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Excited for the Shark Tank event at Harvard Business School in Klarman Hall tomorrow at 5pm! We have evaluated over 100 Harvard ventures and narrowed it down to the Top 6. Kevin O'Leary, Sarah Paiji Yoo, and Matt Higgins will join me on the big stage and the winner will receive a $100,000 investment prize. I can promise you this will be highly entertaining and perhaps a little controversial, with many key learnings for aspiring founders. Please join us by live stream: https://hbs.me/sharktank

Earlier this month, the MEC Sprint brought together some of the brightest student founders from across campuses, and the energy was nothing short of electrifying! Over 36 hours, teams transformed raw ideas into fully developed solutions, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in such a short time. We were delighted to see so many people come together for a celebration of the entrepreneurial spirit! We had two tracks—our Main Track and Pre-Idea Track. Huge congratulations to our winning teams, Curiate and MechAI! 1st place in each track will move forward as finalists for Xfund’s Xperiment Stake and are set to pitch to Patrick S. Chung. Additionally, our 2nd and 3rd place teams will receive office hours with top industry mentors like Neo’s Ali Partovi, EWOR’s Daniel W. Dippold, or even a Z Fellows interview! Across the board, we saw incredible solutions tackling major challenges in healthcare, sustainability, and education. From AI-powered tools to revolutionize personalized learning, to tech making healthcare more accessible, every pitch was filled with passion and innovation. A huge thank you to Tuan Ho from XFund, Naysawn Naji, Shen Shen from MIT, the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, Red Bull, and everyone who helped make this event possible. To all the participants—this is just the beginning. We can’t wait to see what you do next! #MECsprint #Entrepreneurship #Innovation #MITStartups #Curiate #MechAI #Hackathon #MIT

AirOps has raised a $15.5 million Series A, lead Sandhya Hegde at Unusual Ventures, to help marketers turn their boldest, most ambitious ideas into massive growth outcomes. Over the past year, growth and marketing leaders have leveraged AirOps to achieve what was once thought impossible in organic channels. Their ambitions and successes inspire us daily, and we're excited to use this funding to help more of you bring AI-powered growth strategies to core of your business. We're at a pivotal moment. At OpenAI Dev Day this week, it was clear to all that models are reaching a tipping point—evolving into increasingly powerful and autonomous systems—the leverage available to the most creative minds has never been greater and is about to 10x. Disruptive moments like these bring both anxiety and excitement, but they also open doors to immense opportunities for those who lean in and have the right tools. After 15 years in startups—from MasterClass to Bungalow—part of me wishes I were building growth teams right now. But I'm even more thrilled to be creating the tools that empower those teams to reach their full potential. A massive thank you to everyone in the AirOps community, our incredible team, and the investors who've backed us on this journey: the whole team at Unusual Ventures, Zachary DeWitt at Wing Venture Capital, Micah Rosenbloom at Founder Collective, Patrick and Brandon at Xfund, Jack Altman at Alt Capital, and angel investors Lauryn Motamedi (Isford), David Rogier, Hillary Bush and JD Ross. We're just getting started, and I can't wait to see what you'll build on AirOps. Article below.

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It's definitely been one heck of a journey to get here with lots of ups and downs, but I'm thrilled to share Kudos has raised another round of funding and we're very excited for this next chapter! Thanks to Xfund, Oversubscribed Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Freedom Trail Capital, TiE Global Angels, Net Zero Angels, Reverb Capital and others for believing in our vision and supporting us on this next step of our journey. Brandon Farwell Patrick S. Chung Charles Hudson Phil Schwarz Sara Foster Jason Scott Matt McLane Shoutout to the best team who have worked tirelessly to make this possible! Ilan Tagger Moira Finicane Isabelle Keba Tanner Wildason James Keighley Most importantly thanks to the many of you who have been loyal customers from the very beginning. None of this would be possible without your love and support of our diapers!