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Sponsorship Case Study: Memphis in May International Festival 

The Sponsorship Collective

Kevin Grothe’s Road to Success Kevin Grothe is the VP of sponsorship for the Memphis in May International Festival, a celebration of Memphis culture that seeks to spread international awareness. The organization has spearheaded economic, international, and education programs throughout Memphis.

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Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time?

TechCrunch

Across cultures and geographies, animals have been such a vital part of the food chain that it’s hard to imagine a world where animals are not put to the knife to produce protein. Cell-cultured meat is one such source. Eat Just also recently received approval to sell chicken breasts made with cell cultures. High steaks.

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UPSIDE Foods bites into $400M round to serve cultivated meat later this year

TechCrunch

Another company gobbling a large chunk of those meaty investment dollars for commercialization is UPSIDE Foods , which you might remember was Memphis Meats. Memphis Meats raised $161 million from SoftBank Group, Norwest and Temasek. Is cell-cultured meat ready for prime time? billion in investments in 2021.

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Bite Ninja scoops up pre-seed funding to reimagine restaurant working environments

TechCrunch

At least one person would have car trouble or need to stay home with sick children, and it became a common occurrence on the weekends for the co-founder of Memphis Meats and owner of Baby Jacks BBQ in Memphis. Bite Ninja’s solution is one that decreases costs to restaurant owners, but increases the income of the worker,” he said. “It

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Bill Gates wants Western countries to eat “synthetic meat”; Meatable has raised $47 million to make it

TechCrunch

note: I’m available for a call, too, Bill), “the people like Memphis Meats who do it at a cellular level—I don’t know that that will ever be economical.” Meatable has a long road ahead of it, because, as Gates acknowledged in his interview with MIT Technology Review (ed.

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A road map for climate investors

TechCrunch

He was the first investor in breakout bio companies such as Geltor, Synthex, Prime Roots, NotCo, Prellis, New Culture, DNA Lite and Memphis Meats. Arvind co-leads Mayfield’s engineering biology practice and is founder and venture advisor at IndieBio. Climate in the last decade has been unprecedented in many ways, none of them good.

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Giving USA 2024: Donors Gave More, Inflation Deflated It

The NonProfit Times

“As it continues to pull upstream (to the more affluent) I’m more concerned about losing that culture value that giving is something everybody does,” he said. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. “We His idea was echoed by Richard C. Shadyac, Jr., president & CEO of ALSAC, the fundraising arm of St.

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