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Pipedrive Adds New Automated Solutions to Its Marketing Campaign Management Suite to Empower Marketers

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Thursday, September 29, 2022
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Designed to help customers simplify marketing campaign management and bring their sales and marketing teams onto one platform, the new automated solutions aim to empower marketers by helping them to optimize the marketing strategy, reduce workload and tap effectively into data.

Key Points: 
  • Designed to help customers simplify marketing campaign management and bring their sales and marketing teams onto one platform, the new automated solutions aim to empower marketers by helping them to optimize the marketing strategy, reduce workload and tap effectively into data.
  • As businesses continue to shift to digital-first interactions with customers, automated solutions stand as key to optimizing marketing and sales strategies.
  • Our new growth-focused automated solutions in Campaigns by Pipedrive enable our customers to organize their operations cost-effectively, re-think their business approaches, and get creative with building meaningful client relationships.
  • Campaigns by Pipedrive provides users with a centralized place to manage their email marketing campaigns all within Pipedrive.

XP Health Raises $17.1M Series A to Transform Vision Benefits for Insurance Carriers, Companies and Employees

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022
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SAN CARLOS, Calif., Sept. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- XP Health, the company creating the first digital-first vision benefits platform, today announces a $17.1M Series A round led by HC9 Ventures, Valor Capital Group and ManchesterStory. Additional investors include Canvas Ventures, CameronVC, Core Innovation Capital, GSR Ventures, and Plug and Play, as well as high profile angels like Ken Goulet (former EVP Anthem), Kevin Hill (former regional CEO United Healthcare), Jeff Epstein (CFO of Oracle, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners) and Brett Rochkind (former managing partner General Atlantic). This expansion capital will bolster XP Health's drive to reinvent how people experience vision benefits.

Key Points: 
  • This expansion capital will bolster XP Health's drive to reinvent how people experience vision benefits.
  • XP Health offers a high-quality, innovative vision care benefit that doubles the value of coverage while reducing costs by half for members.
  • Starting with just 30 clients last year, XP Health now services 1,500, including high-profile companies like Docusign, Chegg, Navistar, Sequoia Consulting, and strategic partners Guardian Life Insurance and The Health Benefit Alliance.
  • XP Health democratizes access to high-quality, delightful experiences in vision care that double coverage and reduce costs by half.

GlossGenius closes $25M Series B, more than tripling its last valuation to power its business-in-a-box solution for beauty and wellness small businesses

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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NEW YORK, Sept. 27, 2022   /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- GlossGenius, the fastest growing business-in-a-box platform for small businesses in the beauty and wellness industry, today announced $25M in new financing co-led by Imaginary Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Left Lane Capital. This represents more than a 3x increase in valuation over its last Bessemer-led Series A round and brings total funding to $44M since the company launched in 2016.

Key Points: 
  • With over 40,000 businesses on the platform reaching 14M end-users, GlossGenius has seen its revenue grow by triple digit percentages year over year.
  • The platform now powers over $2B of annualized transaction activity and on average, businesses earn 25-100% more revenue with GlossGenius.
  • Through the platform, entrepreneurs and small business owners in the beauty and wellness industry can start and build bigger businesses.
  • GlossGenius is enabling that with software that's consolidating the back office and giving small business owners a platform to succeed.

Cloudflare Announces $1.25 Billion “Workers Launchpad” Funding Program to Help Startups Grow Their Businesses

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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The Workers Launchpad Funding Program will provide up to $1.25 billion of financing to startups building applications on Cloudflare Workers , a highly-scalable serverless computing platform that allows developers to build or augment apps without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.

Key Points: 
  • The Workers Launchpad Funding Program will provide up to $1.25 billion of financing to startups building applications on Cloudflare Workers , a highly-scalable serverless computing platform that allows developers to build or augment apps without configuring or maintaining infrastructure.
  • Any private company globally that is building on Cloudflare Workers is eligible to apply for the program.
  • Startups that build on Cloudflare Workers are building on a platform made to automatically support serious scale, said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare.
  • Startups applying for the program will be eligible for potential investment from investors, the Cloudflare Startup Enterprise Plan , which includes Cloudflare Workers, Cloudflare for Teams, Cloudflare Stream, and additional core security and performance offerings, as well as exclusive events.

Netography Upgrades Platform to Provide Scalable, Continuous Network Security and Visibility Across the Atomized Network

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Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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Netography today announced further innovation to its Netography Fusion platform, delivering scalable, continuous network visibility and control required by security operations center (SOC) and cloud operations teams.

Key Points: 
  • Netography today announced further innovation to its Netography Fusion platform, delivering scalable, continuous network visibility and control required by security operations center (SOC) and cloud operations teams.
  • The platform is the only security product that secures the Atomized Networkincluding legacy, on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments.
  • Close Visibility Gaps: From north-south to east-west and cloud to cloud only Netography Fusion provides the actionable visibility teams need.
  • Netography Fusion is for enterprise security operations center (SOC) and cloud operations teams that need scalable, continuous network visibility across the Atomized Network legacy, on-premises, hybrid, multi-cloud, and edge environments.

Veteran Insurance Leader Steven Brown Joins Sensa as Chief Operating Officer to Lead Sensa's Growth in the U.S.

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Monday, September 26, 2022
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AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensa , the first proactive insurance, appointed Steven Brown - formerly of Allstate and AAA - as Chief Operating Officer.

Key Points: 
  • AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensa , the first proactive insurance, appointed Steven Brown - formerly of Allstate and AAA - as Chief Operating Officer.
  • Brown launched insurance operations from scratch and reestablished profitability for a $2 billion-dollar insurer.
  • "Sensa's cutting-edge technology and premium emergency support save lives and give policyholders more than any other insurer," said Steven Brown .
  • "No one should be left alone during a car accident," said Itay Bengad, MD, founder and CEO of Sensa.

Productboard Expands Senior Leadership Team with Appointments of CFO and COO

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Monday, September 26, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Productboard, the customer-centric product management platform that helps teams get the right products to market faster, announced two new additions to their senior leadership team, Sebastien Giroux as Chief Financial Officer and Greg Strickland as Chief Operating Officer. Giroux and Strickland both bring more than 15 years of experience in their fields, across a wide range of industries and company sizes. As Productboard embarks on its next phase of growth, Giroux and Strickland will play a crucial role in helping scale the company and continuing to build out the product management category.

Key Points: 
  • "I'm looking forward to partnering with them both to drive operational excellence across the organization and optimize Productboard's financial performance for long-term growth."
  • Giroux was most recently Chief Financial Officer at Collibra and previously held strategic financial management positions at Atlassian, RingCentral, and IBM.
  • I'm excited to work alongside the Productboard team to transform the way products are built."
  • Productboard is the customer-centric product management platform that helps organizations get the right products to market, faster.

Schedule Engine Supports Carrier to Help Dealers Deliver Convenient, Reliable Customer Experience

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Wednesday, September 21, 2022
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This collaboration will help Carrier dealers strengthen their businesses by supporting market competitiveness and growing their revenue through access to industry-leading solutions.

Key Points: 
  • This collaboration will help Carrier dealers strengthen their businesses by supporting market competitiveness and growing their revenue through access to industry-leading solutions.
  • Carrier is committed to delivering a premier digital experience for our channel partners," said Gundeep Singh, Executive Director - Digital and Analytics, Carrier.
  • "We're pleased to be collaborating with Schedule Engine to offer a seamless lead booking experience that will help our dealers improve their win rate in the field."
  • From online scheduling software to live voice and chat support, Schedule Engine ensures your customers receive a convenient, personalized experience.

Restaurant365 Releases New Workforce Suite with Enhanced Payroll Solution

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Restaurant365, the leading all-in-one restaurant enterprise management software, has announced enhancements to further help restaurant operators attract and retain top talent while simultaneously easing the burden of payroll processors.

Key Points: 
  • Restaurant365 releases enhancements to its payroll solution, allowing operators to better attract and retain employees.
  • "With our enhanced Payroll solution, operators will have access to a full range of highly sought-after features that will differentiate them from the competition, driving employee recruitment and retention."
  • Operators will have access to tools to streamline payroll including direct deposit, tax filing, check printing, tip maintenance, approval workflows and more.
  • Payroll is a key part of R365 Workforce, connected directly into Restaurant365's Accounting and Store Operations feature sets.

Data Security Startup Sentra Launches in U.S. Market

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
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NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sentra, a cloud data security company, today formally announced its arrival in the U.S. market with the opening of its new North American headquarters in New York City. Backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Zeev Ventures, Sentra enables security teams to gain full visibility and control of cloud data, as well as protect against sensitive data breaches across the entire public cloud stack. The company was recently recognized by Gartner as a Sample Vendor for Data Security Posture Management in the Hype Cycle™ report for Data Security 2022.[1]

Key Points: 
  • The company was recently recognized by Gartner as a Sample Vendor for Data Security Posture Management in the Hype Cycle report for Data Security 2022.
  • Sentra allows businesses to regain control over their data vulnerabilities and shrink the data attack surface by finding all cloud data, classifying it according to sensitivity, and then offering actionable remediation plans for data security teams.
  • "As an organization that prioritizes the security of data in the cloud, using Sentra enables our teams to operate quickly while maintaining our high levels of security requirements."
  • Sentra allows security teams to automate the detection and remediation of data security vulnerabilities across a company's entire cloud environment.