At the Tech Week event Thursday, Arbor CEO Brad Hartwig told a stunned crowd that Arbor aims to remove about five billion tons of organic waste from landfills and turn that into about 6 PWh, or a quarter of the global electricity need, each year. At the same time, it also uses biomass carbon removal and storage to remove carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in an attempt to avoid further damaging the earth’s ozone layer. Here’s a look at the greentech startups that pitched during the Tech Week event, and how they think what they’re building could help solve the climate crisis.Īrbor: Based in El Segundo, this year-old startup is working to convert organic waste into energy and fresh water. “One thing we realize is accessibility is a huge thing.” “Particularly the woman's side, I'd like to think we do a better job of making sure that there's spaces for everyone,” Fleischauer told the audience. She noted, though, that roughly 46% of Angel City fans are “straight white dudes hanging out with their bros.” She noted community is key, and that fostering a sense of engagement and safety at the team’s home venue, BMO stadium (formerly Banc of California Stadium), is one reason fans keep coming back.Īdding free metro rides to BMO stadium and private rooms for nursing fans to breastfeed or fans on the spectrum to avoid sensory overload, were just some of the ways ACFC tried to include its community in the concept of its stadium, Fleischauer said. At an LA Tech Week panel hosted by Athlete Strategies about investing in sports, Angel City head of strategy and chief of staff Kari Fleischauer said that years before launching the women’s National Women’s Soccer League team, Angel City FC was pounding the pavement letting people know about the excitement ladies soccer can bring. In the soccer world, Los Angeles-based women’s soccer team Angel City FC has put in the work to become a household name, not just in LA County but across the nation. “There's an untapped revenue opportunity,” she noted. Storck added that in heterosexual households, women generally manage most of the family’s money, giving them huge purchasing power, a potential advantage for female-run leagues. Women make up half the population, but “also 50% of the folks that are walking into the stadium at Dodger Stadium, or your NFL fans are just about 50% women,” noted Erin Storck, a panelist and senior analyst at Los Angeles-based Elysian Park Ventures. In 2023, the average size of an LA Sparks crowd swelled to 10,396 people, up from 4,701 people. WNBA openers this year saw a 21% spike in attendance, with some teams including the LA Sparks reporting triple-digit ticket sales growth, about 121% over 2022’s total. In 2022, the first 32 games of the NCAA tournament had record attendance levels, breaking records set back in 2004, and largely driven by the new and rapidly growing women’s NCAA tournament. Subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or wherever you get your podcasts. Hear more of the Behind Her Empire podcast. And your ability to do things and approach life is changed.”Įngagement and Production Intern Jojo Macaluso contributed to this post. “And I genuinely do believe that if you feel more confident, the way that you walk through the world is different. And it makes them feel more confident about themselves,” she says. “I think the thing I really love about makeup is makeup makes people happy. So, what motivated her to create a beauty brand that is vegan and free of every known skin irritant? The ability to see her product make others happy and confident. “I think what really did happen was I got an opportunity, and… it felt like it would be crazy if I didn't chase it.”ĭespite founding a clean beauty line that offers a wide range of skin tones, Liu would not consider herself a “makeup junkie.” By the time she founded Tower 28, she was 40, married, with three kids in private school and a mortgage. Yet it was only after working for other companies that she began to put her master’s degree in entrepreneurship into practice. Her cousin, a Harvard graduate, recommended majoring in consulting – but Liu knew her heart was not in it. “I had this idea of entrepreneurship,” she says, “That didn't really exist in a way that felt like it was achievable.” ”īut when it was time to go to college, Liu felt lost. … And then instead I think my answer was just to prepare for. But he felt all of it, you know, the highs and the lows,” she says, “So I think I have this background of seeing it, wanting it. From a young age, she imagined herself following in her father’s footsteps by becoming an entrepreneur. A native Minnesotan, Liu is the child of immigrants.
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