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Nonprofit Workplace Wellness Initiatives: United Way of Central Ohio

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

United Way of Ohio – Healthy Eating Event. Recently, colleague Neil Parekh the of the United Way called my attention to the to the United Way of Central Ohio and its employee wellness initiatives focused on healthy eating. I followed up with Christina Patel , the agency’s relationship manager to learn more.

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Branch raises $50M to offer bundled auto & home insurance via an API

TechCrunch

With this latest financing, Columbus, Ohio-based Branch has raised $82.5 The industry is structurally flawed and it harms consumers. Acrew, Cherry Creek Holdings and existing backers Greycroft, HSCM Bermuda, American Family Ventures, SignalFire, SCOR P&C Ventures, Foundation Capital and Tower IV also participated in the round.

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Branch snags $147M at a $1.05B valuation, showing that thorny insurtech market not impervious to growth

TechCrunch

With this latest financing, Columbus, Ohio–based Branch has raised $229.5 The structure is built to align incentives and provide members with as much savings as possible. Columbus, Ohio is quickly becoming the Midwest’s tech hub. million in total funding since its 2017 inception. Sign up here to get it in your inbox.

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Activ Surgical raises $45 million Series B round to give surgeons eagle eyes

TechCrunch

It’s in the process of developing new tools that give surgeons the ability to see otherwise invisible structures, and has plans to roll out those tools in the coming months. . Those include seven systems in New York, Buffalo, Texas, Ohio and Florida. . From that we’re able to do autonomous annotation and label key structures.

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Columbus-based Tribevest bags $3M for its collaborative investing platform

TechCrunch

Tribevest users leverage the LLC structure for decision-making, giving members executive roles and proposing and voting on group rules — all actions that are recorded on Tribevest’s platform. The Columbus, Ohio-based company just raised $3 million in seed funding to scale its business, a spokesperson for the company told TechCrunch.

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Loop launches out of stealth to make auto insurance more equitable

TechCrunch

Car auto-insurance from legacy providers has structural bias built into it. Structural bias is baked into financial services and institutions that perpetuate and reinforce [it],” said Nadeau, who has worked at Brookings Institute and studied at MIT around topics of mobility. “We Loop makes a gross commission on every policy it sells.

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Boring, mundane businesses have an exhilarating, viral life on TikTok

The Verge

People on the other side of the world are seeing my videos,” said Kelita Butler, who’s had videos go viral that show her filling tubes of lip gloss for her Fairborn, Ohio-based company TopSecret Bundles. “I I got an order in Finland, an order in Ireland.

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