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JustBecause Helps Startups Reach New Customers With Gifting App

JustBecause gives Facebook friends the chance share deals from a growing number of the biggest startups around, some valued at up to $100, for only $1 a piece.

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Indiegogo Campaign Kicks Off To Better Lives of Women In Rural India

Azadi, a Chicago startup based out of 1871, is looking to bring a low-cost, completely biodegradable menstruation pad to India’s rural areas and solve the issue keeping so many women from leaving their homes each month.

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MarkITx Raises $1M From Chicago Area Angels

MarkITx, a Chicago-based B2B market for selling second-hand IT equipment, has raised just over $1 million in seed funding this week from area angel investors.

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Salute The Troops By Playing Videogames This Veteran’s Day

Charitable organization Operation Supply Drop will be holding an 8-Bit Salute to Veterans in Chicago and other select cities this month, raising money to ship gaming packages to soldiers serving overseas.

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Sick Of Election Results? Track Legislation Instead With TrakBill

A new startup called TrakBill is a search engine that will provide all of the information that both citizens and lobbyists need to know to track the legislative action around specific issues like education.

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CollabNet And UC4 Software Partner To Automate Enterprise DevOps At Scale

CollabNet a global leader for Enterprise Cloud Development and Agile ALM, and UC4 Software, the leader in IT Process Automation, are announcing a partnership today that will help IT organizations achieve enterprise DevOps at scale.

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Elephrame: An Ideas Network Grows In Chicago

Originally launched as an “encyclopedia of ideas” in January of last year, Elephrame has since become a space online where users can voice their opinions and delve into the world views of others on any topic.

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Shiftgig Raises $3M Series A

This week Shiftgig, headquartered at the Catapult coworking space in Chicago’s River North community, announced that it has just closed a series A round of funding.

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Talk Back to Advertisers With AdYapper

Have you ever noticed an ad that either rocked or annoyed you so much that you wanted to talk to the brand directly about it? Turns out, you’re not alone. If you’ve ever watched the SuperBowl, you know that spectators get just as excited about the ads as they do about the football game. The next day the internet blows up with conversation about the ads. AdYapper is a new platform that lets you talk to brands and agencies about their ads recently launched to the public.

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Braintree Gives Back With $50,000 In Free Payment Processing

Braintree has announced this week that, for the next 1,000 businesses to create an account, it will wave processing fees for the first $50,000 — no strings attached.

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