Amazon selects eight UK firms for inaugural sustainable start-up accelerator

Cecilia Keating
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Tech giant announces names of first cohort for sustainability accelerator as it publishes results of survey that indicates significant appetite among investors for green start-ups

Amazon has published the names of the early-stage start-ups it has picked to support in its first ever 'sustainability accelerator', a three-month programme it is running in partnership with the European...

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