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We're proud to celebrate the amazing companies advancing Digital Health! Mental and Behavioural Health is more important than ever, and these quarterfinalists for the Digital Health Hub Foundation Awards are leading the way with innovative solutions that are making a real difference. Congratulations to all the incredible innovators who made it this far! Stay tuned as we continue the journey to find the Best in Class for 2024. Congratulations to: Qbtech Equip Workit Health NOCD Spring Health Pelago Osmind NeuroFlow Two Chairs HelloBetter Freespira Modern Health Bicycle Health Ria Health NexJ Health RethinkFirst

Some thoughts from BOND on the changing nature of education and universities in an AI-accelerated world

We’re thrilled to announce that Learn to Win has closed a $30 million Series A funding round! This round was led by The Westly Group, with continued support from Norwest Venture Partners and Pear VC. We are incredibly grateful to our investors for believing in our mission to redefine the way people learn essential information in high-stakes environments. Since our inception in 2019, we’ve partnered with some of the world’s most impressive organizations, including the US Navy, the United States Air Force, Novartis, AbbVie, the Los Angeles Rams, and the University of Michigan football team. This funding will enable us to further enhance our product development, catering to both defense and commercial sectors. We remain committed to helping our clients tackle their most complex training challenges. Thank you to our amazing team, partners, and investors for your unwavering support! Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eyKtXfrs

We're hiring! (and offering a $2,500 bounty for anyone who helps us!) Are you (or someone you know) passionate about VC, angel investing, early stage startups, and supporting founders? PIN (Power in Numbers) is looking for our next teammate to run all things Ops and Strategy. This role spans ops, building product to automate processes, interfacing with our users on a daily basis, and collaborating with our engineers to implement user feedback into our product. See JD for the full description and how to apply. Please repost, tag, and share our link with anyone who might be a good fit! (And as a thank you, if your post/tag/link leads to us finding our teammate, we'll send you $2,500!)

We just announced Pulsar ‘s latest round of funding 🚀. We are partnering with an extraordinary group of investors who will help us take Pulsar to the next level. I’m extremely proud of our team for all the hard work done every day to accelerate our impact on the region. 💪 New products, new cities and many more to come this 2024!

Big news! Thrilled to announce the launch of New Balance‘s resale and trade-in program, Reconsidered, powered by Archive. New Balance is the ultimate challenger brand, unafraid to stand behind their values of responsibility and community. Our teams have been working hard to build an incredible experience for New Balance customers that elevates the brilliant New Balance brand. Shout out to John Stokes, Tim Axiak and Melissa Worth, whose creativity and dedication to resale have helped bring this to life. And to Peter Whitcomb and the whole TERSUS Solutions team for being the logistics backbone to this program. Enjoy shopping gently worn and like-new sneakers on New Balance Reconsidered: https://lnkd.in/dhdX7z_B

Immensely proud of our team at US Bitcoin Corp (merged with Hut 8 | NASDAQ: HUT) for achieving this milestone with Nasdaq. Grateful for the support of our teammates, investors, and partners and looking forward to the firm's journey ahead as Hut 8.

Many SaaS startups are well aware of their ICP, however there should now be an increased focus on your "IBP": Ideal Buyer Person. Whereas ICP (Ideal Customer Profile) tends to be focused on company-level characteristics (e.g. “senior care facilities”, or “luxury retail brands with 10–50 physical locations”), IBP is focused on purchaser-level characteristics. Specifically, understanding your IBP is not just a “who”, but also a “why” and a “how”: who is buying your product within an organization, why are they buying your solution, and how are they using your product internally. Knowing and articulating each of these IBP elements, alongside defining your ICP, provides a much more granular understanding of your customer and will be of significant value to your business as you seek to establish strong product-market fit that is a prerequisite for building an exceptional SaaS business at scale.

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) was the Day the Earth Stood Still in startup land in March of 2023. It was, after all, the 3rd largest bank failure in the U.S. and the largest since the 2008 Financial Crisis. Someone in the middle of it providing these innovating companies with emergency liquidity options and reimagining their startup banking stack was Don Muir, the CEO and Cofounder of Arc. On this week's episode of Something New, Don chats with Steph and I about: - Turning the SVB crisis into opportunity - Navigating the original idea maze such that they were ready for this moment - Going through Y Combinator, even though they had raised money and didn't need the capital - Perceived "Bloody Oceans" versus "Blue Lakes" - The nuts and bolts of building an entrepreneurial, high-achieving team #startups #yc #podcast

When Phil K. started talking about "heat pumps," no one cared. Fast forward to the end of 2023, you have: - Cities around the country where demand is outpacing the supply of units & labor - Some contractors reorienting their legacy HVAC businesses to service this demand - The IRA signed into law in the United States, providing heat pump incentives - And Phil's startup Arch working with some of the largest installers in the country to provide sales, planning, and engineering intelligence for their employees On this episode of Something New, we chat with with Phil on: - How he came up with the concept while getting his dual degree Masters at Stanford University - Why he believes he can help remove a Gigaton of carbon from the atmosphere - His life in installations from a young age as a kid from Germany - The rigorous process he used to find his cofounder - How I convinced him to take our money, video below :) Enjoy! CC: Steph Mui #climate #heatpumps #podcast