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The “Real” app allows users to connect with compatible people nearby with no gender bias or sexual pretense. PHOTO BY JUSTIN HAWK/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

It’s like Tinder, but only for platonic relationships

Yasmin Younis September 15, 2016

What if we began to swipe right on personality, instead of on pictures? While applications like Tinder and Bumble dominate the digital social scene, 19-year-old entrepreneur Ocean Pleasant said...

Grace Xiao, recipient of the $100,000 Thiel grant fellow from Harvard, dropped out of Harvard to found Kynplex, a company that consolidates scientific information for easier collaboration between labs. PHOTO COURTESY GRACE XIAO

Former Harvard undergrad creates social network for science

Rebecca Zeng September 8, 2016

In the midst of a world mediated by Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, a new social networking platform has arisen — this time, geared specifically toward scientists. Kynplex is a startup co-founded...

Starting-up early

Daily Free Press Admin October 29, 2013

BU seniors discuss personal experiences with startups during their early college years Like many Boston University seniors, Connor McEwen spends much of his time involved in activities he cares about,...

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