1 big thing: Industry players unite to build trust in carbon storage

👀 First look: A half-dozen companies are unveiling a joint initiative this morning to help verify that carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) projects work as intended, Ben writes.

Driving the news: Environmental data and software firm Project Canary, Denbury Resources — which uses CO2 injections to boost oil recovery — and other partners announced joint work to support "third-party independent environmental assessments and data measurement."

Why it matters: Carefully tracking the performance of capture, transport and sequestration projects will get far more important if the tech reaches the scale needed to be a strong weapon against climate change.

How it works: Members of the new "collective" plan to harmonize existing frameworks and requirements into a measurement, verification and reporting system that's applicable to various industries.

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Syndio Launches OppEQ Forecaster as Companies Look to Build Trust and Tackle the Next Transparency Wave

New feature helps companies forecast when they’ll hit representation goals based on current practices, and model scenarios to help achieve goals faster

As companies post salary ranges to comply with new laws, they are grappling with investor and employee demands for more transparency into diversity and opportunity. Against this backdrop, Syndio is expanding its groundbreaking OppEQ™ product with Forecaster, a new representation forecasting tool. OppEQ Representation, which launched at the beginning of the year, gave companies the ability to measure current demographic benchmarks against available talent, and develop meaningful diversity goals. Now, with Forecaster, companies can forecast when they’ll hit representation goals based on current practices and model different scenarios to see their impact on diversity trajectories.

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SubjectWell Raises $35 Million to Expand Patient Access to New Treatment Options

Asset Management Ventures leads Series B and is joined by Bertelsmann and existing investors

AUSTIN, Texas, October 20, 2022--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SubjectWell, the largest engagement platform for matching patients with chronic health conditions to new care options, today announced a $35 million Series B funding round led by Asset Management Ventures, with participation from all existing investors, and joined by Bertelsmann. This new investment will accelerate the growth of SubjectWell's existing clinical trial patient recruitment efforts, expand its support of cancer research, and fund production of its awareness initiatives for post-approval treatments.

SubjectWell now partners with 16 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and has grown revenue by 800 percent over the past two years. And due to high demand from customers and the release of new service offerings, SubjectWell is poised to double revenue again in the next 12 months.

"Patient recruitment remains the largest choke point in clinical development – despite over $5B being spent annually. SubjectWell’s highly differentiated and scalable solution markedly reduces our clients’ enrollment timelines," said Ivor Clarke, CEO, SubjectWell. "SubjectWell expands access to clinical trials by engaging the 96 percent of the population that has never participated in clinical research – this approach allows us to engage a much more diverse patient population as we register 250,000 new patients per month."

Earlier this year, SubjectWell leveraged its expanding patient reach to begin recruiting for non-small cell lung cancer studies and has since added support for breast cancer trials.

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The World’s Best Workplaces invest in well-being, flexibility, and equity

After more than two years of pandemic and economic upheaval, people are reevaluating their lives. Workers around the world are reconsidering what they want from a job.

For the Fortune World’s Best Workplaces™ in 2022, the past year has been a time to recommit to employee well-being, adjust to flexible work, and relentlessly pursue equitable opportunity for every employee.

Great Place To Work® identified the 25 winning workplaces by surveying nearly 4.5 million employees worldwide, representing the workplace experience of nearly 15 million workers. To be eligible, companies must have made a national Best Workplaces list in five or more countries, and have more than 5,000 global employees.

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Keanu Reeves ‘BRZRKR’ has become the highest-selling comic book in 30 years

Keanu Reeves, actor, author, and entrepreneurial spirit, is not one to rest idly on his laurels, the John Wick star, has recently collaborated with a stellar team to being to life his story BRZRKR.

Credit: Boom! Studios

Created and written by Keanu Reeves, co-authored by Matt Kindt, and drawn by Ron Garney, BRZRKR was the highest-selling comic book launch in 30 years, with Boom! Studios releasing volume two less than two weeks ago.

The comic follows an immortal 80,000-year warrior, Berzerker, as he fights his way through the ages. Wandering the world for centuries, half-mortal and half-God, he is cursed and compelled to violence…even at the sacrifice of his sanity. 

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