Chloe Aiello

At 3 Years, Biden’s Landmark Climate Legislation Is a ‘Shadow’ of What It Was The Inflation Reduction Act spurred billions in spending—but experts say billions more in investments have been canceled. Here’s how it all breaks down.

ICYMI: Saturday was the 3-year anniversary of the #IRA, the most ambitious #climate legislation in history. Here's everything that's changed in the past year.

“It’s a shadow of its former self,” says Michael Gerrard of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social's Sabin Center.

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How Mark Zuckerberg Is Going to Power Meta's New AI Supercluster, Prometheus Zuck took to Threads to boast about Meta’s AI infrastructure plans. But big facilities need large amounts of energy.

Meta plans to use gas turbines to help power its Ohio #AI data center. Sound familiar? Elon Musk's xAI has caused a stir in South Memphis for burning gas turbines sans permitting at its Colossus facility. Read more about Meta and its #Prometheus facility via @inc.com

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Beyond Meat's Next Dish Won't Imitate Beef, Pork, or Chicken As the fake meat industry struggles, Beyond Meat's CEO is planting the seeds of a comeback. It starts with a new food designed to just be itself.

A great exclusive story by @chloeaiello.bsky.social about Beyond Meat.

Their next product will (tentatively) be called Beyond Ground, and it won't seek to imitate anything. “It’s not trying to be beef, pork, or poultry," CEO Ethan Brown tells @inc.com

Dig in:

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Fashion Victim? This AI-Powered App Is Finally Bringing the ‘Clueless’ Closet to Life Harvard engineer and fashion lover Jenny Wang created AI-powered Alta to help users make sense of their own closets.

Can't pick what to wear? Alta lets #AI decide. It shops your own closet or surfaces shoppable links, factoring in weather, event type, location and more. Plus, you can ditch your trusty Excel Spreadsheet for a personalized vacation wardrobe planned by day via @inc.com

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This Company Makes Products Without Forever Chemicals. Tariffs Just Made That Harder Caraway is known for its luxurious PFAS-free cookware, but they have had to raise prices following tariffs.

Caraway has made a name as a premium brand for nontoxic cookware, but uncertainty around tariffs prompted a 10-15% price hike across the board. CEO Jordan Nathan anticipates similar disruptions across the sector and warns of a pivot to cheap, toxic materials like #PFAS.

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Inside the High-Tech Pickleball Company With 1,900-Percent Revenue Growth This family-owned business is going all-in on the future of pickleball with a high-tech lab featuring 3-D printers, a collaborative robot, and a durability cannon.

Idaho-based, family-owned Selkirk Sport is one of the leading brands in pickleball w/ 1,900% rev growth since 2019. Co-founders Mike and Rob Barnes won't let growth slow them down. Check out their "million dollar" lab, built to boost innovation and cut costs via @inc.com www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

This Company Has a Sweet Pitch: A Healthier Cookie That May Help You Lose Weight With GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic all the rage, ChipMonk Baking has created a cookie it says works a bit the same way.

Can a cookie help with weight loss? ChipMonk Baking thinks so. The startup is now accepting pre-orders for its "GLP-1 boosting" cookies, which are low in sugar, high in fiber and contain a compound meant to boost natural levels of the appetite regulating hormone @inc.com

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Inside the Coolest New Ice Cream Truck to Hit the Market Rivian outfitted two electric delivery vans for use as Ben & Jerry's ice cream trucks. They're pretty sweet.

I really want to visit this ice cream truck. And I hate how dirty, in terms of pollution, traditional ice cream trucks are.

More EV ice cream trucks, please!

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How This Entrepreneur's Side Hustle Became a Business and a Tribute to Her Dad Scientist and innovator Madison Maxey is turning her passion for materials science into a toxin-free side business.

Entrepreneur Maddy Maxey turned her passion for materials science into a side hustle, making a healthier alternative to hair relaxers, which are linked to cancer in Black women.

This is meant to give you ‘easy’ with low health risk,” she says via @inc.com

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Voyage AI Just Sold for $220 Million—After Launching Less Than Two Years Ago Here's why acquirer MongoDB found the anti-hallucination tech particularly valuable.

The fight for #AItalent is on and could mean faster #M&A. “He could have been working on something else, and we would still want to be in business with him," CRV's Murat Bicer says of Voyage AI's Tengyu Ma.

Read more about the young AI company that just sold for $220M.

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EV Sales Climb in Spite of Automaker Losses and Trump-Related Uncertainty Ford's EV unit lost billions of dollars, but at the same time, EV sales as a whole were up in the U.S. in 2024 compared to the year before.

What's going on in the #EV market, especially under this administration? I had the opportunity to share my thoughts with @chloeaiello.bsky.social at Inc. www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

How This AI Language Learning Platform Translated Their Tech Into Unicorn Status Speak raised $78 million in a series C round of funding that values the app at $1 billion.

You've heard of Duolingo and its famous owl, but what about Speak, the AI language learning platform that's now a unicorn? @chloeaiello.bsky.social reports for @inc.com

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How This AI Language Learning Platform Translated Their Tech Into Unicorn Status Speak raised $78 million in a Series C round of funding that values the app at $1 billion.

New unicorn alert: Speak, the language learning app founded by Connor Zwick and Andrew Hsu, raised a new round from investors including the OpenAI Startup Fund. @chloeaiello.bsky.social spoke to them for @inc.com www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

Here’s How Security Firms Say Execs Should Protect Themselves After UnitedHealthcare CEO’s Shooting Security firms offer advice to companies looking to protect their executives after the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

CEOs are on high alert after today's shooting, and @chloeaiello.bsky.social has the scoop on how security firms are protecting executives. www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

Vivek Ramaswamy Calls Out Loans for Electric Vehicle Manufacturing Ramaswamy will co-lead the planned Department of Government Efficiency along with Tesla CEO Elon Musk. One of the loans is for Rivian, a Tesla competitor.

Oh, the hypocrisy is just flat-out hilarious. You know who also took out a government loan years ago? Tesla. I spoke to @inc.com's @chloeaiello.bsky.social about the latest (immature and misinformed) backlash Rivian faces over its $6.6 billion loan.

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How a Buzzy Startup Made the iPhone of Beehives to Protect Pollinators Beewise's AI and robotics-powered BeeHome has the potential to fortify the global food supply by keeping bees healthy.

I loved @chloeaiello.bsky.social's piece on a buzzy startup that has reinvented the beehive and taken inspiration from the iPhone—all in the effort to save pollinators: www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

This Gen-Z-Led Startup Just Raised $2.6 Million to Diagnose Parkinson's Using AI Dannce.ai emerged from stealth with a platform that aims to use artificial intelligence to help diagnose and monitor movement disorders. Here's how it works.

I think what Dannce.ai is aiming to do here is really interesting and potentially helpful to people dealing with very challenging health conditions. @chloeaiello.bsky.social has the story in @inc.com

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Inc.: “What Trump’s Win Could Mean for Climate Innovation, Renewable Energy, and More” by Chloe Aiello

So much for my optimistic streak:

"What Trump’s Win Could Mean for Climate Innovation, Renewable Energy, and More"

Good roundup by @chloeaiello.bsky.social for Inc. via gwagner.com/inc-trump-ira

Will do, sounds great!

What Trump’s Win Could Mean for Climate Innovation, Renewable Energy, and More Here’s what experts think may be on the chopping block—and what might endure.

Are #climatetech and #renewableenergy in the crosshairs of an incoming #Trump administration? I spoke to some incredible experts including @gwagner.com at Columbia Business School to make sense of the flurry of post-election news for @inc.com

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Thanks for the shoutout! Who doesn't love a snack? My colleagues at @inc.com are starting to join the platform en masse. I look forward to following your feed!

This Startup’s Futuristic, Blimp-Like Aircraft Could Keep an Eye on the World Below Sceye’s high altitude platform system is designed to float in the stratosphere and monitor methane leaks and other events.

It's always interesting when a story we have been following breaks through to more widely read publications and, in particular, how they choose to tell the story for their respective audiences. In this case Chloe Aiello, writing for @inc.com, does a good job, we think. | 🛩️ ⚡️ 🎈 🛰️ 📡