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Syrup, Email AI Startup, Raises $3 Million - 05/23/2023

Syrup aims to combine product usage data with AI to create 'hyper-personalized experiences for users.' It's co-founded by Brad Owen, the founder of NeverBounce, a Beachwood company that provided email verification and list cleansing services, and his half-brother, Michael Classen. The seed financing was led by High Alpha Capital.

NewsChannel5 Investigates discovered years of reports that document the amount of methane escaping the landfill was well beyond state and federal limits.

Board recommends state reject Middle Point Landfill expansion plan Expansion would increase landfill capacity by 82.5% Republic has another expansion plan Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation will make decision on landfill expansion permit Central Tennessee Region Solid Waste Planning Board member Donna Barrett, a former state representative, called for the unanimous vote because the 99.45-acre expansion permit application was "incompatible" and "inconsistent" with the 10-year ...

Startup Thrivable raises $1.7 million from investors Real-time market research platform Thrivable announced today that it has closed $1.7M in funding. Thrivable, a Cleveland-area startup that describes itself as a real-time platform for health care market research, announced it has closed $1.7 million in funding from local, regional and national investors. The company said in a news release on Wednesday, June 9, that investors in the funding round are Allos Ventures, JumpStart Inc., North Coast...

View Comments Republic Services, which owns Middle Point Landfill in Walter Hill, sent a letter to Rutherford County officials Friday stating the company will put a pause on its state application to expand the facility. In an interview Thursday, Rutherford County Mayor Bill Ketron told The Daily News Journal the company would be withdrawing the application submitted to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation April 12. The expansion would add 99.45 acres to the current 207.3-acr...