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Jeff Rumage Jeff Rumage
Updated on April 10, 2025

Candidly Gains $20M to Help Student Loan Borrowers Optimize Repayments

The NYC-based fintech company was formerly known as FutureFuel.io.

Michael Hines Michael Hines
Updated on April 10, 2025

The Benefits of Fostering Community as a Woman in Tech

Whether it’s mentorship or joining an employee resource group, fostering a community can make it easier to tackle the numerous challenges women in tech face.

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Miranda Perez Miranda Perez
Updated on April 10, 2025

Pfizer to Acquire Sickle Cell Treatment Company Global Blood Therapeutics for $5.4B

Global Blood Therapeutics previously developed a treatment for sickle cell disease that brought in $195 million in net sales last year.

Ellen Glover Ellen Glover
Updated on April 10, 2025

WoodSpoon Raises $2M to Deliver Homemade Food From Local Chefs

WoodSpoon has become a way to support an industry that has been brought to its knees by the COVID-19 pandemic, providing an additional revenue opportunity for more than 100 local chefs — some of whom have cooked at notable restaurants like Nobu and Jean-Georges’ Nougatine.

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

Rokt Raises $17.6M to Expand in NYC, Plans 300+ Hires

The company is expanding its headquarters to encompass more than 100,000 square feet of office space.

Updated on April 10, 2025

Why Serial Entrepreneur Jeff Dachis Is Building a Startup to Help People With Diabetes

In 2013, at age 47, Dachis was diagnosed with Type-1 diabetes.

Updated on April 10, 2025

Virtual reality just broke into the world of tennis

Today, ATP Media, the broadcast arm of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) announced that the company will be collaborating with New York-based VR startup LiveLike to produce the first tennis experience in virtual reality.

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