Leap, a ‘social knowing’ platform targeted at over 55s, raises a $3.1 M seed round

Leap, a ‘social knowing’ platform targeted at over 55s, raises a $3.1 M seed round

Leap, a platform for individuals over 55 to learn via social interaction, has actually raised $3.1 million in a seed round led by European early-stage financier Creandum and SF-based South Park Commons. Taking part was Learn Start/Learn Capital, alongside angels Michelle Kennedy (Peanut creator), Sahil Lavingia and Tim Tuttle. Leap members gather online to collectively “discover, […] Leap members collect online to collectively “find out, connect and grow together,” states the company, by means of little online groups built around shared interests. Leap was established by Swedish business owner Caroline Ingeborn, previous CEO of Toca Boca, a Swedish app development studio that constructs finding out apps for kids, and Vishal Kapur, former CTO and co-founder of Screenhero, which was gotten by Slack in 2015.

Terraformation gets $30M to fight climate change with quick reforesting

Every startup is trying to fix something but Terraformation is tackling the only problem that must matter to all of us: Climate change. This is why it’s in such a big huge hurry. Its mission — as a ‘forest tech’ startup — is to accelerate tree planting by applying a startup-y operational philosophy of scalability […] …

Jam raises $3.5 million to Figma-tize product cooperation

Jam raises $3.5 million to Figma-tize product cooperation

The web of partnership apps invading remote work toolkits have caused lots of untidy workflows for teams that communicate in a language of desktop screenshots and DMs. Tracing a suggestion or flagging a bug in a business’s site forces engineers or designers to understand the mess themselves. While job management software has […] Tracing a tip or flagging a bug in a company’s site forces engineers or designers to make sense of the mess themselves. Like many contemporary productivity suites, Jam is heavy on combinations so users aren’t required to overthrow their toolkits just to include one more product into the mix.”On a product team, the product is the very first tab everyone opens and closes,” Grant states. …

Austin-based Verifiable raises $3 million for its API toolkit to confirm healthcare qualifications

Austin-based Verifiable raises $3 million for its API toolkit to confirm healthcare qualifications

Before Nick Macario launched Proven, the Austin-based company that just raised $3 million for its API toolkit that verifies healthcare credentials, he ran a series of other services designed to offer public credentials for experts. His very first venture into the world of identity management services was the individual website home builder, branded.me. After that company was […]
, an outsourced company of human resources services that was continuously running background checks and verifying staff member credentials.” We’re at an inflection point with health care,” said Macario. The price is based on the number of verifications and the number of healthcare service providers that require to be verified.”Where we’re thrilled about going is identity and healthcare provider information….