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

American Entrepreneurship

Extend enables teams to bypass months of internal R&D by offering a self-serve solution that integrates seamlessly via APIs and supports operational teams with user-friendly interfaces. He’s also a Y Combinator alum, with a track record of applying AI to solve real-world problems in complex industries.

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Gridware’s $26.4M Series A Funding Revolutionizes Power Grid Monitoring with Gridscope Technology

American Entrepreneurship

Through the use of advanced Gridscope devices and its analytics platform, utilities now have unprecedented insight into the health of their grids enabling them to have faster response times and better mitigate risks associated with outages, wildfires, and other disasters.

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David Secures $75 Million Series A to Redefine Functional Nutrition with High-Protein, Zero-Sugar Products

American Entrepreneurship

David, the rapidly growing health and nutrition startup, raised $75 million in Series A funding, led by Greenoaks with participation from Valor Equity Partners. Investor Confidence in David’s Market Disruption Both Greenoaks and Valor Equity Partners expressed strong confidence in David’s potential to reshape the health food market.

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i2E Showcases Startup Innovation at Bridge2 Cohort 3 Demo Day

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Bridge2 is Oklahoma’s premier pre-accelerator for scalable, tech-enabled, early-stage startups. The third Bridge2 cohort featured startups working across agriculture, clean energy, AI, fintech, food safety, and maternal health. Bridge2 helped us get laser focused.

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Let's Talk About Anxiety, Fear of Failure, and Why I Didn't Go to The Dentist for 27 Years

This is going to be BIG.

If youve started a company, and things arent going wellthe best thing you can do for your startup, your investors money, and for your own mental health is to ask for help. You dont owe them success, but you do owe them honesty, transparency, and a willingness to share enough information with others to enable them to help you.

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How to Communicate Impact Metrics to Investors

StartupNation

Leveraging before-and-after scenarios may help, enabling you to showcase how your solutions solved specific customer problems. When you relate your metrics to broader, industry-level trends, you enable investors to gain a sense of the larger picture and the potential for market disruption and growth.

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When Software Eats the World, Vulnerable Populations – Like Kids – Can Get Exposed to Venture Risk Without Knowing It

Hunter Walk

I’m a believer in the ‘ software eats the world ‘ thesis, although I often change it to ‘software enables the world,’ which is not nearly as evocative but also not as consumptive. I’ve said before this is one reason why we are very very careful about investing in addiction or mental health startups.