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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Prove Identity, the smartphone-based identity verification startup that originally made its name years ago as Payfone before rebranding in 2020, has raised $40 million.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.
Code42 Enhances its Solution to Deliver Effective, Low-Lift Response to the Full Spectrum of Insider Risk
Code42 Software, Inc., the Insider Risk Management (IRM) leader, today announced that it is offering a complete set of response controls to allow security teams to respond to all levels of risk, ranging from unacceptable high risk that must be blocked to the most prevalent user mistakes that require correction.
Code42 and SentinelOne Partner to Uncover Risk to Data and Accelerate Response to Insider Threats
Code42 Software, Inc., the Insider Risk Management (IRM) leader, and SentinelOne, Inc. (NYSE: S), an autonomous cybersecurity platform company, today announced a new partnership that integrates the Code42 Incydr™ solution with the SentinelOne Singularity Platform. This integration grants users additional visibility over their most sensitive data and expands response capabilities in the event of an insider threat incident.
Second Alpha Raises Oversubscribed $170 Million Fund V
Second Alpha Partners (“Second Alpha” or the “Firm”), a New York-based private equity firm focused on secondary and secondary-linked investments in mature, growth-stage technology companies, is pleased to announce the closing of the Firm’s latest fund, Second Alpha Partners V, L.P. (“Fund V”), with $170 million in limited partner commitments. Fund V was oversubscribed, securing commitments from a diversified set of investors including insurance companies, foundations, multi-strategy funds, multi-family offices, single family offices and industry executives.
Prove Identity Named a User Authentication Leader in Quadrant Knowledge Solutions’ 2022 SPARK Matrix™
Quadrant Knowledge Solutions has named Prove as a 2022 technology leader in its SPARK MatrixTM analysis of the global User Authentication market.
Giift acquires majority interest in InTouch (Indonesia) Creating the Indonesian loyalty leader
Today Giift, the leading provider of end-to-end loyalty program management solutions, announced that it has acquired a strategic majority interest in InTouch, Indonesia’s most trusted provider of loyalty solutions. InTouch’s very strong local development team combined with Giift’s comprehensive global loyalty solutions will truly ensure best of both worlds to our Indonesian clients. An unbeatable combination of world-class loyalty solutions with a strong local support.
OpenX Announces First Programmatic Horizon Media Blu.ID Integration
OpenX Technologies, Inc., one of the world’s leading omnichannel sell-side platform today announced a new element of their partnership with Horizon Media — a direct integration of the agency’s blu.ID with the OpenX platform. This first-of-its-kind integration offers agencies and brands a path to easily activate custom and first-party audiences, including Horizon’s blu segments in OpenX inventory through supply-side targeting. The direct integration dramatically improves match rates, efficiency, and transparency for brands across CTV, mobile, and web environments.
Mirantis Acquisition Adds Real-Time Application Discovery, Observability, Security, and Operations to the Lens Platform
Mirantis, freeing developers to create their most valuable code, today announced that it has acquired the Santa Clara, California-based Shipa to add automated application discovery, operations, security, and observability to the Lens Kubernetes Platform.
DailyPay Announces $260 Million in New Funding
DailyPay, a leading financial technology company, today announced it has secured $260 million of capital to fuel growth domestically, expand internationally and further invest in product innovation. The funding is divided between revolving credit facility capacity provided by Barclays and Angelo Gordon, and new term loan funding from SVB Capital and a fund managed by Neuberger Berman.
Mirantis Grows OpenStack for Kubernetes Virtual Machine Deployments by 10 Times in 2022, Launches Latest Release
Mirantis, freeing developers to create their most valuable code, today announced that the Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK) has seen virtual machines (VM) deployed on its infrastructure explode more than 10 times the previous year.