Bain Capital Ventures

Zero Hash launches in Brazil, accelerating its global expansion

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, November 3, 2022

SO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zero Hash, the leading global B2B2C crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider, today announced its expansion into Brazil.

Key Points: 
  • SO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 03, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Zero Hash, the leading global B2B2C crypto-as-a-service infrastructure provider, today announced its expansion into Brazil.
  • Zero Hash enables businesses to embed digital assets within their product offering with a light technical lift and little regulatory burden.
  • Since its founding in 2017, Zero Hash has an established global business powering neo-banks, broker-dealers, payment groups, and non-financial consumer brands to launch crypto products within their existing customer experience.
  • Zero Hash has appointed Tiago Galli as a Board member of its Brazilian subsidiary.

Hightouch Named a Cool Vendor by Gartner®

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, November 3, 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hightouch, the Data Activation company, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner based on the October 20, 2022 report titled, Cool Vendors™ in Marketing Data and Analytics by Rachel Smith, Matt Wakeman, Benjamin Bloom, and Lizzy Foo Kune1. According to the report, "Sixty-three percent of respondents to Gartner's 2021 Digital Marketing Survey agreed that leveraging integrated customer data to drive digital marketing execution presented a moderate or significant challenge. This is despite the fact that customer data platforms (CDPs) are already widely adopted by marketers, which shows that significant gaps remain between managing data and putting it to work operationally."

Key Points: 
  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --Hightouch, the Data Activation company, today announced that it has been named a Cool Vendor by Gartner based on the October 20, 2022 report titled, Cool Vendors in Marketing Data and Analytics by Rachel Smith, Matt Wakeman, Benjamin Bloom, and Lizzy Foo Kune1.
  • "We are delighted to be recognized as a Cool Vendor in Marketing and Data Analytics by Gartner.
  • Gartner, "Cool Vendors in Marketing Data and Analytics," Rachel Smith, Matt Wakeman, Benjamin Bloom, and Lizzy Foo Kune, October 20, 2022.
  • GARTNER and COOL VENDORS are registered trademarks and service marks of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and are used herein with permission.

Founded by Former AWS DynamoDB Engineering Leadership, Momento Reinvents Caching for Cloud Databases With $15 Million in Seed Funding Led by Bain Capital Ventures

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

By making caching serverless, Momento delivers the first instantly elastic, highly available cache that can serve millions of transactions per second.

Key Points: 
  • By making caching serverless, Momento delivers the first instantly elastic, highly available cache that can serve millions of transactions per second.
  • Momento is already being used by well-known brands around the world like CBS, NTT Docomo and Wyze Labs.
  • Momento Serverless Cache automatically manages hot-keys, maintains high cache hit rates, keeps tail latencies low and provides instantly scalable capacity.
  • Read Bain Capital Ventures blog: https://baincapitalventures.com/insight/momento-data-retrieval-doesnt-ha...
    Momentos vision is to enable developers to write reliable and powerful apps faster than ever thought possible.

HYCU® Nominated for Hottest Startup in the New England Venture Capital Association’s 2022 NEVY Awards

Retrieved on: 
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

, the worlds fastest-growing multi-cloud data protection as a service company, has been nominated as Hottest Startup in the Technology Award category by the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) for its 10th annual NEVY Awards , which recognizes and celebrates the top innovators, investors and companies in the region.

Key Points: 
  • , the worlds fastest-growing multi-cloud data protection as a service company, has been nominated as Hottest Startup in the Technology Award category by the New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) for its 10th annual NEVY Awards , which recognizes and celebrates the top innovators, investors and companies in the region.
  • We added several new investors including Atlassian Ventures, Cisco Investments and Okta Ventures in addition to our lead investors for our two rounds, Acrew Capital and Bain Capital Ventures.
  • Nominees are selected by the NEVYs Academy, comprised of investors from the regions top venture capital firms.
  • The New England Venture Capital Association (NEVCA) works toward a collaborative, inclusive, and prosperous innovation ecosystem.

Socure Launches New Account Validation Solution

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Socure , the leading provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions, today announced it has entered the payment risk space with the introduction of its newest product, Socure Account Intelligence .

Key Points: 
  • Socure , the leading provider of digital identity verification and fraud solutions, today announced it has entered the payment risk space with the introduction of its newest product, Socure Account Intelligence .
  • What differentiates Socure Account Intelligence, is that the results are delivered in real time, and with the highest account coverage in the market, as opposed to competing micro-deposit solutions, which can take days, resulting in significant consumer drop-off.
  • Socure Account Intelligence also processes with minimal data inputs (name, account, and routing number), versus credentialing solutions, which require consumer disclosure of sensitive account login credentials.
  • Not only does Socure Account Intelligence support this rule, it also confirms that the consumer/business named is the rightful owner of the bank account.

Keap Encourages Entrepreneurs to Power On, Announces 2022 ikon Winners

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

CHANDLER, Ariz., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keap, the leader in sales and marketing automation software for small businesses, hosted its annual ikon conference on Oct. 27-28 and announced the 2022 ikon award winners. The two winners, Wrap Ukraine With Quilts and Lifeonaire, had the opportunity to be voted on by the more than 850 registered attendees during the ikon conference. This year's event gave attendees the opportunity to learn how to power on by optimizing their business, sales and marketing goals with proven strategies from small business experts.

Key Points: 
  • Two Entrepreneurs Recognized for Showcasing Success, Growth and Making a Difference
    CHANDLER, Ariz., Nov. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Keap , the leader in sales and marketing automation software for small businesses, hosted its annual ikon conference on Oct. 27-28 and announced the 2022 ikon award winners.
  • "For the Keap community to be able to power on together showcases our purpose to liberate and empower entrepreneurs to strengthen their families, communities, and economies."
  • Keap attendees were presented the finalists and voted on the winners during the first day of the conference.
  • Keap pioneered the sales and marketing automation software market with its Keap Lite, Keap Pro and Keap Max products along with expert coaching.

OpenFin Accelerates Growth and Expands to Government Sector

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

This marks the first expansion of OpenFin OS outside of the finance sector.

Key Points: 
  • This marks the first expansion of OpenFin OS outside of the finance sector.
  • The introduction of Workspace has significantly accelerated OpenFin's growth in finance and enabled the expansion of OpenFin into the government sector via a strategic partnership with IQT.
  • "Traditional web browsers are a rudimentary tool for running apps in large enterprises," said Mazy Dar, CEO at OpenFin.
  • "The rapid adoption by financial firms and our expansion into the government sector provide strong validation that OpenFin OS does what browsers and even the native OS can't do when it comes to enterprise productivity."

OpenFin Accelerates Growth and Expands to Government Sector

Retrieved on: 
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

This marks the first expansion of OpenFin OS outside of the finance sector.

Key Points: 
  • This marks the first expansion of OpenFin OS outside of the finance sector.
  • Launched in May 2021, OpenFin Workspace (Workspace) is the new visual interface of OpenFin OS which includes components for complex windowing, advanced search, actionable notifications, and application discovery.
  • The introduction of Workspace has significantly accelerated OpenFin's growth in finance and enabled the expansion of OpenFin into the government sector via a strategic partnership with IQT.
  • "The rapid adoption by financial firms and our expansion into the government sector provide strong validation that OpenFin OS does what browsers and even the native OS can't do when it comes to enterprise productivity."

Socure Partners with Carahsoft to Provide Public Sector Agencies with the Industry’s Leading Identity Verification Solution in Accuracy and Inclusion

Retrieved on: 
Monday, October 31, 2022

Over the last two years, bad actors and criminal networks have launched targeted attacks against Public Sector agencies at all levels of Government, costing taxpayers billions.

Key Points: 
  • Over the last two years, bad actors and criminal networks have launched targeted attacks against Public Sector agencies at all levels of Government, costing taxpayers billions.
  • Using machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Socure enables Public Sector agencies to modernize their approach to identity verification and obtain highly accurate, automated decisions.
  • Socures machine learning and AI approach has created an accurate and inclusive model for identity verification in a zero-trust world, said Steve Jacyna, Director of Emerging Cyber Solutions at Carahsoft.
  • Fraud should no longer be accepted as the cost of doing business in the Public Sector, said Matt Thompson, General Manager of Socures Public Sector business.

HealthJoy Raises $60M Series D to Power HR Leaders Through a New Era of Workplace and Healthcare Benefits

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, October 27, 2022

HealthJoy is powering HR leaders through this new era by enabling them to minimize healthcare costs, maximize benefits engagement, reduce administrative burden and improve employee well-being.

Key Points: 
  • HealthJoy is powering HR leaders through this new era by enabling them to minimize healthcare costs, maximize benefits engagement, reduce administrative burden and improve employee well-being.
  • The company provides in-depth healthcare benefits navigation to over 1000 U.S. employers, supporting the management and delivery of world-class healthcare benefits to nearly half a million employees and dependents.
  • Its investments are focused on transformative healthcare technologies that bring superior clinical benefits for patients and significant efficiencies to healthcare systems.
  • HealthJoy is a healthcare navigation platform that is simplifying the healthcare and benefits experience for every member.