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  • (Funding Recap #7) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 5/27/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. Subeca, led by Patrick Keaney, has raised a $6 million Series A funding round. Subeca has built a smart water meter register that retrofits onto a majority of existing water meters in under one minute, essentially making dumb meters smart.

    2. Ketos, led by Meena Sankaran, has raised a $10 million Equity Growth funding round. Ketos provides real-time water analytics and intelligence to enable smarter and sustainable farms, cities, and industries.

    3. XGS Energy, led by Josh Prueher, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. XGS Energy provides a proprietary solid-state geothermal system that uses thermally conductive materials to deliver affordable energy anywhere there is hot rock.

    4. 280 Earth, led by John Pimentel, has raised a $50 million Series B funding round. 280 Earth aims to scale up and commercialize innovative direct air capture technology developed at X, The Moonshot Factory (Google X).

    5. WitnessAI, led by Rick Caccia, has raised a $27.5 million Series A funding round. WitnessAI is deployed as an isolated, cloud-based instance for each customer, encrypted with their own keys to ensure data privacy and regulatory separation.

    6. Simr, led by Burak Yenier, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. Simr aims to help manufacturers by advancing SimOps, the practice of automating simulation processes to improve decision-making, innovation, efficiency, and quality in product design and engineering.

    7. Coactive, led by Cody Coleman, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round. Coactive uses AI to allow users to manage, categorize, and retrieve visual data such as images and videos for applications ranging from intelligent search to video analytics – no metadata or tags required, creating an enterprise-grade operating system for visual content.

    8. InfinitForm, led by Dr. Michael Bogomolny, has raised an undisclosed Seed funding round. InfinitForm provides engineering GenAI software that streamlines the design-to-manufacturing process, integrating with various manufacturing methods to optimize cost, speed, efficiency, and performance.

    9. Aeromine Technologies, led by David Asarnow, has raised a $9 million Series A funding round. Aeromine has developed a breakthrough scalable renewable energy solution that harnesses the power of wind in an efficient system.

    10. Aerodome, led by Rahul Sidhu, has raised a $21.5 million Series A funding round. Aerodome is a Drone-As-First-Responder (DFR) technology company using an integrated, automated, and remote software operating system to equip agencies with advanced, 24/7 DFR capabilities.

    11. Patronus AI, led by Anand Kannappan, has raised a $17 million Series A funding round. Patronus AI provides an automated evaluation and security platform that helps companies detect large language model (LLM) mistakes at scale.

    12. Verse, led by Seyed Madaeni, has raised a $20.5 million Series A funding round. Verse provides software that helps companies reduce their electricity costs and scope 2 emissions at the same time.

    13. SOCRadar, led by Huzeyfe Onal, has raised a $25.2 million Series B funding round. SOCRadar is a cybersecurity company committed to delivering advanced threat intelligence solutions that enable organizations to proactively defend against cyber threats.

    14. ThinkLabs AI, led by Josh Wong, has raised a $5 million Seed funding round. ThinkLabs AI is a specialized AI development and deployment company which aims to empower critical industries and infrastructure with AI towards global energy sustainability.

    15. Traction Ag, led by Dustin Sapp, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round. Traction Ag provides farmers and ranchers with the functionality and data they need to make critical decisions on the farm.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    18 min
  • (Funding Recap #6) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 5/20/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. Pepper, led by Bowie Cheung, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round. Pepper is an eCommerce platform for food services, convenience stores, and other marketplaces, which features a suite of AI powered tools for the distributor sales rep and customers to grow their market share.

    2. Ndustrial, led by Jason Massey, has raised a $18.5 million Series B funding round. Ndustrial's AI-powered platform brings together hard-to-access production and energy data from nearly any industrial system to give customers a real-time understanding of energy intensity.

    3. Orange Charger, led by Nicholas Johnson, has raised a $6.5 million Seed funding round. Orange provides an Energy Management Solution for multi family homes.

    4. PayHOA, led by Mike Bollinger, has raised a $27.5M Series A funding round. PayHOA is modern software for HOAs and association managers.

    5. Laws of Motion, led by Carly Bigi, has raised a $5 million Seed funding round. Laws of Motion is an AI sizing technology company.

    6. Bedrock Materials, led by Spencer Gore, has raised a $9 million Seed funding round. Bedrock Materials specializes in producing essential materials for low-cost, eco-friendly sodium-ion batteries, which are seen as an alternative to lithium-ion versions, utilizing affordable, widely available materials.

    7. Gamma, led by Grant Lee, has raised a $12 million Series A funding round. Gamma provides an AI powered presentation platform that allows users to share links async, export pdfs, and save images.

    8. GoodShip, led by Ryan Soskin, has raised a $8 million Series A funding round. GoodShip enhances shipper’s TMS with a suite of features designed to optimize spend and service outcomes.

    9. Voxel51, led by Brian Moore, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round. Voxel51 provides open source and commercial software that enables teams to build datasets and computer vision models that power machine learning and artificial intelligence applications.

    10. AssetWatch, led by Brian Graham, has raised a $38 million Series B funding round. AssetWatch specializes in predictive maintenance solutions, providing an end-to-end remote condition monitoring service to eliminate unplanned downtime and optimize operations for global manufacturers.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    11 min
  • (Funding Recap #5) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 5/13/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. ChangeEngine, led by Andrew Higashi, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round. ChangeEngine syncs with employee data, creates persona segments for targeted communication, aligns visual content with brand identity, and offers a suite of AI creator tools alongside a curated template library for launching workplace initiatives effectively.

    2. Daloopa, led by Thomas Li, has raised a $18 million Series B funding round. Daloopa has developed AI-driven technology to source, organize and distribute historical dataset globally.

    3. Zanskar, led by Carl Hoiland, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round. Zanskar is an AI-native geothermal developer leveraging a suite of new technologies to improve the geothermal discovery and development process.

    4. Anetac, led by Tim Eades, has raised a $16 million Seed funding round. Anetac is a provider of a dynamic identity and security platform that offers continuous visibility of the ever-evolving service account landscape that every organization encounters today.

    5. Numeric, led by Parker Gilbert, has raised a $10 million Seed funding round. Numeric provides an AI accounting automation platform.

    6. Honeycomb, led by Itai Ben-Zaken, has raised a $36 million Series B funding round. Honeycomb is a P&C insurer covering landlords and condo associations in the U.S.

    7. Paxafe, led by Ilya Preston, has raised a $14 million Series A funding round. Paxafe delivers autonomous AI-enabled decision support for quality, transportation, and logistics leaders, helping them extract value and resiliency from their existing visibility solutions.

    8. Xona Space Systems, led by Brian Manning, has raised a $19 million Series A funding round. Xona Space Systems is developing an independent high-performance satellite navigation and timing system to meet the needs of intelligent systems.

    9. Rapid Liquid Print, led by Schendy Kernizan, has raised a $7 million Series A funding round. Rapid Liquid Print provides 3D printers that can produce large-scale, high-resolution, soft and stretchable products in minutes.

    10. Lucid Bots, led by Andrew Ashur, has raised a $9.1 million Series A funding round. Lucid Bots is an AI robotics company that is committed to building productive and responsible robots that can do dangerous and demanding tasks.

    11. Li Industries, led by Dr. Zheng Li, has raised a $36 million Series B funding round. Li Industries is a climate tech company developing next-generation lithium-ion battery recycling technologies.

    12. DatologyAI, led by Ari Morcos, has raised a $46 million Series A funding round. DatologyAI is an AI-data curation startup that develops deep learning tools for automatic selection in data training.

    13. Artisan AI, led by Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, has raised a $7.3 million Seed funding round. Artisan AI provides autonomous AI employees, and a unified platform to replace the entire SaaS stack, so that humans and AI can work together and enterprise teams can stop context switching.

    14. Princenton NuEnergy (PNE), led by Dr. Chao Yan, has raised a $26.4 million Series A funding round. PNE has developed a low-temperature plasma-assisted separation process (LPAS™), a patented technology that reduces costs, environmental waste, and carbon emissions commonly associated with lithium-ion battery recycling.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    11 min
  • (Funding Recap #4) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 5/6/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. Backflip, led by Josh Ernst, has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. Backflip is a real estate financial technology company that supports entrepreneurs to acquire and renovate single family homes, thereby reinvigorating the housing supply and their local communities.

    2. Mimic, led by Derek Smith, has raised a $27 million Seed funding round. Mimic's SaaS platform provides enterprises with detection, deflection, and rapid recovery from ransomware attacks, preventing infrastructure damage or data theft.

    3. Arbol, led by Sid Jha, has raised a $60 million Series B funding round. Arbol provides climate risk management solutions which combine Its technology ecosystem with automated structuring, AI-powered underwriting, pricing tools, and platforms for agents and brokers.

    4. Trovo Health, led by Niren Gandra, has raised a $15 million Seed funding round. Trovo uses an AI-powered platform backed by a multidisciplinary care team to help providers extend their capabilities.

    5. Invent Analytics, led by Gurhan Kok, has raised a $17 million Series B funding round. Invent is a provider of advanced analytics solutions for retailers and FMCG companies.

    6. Thintronics, led by Stefan Pastine, has raised a $23 million Series A funding round. Thintronics supplies high-performance insulators for emerging AI datacenter, networking, and RF/millimeter-wave (mmW) applications.

    7. Peregrine, led by Nick Noone, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round. Peregrine an advanced data integration platform that improves emergency response efforts and reduces violent crime by making existing data more accessible, understandable, and actionable.

    8. Inhabitr, led by Ankur Agrawal, has raised a $27 million Series B funding round. Inhabitr provides an AI-powered commercial real estate furnishing platform that offers an end-to-end solution covering design, procurement, installation, and financing.

    9. Danti, led by Jesse Kallman, has raised a $5 million Seed funding round. Danti provides an Earth data search engine to enable expert and non-expert users to pose simple questions about physical places on the planet to access the information generated daily by satellites, drones, analytics firms, social media, news and more.

    10. Log10, led by Arjun Bansal, has raised a $7.2 million Seed funding round. Log10 has built a platform for developers to build and scale LLM-powered applications by employing AI and synthetic data to mimic human review.

    11. Shinkei Systems, led by Saif Khawaja, has raised a $6 million Seed funding round. Shinkei has developed a system that combines machine learning, robotics, and centuries-old fish harvesting techniques into a robotic process producing a sustainable product by eliminating waste and the stress on each fish.

    12. ChurnKey, led by Nick Fogle, has raised a $1.5 million Seed funding round. Churnkey provides a platform that gives a wide range of retention products, including personalized cancellation flows, failed payment recovery, precision credit card retries, and host of customer-centric subscription optimizations.

    13. Seam AI, led by Nicholas Scavone, has raised a $5 million Seed funding round. Seam AI is an AI interface for customer data where “business users” can get questions answered, get summaries, and sync information across GTM tools.

    14. Lamini, led by Sharon Zhou, has raised a $25 million Seed and Series A funding round. Lamini makes it possible for enterprises to turn proprietary data into the next generation of LLM capabilities, by offering a platform for in-house software teams to uplevel to OpenAI-level AI teams and to build within the security of their existing infrastructure.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    14 min
  • (Funding Recap #3) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 4/29/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. Exowatt, led by Hannan Parvizian, has raised a $20 million Seed funding round. Exowatt provides a modular energy platform designed to power energy-intensive data centers.

    2. Nominal, led by Cameron McCord, has raised both a $7.5M Seed + a $20M Series A funding round. Nominal provides a comprehensive data analysis platform and modern workflows specifically tailored to the needs of engineering teams that develop, validate, and monitor hardware to allow for rapid and accurate review of test data and the validation of critical systems.

    3. Campus, led by Tade Oyerinde, has raised a $23 million Series A extension round. Campus is on a mission to maximize access to a world-class education.

    4. Prime Intellect, led by Vincent Weisser, has raised a $5.5 million Seed funding round. Prime Intellect is a decentralized AI platform and protocol giving access to compute and intelligence.

    5. HighByte, led by Tony Paine, has raised a $12 million Series A funding round. HighByte is an industrial software company that has developed an Industrial DataOps software solution, HighByte Intelligence Hub, that enables manufacturers to merge, prepare, and deliver modeled industrial data to and from IT systems without writing or maintaining code.

    6. Clarity Pediatrics, led by Christina LaMontagne, has raised a $10 million Seed funding round. Clarity Pediatrics provides pediatric chronic care, starting with ADHD.

    7. Auxa Health, led by Monica Chopra, has raised a $5.2M Seed funding round. Auxa Health is a care management co-pilot that supports benefit navigation.

    8. Summer Health, led by Ellen DaSilva, has raised a $11.65M Series A funding round. Summer Health is a text-based companion to a family’s primary pediatrician, removing the need for unnecessary visits and serving as support anytime and anywhere.

    9. Nooks, led by Dan Lee, has raised a $22 million Series A funding round. Nooks provides a platform for sales teams prospecting over the phone.

    10. Chemix, led by Kaixiang Lin, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. Chemix is an EV battery developer that uses GenAI.

    11. Radical, led by James Thomas, has raised a $4.5 million Seed funding round. Radical makes high altitude solar-powered aircraft engineered to operate autonomously in the stratosphere, flying over targeted areas for months without the need to land.

    12. Anon, led by Daniel Mason, has raised a $6.5 million Seed funding round. Anon is building the infrastructure to unlock the potential of AI applications by providing a secure way for billions of agents to authenticate and operate across the internet.

    13. Alaffia Health, led by TJ Ademiluyi, has raised a $10 million Series A funding round. Alaffia Health is a healthtech company that uses machine learning and AI to proactively eliminate provider fraud, waste, and abuse in healthcare claims.

    14. Dripos, led by Jack Pawlik, has raised a $11 million Series A funding round. Dripos provides a software platform for coffee shops to operate their business.

    15. Sublime Security, led by Josh Kamdjou, has raised a $20 million Series A funding round. Sublime Security provides an AI-powered, programmable cloud email security platform that detects and blocks attacks like business email compromise (BEC), malware/ransomware, credential phishing, and more.

    16. Amplifier Security, led by Shreyas Sadalgi, has raised a $3.3 million Seed funding round. Amplifier Security utilizes AI-powered technology to enable security teams to modernize their approach.

    17. Dropzone AI, led by Edward Wu, has raised a $16.85 million Series A funding round. Dropzone AI delivers pre-trained autonomous AI analysts that work alongside human analysts on security operations teams.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    12 min
  • (Funding Recap #2) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 4/22/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. Ecotrak, led by Matt Singer, has raised a $30 million Venture round. Ecotrak is an Enterprise Asset Management software platform that simplifies facilities management through modern web and mobile applications for multi-site owners and operators of restaurants, convenience stores, grocery stores, and countless other businesses.

    2. Kode Labs, led by Edi Demaj, has raised a $30 million Series B funding round. Kode Labs is making a bid to become the Salesforce of commercial building automation.

    3. Quilt, led by Paul Lambert, has raised a $33 million Series A funding round. Quilt creates home climate systems designed to move humanity off fossil fuels.

    4. Take2 AI, led by Kaushik Narasimhan and Yaniv Shimoni, has raised a $3 million Seed funding round. Take2 AI is an AI-powered job simulation platform for sales recruiting that helps companies generate tailor-made simulations of real-world sales scenarios that vet job applicants for skills, behavioral attributes and culture fit.

    5. AI Squared, led by Benjamin Harvey, has raised a $13.8 million Series A funding round. AI Squared helps organizations deliver data and AI insights into their business applications.

    6. NeuBird, led by Goutham Rao, has raised a $22 million Seed funding round. NeuBird is bringing Generative AI into operations via an AI workforce- The company’s AI ITOps engineer named Hawkeye works alongside a company’s human workforce to pinpoint the root causes of software issues.

    7. Found Energy, led by Peter Godart, has raised a $12 million Seed funding round. Found Energy has developed an aluminum-thermal power system that continuously generates carbon-free industrial heat, hydrogen, and alumina trihydrate (ATH) on-site from various aluminum feedstocks.

    8. Xfactor.io, led by Mike Carpenter, has raised a $16 million Series A funding round. Xfactor.io is an AI-powered revenue platform that combines sales, marketing, and operations teams with effective planning, value-driven execution, and key decision-making.

    9. ClaimScore, led by Bob Gallo, has raised a $3.15 million Seed funding round. ClaimScore offers tested and validated AI and machine-learning-based anti-fraud software solutions for class action settlements.

    10. Nectar, led by Trevor Larson, has raised a $40 million Series B funding round. Nectar is an employee recognition and rewards platform for the modern workforce.

    11. Dataplor, led by Geoff Michener, has raised a $10.6 million Series A funding round. Dataplor is a geospatial data company that helps global enterprises grow abroad by mapping tough-to-reach markets with a privacy-first approach.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    13 min
  • (Funding Recap #1) Bearhug Recruiting's Early & Growth Stage Tech Startup Funding Recap! 4/15/24

    Here’s this week’s startup funding recap:

    1. Archetype AI, led by Ivan Poupyrev, has raised $13m in Seed funding. Archetype AI has emerged from stealth with the launch of Newton™, the first foundation AI model that can understand the physical world.

    2. Cyera, led by Yotam Segev, has secured a $300 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $1.4 billion. As a pioneer in Data Security Posture Management (DSPM), Cyera instantly provides companies visibility over all of their sensitive data, context over the risk it represents & their security exposure, and automated remediation to reduce the attack surface and ensure operational resilience. 

    3. Symbolica AI, led by George Morgan, has raised $33 million in funding. Symbolica is developing new state-of-the-art foundation AI models for structured reasoning.

    4. Collaborative Robotics, led by Brad Porter, has raised a $100 million Series B funding round. Collaborative Robotics is trying to make robots that look and move like humans. 

    5. Pete Learning, led by Jacques Fu, has raised a $2 million Seed funding round. PETE is the only AI-powered learning platform that optimizes lessons for creators and students. 

    6. Mode, led by Gaku Ueda, has raised a $8.75 million Series B funding round. Mode specializes in providing solutions that advance digital transformation at factories and construction sites through the internet of things (IoT) and generative AI. 

    7. Oden Technologies, led by Willem Sundblad, has raised a $28.5 million Series B funding round. Oden Technologies is a provider of AI-driven solutions for manufacturers, transforming complex data points into action for the front-line every day. 

    8. Tabs, led by Ali Hussain, has raised a $7 million Seed funding round. Tabs uses AI-powered accounts receivable software to help B2B businesses save time analyzing contracts, improve cash flow, and avoid billing errors.

    9. Captura, led by Steve Oldham, has raised a $45.3 million Series A funding round. Captura combines innovative technology with the natural carbon removal powers of the ocean to remove CO2 from the atmosphere at large scale and low-cost, providing a critical capability in the fight against climate change. 

    10. CleanFiber, led by Jonathan Strimling, has raised a $28 million Series B funding round that also includes a $31.5 million project financing facility. CleanFiber makes high-performance cellulose insulation from recycled corrugated cardboard boxes and other clean sources of high quality fiber. Their product provides lower dust, lower contamination, and better coverage than competitive product thanks to their unique and patented process for embedding fire retardants in their products.

    11. Abre, led by James Stoffer, has raised a $24 million Series A funding round. Abre is K12’s #1 modern data solution that remove silos and ensure all stakeholders know how to turn analysis into action with impactful decision-making to support the whole child while helping schools centralize, visualize, and synthesize data to drive better outcomes for students in and out of the classroom.

    To get more detail on each featured startup in this and our other weekly recaps, visit: https://www.bearhugrecruiting.com/career-intelligence/category/Startup+Funding

    19 min
  • (#14) Rohit Gupta: Auditoria, Transforming Corporate Finance Using AI, Entrepreneurship, Early Stage Ventures, M&A, Adaptability, Resilience, Curiosity & Getting Comfortable Getting Out Comfort Zones

    Kraig Ward speaks with Rohit Gupta. The Co-Founder & CEO of Auditoria.AI – the leading cognitive automation provider for ERP and Corporate Finance teams, backed by top investors such as Venrock, Neotribe Ventures, Engineering Capital, KPMG and Workday Ventures.


    Rohit is a serial entrepreneur, active angel investor, and software executive with over 25+ years of experience in building, scaling, and successfully acquiring and selling multiple companies. 


    His vision is to transform how work gets done in the back office with zero-touch, self-driving, autonomous solutions that leverage AI, machine learning, natural language processing, and cloud computing. He has a proven track record of creating and leading innovative products and businesses in the fields of AI, Cloud Security, IT Service Management, and Identity and Access Management, having held senior executive roles at Oracle, Palerra, and BMC Software. 


    He is also a Forbes Finance Council Member, a Robotic Process Automation Certified Professional, and a well-known speaker and thought leader in the industry.


    Connect with Rohit Gupta on LinkedIn


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    1 hr 50 min
  • (#13) David Connors: The Swarm, Go-To-Network is the new Go-To-Market, Carving out Signal from the Noise, Growth, Evolution, Power of Warm Introductions & Relationship-Driven Sales in the Age of AI.

    Kraig Ward speaks with David Connors, Co-Founder & CEO of The Swarm. David is a 3x startup founder, including an exit to Sequoia Capital who acquired his outbound recruiting automation startup Automately. After the acquisition, David joined the Sequoia team as their Director of Recruiting Operations, where he went on to build custom tools for Sequoia's recruiters, investors, and founders.

    After a 2 year earn-out period, David went on to Co-Found The Swarm, with backing by the founders of Superhuman, Thumbtack, Lookout, Bearhug Recruiting, and many more successful operators, in addition to prominent VCs like 500 Global, Contrary Capital, and Sequoia Capital.

    The Swarm is the first “Go-To-Network” platform giving companies and investors the keys to their networks and the relationship data they need to accelerate sales, recruiting, and fundraising.

    ***Use this link to visit The Swarm and receive a special 60-day free trial!

    Connect with David Connors on LinkedIn

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    2 hr 4 min
  • (#12) Maria Khokhlova: TraceAir, Construction Acceleration, Laser Physics to Moving Dirt on Construction Sites, Resilience, Flexibility, Merging Cultures, Joy Projects & The Power of Deep Empathy.

    Kraig Ward speaks with Maria Khokhlova, the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at TraceAir, a sitework intelligence platform for Land Developers and Homebuilders. 

    TraceAir is the #1 provider of construction site analysis and management solutions for sitework. TraceAir’s cutting-edge technology helps builders save time and money by improving efficiency, and introduces radical transparency into the process while reducing the risk of errors or delays. 

    Before devoting her work to TraceAir, Maria did a Ph.D. in laser physics, while also running a custom development software studio. She’s now on a mission that goes far beyond empowering land development and construction teams; it’s about positively impacting society at large by providing developers with tools and data to build better infrastructure and communities faster. 

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About The Bearhug Experience

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Welcome to The Bearhug Experience, where we cozy up to the fire in our digital den and immerse ourselves in the inspiration born from exploring the hidden narratives and inevitable plot twists that…