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Qeepsake, a journaling app that helps families capture and store memories, raises $2M

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Qeepsake , a New York-based family journaling app, has raised $2 million in seed funding. Text, photo and video responses are then automatically organized into digital journals in Qeepsake’s app. Once you sign up for the app, you’re asked to add your child’s name or nickname to create a journal for them.

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How Lydia wants to make payments more personal and social

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The company started as a peer-to-peer payment app for the French market. More importantly, the company is positioning its mobile app as a social product — not a fintech product. A fintech app or a social app. That seems a bit odd at first, but Lydia truly believes it has a shot at building the best social journaling app.

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Alms is a social app focused on real-world impact and positive change

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A number of startups are experimenting with what a better social app could look like. For a startup called Alms , the answer is a social network that focuses on users’ well-being through participation in creator-led challenges in areas like personal growth, sustainability, and others with positive impacts. Image Credits: Alms.

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Humans and AI: AI, Marketing, and Behavioral Economics

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Shopping was a social experience. In this time of social distancing, we order supplies on the internet and have them delivered to our homes. confirmed that this cognitive limit on social relationships extends to social media. AI, Sales, and Marketing. He remembered our usual orders and favorite cuts of meat.

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TipTip uses a hyperlocal strategy to help Southeast Asian creators monetize

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But many of them don’t have the social media clout to attract advertisers. Based on research they sourced from Research and Markets, Digital Journal and Statista, they found that the creator economy in Southeast Asia has a projected CAGR of about 10% to 30%. In our case, promoters help creators sell their digital content.”.

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Countable brings in $12M for virtual brand communities

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In fact, the San Francisco-based company started out in solutions-based journalism, providing content around communities and people who wanted to drive outcomes. Instead, Countable is taking a cue from the positives of social media to build technology that nurtures more authentic communication and facilitates business and social outcomes.

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Group Nine Media forms a SPAC to fund acquisitions

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These blank-check corporations, as they’re also known, have become a popular way to raise money from the public markets. ” But it says it’s interested in digital media companies, as well as those in “adjacent industries” such as social media, e-commerce, events, digital publishing and marketing. .”

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