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Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty and a newer startup, FIT:MATCH, team up to sell better-fitting lingerie

TechCrunch

Yet Brown insists that FIT:MATCH has a secret weapon in its chief data scientist, Jie Pei, who developed the body-mapping technology while pursuing her Ph.D. from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. When it arrives, FIT:MATCH will be competing with a growing spate of 3D body-scanning apps.

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5 Tips for Making Time to Make a Difference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. Social good and community development work is inherently about the communities where it’s done. Put a sustainable plan in motion. .

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How to avoid greenwashing your business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

María Suriano, a 2018 YLAI Fellow, is the founder of Masshii , a wearable art and ethical jewelry company that uses unconventional materials and creates fair employment opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador. Here are some other ways you can be more sustainable and start to green your business. . The organization ??defends

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AI-powered supply chain visibility platform Altana bags $100M

TechCrunch

” Altana was founded by Smith, Raphael Tehranian, Peter Swartz and Alan Bersin in December 2018. Prior to Altana, Smith, Tehranian and Swartz were with Panjiva, a global trade data company, which S&P acquired in 2018. Recently, Tive , a startup developing supply chain visibility tools, raised $54 million.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

Apprentiscope ApprentiScope is transforming workforce development in the United States by making modern Registered Apprenticeships scalable. Lenoss Medical Designed and developed the first and only biological solution to treat osteoporotic spinal fractures. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. management.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch

Holey Grail Donuts started selling its hand-fried, made-to-order taro donuts on Sunday mornings out of a little red burger trailer in Kauai in 2018. Dreiling, who was previously doing ecological engineering in Oregon, teamed up with his sister, Hana Dreiling, a private chef in Kauai, Hawaii, to start Holey Grail Donuts. “The

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