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Built In Staff Built In Staff
Updated on April 10, 2025

Nowsta Secures $35M Series C for Its Automated Staffing Solution

The company’s newly launched product Staffing Labs helps employers access a nationwide marketplace of contingent labor.

Avery Komlofske Avery Komlofske
Updated on April 10, 2025

Shining a Light on Torch Technology’s Comprehensive Onboarding — And the Success That Follows

The dental e-commerce company is partnering with thousands of practices already — and setting its sales team up to care for customers old and new.

Some of Torch's employees posing for a photo, each holding their own painting of a body of water reflecting the moon and surrounded by cherr
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Jenny Lyons-Cunha Jenny Lyons-Cunha
Updated on April 10, 2025

Product Ownership Is a Mindset: Three Experts from Liberty Mutual Explain

Liberty Mutual has more than a century of insurance expertise — but its tech evolution is just getting started. Built In sat down with three experts to talk about how product ownership is driving innovation.

Five Liberty Mutual team members gather at a community table in Liberty Mutual’s common area with laptops, in discussion.
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Quinten Dol Quinten Dol
Updated on April 10, 2025

Founding to Future, Part 1: The Fascinating Evolution of 4 NYC Tech Startups

New York founders take us into the apartments, conferences and co-working spaces where they first hatched bold business ideas, and outline how their focus and mission has changed — or not — since then. 

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Updated on April 10, 2025

AOL is creating a startup incubator to turn its employees into entrepreneurs

Last week, AOL announced the launch of AREA 51, a unique employee perk that will function as an in-house startup incubator. The incubator will select startups created by AOL employees and recent college graduates to participate in the program for up to six months, considering talent, market fit, AOL fit and execution feasibility in its application process.

Ellen Glover Ellen Glover
Updated on April 10, 2025

Ro Is Offering a Free Virtual Coronavirus Risk Assessment Tool

The company developed the assessment as a safe alternative to going into a hospital or doctor’s office, unburdening an already strained healthcare system.

Tatum Hunter Tatum Hunter
Updated on April 10, 2025

RapidSOS Raises $55M to Help First Responders Leverage Your Device’s Data

The Internet of Things can feel invasive. It can also help save our lives.

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