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GoodrCo. takes local produce and gives it back to the community to directly fight local hunger. Not only do they pick up edible food waste from businesses and donate it to local nonprofits, they also partner with organic waste haulers to ensure that items that can’t be eaten are properly disposed of. Overall, they’ve stopped nearly 3 million pounds of food from being dumped in the landfill. Startup Savant

Rebundle, a hair-focused startup based in St. Louis, announced that it has raised $1.4 million in a pre-seed round. M25, a venture firm with a geographic focus on the Midwest, led the funding event. Prior to its pre-seed round, Rebundle had raised what CEO and co-founder Ciara Imani May described as six-figures worth of grant, and other non-dilutive capital in an interview with TechCrunch. TechCrunch

Curie’s Clay Detox Mask is made with activated charcoal, kaolin and bentonite clay, and wakame extract. The charcoal and clays are meant to draw out impurities and toxins, while the wakame helps extract heavy metals and free radicals. Popsugar

Food rescue company Goodr uses proprietary technology and data to match food surplus to those in need. The company addresses the supply chain for surplus food, and they count the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport as a client. Forbes

The New York Times Company has reached an agreement to buy The Athletic, the online sports news outlet with 1.2 million subscriptions, in an all-cash deal valued at $550 million, The Times said on Thursday. The New York Times

Carrot Fertility, the fertility healthcare and family-forming benefits provider for employers and health plans, is launching new capabilities for members to perform at-home fertility hormone and related biomarker monitoring. Femtech Insider

PicnicHealth, Superhuman, Noyo and Intellimize were honored in Built In’s 2022 Best Small Companies to Work for in San Francisco awards. Built In

Carrot Fertility was named one of the best remote-first companies to work for in 2022 by Built In. Built In

The Daily Beast spoke exclusively with Pepper’s founder to get the lowdown on the brand’s new body-positive version of the iconic push-up bra. The Daily Beast

As part of their series about ‘5 Steps We Must Take To Truly Create An Inclusive, Representative, and Equitable Society’ Authority Magazine interviewed Andrea Guendelman, founder and CEO of Speak_. Authority Magazine

The Beans was named one of seven tech companies who could spark revolution in 2022 by Tech.co. Tech.co

Here’s why Libin, who’s also the co-founder and CEO of All Turtles and Mmhmm, is all in on distributed work–and how you can be, too. Inc.

Digital Health Business & Technology sat down with Erica Jain, CEO and cofounder of Healthie, a practice management and telehealth solution for health and wellness providers, to get her take on why investors have underinvested in women’s health and why that’s starting to change. Digital Health Business & Technology

Curie’s Whipped Body Wash is TSA-approved to bring in your carry-on suitcase, and it even doubles as shaving cream. Travel & Leisure

Sounding Board, Inc, the first customizable leadership coaching platform that combines technology and coaching to drive measurable business impact, was recognized with a coveted Brandon Hall Group bronze award for tech excellence in the Best Advance in Online Coaching Tools category. Sounding Board’s award was announced earlier this month on the heels of the company’s recent news of its Series B fund. HRTech News

“Lori was a leadership coach for many years, and for the first 15 to 20 years of her career, she only coached white men, because that’s who was at the highest levels of executive leadership within some of the Fortune 500 companies,” Tao said. “And all of her clients told her, ‘Man, I wish I had access to this earlier.'” Tao approached Mazan about joining her, and the two cofounded Sounding Board, a digital executive-coaching service, in 2016. Sounding Board matches employees with a leadership coach for online meetings while tracking their goals, progress, and business metrics. Business Insider

The team at Finix is excited to announce that we have won the 2021 Enabling Technology Leadership Award in Payments from Frost & Sullivan! We want to bask in the glow of this award for a little bit…but also want you to know that this is an excellent indicator of Finix’s position as an innovator in payments technology. Finix

Fertility testing can provide some clarity to those fighting to conceive, and with its newly launched at-home test, benefit provider Carrot Fertility just made access to that information much simpler. The company teamed up with imaware, a digital health solutions provider, to create a simple and comprehensive home test. Employee Benefit News

Each year, billions of pounds of food — from barely bruised fruit to uneaten gourmet lunches intended for executive dining rooms — go to waste in the U.S. As that refuse rots in landfills, some 38 million people face hunger in this country each year, according to Feeding America, a nonprofit network of food banks and food pantries across the country. That problem only intensified when COVID-19 forced many people out of jobs and raised costs of medical care and child care for others, taking a big toll on grocery budgets. So it has taken outside-the-lunchbox thinking of entrepreneurs like Atlanta-based Jasmine Crowe and her benefit corporation, or B Corp., Goodr, to provide the speedy technological link and new thinking to more efficiently tap sources of food waste: corporations, grocery retailers and facilities such as airports. MarketWatch

It started as a Stanford assignment and now it’s an annual matchmaking tradition at 64 college campuses. Can it break into the online dating market? INPUT