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Addepar Turns Portfolio Plumbing Into an AI Product for Nervous Adults Addepar's new ADX pitch is simple: before finance gets agentic, someone has to stop the spreadsheet feuds. Boring? Yes. Useful? Uncomfortably so.
Google Turned Fitbit Air Into a Wellness Band for People Who Hate Wrist Drama Google's $99 Fitbit Air ditches the screen, keeps the surveillance, and somehow makes AI health coaching feel more practical than performative.
Balcony Raised $12.7M to Put County Deeds on Digital Rails Balcony thinks county land records should behave less like mildew-soaked filing cabinets and more like infrastructure. The pitch is blockchain-coded, but the pain point is real.
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