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Nava Benefits Buys Nielsen Benefits Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

Nava Benefits - a modern benefits brokerage focused on making great benefits easy for mid-sized employers - announced the acquisition of Nielsen Benefits Group (NBG), an award-winning benefits consulting firm with a proven track record of designing innovative benefits solutions that lower costs for mid-sized employers. This strategic move will unite two forward-thinking companies with a vision for how technology can revolutionize the benefits service delivery model for employers and improve the member experience.

Verifiable: $27 Million Raised To Help Healthcare Providers And Payers With Network Ops

By Noah Long ● Jul 17, 2023

Verifiable - an API-first innovator in the provider network management software category space - announced it has raised $27 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures to accelerate its next growth stage. Highland Capital Partners, 137 Ventures, Cooley, and existing investors The Altman Fund and Struck Capital also participated in the round.

Fold Health: $6 Million Closed To Support Value-Based Primary Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

Ford Health - a platform purpose-built to support the unique needs of value-based primary care - recently announced an additional $6 million in funding from Iron Pillar and global angel investors. This funding round comes on the heels of the company’s raise in 2022 and will be used to continue scaling Fold’s platform and to hire talent.

PrivacyHawk: Personal Data Protection Market Company Secures $2.7 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

PrivacyHawk - a pioneer in personal data protection - recently announced it has received $2.7 million in funding. ff Venture Capital (ffVC) led the most recent round, including investments from Nufund, Alumni Ventures, AngelList, Gaingels, Duro Ventures, Sandhill Angels, and Seraphim Ventures. ffVC, Tech Coast Angels, Duro Ventures, and Gaingels invested in a prior round.

Affect Therapeutics: $16 Million Secured To Deliver Next-Generation Addition Recovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

Affect Therapeutics - a company reimagining addiction treatment for the digital age - recently announced a $16 million Series A led by TechBio-focused ARTIS Ventures with additional participation from previous investors AlleyCorp and CityLight, along with new investments from LifeArc Ventures, Samsung Next, and What If Ventures.

Ambiq: This Company Delivers Low Power Semiconductor Solutions To Enable An Energy-Efficient Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

Ambiq is a company founded in 2010 on the simple but powerful notion that extremely low-power semiconductors are the key to the future of electronics. Ambiq has developed breakthrough technology based on its patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) platform to reduce the amount of power consumed by semiconductors, thus making integrated circuits (ICs) an ideal solution for energy-critical applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ambiq Vice President of Artificial Intelligence Carlos Morales to learn more.

Opendatasoft: This SaaS Platform Company Enables Users To Share Compelling Data Experiences

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

Opendatasoft is a powerful all-in-one SaaS platform that enables everyone to rapidly create and share compelling data experiences across their internal and external ecosystems. This allows customers to accelerate digital transformation and development, positively transform operations, and establish more transparent relationships with their stakeholders. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Opendatasoft co-founder and Chief Sales Officer Franck Carassus to learn more.

SAVVY: Workforce Security Automation Company Raises $30 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jul 17, 2023

SAVVY - a cybersecurity pioneer that eliminates workforce-initiated security incidents involving software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, including generative AI - recently announced that it exited stealth and raised $30 million. Canaan led the most recent Series A funding round with key investors Cyberstarts and Lightspeed. And Cyberstarts also led the initial seed round with Lightspeed.

AI21: This Company Is Aiming To Provide The World With Best Of Class LLMs And Solutions On Top Of Them

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

AI21 Labs is an artificial intelligence startup whose mission is to reimagine the way we read and write by making the machine a thought partner to humans. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AI21 VP of Product Guy Einy to learn more.

Miovision: This Company Provides Cities With Modern Tools To Fix Traffic Problems In Over A $38 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 17, 2023

Miovision is a company that provides cities with modern tools to fix today's traffic problems, and the company offers solutions that collect multimodal traffic data and uncover actionable insights, helping municipalities get more out of their road network. The result: streets capable of moving more people (safely and efficiently) whether in a car, on a bus, on a bike or e-scooter, or walking. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Miovision co-founder and CEO Kurtis McBride to learn more.

Collective: AI-Powered Finance Platform Company Raises $50 Million

By Dan Anderson ● Jul 17, 2023

Collective - an all-in-one online back-office platform for solopreneurs - recently announced it has raised $50 million from a syndicate of investors, including Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund, Innovius Capital, The General Partnership, General Catalyst, QED, Expa, and Better Tomorrow Ventures, among others. Collective will use the investment to accelerate AI deployment and quickly onboard the nearly 100K businesses on its waitlist.

Kahoot! To Go Private In About A $1.7 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 16, 2023

Norway-based educational technology company Kahoot announced it agreed to a buyout valued at about $1.72 billion (17.2 billion Norweigian crowns) by Goldman Sachs Asset Management's private equity arm and a group of other investors. This deal is about a 53% premium to the company’s share price as of May 22.

ARMA International: Nathan Hughes Joins As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

ARMA International - the world’s leading membership organization serving professionals who manage and govern information assets - announced the promotion of Nathan Hughes, CAE, IGP, to Chief Executive Officer. Hughes has been pivotal in the transformative growth of the organization and the continued expansion of support provided to ARMA International’s members globally.

Jirav: Financial Planning And Analysis (FP&A) Solution Company Raises $20 Million

By Annie Baker ● Jul 15, 2023

SMART: New Research Group M3S Launched To Advance AI And Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

Singapore MIT-Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) - which is MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore - announced it launched a new interdisciplinary research group (IRG) aimed at tackling social and institutional challenges around the rise of AI and new technologies, furthering advances in these fields to create impactful value for Singapore and the world beyond.

atNorth: Iceland-Based HPC And AI Service Provider Announces Highest Revenue To Date

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

atNorth - a leading Nordic colocation high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) service provider, announced a group income of SEK 560 million (EUR 53 million) as it published its 2022 annual accounts. And this figure represents a 44% increase in revenue from 2021 with further growth expected in the coming years.

Sapphire Ventures: Over $1 Billion Committed To Invest In AI-Powered Enterprise Tech Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

Sapphire Ventures - a global software venture capital firm backing companies of consequence - announced that it is deepening its commitment to AI by investing over $1 billion in AI-powered enterprise technology startups, including those specializing in generative AI.

Crossbow Therapeutics: $80 Million Raised For Advancing Novel Class Of Antibody Therapies That Mimic T-Cell Receptors For Treating Cancer

By Annie Baker ● Jul 15, 2023

Crossbow Therapeutics - a biotechnology company developing a novel class of potent and precise antibody therapies to treat a broad range of cancers - recently announced an $80 million Series A funding round led by MPM BioImpact and Pfizer Ventures with participation from Polaris Partners, BVF Partners, Eli Lilly and Company, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, and Mirae Asset Capital.

Flatfile Launches Data Exchange Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

Flatfile - a pioneer of AI-assisted data exchange - recently announced the release of its Flatfile Data Exchange Platform, the industry’s first extensible platform for file-based data import. And with this new release, Flatfile is reinventing the file-based data import category defined by one-size-fits-all, single-purpose CSV-import tools with an extensible, API-first, and event-driven data exchange platform for enterprise developers.

Conagen: Development Of A Debondable Textile Adhesive Announced

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

When you consider over 92 million tons of textile waste are landfilled every year, new solutions are needed to enable fabric reworking in manufacturing and recycling on a mass scale. Biotechnology innovator Conagen announced the development of a groundbreaking debondable textile adhesive from high-performance materials sourced from sustainable and natural biomolecules.

Sorcero: New Release Of AI Platform Announced

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

Sorcero - a leading provider of advanced AI solutions purpose-built for Life Sciences organizations - announced a new release of the Sorcero AI Platform. The solution enables Medical Affairs (MA) Teams to now to unify stakeholder data and accelerate data-driven decisions across the asset lifecycle. In particular, Sorcero now provides life sciences companies with an omnichannel view of the healthcare provider (HCP) journey across all touchpoints, which is critical to informing and planning Key Opinion Leader (KOL) engagement strategies. These new features are now available on the platform and via the Google Cloud Marketplace.

Roadie: General Availability Of Its Tech Insights feature Revealed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

Roadie - a provider of Backstage as a service - recently announced the general availability of its Tech Insights feature, a software-quality tool added to its core offering of managed Spotify Backstage. Tech Insights enables software engineering teams to establish engineering standards and automatically track and report software performance against those standards.

LunarCrush: $5 Million Raised In Round Co-Led By Draper Round Table And INCE Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 15, 2023

LunarCrush - a rapidly growing crypto and media analytics platform - recently announced a successful $5 million Series A fundraising round, driving up the company's valuation to $30 million.

Exabeam: User Behavior Monitoring Solution Designed For Federal Departments And Agencies Revealed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

Exabeam - a global cybersecurity leader and creator of New-Scale SIEM for advancing security operations - recently announced a unique user behavior monitoring solution designed for federal departments and agencies on the practical steps to improve the prevention, detection, assessment, and remediation of cyber incidents targeting government organizations. This solution is available through Carahsoft’s GSA Schedule.

Ansys: Partnership With Altium And Intel 16 Process Node Signoff Verification

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

Earlier this week, Ansys made a couple of notable announcements, including Ansys and Altium boosting their designs with digital continuity and Intel Foundry Services certified Ansys multiphysics solutions for signoff verification of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) designed with the Intel 16 silicon manufacturing process.

Selector: New Capabilities Added To Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

Selector AI - a leading provider of network-aware AIOps, observability, and multi-domain analytics - recently announced the addition of new capabilities to its platform, empowering organizations with unparalleled insights from the network up to the application. The enhancements move Selector forward as the first true full-stack observability and AIOPs platform.

Siemens: New Level Of Security To Discontinuous Motion Control Added In Mid-Range Segment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

Earlier this year, Siemens introduced the new SINAMICS S210, a next-generation servo-drive system. This new system is now ready for digitalization and brings an enhanced level of safety and security to stand-alone or multi-axis machines for use in various manufacturing industries.

Crowley Appoints Eric Cunningham As VP Of Shared Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

Crowley has appointed Eric Cunningham as vice president of Shared Services, where he will focus on growing the company’s business relationships and capabilities for customers across the U.S., Central America, and strategic markets.

Cipher Sports: This Company Offers Tools That Help Users With Sports Betting In A $60 Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

Cipher Sports Technology Group’s vision is to be at the center of a bettor’s most exciting moments by creating memorable content powered by proprietary predictive analytics, machine learning and AI models. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Cipher Sports Technology Group CEO Adam Fiske to learn more.

DuploCloud: This DevOps Platform Automates Infrastructure Provisioning And Compliance In A $25+ Billion Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2023

DuploCloud is a DevOps platform for automating infrastructure provisioning, built-in compliance, and security. Pulse 2.0 interviewed DuploCloud founder and CEO Venkat Thiruvengadam to learn more.