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      <title>Retention Over Turnover: Clasp’s $20M Bet on Fixing Healthcare Hiring</title>
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      <description>The economics of healthcare hiring have always had a strange flaw baked into them. Systems spend aggressively to attract talent, then act surprised when that same talent leaves once the incentives expire. What Clasp is doing—backed now by a $20 million Series B—isn’t just another HR-tech tweak. It’s an attempt to rewrite the incentive structure entirely, shifting the focus from recruitment spikes to long-term workforce stability.
At the center of Clasp’s model is a concept borrowed from the military: early commitment.</description>
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      <title>Halter Lands $220 Million to Scale Virtual Fencing Worldwide</title>
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      <description>Halter is pushing deeper into the idea that livestock management can become a software-defined business, and its latest funding round shows investors believe that shift is no longer experimental. The New Zealand-founded agtech company said on March 25, 2026 that it has raised $220 million in Series E funding at a $2 billion valuation, in a round led by Founders Fund with participation from Blackbird, DCVC, Bond, Bessemer, NewView, Ubiquity, Promus, and Icehouse Ventures.</description>
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