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Levy Health wants to help women identify fertility issues sooner

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Caroline Mitterdorfer’s fertility journey began with an early-stage cancer diagnosis at age 27. Mitterdorfer told TechCrunch that her diagnosis made her realize how little she knew about her health and her fertility. She dove into researching the space and became a self-described fertility advocate. Through that work, Mitterdorfer noticed that it took a long time […]

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VC firm NFX laid off 4 employees and plans to hire more investors

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Venture capital firm NFX laid off four employees in September as the firm looks to “rebalance” its resources from its software and product teams to its investing team, general partner Pete Flint told TechCrunch. The layoffs included one product leader and three engineers, Flint said. About a week ago, Amy Lin, chief product officer since

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Initialized Capital restructures, and lets multiple partners go

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Initialized Capital is restructuring its team to “meet the moment” in the venture market, according to a blog post from the firm’s managing partner Brett Gibson. The San Francisco-based venture capital firm, originally founded by Alexis Ohanian, Garry Tan, and Harjeet Taggar, announced yesterday that it let multiple people go and specifically named Jennifer Wolf,

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Motorway’s Harry Jones on why he co-founded five startups with the same team

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When Harry Jones, Tom Leathes, and Alex Buttle set out to found Motorway, a startup that connects car owners with dealers looking to buy and resell their vehicles, in 2017, it wasn’t the founding teams’ first startup rodeo. Nor was it their second. Motorway was actually the founding team’s fifth startup, Jones, Motorway’s CPO, said

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The VC buying up prized real estate in SF says not to “listen to agitators”

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VC Neil Mehta, the Greenoaks Capital co-founder tied to a growing number of building purchases across several blocks of San Francisco’s once-glittering Fillmore Street commercial district, defended himself on Monday via an op-ed in The San Francisco Standard, saying the moves are solely about revitalizing a “city that has given me more than I could

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Airship wants to build better sales tools for HVAC contractors

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The HVAC industry is going through a transformation. The old guard of tradespeople are on the cusp of retiring while private equity firms are consolidating the industry. Airship is building a software solution for HVAC’s next chapter. Airship is building a point-of-sale software for HVAC contractors to give them the knowledge they need, on things

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13 companies from YC Demo Day 1 that are worth paying attention to

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Famed Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator on Wednesday kicked off its two-day “Demo Day” event that showcases what the most recent YC batch, S24, companies are building. Unsurprisingly, AI companies dominated the day, with startups looking to apply the technology to problems like estate planning and settlements, Elayne; automating clinical trial data, Baseline AI;

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