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When Outsourcing Social Media Is The Right Move For Startups
Effective social media management relies on strategy, collaboration and measurable results. Every startup founder thinks they can handle social media, until they realize they're competing with creators, AI-generated content and algorithms that…
Hydration Startups Raise Millions While The Category Leader Stalls
FIFA's mandatory World Cup hydration breaks are a $250 million ad goldmine, underscoring the commercial boom in hydration. This trend drives massive investment into companies like Waterdrop, Cirkul, and air up, which have raised hundreds of…
AI Cognitive Health Startup Mantis Biotech Rethinks How Women Are Diagnosed
Rather than a monthly snapshot, Parva builds a continuous record: focus trends, daily rhythms and workflow patterns drawn from ordinary computer use. Credit: Mantis Biotech Mantis Biotech, maker of Parva, AI software that monitors cognitive health…
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
A new report from the U.K.'s Imperial College and France's Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley's VC-backed founders commit fraud — and the role investors play. For the report, published online in June, researchers…
A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos-and It Wants to Do Mail Order
Today's entry to the ranks of “technologies that are cool in a technical sense but also don't seem like a particularly great idea” comes from London-based startup CipherX, which describes itself as “a biotech start-up…
The Startup Behind The Pill For Sleep Apnea Raises $192 Million In IPO
E ven before it gets approval for its sleep apnea pill, Apnimed is testing investor appetite. The Cambridge, Mass.-based biotech priced its shares at $16 to raise $192 million in an upsized IPO that would value the company at more than $600…
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
Everyone knows that great gimmicks are the key to hiring top developers for your startup. That's why small AI startup LemonLime—which “optimizes your existing data to work with AI”—has so many of them. Want a job…
Repeat founder Ryan Williams raises $10M seed for an AI startup for private credit managers
Ellis AI announced Thursday its emergence from stealth with $10 million in seed funding from investors including First Round Capital, 645 Ventures, Harlem Capital, Khosla Ventures, Thrive Capital, Slow Capital, and Ariel Alternatives CEO Mellody…
Trump's robot ban aims to counter China. US startups fear it could leave them behind.
The Trump administration has opened a new front in its tech crackdown on China: robots. The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday effectively shut the door on new foreign-made 'advanced robotic devices,' citing 'unacceptable risks' to…
A Major Insurer Backed This Startup After It Solved a Costly Problem No One Else Could
Harry DiFrancesco has been his father's sole caregiver for more than a decade. After his dad had a serious heart event, he was prescribed a rehabilitation program, a series of exercises and nutrition interventions designed to get him back to…
Y Combinator-backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized
A startup founder said he offered instant interviews to anyone who got company tattoos at a recent event—and several people apparently took him up on it. Jordan Zietz, the CEO and cofounder of Y Combinator-backed startup LemonLime, said in a…
AI compliance startup plants HQ in Miami area, plans to hire 20 to start
A fast-growing AI startup has made the Miami area its permanent home. Comp AI, an AI-native compliance and security platform for software companies, announced Friday that it has opened its new headquarters in Aventura and plans to hire about 20…
This startup just raised nearly $500 million to build nuclear reactors for the US military
Antares closes $470 million Series C, $370 million in equity and $100 million in debt, co-led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital The move follows the Mark-0 reaching criticality at Idaho National Laboratory and helps fund an electricity-producing…
Tech startup boss faces humiliating new low after apologizing for cringe stunt
Some companies want a cover letter. This one wants body art. The boss of an AI startup is eating crow after a jaw-dropping hiring gimmick blew up in his face—offering job seekers an instant interview if they permanently branded themselves…
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