This week on For Starters Inc., I spoke with Melissa Bernstein, best known for co-founding iconic toy company Melissa & Doug. Today, she is Co-Founder + Chief Creative Officer of Lifelines, a company reinventing adult wellbeing products. Here: bit.ly/3VI7paD

I’m excited to finally announce our $6M seed round led by Inspired Capital
and with participation from an all-star group of angel investors, including Ray Lewis, Adam Lyons, MR, Michael Flaxman, and David Petersen.

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It’s been a wild journey building…

Congrats to Axion Ray + Daniel First on their Series A milestone, a testament to the efficacy of their AI command center that helps leading manufacturers solve emerging issues ahead of the curve.

More here via TechCrunch: bit.ly/49N3OMB

Talking to Alexa von Tobel, CFP, you wouldn't know that we're in the middle of a startup funding crunch.

After raising her third fund, the Inspired Capital founder is sitting on a $330M mountain of cash, and she's ready to spend it.

For Inc.

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This week on Inspired in 15, our four partners discuss Inspired III, our new $330M fund committed to backing fearless founders solving the hardest challenges facing humanity.

Tune in here: bit.ly/3IkIrpW

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Huge thanks to Christine Hall TechCrunch for sharing the news of Inspired III ⬇️

This week on Inspired in 15, Charlotte Ross sat down with Praveen Ramineni of Portrait to chat all about the future of aesthetics. Tune in here: bit.ly/48ef03r

New: The cheapest way to trade options

Today, we’re introducing options trading on Public, and with it, we’ll be sharing 50% of our options trading revenue directly with you. Activate by March 31 to lock in your lifetime rebate.

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This week on Inspired in 15, Charlotte Ross speaks with Sandra Clarke of Blue Shield of CA all about the future of American healthcare. Listen here: bit.ly/3HfRbgr

📢Introducing Finix Payouts!📢Send funds at a price that’s friendly to your bottom line: finix.com/payouts
✓Real-time payouts to cards 365/24/7
✓ Next-day payouts to bank accounts via ACH
✓Go live the same day vs weeks or months
✓ Real-time reporting
✓ All in 1 API

You can make great music, whether you're a shower singer or a charting artist. No instrument needed, just imagination.

Make your song today at suno.ai 🎧

This week on Inspired in 15, Claire Pan speaks with Rajeev Shah of Celona all about the future of 5G. Tune into the full episode here: bit.ly/3GINIXt

🥕 Instacart in Maple!?!

Meal-planning, grocery shopping and cooking is a lot of work for families. That’s why we’ve been quietly building an @instacart checkout experience into Maple’s shopping list — and the wait is finally over!

Introducing: Bonds on Public.

The process of finding, evaluating, and buying thousands of corporate, Treasury, and soon, municipal bonds, has never been easier. Discover how we’re bringing fixed income into the 21st century.

public.com/bonds

Last summer, @JoinSaturn reached the top of the App Store charts—and stayed there. This is incredibly rare.

As I dug in and chatted with the founders Max Baron and Dylan Diamond, I was blown away by how methodically they were able to articulate what it takes to build a viral…

This week on Inspired in 15, Kamran Ali sat down with David Selinger of Deep Sentinel to chat all about the future of AI-based security.

Tune in here: bit.ly/3GqOzvQ

This week on Inspired in 15, Alexa von Tobel, CFP sat down with Liana DouilletGuzman of FOLX HEALTH to chat all about the future of specialty healthcare. Tune into the full episode here: bit.ly/3G17PQy

Excited to see Forbes recognize @ComprehensiveIO and our CEO @Roger_Lee for our work advancing pay transparency!

This year's Future of Work list highlights 50 leaders, executives, thinkers and teams rethinking the world of work in 2023.

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