Ryan Reynolds-Backed Firm MNTN Teams With David Lynch To Do a Super Bowl Commercial
A small business can’t usually afford a television commercial, much less a Super Bowl ad that costs $7 million for 30 seconds. But Ryan Reynolds wants to change that. More specifically, the adtech company where Reynolds serves as chief creative officer, MNTN, the self-described “Google Ad Words for TV,” does.
Shifting The Focus To Experience-Centric Observability
Operations’ focus must progress from low-level system performance—an “infrastructure-centric” approach—to high-level user experience. Experience-centric observability can empower operations and engineering teams with greater efficiency, connection to business outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
DailyPay Closes Transactions Totaling $175 Million; Company’s Valuation Increases by 75%
DailyPay, the leading on-demand pay company, today announced it has secured over $175 million to fuel growth. The funding is divided between $100 million of expanded secured credit facility capacity provided by Citi and over $75 million in equity financing, which valued the company at $1.75 billion on a pre-money basis.
Celigo Automates Over $1.4B in Gross Merchandise Value During BFCM 2023
Celigo, the leading integration platform as a service (iPaaS) for business and IT users, today announced it processed orders worth more than $1.4 billion gross market value (GMV) during the Black Friday Cyber Monday (BFCM) shopping period. Over the four-day stretch, Celigo experienced a 2.5x increase in the total volume of orders processed above the daily average while delivering 100% platform uptime to its customers.
USAA Life Insurance Announces New Relationship with Trust & Will
USAA Life Insurance Company, a leading financial services brand for military members and their families, and Trust & Will, a premier digital estate planning and settlement platform, have announced a strategic relationship to provide discounted estate planning and probate services to their members serving their unique needs.
Prove Identity nabs $40M at a $1B+ valuation to expand in mobile-based authentication tech
Prove Identity, the smartphone-based identity verification startup that originally made its name years ago as Payfone before rebranding in 2020, has raised $40 million.
Horizon Technology Finance Provides $35 Million Venture Loan Facility to Mirantis
Horizon Technology Finance Corporation (NASDAQ: HRZN) (“Horizon”), an affiliate of Monroe Capital, and a leading specialty finance company that provides capital in the form of secured loans to venture capital-backed companies in the technology, life science, healthcare information and services, and sustainability industries, announced today that on September 15, 2023 it provided a $35 million venture loan facility to Mirantis, Inc. (“Mirantis”), of which $20 million has been initially funded.
Prove Identity CEO Rodger Desai Wins EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® New York Award
Prove Identity, Inc. (“Prove”), the global leader in digital identity, today announced that its Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Rodger Desai, has been named by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US) as a 2023 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year® New York Award winner.
Prove Identity Partners with Visa to Make Customer Onboarding 79% Faster While Enhancing Security
Prove Identity, Inc. (“Prove”), a leader in consumer identity, today announced a new partnership with Visa (NYSE: V), a world leader in digital payments, to empower brands to increase secure loyalty account enrollment by eliminating manual account registration and pre-filling application forms with verified information.
Ion Stoica’s First Startup Ready to Spread Streaming Data Wings
Having tackled some of the toughest real-time data processing challenges in Internet video, and seeing a surge of interest in real-time data, Conviva is now looking to apply its streaming data platform to other data use cases in other industries.