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Audius Launches Music Marketplace, Enabling Direct On Platform Payments

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023
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LAS VEGAS, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ --  Audius, the first community owned music platform and largest decentralized service, officially launched its music marketplace today in beta, allowing its 6 million music fans to support their favorite artists with direct payments. Audius music fans seamlessly use their credit card to pay artists in USDC, which can be converted by artists and rights holders to the currency of their choice including USD, EUR, GBP, or most other currencies. Alongside the core purchasing features, Audius fans can pay artists more than the list price for their music by adding extra payment to further support their favorite artists. These new innovations give creators control in pricing their music for access in streams and downloads, while delivering instant payouts. It's a powerful new revenue stream for artists and rights holders.

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  • Audius, the first community owned music platform and largest decentralized service, officially launched its music marketplace today in beta, allowing its 6 million music fans to support their favorite artists with direct payments.
  • LAS VEGAS, Nov. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Audius , the first community owned music platform and largest decentralized service, officially launched its music marketplace today in beta, allowing its 6 million music fans to support their favorite artists with direct payments.
  • Alongside the core purchasing features, Audius fans can pay artists more than the list price for their music by adding extra payment to further support their favorite artists.
  • It's a first of its kind rewards program in the music industry enabled by the unique community owned model of the Audius platform.

Silicon Valley Visionaries Gather to Discuss Innovative Education and Raising Tomorrow's Leaders

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Thursday, October 26, 2023
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"Silicon Valley Visionaries: Nurturing Future Innovators" will be held on Tuesday, November 14th from 6-8:30pm at Devil's Canyon Brewery in San Carlos.

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  • "Silicon Valley Visionaries: Nurturing Future Innovators" will be held on Tuesday, November 14th from 6-8:30pm at Devil's Canyon Brewery in San Carlos.
  • Join us for an insightful dialogue on progressive education and raising tomorrow’s leaders, while raising critical funds for UP Academy’s project based learning programs and Bay Area school.
  • These innovative thought leaders will share their personal experiences and insights on education, discussing the approaches they have chosen for their own children and students in this time of rapid change.
  • "We are thrilled to host this discussion on nurturing future innovators and leaders with some of the valley's most forward-thinking visionaries."

Music Platforms Unite To Form Industry-Wide Anti-Fraud Alliance, "Music Fights Fraud"

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023
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NEW YORK, June 14, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Digital music companies CD Baby and its parent company Downtown, TuneCore and its parent company Believe, DistroKid, UnitedMasters, Symphonic, EMPIRE, and Vydia along with digital service providers Spotify and Amazon Music, today announced they have come together in an unprecedented alliance to form Music Fights Fraud, a global task force aimed at eradicating streaming fraud. Music Fights Fraud represents the first time all corners of the music industry have aligned as a united front to combat fraud in music streaming.

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  • Music Fights Fraud represents the first time all corners of the music industry have aligned as a united front to combat fraud in music streaming.
  • The founding members of Music Fights Fraud are all strong advocates for artists' rights.
  • We applaud Music Fights Fraud for working together to combat this industry issue and we look forward to supporting their efforts moving forward."
  • RIAA supports new innovations in the fight against all forms of stream manipulation, fraud, and piracy and welcomes the efforts of Music Fights Fraud."

Nordic Announces Minority Investment in Fortified Health Security

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
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MADISON, Wis., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordic Consulting, a global health and technology consulting company, today announced it has closed a deal to become a minority investor in Fortified Health Security, a best-in-class managed security services provider (MSSP) to the healthcare industry. Nordic is joined by majority investors Silversmith Capital Partners and Health Velocity Capital.  

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  • MADISON, Wis., Dec. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Nordic Consulting , a global health and technology consulting company, today announced it has closed a deal to become a minority investor in Fortified Health Security , a best-in-class managed security services provider (MSSP) to the healthcare industry.
  • Nordic and Fortified entered into a strategic partnership last August, designed to bolster the cybersecurity support and services available to healthcare organizations.
  • Nordic is an award-winning global health and technology consulting company that partners with health leaders around the world to create healthier systems, businesses, and people.
  • Representative investments include ActiveCampaign, Appfire, DistroKid, impact.com, Iodine Software, LifeStance Health, Market Access Technologies, MediQuant, Nordic Consulting, PDFTron, Upperline Health and Webflow.

Proven Optics Receives Growth Investment Led by Silversmith Capital Partners

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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Proven Optics , a practitioner-founded Financial Management software company, today announced that is has secured a majority growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners , a Boston-based growth equity firm.

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  • Proven Optics , a practitioner-founded Financial Management software company, today announced that is has secured a majority growth investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners , a Boston-based growth equity firm.
  • Proven Optics has experienced significant organic growth since its founding in 2020 and is looking to hire across the organization.
  • Kirkland & Ellis served as legal counsel to Silversmith Capital Partners and Porter Wright served as legal counsel to Proven Optics.
  • Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management.

PDFTron Broadens Leading Document Technology Platform with Acquisition of E-signature Innovator eversign

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022
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Brings together complementary offerings to enable a versatile, all-in-one document manipulation and signing platform, powered by PDFTron's comprehensive technology suite

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  • Brings together complementary offerings to enable a versatile, all-in-one document manipulation and signing platform, powered by PDFTron's comprehensive technology suite
    VANCOUVER, BC, Nov. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ - PDFTron Systems Inc., the world's leading provider of document processing technology for developers and enterprises, today announced the acquisition of cloud-based electronic signature innovator, eversign GmbH.
  • "Today, we are thrilled to share the next exciting step in our platform journey as we welcome the eversign team.
  • "Marrying our intuitive and affordable e-signature products with PDFTron's leading document technology will help digitize more transactions and bring teams unparalleled productivity and efficiency.
  • PDFTron is a premier global provider of high-performance document processing technology serving OEM and enterprise customers across a broad spectrum of industries.

JETNET Acquires Asset Insight, one of the world's most experienced aviation-focused valuation firms

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022
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UTICA, N.Y., Oct. 18, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Acquisition Accelerates Growth Through Best-in-Class Data and Market Intelligence Offerings for the Aviation Industry

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  • JETNET today announced that it has agreed to acquire Asset Insight, LLC, one of the world's most experienced aviation-focused valuation firms and creator of eValues, business aviation's most advanced real-time valuation tool.
  • JETNET , a leading provider of aviation data and market intelligence,
    today announced that it has agreed to acquire Asset Insight, LLC, one of the world's most experienced aviation-focused valuation firms and creator of eValues, business aviation's most advanced real-time valuation tool.
  • JETNET offers the most comprehensive and reliable database of business and commercial aviation information to its global customer base.
  • Working directly with operators, owners, and manufacturers, JETNET maintains accurate information on pricing, availability, and location of mission-critical aviation resources.

Bryan Landerman Joins Silversmith Capital Partners as Operating Partner, Chief Technology Officer

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Thursday, October 6, 2022
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Silversmith Capital Partners , a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, announced today that Bryan Landerman has joined the firm as Operating Partner, Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

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  • Silversmith Capital Partners , a growth equity firm focused on supporting the best entrepreneurs in technology and healthcare, announced today that Bryan Landerman has joined the firm as Operating Partner, Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221006005070/en/
    We are thrilled to welcome Bryan to the partnership, said Silversmith Managing Partner, Todd MacLean.
  • As a technology strategist and three-time CTO, Bryan brings extensive experience helping organizations transform business operations, software delivery, and culture through technology innovation.
  • Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management.

TMA Systems Acquires Eagle Technology to Accelerate Expansion and Global Growth

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022
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TMA Systems acquisition of Eagle Technology will accelerate the pace of innovation on its platform, enabling greater predictive maintenance capabilities for all clients.

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  • TMA Systems acquisition of Eagle Technology will accelerate the pace of innovation on its platform, enabling greater predictive maintenance capabilities for all clients.
  • Together, TMA Systems and Eagle Technology will provide our clients with a more complete solution that aligns facilities maintenance and overall organizational goals, said Mark Simner, TMA Systems CEO.
  • Eagle Technology and TMA Systems share a vision to provide innovative and open solutions to our customers, said Harshad Shah, CEO of Eagle Technology.
  • Since 1986, Eagle Technology, Inc. has focused on developing comprehensive Cloud-based (SaaS), Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) and Computerized Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS) Software.

GiveCampus Raises $50 Million Investment Led by Silversmith Capital Partners

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Monday, September 19, 2022
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GiveCampus , a leading fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions, announced today that it has closed a $50 million minority growth equity investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners , a Boston-based growth equity firm.

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  • GiveCampus , a leading fundraising platform for nonprofit educational institutions, announced today that it has closed a $50 million minority growth equity investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners , a Boston-based growth equity firm.
  • As part of the investment, Silversmith has committed significant additional capital to provide GiveCampus employees with liquidity through a tender offer.
  • Kirkland & Ellis served as legal counsel to Silversmith Capital Partners and Wilmer Hale served as legal counsel to GiveCampus.
  • Founded in 2015, Silversmith Capital Partners is a Boston-based growth equity firm with $3.3 billion of capital under management.