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🪩 Soft Partying & $20K For Your Biz?
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Doone Roisin
January 14, 2026
👑 Win up to $20K for your business (Queens, NYC) → Queens Borough President x QEDC are awarding 5 x $20K no-strings grants across tech, food, sustainability, community + more. Attend 4 events, apply by March 2.
🚀 £25K + accelerator for NI founders → Founder Labs is a 6-month, high-touch accelerator for tech-led startups in Northern Ireland. Includes funding, mentors, investor access + up to £500K in partner credits. Apps close Feb 15.
💜 All Things Valentine (media feature) → Famadillo is building a Valentine’s guide covering gifts, decor + entertaining. Founder-friendly brands (you!) are encouraged to pitch. Pitch Maggie right here, deadline Jan 28.
🧴 Retail Marketing Manager @ Vacation® (remote) → Shopper marketing across Target, Ulta, CVS, Costco & more. Bridge Sales + Marketing, own in-store magic, sampling, GWPs, launches, and much more.
💖 Freelance Marketers (NZ/AU) → Backkr is hiring freelance marketers as demand (srsly) surges. Analytics, performance, SMB marketing brains, this is your dream gig if you’re looking for steady client flow ~ not one-off gigs.
🎥 Social Content Creators (for 2x healthcare brands 👀) →
• FT Video Creator (Denver, travel-heavy) for Reels/TikTok/Shorts, on-site capture, real moments
• PT Creator (Chicago, 15–20 hrs/week) focused on editorial + publishing
Platform-native, trend-fluent, with healthcare experience as a bonus
🪩 2026 is officially the year of soft partying. Think: early dance floors, coffee clubbing, cold plunges, run clubs, sober-curious hangs, and being home by 10pm. Tired millennials are done with hangovers and dating apps.
💐 She flipped the wedding industry. Cameron Hardesty launched Poppy weeks before COVID wiped out weddings, pivoted to DIY kits, and just raised $2.66M to scale a tech-powered floral platform now working with 1,100+ designers.
🤑 The AI money floodgates are fully open. North American startup funding jumped 46% in 2025 to $280B and nearly 60% of all dollars went to AI. Translation: capital is back, but it’s concentrating hard around AI winners.
On that point… Silicon Valley’s newest VCs are in high school? At an elite Bay Area school, teens are cutting $25,000 venture checks. Okkk.
Cat @ Work
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