Fri.Jun 20, 2025

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Extend Raises $17M to Transform Document Processing with AI-Powered Cloud Platform

American Entrepreneurship

Co-founders Kushal Byatnal and Eli Badgio lead Extend’s mission to revolutionize unstructured data workflows with precision and scale. Extend, the AI-native document processing startup, announced the closing of $17 million in combined seed and Series A funding to accelerate its mission of turning complex, unstructured documents into accurate, production-ready data.

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Building a Family Empire: Staying Resilient, Learning to Pivot

StartupNation

An entrepreneurial journey is a path filled with lessons in resilience, sacrifice, and the power of pivoting. When my wife, Vanessa, and I transitioned from the restaurant industry to building a chiropractic franchise, we faced numerous challenges, setbacks, and moments of growth that ultimately shaped us as business leaders. Today, with an expanding presence across the country, our success has been built on both the lessons from our restaurant days and the strategic pivot into healthcare.

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How to sell a startup for $80M in 6 months without funding

Founder Bounty

Well if this is not the best case study we ever did than i dont know what it. A company called base 44 was just sold to wix for $80M in cash and the best thing about it was that it was just 6 months old! The startup itself was made by an isreali developer who had boostrapped a vibe coding startup. It was mainly solo but he did have 8 other people workin on it.

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After Gobbling up Subway, Roark Capital Buys Another Restaurant Chain

StartupNation

A little more than a year after buying Subway restaurants for a reported $9.55 billion, the private equity firm Roark Capital closed its $1 billion purchase of Dave’s Hot Chicken on June 2. The deals went through despite opposition from critics who contended that adding restaurant chains, particularly Subway, to Roark’s roster would consolidate too much of the sandwich market under one owner.

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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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How to automatically respond to Facebook Messenger with Zapier and ChatGPT

The Zapier Blog

Do you manage a Facebook Page and struggle to keep up with responding to messages? Perhaps you only receive messages occasionally, and you don't think to check if there's something that needs a response. Or maybe you have a very active page and simply have too many messages to handle. Whatever the reason, it's crucial to find efficient ways to handle customer messages if you want to maintain a good reputation.