Impact Powerhouse

As Portugal reopens to tourists early next month, the sector is banking on a new generation of tourism tech startups to enable safety and reassure visitors

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/research-analysis/in-portugal-tourism-tech-gets-disrupted-in-time-for-post-covid-19-era

Episode keywords: B2B, B2C, Travel & Tourism, Portugal Ventures, Beta-I, Fabrica de Startups, Tourism, Hi-Jiffy, Portugal Tourism

Offering cheap and flexible multi-destination flight packages is helping the platform become the go-to reservation agent for budget travelers

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/Airhopping:-Breakthrough-in-the-OTA-sector-for-millennials

Episode keywords: Lifestyle, Search & Discovery, Students, Travel & Tourism, Big Data & Analytics, Marketplaces & Platforms

Indonesia’s B2B e-commerce players are winning over corporate clients with education and government support, growing a market forecast to be worth $13.4bn by 2023.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/research-analysis/indonesian-b2b-e-procurement-platforms-disrupting-long-standing-practices

Keywords: B2B, E-commerce, Logistics & Supply Chain, Retail, Government, Enterprise Tech, Marketplaces & Platforms, SaaS, Mbiz, BukaPengadaan, e-procurement, Indonesia, Startups, Entrepreneurship

O2O business models and growing interest in ESG are also key themes, as regional startups gain $4.4bn of funding in first half of 2021

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/research-analysis/southeast-asian-startups-to-keep-riding-digitalization-ipo-boom-investors-say

Episode keywords: Investment, Impact Investing, O2O, E-commerce, B2B, B2C, Edtech, Fintech, Food & Beverage, Hospitality, Lending, Logistics & Supply Chain, On-demand, Payments, Real Estate, Sharing Economy, ESG, Accelerating Asia, Southeast Asia, MSMEs

Managing Partner Neil Shen wants to help deep-tech and enterprise tech startups get investments more easily, across quantum computing, semiconductors, synthetic biology and more.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/sequoia-china-seed-fund-growing-an-era-of-deep-tech-startups

Keywords: Investment; Enterprise Tech; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical; Medtech; Industry 4.0; Biotechnology; SaaS; Materials; Artificial Intelligence; Biometrics; Cloud; Computer Vision; Recognition Tech; Natural Language Processing; Robotics; Sensors; Machine Learning; Sequoia Capital China; Neil Shen; Semiconductor; Deep tech; Deeptech; Quantum computing

Through its Leap brand, the Danish startup cuts food waste by turning apples junked in cider factories into affordable vegan leather for the $100bn leather market 

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/beyond-leather-materials-turning-apples-into-alt-leather-for-sustainable-fashion

Episode keywords: Biomaterials, B2B, Sustainability, Fashion, Circular Economy, Consumer Products, Energy & Cleantech,, Biotechnology, Materials, Green for Growth, Women in Tech

Supported by H&M, Adidas and textile manufacturers, Infinited Fiber is helping the world’s second most polluting industry go greener by turning industrial waste into regenerated biomaterials.

Check out the full article here: https://www.compasslist.com/insights/infinited-fiber-producing-biofibers-for-fashion-to-move-toward-circular-economy?fbclid=IwAR0Y_kXPueetqTCB62ET0gnrazw8O5UarM5fMYCEo_uihjXLZWl81TXmOEA

Episode Keywords: startups, B2B, sustainability, circular economy, logistics & supply chain, materials, fashion, biomaterials, biotechnology, EU, Horizon 2020