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Illinois lawmakers have been experimenting with a troubling idea. They are quietly turning law enforcement over to private actors.Recently adopted laws empower private actors, defined as “interested part[ies],” to sue employers for alleged statutory “violations.” Under these new provisions, special… Source link
African startups raised only $2.2 billion in 2024, representing just 0.6% of global startup funding, highlighting a massive financing gap that leaves promising tech entrepreneurs without the capital needed to scale digital solutions across the continent. Only 5% of African seed-stage startups successfully secure Series A funding—85% lower than the global average—underscoring the critical importance […]
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR) — Many small businesses and local restaurants have been forced to close up shop for several days due to recent winter storms and the subsequent impacts to roadways. For many of these local favorites, even a few days of unplanned closure can make a massive difference when it comes to managing financial […]
Manny González has run Manny’s Tortas, his Mexican sandwich booth inside Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, with his 68-year-old sister for more than 25 years. Since early December, four of his 10 employees have stopped showing up to work, out of fear they will be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, he says. […]
U.S. homes have more pets than children. And it’s pretty lopsided. If the American Pet Products Association is to be believed, about 70% of American households have at least one pet, while, per the last U.S. Census, only about 40% of homes include a child younger than 18. “Pets have become family, and we’re absolutely […]
If you had asked Katey Foor a few years ago to open a restaurant, she would have laughed. Though she had plenty of food service experience, entrepreneurship was not something Foor saw for herself. That is, until late 2024, when she opened Katey’s Café, which serves breakfast and lunch out of the Centier Bank Building […]
The creators of the open source project vLLM have announced that they transitioned the popular tool into a VC-backed startup, Inferact, raising $150 million in seed funding at an $800 million valuation. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed Venture Partners, confirming TechCrunch’s earlier reporting that vLLM has raised capital from a16z. Inferact’s […]
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Three startup founders from New York and California who spent a year living rent-free in Huntsville say the experience was transformative. “I think it’s very clear that our company would not exist if it wasn’t for the opportunity to live there,” Maurice Landers, chief technology officer of Doctours, who has since relocated to San Francisco, […]