StartupNation

JUNE 23, 2025

With support from peers and the incredible State of Search community, we fixed the issue, restructured the backend, and got things back on track. If you’re managing your parent’s care and it’s starting to impact your work, your health, or your family–stop. ” That was my low point. Ask for support.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 11, 2025

Meet the 2025 Big Idea Finalists: Paul Smith (Northumberland County) KinNect A plug-and-play communication platform designed for senior living communities, KinNect makes it easy for residents, families, and caregivers to stay connected. Now, these finalists are ready to pitch for a chance at $35,000.

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American Entrepreneurship

JULY 8, 2025

Led by True Ventures and Offline Ventures, with participation from Goodwater Capital and Marketplace Capital, the investment underscores the need for flexible, accessible, and high-quality child care solutions. This funding empowers us to scale our operations and broaden our reach into new markets.”

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. What makes people like that want to live in any particular community?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 1, 2024

As we turn the calendar to May, Mental Health Awareness is top of mind with Mental Health Awareness Month and the upcoming May 13-19 Mental Health Awareness Week. Open conversations about mental health and seeking professional support when needed are essential steps to address these challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. The Foundations of the Seattle startup community.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Our recent health care reform bill? Enter open source--opening up software to the community in a transparent way that allowed crowdsourced contributions to improve it. Imagine if every law and form of contract that governs your life could be made easy to read and open to improvement by the community. 1,990 pages!

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Antonio Lennert , a member of EO Canada Bridge, is an entrepreneur, designer and community builder. He is the co-founder and CEO of Surf the Greats , Canada’s largest brand and community for surf education, adventure and lifestyle on the Great Lakes and beyond. The venture quickly scaled beyond its initial vision.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2024

million funding round led by an investment from First Trust Capital Partners with participation from FCA Venture Partners, Create Health Ventures, Impact Engine, 450 Ventures, LDH Ventures II/Launchpad Digital Health, MassMutual Ventures, Capstar Partners and Wanxiang Healthcare Investments.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 30, 2021

Johal and Pimsleur also contributed 3 Ways to Strengthen Your Mental Health and Happiness Right Now. We want to make sure CEOs have access to the resources and tools to handle their own mental health and build a resilient mindset. The post 5 Signs you (or a CEO you know) may need mental health help appeared first on THE BLOG.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2024

Hourglass Ventures led a recent funding round that included Mayo Clinic Ventures Medtech innovator JOGO Health now has the funding to expand the use of its breakthrough technology having just closed a $5.5 million funding round.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 7, 2024

But progress is being made as seen in the rising number of women-led venture funds that focus on funding women entrepreneurs. In addition, Crunchbase reports that w omen-founded venture firms in the U.S. venture firms allocated only 22% of their deals to female-founded startups. billion of total venture capital.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 3, 2021

Toyota AI Ventures, Toyota’s standalone venture capital fund, has dropped the “AI” and is reborn as, simply, Toyota Ventures. The introduction of these two new funds, each worth $150 million, brings Toyota Ventures’ total assets under management to over $500 million.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

JBalvin, the Prince of Reggaeton, has been candid with his fans about his mental health struggles and healing journey. I’m human just like anyone else and I felt I had this mission to make the world a better place starting with mental health.” The bar for behavioral health startups just got higher.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The new cohort will focus on climate action and health equity. Each of the cohort’s seven members who are taking on global challenges will receive a broad range of assistance to scale their innovative ventures while residing in the incubator. The other members are Ensense AI, Dexign 3D, Mapsol, Procurement Health and Restore.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

But most venture-backed startups are “still overwhelmingly white, male, Ivy-League-educated and based in Silicon Valley,” according to a study conducted by RateMyInvestor and Diversity VC. Venture funding does remain elusive , but here are some tricks for startup founders to hack the system. Funding for Black entrepreneurs in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Technology aimed at older people, whether it be healthcare, fintech or entertainment, is not new, but a new community of startups, investors and global industry leaders are shining a light on what they say is an $8.3 Mighty Health created a wellness app with older adults top of mind. Venture investing in elder tech.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Nearly four months ago we rebranded at Upfront Ventures. We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. We felt nothing embodied these attributes more than the name Upfront Ventures. Hamet is a 3x entrepreneur and also former EIR with True Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

This week, Bill Taranto, president of Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fund, wrote a TechCrunch+ article that explored six digital health trends his corporate VC fund is tracking as we enter 2022. Between Q1 and Q3 2021, healthcare startups landed $21.3 billion in VC, “dwarfing the previous record of $14.6

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

I judge the health of the creator economy by one single controversial factor: ease of access and probability of survival for its participants. Creativity is happening within communities and platforms which bring together distribution and collaboration. Velocity of venture dollars deployed increased because of ZIRP iii.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The global financial services firm narrowed its selection down to 25 companies for its I nclusive Ventures Lab. Each year since the Inclusive Ventures Lab’s launch in 2017, we have expanded our efforts to ensure that more entrepreneurs around the world can succeed – and this year is no different,” sums up Bueno.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Revolution Ventures Invests in Oula, the Maternity Care Startup Combining the Best of Obstetrics and Midwifery Oula will use the $28M Series B to open additional clinics and launch new services. What They’re Solving For: Pregnancy outcomes in the U.S. With plans to open new clinics in 2025, the company is poised to become the largest U.S.

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Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The YLAI Network team asked Rondell a few questions about his unique path to conservation and his role in his community, ensuring that all species are living in a healthy environment. ROAR seeks to ensure each member of the community understands the correlation of a balanced ecosystem and human health. Take the risk. government.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

The tech community has been having a long-overdue conversation about mental health and work/life balance and it’s something I’ve been talking up as far back as 2006 , 2009 , and 2014 on my blog and in public. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely. I continue to emphasize that as an investor today.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 29, 2022

And so, swimming against the tides, he set up the venture studio in partnership with co-founders Irene Kiwia and Bendon Murgor. Having an Africa-wide reach means that startups under Adanian Labs are able to scale in other markets easily as they tap the venture studio’s existing infrastructure as a launchpad. AI and Blockchain.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2021

Tech can help in many ways: by helping caregivers (and reducing burnout), allowing seniors to perform health monitoring at home and creating tools to combat isolation. For people with chronic conditions, Folia Health helps monitor the progress of treatments. It’s available for both consumers and health care facilities.

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David Teten VC

JULY 27, 2021

We have collected a wide range of freebies, contests, accelerators, online communities, and VCs designed for student tech founders. You could also live in a local “hacker house” for community support, e.g., Edyfi , The Garden , or Womxn Ignite. Starting a new business as a student is daunting. Right here. school of engineering).

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 27, 2020

Today, our economic competitiveness in the world is in serious jeopardy—and our ability to turn economic output into the health and wellbeing of our citizens has already slipped. This scourge has decimated communities and seriously damaged the labor pool with multi-generational consequences.

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AsiaTechDaily

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The funding round was co-led by Accelerator Life Science Partners (ALSP) and ClavystBio, a Temasek-backed accelerator focusing on global health solutions. On the other hand, ClavystBio is a venture builder initiated by Temasek , a Singaporean state-owned fund.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2021

WestCap — a growth equity firm founded by former Blackstone and Airbnb executive Laurence Tosi — led the investment, with participation from IVP, The Chernin Group, G9 Ventures and Able Partners. Rekha Kumar as its chief medical officer and Dr. Acacia Parks as its chief behavioral health officer. Image Credits: Found.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2021

But Blank left her director position at the health tech unicorn, last valued at $5 billion, to start her own company in women’s hormonal health. Today, that startup is launching out of stealth with millions in venture-backing and more than 35,000 women in its community. Hormonal health grows bigger.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Resolute Ventures, Afore Capital, Rebalance Capital, K50 and Financial Venture Studio also participated in the financing, along with two-time NBA all-star Baron Davis. HoneyBee , a startup that aims to help companies provide access to financial support for their employees, announced today it has raised $5.7

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AsiaTechDaily

JANUARY 22, 2023

In a statement, Holmusk said it intends to use the investment to continue the rapid expansion of its flagship offering, NeuroBlu Database , which is a leading source of real-world clinical data for the behavioral health industry. Poulton said Holmusk has proven its expertise in creating the evidence needed to improve mental health.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

This is part of a series on building your career in venture capital: Reading list for working in private equity/venture capital , including all of the major online communities, programs, and educational options for people studying VC. How to get a job in venture capital. How to find a job as a VC scout.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2022

While Africa’s health systems are still reeling from the effects of the COVID pandemic, the adoption of digital health services has been revved in some countries. Companies in this segment work with community pharmacies and lower-end providers such as drug shops to help stock products.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 28, 2024

Hauwa Ojeifo , founder of a movement that gives mental health a voice in Nigeria, so those with mental health conditions can tell their stories and co-create solutions. Sabrina Habib , works to improve access to quality, affordable early childhood care in East Africa’s low-income communities. She founded She Writes Woman.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Paulo is the co-founder of Vale do Dendê (Dende Valley) and AFAR Ventures , a global diversity and inclusion creative and consulting agency that identifies opportunities for multinational brands, corporations and investors in emerging markets. Paulo Rogério Nunes. Contributor. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor.

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