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  1. Baillie Gifford ends all literary festival sponsorships over investments backlash

    The company has not released a new statement since its partnership with Edinburgh International Book Festival ended.

    #BaillieGifford #books #literature #Gaza #climate

    howtobe247.com/baillie-gifford

  2. Noreen Masud:
    "I pulled out of Hay Festival over its links to Baillie Gifford. And it worked

    While my day at Hay last year was one of the best of my life, I couldn’t ignore its links to Israeli war crimes."

    opendemocracy.net/en/baillie-g

    #BaillieGifford
    #Hay
    #Edinburgh
    #Literature
    #GazaGenocide

  3. "Johannesson, along with fellow authors Mikaela Loach and Mohamed Tonsy, disrupted Loach’s Saturday event as they called on the festival to drop its main sponsor, #BaillieGifford, after revelations that it has billions invested in #FossilFuels, prompting the climate activist #GretaThunberg to cancel her own #BookFestival appearance.

    There was no demand for refunds as the audience of 180 exited the auditorium chanting in unison."

    #EdinburghFestival #FringeFestival
    theguardian.com/stage/2023/aug

  4. Roof-walking: among the hobbies of Katherine Rundell, youngest winner of the Baillie Gifford prize for her biography of “poet of desire” John Donne. Here she is atop All Souls, Oxford.

    #BaillieGifford #KatherineRundell #JohnDonne

  5. Relativity Space raises $500 million as its sets sights on the industrialization of Mars - 3D-printed rocket startup Relativity Space has closed $500 million in Series D funding (making offi... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #emerging-technologies #tigerglobalmanagement #scienceandtechnology #industrialdesign #relativityspace #fundings&exits #bailliegifford #lockheedmartin #u.s.government #iconiqcapital #unitedstates #3dprinting #aerospace #longbeach #robotics

  6. Zymergen raised $300 million because synthetic biology is so hot right now - Zymergen, one of the companies that’s developing biomanufacturing technologies which could reshape ... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #bailliegifford #biotechnology #manufacturing #lifesciences #joshhoffman #techcrunch #articles #sumitomo #zymergen #ceo #tc

  7. Warby Parker, valued at $3 billion, raises $245 million in funding - Warby Parker, the optical ecommerce giant, has today announced the close of a $245 million funding r... - feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #durablecapitalpartners #d1capitalpartners #bailliegifford #recentfunding #t.roweprice #warbyparker #ecommerce #startups #funding #tc

  8. Trendy luggage brand Away packs on $100M, rolls past $1.4B valuation - Away‘s new lofty valuation proves how far you can get with excellent branding.
    The direct-to-consume... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #globalfounderscapital #thewallstreetjournal #wall-street-journal #venturecapital #bailliegifford #socialmedia #warbyparker #companies #valuation #business #jenrubio #startups #eyewear #unicorn #brand #away

  9. Niantic EC-1, Part 3 and what the data show are the best fundraising decks - Harry Potter, the Platform, and the Future of Niantic
    After deep dives into the story of Niantic’s ... more: feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcr #bailliegifford #charlesplowden #russheddleston #harrypotter #character #redantler #docsend #niantic #tc