2 St. Louis men who attended Mizzou in 2014 created "Wake Up: Stories from the Frontlines of Suicide Prevention," with a group of others after a friend's suicide.
St. Louisans turn tragedies into mental health awareness project
The Mizzou alumni lost two friends to suicide before graduation. Out of the tragedies, Project Wake Up was born Author: Allie Corey Updated: 3:38 PM CDT May 20, 2021
ST. LOUIS One in five adults in America struggles with mental health. Which means we all likely know someone dealing with a debilitating illness.
Alex Lindley and Danny Kerth lost two of their closest friends at Mizzou to suicide. Two shocking, eye-opening tragedies that plunged them into creating real change around mental health.
Lindley and Kerth were just 19 when their close friend Carolyn took her life.
Vouched and Verisart Partner to Provide Peace of Mind for NFT Artists, Investors
Verisart Adopts Vouched Digital Identity Verification Platform to Validate Artist, Collector Identities as Part of Its Groundbreaking Certification of Authenticity Service for Digital Works of Art
Power to the Beeple, and to every other artist, collector, and investor working to expand the boundaries of fine art by bringing works tied to nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to the mainstream.
Vouched and Verisart today announced an industry-first partnership to apply Vouched s unique digital identity verification technology to Verisart s first-of-its-kind blockchain certification platform for digital artists and collectors. The partnership is a significant step forward for the NFT art industry, which has recently seen spikes in interest after a piece created by artist Beeple sold for $69.3 million, a new record for purely digital work.
Updated: 12:19 PM CST January 28, 2021
ST. LOUIS Great things always start small, like a voice that only gets louder with time, effort, and care. Alex Lindley and Danny Kerth, a pair of St. Louis natives, along with a team of dedicated friends, wanted to honor their late friend, Ryan Joseph Candice.
Ryan was only 20 years old when he took his own life while attending The University of Missouri, Columbia in 2014, something that sent shockwaves through his group of friends and family. The worst thing being that it left people dumbfounded and scrambling for answers to why. There was no playbook on suicide prevention before Ryan s death, but his passing spurred action in his closest friends. So Lindley and Kerth went to get answers, talking to other people and connecting with families who dealt with suicide, aiming to increase awareness about the mental stigmas that take Ryans every day.
Vouched Announces $3M Funding Round to Accelerate AI-Based Identity Verification Platform
Led by Flying Fish Partners, with participation from Bankers Healthcare Group, funds will fuel expansion in banking, fintech and healthcare industries.
Vouched, a rapidly-growing developer of proprietary artificial intelligence and computer vision for end-to-end identity verification and real-time fraud detection, today announced a $3M funding round. Led by Flying Fish Partners, the round will further accelerate growth of Vouched s identity proofing platform across the banking, fintech and healthcare verticals.
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201210005447/en/ Flying Fish invests in applications of artificial intelligence that enable the fundamentals of the digital future, said Flying Fish Partners Venture Partner Vanessa Pegueros. Vouched is creating a seamless, worldwide identity verification platform to provid