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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

It's a story that just hit a milestone--a $4mm round of venture funding that I'm ecstatic to say Brooklyn Bridge Ventures just led. When the Mets got to the World Series, they release a kettle corn flavored ice cream with blue and orange M&Ms and a contest on social media around naming the ice cream. That's Ample Hills.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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The media certainly seems to have decided which group they’d rather work for. When it happens at companies run by women, the media, disgruntled employees, and their investor board members, burn them at the stake. Or is it that the media just never tells the story this way? Pardon the very intentional expression.)

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Steve Case Testifies on Expanding Access to Capital Across America

Revolution

Ive been grateful to see that support firsthand throughout my careerwhether through the passage of the JOBS Act , the creation of Opportunity Zones , or, most recently, the Regional Technology and Innovation Hubs (Tech Hubs) initiative. were on the platform. Based in Washington, D.C., I have more like them, but not nearlyenough.

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PlayAI Announces Seed Round and Releases New Model for Generative AI Conversations

American Entrepreneurship

The two-year-old startup having served approximately 40,000 customers announced the closing of a $21 million Seed funding round to support its AI speech models and an AI voice agent platform. mini is a lighter weight low-latency model that supports 30+ languages and a voice agent platform for a diversity of applications. Its Play 3.0

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Big Cabal Media, parent company of TechCabal and Zikoko, raises $2.3M seed funding

TechCrunch

For years, tech publications run by local digital media startups have worked hard behind the scenes in placing African startups at the faces of global investors, shaping the narrative of African tech and its build-up to an inflection point last year. The Big Cabal Media team.

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The Decline of Small Town Media Has Big Implications for the Innovation Economy

Revolution

The encounter echoed a recurring theme—the decline of local media and, consequently, the dwindling coverage of local developments in tech. For these individuals, local media can provide an eye-opening spotlight on the innovative companies transforming the economic fabric of their cities.

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PR for Startups: Avoiding crickets after the Ta-Da!

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I''ve closed three investments in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures fund that haven''t quite been made public yet, bringing the total to 13 companies. If your announcement has goals, you need to make sure you do what it takes to support those goals. Venture Capital & Technology' Is it to get on the radar of future investors?

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