MLO course requirements: what pre-licensing teaches and how to compare providers
MLO pre-licensing courses cover mortgage law, ethics and loan products; state credit and attendance rules should drive the choice.
By Marcus Adeyemi 1 week agoStartups Editor
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Marcus tracks companies from seed to scale: launches, pivots, shutdowns, and the operating decisions in between.
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OpenAI $7B tender offer values company at $852B
Bloomberg reports OpenAI repurchased roughly $7 billion in employee shares, providing liquidity without raising new capital.
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Cambridge Aerospace funding 2026 puts valuation at $3.4bn
Sifted reports Cambridge Aerospace raised a $300m Series C led by DFJ Growth, months after the UK interceptor maker was in fundrai...
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DeepMind shakeup tests UK AI ambitions as Google shifts influence to California
Demis Hassabis is leaving the Google DeepMind top job, raising fresh questions about where Britain holds power in frontier AI.
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YC repeat founders reach 454, but the return rate is unclear
A YC-shared dataset counts 454 founders who returned with new companies, though expanding cohorts prevent a conclusion on particip...
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Wordsmith AI adds $14M to Series B extension
Wordsmith AI has extended its June Series B by $14 million, taking the round to $84 million as it targets in-house legal workflows...
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MagicSchool AI funding reaches $62.4 million across three disclosed rounds
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Volta $300m funding values AI cloud startup at $2.4bn
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MSCA funding for SMEs: Staff Exchanges call opens in December
The next MSCA Staff Exchanges call opens on 15 December 2026, offering SMEs a route into cross-border research consortia.
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July 2026 venture funding reaches $65 billion as 14 startups raise $1 billion or more
Crunchbase counted a record 14 billion-dollar rounds in July, while AI companies took $35 billion of the $65 billion global total.
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Both invest for ownership and an eventual exit, but they commonly differ in company stage, control, deal financing and value-creat...
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