{"id":2827,"date":"2021-12-17T07:17:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:17:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailymarkup.com\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2021-12-17T07:17:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T07:17:59","slug":"daily-markup-399-this-weeks-stories-on-us10m-raised-for-sustainable-living-car-affordability-road-safety-campaigns-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailymarkup.com\/?p=2827","title":{"rendered":"Daily Markup #399: This week\u2019s stories on US$10M raised for sustainable living, car affordability &amp; road safety campaigns, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The plant-based movement gets a boost this week with an injection of US$10 million for sustainability platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abillion.com\/\">abillion<\/a>. In Australia, agrifood startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escavox.com\/\">Escavox<\/a> readies itself for a new funding round while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gspacetech.com\/\">Gilmour Space Technologies<\/a> secures support for its launch site in Queensland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Missed our last weekly roundup? Check it out <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup394\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/Fo3L9xrx513soilBLIQqXGEDBN9KN_-M9XCwpPcOZ3EQud7YLZk_ZPHYQLgB0W5_uIGRnXfcEqfDnv8OHODxf08sQCqrASexIsgzZZXyeTZeM4wC_xfAI9UaECHZ8DnWxGEA7u96\" alt=\"\" \/><figcaption>Credit: abillion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup398\">abillion secures US$10M to build peer-to-peer marketplace<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup395\">Friz wins US$100,000 grant in female founder program<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup396\">Escavox prepares for a ~US$3.5M funding round<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup396\">Carsome &amp; Grab campaign to benefit over 100,000 drivers<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup395\">Kredivo launches new card to benefit more underbanked<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup397\">Gilmour Space secures support from the Juru people of Australia<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup395\">Carousell to enable interest-free installment plan in Hong Kong<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup398\">Naluri on promoting better mental wellbeing at work<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup397\">Neuron Mobility launches festive safety campaign<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup396\">AUS expects Indian drone market to hit up to US$4B<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup398\">e-Komoditi to take part in 500 Global program<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/dailymarkup397\">Carousell wants to \u201cmake secondhand the first choice\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Other stories you may have missed:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Biotech startup <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prenetics.com\/\">Prenetics<\/a> is the official RT-PCR COVID-19 testing partner for over 1,300 swimmers in upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/prenetics_projectscreen-prenetics-donttestdontknow-activity-6875032183866847232-KFW7\/\">New World Harbour Race 2021<\/a>.<\/li><li>Singapore-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.boxgreen.co\/\">Boxgreen<\/a> enters the <a href=\"https:\/\/vulcanpost.com\/767812\/boxgreen-singapore-healthy-snacks-tea-brand\/\">tea market<\/a> after seeing success in healthy snacks. (A subscription may be required.)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/elixusagency.com\/\">Elixus<\/a> wins gold for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketing-interactive.com\/aotyawards-my-2021-spills-elixus-attributes-its-success-to-its-people\">Performance Marketing Agency of the Year<\/a> at A+M&#8217;s Agency Of The Year 2021.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The plant-based movement gets a boost this week with an injection of US$10 million for sustainability platform abillion. In Australia, agrifood startup Escavox readies itself for a new funding round while Gilmour Space Technologies secures support for its launch site in Queensland. Missed our last weekly roundup? Check it out here. abillion secures US$10M to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[479,476,392,45,341,485,487,482,353,486,377,328,143,469,348,356,365],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-roundup","tag-aarav-unmanned-systems","tag-abillion","tag-boxgreen","tag-carousell","tag-carsome","tag-e-komoditi","tag-elixus","tag-ematic","tag-escavox","tag-finacc","tag-friz","tag-gilmour-space","tag-grab","tag-kredivo","tag-naluri","tag-neuron-mobility","tag-prenetics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daily Markup #399: This week\u2019s stories on US$10M raised for sustainable living, car affordability &amp; road safety campaigns, and more - Markup<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailymarkup.com\/?p=2827\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daily Markup #399: This week\u2019s stories on US$10M raised for sustainable living, car affordability &amp; road safety campaigns, and more - Markup\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The plant-based movement gets a boost this week with an injection of US$10 million for sustainability platform abillion. 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