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Kolena Secures Series A Investment Led by Lobby Capital, Bringing AI Testing Startup's Total Funding to $21M

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kolena, a pioneering leader in AI and machine learning model testing, today announced that it has successfully secured $15 million in a Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital, bringing total funding for the company to $21 million. Returning investors SignalFire, Bloomberg Beta, 11.2 Capital, Zero Prime Ventures and others also participated. This significant investment will fuel Kolena's mission to revolutionize the way AI systems are tested and validated, ensuring trustworthiness and reliability in an increasingly AI-driven world.

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This significant investment will fuel Kolena's mission to revolutionize the way AI systems are tested and validated, ensuring trustworthiness and reliability in an increasingly AI-driven world.
This investment will fuel Kolena's mission to revolutionize AI system testing, ensuring trustworthiness and reliability.
The company's solution also helps teams and enterprises launch their models more quickly by eliminating the need for time-consuming experimentation-based testing.
With the support of this significant funding, we will continue to innovate, improve, and revolutionize the way AI is built."

PRODUCT AND TECH LEADERSHIP JOIN PLURALYTICS TO FUEL EXPANSION AS SCIENCE-BASED GEN AI STARTUP DELIVERS SUITE OF APIs AND PLUG-INS

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Monday, September 25, 2023

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MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Pluralytics, a ground-breaking AI language analysis and generation platform that writes language designed to deepen connection with target audiences, today announced that Clayton Kjos has joined as Head of Product and Sridhar Cuddalore Parthasarathy (CP) as AI engineer in its growing generative AI engineering team.

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Pluralytics is a ground-breaking AI language analysis and generation platform that writes language designed to deepen connection with target audiences.
"I am excited to be joining Pluralytics at such a pivotal moment in its product development," said Kjos.
"They have proven the value of their AI methodology with some of the world's largest companies.
"Pluralytics is on the forward edge when it comes to AI generation for language," said Cuddalore Parthasarathy.

FAST Channel FLASH Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with the Best Performers Videos

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Monday, September 25, 2023

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West Palm Beach, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FLASH, is a FAST channel from Olympusat, LLC, which airs the latest and most popular music videos from Latin music’s biggest stars, larger-than-life idols, and up-and-coming sensations.

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West Palm Beach, Sept. 25, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FLASH, is a FAST channel from Olympusat, LLC, which airs the latest and most popular music videos from Latin music’s biggest stars, larger-than-life idols, and up-and-coming sensations.
In observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month, FLASH will be dedicating a week to the best Hispanic performers from September 25th to September 29th.
“We are thrilled to be dedicating a week to the best videos from Hispanic performers,” said Aurora Mohler, Chief Content Officer at Olympusat, LLC.
Flash is owned and operated by Olympusat, LLC., and is currently available on Roku, Samsung, LG, Plex, Distro, TCL, Hisense, CanelaTV, Freecast, Rakuten, Vizio.

AST SpaceMobile Achieves Space-Based 5G Cellular Broadband Connectivity From Everyday Smartphones, Another Historic World First

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Fifth-generation or 5G mobile networking is the fastest, most efficient, highest-throughput, lowest-latency, and flexible wireless standard ever released by the 3GPP consortium.

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Fifth-generation or 5G mobile networking is the fastest, most efficient, highest-throughput, lowest-latency, and flexible wireless standard ever released by the 3GPP consortium.
These historic accomplishments follow AST SpaceMobile’s April announcement that the company had completed the first-ever space-based voice calls using everyday unmodified smartphones.
The company’s comprehensive testing program with its partners has continued since June, including additional voice calls, 4G video calls and now 5G cellular broadband connections.
"Making the first successful 5G cellular broadband connections from space directly to mobile phones is yet another significant advancement in telecommunications AST SpaceMobile has pioneered.

Rakuten Securities Revolutionizing its Platform with TipRanks' Tools

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Monday, September 18, 2023

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Rakuten Securities, Inc., which hosts an incredible nine million securities accounts, is displaying TipRanks' datasets, empowering investors to make smart, data-driven decisions.

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Rakuten Securities, Inc., which hosts an incredible nine million securities accounts, is displaying TipRanks' datasets, empowering investors to make smart, data-driven decisions.
Rakuten Securities' clients will be able to explore TipRanks' top-level stock research tools to choose market-beating stocks.
Uri Gruenbaum, CEO of TipRanks, said, "TipRanks is proud to be integrated into Rakuten Securities' brokerage platform.
Yuji Kusunoki, CEO of Rakuten Securities, said, "Thanks to TipRanks' wonderful service, Rakuten Securities users will be able to acquire more extensive investment information that will affect the future stock prices of individual US companies.

MessageGears Recognized as One to Watch in Snowflake's Modern Marketing Data Stack Report

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

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-- Identity & Activation -- Identity & Onboarders -- Customer Data Activation

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"Snowflake's Data Cloud enables marketing professionals to model and enrich their data directly in the Data Cloud without the need to move or copy that data elsewhere," said Denise Persson, Chief Marketing Officer at Snowflake.
"MessageGears' innovative work helps brands leverage their Snowflake data to send dynamic and personalized marketing campaigns in real-time.
This recognition in Snowflake's 2023 Modern Marketing Data Stack report is a testament to the ongoing dedication MessageGears demonstrates for our joint customers," said Michael Murdza, MessageGears' Vice President of Product.
Click here to read The Modern Marketing Data Stack 2023: How Data-Forward Marketers Are Redefining Strategies to Unify, Analyze, and Activate Data to Boost Revenue.

InterDigital’s Milind Kulkarni to Outline the 5G Journey to 6G Evolution at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas

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Thursday, September 14, 2023

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WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A leader in advanced video and wireless research that has empowered every generation of wireless evolution through innovation and standards contributions, InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), has announced Milind Kulkarni, VP and Head of Wireless Labs, will headline a 6G conference session at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, taking place from September 26 – 28, 2023.

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WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 14, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- A leader in advanced video and wireless research that has empowered every generation of wireless evolution through innovation and standards contributions, InterDigital, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDCC), has announced Milind Kulkarni, VP and Head of Wireless Labs, will headline a 6G conference session at Mobile World Congress Las Vegas, taking place from September 26 – 28, 2023.
Milind Kulkarni will be a featured speaker on the Mobile World Congress “Envisioning a 6G Future” conference session, specifically detailing the foundation of 5G Advanced and the new capabilities that can be expected from the evolution to 6G.
The conference session will take place on Thursday, September 28 from 10:00 – 11:00 am PT on Stage A, Level 2, Room W231, and will feature InterDigital’s Kulkarni alongside experts from Rakuten, U.S. Department of Defense, AST SpaceMobile, and Wipro.
Additional information about the conference session is available here .

Rakuten Partners with New York Fashion Week: The Shows for Member VIP Access and Savings on Designer Runway Looks

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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 6, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten, the leading shopping platform that offers Cash Back and rewards, is partnering with New York Fashion Week (NYFW): The Shows to launch the first-ever "Wear the Runway" event with top runway designers and fashion retailers. Aimed at making the runway accessible for a broader audience of consumers, "Wear the Runway" includes a pre-sale of pieces straight from the runway before they hit stores, trend reports and product curations from style icon Elaine Welteroth and elevated 10% Cash Back from more than 40 fashion retailers.

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Designers and Rakuten retail partners 3.1 Phillip Lim, Altuzarra and Rebecca Minkoff will host an exclusive Rakuten pre-sale offering members access to hero pieces from their latest collections, months before styles hit stores.
Curated with Rakuten members in mind, each designer has selected an exclusive piece made available as part of the "Wear the Runway" event.
Rakuten members can also shop the designers' current collections on Rakuten from Sept. 7-13 with elevated 10% Cash Back.
Follow along on Rakuten's Instagram and TikTok , for New York Fashion Week: The Shows content and updates.

Next-Generation Commerce Platform Kite Appoints CPTO and CFO

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Thursday, August 31, 2023

NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kite, a next-generation commerce company specializing in scaling high-potential brands, announced today the appointment of Mike Hart, former VP of Product at Fletch and Amazon product management and engineering executive, as CPTO and Markus Leunig, former CFO of Walker Edison and The North Face, as CFO.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 31, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Kite , a next-generation commerce company specializing in scaling high-potential brands, announced today the appointment of Mike Hart , former VP of Product at Fletch and Amazon product management and engineering executive, as CPTO and Markus Leunig , former CFO of Walker Edison and The North Face, as CFO.
"The foundation of an exceptional company lies in the brilliance of its people," said Rob Solomon, Co-Founder and CEO of Kite.
Mike Hart, CPTO of Kite, has spent his career building platforms and ground-breaking products using machine learning at iconic technology companies and startups.
Prior to Kite, Mike was the VP of Product for data analytics platform Fletch, and led product and engineering teams at companies including Amazon, Netflix, and Microsoft.

Rakuten Rewards Appoints Julie Van Ullen as Chief Revenue Officer

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Rewards , the leading Cash Back shopping platform and a subsidiary of internet services giant Rakuten Group, Inc., has promoted Julie Van Ullen to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

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SAN MATEO, Calif., Aug. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten Rewards , the leading Cash Back shopping platform and a subsidiary of internet services giant Rakuten Group, Inc., has promoted Julie Van Ullen to Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).
Reporting to Rakuten Rewards and Rakuten International CEO Amit Patel, Van Ullen will lead the company's revenue-generating, sales support and product marketing operations.
Van Ullen was previously Managing Director and Head of Revenue at Rakuten Rewards, where she oversaw monetization strategies to bring the best merchants, consumer experience, and value to Rakuten members.
"Rakuten is an undisputed leader in strategic performance marketing, offering the unique combination of scale, influence, personalized targeting, a highly engaged audience, and an unparalleled ability to incentivize conversion," said Julie Van Ullen, CRO at Rakuten Rewards.