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Views on the Ground: Scenes from Our Chicago Founder Fly-In

Revolution

Portfolio company leaders from across the country touched down in the Windy City to connect with fellow Rise of the Rest-backed founders on tactical tools for turbulent times. VP of Platform and Portfolio Success, Amira Ouji, and Head of Community, Liz Westhouse, recap the event below. If you’re building a company in 2025, the headlines are loud: market whiplash, trade realignments, AI acceleration, geopolitical shockwaves.

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HPA Invests in Handspring’s $12M Series A, Expanding High Quality Mental Health Care for Kids

HPA

HPA is excited to announce its participation in Handspring’s $12 million Series A led by Cobalt Ventures with support from NextView Ventures, NVP Capital, 25Madison, Arkitekt Ventures, Cornucopian Capital, two regional health plans, and others. This investment joins other HPA portfolio companies NOCD and Array Behavioral Health that are focused on increasing access to high quality behavioral healthcare.

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What’s your business “end game?” 

Berkonomics

Ever think about growing your business with the plan to sell it someday, cashing in on your hard-earned work over the years? Or if you’re an employee with stock options, are you aware of the increases in value you can make with your efforts? Then again, you may be an architect or doctor or other professional managing your business, knowing that the end game value of your client or patient list is small and not easily transferred to any buyer without attrition.

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What is scope creep and how can you combat it?

The Zapier Blog

Scope creep is like that friend who shows up to your low-key game night with their roommate, their roommate's boyfriend, and their roommate's boyfriend's beer league hockey teammates. Before you know it, you're ordering three extra pizzas and wondering how a cozy evening ballooned into a 15-person rager that would make the Fyre Festival organizers say, "Wow, that got out of hand." We've all been there.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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[Lifeward in GlobeNewswire] Lifeward announces closing of $2.6 million public offering

OurCrowd

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. and YOKNEAM ILLIT, Israel, June 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lifeward Ltd.

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Start with 10M shares. Yes, Ten Million.

Gust

Using equity to strategically incentivize your early team is essential for most startups’ success. However, many startups initially incorporate with far too few shares to handle all the kinds of grants they will need. Follow the standard 10M authorized shares count to avoid wasted time in corporate clean up. The post Start with 10M shares. Yes, Ten Million. appeared first on Gust.

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Google Veo 3: Is it time for end-to-end AI videos?

The Zapier Blog

We've all seen a lot of AI-generated videos floating across social media. Most are dead internet theory at worst, cute at best. Of course, there are some that are scary good, but until recently, they were resource-intensive to develop, in terms of time, tokens, or even the hardware required. Google has decided to change that. It's been launching AI offerings for every major category (think Firebase Studio for vibe coding), and Veo is its answer to AI-generated videos.

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Jane App’s Alison Taylor on Building a 600 Person Profitable Healthcare Company Without Venture Capital

Mark MacLeod

Most startup founders are told the same story: raise venture capital, burn cash to grow fast, and hope you don’t run out of money before finding profitability. Alison Taylor threw that playbook out the window. In this episode of the […] The post Jane App’s Alison Taylor on Building a 600 Person Profitable Healthcare Company Without Venture Capital appeared first on Mark MacLeod.

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[Flytrex in Fox Business] Your DoorDash order might arrive from the sky as drone deliveries take off

OurCrowd

Drone delivery company Flytrex teamed up with DoorDash to launch a drone delivery service in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex starting on Thursday.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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What is ElevenLabs? All the voice generation features to try

The Zapier Blog

After guesting on multiple podcasts, I really admire the workflows and systems of the hosts. Production levels are high, and the final product always feels seamless. And tools like ElevenLabs are making that a whole lot easier. ElevenLabs keeps popping up on my feeds both from content creators in my network and from vibe coders embedding it into their work.

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[Lambda in Business Wire] Iambic taps Lambda for increased AI compute as it develops the next generation of enchant, a breakthrough AI molecular property prediction model for drug discovery

OurCrowd

The post [Lambda in Business Wire] Iambic taps Lambda for increased AI compute as it develops the next generation of enchant, a breakthrough AI molecular property prediction model for drug discovery appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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Voice, Context & Control: The Three Pillars of Useful AI Email

Tomasz Tunguz

Gmail’s AI email assistant writes like a committee of lawyers designed it. Pete Koomen’s recent post Horseless Carriages explains why: developers control the AI prompts instead of users. In his post he argues that software developers should expose the prompts and the user should be able to control it. He inspired me to build my own. I want a system that’s fast, accounts for historical context, & runs locally (because I don’t want my emails to be sent to other servers)

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[Liquid Instruments in BusinessWire] Scanfil strengthens its customer portfolio in medtech & life science by signing agreement with Liquid Instruments

OurCrowd

The post [Liquid Instruments in BusinessWire] Scanfil strengthens its customer portfolio in medtech & life science by signing agreement with Liquid Instruments appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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[Beyond Meat in Inc.] Beyond Meat’s next dish won’t imitate beef, pork, or chicken

OurCrowd

It’s been a tough few years for plant-based food company Beyond Meat, but CEO and founder Ethan Brown has a plan for a comeback. And as the company’s name suggests, its newest product won’t look much like the mock chicken, beef, or pork that consumers have come to expect.

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