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Firstboard.io® Announces Partner Network and Founding Partners Working to Increase Women on Tech Boards

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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The representation of women in the tech industry still hovers at less than 30% and in the boardrooms of privately held companies the number of female board members is much lower. Only 14% of board director seats for private companies are held by women, and 56% of early-stage private companies had zero-woman directors, according to a 2022 report by the Women Business Collaborative in partnership with 50/50 Women on Boards.

Key Points: 
  • Harnessing the support of industry leaders from the tech industry to increase the representation of women on private company boards.
  • Firstboard.io®, a curated network of highly qualified and diverse technology leaders, announced today the launch of its Partner Network and its Founding Partners working to support the organization's efforts and increase the representation of women in the boardrooms of private companies.
  • "Working with our partners we want to make visible for consideration highly qualified women ready to serve on boards. "
  • Firstboard.io invites corporate partners who want to support efforts to increase the representation of women on private company boards to contact Firstboard.io and join the Partner Network.

Sensate Raises $3.2M Seed Round to Reduce the Effects of Stress and Expand Access to Wellness

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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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SAN MARCOS, Calif., March 16, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Sensate, a wellness technology company that created a patented relaxation device+app turning the tide on stress, announced today that it closed $3.2M in a seed funding round in February, led by Incisive Ventures.

Key Points: 
  • Co-investors in the round include Share Ventures, Geek Ventures, Dangerous Ventures, Unlock Venture Partners, What If Ventures, Moai Capital and 37 Angels.
  • An incredibly easy, fast, and accessible way to relieve stress, the device was developed by physicians and tested in clinics.
  • A portion of the seed round was raised via Wefunder, the leading retail investment platform for Regulation Crowdfunding.
  • Sensate is poised to combat the global stress crisis, revolutionizing the exponentially growing $4.2T wellness market.

Forward Networks Raises $50M in Series D Funding, Achieves 139% Year-over-Year Growth

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks announced today that it has secured $50M in Series D funding from top-tier venture capital firms. The company provides unique digital twin network modeling software that delivers security, reliability, and agility to large enterprise networks. The funding round, led by MSD Partners, L.P., includes new investors Section 32 and Omega Venture Partners as well as existing investors Goldman Sachs Asset Management (Goldman Sachs), Threshold Ventures, A. Capital and Andreessen Horowitz. Additionally, Victor Hwang, managing director and co-head of MSD Growth, joins the Forward Networks board of directors.

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  • Capital and Andreessen Horowitz
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 24, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Forward Networks announced today that it has secured $50M in Series D funding from top-tier venture capital firms.
  • Additionally, Victor Hwang, managing director and co-head of MSD Growth, joins the Forward Networks board of directors.
  • "We are exceedingly excited and optimistic about Forward Networks," said Victor Hwang, managing director and co-head of MSD Growth.
  • Together with Forward Networks, we are excited to leverage Omega's substantial strategic resources to capture the tremendous growth potential ahead."

AI-driven SaaS Company Kuona Announces $6 Million Round to Solve Brand Pricing and Promotion Challenges

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Friday, December 16, 2022
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MONTERREY, Mexico, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Kuona, the intelligent SaaS platform that uses machine learning to automatically optimize product prices, promotions, and inventories for consumer packaged goods (CPGs) and retailers, announced it has raised a $6 million seed round led by COMETA, with participation from Seaya Cathay Latam and FEMSA Ventures. The new capital will be used to expand Kuona's presence and team in key geographies, including Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Key Points: 
  • Kuona helps CPG and retailers dramatically increase the ROI of their promotions while maintaining or increasing their sales.
  • "When it came to optimizing promotions, we looked at a number of companies before settling on Kuona," said a spokesperson from OXXO.
  • "Our team chose Kuona because of their expertise in the industry and the accuracy of its neural networks, which translates into better results.
  • As a result of our successful partnership and our confidence in the future of the company's offerings, FEMSA Ventures has invested in the round."

Rodeo Secures Strategic Growth Investment from PSG

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Monday, July 25, 2022
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Rodeo (the Company), a leading cloud-native project management software provider with a focus on creative services companies, today announced it has secured a significant strategic growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth.

Key Points: 
  • Rodeo (the Company), a leading cloud-native project management software provider with a focus on creative services companies, today announced it has secured a significant strategic growth investment from PSG, a leading growth equity firm partnering with middle-market software and technology-enabled services companies to help accelerate their growth.
  • Rodeo combines a strong organic ARR growth profile with SaaS KPIs among the best-in-class.
  • Following the transaction, Rodeo will continue to be led by its existing management team and will work in partnership with PSG and existing investors in seeking to accelerate its growth through increased GTM investment and geographical expansion.
  • PSG is a growth equity firm that partners with software and technology-enabled services companies to help them navigate transformational growth, capitalize on strategic opportunities and build strong teams.

IDTechEx Discusses What is Holding Back Agricultural Robotics

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Agricultural automation/robots have already been applied in several tasks including milking, weeding, fresh fruit and vegetable harvesting, and many others.

Key Points: 
  • Agricultural automation/robots have already been applied in several tasks including milking, weeding, fresh fruit and vegetable harvesting, and many others.
  • IDTechEx's new report " Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032 " provides an overview of the stage of commercialization and market size for different applications.
  • The report " Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032 "believes that the global market will reach around 13 billion USD by 2032.
  • For the full portfolio of Robotics, Autonomy & AI research available from IDTechEx please visit www.IDTechEx.com/research/robotics .

IDTechEx Discusses What is Holding Back Agricultural Robotics

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Tuesday, February 15, 2022
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Agricultural automation/robots have already been applied in several tasks including milking, weeding, fresh fruit and vegetable harvesting, and many others.

Key Points: 
  • Agricultural automation/robots have already been applied in several tasks including milking, weeding, fresh fruit and vegetable harvesting, and many others.
  • IDTechEx's new report " Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032 " provides an overview of the stage of commercialization and market size for different applications.
  • The report " Agricultural Robotics Market 2022-2032 "believes that the global market will reach around 13 billion USD by 2032.
  • For the full portfolio of Robotics, Autonomy & AI research available from IDTechEx please visit www.IDTechEx.com/research/robotics .

Henry McGovern, founder of AmRest, leads through his fund McWin the capital increase of one of the leading FoodTech companies in the US

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Tuesday, December 14, 2021
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WROCLAW, Poland, Dec. 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- McWin Food Ecosystem, the fund created by Henry McGovern and Steven K. Winegar, founder of AmRest and co-founder of Zena Group, respectively, joins the shareholding of the US company, market leader in fermentation processes, engineering, manufacturing and creation of real, non-animal proteins for the food industry, The EVERY Company, becoming one of the main shareholders of one of the most important FoodTech companies in the world.

Key Points: 
  • - The fund advances its commitment to transform the global food system and continues its support for sustainability.
  • In addition, leading firms such as Temasek, Wheatsheaf Group, TO Ventures and Prosus Ventures, among others, participated in the round.
  • "The restaurant industry is one of the early adopters of new food technologies and their introduction to the consumer.
  • Now, our major objective is to scale the platform to make good on our promise to bring our proteins to everyone everywhere.

The EVERY Company Closes Oversubscribed $175 Million Series C Round as It Drives Scale-up of Its B2B Animal-free Protein Platform

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Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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The EVERY Company , the leading precision fermentation platform accelerating a global transition to animal-free protein, today announced it has closed $175 million in Series C financing.

Key Points: 
  • The EVERY Company , the leading precision fermentation platform accelerating a global transition to animal-free protein, today announced it has closed $175 million in Series C financing.
  • EVERYs platform is a big step towards filling that gap, said Katrin Burt, Managing Partner of Grosvenors Wheatsheaf Group.
  • The Series C round brings EVERYs total funding to $233 million.
  • EVERY will also continue to expand its protein production platform by mining the egg proteome for novel, hyper-functional proteins.

Global Gaming Peripheral Market Overview to 2027: Surging Popularity of E-Sports and Online Gaming Driving Major Growth - ResearchAndMarkets.com

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Thursday, October 7, 2021
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The global gaming peripheral market held a market size of USD 4,541.7 Million in 2020, and the market is expected to reach USD 8,690 Million by 2027.

Key Points: 
  • The global gaming peripheral market held a market size of USD 4,541.7 Million in 2020, and the market is expected to reach USD 8,690 Million by 2027.
  • The surging popularity of e-sports and online gaming acts as a major driver for the gaming peripheral market.
  • The increasing investments in online gaming and e-sports are expected to boost the growth of the global gaming peripheral market.
  • The high cost associated with gaming peripherals is anticipated to pose a challenge for the growth of the global gaming peripheral market.