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Rakuten to Present Optimism 2024 Conference in the US

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

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SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in five years, Rakuten Optimism, hosted by Rakuten International, will return to the U.S. on May 29-31, 2024 in Carlsbad, Calif. Under the theme of "Fueling Meaningful Connections," Rakuten's U.S. flagship event will gather thousands of retail marketing leaders and professionals at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa for the season's biggest marketing conference to connect, inspire and celebrate innovation.

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Expanding the reach and power of its shared brand across its network of premium advertisers and partners, Rakuten Optimism 2024 will bring together Rakuten Rewards ' retail clients, agencies and brand partners, with Rakuten Advertising 's core audience of advertisers, publishers, and agencies.
The event will build on the success of Rakuten Advertising's DealMaker conference with a two-day program examining and celebrating the latest innovations in performance marketing and digital advertising.
Highlights for Rakuten Optimism 2024 will include:
A more detailed agenda and content themes will be announced soon.
For more information on Rakuten Optimism 2024 or for sponsorship inquiries, email [email protected] .

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.

AtScale Achieves Snowflake Ready Technology Validation

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Wednesday, March 8, 2023

AtScale , the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has been approved by Snowflake , the Data Cloud company, as a Snowflake Ready Technology Validation Partner , confirming that the company’s Snowflake integrations adhere to the platform’s best practices around performance, reliability, and security.

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AtScale , the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced that it has been approved by Snowflake , the Data Cloud company, as a Snowflake Ready Technology Validation Partner , confirming that the company’s Snowflake integrations adhere to the platform’s best practices around performance, reliability, and security.
The Snowflake Ready Validation Program recognizes partners that have completed a 3rd party technical validation to confirm their Snowflake integrations are optimized with an emphasis on functional and performance best practices.
AtScale is partnering with Snowflake to deliver high-performance business intelligence solutions to organizations including Betclic , Affinity Federal Credit Union , and Rakuten Rewards .
“AtScale’s semantic layer platform helps both business intelligence and data science teams manage metrics and data models,” said Tarik Dwiek, Head of Technology Alliances at Snowflake.

RAKUTEN ANNOUNCES "SLEIGH YOUR SHOPPING" EVENT, ITS FIRST-EVER IN-PERSON HOLIDAY SHOPPING POP-UP EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK CITY

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Rakuten, the leading shopping destination that offers Cash Back and rewards, has announced its first-ever in-person immersive shopping pop-up experience: Rakuten's "Sleigh Your Shopping," the holiday pop-up that pays you to shop. Located in New York City's Noho neighborhood at 666 Broadway, the two-day pop-up will run from Saturday, Nov. 12 to Sunday, Nov. 13, showcasing Rakuten's breadth of retailers across beauty, fashion, wellness and more. Consumers are able to shop their favorite brands including INBLOOM, JVN Hair, Patrick Ta Beauty, Favorite Daughter, UGG, Naadam, Eberjey, Quay and Aurate, scoring 10% Cash Back in-person at the event as well as an additional 10% directly to their Rakuten account (Terms apply.)

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"Consumers haveweathereda lot these last couple of holiday seasons last year with supply chain issues and this year with inflation.
Rakuten wanted to inspire shoppers by creating a holiday shopping destinationwith impactful rewards.
We are thrilled to bring our online platform to life in New York City because we know seeing (or experiencing) is believing.
Rakuten's "Sleigh Your Shopping"pop-up experience will be located in New York City and open to the public from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST on Nov. 12 and 13.

Inaugural Semantic Layer Summit Draws A Crowd of 7,000+ and Establishes New Community for Analytics Professionals

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Wednesday, November 2, 2022

AtScale , the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, hosted the inaugural Semantic Layer Summit on September 28, 2022.

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AtScale , the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, hosted the inaugural Semantic Layer Summit on September 28, 2022.
We were thrilled with the level of interest in this first ever Semantic Layer Summit, said Josh Epstein, CMO, AtScale.
We are looking forward to using this event to build a community of professionals interested in actively shaping the evolution of semantic layers for data and analytics.
The date for the Semantic Layer Summit 2023 has been set for April 6, 2023 with early registration now available.

Checkmate Announces $5 Million Seed Funding Round, Led by Fuel Capital

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Monday, September 26, 2022

Checkmate , a personalized smart shopping tool that makes it easy for users to discover brands, apply savings and manage their orders post-purchase, today announced it has secured a $5 million seed funding round led by Fuel Capital.

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Checkmate , a personalized smart shopping tool that makes it easy for users to discover brands, apply savings and manage their orders post-purchase, today announced it has secured a $5 million seed funding round led by Fuel Capital.
Checkmate will use the new investment to accelerate its product development and customer growth.
For brands, Checkmate functions as a powerful conversion engine that also helps businesses attract targeted audiences and build long-term relationships with their customers.
Headquartered in San Francisco and co-founded by three Australians, Checkmate formally launched its personalized smart shopping tool in the summer of 2022.

AtScale Announces Full Agenda for Semantic Layer Summit

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

AtScale , the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the full agenda and sponsors for its inaugural Semantic Layer Summit, which is being held virtually on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, from 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT.

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AtScale , the leading provider of semantic layer solutions for modern business intelligence and data science teams, today announced the full agenda and sponsors for its inaugural Semantic Layer Summit, which is being held virtually on Wednesday, September 28, 2022, from 10:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. EDT.
The Summit is a free, one-day virtual event focused on the role of a semantic layer in scaling enterprise analytics, along with a discussion of best practices and related technologies to support a semantic layer strategy.
With more than 5,000 attendees already signed up for the Summit, were anticipating an excellent day of education, discussion and networking, said Dave Mariani, AtScales CTO and co-founder, who will also be serving as the host and moderator for the Summit.
Market Take on the Semantic Layer, by Dr. Prashanth Southekal , Founder and Managing Principal at DBP-Institute; and Sanjeev Mohan , Principal at SanjMo.

PatientIQ Raises $20M to Transform Patient Outcomes Data into Actionable Intelligence that Advances Clinical Care

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Thursday, May 12, 2022

CHICAGO, May 12, 2022 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PatientIQ, a leading healthcare technology company deriving actionable insights from patient outcomes data at scale, announced today it has secured $20 million in Series B funding. The funding round was led by Health Enterprise Partners (HEP), a growth equity firm whose investors include some of the largest health systems and health plans in the United States. August Capital, an early financier of PatientIQ, also participated in this funding round.

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HEP's investment will help advance PatientIQ's mission of driving medicine forward through the systemic collection and analysis of patient outcomes data.
Specifically, the company will leverage the investment to further enhance its industry-leading patient outcomes platform and accelerate its expansion in the provider and real-world evidence markets.
PatientIQ is the healthcare technology partner for deriving actionable insights from patient outcomes data.
PatientIQ has demonstrated years of experience and a superior ability to transform patient outcomes into actionable intelligence.

Big Give Week, Rakuten's Biggest Shopping Event of the Year, Returns from May 9 -16

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Wednesday, May 4, 2022

SAN MATEO, Calif., May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- With summer on the horizon, shoppers can get extra savings and rewards during Rakuten's largest shopping event, Big Give Week which runs May 9-16. Plus, Rakuten members who also love the NBA can score an exclusive Gift With Purchase.

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"Big Give Week is our most rewarding shopping event of the year.
Big Give Week shoppers won't have to break the bank to gear up for summer fun."
Big Give Week shoppers can tap into even more rewards with Rakuten's biggest referral bonus of the year.
Another benefit of shopping during Big Give Week is that Rakuten, an official partner of the NBA, will offer an exclusive Gift With Purchase promotion.

Stephen Curry's UNDERRATED Tour Powered by Rakuten Holds Championship Tournament in Oakland, April 1-3

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Friday, April 1, 2022

OAKLAND, Calif., April 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Stephen Curry's season three of the UNDERRATED Tour Powered by Rakuten makes its final stop on April 1-3 at Oakland's Soldiertown indoor basketball court. The three-day, invite-only event is the culmination of a nationwide search for overlooked and underrepresented high school student basketball talent, bringing together tour finalists to compete in tournament style games where one boy and one girl will be crowned the country's most UNDERRATED athlete representing their region. During the UNDERRATED Tour Championship Stop, student athletes also compete in tournament style games and receive specialized training, tailored experiences and best-in-class resources like drills, off-court education, personal skills development, expert panels and more.

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During the UNDERRATED Tour Championship Stop, student athletes also compete in tournament style games and receive specialized training, tailored experiences and best-in-class resources like drills, off-court education, personal skills development, expert panels and more.
"The UNDERRATED Tour was created to encourage anyone who feels overlooked to believe in their potential regardless of the obstacles they face," said Stephen Curry.
The UNDERRATED Tour Championship Stop is about opening doors for young athletes with an underdog spirit and a dream to be bigger than their hometown teams.
For more information and the latest updates on The UNDERRATED Tour Powered by Rakuten, please visit www.stayunderrated.com .