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Leap, a ‘social learning’ platform aimed at over 55s, raises a $3.1M seed round

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Leap , a platform for people over 55 to learn via social interaction, has raised $3.1 Leap was founded by Swedish entrepreneur Caroline Ingeborn, former CEO of Toca Boca, a Swedish app development studio that builds learning apps for kids, and Vishal Kapur, former CTO and co-founder of Screenhero, which was acquired by Slack in 2015.

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Social listening app Earbuds raises $3 million in Series A funding

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Ten years later, Earbuds has raised a $3 million Series A round for its social listening app, led by Ecliptic Capital with additional investment from the Andre Agassi Foundation and LFG Ventures. Tech veteran Drew Larner also came aboard as a senior advisor and investor — in 2015, he sold the streaming app Rdio to Pandora.

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South Africa’s Flow gets funding to automate social media advertising for real estate agencies

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And it’s evident that proptech, unlike other industries, has lagged in utilizing social media to make sales. With its APIs, Flow connects to the websites of estate agencies and property developers and automates advertising for them on social media channels like Instagram and Facebook. Does everyone want to be a landlord, or what?

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Inpathy aims to be a social network that mirrors real human experience

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There have been countless studies about the damaging effects of social media on mental health, particularly on teens. And yet, most of us just can’t quit social networking. Enter Inpathy , a new kind of social network — a “healthy” one. The end goal is to bring more wellness to the social network world.

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli gets $10M led by Go Ventures

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Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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Gen Z social app Yubo rolls out age ‘estimating’ technology to better identify minors using its service

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Yubo , a social livestreaming app popular with a Gen Z audience, announced today it’s becoming one of the first major social platforms to adopt a new age verification technique that uses live image capture technology to identify minors using its app, in order to keep them separated from adult users.

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Can social and e-commerce transform the future of the open web?

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When Automattic acquired WooCommerce in 2015 , the move went mostly unnoticed in the broader tech community. Despite WooCommerce’s popularity (its plugin was among the top 10 most popular for WordPress), its success was mostly contained within the broader WordPress ecosystem.

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