As opportunities in women’s health accelerate, FemTech is helping to match capital and talent to unmet needs—with promising early results.Women’s healthcare enables better outcomes for women patients and consumers,1 investors and other stakeholders across the value chain, and society at large. We explore many of these opportunities, and the broader context in which they have developed, in a...

Across decades of development, scientists have been pursuing nuclear fusion technology through endless experiments, calculations and simulations, trying to find the optimal mix of conditions for atoms to fuse and continually release huge amounts of energy. The Alphabet-owned company DeepMind has now lent its considerable artificial intelligence know-how to the effort through a new partnership w...

The modular units can be used singly or in networks and have customisable facades.Air pollution levels in India are among the highest in the world, threatening the country’s health and economy. This has catalysed the creation of a range of air purifying solutions, from portable devices mounted on baby strollers to in-home options that look like artwork.For areas with more concentrated levels o...

U.S. patent application, US20220026233, discloses a method for navigation using augmented reality. The method includes receiving route information from a route server, receiving a series of images captured by a camera along the route, analyzing the series of images to determine a horizon, identifying one or more designated lanes from the one or more available lanes, and displaying, to a user, t...

CFOs in Europe can save money as well as the climate – if they act now!Most companies want to act on climate change themselves but also face pressure to do so from customers and stakeholders, as well as governments, in the form of increasing regulation. Many of the decisions to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change in other ways have cost implications, and therefore CFOs are involv...

The first Storyliving by Disney development will be named Cotino, and will be located in California's Coachella Valley.Disney has revealed an ambitious plan to create a number of new residential communities throughout the United States. The scheme, which is branded Storyliving by Disney, will launch with a large luxury housing development that will consist of roughly 1,900 homes.The first Story...

San Francisco-based carbon management software provider Watershed announced on February 8th that it had raised $70 million in a Series B investment round. The deal was co-led by storied Silicon Valley investors Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins who valued Watershed at a cool $1 billion putting a unicorn-sized marker down in the booming carbon management software market. This is very impressive progre...

As the pandemic forced restaurants to close and diners to stay at home, food delivery services thrived during the Covid-19 crisis. Whether its ordering directly from a restaurant or using one of many available delivery platforms, U.S. consumers have the agony of choice when ordering in. But which platforms are the most popular?According to findings from Statista's Global Consumer Survey, DoorDa...

It’s a lagging response to the “right to repair” movement. REPAIRABILITY SUSTAINABILITY DELL CONCEPT LUNA LENOVO APPLE SELF REPAIR CONSUMER ELECTRONICSIN DECEMBER 2021, just before CES, the world’s leading tech event, Dell introduced Concept Luna, a reimagining of the laptop PC that focuses on repairability.Modern laptops are notoriously difficult (and sometimes impossible) to repair, a pro...