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

TechCrunch

I still look back on all the time that I spent as a teen, crushed by stigma and afraid to talk about mental health with my friends and family,” says the Stanford grad. Called Somethings , Gilligan’s now 14-month-old, New York-based startup is the outcome of that effort. The product itself is fairly straightforward.

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Forget the piggy bank, Till Financial’s kids’ spend management app gets Gates’ backing

TechCrunch

Today’s children and teens want more power and control over their spending. The New York-based company’s banking platform is designed to encourage “open and honest” discussions between parents and their kids. And it has just raised $5 million to help it advance on that goal. It was just me handing over cash or a card.”.

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Instagram chief Adam Mosseri to testify before Congress

The Verge

Instagram chief Adam Mosseri will testify before Congress for the first time next month, as first reported by The New York Times on Wednesday. Those parents, and the twenty million teens that use your app, have a right to know the truth about the safety of Instagram.”. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

London-based Kodland , which started out back in 2018 offering in-person courses for children to learn digital skills like computer programming before switching focus to online learning from early 2020, has closed a $9 million Series A funding round to scale into more markets. Ireland, the U.S., Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Elaine Cohen: The New York Public Library. 100 Years of the flagship library in New York. Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Several states are investigating how Instagram keeps kids on the platform

The Verge

A group of state attorneys general has announced an investigation into “the techniques utilized by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement” of children and teens on Instagram and the negative effects that may cause ( via The Wall Street Journal ). Meta is concerned about young people not using its products.

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How 4 New Jersey pools turned into a startup that just raised $10M

TechCrunch

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. The Cedarhurst, New York-based company launched a beta in 2018, starting with four pools in the New Jersey area. . “We The arrangement sparked a business idea in Laskin’s mind.