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The Next Era of Money is here. Stablecoins are faster, cheaper, better money. They settle in seconds, cost pennies to send, move globally without intermediaries, and operate around the clock. They have the power to fundamentally reshape how money moves for the entire world. You know this. We know this. But today, stablecoins don’t yet operate like money. They are fragmented across chains, issuers, and products. Moving between them is slow, expensive, and manual. Different stablecoins can even have varying values across platforms. That’s not how money should work. We started The Better Money Company to fix this, beginning with a stablecoin clearinghouse. Clearinghouses solve a fundamental coordination problem. They transform a fragmented many-to-many market into a unified network, enabling systems to scale. Our clearinghouse connects stablecoin issuers to the businesses building with stablecoins. Fintechs, neobanks, payments companies, and anybody building with better money will be able to build products knowing any clearinghouse supported stablecoin can move and be accepted at $1 every time. In a world with hundreds of stablecoins, which we believe is fast approaching, a clearinghouse is essential. We’re building it. We’ve raised $10 million, led by a16z crypto, with participation from BoxGroup, Sunflower Capital, The Fintech Fund 🚀, Art L., Michael B. Tannenbaum, Patrick McHenry, Sean Neville, Charlie Songhurst, Adi G., and other world-class investors and partners. If you want to join the clearinghouse or help build the clearing layer for the next era of money, reach out. We’re excited to hear from you. https://bettermoney.com/

The last 3 months at Novella have been incredible. We’re seeing growing demand from the insurance world to adopt AI, and Novella is the answer. We’re growing the team. I’m sharing a few specific roles, but reach out even if you don’t see the perfect fit. If you want to build applied AI protecting the most complicated assets in the world, we’d love to hear from you. Product (NYC/TLV) - we’re hiring PMs and a senior designer to deeply understand specialty insurance and help us solve it. If you want to obsess over email and phone based workflows and build agents that can handle those, this is for you! Chief of Staff (NYC) - work hand in hand with our founders interfacing with the largest insurance brokers and carriers to help us scale. Ideal candidate has spent time in banking (FIG is a bonus) or consulting but is sick of talking about doing things and want to do them. Engineers (NYC/TLV)- senior backend and applied AI engineers who can deeply understand a complicated business problem and automate it away. Our engineers don’t wait for instructions from product, they take initiative. Wholesale Brokers - we’re opening regional offices in Texas and South Florida. We’ll continue to open offices across the country and hire brokers who understand that, when paired with the right AI tools, they become super-powered. Insurance Recruiter (NYC) - live and breath insurance. You’ve placed brokers and underwriters but are ready to move faster than ever before. You need a keen eye for talent and willingness to work autonomously incredibly quickly. Head of Programs - someone who has built and scaled MGA programs from scratch. If you’ve built programs before but spend time thinking about how AI will enable the next wave of MGAs, this role is for you. Our proprietary data will blow your mind. Link to all jobs in first comment. Thanks for sharing!

One of the coolest parts of working at a startup is getting to rebuild core systems from scratch. I recently led a rewrite of our backend data ingestion service at Falconer (linking how I did it in comments!) What started as a performance issue turned into a deeper rethink of how data ingestion should work: not as a linear pipeline, but as a DAG of dependency-aware stages. The result: • Sync times dropped from 4–6 hours to under 10 minutes • Failures became local and retryable • Each stage exposed its latency It completely changed how I think about designing data pipelines at scale. Curious how others here approach ingestion or ETL at scale — what’s worked (or broken) for you? #Backend #DistributedSystems #Engineering #Startups #DataPipelines #AI

Loyal has raised a $100M Series C from age1, Baillie Gifford, existing investors, & more. This brings Loyal's total funding to over a quarter of a billion dollars. We are building the longevity pharma, starting with dog longevity. Thanks Fast Company for the exclusive: https://lnkd.in/egRpUNSE this raise comes after we overcame the key biotechnical risks for an FDA-approved longevity drug: >> FEB '25: FDA conditional efficacy approval >> JUL '25: 1,300+ dogs enrolled in our pivotal lifespan extension trial >> DEC '25: FDA safety approval the "only" major work remaining is FDA manufacturing approval - complicated, but all ultimately controlled + solvable. this capital will fund Loyal's direct commercialization of LOY-002 & development of our drug pipeline. over 14 million senior dogs - 15% of the dogs in the USA - will be eligible for LOY-002. our product pipeline expands potentially eligible dogs to over *50* million. the demand from dog owners & veterinarians is relentless, and if you've ever loved a dog, the need is evident. I'm SO proud of my team & our progress on this very hard task. but wait... there's more! to celebrate, we are launching our very first LOYAL MERCH STORE. all profits go to Muttville senior dog rescue. check it out :) https://merch.loyal.com

I’m thrilled to announce that Garner Health has raised $118 million in new funding at a value of $1.4 billion. We are in the middle of a healthcare crisis and the only solution is arming patients with better data and smarter financial incentives. Garner is leading the way in fixing this problem, and – alongside the support from our investors at Kleiner Perkins, Redpoint, Maverick Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Mercy, PLUS Capital and more. Thank you to the 2.5 million members and 700+ companies who use Garner today. Your trust in our platform is what fuels us to keep building a better healthcare system. Grateful to Amy Feldman covering our story in Forbes! https://lnkd.in/eqW-d_RB