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HR Superstars is the podcast for modern HR leaders who know people are the business. Hosted by Karina Young, VP of People at 15Five, each episode delivers bold conversations with visionary HR futurists…

Thinking about making the leap to voice AI agents? Join us for a practical look at what today’s voice agents can actually do and what it takes to deploy them successfully. We’ll break down real-world capabilities, common pitfalls, and how modern voice AI agents integrate with enterprise platforms to deliver a reliable, transparent, and scalable customer experience…

Be My Eyes (bemyeyes.com), the Accessibility Management company for people who are blind or have low vision, announced today Be My Eyes Workplace, a major new product focused on improving accessibility for blind and low vision employees in their work. Be My Eyes Workplace consists of software tools and services that break down the barriers of inaccessible IT desktops – from documents that are unreadable, to graphics that are illegible, and applications that are unnavigable. The AI-powered software interprets on-screen content, providing detailed context-aware descriptions of windows, desktop, file, image and even clipboard details. For more hands-on or application-specific assistance, Be My Eyes Workplace can also connect blind users to trusted sighted colleagues (or specially trained outsourced agents) with remote screen sharing and control…

Registration is now open for our newest installment of OUP’s Meet the VCs series, this time focused on food and agriculture. We’re pleased to have Kyle Welborn of Cultivation Capital and Alex Bondar of Acre Venture Partners joining us. Kyle will start us off with an overview of the 2025 AgTech area investment and exit data, observations on the various market sectors within AgTech, and key takeaways and trends within the data…

Force Equals, an AI-native enterprise planning operating system, today announced it has raised a $2.2 million Series Seed round led by Cultivation Capital, with participation from prior investors. The funding will be used to accelerate product development, expand go-to-market operations, and scale adoption of Force Equals’ AI Planning OS for enterprise software, AI, and business transformation initiatives…

Cultivation Capital, one of the St. Louis region’s largest venture capital and private equity firms, led a nearly $4.5 million funding round for FinOpsly, an artificial intelligence automation platform. FinOpsly works to connect cloud infrastructure, data platforms and AI pipelines into a unified view (what’s running, what it costs and what needs to happen next)…

During her first year as a student at WashU Medicine, Erica Barnell, MD, PhD, met a patient whose story would change the course of her career. The 52-year-old woman, diagnosed with late-stage colorectal cancer, explained that she’d never been screened — she simply couldn’t take the time off work for a colonoscopy. Barnell recognized a critical gap: colonoscopy, while highly effective, is burdensome, requiring preparation and recovery time that many patients cannot easily manage. Determined to find a better way, she co-founded Geneoscopy in 2015 with her brother, Andrew Barnell…

We’re thrilled to be named to HousingWire’s Tech100 Mortgage list for the ninth year in a row. Recognition like this reflects our longstanding focus on simplifying insurance for mortgage companies and their customers. Over these past nine years, we’ve had the opportunity to work with some great companies — including 100+ lenders, servicers, and banks that collectively process 20% of U.S. home loans…

SweetSpot, located in BioGenerator Labs inside Cortex, is built for endocrinology practices that care for patients using continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin pumps. These devices generate a constant stream of data, but most clinics do not have the tools or staffing capacity to monitor that information between routine visits. That’s where SweetSpot comes in…

We’re thrilled to be kicking off our 2026 Morning Hatch lineup with Marc Bernstein, Founder & CEO of Balto AI! Marc will be presenting on “Winning Your First Customer.” If you’re an entrepreneur, small business owner, and/or innovator, this is your chance to learn from someone who has truly seen success in many forms. We’ll see you this Wednesday at T-REX (5th Floor) from 11am-12pm…