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Inner City Opportunity Zone on TruCrowd

Inner City Opportunity Zone (ICOZ), with a pre-money valuation of $2.5 million, is raising funds on TruCrowd. ICOZ is a private real estate investment company that acquires, renovates, and manages properties on behalf of private and institutional clients. The company specializes in depressed and underperforming assets. The current round of crowdfunding has a minimum target [...]


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Lenmo on SeedInvest

Lenmo, with a pre-money valuation of $10 million, is raising crowdfunding on SeedInvest. The lending platform of Lenmo allows businesses, financial institutions, and individuals to invest in the small-amount loan market. Thus, it provides platforms for both investors to make short-term investments with high returns, and borrowers to get small amount of loans. Lenmo was [...]


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Goods Unite Us on SeedInvest

Goods Unite Us, with a valuation cap of $4 million, is raising crowdfunding on SeedInvest. The Goods Unite Us application combines US politics and shopping by allowing users to see and buy brands that support a particular politician. Goods Unite Us provides political connections of over 4,000 brands. The company was founded by Abigail Wuest, [...]


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Aavrani on Republic

Aavrani, a premium skincare brand with a valuation cap of $5 million, is raising funds on Republic. The products of Aavrani are inspired by natural and ancient Indian beauty rituals. The company also supports young women’s education by sharing a part of its earnings with the Shanti Bhavan School in India. The beauty ritual of [...]


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SelenBio on NetCapital

SelenBio, a biotechnology company with a post-money valuation of $20.7 million, is raising funds on NetCapital. The company develops an antibacterial technology that prevents the formation of biofilm in dental, medical, industrial, and consumer applications. SelenBio uses a unique selenium-based compound, SELDOX, to keep the applications infection-free. The company was founded by Kenny Gallagher and [...]


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Cheesed off European dairy producers dismayed at U.S. tariffs

European cheese makers complained on Thursday of being held "hostage" in a transatlantic trade battle that had nothing to do with them after the United States slapped 25% tariffs on the sector in retaliation for state aid to aerospace group Airbus.



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Avenify on Republic

Avenify, a marketplace lending platform for Income Share Agreements, is raising funds on Republic. The company has a valuation cap of $4 million and is revolutionizing the student financing market. Avenify helps the students to fund their education through ISAs rather than traditional loans. By doing so, students do not need to pay interest on [...]


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WeWork seen as startup lesson in what not to do in Silicon Valley

The implosion of office space company WeWork this week is being digested as a lesson for Silicon Valley startups - in what not to do.



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Wall Street gains as dour services data raises rate-cut expectations

Wall Street climbed on Thursday after data showing services-sector activity at a three-year low fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates to stem a wider economic downturn.



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U.S. seeks advertising, sales data on e-cigarette companies

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has ordered a half-dozen e-cigarette companies to turn over sales and advertising data, the federal regulator said on Thursday, in the first sign of a likely probe into their marketing practices.



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U.S. recession risks up as services growth hits three-year low

U.S. services sector activity slowed to a three-year low in September amid rising concerns about tariffs, suggesting that trade tensions were spilling over to the broader economy.



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Fighting GM puts a financial squeeze on striking union workers

While striking workers at General Motors Co's U.S. auto plants continue walking picket lines for a third week to demand better pay and benefits, the financial pressure has mounted for union members like Frank Lee.



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Oil ends little changed after touching near two-month lows

U.S. crude futures were slightly lower on Thursday, drawing some support from the stock market after earlier touching nearly two-month lows on weak economic data.



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Global stocks crawl up slightly as weak U.S. data spurs hopes of Fed rate cut

The latest weaker-than-expected U.S. economic data on Thursday fed hopes that the Federal Reserve would cut U.S. interest rates this month, which helped lift global equities slightly after two days of declines, but investors also parked some funds in U.S. Treasuries and other safe-haven assets.



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Wall Street gains as weak services data raises rate-cut expectations

Wall Street stocks climbed on Thursday after data showing U.S. services-sector activity at a three-year low fueled expectations that the Federal Reserve would cut interest rates to stem a wider economic downturn.



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