DirecTV and youth sports partnership platform LeagueSide have teamed up with Olympic gold medalist and pro soccer player Sydney Leroux to help grow sponsorships for young athletes across the U.S.
View full articleBeringer Capital’s acquisition of Dig is reflective of its deep marketing and technology sector expertise, as well as its investment philosophy of partnering with robust founder- led companies that are focused on digitally transforming their respective sectors.
View full articleZuora, the leading cloud-based subscription management platform provider, today announced its planned acquisition of Zephr, a leading subscription experience platform used by global digital publishing and media companies. As an existing Zuora partner, Zephr’s pre-integrated solution is in use today by joint customers, and will immediately expand Zuora’s product suite.
View full articlePriorAuthNow was launched to accelerate the prior authorization process and make healthcare more efficient. And it’ working—for providers, payers, and most importantly, patients. The deeper they swam, the more they realized something. Making prior authorizations faster is important, yes. But what’s most urgently needed—the rightful linchpin in this process—is intelligent collaboration. Meet Rhyme.
View full articleOpenly, the technology-enabled provider of premium homeowners insurance through independent agents, today announced that it has closed a $75 million Series C investment. Openly's mission is to empower independent insurance agents to deliver a modern, efficient, and superior customer experience. Founders Ty Harris and Matt Wielbut responded to a perceived gap in the market: while consumers are increasingly buying home insurance through independent agents, the products those agents can offer have not kept up with what's possible-resulting in wasted time, wasted money, and outdated risk underwriting.
View full articleFormal workplace training drives hundreds of billions in yearly spending by corporations, with few results to show for it. Tango, a startup founded by three Harvard Business School dropouts in June 2020, is the “workflow intelligence platform that streamlines the creation of process documentation.” The startup plans to use the funding for new product development and hiring new team members.
View full article“With over 5 million monthly active users, Zello is a clear leader in providing voice-first communications to the 2 billion connected frontline workers globally. To date Zello has achieved remarkable growth without any outside capital, and we are excited to support this next phase of growth,” said Guhan Swaminathan, Managing Director with Virgo Capital.
View full articleAfter 15 years in business, Real Thread recognized—time and time again—that what they’ve always known really is true: quality matters. How it’s made matters. They'd been helping other brands tell their story for so long, that they started to notice that they’d lost sight of how to tell their own story well.
View full articleCrossbeam has acquired Partnered, the beloved Account-Based Networking tool for sales teams. Founders Adam Michalski and Tim Sherwood have spent the last several years building Partnered into a value creation engine that allows sales teams to enable partner-powered co-selling at scale. Now, Crossbeam will be combining that functionality with the Crossbeam platform and their network of 8,500 companies (and counting).
View full articleThe 100% stake acquisition allows BlueWave to expand its leadership in innovative solar and energy storage development and pursue long-term asset ownership of its development projects
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