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… Each year the Yale Center for Business and the Environment givesteams applying to the Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize the opportunity to be matched with a mentor from our network of partners and experts. Sabin Mentors commit a minimum of two hoursto advising …
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… The two winners of this year’s $10,000 Sobotka Seed Stage Venture Grant, disbursed annually by the Yale Center … disease, evidence of poaching or forest fires—DroneFlow’ssoftware will enable natural resource managers, urban planners, farmers, and more to inexpensively track what matters most … Sustainable Venture Prize, the company now employsseven full-time employees and workswith many of the largesttimber companies in the United States. “I’ve spentseveral years in …
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