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Nurture wants to teach kids important life skills through interactive gameplay and entertainment Sep 19, 2024

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Parents understand the challenge of keeping young kids engaged in online learning. Nurture is a new app designed for children aged 4 to 7 that features interactive content and games to capture their interest. The company’s mission is to equip children with critical life skills such as socializing, basic financial understanding, mindfulness, fitness, nutrition,

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Neuralink’s ‘breakthrough device’ clearance from FDA does not mean they have cured blindness Sep 19, 2024

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Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, has received “breakthrough device” clearance from the FDA. But this does not mean they have developed a cure for blindness, whatever Musk might say.

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Quick-commerce startup Flink raises another $150M at a valuation of nearly $1B Sep 18, 2024

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Flink, a quick-commerce startup out of Berlin that was an acquisition target of Gorillas, Getir, Amazon, and Gopuff, is spelling out how it plans to go forth on its own. TechCrunch has exclusively learned that the company has raised $150 million, which it will use to double down on business in Germany and the Netherlands

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Greenlite, founded by an ex-Gopuff exec, automates construction permitting Sep 18, 2024

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Construction permitting often involves drafting lengthy applications, leading to unpredictable timelines for developers and businesses. There are tens of thousands of jurisdictions — each with their own different forms and application processes for building permits. Ben Allen knows a thing or two about permitting.

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AI coding assistant Supermaven raises cash from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders Sep 17, 2024

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Supermaven, an AI coding assistant, has raised $12 million in a funding round that had participation from OpenAI and Perplexity co-founders.

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Life360’s Tile introduces its first new Bluetooth trackers since its acquisition Sep 17, 2024

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It’s been three years since Life360’s $205 million acquisition of AirTag competitor Tile. The company announced Monday its new lineup of lost-item Bluetooth trackers, featuring a sleeker redesign in new colors—aqua blue, green, navy blue, and pink

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OffDeal wants to help small businesses find big exits with AI agents Sep 16, 2024

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Small businesses are the unsung heroes of the American economy, employing nearly half of America’s workforce and making up 44% of the country’s GDP.

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Humanz brings its influencer marketing platform to the U.S. Sep 16, 2024

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Humanz, a marketing platform for content creators and brands, has entered the U.S. market, the company announced on Thursday. Having launched in Israel in 2017, Humanz has gained strong traction in global markets, including Europe, Latin America, South Africa, and the Middle East.

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Nuro pivots to license self-driving tech to carmakers, mobility companies Sep 13, 2024

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After multiple rounds of layoffs in 2022 and 2023, Nuro is pivoting its business strategy to focus more on the startup’s core autonomous driving technology instead of owning and operating a fleet of low-speed, on-road delivery bots

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Tune.FM wants to take on Spotify by using crypto to pay artists up to 100x more per stream Sep 13, 2024

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Tune.FM is a decentralized music streaming service where users pay for each song they stream using Tune.FM's crypto token JAM.

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