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Campus, a community college startup, receives $23M Series A extension led by Founders Fund Apr 24, 2024

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Although many students in the United States enter community colleges intending to transfer to four-year universities, only 16% of those students receive bachelor’s degrees within six years

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Two widow founders launch DayNew, a social platform for people dealing with grief and trauma Apr 24, 2024

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After losing their husbands in devastating and unexpected ways, Karine Nissim and Eloise Bune D’Agostino discovered there were no suitable places where people could go to face all the challenges that surface during the grieving process

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Webflow acquires Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization Apr 23, 2024

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Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over $330 million at a $4 billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization.

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Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser, starts an affiliate link program Apr 23, 2024

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Tree planting search engine Ecosia launched a new cross-platform browser today to increase its online footprint.

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Langdock raises $3M with General Catalyst to help companies avoid vendor lock-in with LLMs Apr 22, 2024

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Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it’s too early to be locked into one foundational model.

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Magnus Metal wants to revamp the 4,000-year-old way metal parts are made Apr 22, 2024

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The startup is developing a technology it claims is as fast and energy efficient as 3D printing at a cost that can compete with sand casting.

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Fintech startup Mercury, which is under regulatory scrutiny, expands into consumer banking Apr 19, 2024

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Business banking startup Mercury, founded in 2020, is now launching a consumer banking product.

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Dark Space is building a rocket-powered boxing glove to push debris out of orbit Apr 19, 2024

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Paris-based Dark Space is taking on the dual problems of debris and conflict in orbit with their mobile platform designed to launch, attach to, and ultimately deorbit uncooperative objects in space.

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Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach Apr 18, 2024

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Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online.

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GovDash aims to help businesses use AI to land government contracts Apr 18, 2024

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Tim Goltser and Curtis Mason have been building things together since high school, when the two were the co-captains of their school’s robotics team.

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