The US job market is seeing increased job-hopping, stable unemployment levels and the pressure on recruiters to increase wages. Job seekers and employers seem to be more active than they have been in over a decade. However, companies’ hiring practices are changing. AI is being used across the recruitment cycle from targeting to filtering to scheduling and predictive analytics. […]

Textile waste isn’t something you normally think about. But according to the Environmental Protection Agency, you should. The U.S. produces about 15 million tons of textile waste per year, with each American throwing out an average of 80 lbs. of used clothing. The answer, as far as Kristy Caylor saw it, was recycling. So she […]

For those living in natural disaster-prone areas, home insurance is but a necessity. This is why, in October 2018, the Chicago-based insurtech startup Kin Insurance decided to extend its reach to Georgia (beyond its Florida operations). The AI-powered insurance firm makes it possible for residents of this state, regularly plagued by havoc-causing storms and floods, […]

Venice, California-based Genies, whose app allows users to build a 3D cartoon of themselves, has raised a $10M venture round in November. After its beta launch early this year (1 million downloads), Genies has now launched its reformed app which claims to use its “proprietary technology” to ensure that your digital selves mirror not just […]

24-year-old NFL linebacker Joshua Perry announced his retirement in July this year after having suffered his 6th documented concussion. This follows a season marked by a record high number of concussions incidents. Perry’s early retirement is the most recent among a series of early retirements citing mental health concerns. As football’s concussion crisis intensifies, the […]

Rescheduling shifts is not just a waste of time—it’s a waste of money too. That’s what Brett Patrontasch saw when he opened up a small house painting company, and it was a problem he wanted to solve. Coordinating schedules and shift swapping was taking up time, not to mention energy. The answer was simple: Employees needed […]

It’s a safe bet to say that if you’re older than 25, Besst will make you feel very old. Besst, created by two college students, Spencer Gordon-Sand and Linda Chen, is a new betting app that seeks to give you all the exhilaration of betting, but on your “social standing” instead of actual money. Their website, besst.io, […]

Glasses and contact lens prescriptions are generally valid for one to two years depending on the state while the federal Fairness to Contact Lens Consumer’s Act has set one year as the expiration. This means that to get a new pair of glasses or lenses beyond that one year, users will have to get another […]

Austin-based Blink Identity, which uses advanced facial recognition technology to identify people regardless of the speed they’re walking in, raised a $1.5M seed round in July led by Sinai Ventures, Live Nation and Techstars. Previously in May, the startup partnered with Live Nation, the parent company of a ticket sales and distribution company, Ticketmaster to […]

As Beyonce loosely put it, we know who runs the world – girls (read: women). In the case of healthcare-related issues too, women are the ones who make most [80%] decisions for themselves and their families. Yet, the healthcare industry’s C-suite is still grossly underrepresented by women. Hence ‘women’s issues’ such as menstruation, contraception, infertility, […]