Althea Acquires Tricycle Day to Expand Access to Trusted Psychedelic Education and Care
Boulder, CO and Austin, TX —Althea, a public benefit company building infrastructure for regulated psychedelic therapy, today announced its acquisition of Tricycle Day, the leading independent newsletter focused on psychedelic education.
The acquisition brings together two complementary efforts working toward the same goal: helping people responsibly find their way to psychedelic care. Althea provides compliance, payments, and care-navigation software for licensed facilitators and centers operating in state-regulated programs, while Tricycle Day has built one of the most trusted audiences for thoughtful, accessible psychedelic education.
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The Origins of AIARE and the Future You Help Make Possible
AIARE was created to solve a serious problem.
When my partners Jean Pavillard, Karl Klassen, and I co-founded AIARE in 1998, the number of avalanche fatalities each season in the United States had begun to climb drastically. Just a couple of years before, a sidecounty avalanche at a resort in our home state of Colorado resulted in multiple burials and four people dead—four families and an entire community grieving. Sadly, a version of this story was repeated numerous times in the mountains each winter.
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Jane Street Leads Antithesis's $105M Series A to Make Deterministic Simulation Testing the New Standard
TYSONS CORNER, Va., Dec. 3, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Antithesis today announced a $105 million Series A round led by Jane Street, the global technology-driven quantitative trading firm known for building some of the world's most advanced software systems. The investment underscores Antithesis's emergence as critical infrastructure for enterprises operating complex, distributed systems. Jane Street is both an Antithesis investor and customer.
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Voice of the Mountains: The Geography of Risk with Kyle Lefkoff
Steve House sits down with Kyle Lefkoff, a rare figure who has lived at the intersection of serious alpinism and venture capital for nearly four decades. From discovering his "mutant gene" for rock climbing as a kid in Atlanta to surviving K2's deadliest season in 1986, from co-founding Array Biopharma (acquired by Pfizer for $12 billion) to serving as founding chairman of AIARE, Kyle shares how the same principles—luck, timing, patience, and pattern recognition—govern success on both big walls and in boardrooms.
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A Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) primer for unit test maxxers
Since the dawn of Middle Earth, it has been somewhat widely accepted that it takes 8-10 years to build a real database. There’s a lot that has to go right; databases need to be rock solid. They need to be battle tested, consistent, fault tolerant, and most of all, trustworthy. These are things that take time to dial in.
But in 2009 a small team of childhood friends in Virginia somehow broke the rule. In a few short years the Daves (Rosenthal and Scherer) and Nick built something that everyone said they couldn’t: a distributed storage engine with ACID guarantees. It was called FoundationDB, it took the world by storm, and then it got acquired in 2015 by Apple (you can still download and use it here).
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Stardog Appoints former ServiceNow Executive Craig Harper as Chief Executive Officer to Lead Next Phase of Growth
New York, NY – September 30, 2025 - Stardog, a leading Data & AI company that enables organizations to unlock the full potential of their data for AI-driven initiatives, today announced the appointment of Craig Harper as Chief Executive Officer. Harper has served as an advisor to the board for the previous two years.
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Travel Curious Accelerates Global Growth: Acquires Redeam and Relocates Global Headquarters to U.S..
Wilmington, DE – July 17, 2025 – Travel Curious, a leading B2B technology platform enabling travel, hospitality, and loyalty companies to seamlessly integrate experiences into their offering, today announced its acquisition of Redeam, a premier connectivity platform in the experiences sector. The strategic move marks another significant step in Travel Curious’s growth journey, resulting in the formation of the newly combined company, Travel Curious Group Inc. valued at over $40 million. As part of its accelerated growth plans, Travel Curious is relocating its global headquarters to the United States, while maintaining operational offices in London and Madrid.
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Salesforce Provider Synaptic Raises $5M Amid Focus on AI Services
Baltimore-based Synaptic Era, a Salesforce provider, is leveraging a recent $5 million seed funding round to build a business model on its emerging solution-as-a-service and agent-as-a-service operations, with CEO Bill Karpovich pushing an outcome-based agenda, CRN reported last week.
“Who wants to buy an hour? An hour is an input,” said Karpovich, who took control of the company in 2020 after becoming the first outside investor in the firm. Customers “want to buy an output. (They are) going to buy the outcome – and that’s where it’s evolving,” he said in an interview with the industry publication.
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Frasca in Boulder wins James Beard Award for Best Restaurant
The James Beard Foundation (JBF) Awards swept Chicago into a frenzy on Monday, June 16, at the Lyric Opera. Of all the Colorado contestants, upscale Italian restaurant Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder was named Outstanding Restaurant. This makes the restaurant’s collective fourth James Beard Award. Though there were six finalists headed into the final night of the ceremony, most of the Colorado contestants lost out.
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