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New capital fuels Purely Elizabeth’s next natural food phase

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Stein, who began her career as a holistic nutrition counselor, started the company in 2009 after going back to school and learning about superfood ingredients and food as medicine, a concept that wasn’t as popular then as it is now. “It Stein plans to use the capital to expand the company’s team of 30 to be around 40 by the end of 2022.

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Medical simulation platform FundamentalVR raises $20M to help surgeons learn through VR

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FundamentalVR , an immersive simulation platform for medical and health care professions, has raised $20 million in a round of funding to “accelerate skill-transfer and surgical proficiency” through virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) applications. Other clients include Mayo Clinic, NYU Langone, and UCLA in the U.S.;

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HackerRank, a platform for recruiters to test coders and coders to hone their skills, raises $60M at a $500M valuation

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“We saw that resumes had a very mixed correlation to skills, and that was what triggered this,” Ravisankar said. “With university recruiting, they used to visit 10-15 campuses. “With university recruiting, they used to visit 10-15 campuses.

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UK report spotlights the huge investment gap facing diverse founders

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between 2009 and 2019 — providing data on 3,784 entrepreneurs who started 2,002 companies over this period. The finding of baked-in bias holds true across all funding stages, per the findings. The report , by the not-for-profit community interest company Extend Ventures , looked at how VC has been invested in the U.K.

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4 Tips for Reaching Productivity Nirvana in 2016

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That was the goal of The 4-Hour Chef — to teach this toolkit using detailed examples. From 2007-2009 and again from 2012-2013, I said yes to way too many “cool” things. When people strive for “balance,” they usually end up mixing things and destroying boundaries.

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OneNav locates $21M from GV to map our transition to the next generation of GPS

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GPS is one of those science fiction technologies whose use is effortless for the end user and endlessly challenging for the engineers who design it. Eschewing the hybrid chip model of mixing old signals with new, it wants one chip monitoring the singular band of L5 signals to drive cost and power savings for devices.

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Extra Crunch roundup: Influencer marketing, China’s tech clampdown, drafting growth teams

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Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. To connect with consumers on an emotional level, “you need a mix of goodwill, what-we-stand-for ideology, social prestige and customer delight — among other affinity-building ingredients.” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.