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Guardians Collective wants to make parenting easier, or at least less alone

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Guardians Collective brings together small groups of families and pairs them with an early childhood educator, a broad term that can describe a professional who has experience working in early learning and development programs or is licensed in a state to run a day care. Image Credits: Guardians Collective.

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Expressable launches with millions for scalable speech therapy

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The early-stage startup is launching with an explicit focus on serving the approximately five million children in the United States that have a communication disorder. Put simply, Expressable connects children to speech-language pathologists on a recurring basis. million seed round. What it does.

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How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

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For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

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Youth mental health startup Somethings launches with a $3.2M raise led by General Catalyst

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When he was 10 years old, Patrick Gilligan’s childhood struggle with food began. Further, while 30% of children and adolescents develop anxiety, only 20% seek treatment, per the Child Mind Institute (CMI). According to the CDC, a whopping 40% of teens in the United States are consistently sad or hopeless.

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OK Goes its own way

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Green room discussions involved topics like how much screen time is too much, and at one point, guitarist Andy Ross pauses our interview mid-sentence to call his children before they head to school.) With little more guiding the decision than artistic license, OK Go has decided that the ambitious videos it creates will still be ambitious.

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MyHeritage and D-ID partner to bring photos to life with both animations and voice

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MyHeritage licensed the new technology from D-ID, a Tel Aviv-based startup that works to create patented video reenactment technology powered by A.I. Perry imagines how users could upload their own childhood photos, those of family members, or even historical figures, then animate them in the metaverse, and have conversations.

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It’s time for the VC community to stop overlooking the childcare industry

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If you include school-age care and education for all children under 18, that number grows to $212 billion. In 2020, only $171 million was invested in care and early childhood education. Caring for and educating young children takes training, skill and love — it cannot be done by a computer.