Fizz social app’s CEO on why anon works

whistle The betting is that Gen Z is tired of performing their lives on Instagram and TikTok. What started as a pandemic-era group chat frustration has turned into the premier social platform on college campuses across America, focused on the 99% of lives that don’t make it to the highlight reel. While garnering the attention…

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Can AI fix the operating room? This startup thinks so

There’s a lot of hype about AI and robots in health care, but the problem that’s costing hospitals money right now is operating room coordination. Two to four hours of OR time is lost every day, not because of the surgery itself, but because of everything from manual scheduling and coordination chaos to guessing about…

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How Glīd won Startup Battlefield 2025: Mentorship, mission-focus, and meditation 

Isabelle leads Startup Battlefield, TechCrunch’s prestigious Launchpad and competition for the world’s most promising early-stage startups. You can contact Isabelle by email or verify outreach at isabelle.johannessen@techcrunch.com, She searches for top founders in 99+ countries and prepares them to pitch on the Disrupt platform to tier-one investors and global media. Prior to TechCrunch, he designed…

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