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Influence Meets Innovation: How Founders and Cultural Leaders Can Work Together

Andreessen Horowitz

For Founders Make It Make Sense Venture capital is where innovation meets investment. Founders seeking to tap into this rare mix of reach, influence, and capital must navigate this terrain with an immense amount of intention and foresight. We saw this happen with Lionel Richie and the cofounders of Devoted Health, Ed and Todd Park.

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The business model of the future

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Companies that embrace this new model, called interaction field companies, generate, facilitate and benefit from interactions and data exchanges among multiple people and groups—from customers and stakeholders, but also from those you wouldn’t expect to be in the mix, like suppliers, software developers, regulators and even competitors. .

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Infermedica Raises $10 million Series A for R&D and International Expansion

Dream It

Infermedica (Healthtech ‘18) is an AI-driven platform that helps insurance, telemedicine companies, and health systems increase efficiency through fast, digital symptom-checks. The company operates in B2B model and helps insurance, telemedicine companies, and health systems increase efficiency through fast, digital symptom-checks.

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New drug manufacturer to anchor $240 million OKC innovation district development

Innovation 2 Enterprise

A start-up pharmaceutical manufacturer with a reported potential to employ thousands is set to anchor a $240 million mixed-use development being built next year at the gateway to Oklahoma City’s innovation district. OKC development:Deal closes for 577-acre property to be used to lure new industry to Oklahoma City.

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Hydration brand Cure mixes new funding into its growth plans

TechCrunch

It’s been a hot minute since TechCrunch checked in on the brand — almost three years, actually — which is carving out a unique niche in the $10 billion functional drink mix market that founder and CEO Lauren Picasso told TechCrunch has “exploded” in the past 12 months. but we are using much better ingredients.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

LG’s innovation center — LG Nova among friends — today announced that it has selected the first 50 companies for its Mission for the Future global challenge competition. Here’s the full list of companies that made the cut: Connected Health. MayaMD – Conversational digital human-AI health assistant.

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Pragma Bio is searching for cancer treatments hidden in our microbiome

TechCrunch

Might be a good idea to isolate molecule C and see if it can be used to help others use therapy A, right? It’s rarely so simple, but Pragma is building a gigantic statistical model (with machine learning mixed in, of course) of all these things to identify likely candidates for investigation.

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