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Lisata Therapeutics Announces U.S. FDA Orphan Drug Designation Granted to LSTA1 for the Treatment of Malignant Glioma

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Tuesday, August 8, 2023
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BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lisata Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LSTA) (“Lisata” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of advanced solid tumors and other serious diseases, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to LSTA1, the Company’s lead product candidate, for the treatment of malignant glioma.

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  • BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 08, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lisata Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: LSTA) (“Lisata” or the “Company”), a clinical-stage pharmaceutical company developing innovative therapies for the treatment of advanced solid tumors and other serious diseases, today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has granted Orphan Drug Designation to LSTA1, the Company’s lead product candidate, for the treatment of malignant glioma.
  • “Malignant glioma is one of the most aggressive and deadly malignancies,” stated Kristen K. Buck, M.D., Executive Vice President of R&D and Chief Medical Officer of Lisata.
  • Orphan Drug Designation provides certain financial incentives to support clinical development as well as a seven-year period of U.S. market exclusivity if the product receives FDA approval for such indication.
  • It will be conducted at several sites in Estonia and Latvia and is targeted to enroll 30 patients with a randomization of 2:1 LSTA1 + SoC versus placebo + SoC.

Viktoria Ruubel joins Veriff as Managing Director of Digital Identity

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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New York, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veriff, a global identity verification provider, today announced that Viktoria Ruubel has joined the company as Managing Director of Digital Identity. Ruubel will be responsible for leading the business strategy and expansion of Veriff's core product towards a reusable digital identity platform.

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  • New York, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veriff , a global identity verification provider, today announced that Viktoria Ruubel has joined the company as Managing Director of Digital Identity.
  • Ruubel will be responsible for leading the business strategy and expansion of Veriff's core product towards a reusable digital identity platform.
  • She joins Veriff from Tide Platform, one of the leading financial platforms in the UK for small businesses.
  • "Reusable digital identity technology is the next generation for identity verification, as it allows individuals and businesses to re-use a single digital identity across different online platforms and applications.

Viktoria Ruubel joins Veriff as Managing Director of Digital Identity

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023
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New York, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veriff, a global identity verification provider, today announced that Viktoria Ruubel has joined the company as Managing Director of Digital Identity. Ruubel will be responsible for leading the business strategy and expansion of Veriff's core product towards a reusable digital identity platform.

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  • New York, Jan. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Veriff , a global identity verification provider, today announced that Viktoria Ruubel has joined the company as Managing Director of Digital Identity.
  • Ruubel will be responsible for leading the business strategy and expansion of Veriff's core product towards a reusable digital identity platform.
  • She joins Veriff from Tide Platform, one of the leading financial platforms in the UK for small businesses.
  • "Reusable digital identity technology is the next generation for identity verification, as it allows individuals and businesses to re-use a single digital identity across different online platforms and applications.

Arricano Real Estate Plc: Directorate

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Thursday, December 1, 2022
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Lauri Reinberg, who joined Arricano in October 2017, has over 20 years experience in financial management in Eastern European markets.

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  • Lauri Reinberg, who joined Arricano in October 2017, has over 20 years experience in financial management in Eastern European markets.
  • Between 2007 and 2009, Lauri had served as CFO of Retail Real Estate S.A., Arricanos largest shareholder at that time.
  • Ganna Chubotina, CEO of Arricano, said: We are delighted that Lauri, who has made a significant contribution to Arricano since he joined the Group in 2017, and Michalis, who has much relevant commercial leadership experience, have agreed to join the Board.
  • Arricano Real Estate plc Tel: +357 25 582 535

Climate startup Arbonics raises €1.8m pre-seed funding from Taavet Hinrikus and Plural to shake up the voluntary carbon market with data-driven tool for landowners

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Thursday, September 15, 2022
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Earlier this year, Arbonics raised 1.8M in a pre-seed round from Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Wise) with Plural to spearhead the development of the platform.

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  • Earlier this year, Arbonics raised 1.8M in a pre-seed round from Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Wise) with Plural to spearhead the development of the platform.
  • Founded by Kristjan Lepik and Lisett Luik in early 2022, Arbonics enables nature-based solutions to fight climate change, focusing particularly on forestry.
  • Carbon credits have become a means for carbon emitters to offset emissions by investing in projects that remove or reduce emissions from the atmosphere.
  • Arbonics will make it easier for landowners to analyse and calculate the ability of their land to absorb carbon.

Climate startup Arbonics raises €1.8m pre-seed funding from Taavet Hinrikus and Plural to shake up the voluntary carbon market with data-driven tool for landowners

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Thursday, September 15, 2022
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Earlier this year, Arbonics raised 1.8M in a pre-seed round from Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Wise) with Plural to spearhead the development of the platform.

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  • Earlier this year, Arbonics raised 1.8M in a pre-seed round from Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of Wise) with Plural to spearhead the development of the platform.
  • Founded by Kristjan Lepik and Lisett Luik in early 2022, Arbonics enables nature-based solutions to fight climate change, focusing particularly on forestry.
  • Carbon credits have become a means for carbon emitters to offset emissions by investing in projects that remove or reduce emissions from the atmosphere.
  • Arbonics will make it easier for landowners to analyse and calculate the ability of their land to absorb carbon.

Bitcasino to Use Estonian ESTCube-2 Satellite to Send Bitcoin Into Space

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Monday, August 29, 2022
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ESTCube-2 , a satellite built by the Estonian satellite organization, is composed of space enthusiasts and students, who wish to take Estonian space tech onto the world stage.

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  • ESTCube-2 , a satellite built by the Estonian satellite organization, is composed of space enthusiasts and students, who wish to take Estonian space tech onto the world stage.
  • This resonates with what we at Bitcasino believe in and we want to support the next generation of engineers.
  • This is also a great chance to make history as we're the first crypto casino to send a Bitcoin to space.
  • "We are very excited to partner with Bitcasno as it helps us promote exciting, novel, and inspiring space technology solutionsby developing the satellite and bringing people's attention to the importance of combating space debris."

Eurora Solutions raises $40M in Series A to tackle e-commerce shipping delays caused by EU regulation changes

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022
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Eurora already has over 200 paying clients worldwide that use its technology to process millions of parcels every day.

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  • Eurora already has over 200 paying clients worldwide that use its technology to process millions of parcels every day.
  • TALLINN, Estonia, April 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Eurora Solutions , an Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-backed (AI/ML) cross-border e-commerce compliance platform, is announcing the closure of its oversubscribed Series A round, raising $40 million/31 million.
  • Eurora already has over 200 paying clients worldwide, including some of the biggest e-commerce players in Asia, such as JD.com, Yanwen and Topyou.
  • These players are looking for software-based solutions that can help handle the billions of cross-border packages affected by this new EU regulation.

Ventus Therapeutics Appoints Victor Lobanov, PhD, as Head of Computational Sciences

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Monday, April 4, 2022
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Ventus Therapeutics , Inc., a biopharmaceutical company utilizing structural biology and a proprietary computational platform to identify and develop small molecule therapeutics across a broad range of diseases, announced today the appointment of Victor Lobanov, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President, Head of Computational Sciences.

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  • Ventus Therapeutics , Inc., a biopharmaceutical company utilizing structural biology and a proprietary computational platform to identify and develop small molecule therapeutics across a broad range of diseases, announced today the appointment of Victor Lobanov, Ph.D., as Senior Vice President, Head of Computational Sciences.
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    Victor Lobanov, Ph.D., Ventus Senior Vice President, Head of Computational Sciences (Photo: Business Wire)
    Dr. Lobanov brings to Ventus more than 25 years of experience in developing and implementing leading-edge computational methods across the drug discovery continuum.
  • At Ventus, Dr. Lobanov will oversee all scientific and operational aspects of computational sciences and information technology.
  • He will focus on driving the rapid growth of Ventus internal computational capabilities and also help direct the strategy for extending the scope and application of Ventus ReSOLVE platform.

FinTech Leader Michael Noonan Joins Sentieo as Chief Operating Officer

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Monday, November 1, 2021
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sentieo , the leading next-generation financial research platform provider, announced the appointment of Michael Noonan to Chief Operating Officer.

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  • SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Sentieo , the leading next-generation financial research platform provider, announced the appointment of Michael Noonan to Chief Operating Officer.
  • Sentieo was purpose built to rapidly accelerate the research process and analyst workflows and ensure better decision making.
  • An end-to-end platform, fueled by a powerful AI search engine, Sentieo uniquely empowers analysts throughout the research process to deliver winning strategies.
  • This is an exciting time for Sentieo and I am thrilled to be part of this phenomenal team, said Noonan.