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BBC News Robert Downey Jr: Planet faces existential crisis Close Hollywood star Robert Downey Jr is leading an investment fund that will try to spot fast-growing green technology businesses to help tackle climate change. The Footprint Coalition fund has already invested in businesses such as Cloud Paper, which makes toilet paper out of bamboo and has a mission to save a billion trees. In an interview with Rory Cellan-Jones, he said the planet faces an existential crisis. Published

Los Angeles, CA, - Producer, actor and investor Robert Downey Jr. announced the launch of ESG-focused FootPrint Coalition Ventures, a series of ambitious, rolling venture capital funds focused on sustainable technology, while participating in World Economic Forum (WEF) Digital Davos Agenda on a High Level Panel. FootPrint Coalition Ventures’ mission is to accelerate groundbreaking technologies that are addressing the world’s largest environmental challenges. “ Having spent the last 18 mon...

January 28, 2021 published at 6:42 AMReuters Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr is looking to sustainable technology to tackle issues like deforestation and microplastics. Reuters LONDON - As inventor Tony Stark, Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr transformed into superhero Iron Man. Now the Oscar nominee is taking action against environmental threats to the planet. Downey, 55, is looking to sustainable technology to tackle issues like deforestation and microplastics. The star of movies such as Ir...

Robert Downey Jr. backing Seattle bamboo toilet paper maker Cloud Paper as part of new VC effort January 27, 2021 at 1:00 pm Iron Man is a softy for sustainable toilet paper. Actor Robert Downey Jr. launched two venture funds on Wednesday focused on sustainable technology, and one of the companies he’s backing is Seattle-based startup Cloud Paper, makers of tree-free toilet paper. Downey’s latest twist from Footprint Coalition Ventures was announced during the actor’s participation in a v...

Robert Downey Jr. is launching a new ‘rolling’ venture fund to back sustainability startups A little less than two years ago, when the actor, producer and investor Robert Downey Jr. unveiled his new, sustainability focused initiative called the FootPrint Coalition at Amazon’s re:MARS conference it was little more than a static website and a subscription prompt. Jump cut to today, and the firm now has five portfolio companies, a nonprofit initiative, and is launching a rolling venture fund...

As inventor Tony Stark, Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr transformed into superhero Iron Man. Now the Oscar nominee is taking action against environmental threats to the planet. Downey is looking to sustainable technology to tackle issues like deforestation and microplastics. The Iron Man and Avengers star, 55, announced on Wednesday he was launching venture capital funds, aiming to “accelerate groundbreaking technologies that are addressing the world’s largest environmental challenges�...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - As inventor Tony Stark, Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr. transformed into superhero Iron Man. Now the Oscar nominee is taking action against environmental threats to the planet. Downey is looking to sustainable technology to tackle issues like deforestation and microplastics. The "Iron Man" and "Avengers" star, 55, announced on Wednesday he was launching venture capital funds, aiming to "accelerate groundbreaking technologies that are addressing...