attendance startup POAP  through Archetype. Wu told TechCrunch in a written message that she was “really excited to be back doing what [I] do best — lead investment in founders in crypto looking to raise their first round.” She said she hopes to ...
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Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup

  Why I’m using a credit facility to grow my startup Brent Jackson @bjackson  /  9:16 PM GMT+1 • February 25, 2022 Image Credits:  Henrik Sorensen  (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Brent Jackson Contributor Brent Jackson  is the founder and CEO of  Torpago . When it comes  to financing, startups and established organizations will have vastly different experiences. Traditional financing may not always be available to high-growth startups, and even when it is, it often depends on the founder’s personal financial picture and their company’s existing revenue. While larger companies can turn to banks and other financial institutions, new founders often have to turn to alternative sources of financing to grow their companies. For my own company, I decided to look at alternative financing options to scale operations and expand our product road map. To accelerate growth, I decided to raise a small amount of debt equity in tandem with a large, r...
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