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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisNoom has been named “Best Personal Health App” in the 10th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards. We’re proud of this recognition because it reflects where Noom is headed: beyond weight loss alone, toward a more comprehensive platform for preventive health, behavior change, and longevity. As healthcare becomes more personalized, connected, and proactive, we believe the missing layer is behavior. Helping people build healthier habits in real life is what turns powerful tools like data, medication, diagnostics, and coaching into durable outcomes. That’s the work Noom is focused on every day. As Steve Johansson, managing director of MedTech Breakthrough, put it: "Where others treat medication as the solution, Noom treats it as a catalyst. Its highly personalized behavior change platform, plus technology that addresses a broad range of chronic and non-chronic conditions, is helping more people everywhere live better, longer. That’s what we define as breakthrough." Congrats to all the winners: https://bit.ly/3R9R8Ln
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisWe’re proud to share that RRE Ventures Acquisition Corp. has successfully closed its SPAC through a $250 million initial public offering with leading investors. At RRE, we’ve spent over three decades partnering with founders building category-defining businesses. This next chapter expands our ability to support companies at scale as they transition into the public markets. We’re grateful to everyone who helped bring this to life and excited for what comes next. https://lnkd.in/dzj-qz4FRRE Ventures Acquisition Corp. Announces Closing of $250 Million Initial Public OfferingRRE Ventures Acquisition Corp. Announces Closing of $250 Million Initial Public Offering
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisYour baby's best moments are now easier to save and share than ever. Giggling at nothing. Finally rolling over. That face right before a big sneeze. These are the moments you want to hold onto, and now you can save and share them directly from the Nanit app. With Nanit Clips, trimming a moment, adding a caption, and sending it straight to the family group chat takes seconds. No digging through your phone. No "wait, which folder did it go to?" Just the moment, saved and ready whenever you want it. 🎬 Trim the moment (up to 1 minute) ✍️ Add a caption that does it justice 💾 Save it to your Memories in the Nanit app 📲 Share it before the cuteness fades Because your baby discovers something new every single day, and the family group chat can never get enough. Available for Nanit families with a Memories or Milestones Insight Plan with Video History. Start saving your favorites today, and when you do, share them with us on Instagram (tag @get_nanit) using #caughtonnanit. We can’t wait to see all of your favorite moments.
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James Robinson reposted thisWatch inflation erode the value of fiat currency over time 🫠
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisThe World’s Most Famous Building since 1931. Tonight, our tower lights will shine in a multi-color sparkle to celebrate the 95th anniversary! Text CONNECT to 274-16 for real-time lighting alerts. See the lights live: http://esbo.nyc/ecfb
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisYou've heard the term "AI-pilled" Yesterday afternoon at Founder Collective's Collective Future event, I coined a new one: "Founder-pilled" The belief that founders are the ones who change the world. David Frankel just dropped the most founder-pilled LinkedIn post ever. (see: https://lnkd.in/egrtAgiM) David is a founder too. So was nearly every person who was in that room yesterday. And if they weren't a founder, they were most certainly founder-pilled. The force multipliers. The wind beneath founders' wings. Earlier this week, I was explaining the difference between sympathy and empathy to my 9-year-old son: 🎭 Sympathy is when you imagine what someone else's experience is like. 👊 Empathy is when you've actually lived it. That's why a room full of founders is a rare room. From everyone else in our lives we get sympathy; they imagine what it's like. In a room like that one, we get empathy; they've lived it, too. You can see it across the table as they stare into your eyes and into your soul. That is the only kind of conversation that actually refills the tank. A little about my founder journey: I started Olo 21 years ago. Same mission today as on Day One: June 1, 2005. In between: seed, Series A through E, four and a half years public, and last fall we were taken private by Thoma Bravo. New chapter. Same mission. Hospitality at Scale®️ 21 years is a long time to carry one belief. The irrational belief that got you started is a renewable resource and most of the time founders are the only ones renewing it for themselves. That works for a while. It cannot work for 21 years. What works for 21 years is rooms full of other founders. Conversations like the ones I had yesterday. People who refilled my tank at exactly the moments I needed it most. Some of them more times than they know. Ambition is renewable. The collective is where I come to refuel. That is how founders change industries. That is how founders change the world. I'm ever grateful to David, who has always been one of those founders for me. And to every founder who has given me a little of their fire over the years. Here's to living founder-pilled! #FounderPilled
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisNo one in this world can take the place of the startup founder. Talented early employees will not; they bring boundless energy and brilliance to the mission, but also retain the freedom to leave once options are vested and odds look long. Experienced executives will not; we have no shortage of experts who have mastered every lesson from the last campaign and are perfectly prepared to lose the next one. Investors will not; they are full of opinions about what should be built, and how, but none will bear the full weight of the consequences when things go wrong. The founder alone carries a responsibility that cannot be delegated: the stubborn, irrational belief that this company should exist, and the willingness to make it real, irrespective of the valuation and no matter the cost. (With appreciation to Calvin Coolidge)
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisToday, Alma officially becomes part of Spring Health. I have been waiting years to write this post. When I started Spring, I kept asking why mental health care fails people who clearly want it. The answer is that the system is built to interrupt care rather than sustain it. A member finds a therapist they trust, does the hard work for months, then changes jobs or plans and loses the relationship because the provider is out of network. The progress resets, and often the person does not start over. That broken handoff is why mental health remains the largest untapped lever on total cost of care for employers. Untreated anxiety and depression show up downstream as higher medical claims, disability, and lost productivity. The clinical work that would have prevented those costs never compounds, because coverage transitions keep resetting it. Spring built the clinical engine that delivers measurable outcomes through employer benefits. Alma built one of the largest in network behavioral health provider groups in the country, working across nearly every major health plan. Together we can hold a member in continuous, high quality care no matter how their coverage evolves. That continuity is what turns mental health into a real driver of healthier employees and lower total cost of care. Grateful to Harry Ritter and the Alma team for building something exceptional and for choosing to build the next chapter with us, and grateful to the Spring team for the years of work that made this possible. The behavioral health category just changed.
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James Robinson reposted thisJames Robinson reposted thisSpring Health has been named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2026. 🌿 When April Koh and Adam Chekroud started the company, the goal was simple: get people the right care, faster. Today, Spring Health is a lifelong mental health platform supporting 170M+ covered lives with care that continues as life, work, location, and clinical needs change. Thank you to TIME for this recognition. #TIME100Companies View the full list here: https://bit.ly/4cYmGvd
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James Robinson liked thisJames Robinson liked thisThe NYSE welcomes No Kid Hungry and business leaders to bring awareness to the 1 in 5 kids who live with hunger in America. Share Our Strength
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James Robinson liked thisJames Robinson liked thisTrue partnership is when someone shows up for the things you care about most. I learned this at 18 years old, filling out my Yale freshman roommate form. The prompt asked what I was looking for. I wrote: "I want to live with people who want to support me in what I care about and whom I want to support." Yale matched me with Bryan Freeman, Jared Milewski, Regan O'Neill, Ben Klay, and Ron Tam. Each a legend. That sentence has been my filter ever since. The other night, I saw it again in the wild. I've served on the #NoKidHungry board for nearly 10 years and now chair the Compensation Committee. The cause is personal. Thoma Bravo took Olo private 8 months ago. Still new. Still getting to know us. And yet, the entire Thoma Bravo deal team plus one of my operating partners flew to New York for the No Kid Hungry dinner. Every single one of them. On a Wednesday night. That is what true partnership looks like. It's not the term sheet. It's not the close dinner. It's showing up for the thing that has nothing to do with the deal and everything to do with what you care about. To my Yale roommates and to my Thoma Bravo partners: I see you. Thank you for always showing up! Who shows up for what you care about most?
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James Robinson liked thisJames Robinson liked thisWe did AI at Spring Health before AI was cool. We're turning 10 this month, and since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I'm planning to celebrate by reflecting here a bit more than I usually do. Starting with everything we've done to get to this moment: 2016: Founded with the latest AI in computational psychiatry, born out of research at Yale 2024: Became the first mental health co to use generative AI to explain every provider match 2025: Launched VERA-MH, the first open sourced safety benchmark for AI in mental health, alongside an external AI Council 2025: Launched Continuous Care, AI before, during, and after every provider session 2026: Launched Guide, a new AI led mental health experience. Yours for life, thru every provider, job, and health plan Ten years in, here's what I keep coming back to: the future of mental health isn't more apps. It's care that knows you, walks with you, and stays with you. AI is the only way we get there at the scale this moment demands. Proud of how far we've come. Even more excited about what's next.
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James Robinson liked thisJames Robinson liked thisNoom has been named “Best Personal Health App” in the 10th annual MedTech Breakthrough Awards. We’re proud of this recognition because it reflects where Noom is headed: beyond weight loss alone, toward a more comprehensive platform for preventive health, behavior change, and longevity. As healthcare becomes more personalized, connected, and proactive, we believe the missing layer is behavior. Helping people build healthier habits in real life is what turns powerful tools like data, medication, diagnostics, and coaching into durable outcomes. That’s the work Noom is focused on every day. As Steve Johansson, managing director of MedTech Breakthrough, put it: "Where others treat medication as the solution, Noom treats it as a catalyst. Its highly personalized behavior change platform, plus technology that addresses a broad range of chronic and non-chronic conditions, is helping more people everywhere live better, longer. That’s what we define as breakthrough." Congrats to all the winners: https://bit.ly/3R9R8Ln
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James Robinson liked thisBitcoin is nearing the ETF average cost basis at $82,000. These ETF holders sat through massive unrealized losses without flinching. The true hodlers this cycle weren’t crypto OGs, it was boomers with ETFs
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James Robinson liked thisJames Robinson liked thisWhat an absolute treat to speak at The Wharton School San Francisco today on investors, boards, and innovation. Thank you Professor Valery Yakubovich for the opportunity! My advice boils down to: fight harmlessly, except when you can’t. Past writings: • 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - and why goals WON'T get you there → https://lnkd.in/eDy59rD2 • 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘀 - this one had the distinction of receiving a comment from @ev → https://lnkd.in/e6Kpz-KA • 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘀 - and how shorts are like squirrels → https://lnkd.in/e2wYR4gm
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James Robinson liked thisJames Robinson liked thisBlackSky secured more than two dozen new customers for Gen-3 On-Demand subscription services during the first quarter from our expanding U.S. and international customer base. The rapid integration of best-in-class 35-centimeter imagery and exceptional AI analytics into customer operations during Gen-3 Early Access periods is driving opportunities for longer term agreements. “These initial On-Demand contracts give us strong visibility into the next wave of Gen-3 customers,” said Brian O’Toole, BlackSky CEO. “BlackSky is successfully capturing new customers and transitioning these accounts — many of which start out as small pilot programs — into larger, long-term subscriptions. Subscription-based contracts tend to be low-churn and drive predictable revenue growth as part of our land-and-expand strategy.” The introduction of daily Gen-3 service worldwide and the rapid integration of our fourth Gen-3 satellite have accelerated the number of On-Demand commitments from customers supporting their critical real-time operations within a broad array of national security and economic indicator missions. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eH3Unmfk
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James Robinson liked this"Bitcoin market cap to hit $16 trillion (15x) by 2030" 👀 🔥 -Cathie Wood (ARK Invest)
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