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Join Faisal Karmali and Leanna Wachniak on More Than Money as they talk to Frank Switzer, Managing Director, Investor Relations, Public Affairs and Communications, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, about how Canadians are feeling about retirement and what the CPP Investment Board is doing about it. Also on the show, Dr. Joyce Johnson, naturopathic doctor, certified nutritionist, and certified personal trainer discusses supplements and if they're really worth it.

In this episode, host Bill Kelly sits down with Yann Robard, founder of Dawson, to explore the evolving dynamics of private equity markets. Yann shares his unique career journey, from a furniture store startup to leading initiatives at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, and ultimately founding Dawson. They discuss the rise and development of the private equity secondary market, the evolution of structured liquidity solutions, and the anticipated growth in private markets, and more. Listen in!

With plenty of private equity dry powder and a growing supply-demand imbalance, direct lending is well positioned to grow, according to Antares Capital Director of Asset Management, Vivek Mathew. Vivek joins Bloomberg Intelligence's Noel Hebert and Sam Geier on another special edition of Credit Crunch, recorded at the Greenwich Economic Forum. They discuss the benefits of being under the wing of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, the refinancing cycle, Antares' co-investment approach, secondary-market viability and more.

SummaryIn this week's episode of The Startup Retro, host Will Richards and standing in for Gemma Clancy this week, Cheryl Mack, dive into Uber's new partnership with Turo after shutting down its Car Next Door acquisition. They also discuss Premier Capital Partners' new fund, AirTrunk's $23 billion sale, and Cheryl's experience at the Startup Daily Awards. The episode also features a deep dive into Safe Ag Systems, an agtech safety platform. Plus, catch the latest startup raises and Will's pick for Knowledge as a Service (KaaS).Time Stamps00:00 Introduction and Welcome00:28 Uber pivots to Turo partnership05:15 Premier Capital Partners new fund10:22 AirTrunk's $23 billion sale13:45 Startup Daily Awards highlights20:15 Startup Raises: Safe Ag Systems28:10 KaaS RecommendationsLinksTo access the links to the stories mentioned in this episode, check out this week's Overnight Success newsletter. https://newsletter.overnightsuccess.vc/p/7th-september-2024HeadlinesAustralian Startup Financial Confidence Report 2024Airwallex ReportUber's Turo PartnershipUber has partnered with Turo to let users rent peer-to-peer vehicles through the Uber app starting in 2025.Premier Capital Partners FundPremier Capital Partners is launching a fund targeting mid-market tech companies with a size of $30-$50 million and a hard cap of $75 million. The fund will write cheques between $5-$20 million.AirTrunk SaleAirTrunk was sold to Blackstone and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for $23 billion, marking one of Australia's largest acquisitions.AFR Article on AirTrunk SaleInterviewDavid BurtIn the interview, David Burt from UNSW Founders discusses the impact of Labor's proposed cap on international students and its potential effects on Australia's startup ecosystem, universities, and the broader economy.Startup RaisesSafe Ag SystemsFounders: Katy Landt and Caroline GrahamSafe Ag Systems, an agtech safety platform, raised $2.5 million to expand its reach to 10% of farm workers.KaaS - Knowledge as a ServiceWill's Pick

The Richard Syrett Show, July 2nd, 2024 Feds Continue to Quietly Consider Home Equity Tax https://www.blacklocks.ca/private-talk-to-equity-taxers/ The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board put more than $600 million in China's electric vehicle sector accused by cabinet of unfair trade practices https://www.blacklocks.ca/put-604m-in-evs-in-china/  The Department of Public Works in an internal document acknowledges it knew within months its $700 million pandemic ventilator program was a waste of money https://www.blacklocks.ca/govt-knew-millions-wasted/ Tom Korski, Managing Editor Blacklock's Reporter SUBSCRIBE https://www.blacklocks.ca/ Pride parade shutdown a cautionary tale about appeasing radicals https://tnc.news/2024/07/02/levy-pride-parade-shutdown-appeasing-radicals1/ Sue Ann Levy, Award-Winning Investigative Reporter with True North, author of Underdog: Confessions of a Right-wing, Gay, Jewish Muckraker The Use Of AI In Education: Understanding The Student's Perspective https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2024/07/01/the-use-of-ai-in-education-understanding-the-students-perspective  Robert Bortins, CEO of Classical Conversations, which supports classical, Christian homeschoolers in all fifty states and in thirty foreign countries Why Is Trudeau Sticking To The Unmarked Graves Falsehood? https://fcpp.org/2024/06/24/why-is-trudeau-sticking-to-the-unmarked-graves-falsehood/  Brian Giesbrecht - Toronto Sun Columnist and Senior Fellow of Frontier Centre for Public Policy US Supreme Court rules Trump has broad immunity from prosecution https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-due-rule-trumps-immunity-bid-blockbuster-case-2024-07-01/  David Freiheit, aka Viva Frei on Rumble, YouTube and vivabarneslaw.locals.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ørsted forms long-term charter with Cadeler for a new wind turbine installation vessel, Quinnbrook Infrastructure Partners successfully closes of its $600 million Quinnbrook Valley of Fire Fund, and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board consolidates its offshore wind holdings into its dedicated global offshore wind platform, Reventus Power. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly email update on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard's StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary Barnes' YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! Pardalote Consulting - https://www.pardaloteconsulting.comWeather Guard Lightning Tech - www.weatherguardwind.comIntelstor - https://www.intelstor.com Allen Hall: I'm Allen Hall, president of Weather Guard Lightning Tech, and I'm here with the founder and CEO of IntelStor, Phil Totaro, and the chief commercial officer of Weather Guard, Joel Saxum. And this is your News Flash. News Flash is brought to you by our friends at IntelStor. If you want market intelligence that generates revenue, then book a demonstration of IntelStor at IntelStor. com. Offshore wind developer, Ørsted, has signed a long term charter with Cadeler for a new A class wind turbine installation in Vessel, the hybrid vessel can transport and install both turbine foundations and the turbines themselves and has a capacity for six double XL monopile foundations or seven complete 15 megawatt turbine setups per trip. The partnership extends Ørsted and Cadeler's collaboration as the offshore wind industry scales up to meet ambitious targets. Now, Phil offshore developers and ship developers make a lot of sense here just because of the lack of ships and the, all the pressure to try to lock in ship time. Philip Totaro: Yeah, absolutely. And given some of the past experience Ørsted's had with lack of vessel availability, it was part of what they claimed was the rationale for pulling out of some of the projects in the U. S. as well. Was lack of vessel availability. So this gives them something dedicated and assumes that they're obviously also going to have a big pipeline of projects to be able to go justify, spending, I'm conservatively thinking about 225 million on an installation vessel of that size. So, this is it's a great deal and it helps certainly provides certainty for Kettler as well who, Also, I just got through their merger last year with Anetti. So this, it's I think this is a great thing that that both companies are going to be able to benefit from. And it certainly brings Ørsted some certainty on a vessel capable of deploying, what is currently the latest generation of Western developed technology. Joel Saxum: So Cadeler has four existing vessels and six next gen new builds on order, right? That makes them the world's largest wind turbine installation vessel operator. And what this does by Ørsted saying, we will put a charter on one of them from 27 to 2030. So that's a four year long charter. You see this in the SOV market as well, but a lot of times the SOV market, they're a little bit more extended because they're going to say we own this wind farm. We're going to be operating it for the next 10, 15 years. Sometimes you see SOV contracts like that for 10, 15 years. I've seen them through a couple of years ago. I saw some through 2038. That we're on contract, right? So that's enough money or promise for a company like Cadeler to build something, right? SVACT has done a bunch of things in that sort. Ørsted coming, of course, off the tail end of a lot of the installation projects that they've done. Struggling, scrambling to find these vessels, saying, you know what, no, we're just going to sign an agreement. We want one, we're going to have it for four years,

Join us in an insightful conversation with John Montalbano, former CEO of RBC Global Asset Management. With a career that culminated in managing $370 billion in assets, John offers a rare glimpse into the strategies that propel a company into the top tiers of global asset management. Serving as a Director and Audit Chair for organizations such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and AbCellera Inc., he brings a wealth of knowledge in corporate governance and financial strategy. This episode isn't just about John's career journey; it's a guide for aspiring finance professionals, corporate leaders, and entrepreneurs seeking mentorship and leadership insights. We discuss the essence of impactful mentorship in the world of finance, and how these lessons can be applied across industries for those aiming to leave a mark in their fields.

Vikram Gandhi is a Professor at Harvard Business School, where he co-pioneered their Sustainable Investing Course, “Investing: Risk, Return & Impact.” The course won the 2021 Teaching Recognition Award for Excellence in Sustainable Finance Education from the Financial Times. He is also a Visiting Faculty member at Tsinghua University. Vikram Gandhi is a Founding Partner at Asha Ventures, an Indian-focused impact investment fund, and a Senior Advisor to The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Growth for Good Acquisition Corporation, a Climate Tech SPAC, which recently merged with ZeroNox, a leader in commercial and industrial vehicle electrification. Prior to his teaching and investing endeavors, Vikram Gandhi was a Global Investment Banking executive for 25 years with Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. He graduated from the University of Mumbai and Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. He is also a Chartered Accountant. Check out the Climate Finance Podcast website for more information. Topics discussed: Vikram's career transition from being a Global Investment Banking Executive to teaching at Harvard Business School and initiating Climate Venture Investment firms. The process of an alumnus coming back to Harvard Business School as a faculty member and collaborating with Shawn Cole and George Seraphim to create an award-winning course. Growth Drivers of Sustainable and Impact Investing. Teaching Case Studies at Harvard Business School: Investment Banks Goldman Sachs: Making an Imprint in Impact Investing Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability Private Equity The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact Public Markets Generation Investment Management Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE Engagement and Activism Engine No.1: An Impact Investing Firm Engages with ExxonMobil JANA Partners: Impact through Activism? CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence Corporate Finance TotalEnergies CVC Investment in Hyzon Motors The Ford Motor Company Green Bond Vikram´s Investment and Entrepreneurial Engagements Asha Impact Ventures Growth for Good Acquisition Corp - Sustainability SPAC Impact Investing Potential in India (Bullish India) Personal Advice to Investors, Young Professionals, and Students interested in Climate and Sustainable Finance and Investing. Note: This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered as investment advice. The interview took place on 1st June 2023.

Brian speaks to Lisa Baiton. Lisa is an experienced global investment executive, most recently a member of the Global Leadership Team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, one of the ten largest retirement funds in the world. An expert in geopolitical, political and regulatory risks and market access, Baiton led public affairs and government relations activities in previous positions and was a policy maker in three Canadian governments. We discuss the path forward for Canada's oil and natural gas industry, and some of the biggest challenges facing the world today, namely climate change and energy security.

Adrian Durham (Founder & CEO of FNZ) and Rob Heyvaert (Founder & Managing Partner of Motive Partners) discuss how FNZ is opening up wealth through the power of technology, empowering customers through innovative products, with an extraordinary growth trajectory.As an introduction, Corey Rainbow, Head of Due Diligence and Value Creation at Motive Partners, and Worth Newman, Vice President Motive Investment Team, offer their insights as to how Motive Partners see the FNZ opportunity.FNZ has secured US$1.4 billion in new equity funding from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Motive Partners earlier this year.FNZ, the global wealth management platform has US$1.5 trillion in assets under administration, partners with over 650 financial institutions and 8,000 wealth management firms, enabling over 20 million people across all wealth segments to invest in the things they care the most about, on their own terms.-----The information contained in this podcast is intended for discussion purposes only. It is not a recommendation, offer, or a solicitation for the purchase or sale of a security or any services of Motive Partners. All investing involves risk and there is no guarantee that past performance will be indicative of future results.The views and opinions expressed in the podcast are as of the date of recording, reflect the views and opinions of the persons expressing them, and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Motive Partners. Motive Partners makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy, reliability or completeness of any information provided and undertakes no obligation to update, amend, or clarify the information in the podcast, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Any securities, transactions, or holdings discussed may not represent investments made by Motive Partners. It should not be assumed that securities, transactions, or holdings discussed (if any) were or will be profitable, or that the recommendations or decisions made in the future will be similar or will equal the performance of the securities, transactions, or holdings discussed herein.This podcast may contain forward-looking statements that are based on beliefs, assumptions, current expectations, estimates, and projections about the financial industry, the economy, Motive Partners or Motive Partners' investments.  Nothing in the podcast should be construed or relied upon as investment, legal, accounting, tax or other professional advice or in connection with any offer or sale of securities. 

Join host Colbert Cannon as he sits down with Mark Machin, the former President & CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), one of the world's largest investment funds with over $500 billion in assets under management. Mark shares his path to join the CPPIB after two decades at Goldman Sachs in London and Hong Kong. And he discusses how he navigated the transition to working within the Canadian pension system. We also hear about Mark's earlier days at Goldman Sachs in their global finance division and how he acclimated to the business culture in Asia. And Mark shares his latest venture as co-founder & CEO of investment startup Opto Investments alongside Joe Lonsdale.Learn more about Mark Machin's career here. Watch HBO Max series Tokyo Vice, Colbert's Best Idea for this week, here.

Lisa Baiton took the helm as president and CEO of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers this May, arriving with 30 years experience working as a business advisor. She most recently served on the Global Leadership Team at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. Baiton discusses with Energy Examined what inspired her to take on the new role, and her top priorities leading Canada's national oil and natural gas industry association--including an emphasis on industry's role as a solutions partner in reducing GHG emissions while working with allies around the world to provide energy security.

This week in Indian startup news, Pixxel launches their first satellite into space, CCI probes Swiggy and Zomato for anti-competitive behaviour, OkCredit shuts down their e-commerce enablement platform OkShop, and Stanza Living acquires Singularity Automation. In funding news, Dailyhunt's parent VerSe Innovation raises $805 million, Wiz Freight raises $36.2 million, IndiQube raises $30 million and Enkash raises $20 million. Pixxel launches their first satellite into space: On 1st April 2022, Indian spacetech startup Pixxel launched their first satellite named ‘Shakuntala' into space onboard SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. It is a hyperspectral imaging satellite - what it means is that it can click some extremely detailed images of earth from space and this data can be used by their customers for any number of crucial processes like monitoring mines, detecting leaks in oil and gas pipelines, analysing levels of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium in soil and more. CCI probes Swiggy and Zomato for anti-competitive behaviour: Last year, the National Restaurants Association of India (NRAI) which represents over 500,000 restaurants across the country had filed a complaint with the Competition Commision of India (CCI) flagging anti-competitive practices used by these food delivery platforms. OkCredit shuts down their e-commerce enablement platform OkShop: Last month, we had reported that OkCredit had laid-off around 35-40 employees and the startup had confirmed the lay-offs saying that they were changing their priorities to focus more on their fintech initiatives. Now, we know a little bit more about the situation - OkCredit has decided to shut down their e-commerce enablement platform OkShop - which allowed kirana store/small business owners to set up their online storefront, create their product catalogues and share their inventory directly with their customers. Stanza Living acquires Singularity Automation: Coliving accommodation provider Stanza Living has acquired IoT (internet of things) based solutions provider Singularity Automation in an all-cash deal to manage all their properties more efficiently. Dailyhunt's parent VerSe Innovation raises $805 million: VerSe Innovation, the parent company of news aggregator platform Dailyhunt and short video app Josh, has raised $805 million in a round led by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board – raising their valuation from $3 billion to $5 billion in just eight months. Wiz Freight raises $36.2 million: Digital supply chain startup Wiz Freight has raised $36.2 million in a round led by Tiger Global Management to open two new R&D centres in Bengaluru and Singapore to strengthen their AI/ML, blockchain and IoT capabilities and to launch operations in 15 countries in Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa. IndiQube raises $30 million: Co-working space provider IndiQube has raised $30 million in a round led by IndiQube's promoters, WestBridge Capital and angel investor Ashish Gupta (co-founder of Helion Ventures and Junglee) to expand their office space footprint to over 10 million square feet by adding properties across more than 15 tier 2 cities - over the next two years. Enkash raises $20 million: B2B fintech startup EnKash, which offers a single platform for businesses to manage their finances, has raised $20 million in a round led by Ascent Capital to invest in the development of their product and strengthen their technology platform and to expand their presence across MENA region.

“The notion that I'd someday be doing all the things that I am doing is almost unbelievable when you think about where I started.” – Katie Taylor Katie Taylor is recognized as one of the most influential women in corporate Canada. She is the Chair of the Board at RBC and the first woman to hold this role at a major Canadian bank. In Katie's remarkable professional journey, she has served as the President and CEO of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and has been a member of several boards including The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and SickKids Foundation. Katie has received numerous awards including the Order of Canada. In this episode of The Honest Talk, Jen and Catherine speak with Katie Taylor about women's underrepresentation on corporate boards and what needs to be done to break the barrier. She also talks about recognizing and seizing opportunities when they come. As a successful corporate leader and the mother of three children, Katie shares insights on how she manages her work-life balance. Katie also discusses her partner's role in her life and the importance of investing in one's own future. Last but not least, she offers important advice to THT listeners about deciding for yourself, and not for others.

Amazon is allegedly employing suppliers in China with links to forced labour, according to a report from the Tech Transparency Project, a research group owned by the nonprofit watchdog organisation Campaign for Accountability. The report accuses Amazon of continuing to work with these suppliers, despite evidence of their association with Uyghur labour camps in China, and in one case, continuing to buy from a supplier that has been sanctioned by the US government for employing forced labour in China. In China, programmes euphemistically called “labour transfers” move workers from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, a predominantly Muslim area in western China, to factories in other parts of the country, according to the Tech Transparency Project (TTP). Three Amazon suppliers are reported to have used forced labour directly: Luxshare Precision Industry, AcBel Polytech, and Lens Technology. Another two, GoerTek and Hefei BOE Optoelectronics, are themselves supplied by factories that have been implicated in forced labour, according to TTP. Better.com, the online mortgage lender, whose CEO callously laid off 900 people over a zoom call three months ago, is about to lay off roughly half of its staff of about 8,000 this week, TechCrunch reports, citing sources within the company. This new round of layoffs is expected to happen tomorrow. The majority of its staff are in sales and operations roles, but the layoff is believed to be impacting the whole company and will directly affect approximately 4,000 people. Better.com has employees around the world, including in the US and India, according to TechCrunch. Electric two-wheelers are on the cusp of mass adoption in India, data from the Federation of Automobiles Dealers Association shows (FADA). Sales of electric two-wheelers jumped 433 percent to 32,443 units in February 2022, compared with 6,083 for the year-earlier period. Electric passenger vehicles also rose, by about 300 percent, to more than 2,350 units. Hero Electric, Okinawa Autotech, Ampere Vehicles and Ather Energy all saw big jumps in their sales. And Ola Electric saw sales of more than 3,900 electric scooters, according to FADA. Eruditus, an ed-tech startup focused on executive education, has closed a $350 million debt financing from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to fund its acquisition plans overseas, Economic Times reports, citing co-founder Ashwin Damera. Eruditus, which is backed by investors including SoftBank Group, is in talks for strategic acquisitions and plans to spend as much as $1 billion on these purchases, according to ET. The company plans to grow its gross annual bookings by 90 percent to around $950 million in the fiscal year 2023, as against an estimated $500 million in this fiscal year ending March 31. Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds: https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds

Top headlines • Sensex soars 454 pts; slips 2% during Nov F&O series • RIL zooms 6% as board approves restructuring plan • Bajaj Auto's m-cap falls below Rs 1-trillion mark • India Inc to show significant EBITDA growth in next 12-18 months, says Moody's Equity markets ended the last day of the November F&O series on a strong note, courtesy a solid 6 per cent rally in the Reliance Industries stock. The BSE Sensex zoomed 454 points, or 0.78 per cent, to end at 58,795. Over 90 per cent of this gain was contributed by RIL. The NSE Nifty, meanwhile, ended 121 points higher at 17,536. During the monthly derivatives series, however, both benchmarks slipped around 2 per cent each. The shares of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries ended as the top gainer on the benchmark indices today after the company's board approved a restructuring scheme to transfer gasification undertaking into a wholly-owned subsidiary. Divis Labs, ITC, Infosys, Tata Consumer Products, and Tech Mahindra were some of the other top gainers on the Nifty today, all up in the range of 1 per cent to 2.5 per cent.   The top laggards were Maruti Suzuki, Britannia Industries, IndusInd Bank, Indian Oil Corporation, and HUL. These stocks fell by up to 1 per cent on the 50-share index. The MidCap and SmallCap indices also rose in tandem with the benchmarks today, rising 0.7 per cent and 0.9 per cent, respectively, on the BSE. Sectorally, the Nifty Realty index gained 2 per cent, while the Nifty Auto index was down 0.5 per cent. And before we close, here are some of the top developments of the day: • Ahead of Bajaj Auto's removal from the BSE Sensex, the company's shares hit their lowest level since December 28, 2020, in intra-day trade today. During the past month, Bajaj Auto has underperformed the market, falling 10 per cent during the period. This has brought the company's market cap below Rs 1 trillion. • Separately, after Paytm shares plunged over 41% in 2 days, anchor investors BlackRock and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board reportedly bought more on Tuesday and Wednesday. • Meanwhile, global agency Moody's expects Indian companies to show significant growth in EBITDA over the next 12-18 months on the back of a strong consumer demand and high commodity prices. • Lastly, Credit Suisse expects double-digit growth in credit off-take during the second half of the current financial year on the back of improving demand and banks' risk appetite. The brokerage is bullish on ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, and SBI.

Ecommerce company Flipkart, a Walmart unit in India, has raised $3.6 billion in an investment led by GIC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Walmart. Competition Commission of India has approved SoftBank's plan to put $450 million in Swiggy; Ola Electric and Hero Electric raise money for expansion; and in today's tech conversation, Aman Sanduja talks about his ambition to build a Twitter for crypto, at his startup Moving.so

The Big Ones Waymo, the autonomous driving technology developer spun off by Alphabet, has raised $2.5bn in funding from investors including its former parent company. AutoNation and Magna International also took part in the round, as did group Fidelity Management & Research, Mubadala, Temasek, Andreessen Horowitz, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Perry Creek Capital, Silver … Continue reading "21 June 2021 – Waymo Drives $2.5bn Investment" The post 21 June 2021 – Waymo Drives $2.5bn Investment appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board is helping Brazil's right-wing government to privatize a public water system in Rio de Janeiro. Plus labour's plans for the climate crisis.

Welcome to the “Mornings with Sue & Andy” podcast for Wednesday, April 14th. We begin with another edition of ‘Ask the Doctor' with Dr. Craig Jenne, Infectious Disease Specialist from the University of Calgary.  As always, Dr. Jenne takes the time to answer Coronavirus questions as sent in by you, the listener. Do you know where your ‘pension dollars' are being invested? We speak with the CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board on the process and methods the organization uses to plan the investments – and how ‘conventional energy' companies are incorporated in today's ‘eco-focused' environment. It's “National Gardening Day”…We get the ‘dirt' on the trends ahead for the 2021 garden season, with the Assistant Editor of the “Garden Guide”, Ben Kilbride. And finally…get ready to feel old! We speak with music guru Allan Cross about how the definition surrounding ‘Classic Rock' has changed…We get the lowdown on why some of your favourite bands from High School and College are now defined as ‘Classic'.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Devem ser entregues nesta sexta-feira (22) as propostas pela rede de fibra óptica da Oi, a InfraCo. Estariam interessados no negócio o BTG Pactual e o Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, em uma oferta conjunta e a Highline do Brasil e a Ufinet. Depois do envio das propostas, haverá a negociação para o contrato final. Os ativos de fibra óptica foram separados em uma unidade produtiva isolada (UPI) avaliada em R$ 20 bilhões. A operadora, que está em recuperação judicial desde 2016, colocou à venda uma fatia de 51% da InfraCo. Com mais um leilão da operadora a caminho, a Oi conseguirá se recuperar? As principais notícias para quem acompanha o mercado financeiro, no Flash InvestNews, com Fabiana Ortega. Os destaques da bolsa nesta manhã, a cotação do Ibovespa e dólar, além de outras informações que podem influenciar seus investimentos e rentabilidade.

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Welcome to the Elevator World News Podcast. Today’s podcast news podcast is sponsored by elevatorbooks.com: www.elevatorbooks.com THYSSENKRUPP SELLS ELEVATOR DIVISION thyssenkrupp agreed to sell its elevator division to a consortium of Advent, Cinven and RAG AG (Germany’s largest coal-mining corporation, also based in Essen) on February 27, Reuters reported. The final price was EUR17.2 billion (US$18.7 billion). After KONE withdrew its bid citing "terms and conditions that are in the best interest of its shareholders, employees and customers" amid reports of worldwide litigation from other OEMs (ELENET 826), the winning consortium prevailed against a rival consortium comprising Blackstone, Carlyle and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board. thyssenkrupp said it would reinvest about EUR1.25 billion (US$1.37 billion) to take a stake in the unit, which would translate to a 7.3% share that would be used to partially fund its pension liabilities. These plus its debt total EUR16 billion (US$17.57 billion). thyssenkrupp is expected to cut its debt, which will result in a significantly lower annual cash outflow for interest and pension payments. Detailed distribution plans are to be announced in May. thyssenkrupp Elevator will continue to be based in Germany and preserve equal shareholder/labor representation. German metalworkers' union IG Metall, which represents many thyssenkrupp workers, said jobs and sites will be secure until at least March 31, 2027. thyssenkrupp expects the deal to close by the end of the year. Image credit: courtesy thyssenkrupp To read the full transcript of today's podcast, visit: elevatorworld.com/news Subscribe to the Podcast: iTunes │ Google Play | SoundCloud │ Stitcher │ TuneIn

This episode we have a couple of interesting bits to talk about. Starting with a company that offers a safety net to digital nomads, the world’s largest internet restaurant company and most interesting of all, keep listening to know if SpaceX is turning into Uber for space? Stay tuned to know more. So, last week’s startup funding scene. We had a total of 283 funding rounds, $6.6 billion total funding, 175 acquisitions recorded, and a transaction of a total acquisition amount of $11.2 billion. Let’s dive right into the highlights now. SafetyWing raises $3.5M seed to offer medical insurance to ‘digital nomads’ They’ve got quite an interesting pitch. They claim to build safety nets for digital nomads. People used to be limited to working locally. Now the internet and recent technologies have made it possible to hire and work for companies globally, allowing people to live wherever in the world they choose to, free from the physical restraints of an office location. “Unfortunately, social safety nets like health insurance are national and only available in one’s home country. Millions are left to figure this out on their own with the majority going uninsured. To solve this problem, we are building the first global social safety net: a welfare state on the internet.” SafetyWing’s first product is focused on medical travel insurance, with the promise to provide medical cover for anybody who works outside their home country. The cover is flexible, too, sold as a 28-day rolling subscription that can be paused at any time. Cover starts at $37 every 4 weeks. Meanwhile, to support its mission of providing a safety net for digital nomads and to develop further products, the 2017-founded company, whose other co-founders are Sarah Sandnes (CTO) and Hans Kjellby (COO), has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Nordic and Baltic-focused VC byFounders, with participation from Credit Ease Fintech Fund and DG Incubation. SafetyWing’s previous backers include YC and The Nordic Web Ventures. The ‘world’s largest internet restaurant company’ quietly raised $125 million this month Rebel Foods formerly known as Faasos, a once-small Pune, India-based company that now prepares a variety of foods in its cloud kitchens. The growth of the nine-year-old company is a bit breathtaking — and instructive. According to Bloomberg, Rebel — which this month raised $125 million in fresh capital from the Indonesian delivery service Go-Jek, Coatue Management and Goldman Sachs — now operates 235 kitchens across 20 Indian cities. And it’s processing two million orders a month. (It calls itself the “world’s largest internet restaurant company.”) While it began life as a chain of kebab restaurants, that original concept, Faasos, is now just one of eight other brands that Rebel operates, including a tea brand called Kettle & Kegs; a Chinese concept called Mandarin Oak; a pizza brand called Oven Story; and a brand called Behrouz, through which Rebel makes and sells slow-cooked biryani rice dishes. Still, it’s little wonder that Rebel is racing headlong into new markets as fast as it can. According to Bloomberg, the company is currently planning to build 100 cloud kitchens in Indonesia over the next 18 months, with Go-Jek’s help. It also expects to open 20 cloud kitchen facilities in the United Arab Emirates by December. Babylon Health confirms $550M raise at $2B+ valuation to expand its AI-based health services Babylon Health, the U.K.-based startup that has developed a number of AI-based health services, including a chatbot used by the U.K’.s National Health Service to help diagnose ailments, has confirmed a massive investment that it plans to use to expand its business to the U.S. and Asia, and expand its R&D to diagnose more serious, chronic conditions. It has closed a $550 million round of funding, valuing Babylon Health at more than $2 billion. The round brings together a number of strategic and financial investors, including PIF (Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund); a large U.S.-based health insurance company (which reports suggest to be Centene Corporation, although Babylon is not disclosing the name); Munich Re’s ERGO Fund; and returning investors Kinnevik and Vostok New Ventures. (Previous investors who do not appear to be in this round also include Demis Hassabis, the AI expert who co-founded DeepMind, which is now a part of Google.) That additionally gives Babylon (and others in digital health) a big opportunity to break down some of the more persistent problems in healthcare, such as providing services in developing economies and remote regions: one of its big efforts alongside rollouts in mature markets like the U.K. and Canada has been a service in Rwanda to bring health services to digital platforms for the first time. Trueface raises $3.7M to recognise that gun, as it’s being pulled, in real time Trueface is a U.S.-based computer vision company that turns camera data into so-called “actionable data” using machine learning and AI by employing partners who can perform facial recognition, threat detection, age and ethnicity detection, license plate recognition, emotion analysis and object detection. That means, for instance, recognising a gun, as it’s pulled in a dime store. Yes folks, welcome to your brave new world. The company has now raised $3.7 million from Lavrock Ventures, Scout Ventures and Advantage Ventures to scale the team growing partnerships and market share. Trueface claims it can identify enterprises’ employees for access to a building, detect a weapon as it’s being wielded or stop fraudulent spoofing attempts. Quite some claims. The company announced today that is has received signed agreements from D1 Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Light Street Capital, Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Partners to fund a $525 million tender offer that will allow Unity’s common shareholders — the majority of which are early or current employees — to sell their shares in the company. What else caught our eyes- SpaceX is expanding its launch offerings with a new, more affordable and consistent option for small satellite operators looking to put lighter payloads into orbit. The new service offering is designed to work for customers who can take advantage of a “rideshare” launch, sharing space on a Falcon 9 with other small satellites being sent up. The rideshare option will be offered on a regular, defined schedule, and SpaceX says that it’s designed for flexibility, offering customers the ability to pre-book a spot, and ensuring that if they’re ready to launch when their rideshare comes up, the rocket will indeed go up — with or without other payloads also booked that may not be ready in time. SpaceX’s new service is designed somewhat like rideshare programs here on Earth: Passengers who are ready get to ride, and the company looks to fill seats by offering bookings both in advance (12 or more months out) and much closer to launch time (between 12 and 6 months out) with a possibility of even tighter turnaround, though SpaceX hasn’t publicly posted pricing for that option, which means it’ll probably be costly. As for those with plenty of notice, they get the biggest price break: Launches start at just $2.25 million for payloads of up to 150 kg (330 lbs), or $4.5 million for those weighing up to 300 kg (660 lbs). That sounds like a lot, but consider that the lowest cost for a current SpaceX launch is currently somewhere around $57 million.

We had a total of 316 funding rounds, $8.4 billion total funding, 93 acquisitions recorded, and a transaction of a total acquisition amount of $63.9 billion. Let’s dive right into the highlights now. Standard Cognition lands $35M at $535M valuation to battle Amazon Go EQT Ventures, Initialized Capital, CRV and Y Combinator have fueled Standard Cognition with another $35 million to help retailers battle Amazon. The deal values the San Francisco-based autonomous checkout startup, founded in 2017, at $535 million. Standard Cognition implants its AI-powered computer vision platform, which enables the autonomous checkout process, in brick-and-mortar stores. To date, the company has installed its hardware in five stores in the U.S. and Japan, with plans to expand globally using the new investment. Standard Cognition announces its Series B financing just eight months after closing a $40 million Series A. Suswal, justifying the lightning-fast growth, said 2019 has been Standard’s “year of deployment,” next year will be “the year of repeatability” and 2021 will be “the year of scale.” The company has raised a total of $86 million in venture capital funding. Muzmatch adds $7M to swipe right on Muslim-majority markets Muzmatch, a matchmaking app for Muslims, has just swiped a $7 million Series A on the back of continued momentum for its community-sensitive approach to soulmate searching for people of the Islamic faith. It now has more than 1.5 million users of its apps, across 210 countries, swiping, matching and chatting online as they try to find “the one.” Unity, now valued at $6B, raising up to $525M Unity’s private valuation is climbing, but it’s growing unclear whether the company’s leadership is planning to take the 15-year-old gaming powerhouse public anytime soon. The company announced today that is has received signed agreements from D1 Capital Partners, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Light Street Capital, Sequoia Capital and Silver Lake Partners to fund a $525 million tender offer that will allow Unity’s common shareholders — the majority of which are early or current employees — to sell their shares in the company. The company also confirmed that it wrapped up a $150 million Series E funding round in May that doubled the company’s valuation to $6 billion. The announcement confirms the valuation we reported in May, though at a higher amount of capital raised. Fintech decacorn Nubank raises $400M led by TCV What’s a decocorn? Well I had to google this as well - It is a word used for those companies valued over $10 billion. Hectocorn is for companies valued over $100 billion. Brazil-based Nubank, which offers a suite of banking and financial services for Brazilian consumers, announced today that it has raised a $400 million Series F round of venture capital led by Woody Marshall of TCV. The growth-stage fund is best known for its investment in Netflix but has also made fintech a high priority, with over $1.5 billion in investments in the space. According to Nubank, the company has now raised $820 million across seven venture rounds. Leveraging unique technology, David Vélez and his team are continuously pushing the boundaries of delivering best in class financial services, grounded in a culture of tech and innovation. Nubank has all the core tenets of what TCV looks for in preeminent franchise investments. Airbud raises $4 million to add a voice interface to your website Amazon’s Alexa ushered in a new dawn of user interfaces, bringing voice into the mix as a viable option. Dozens of companies have sprouted because of this, not least of which being Airbud.io. Airbud allows any company to add a voice interface to its website. The company just closed a $4 million round led by Hanaco Ventures, with participation from ERA and Spider Capital. By allowing companies to add voice/chat bot utility to their websites, Airbud hopes to increase retention of end-users on sites and give them easier access to the information they seek. Krush says that Airbud is focusing on websites that you have to be on, rather than the ones you want to be on. That means Airbud clients are mostly in the healthcare space and travel space, helping end-users find a physician or book a flight using their voice. Moving on to mergers and acquisitions - Apple has announced the acquisition of chip-maker Intel's smartphone modem business for $1 billion. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees will join Apple, along with intellectual property, equipment and leases, the Cupertino-based iPhone maker said in a statement late Thursday. "This agreement enables us to focus on developing technology for the 5G network while retaining critical intellectual property and modem technology that our team has created," said Intel CEO Bob Swan. "We're looking forward to putting our full effort into 5G where it most closely aligns with the needs of our global customer base, including network operators, telecommunications equipment manufacturers and cloud service providers," he added. Apple will hold over 17,000 wireless technology patents, ranging from protocols for cellular standards to modem architecture and modem operation. What else caught our eyes- Dark has been keeping its startup in the dark for the last couple of years while it has built a unique kind of platform it calls “deployless” software development. If you build your application in Dark’s language inside of Dark’s editor, the reward is you can deploy it automatically on Dark’s infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform without worrying about all of the typical underlying deployment tasks. The company emerged from stealth today and announced $3.5 million in seed funding, which it actually received back in 2017. The founders have spent the last couple of years building this rather complex platform. In Dark, you’re getting the benefit of your editor knowing how the language works. So you get really great autocomplete, and your infrastructure is set up for you as soon as you’ve written any code because we know exactly what is required Source - Techcrunch, Crunchbase

Matt Groening is launching a comics publishing company called Bapper Books that will put out a Disenchantment: Untold Tales, a collection of stories based on the show Disenchantment. Groening's Bongo Comics closed earlier this year after 26 years. Despite every headline you'll see, Mad Magazine is not shutting down. Instead, Issue #9 will be the last on newsstands with issue #10 available from comic book retailers and subscriptions. Future Mad magazines will feature reprinted classic MAD pieces with the only new content coming in its end-of-year specials and occasional one-off features. The Walking Dead comic surprise twist is the comic is done with issue 193. "The Walking Dead has always been built on surprise. Not knowing what’s going to happen when you turn the page, who’s going to die, how they’re going to die... it’s been essential to the success of this series. It’s been the lifeblood that’s been keeping it going all these years, keeping people engaged. It just felt wrong and against the very nature of this series not to make the actual end as surprising as all the big deaths." The Hollywood Reporter says a TV series based on Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic will be produced by Warner Brothers Television for Netflix. It's reportedly the most expensive TV series DC Entertainment has done. Allan Heinberg (Wonder Woman, ABC's The Catch, Grey's Anatomy) is set to write and serve as showrunner. Gaiman will be one of the EPs. Lego-owner Kirkbi Invest is teaming up with Blackstone and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to buy Merlin Entertainment, which operates the Legoland theme parks, as well as Madame Tussauds wax museums. Lego opened the first park in 1968 in western Denmark and then sold its parks to Merlin in 2005. According to NPR, Connie Monsees told ABC News Start Here podcast about how Google Maps navigated about 100 drivers into a muddy dirt road. Monsees was stuck in traffic on the way to the Denver airport. Monsees followed Google Maps advice to exit to get around the backup and ended up on a dirt road which recent rains had turned into mud causing many of the cars to get stuck. Monsees had a four-wheel drive and was able to take two other people whose car was stuck with her. Google said the road was not marked private and while it does account for road size, "issues can arise due to unforeseen circumstances, such as when weather conditions affect the quality of roads.

What keeps global economy experts up at night? Is it Brexit, Chinese debt, the impact of technology on work, or the “unknown unknowns” — those issues we haven’t yet anticipated? This episode convenes several guests who were in Washington, D.C. recently for the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund. With host Bessma Momani, they discuss how long the current global slowdown could last, the impact of bad policy — or a lack of any policy at all — on living standards, and, despite the many areas of concern, why it is best to focus on being prepared for crisis. Our host Bessma Momani is professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and University of Waterloo and a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation. She’s also a non-resident senior fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, D.C. and a Fulbright Scholar. She has been non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and a 2015 Fellow at the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She’s a frequent analyst and expert on international affairs in Canadian and global media. This week’s guests Rachel Ziemba is an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. Her research focuses on the interlinkages between economics, finance and security issues. She previously served as head of emerging and frontier markets and co-head of research at Roubini Global Economics, a global macro strategy and country risk firm. Before that, Rachel also worked for the Canadian International Development Agency in Cairo, Egypt, and the International Development Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada on development economic issues. Babak Abbaszadeh is president and chief executive officer of non-profit organization Toronto Centre. Previously, Babak held leadership positions in major internationally oriented Canadian financial institutions such as the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Sun Life Financial. Babak was also chief of staff to two senior cabinet ministers. Bob Fay is director of the Centre for International Governance Innovation’s Global Economy Program and is responsible for the research direction of the program and its related activities. Prior to joining CIGI, Bob held several senior roles at the Bank of Canada, most recently as senior director overseeing work to assess developments and implications arising from the digitization of the Canadian economy. Tom Bernes is a distinguished fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation. After a distinguished career in the Canadian public service and at leading international economic institutions, Tom was CIGI’s executive director from 2009 to 2012. He has held high-level positions at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the Government of Canada.

On BIV Today… Mark Machin, president and CEO of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, discusses the board’s two decades of managing billions on behalf of 20 million Canadians. He shares insight on what he will be watching over the next 20 years. BIV’s weekly tech panel examines social media’s role in New Zealand’s recent devastating attack. Progressa CEO Ali Pourdad and Gluu Technology Society founder and CEO Linda Fawcus also weigh in on recent tech service outages and Apple’s push on privacy. Hayley Woodin hosts, see more at https://biv.com/.

Bruce Hogg, managing director the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, speaks about the Board's latest investment in renewable power in Brazil.