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• 1st & Tech: Startup Panel Discussion and Networking Mixer (JumpStart Ventures x Cleveland Browns)

 

• Here We Grow Again: ZineOne Raises $28M in Series C Funding with SignalFire

• Uiflow secures cash and Freshworks partnership to bolster its app dev platform (TechCrunch)

 

• Arize AI Raises $38 Million Series B To Scale Machine Learning Observability Platform

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• Isovalent Raises $40M Series B as Cilium and eBPF Transform Cloud Native Service Connectivity and Security (PR Newswire)

 

• Accelerating Value for Bitwarden Users - Bitwarden raises $100 million

 

• Crypto Exchange FTX Is Moving Its US Headquarters From Chicago to Miami (Coindesk)

 

• Angel Investing and Making an Impact: An Inspirational Event (Accelerating Angels at Rev1 Ventures)

 

• Nike makes $185 million via NFT sales: Leaves Adidas, Gucci behind (Watcher.Guru)

 

• Vetted lands $14M for AI that helps shoppers find top products and deals (TechCrunch) 

 

• Plug into Cleveland’s creative startup scene at Pitch Cypher! - Register for Pitch Cypher 3.0 by JumpStart Inc. September 22nd

 

• Mysten Labs clock $300 million funds for development of its Sui blockchain ecosystem (Financial Labs)

 

• Energy Industry Leaders Back Recurve's Virtual Power Plant Platform with $18M Series B Investment

 

• "More money, less fraud" - Alloy announces $52 million in additional Series C

 

• Landa Launches Financially Inclusive Real Estate Investing Platform with $33M in Venture Funding (Business Wire)

 

• 'We’ve Raised $50 Million in Series C Funding to Democratize Customer Engagement' by George Deglin (One Signal)

 

• Theranica Secures $45 Million Series C Funding Round (PR Newswire)

 

• POC-Led JusticeText Raises $2.2M To Build Transparency In Criminal Cases (POCIT)

 

• The 9 books that completely changed the way I see the world (Theo Seeds)

 

• Diddy Invests $2M Into REC For A New Facility In Miami To Further Level The Playing Field For Independent Creators (AfroTech)

 

• Top Creators 2022: These 49 social media savants—and one dog—are redefining celebrity for our connected age. (Forbes)

 

• Meet billionaire Gautam Adani, a college dropout who just became the third-richest person in the world with $137 billion. (CNBC)

 

• LinkedIn PR tech firm Muck Rack, cofounded by Gregory Galant, raises $180 million

 

• Kapor Capital, Black-Led VC Firm Focused On ‘Impact,’ Raises $126 Million (Forbes)

 

• ​Recommended New E-book: Metropolis: A Novella by Housing Joint Venture and John Delia​


• A New Phase of Growth for StarTree and the Real-Time User-Facing Analytics Movement, raises $47M

 

• Sei Raises $5M Led by Multicoin Capital to Build The First Layer 1 Blockchain Optimized for DeFi

 

• Exclusive: Power, Co-founded by Brandon Li​, gets $7M jolt to shake up clinical trials (Axios)

 

• Solid banks $63M for easier deployment of embedded fintech products (TechCrunch)

 

• StepFunction Secures $5M in Post-Seed Funding (BusinessWire)

 

• Zumper adds $30M in funding to launch short-term rental marketplace (PhocusWire)

 

• Fairmatic raises $42m for AI-powered auto insurance products (Life Insurance International)

 

• Willow Servicing's $6M Seed Round

 

• Koolboks Raises $2.5M For Solar-Powered Fridge And Freezer Services Across Africa (POCIT)

 

• Vault it, wear it or resell it? Inside Gmoney’s luxury label launch (Vogue Business)

 

• This artist lost near 150 lbs, relaunches career - watch Nasa Gold's new music video for 'Heart'

 

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• One year after landing in Miami, Ariana The Techie raises $3.3M seed round for fine art NFT marketplace (Refresh Miami)

 

• Black Business Month: How a Cleveland lawyer became 'The People's Esquire' during pandemic hardships (Microsoft Start)

 

• Life Matters So Let's Eat Like It Author Jabez El Israel lost over 100 lbs and shared how is helping others on the It's Bigger Than Business Podcast with Manny Larcher

 

• Microfarm Project establishing roots in Marion community with first crops in the ground (The Marion Star)

 

• Leveling Up Your Life + Side Hustle Women Wonderland by The Beauty Boost

 

• Cannabis legalization decreases the stock market value of major pharmaceutical firms (The University of New Mexico)

 

• JumpStart and the Cleveland Browns are teaming up to advance entrepreneurship and economic equity across Greater Cleveland

 

• Are you a Black- or Latino-owned company ready to surpass your business ambitions? How can EY's network help share your net worth?

 

• Gorgias’ $30 Million Series C and the Future of Customer Experience for Online Stores

 

• Cleveland Small Business Impact Program Showcase by JumpStart Inc. in Partnership with the Cleveland Browns at FirstEnergy Stadium

 

• With Fuel Costs High, Trucker-Focused Fintech AtoB Reaches $800 Million Valuation (Forbes)

 

• CodeLaunch Ohio 2022 presented by Cyrannus.io (August 25th event in Columbus, Ohio)

 

• We raised an $80M Series B, reaching $1.65B unicorn status as the leader in healthcare hiring (Incredible Health)

 

• Explo raises $12M Series A to build customer-facing analytics and releases self-serve onboarding

 

• Marketing Intelligence Platform Northbeam Raises $15 Million Series A Funding (Business Wire)

 

• Vividly raises $18M in Series A funding to power CPG growth in retail

 

• Levita Magnetics Secures $26 Million in Series C Financing for MARS Platform (MDDI)

 

• HyperTrack Secures $25 Million in Series A Funding to Deliver Next Generation Technology for Last Mile Logistics

 

• Bearing Gets $7M from Mitsui and AI Fund to Fuel CII Optimization Tool (Maritime Executive)

 

• San Mateo food hall startup Byte Kitchen fuels expansion with $6M funding (San Francisco Business Times)

 

• Online School for Remote Software Developers Microverse Raises $4M in Series A Extension (EdTechReview)

 

• Racial Inequities Cost Columbus’s Economy $10 Billion a Year. How Can We Improve? by Terry Green (Mollard Consulting)

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• The End of Social Media and the Rise of Recommendation Media (Michael Mignano)

 

• Vietnam to make Apple Watch and MacBook for first time ever (Nikkei Asia)

 

• Keyway Raises $25M in Series A to Scale its CRE Transaction Platform (connectcre)

 

• Kenyan insurtech Lami raises $3.7M seed extension led by Harlem Capital (TechCrunch)

 

• Black-Owned Salon And Barbershop Booth Rental App Raises $2.3M (POCIT)

 

• JPMorgan Chase invests $1.5 million in initiative for women of color (The Columbus Dispatch)

 

• 2022 Best of The Midwest: Startup City Rankings (midweststartups)

 

• From Working With Jay-Z to Kevin Durant, Rich Kleiman Mastered the Music and Sports Worlds (billboard)

 

• Event - Engaging in Empathetic Dialogue Event by The Empathy Lab (August 19th - 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EST)​ 

 

• How to Organize a Successful CrowdFunding Campaign with Dawn Dickson by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (September 1)

 

• Navigating SBIR Grants by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (August 30)

 

• Venture Finance Trends with Wilson Sonsini and Special Guests by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (view recording)

 

• This local nonprofit is redesigning the future of fashion, in Columbus and beyond (614Now)

 

• Leveraging SBIR/STTR Funding... Where The Money Resides! (Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce)

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• VCs Squandered Billions On Scooter Startups. Markets Think They’re Worth A Pittance (crunchbase news)

 

• How to Prepare Your Pitch by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (August 10)

 

• Beauty app, FELOH, founded by Camille Heard, prioritizes entrepreneurs, consumers of color (Spectrum News)

 

• How to Increase Productivity and Avoid Burnout by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (August 9)

 

• IYKYK with Shokanni leader of INI records from Queens, New York (YourInfoDaily)

 

• Columbus Chamber's new diversity program aims to help smaller companies (The Columbus Dispatch)

 

• Author in Residence Series: EXIT PATH: How to Win the Startup End Game  by Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center (August 4th)​

 

• AJ Yawn, ByteChek founder, shares early life, $3 Million Seed Investment, & tips for Entrepreneurs with Manny Larcher (It's Bigger Than Business Podcast)

 

• 13-year-old girl going to medical school shares advice for other kids (Good Morning America)

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• Meet Cohort 15 Of The Cleveland Small Business Impact Program (jumpstart)

 

• Tenet collects $18m for EV auto finance (Fintech Global)

 

• The Art of Being Alone (fs)

 

• Is Constantly Talking About Burnout Making Us Burned Out? (girlboss)

 

• Why people and AI make good business partners with Shervin Khodabandeh hosted by Sherrell Dorsey (TED Tech)

 

• HBSE Taps Philly Billionaire Adelman for 76ers Move to Downtown Arena (Sportico)

 

• TakeProfit, a community-driven stock-trading platform, aims to make retail trading easier raises $3M (VentureBeat)

 

• Promoted.ai Raises $6M in Funding Round Led by Y Combinator

 

• Fyto lands $15m to grow aquatic “superplants” for animal feed and beyond (agfundernews)

 

• New Age Capital Secures the Bag with $25M Fund I

 

• 3 Women on the Highs and Lows of Going Freelance (girlboss)

 

• Former Phoenix Suns big JaVale McGee saw importance of business investments at Golden State (azcentral)

 

• Rich Lunak: Pittsburgh Tech Legend with Jonathan Kersting (Pittsburgh Technology Council)

 

• News from The Urban Business Development Center (July 2022)

 

• Open Letter: What It’s Like to Deal With Microaggressions at Work (girlboss)

 

• I'll Never Stop Trying New Things by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Disruptive Digital Marketing Agency, Scrong South, Combines a LinkedIn Social Media Management & Sales Offering

 

• 29 Women Who Are Leading the Modern Menstrual Movement (girlboss)

 

• Onda Tequila seltzer, co-founded by Shay Mitchell, secures $12.5m investment

 

• All Hail Columbus, Ohio - The city’s underground music scene gets the feature film spotlight in Poser, the theatrical debut film by filmmaking duo Ori Segev and Noah Dixon of Loose Films. (SPIN)

 

• Veritonic raises $7.5M for audio research and analytics platform (Digital Music News)

 

• PicnicHealth raises a $60m Series C to expand patient-centered real-world data

 

• Pave, founded by Matt Schulman, Raises $100M Series C led by Index Ventures and Acquires Option Impact (PR Newswire)

 

• Hank, raises $7 million, Debuts Platform to Connect Adults 55+ with In-Person Experiences and Community (PR Newswire)

 

• Coalition Closes $250 Million in Series F Funding, Valuing The Cyber Insurance Provider At $5 Billion

 

• Opaque Systems Raises $22 Million in Series A Funding To Bring Scalable, Multi-Party Analytics and AI to Confidential Computing

 

• Current Foods Closes $18M Seed Round to Launch Plant-Based Smoked Salmon into Retail (vegconomist)

 

• Ria Health Secures $18 Million Series A to Scale Online Alcohol Use Disorder Treatment (PR Newswire)

 

• Normalyze, a San Francisco, CA-based data-first cloud security platform, raised $22.2M in Series A funding (finsmes)

 

• FEATURED EVENT: Which Ad Platform Is Right For My Business? By Jumpstart Ventures and hoops

 

• Underestimated Founders Brunch - Chicago (Plain Sight)

 

• Rihanna is now worth $1.4 billion–making her America’s youngest self-made billionaire woman (CNBC)

 

• FedEx to close data centers, retire all mainframes by 2024, saving $400m - Company looking to go all-in on cloud (Data Center Dynamics)

 

• Drive Capital Raises Additional $1 Billion to Invest in Startups inside the “Driveway”

 

• Teleo has raised a $12M Series A investment to help their vision

 

• Continual's $14.5M Series A and General Availability

 

• Why Seaweed Could Be The Future Of Plastic (Undecided with Matt Ferrell)

 

• Monthly car payments have crossed a record $700. What that means (NPR)

 

• Magic Eden raises $130M, hitting unicorn status at $1.6B valuation (TechCrunch)

 

• Platform.sh announces $140m series D round of funding

 

• Bardeen.ai Raises $15.3 million Series A to Bring Workflow Automation to the Masses (PR Newswire)

 

• Neuron7 raises $10M to help customer service agents find solutions (TechCrunch)

 

• MyOme Secures $23M in Series B Funding to Deliver Clinical Whole Genome Insights to Help Families Manage Risk for Inherited Diseases (PR Newswire)

 

• Attack surface management platform RapidFort raises $8.5M seed round (TechCrunch)

 

• Daily Inspiration: Meet Paul Perkins (VoyageOhio)

 

• You’re Doing Better Than You Think If You Follow This One Rule by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Atlanta food waste management startup Goodr raises $8M (BizJournals)

 

• Columbus community group, Think Make Live Youth, pulling kids off the streets with job opportunities (ABC 6 Columbus)

 

• Ken Griffin Moving Citadel From Chicago to Miami Following Crime Complaints (Wall Street Journal)

 

• The Brain Has a ‘Low-Power Mode’ That Blunts Our Senses (Quanta Magazine)

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• Working at a startup in your 20s? Read this. by Brent Liang (Medium)

 

• After a brief streak, venture capital has ditched Black startups (Fast Company)

 

• Incognia Raises $15.5M Series A to Combat Increased Identity Fraud

 

• Ordr Secures $40 Million in Series C Funding to Answer Increased Demand for Connected Device Security 

 

• Mellody Hobson to join Denver Broncos as the first Black female NFL owner (Revolt)

 

• Skin Care Brand Junoco Raises $6.3 Million Series A (WWD)

 

• CloseFactor raises $4.5M Led By Sequoia Capital to Accelerate AI/ ML-enabled Go-to-market Strategy and Execution

 

• 39-Year Old Black Entrepreneur Makes History, Awarded $13.4 Billion Dollar Defense Contract (Black Enterprise)  


• Announcing EcoMap's $3.5M Funding Round

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• From a borrowed food truck to cooking up a $3 million food business: How a Columbus businesswoman leveraged relationships to go the distance (JP Morgan Chase & Co.)

 

• Meet Jared Birchall, the secretive and straightlaced man that Elon Musk trusts with his billions (Business Insider)

 

• Web3 startup Calaxy raises $26M to give content creators their own social tokens (TechCrunch)

 

• Tools for better thinking (Untools)

 

• The future of Product Success and our $15M Series A (LaunchNotes)

 

• Felt’s Public Beta, And A New $15M Round of Funding

 

• FarmWise Raises $45M Series B To Expand AI-Powered Farm Equipment in U.S. Farms (PRNewswire)

 

• Growing Sanlo, co-founded by William Liu: Announcing our Series A and $200m non-dilutive growth capital fund dedicated to game and app developers

 

• Solv Raises $45M in Series C Funding to Accelerate Growth of its National Network of Providers, Leading the Way for Consumer-Driven and Digital-First Healthcare (GlobeNewswire)

 

• SOLARCYCLE Raises $6.6 Million Seed Round to Rapidly Accelerate Buildout of Advanced Recycling Platform for the Solar Industry

 

• Vendia raises $30M in series B funding to usher in the web3 era with our next-gen blockchain technology

 

• Branch snags $147M at a $1.05B valuation, showing that thorny insurtech market not impervious to growth (TechCrunch)

 

• Optimism Shapes Reality: How to go at warp speed by Alexandr Wang 

 

• Peek Raises $2.5M to Streamline the Leasing Journey For Renters and Managers (Business Wire)

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• Drive Capital, Ohio Innovation portfolio startup, now a unicorn, expanding Short North office (Columbus Inno)

 

• Bubblehouse Raises ~9M in Seed Funding; Emerges as Most Sought-After NFT Platform for Mainstream Brands and Creators (Globenewswire)

 

• buywith raises $9.5 million seed round (geektime)

 

• Vintage computer ads that show how far we’ve progressed, 1970-1990 (Rare Historical Photos)

 

• Preql raises $7M to build the future of data transformation (GlobeNewsWire)

 

• Fintech startup Wizest raises $ 1.7 million in seed round (Agadir-Group)

 

• Ford to add 1,800 union jobs in Avon Lake (Crain's Cleveland)

 

• Understanding our community: LGBTQ+ (POINT app)

 

• Osmind, founded by Lucia Huang and Jimmy Qian, raises $40M Series B Round Led by DFJ Growth to Expand Platform for Breakthrough Mental Health Research and Treatment

 

• Graft, Founded by Adam Oliner, Raises $4.5 Million

 

• As Awareness Surges, Learnfully Scales to Meet Demand for Personalized Learning (businesswire)

 

• Ditch The Chalk: Tessa Lau’s Dusty Robotics Raises $45 Million To Automate Construction Plans (Forbes)

 

• Full Harvest, founded by Christine Moseley, raises $5M in additional funding, builds leadership team (Food Business News)

 

• Tenyx raises $15M to build more intelligent voice-based customer service AI (TechCrunch)

 

• Bubbles Raises $8.5 Million in Seed Round (The SaaS News)

 

• 20 Honest Things I Learned in My Twenties (Cal Axe)

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• Ballistic VC Leads $14.5M Round for Concentric

 

• Bill Pay Solution Cushion Closes $12 Million Series A To Grow Talent Roster

 

• Observe raises $70M to grow its data-fueled observability platform (Silicon Angle)

 

• Xage raises top-up funding round of US$6 million, as critical infrastructure organizations focus on federal mandates (Industrial Cyber)

 

• How Two Africans Overcame Bias To Build A Startup Worth Billions (Forbes)

 

• New Franklin County municipal court program helping young adults stay on the right path (ABC news)

 

• Satori Raises $10M, Led by Polychain and Blockchange, Bringing Decentralized Derivatives to Polkadot
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• 39 Moves to Survive (& Thrive) in a Downturn: 2022 Edition (NfX)

 

• Walmart Announces Same-Day Drone Delivery in Six States (Review Geek)

 

• Apple expands Today at Apple Creative Studios, providing new opportunities to young creatives

 

• Harvard Business School, Global Action Platform and Vanderbilt University selects Ryan Ramkhelawan, as one of the 2022 Young American Leaders Class - watch his talk at Collaborate and Elevate

 

• Bravado raises $26M Series A round, acquisition and revenue later, Bravado’s sales network wants you to know it’s #growing (Tech Crunch)

 

• Mashgin Raises $62.5M Series B Funding at a $1.5 Billion Valuation, Led by NEA (PR Newswire)

 

• Brightseed raises $68 million in Series B funding (Food Business News)

 

• Seclore raises $27 million to strengthen enterprise data security (Help Net Security)

 

• Pangea raises $25 million to deliver API-based security services for application builders (Help Net Security)

 

• Letter from the CEO: Noyo’s $45M Series B and raising the bar for benefits 

 

• From 20,000 ft to $25M — how Heartex is driving the data-centric AI movement

 

• UrbanFootprint Raises $25 million Series B to Expand Urban Intelligence Platform that Enables Better Decision-Making on Critical Infrastructure Investments (business wire)

 

• Imply, co-founded by Fangjin Yang, raises $100MM in Series D funding

 

• Glean raises $100M series C at $1B valuation to power search and discovery across workplace SaaS apps

 

• Instabug Raises $46M Series B to Build the First Mobile Observability and Performance Monitoring Platform

 

• Eridan Raises $46M to Accelerate Global Connectivity

 

• Announcing Akuity's $20M Series A Funding 

 

• CyberConnect, decentralized social graph protocol for web3, raises $15M: Series A Funding and Link3

 

• The Quest to Find America’s Best Creators Continues: Exposure Season 2 Premieres May 29

 

• Jabez El Israel new book "Life Matters So Let's Eat Like It!" out now!

 

• How Lucy Guo conquered tech and became Miami’s number one party girl (New York Post)

 

• Girl's Cancer Leads Mom to 'Overwhelming' Discovery of More Than 50 Sick Kids Near Closed Nuclear Lab (People)

 

• How much longer can Google own the internet? (recode)

 

• Introducing Predibase: the enterprise declarative machine learning platform raises $13.5M (Medium - Piero Molino)

 

• Understanding Columbus’ Racial Divide: Acclaimed writer (and guest editor of Columbus Monthly’s May issue) Wil Haygood on police violence, unequal justice and the “bounced check” owed to the city’s Black citizens (Columbus Monthly)

 

• The Market Is Melting Down and People Are Feeling It. ‘My Stomach Is Churning All Day.’ (Wall Street Journal)

 

• ​Al Gore's Generation Investment launches $1.7 Billion fund (Reuters)

 

• With Plunging Enrollment, a ‘Seismic Hit’ to Public Schools - The pandemic has supercharged the decline in the nation’s public school system in ways that experts say will not easily be reversed (The New York Times)

 

• The Math Prodigy Whose Hack Upended DeFi Won’t Give Back His Millions (Bloomberg)

 

• Revolut’s Billionaire Founder Nik Storonsky To Launch AI-Led Venture Capital Fund (Forbes)

 

• The Story of Tim Anderson, MLB player with Chicago White Sox | Episode 1 - 5

 

• Baltimore's Femly grows with a Ravens partnership, viral TikTok and new demand for feminine hygiene products (Maryland Inno)

 

• Hour One raises $20 million Series A for virtual twin technology (calcalistech)

 

• Drones Have Transformed Blood Delivery in Rwanda (Wired)

 

• Ruth Health Secures $2.4M Seed Round Led by Giant Ventures to Reimagine Comprehensive Prenatal & Postpartum Care for American Women (businesswire)

 

• Obama, Airbnb's Brian Chesky Launch $100M in Scholarships to fund scholarships for students pursuing careers in public service and includes multiple stipends for travel (US news)

 

• How Do Big Tech Giants Make Their Billions? (visual capitalist)

 

• Revealed: top US corporations raising prices on Americans even as profits surge (The Guardian)

 

• Jobox is building a bridge between skilled labor, available work (TechCrunch)

 

• Kard Raises $23m Series A to Power Card Rewards Following a Year of Significant Growth (businesswire)

 

• $125M Series C to Accelerate Every Contact Center into the AI-Empowered Era (Observe.AI)

 

• Lucid Green Raises $10M to Power the First Intelligent Cannabis UPC Platform

 

• Huntington National Bank expands digital payments through acquisition of fintech Torana (PR Newswire)

 

• Guys Talking About Feelings: How Men Can Deal With Uncomfortable Feelings Before Things Get Really Bad by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Newfront announces $200 million investment from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, B Capital, and other investors at a $2.2 billion valuation to modernize insurance (PR Newswire)
  
  
• The Rise and Fall of World’s Fairs: Sixty years after Seattle’s Century 21 Exposition, world’s fairs have largely fallen out of fashion in the U.S. (Smithsonian Magazine)

 

• As Rents Hit an All-Time High, TheGuarantors Announces $50 Million Series C led by Portage Ventures to Improve Affordability and Accessibility of Renting (PR Newswire)

 

• Tomorrow Farms Raises $8.5 Million for Sustainable ‘Next-Gen’ Foods (Green Queen)

 

• Pinky Cole unveils plan to help Clark Atlanta grads start a business (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

 

• Valence Raises $25M to Help Enterprises build Stronger Teams and More Productive Workplaces at Scale (PR Newswire)

 

• Lev Announces $170 Million in New Funding from Parker89, Cross River Digital Ventures and Others (PR Newswire)

 

• Sealed Expands Series B Funding to $45.5M as It Accelerates Its Mission to Stop Home Energy Waste and Electrify Homes in New Major Markets (businesswire)

 

• Movable Ink, secures $55 million at a $1.3B Pre-Money Valuation following Year of Record Growth (PR Newswire)
  
  
• NFT betting firm Stakes raises US$5.3M to build out social wagering platform

 

• Proptech Startup Fohlio Raises $3.15 Million Seed Round (Commercial Observer)

 

• Homes in 97% of U.S. cities are overvalued, Moody's says (CBS news)

 

• Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly: A cartel of superstars has conquered culture. How did it happen, and what should we do about it? by Adam Mastroianni (Experimental History)

 

• MARGS Raises $3M for its Canned Margarita Brand (AlleyWatch)

 

• Tailoring, Repairs App Sojo Raises $2.4 Million in Pre-seed Funding (WWD)

 

• Beauty startup, Seaspire Skincare, led by Lauren Napier, Camille Martin, and Leila Deravi, to launch octopus-inspired skin care regimen with $3M round (The Business Journals)

 

• 5 Easy Tips That Should Make Writing Less Boring and More Fun by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• U.S. Black farmers lost $326 bln worth of land in 20th century -study (Reuters)

 

• Raleigh tech CEO Bill Spruill mints 25 millionaires out of his employees (Axios)

 

• Ernie Barnes’ Iconic ‘Sugar Shack’ Painting Sells For Whopping $15.3M At New York Auction (Black Enterprise)

 

• Smart business leaders do these things by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• StockX hires first chief impact officer, Damien Hooper-Campbell, bringing diversity focus to C-suite (Vogue Business)

 

• Motley Fool Ventures raises second fund at nine figures — and it's not done (Washington Business Journal)

 

• SellX Raises $2M in Funding (Explode Africa)

 

• All of Those Quitters? They’re at Work. The Great Resignation was in fact a moment many people traded up for a better-paying gig. (NY Times)

 

• Tennis Champion Naomi Osaka Departs IMG To Launch Evolve, Her Very Own Sports Agency (AfroTech)

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• Off-White Names Ibrahim Kamara Art and Image Director (Business Of Fashion)

 

• Chingona Ventures lands $52M to fund overlooked founders in massive markets (TechCrunch)

 

• JP Morgan Chase report finds Racial inequities costs Columbus economy $10 billion a year (Columbus Dispatch)

 

• Reserve your Vote Empathy T-Shirt from empathy lab today!

 

• Berlin is building a massive cycle superhighway stretching right across the city (TimeOut)

 

• Qualified Announces $95M Series C to Transform Pipeline Generation for B2B Enterprises (business wire)

 

• Ayar Labs Raises $130 Million in Series C Funding, Accelerating Commercialization of Industry’s First In-Package Optical I/O Products

 

• Harness Valuation Soars To $3.7 Billion With $230 Million In Series D Funding

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• Building the Contact Center Automation Category: Replicant’s $78M Series B

 

• Mozart Data Raises $15 Million to Make Data Infrastructure and Tools Accessible to Start-Ups

 

• AI Transformer Inventors Launch Adept with $65M to Lend a Hand to Knowledge Workers (business wire)

 

• Vivian Health, healthcare jobs marketplace, raises $60M for LinkedIn for health care (axios)

 

• 0x Labs raises $70M Series B led by Greylock to continue expanding Web3’s core exchange infrastructure

 

• Doppler raises $20m Series A to build the first SecretOps Platform: Redefining secrets management through multi-cloud secrets sync and automation at enterprise scale.

 

• Syllable Raises $40M in Series C Funding (finsmes)

 

• RelationalAI Raises $122M to Redefine How Intelligent Data Apps Are Built

 

• Wisq Debuts With $40 Million to Combat Looming Crisis of Social Isolation at Work (PR Newswire)

 

• CommandBar raises $19M led by Insight Partners and Itai Tsiddon

 

• Semcorp to invest $916 million to make EV battery components in Ohio (Reuters)

 

• Virtual real estate brokerage Radius raises $13M in Series A funding (inman)

 

• Exafunction (deep learning infrastructure) Raises $25M Series A

 

• Where Business Meets Culture: Highlighting The U (metropreneur)

 

• Latest ‘I AM AI’ Video Features Four-Legged Robots, Smart Cell Analysis, Tumor-Tracking Tech and More (nvidia)

 

• Synthesis AI Raises a $17 Million Series A To Expand Its Synthetic Data Platform for Computer Vision AI (PR Newswire)

 

• Central Ohio group pushing to prevent kids from going to prison (ABC)

 

• California start-up sends tiny robots on voyage into brains (Medical Press)

 

• The Precipice of Mental Health: Becoming Your Own Safe Space by Achea Redd

 

• Postmark has been acquired by ActiveCampaign (Wildbit)

 

• Downtown & Brickell’s Rising Stars (VoyageMIA)

 

• Support LifeSmart Education's Reading Literacy Program State Farm's Neighborhood Assist program

 

• The May #TechCred application is open! Ohio businesses are eligible for up to $30,000 every round. That’s up to $180,000 a year!

 

• Ford-backed Cavnue seeks to rewire I-94 for self-driving cars (Crain's Detroit Business)

 

• Applications for the National Black MBA Association Collegiate Scale-Up Pitch Challenge May 2, 2022 - $25k

 

• Kevin Hart’s Media Company Sells $100 Million Stake to Private Equity ~ The deal with Abry Partners is the latest example of private equity’s pushing into Hollywood to cash in on the demand for streaming shows (New York Times)

 

• Saving the planet is a business opportunity for some Black entrepreneurs (NBC News)

 

• U.S. military veteran JE Anderson interviews Eduardo Rey of the Rio Piedras Trust in San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

• Journey To Impact - 031: Turning Memphis Into a City of Tomorrow with Andre Fowlkes from Start Co.

 

• Twingate raises $42M series B, Solving the usability problem to unlock Zero Trust adoption

 

• Announcing Thunkable’s (no-code mobile app development platform) Series B Funding raise at $30M

 

• Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors? (Quillette)

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• Kumo Emerges From Stealth to Launch Next Generation Predictive AI for Businesses; Raises $18.5 Million in Series A Funding led by Sequoia (businesswire)

 

• Neustreet x David Lopez: Nightkids NFTs, Helping Artists Grow, and Compassion Within The NFT Space

 

• Digital bank Umba raises $15M, plans to expand into three new African markets (TechCrunch)

 

• Grain, video meeting workspace, has raised a $16M Series A

 

• Last9 raises a $11M Series A led by Sequoia Capital India! 

 

• Kubit Raises $18M Series A Led by Insight Partners to Give Enterprises Control of Their Product Analytics (PR Newswire)

 

• Mikuna Foods Raises $5.6M in Seed Funding (finsmes)

 

• Sydecar, deal execution platform for VC investing, raised $8.3M

 

• The Marketplace 100: 2022 (Future a16z)

 

• ​Philanthropitch Columbus 2022 raises over $162,000 for nonprofit finalists!

 

• ImaliPay gets $3M to offer financial services to underserved gig workers across Africa (TechCrunch)

 

• National Cannabis Festival Pre-Game with Celebrity Chef Nikki Steward

 

• How to gracefully wind down a failing startup (The Next Web)

 

• Meet the 4 Africans that Twitter's Jack Dorsey appointed to oversee his Bitcoin Trust Fund (Business Insider)

 

• Cbus Tech Community Spring Fling - lets kick off the conference season (April 21st at Land Grant Brewery)

 

• Columbus Impact Academy applications open now - a 15-week experiential leadership journey for young professionals

 

• Built by ex-Nasdaq engineer, daba wants to enable retail investing in African startups (techcabal)

 

• How ECDI is helping local social enterprise businesses reach profitability with purpose (Columbus Business First)

 

• Meet Carlos Vazquez of Miami EdTech in Downtown (VoyageMIA)

 

• Making History: All-Black Developers Secure Property for Massive Housing Development In Birmingham (Finurah)

 

• Hope and Hard Pills podcast with Andre Henry: Debating with The Conscious Lee

 

• Nigerian Mom Designs Solar-Powered Cribs That Put an End to Baby Jaundice Disease (Good News Network)

 

• ‘A cry for help’: CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health (WSJ)

 

• How to Stop Procrastinating  - Here are 19 Tested and Trusted Strategies

 

• Other than deciding to work for yourself, what was the single most important decision you made that contributed to your success? (Shoutout Atlanta)

 

• He was fired by Amazon 2 years ago. Now he's the force behind the company's 1st union (NPR)

 

• Manny Larcher, CEO of Stopwatch Creative, featured as an Expert at New Albany, Ohio accelerator

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• Theta Lake Attracts $50 Million In Series B Funding To Fuel Expansion Of Security And Compliance Solutions For Modern Communications And The Future Of Work

 

• Longform Podcast #481: Hanif Abdurraqib

 

• Our CEO Shares WorkRamp’s $40M Series C News: Turn Learning Into your Company’s Growth Engine

 

• Hex, a collaborative data science platform, raises $52M Series B

 

• Kargo Raises $25 Million Series A to Build the Future of Supply Chain Visibility (businesswire)

 

• Tia Ramey will be leading the Digital Strategy breakout sessions for the 2022 Ready to Run Campaign

 

• Tome livens up slide decks with real-time data, flexible layouts, raises $32.3M (TechCrunch)

 

• REACH raises $7 million Series A for virtual workplace platform (CALCALIST)

 

• Clear Skye Raises $14 Million In Series A Funding To Power Next-Generation Cloud-Native Identity Security And Governance

 

• Dorian raises $14 million in series A round (gamesindustry.biz)

 

• Ramped, a job skilling and recruitment platform, has closed a $3.1 million seed round (coverager)

 

• LaRon Batchelor with Coffee Uplifts People, Passport Ventures, Caminus Ventures joins It's Bigger Than Business Podcast with Manny Larcher

 

• Alife Health, fertility tech using AI tools, raised $22M Series A

 

• Glass rethinks the smartphone camera through an old-school cinema lens (TechCrunch)

 

• PingPod Closes $10 Million Series A Funding for Expansion (businesswire)

 

• Nautilus Labs raises $34 Million in Series B funding to decarbonize ocean shipping, optimize voyage economics in oldest part of supply chain

 

• Oxio Raises $40M to Bring Tokenized Telco Model to US and Brazil

 

• How to Build a Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) (userpilot)

 

• Circuit Clinical Raises $29M in Series C Funding, Enabling National Expansion and Top-Talent Acquisition

 

• Healing financial trauma: How one Columbus group is helping middle-income women of color build wealth (Chase)

 

• 'Media SaaS company Amagi raises $95 million funding at unicorn valuation (The Hindu Business Line)

 

• This browser you've never heard of is now worth a billion dollars

 

• anywell raises $10 million Series A to help companies transition to a hybrid work model (Calcalistech)

 

• Microsoft Graveyard - Killed by Microsoft

 

• Freelancer’s Forty-Three Years in the American Health-Care System (The New Yorker)

 

• ConsenSys Raises $450M Series D Funding as Leading Self-Custodial Wallet MetaMask Reaches Over 30 Million MAUs

 

• Cities Lost Population in 2021, Leading to the Slowest Year of Growth in U.S. History (The New York Times)

 

• Warhol: The Void Beneath the Emptiness (Quadrant Online)

 

• Florida just became the largest state to mandate personal finance education in high school (cnbc)

 

• Meet The Founders Who Created The “For Us, By Us” Version Of Eventbrite (Essence)

 

• Black Women Speak Out On Gaslighting in the Workplace and a Path Forward (Her Money)

 

• Trading in NFTs spiked 21,000% to more than $17 billion in 2021, report says (cnbc)

 

• Instagram’s new chronological mode is exactly what a feed should be (The Verge)

 

• Bobbie drinks up $50M to expand infant formula product line (TechCrunch)

 

• Orange Silicon Valley Deep Tech for Decarbonization Challenge

 

• Techstars Anywhere Americas Accelerator (Apply by April 6th)

 

• Bear Robotics, robot servers in restaurants, raised $81M series B; The Road to Success is Paved in Solutions

 

• Webflow raises $120M Series C funding and $10 million Webflow Community Grants program

 

• Quadric gains $21M in funding to fuel edge AI processor plans (Fierce Electronics)

 

• Solo Advanced Vehicle Technologies Announces $7 Million in Seed Funding to Build the First Ground-up Heavy Truck Platform for Autonomous Freight Transportation (businesswire)

 

• TruEra raises $25M for its AI analytics and monitoring platform (TechCrunch)

 

• Rutter Raises $27M in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz

 

• Selector raises $28 million for its AIOps (Converge! Network Digest)

 

• Formfunction raises $4.7M to help independent creators make a living with NFTs

 

• Socotra raises $50 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners to fuel growth as the most trusted core platform for InsurTechs and innovative carriers

 

• SiFive raises $175 million in bid to unseat Arm with RISC-V (protocol)

 

• Amazon Closes $8.5 Billion Acquisition of MGM (Variety)

 

• Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis raise over $34 million for Ukraine aid (cnbc)

 

• Lendai enables foreign investors to easily buy US real estate. The new-to-Miami Israel-born startup just raised $35M (Refresh Miami)

 

• Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy Alleghany for $11.6bn all-cash (intelligent insurer)

 

• Join the fun! Ohio Representative Dontavius Jarrells 2nd Birthday Celebration on April 13th

 

• Yuga Labs acquires CryptoPunks and Meebits and gives commercial rights to the community (Mirror XYZ)

 

• Colorado Emerges as a Venture-Capital Hub (The Wall Street Journal)

 

• Tyler, the Creator’s Coveted Grammy 

 

• Accenture lists top 5 tech trends for 2022 (VentureBeat)

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• CollaborateandElevate.com Surpasses 200 Customers: Customers include Financial Professionals, Authors, Insurance Companies, Lawyers, and more!

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• Digital inclusion and equity changes what’s possible (Technology Review)​

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• Marcus Bullock, founder of Flikshop is having joins Morgan Stanley podcast ACCESS & OPPORTUNITY - Reducing Recidivism with Carla Harris

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• The Civil Rights Memorial Center: Honoring and Celebrating Women Providing Healing and Promoting Hope with Dr. Imani Perry

• From Haiti to Miami, Georges Duplessy co-founder of Virtual Badge joins the It's Bigger Than Business Podcast with Manny Larcher (YourInfoDaily)

• 'Breakfast Club' Co-Host Angela Yee's Black-Owned Health and Nutrition Businesses Serve Up Community Support (Entrepreneur)

• Sorry, Your Career Won’t Unfold The Way They Do In Business Books by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• A new program in Canada gives doctors the option of prescribing national park visits (npr)

 

• JumpStart is jumping deeper into venture investing (Crain's Cleveland)

 

• See where every Ohio city ranks for median family income (2021) in new census estimates released Thursday - Census Snapshot

 

• The First Black Business Titan - Reginald Lewis blazed a trail for future African-American executives. (WSJ)

 

• Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers: Why Some People Succeed and Some Don't (Microsoft Research)

 

• ‘There’s not enough bourbon’: Daylight savings time is a living hell for parents featuring Jennifer Sanger, founder of Jamison & Bexley (NY POST)

 

• Imposter Syndrome is a Lie by Heather Hansen 

 

• Black Men of Google: Harmony

 

• Do you need clients? Influencer Marketing growth tips from Stopwatch Creative

 

• Former Inmate Becomes CEO Of App That Sends Postcards To Prisoners - Marcus Bullock got a second chance at life and success. (BET)

 

• 5 Little Bets to Make in Your Twenties With Huge Upside by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Brooklyn-born radio star Angela Yee opens coffee shop in Bed-Stuy (NY Daily News)

 

• Latoya Raveneau Inks Overall Deal with Disney Television Animation (Animation Magazine)

 

• White Castle Turns to Robotics to Meet Rising Order Demand (PYMNTS)

 

• Cipriani To Launch First-Ever, Ground-Up Residences, Cipriani Residences Miami (Forbes)

 

• Pharma packaging startup for hospitals building $50M Columbus-area plant, adding 300 jobs (Columbus Inno)

 

• How A Daily Journal Helps Men Become More Resilient, Calm, and Focused by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Opinion | I’ve Dealt With Foreign Cyberattacks. America Isn’t Ready for What’s Coming. (The New York Times)

 

• High End Affair | Chef Nikki Steward - Let's Be Blunt with Montel Williams

 

• Test. Optimize. Scale. #64 “Evolving Financial Markets and Equity Crowdfunding.” w/ Dara Albright

 

• What you need to know about the plastic pollution resolution (UNEP)

 

• Fully reckoning with the legacy of American slavery requires more than removing Confederate monuments (Prism Reports)


• Selling To The Fortune 500, Government, And Other Lovecraftian Horrors (Kalzumeus)

 

• Think Make Live Youth presents Speak Your Mind Mixer at Burgerim in Columbus, Ohio on March 10th

  

• Potato farmers conquer a devastating worm—with paper made from bananas (Science)

 

• Ray Dalio's 5 Step Process To Getting What You Want Out Of Life (Commonplace)

 

• CollaborateandElevate.com is no longer available to customers in Russia

 

• The Road to Success is Paved with Rejection Letters (Perceiving Systems Blog)

 

• Serena Williams' Serena Ventures Announces Its Inaugural $111M Fund 'For The Next Generation Of Champions' (AfroTech)

• In The Mix : A High-End Affair Experience with Celebrity Chef Nikki Steward

 

• 2022 Cybersecurity Summit w/ State of Ohio Leadership (Ohio ITA)

 

• BP quits Russia in up to $25 billion hit after Ukraine invasion (Reuters)

 

• Norway's sovereign wealth fund to vote against Apple management's pay plan (Reuters)

 

• The One Hard Truth About Dating That Young People Often Learn Too Late by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger (Stratechery)

 

• 67 Orange Is a Harlem Cocktail Bar Rooted in Resilience and Legacy (Thrillist)

 

• Ro Raises $150 Million from Existing Investors to Expand its Direct-to-Patient Healthcare Model (yahoo! finance)

 

• Cafe Beignet RVA, founded by Brittany Williams, to open in Richmond, Virginia (WTVR)

 

• The Startup That Allows Shopify Merchants To Cash In On Their Business (Forbes)

 

• Blockchain.com Takes 22K SF in Miami’s Wynwood for US HQ

 

• Meet Manny Larcher | Marketing and Operations (Shoutout Atlanta)  


• Top 10 hidden Mac tricks that most people don’t know about (9to5Mac)

 

• Ohio State grad Patrick Sweetman (sweetman.eth) finds balance traveling while building in the Metaverse with Wemintsongs & Bankless DAO

 

• Columbus nonprofit organization is bridging the gap between youth, politicians (FOX 28 Columbus)

  

• Clare, founded by Nicole Gibbons, raises $8 million with an eye on scale (Business of Home)

 

• Haul Wins $10 Million Investment As It Gigafies Commercial Truck Driving (Forbes)

 

• Lawsuit Says 16 Elite Colleges Are Part of Price-Fixing Cartel (The New York Times)

 

• Mundi secures $16 million in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures

 

• Teclison Completes $5.9 Million Capital Raise

 

• Vivvi, a New York-based employer-sponsored child care company, raised $15M in Series B funding (finsmes)

 

• Tropic Raises A $40M Series B Led By Insight Partners

 

• B2B Startup Company Advisr Raises $5.75 Million for Sales Software Built for Businesses

 

• Soul Machines Raises US$70M to Advance the Way Digital People Deliver Interactive Experiences in the Metaverse

 

• Instrumental Inc. Secures $50m In Series C Funding To Expand Manufacturing Optimization Solutions (PR Newswire)

 

• Databook Secures $50M Series B at a $550M Valuation to Transform Enterprise Selling

 

• Antora Energy Raises More Than $50M to Decarbonize Heavy Industry With Renewable Heat and Power as Cheap as Fossil Fuels

 

• Announcing Our $25 Million Series A from Coatue to Grow Developer-Centric Community Around Kubernetes Cost Management

 

• Flutterwave Closes USD $250m in Series D Funding, Valuation Rises to Over USD $3bn


• Crypto startup Helium raises $200 million  in Series D funding at a $1.2 billion valuation million (Yahoo News)  

 

• Strategic investors back startup CelLink’s $250 million funding round (Reuters)

 

• Synthego Scores $200M to Advance CRISPR “Science at Scale” (Biospace)

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• Arcion, data mobility platform, raises $13M

 

• Hyphen raises $24m in Tiger-led Series A to automate restaurant makelines

 

• Talespin, founded by Kyle Jackson, raises $20 million in Series C funding, for learning in the Metaverse

 

• Anvyl Raises $15M Series B Round with GMV surpassing $1.5 Billion as Customer Demand Accelerates Amid Global Supply Chain Crisis

 

• Kubernetes Security Operations Center (KSOC), a cloud security platform raises $6M


• Nanonets has Raised $10M to remagine how business manage workflows

 

• Bloomreach raises $150M on $900M valuation and acquires Exponea (TechCrunch)


• Check out this article: Bootup raises $2.1 million dollar seed round from all Black investors (The Black Wall St Times) 

 

• Forbes Digital Assets & Web3 Summit March 16th with Sam Bankman-Fried (Founder/CEO, FTX), Yat Siu (Chairman, Animoca Brands), Ophelia Snyder (President, Amun 21Shares), Michael del Castillo (Editor Crypto, Forbes), Steven Ehrlich (Dir. Digital Assets, Forbes)

 

• Think Make Live Youth presents: Black Youth, Black Politics, and Black History in 2022

 

• LinkedIn Doesn't Want Great Writers, Just Post 100 Honest Words and Go Viral by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Vitalik Buterin on Building a Base Layer for the Global Economy Without Compromising on Decentralization (The Defiant)

 

• Can these Black business owners save the heart of Leimert Park from gentrification? With Akil West, owner of Sole Folks (Los Angeles Times)

 

• The State of Commuter Benefits (SHARE Mobility)

 

• Now is the time to ask for a pay raise. Here’s how to do it well (Fast Company)

 

• REFORM Alliance activist Louis Reed joins Jay-Z for fairness in sentencing

 

• ​How I went From AfroTech in San Francisco, to Belgrade, Serbia in a year, all from Columbus, Ohio

 

• NFL linebacker Jaylon Smith expands support of minority business owners with COhatch partnership, joins Board of Advisors 

 

• How to Discover Your Ikigai (Quick and Dirty Tips)

 

• Lovewick, founded by Ali Maggioncalda, An App to Help Couples Stay in Love Beyond the Match, Raises $1M Pre-seed (Business Wire)

 

• It's Bigger Than Business podcast Season 2 Episode 6, features Paul Perkins, founder of Orion Electronics Company, Inc with Manny Larcher, CEO of Stopwatch Creative 

 

• Christopher Walken Shares the Secrets of Acting Like Christopher Walken (The New York Times)

 

• No, Loneliness Doesn't Feel Great, But It Also Means You're Leveling Up by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)

 

• Productboard Raises $125M in Series D Funding to Scale Its Leading Product Management Platform to Help Companies Build the Right Digital Products (PR Newswire)
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• Zero Reveals $11.8M in New Seed Funding (Progressive Grocer)

 

• Deepnote raises a $20M Series A led by Accel and Index

 

• Tint Raises a $25M Series A Round Led by QED Investors to Enable Tech Platforms to Become Insurers (Business Wire)

 

• Hiretual, Now hireEZ, Announces $26 Million in Funding to Make Outbound Recruiting Easy

 

• Launched in 2018 by beverage entrepreneurs Ben Goodwin and David Lester, Olipop raises $30 million in a Series B funding round at a $200 million valuation (Food Business News)

 

• Amira Yahyaoui and MOS raised Series B of $40M in US

 

• Pavilion Data Raises $45 Million to Expand Its Platform for Accelerating Data Analytics

 

• Celestial AI Raises $56 Million Series A to Disrupt the Artificial Intelligence Chipset Industry with Novel Photonic-Electronic Technology Platform (Financial Post)

 

• Digital Fitness Company Future Raises $75 Million in Funding - Investors include Kate Hudson, J.J. Watt, Rory McIlroy and Kevin Durant (Bloomberg)

 

• RudderStack Raises $56M in Series B Funding (finsmes)

 

• Phantom’s $109M Series B and launch of iOS App

 

• Café Overlook Set to be Training Ground for Future Hospitality Workers, Business Incubator (Columbus Monthly)

 

• The rise of the Black Angel Group inside of Alphabet (TechCrunch)
• Exclusive: Matt Scantland, CoverMyMeds team launch next startup, AndHealth, with $57 Million in PE  by Carrie Ghose (Columbus Inno)
• Exploring Life & Business with Jennifer Sanger of Jamison & Bexley (Voyage Ohio)

 

• Listen to JaySwifa's RARE AIR RADIO EP 1 out now! 
• Tech Talent Shortage Is Helping Drive M&A Deals (The Wall Street Journal)
• Athelas raises $132mm+ to power remote care for healthcare systems and practices. Company now valued at $1.5 Billion.
• 2022 Poetry Out Loud: Central Ohio Regional Semi-Finals (Wild Goose Creative)
• Fast-Casual Afro-Caribbean YumVillage Now Open on Cleveland State Campus (CleveScene)
• OKRs for NGOs: How a global nonprofit uses OKRs for Civic Innovation (What Matters)
• On heels of $125M raise, Chilean unicorn Betterfly plans to establish its global hub in Miami (Refresh Miami)
• 7 Simple Journaling Habits That Gradually Improve Your Life Performance by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library) 
• Education saved these Cuban founders’ lives. Now they’re building an EdTech startup to give back (Refresh Miami)
• Impact Now: When Women Lead is a new for-impact (aka, "non-profit") organization to provide affordable, high-quality coaching and support to women who lead in for-impact settings. (Mary Henton) 
• Climate-driven floods will disproportionately affect Black communities, study finds (NPR)
• Lil Yachty Files Lawsuit Against NFT Seller Opulous for Trademark Infringement (Vibe)
• Plant-based lamb pioneer Black Sheep Foods bags $5.3m funding from AgFunder, others (AFN)
• ​Whoosh, Inc. Raises $6M to Modernize Golf Operations (PR Newswire Cision)
• Three recognized by YWCA Columbus as being 'Women on the Rise' (The Columbus Dispatch)
• NASTTY Presents : Elevate & Paint with FDZ Graffiti! Hosted by Forte - Sounds by DJ Jus (Feb 19 - Mar19)
• The.com, emerges from stealth with $4.4 million in seed funding, launches a low-code, collaborative website builder that uses customizable ‘blocks,’ not templates (TechCrunch)
• Columbus in the crosshairs after 2021 was deadliest year in city history (ABC News)
• Real Estate Roundup: Starwood Capital’s new Miami Beach headquarters substantially finished, co-developer says (South Florida Business Journals)
• 4 years after launch, fintech platform Esusu saddles unicorn with $130M Series B (TechCrunch)
• USGBC and Greenbuild scholarship recipients: Where are they now? Terry Green, founder of Think Make Live Youth nonprofit organization and five others share their stories
• Coolhaus acquisition marks one of Backstage Capital’s first “true exits” by Megan Rose Dickey
• Kamaru Usman Is Getting Even More Dangerous (GQ)
• Meet Terry Green | Founder & Executive Director (Shoutout Atlanta)
• Franklin County Commissioners award Besa $250,000 to support area’s most distressed neighborhoods

 

• Innovate New Albany Expert Office Hours – Friday Feb 4, 2021 featuring Manny Larcher
• Rebundle, co-founders Danielle Washington and Ciara Imani May raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions (TechCrunch)
• GoDaddy at the U.S. Conference of Mayors: Advocate for microbusinesses in America (Venture Forward)
• Think Make Live Youth - Real Talk. Rise Up. Virtual Experience - R.S.V.P. - Jan 27, 2022 8:00 PM EST
• Wait Here by Andrew Lee White: From the mountains to the desert and everywhere in between, Wait Here is a photographic journey through the south western united states during the summer of 2020
• Curt Moody and sons reflect on 34-year connection to Karl Road library branch (The Columbus Dispatch)
• The top 10 companies for workers of color, according to employee reviews by Jennifer Liu (CNBC)
• Rebundle (co-founders Danielle Washington and Ciara Imani May) raises $1.4M for plant-based hair extensions (TechCrunch)
• Fintech Brex confirms $12.3B valuation, snaps up Meta exec to serve as its head of product (TechCrunch)
• Sportstech is creating a player-centric future (Fortune)
• Cardi B Covers All Funeral Costs For Victims Of The Bronx Apartment Fire (Secret NYC)
• 5 steps I followed to find my passion and turn it into a money making side hustle by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)
• Avoma raises $12M to build the most comprehensive Meeting Lifecycle Assistant
• Mperativ Raises $6 Million to Operationalize Revenue Mindset Across the Entire Business (Yahoo Finance)
• Foxglove raises $3.7M to build better developer tools for robotics

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• Jodi Monelle of LIVEKINDLY On The 5 Things You Need To Create A Highly Successful Career In The Health and Wellness Industry (An Interview With Luke Kervin with Authority Magazine)
• Streaming Wars Price Tag Likely To Top $140 Billion This Year! (Swift Headline)
• Fintech startup LiveFlow raises $3.5M seed to automate financial data flows (TechCrunch)
• U.S. Mint begins circulating Maya Angelou quarters (Axios)
• How DevOps platform Zeet accelerates application deployment – raises $2M (VentureBeat)
• This Too Shall Pass: Why Repeating It Won’t Make You Feel Better: But thinking about it differently will by Cal Axe (Yo Pro Library)
• Following $40MM Series B Raise, Career Karma Charts Growth in Enterprise, Higher Ed Partnerships (The Plug)
• New High Street Apartment Building Trades for Record Price in Short North – Robert Weiler Co. Acquires 113-Unit Luxe 23 for $55 Million (CoStar)
• The Advice Trap and Staying Curious Just a Little Longer with Michael Bungay Stanier (Brené Brown)
• OpenSea valued at $13.3 billion in NFT rush: The NFT marketplace’s $300 million funding round shows the increased interest in non-fungible tokens. (protocol)
• StudyFree, an international student scholarships and grants platform, raises $3M seed (TechCrunch)
• 99 – Endgame | Vitalik Buterin – Ethereum returns to the podcast to discuss his recent article Endgame, as well as the massive year we observed in 2021. (Bankless)
• Long-Term Loans Vs. Short-Term Loans (The Cash Eaze Group)
• Digital identity platform Bureau raises $12 million led by Quona Bureau, the digital identity verification and fraud protection platform, has raised USD 12 million in Series-A funding round led by Quona (Business Standard)

 

• Supply Chain Tech Firm KlearNow Raises $50 Million to Alleviate Global Supply Chain Constraints
• 22 Artists to Watch in 2022 (ONE37PM)
• Launching Notes from Google Play | A year of evolution (Android Developers Blog)
• 70+ Top Black-Led Venture Capital Funds — The Definitive List for 2022
• Endgame by Vitalik Buterin
• Mixhalo Raises $24 Million Series B to Shape the Future of Live Events (Cision PR Web)
• We are proud to announce our $30.5 million Series C funding (Dedrone)
• Cyberhaven Raises $33M in Series B Funding to Transform Stagnant and Ineffective Data Protection Market
• Prellis Biologics Launches In Vitro Human Antibody Discovery Platform, Announces $14.5 Million Series B Investment, Key Executive Hires (Cision PR Web)
• Wall Street – Built By Enslaved Africans: Ona L. sheds light on the African slave trade that led to the founding of New York City and that built Wall Street—the world’s largest financial market. (New book GET RICH, STAY RICH available now!)

 

• Adidas’ Bored Ape NFT Collab Comes With Exclusive Physical Merch (Gotham)
• UrsaLeo Announces Institutional Seed Round of $1.9MM
• Digital identity platform Bureau raises $12 million led by Quona (Business Standard)
• Factor Secures $6 Million to Modernize Supply Chain’s “First Mile” Infrastructure
• Honeycomb, a private social app for families, raises $4M seed round (TechCrunch)
• Incredible Dream raises $2M for fantasy tabletop game series (Venture Beat)
• Web3 platform HEIR raises $10 million in seed funding (The Block)
• Did You Know That These Celebrities Have Their Own Investment Firms? (Afro Tech)
• Top Columbus Startup and Tech Companies to Watch in 2022 (Purpose Jobs)
• Crypto Theses for 2022 Key trends, people, companies, and projects to watch across the crypto landscape, with predictions for 2022 (Ryan Selkis)
• The Creator Economy Needs a Middle Class by Li Jin (Harvard Business Review)
• Everything I’ve Learned from Growing My Startup to 10 Million Users with $0 in Funding By Aytekin Tank (Entrepreneur)

 

• Big Ideas for 2022 with Alison Rosenthal & Dave Pell (Hello Monday)
• Inside Zoox: The robot vehicle totally changing transportation | Hard Reset by Freethink
• Tech startup funding to Blacks, Latinos ticks up in Miami after investor influx (Reuters)
• Top Business Books Of 2021 (Forbes)
• Meet the 25 wealthiest members of Congress (Insider)
• Female Disruptors: Lilly Sparks of xoafterglow.com On The Three Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry (Medium)
• Think Make Live Youth – Food Produce Drive at The Charles School at Ohio Dominican University
• Pontoro Raises Over $6 Million Preferred Seed Round for Infrastructure Financing Digital Asset Platform (Bloomberg)
• Mnemonic raises $4 million to launch B2B API platform focused on NFT’s (Coin Telegraph)
• NetSpring.io Raises $13M Series A to Usher in the Next Generation of Enterprise Data Intelligence
• Airplane raises $8.5M in Series A funding led by Benchmark
• Pod Foods Announces $13M in New Funding, Reinvents the Grocery Supply Chain as Consumer Demand Soars (PR Newswire)
• FlyFin Raises $8 Million in Funding to Scale First AI Tax Engine for Freelancers and Self-Employed (PR Newswire)
• Frameplay Announces $8 Million Series A Funding Round Led By Hiro Capital To Deliver Intrinsic In-Game Experiences Built And Backed By Gamer