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Phaidra raises $12M for AI software that helps manage data center energy consumption

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Phaidra founders, from left: CTO Vedavyas Panneershelvam, CEO Jim Gao, and COO Katherine Hoffman. Its technology helps facilities such as data centers improve energy efficiency by using an array of sensors that measure various metrics, and then analyzing that information with software. Total funding to date is $60.5

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Climate tech startup program aims to help underrepresented founders find a footing

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-based nonprofit Tabor 100 recently launched a collaboration called 45Camp , a climate and clean tech startup program designed for entrepreneurs who are Black, Indigenous, or people of color (BIPOC), as well as women and individuals from other underrepresented backgrounds. Crossland called 45Camp a “fantastic experience.”

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Historic fusion energy achievement will boost Pacific Northwest’s burgeoning startups

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The target chamber of LLNL’s National Ignition Facility, where 192 laser beams delivered more than 2 million joules of ultraviolet energy to a tiny fuel capsule to create fusion ignition on Dec. Called energy’s “holy grail,” fusion has the potential to provide unlimited carbon-free power. NIF Photo).

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How do you capture the ocean’s energy? Peek under the hood of a startup’s ‘anti-boat’ power device

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Oscilla Photo) Oscilla Power , a startup developing devices that capture wave energy to produce electricity, has ocean-sized ambitions. There are no land-based energy systems to borrow from and adapt to the sea. Navy Wave Energy Test Site. The Seattle-based business envisions deploying thousands of devices along the U.

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Uncommon Thinkers: Stoke Space CEO Andy Lapsa explores an innovative route to rocket reusability

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Those backers include Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, whose investments in Stoke have been made through Breakthrough Energy Ventures , a fund that focuses on clean-tech innovations for the climate challenge. That’s how he connected with Stoke’s other co-founder, chief technology officer Tom Feldman.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

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Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud. By choosing them, enterprises are almost adopting net zero by proxy,” Koushik says.

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IT Security Entrepreneurs Forum (ITSEF) 2015 Speakers: A 17-18 March gathering of community-minded business and technology leaders

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Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer. Deputy Chief Information Security Officer. Vice President and Global Government CTO. Chief Executive Officer. Former Chief Intelligence Officer.

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