Tnw - Ecosystems # pt-br <![CDATA[The Bristol-and-Lisbon climate-tech firm is scaling MykoFoam, a carbon-negative mycelium insulation panel grown from industrial residues at its Portuguese pilot plant.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/mykor-46m-bristol-mycelium-construction-funding]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/Mykor.avif <![CDATA[May 27, 2026 - 12:24 pm]]> <![CDATA[30/05/2026 22:35:12]]> <![CDATA[TL;DROctopus Energy Generation has committed $500 million to Living Carbon, a biotech startup that plants trees on degraded land to remove CO₂, aiming to remove 50 million tonnes over 40 years. Google, Meta, and McKinsey have separately purchased 131,240 tonnes of carbon credits from Living Carbon’s Appalachian projects through the Symbiosis Coalition. The deal highlights a tension: the tech companies buying these credits are the same ones whose AI data centres are driving the fastest growth in global electricity consumption.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/living-carbon-octopus-reforestation-carbon-credits]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/05/living-carbon-octopus-reforestation-carbon-credits.avif <![CDATA[May 1, 2026 - 8:14 am]]> <![CDATA[30/05/2026 22:35:12]]> <![CDATA[The Spanish solar developer is betting that co-locating renewable generation with battery storage adjacent to data centres is the answer to AI’s power hunger, and investors are oversubscribed at 6.7x.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/solaria-300m-raise-solar-data-centre]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/Solaria.avif <![CDATA[April 29, 2026 - 8:45 am]]> <![CDATA[30/05/2026 22:35:12]]> <![CDATA[Arpit Agrawal has built his career around a central question: How do global consumer brands scale effectively in markets where infrastructure, regulation, and consumer behavior vary widely?]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/arpit-agrawal-emerging-markets-distribution-growth]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/arpit-agrawal-emerging-markets-distribution-growth.avif <![CDATA[April 27, 2026 - 4:23 pm]]> <![CDATA[30/05/2026 22:35:12]]> <![CDATA[Christian Weedbrook, the founder and CEO of Toronto-based Xanadu Quantum Technologies, became a billionaire this week without NVIDIA investing a single dollar in his company. His 46.4 million multiple-voting shares were worth approximately $1.5 billion as of midday Friday, after Xanadu’s stock surged nearly fivefold in six trading sessions. The catalyst was not anything Xanadu did. It was NVIDIA announcing a suite of open-source AI models and a new hardware architecture designed to accelerate quantum computing, which sent the entire sector into a rally that made Xanadu, the only publicly traded pure-play photonic quantum computing company, the most dramatic beneficiary.]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/nvidia-xanadu-quantum-computing-ceo-billionaire-stock-surge]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/nvidia-xanadu-quantum-computing-ceo-billionaire-stock-surge.avif <![CDATA[April 18, 2026 - 9:58 am]]> <![CDATA[30/05/2026 22:35:12]]> <![CDATA[In short: AppDirect has acquired Toronto-based PartnerStack, the partner relationship management platform with 138,000+ B2B partners and ~50% market share in the PRM category. Terms were not disclosed. The deal is AppDirect’s sixth acquisition in 12 months, following Tackle.io (cloud go-to-market, $20B+ in hyperscaler transactions), vCom Solutions ($100M+, network/mobility), and DNE Resources (energy).]]> <![CDATA[https://thenextweb.com/news/appdirect-acquires-partnerstack-partner-led-growth-b2b-commerce]]> https://media.thenextweb.com/2026/04/appdirect-acquires-partnerstack-partner-led-growth-b2b-commerce.avif <![CDATA[April 14, 2026 - 6:57 pm]]> <![CDATA[30/05/2026 22:35:12]]>