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Opal Security Raises $22M in Series B Funding to Expand Next-Generation Identity Security Platform

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Thursday, December 7, 2023
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Opal Security, the next-generation identity security and access management company, today announced its $22 million Series B funding, led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Greylock and Box Group.

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  • Opal Security, the next-generation identity security and access management company, today announced its $22 million Series B funding, led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Greylock and Box Group.
  • With this new round of funding, Opal Security will expand its global team, scale enterprise customer support and ramp up new product development, including a new suite of visualization and AI tools to remediate identity risk.
  • The Opal Security platform simplifies the management of human and non-human identities by providing a clean, API-driven approach to unifying and acting on identity and authorization data.
  • “Opal Security has developed a platform that integrates various solutions, significantly advancing progress in this domain.

PostgresML, the MLops platform enabling the next generation of in-database artificial intelligence and machine learning applications, is now generally available for enterprise and scale-ups

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Thursday, November 9, 2023
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PostgresML , the AI Postgres extension, announced the general availability of its end-to-end machine learning operations platform.

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  • PostgresML , the AI Postgres extension, announced the general availability of its end-to-end machine learning operations platform.
  • Developing AI-powered applications requires a range of microservices to carry out the entire machine learning workflow, such as data preparation, inference, and fine tuning along with a stateful database to store the features.
  • Additionally, the required network hops from one service to another increase latency and require potentially unsafe data transfers.
  • Bringing ML closer to where companies already store their data (i.e., Postgres) makes it easier to get started,” Catanzaro said.

Rightfoot Launches Zero-Login Financial Data for Financial Institutions and Lenders

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Thursday, August 10, 2023
Technology, Finance, Security, Fintech, Banking, Professional Services, Software, Data Analytics, Data Management, Kraken, Marketing, Bank statement, NSF, API, BCV, Mitigation, Engineering, Bain Capital Ventures, Black box group, Magic, Growth, Online shopping, Bank, Cryptocurrency

Rightfoot has been building and testing Connect Magic with financial institutions, lenders, and technology companies across the United States, and will use the funds to launch and expand access.

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  • Rightfoot has been building and testing Connect Magic with financial institutions, lenders, and technology companies across the United States, and will use the funds to launch and expand access.
  • Financial institutions need to understand the full financial picture of their customers.
  • Instead of requiring bank username and password, Rightfoot Connect Magic requires only the consent of the customer in order to securely retrieve data.
  • “Getting access to actionable customer data has been a known-mammoth of a problem for financial institutions across sectors and product offerings.

Maza Raises $8 Million To Provide U.S. Immigrants with Financial Identities, Offering Fast Track To The American Dream

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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LOS ANGELES, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, over 15 million immigrants in the U.S., many of which are high earners, are blocked from joining the country's traditional financial system because they lack a Social Security number (SSN). Because of this and other constraints, they are often pushed into non-traditional – and even predatory – forms of finance, such as check cashers, loan sharks, and pawnbrokers. To solve this pervasive problem, Maza, a financial platform designed to provide immigrants with the financial identities they need to realize their American Dream, announces an $8 million seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz with additional participation from SV Angel, Box Group, Restive Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Abstract Ventures, and a collection of independent investors including Anre Williams, CEO of American Express National Bank, and William Hockey, Co-founder of Plaid.

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  • Maza's suite of financial services products offer a gateway to U.S. financial freedom by automating a U.S. tax presence for immigrants.
  • "As descendants of Latin American immigrants, my co-founders and I are building the company our parents needed," said Luciano Arango, CEO and Co-Founder of Maza.
  • Anyone who is seeking to achieve their unique American Dream needs a financial identity, and that's where Maza comes in."
  • With Maza, we believe immigrants can finally forge a solid financial footing to foster a prosperous life in America."

Triumph Launches with $14.1M to Power Monetization for Game Developers

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Triumph, a plug-and-play solution that helps game developers monetize through skill-based real money tournaments, today announces $14.1 million in total funding, with a $10.2 million Series A led by General Catalyst with participation from Heroic Ventures, Hanover Technology Investment Management, SteelPerlot, RavenOne, Box Group, Great Oaks, NOMO, Strike, and Valhalla Ventures, with the prior seed led by Ari Stiegler at Flux Capital. Triumph's platform multiplies revenue potential for game developers by offering a suite of experience creation tools leveraging real money tournaments and prizes.

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  • Triumph's platform multiplies revenue potential for game developers by offering a suite of experience creation tools leveraging real money tournaments and prizes.
  • Triumph-powered games generate significant revenue growth for game developers and increase player engagement & lifetime.
  • Triumph manages all aspects of real money tournaments and prize infrastructure on behalf of developers.
  • Game developers looking to integrate real money tournaments into their mobile games can sign up at triumpharcade.com .

Ansa Emerges from Stealth With $5.4M to Make a Big Impact on Small Payments

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Wednesday, April 26, 2023
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Ansa co-founders Sophia Goldberg and JT Cho witnessed the challenges faced by merchants firsthand while working for Adyen and Affirm, respectively.

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  • Ansa co-founders Sophia Goldberg and JT Cho witnessed the challenges faced by merchants firsthand while working for Adyen and Affirm, respectively.
  • This is especially true for those who have more unique needs, what Ansa calls HULT merchants: habitual use, low transaction value.
  • Ansa is built around the co-founders’ shared ethos that payments should be a tool, not a hurdle.
  • Merchants often build hacks for payments to work for their use cases, rather than payments empowering their businesses.

Next Gen Business Intelligence Platform Omni Announces Commercial Availability

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Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Omni Analytics today announced the commercial availability of the Omni business intelligence platform for internal analytics.

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  • Omni Analytics today announced the commercial availability of the Omni business intelligence platform for internal analytics.
  • “Having spent the last 10 years building and working with business intelligence tools, I've found that existing products on the market don't provide the flexibility and speed needed to keep up with a growing business.
  • Omni allows us to update our data model at the speed the business is asking questions.
  • Unlike other solutions on the market today, Omni evolves the data model as you query and explore.

Loyal Appoints Blake Scholl to its Board of Directors

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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
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Loyal , a biotech company developing the world’s first drugs intended to extend the healthy lifespan of dogs, announced today that Blake Scholl has joined as an Independent Director.

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  • Loyal , a biotech company developing the world’s first drugs intended to extend the healthy lifespan of dogs, announced today that Blake Scholl has joined as an Independent Director.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230215005837/en/
    Loyal appoints Blake Scholl to Board of Directors (Photo: Business Wire)
    Blake Scholl is the Founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic , the company building the world’s fastest airliner.
  • Prior to founding Boom in 2014, Blake held leadership roles at Amazon and Groupon and co-founded mobile technology startup Kima Labs.
  • Blake joins existing Board of Directors Laura Deming of The Longevity Fund and Celine Halioua, and Board Observers Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital and Greg Rosen of Box Group.

Paytient Raises $63 Million to Help Americans Access and Afford Healthcare

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023
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Founded in 2018, Paytient partners with thoughtful employers and insurers to empower Americans to more easily pay out-of-pocket healthcare costs that too often feel out of reach.

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  • Founded in 2018, Paytient partners with thoughtful employers and insurers to empower Americans to more easily pay out-of-pocket healthcare costs that too often feel out of reach.
  • “Few people plan on getting sick, and even fewer are immune to the financial impact of unexpected out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
  • “Fundamentally, we believe the healthcare journey deserves its own financial products that enable equitable access to care.
  • “Every day we hear from folks who use their Paytient card to help them better access care and manage healthcare spending.

Evvy Co-Founders Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek Honored as Forbes 30 Under 30 Innovators for their Work in Closing the Gender Health Data Gap Starting with the Vaginal Microbiome

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Evvy is on a mission to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body — starting with the vaginal microbiome. The brand is pleased to announce the induction of its co-founders, Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek, into the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Consumer Technology category.

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  • The brand is pleased to announce the induction of its co-founders, Priyanka Jain and Laine Bruzek, into the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the Consumer Technology category.
  • In less than a year, Evvy has created a testing community of over 10,000 members; become a leading voice for vaginal health; launched a first-of-its-kind clinical study; created the first-ever Equal Research Day ; and more.
  • "We're so honored to be named to 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 and represent the mission of the entire Evvy team," said Priyanka Jain, co-founder, and CEO of Evvy.
  • Evvy is on a mission to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging female-specific biomarkers, starting with the vaginal microbiome.