startups
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Director Of ‘Lab-Grown’ Meat At Controversial Food Producer Leaves To Start New Company
The director of cellular agriculture at JUST Inc, formerly known as Hampton Creek, has started his own company, business filings show.
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Loftium Wants You To Host An Airbnb For 357 Days A Year In Exchange For A Home Down Payment
A woman cleans an Airbnb rental in Las Vegas in February 2017. Photo: AP Ask someone what their dream house is, and you’ll get a lot of different answers. Perhaps a rustic ranch house out on the plains. Maybe a New York or San Francisco brownstone. It could even be that perfect little cottage with…
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Beyoncé Has Invested In A Startup
Hold up, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is now a tech investor! Bey has invested $US150,000 ($196,226) into a startup called Sidestep as part of her management company, Parkwood Entertainment. That’s not a ton of cash, but it’s at least enough to pay a few telephone bills, to say nothing of those pesky startup automo’ bills. It…
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Insane Startup Wants To Create A Man-Made Meteor Shower For The 2020 Olympics
In today’s “I can’t believe they have been funded” news, a startup called Star-ALE wants to create a man-made meteor shower over the city of Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics opening ceremonies. But unlike fireworks, this pyrotechnics show will be visible from an area 200km across Japan.