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Loyalty360 Releases Three New Analyst Briefs: Capillary Technologies, Clutch, and Baesman

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Loyalty360 is proud to announce analyst briefs on three leading customer loyalty technology and service providers featured earlier in the 2021 Technology Today industry report.

Loyalty360, the trade association for customer, channel and brand loyalty, has released three additional analyst briefs to its collection of more comprehensive industry reports. The analyst briefs on Capillary Technologies, Baesman, and Clutch are a more detailed assessment of the individual platforms showcased in Loyalty360’s 2021 Technology Today Industry Report, which is Loyalty360’s first composite industry report, unlike any other one in the market.

Carly Stemmer Ivory, VP of Marketing for Loyalty360, says that due to all the noise within the industry, it is difficult for marketers to understand which partners and technologies are the best fit for their brand. With individual analyst briefs, Loyalty360 brand members have access to a deeper analyst perspective of each supplier’s core competencies, points of differentiation, and best-fit clients, based on vertical, company size, and location.

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Loyalty360 Analyst Briefs

The individual reports add an augmented vendor evaluation based on a multi-part analyst assessment, including two in-depth surveys, two interviews/presentations by the named partners, and applicable client references. Additional insight is also extracted from brands who are members of Loyalty360, vendor-specific Loyalty360 Award submissions, and interviews with brand clients as part of the Leaders in Customer Loyalty Series.

Within each analyst brief, there is a detailed two-page assessment consisting of:

  • Core Technologies and Services
  • Key Capabilities
  • Security
  • Integrations and Strategic Partners
  • Reporting and Analytics
  • Differentiation
  • Recommended Brands and Industries

As an objective and market-driven association for customer loyalty, Loyalty360 is in a unique position to help brands navigate existing customer loyalty challenges and understand the evolving facets of today’s highly complex marketing landscape.

“We regularly connect with brand leaders, suppliers, and partners in the industry’s vanguard, and these analyst briefs include the latest look at where technology in customer loyalty is headed while helping brands select the most suitable entity for their respective needs,” Mark Johnson, CEO of Loyalty360.

“While brand marketers understand the importance of customer loyalty, there is significant difficulty navigating the complex MarTech landscape,” Johnson says. “Our analyst briefs on technology, strategy, and agency partners, as well as our first Technology Today Industry Report, we strive to bring much-needed clarity to the customer loyalty industry.”

Loyalty360 Analyst Brief, Featuring Clutch

Founded in 2013, Clutch’s technology set was initially deployed as a platform to aggregate customer data. In the years since the company has heavily invested in machine learning, analytics, and a new UI, expanding its product suite to offer clients a CDP and complete customer loyalty solution. Today, Clutch powers marketing, customer loyalty, offer management and customer experience strategies for brands of various sizes and industries, including traditional enterprise loyalty and rewards programs, as well as specific use cases for gift cards, solutions for franchisees, small to mid-market clients, and more.

Loyalty360 Analyst Brief, Featuring Capillary Technologies

Capillary Technologies helps marketers identify, understand, communicate with, and personalize customers’ experiences throughout their entire journey, as individuals move from unknown, to initial purchase, to lifetime loyalist. This comprehensive view of known and unknown customers across channels allows brands to leverage unified customer profiles to drive a connected experience and coherent brand strategy. Capillary’s loyalty platform is powered by ML/AI and built on a 360-degree customer view, made possible by Capillary’s customer data platform – a core component of the supplier’s technology set.

Loyalty360 Analyst Brief, Featuring Baesman

Baesman’s CRM & Loyalty division is a full-service loyalty services and technology partner, supporting brand clients through its proprietary loyalty management platform and/or strategic, analytics, and marketing services. Baesman helps its clients bring data to life in order to develop, launch, and enhance successful customer loyalty programs and strategies. With data and analytics as a central focus on its platform and strategic services, the Baesman team works with clients in various ways to make the most of their data, ultimately building a holistic and actionable single-view of the customer.

Brands who are members of Loyalty360 can download the analyst briefs mentioned above. Additionally, each respective partner referenced above has a limited number of complimentary access codes available for interested brand marketers considering their solution.

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SheerID Reveals The Top-10 Most Popular Identity Marketing Brand Offers

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SheerID Reveals The Top-10 Most Popular Identity Marketing Brand Offers

Exclusive deals from brands like Spotify, AT&T, Fox Nation, Target, and Nike

SheerID, the identity marketing platform that has verified 80 million customers across hundreds of leading brands around the world, today announced the list of the most popular brand offers available from Aug 1-31, 2021. Gated offers are targeted promotions designed to recognize, thank, and honor members of a particular community, occupation, life stage, or affiliation, such as college students, teachers, first responders, or members of the military.

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With the uncertainty of the latest uptick in COVID-19 cases, brands are creating identity marketing campaigns to thank “Heroes,” which typically include Healthcare professionals, First Responders, Teachers, Military, and Students.

Many of the most popular programs in August were for students and teachers who are back in school or headed back soon. This was evident based on the offers that were the fastest-moving in August 2021 compared to July 2021 which included:

  • Maurices: We offer an extra 10% off for teachers
  • The Economist: Students get half off an annual digital subscription
  • DIRECTV NFL Sunday Ticket: Students get exclusive pricing on streaming NFL
  • Lenovo: Everyday Discounts for Healthcare Workers, Students & Teachers, Military Members & Seniors
  • Birdies: Educators Get 20% Off Stylish Flats

Notably, most of these offers are still available as students and teachers are always a popular audience for personalized offers throughout the year from brands. In addition, with the uncertainty of the latest uptick in COVID-19 cases, brands are creating identity marketing campaigns to thank “Heroes,” which typically include Healthcare professionals, First Responders, Teachers, and Students. For example, AT&T has an offer available for “Community Heroes to Save on Phone Plans” in appreciation of first responders, educators, healthcare workers, military members, and veterans, providing them special savings.

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These exclusive deals are available on our SheerID Shoppers page or directly on the brand website. Make sure to check all the brand offers as some are only available for a limited time. Here are the most popular identity marketing offers in August 2021 by country:

Top Identity Marketing Brand Offers in the US

  • Spotify: Students Save on Spotify Premium
  • AT&T: Community Heroes Save on Phone Plans
  • Fox Nation: Military & Veterans: Enjoy a FREE year of Fox Nation
  • Target: Create a target account online or via the app to verify as a Teacher (or student or Military)
  • Nike: Students Save 10% on Entire Purchase
  • StudentUniverse: Students can create an account online to submit a verification request to receive the offer
  • Bed Bath & Beyond: Students save 20% with college savings pass
  • Dickies: 10% Off for Students, Military, and First Responders
  • Converse: 15% Off for Students and Military
  • YouTube: Students Pay $6.99/Month for Unlimited Streaming

Source: SheerID

Top Identity Marketing Brand Offers in Canada

  • Spotify International: Students Save on Spotify Premium
  • YouTube: Students Pay $6.99/Month for Unlimited Streaming
  • Autodesk: Autodesk offers its AutoCAD software to students and educators for free
  • Bed Bath & Beyond: Students save 20% with college savings pass
  • Intuit: Students and teachers get Intuit software for free

Source: SheerID

Top Identity Marketing Brand Offers in the UK

  • Spotify International: Students Save on Spotify Premium
  • Autodesk: Autodesk offers its AutoCAD software to students and educators for free
  • YouTube: Students Pay $6.99/Month for Unlimited Streaming
  • Singapore Airlines: With our student privileges, you can save 10% on selected fare types.
  • StudentUniverse: Students can create an account online to submit a verification request to receive the offer

Source: SheerID

Top Identity Marketing Brand Offers in France

  • Spotify International: Students Save on Spotify Premium
  • Back Market: 5% off for College Students
  • Deezer: Students receive 3 months free then pay just $4.99/month
  • Autodesk: Autodesk offers its AutoCAD software to students and educators for free
  • YouTube: Students Pay $6.99/Month for Unlimited Streaming

Source: SheerID

SheerID’s online verification platform ensures that only eligible individuals can redeem rewards for personalized offers to specific communities or professions. Verifying instantly takes just a few minutes, and, once completed, users can access exclusive deals and discounts from hundreds of brands.

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SFMC Marketing Enablement at its Best: DESelect Crosses €1M ARR Threshold in Less than 2 Years

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DESelect Launches Marketing Optimization Platform

DESelect, a leading marketing enablement solutions provider for Salesforce Marketing Cloud, today announced that it has joined the league of very few SaaS scaleups by exceeding €1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in less than 2 years since its incorporation. This milestone follows the announcement of DESelect’s plans for global expansion.

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“Reaching €1 million in ARR confirms DESelect’s vision and the value of its expanding list of products dedicated to making marketers’ time and efforts optimized to the fullest potential in Salesforce Marketing Cloud. I am truly proud of the hard work our team has put into making our vision a reality, and humbled by the ongoing support DESelect has received from its prominent advisory board members as well as supporters and advocates from Salesforce Marketing Cloud itself who believed in DESelect’s potential and offering”— Anthony Lamot, co-founder and CEO of DESelect.

Reaching the €1 million ARR benchmark is rare in the tech startup ecosystem. According to a number of sources, the tech startup industry has the highest startup business failure rate, at 63%, where only 1% of tech startups hit the  $1 Million in ARR mark. What’s more, the company achieved this solely by “bootstrapping”, that is to say, without having to use outside capital.

“From day one, we set up our company on 5 fundamental principles: Trust, Personal Responsibility, Customer Experience, Continuous Improvement, and Adaptability. Our products were shaped and continuously improved according to customer feedback. Our company has expanded during the challenging COVID-19 crisis by recruiting highly experienced individuals remotely. Reaching this milestone validates our vision to become the leading marketing data enabler on Salesforce AppExchange” Jonathan van Driessen, co-founder and CEO of DESelect.

DESelect clients include leaders such as a1-Telecom, Alm Brand, Merlin Entertainment, Cambridge University Press, and more. To learn more about our clients, visit DESelect Customer Success Stories.

DESelect offers the following solutions for Salesforce Marketing Cloud:

  • DESelect Segment. The company’s flagship product is dedicated to allowing marketers to create segments with no reliance on writing SQL queries
  • DESelect Connect. The no-code integration solution, enabling marketers to connect any data source (CMS, eCommerce, CRM,…) with webhooks to and from Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Salesforce CDP.
  • DESelect Search. The complimentary search engine fully integrated with the Marketing Cloud UI has become an indispensable tool for many marketers to find objects at lightning speed.

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What’s next for DESelect?

“Many companies would shy away or shield their future plans, but we believe that in order for us to reach them, a declaration will hold us accountable to keep our promise. Our next goal is to reach €10 million as fast as humanly possible” Lamot, co-founder and CEO of DESelect.

“Although we are aware that less than 10% of companies that reached 1M are able to 10x it in any timeframe, I am confident that with the help of DESelect’s team, we can achieve this. Moreover; we have our global expansion plan in order, and by the beginning of 2022, our office in the U.S. will be fully operational. Last but not least, based on the investor update by SFMC, in terms of Total Addressable Market Growth, they expect the growth opportunities to be >30% Y/Y CAGR, hence the market potential is huge for ISVs and Salesforce Marketing Cloud partners” Lamot, co-founder and CEO of DESelect.

DESelect bootstrapped its way to the €1M ARR goal, where they raised a small pre-seed round that was mostly left untouched since their incremental growth covered the cash burn. This time around and to be fully armed for the next journey, DESelect is raising its seed round.

“Data-oriented minds think alike: seeing Anthony and Jonathan build DESelect’s user-friendly data solutions for marketers at the pace they do is what got me on board in the first place. Aside from the Marketing Cloud’s tremendous growth rate, they also understand that catering to the CDP market – expected to reach $15.3 billion by 2026 – further amplifies the DESelect opportunity. Just when you think they can’t possibly go faster, they accelerate even more.” Stijn Christiaens, Co-Founder & Chief Data Citizen at Collibra and advisor to DESelect.

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Liqid Helps Customers Create and Scale VMware Host Servers in Seconds, with Composable Infrastructure

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Liqid Helps Customers Create and Scale VMware Host Servers in Seconds, with Composable Infrastructure

Liqid MatrixTM Software Accelerates VMware Host Deployment and Scaling, While Improving the Speed and Economics of On-prem Virtualized Environments.

Liqid, provider of the world’s most comprehensive composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) platform, today announced integration and support for composable hosts in VMware virtualized environments. With this new capability, Liqid customers can now deploy and scale host servers via software in seconds and centralize both physical and virtual infrastructure management within VMware with Liqid’s new vCenter Plug-in. By bringing Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) to virtualized workloads, Liqid helps customers manage costs by improving resource utilization and reducing physical management of host servers – further driving the flexibility and agility of the cloud to datacenters and the edge.

“Liqid’s composable software features can be managed in vCenter via a single pane of glass, enabling IT to dynamically create and manage both virtual machines and the bare metal hosts they reside on, maximizing efficiency as enterprise organizations undergo ongoing digital transformation.”

These ecosystem integration-focused features expand the catalog of integrations begun with the recent launch of Liqid’s Dynamic SLURM Integration that automates the creation of bare metal servers to meet a SLURM job’s precise requirements from a multiverse of possible options. With VMware vCenter integration, Liqid is continuing to extend the tangible benefits of CDI into a growing number of significant areas within IT, further allowing more customers to realize revolutionary datacenter efficiencies with their existing physical servers composed with GPU, FPGA, and NVMe storage resources.

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VMware has successfully redefined infrastructure efficiency and flexibility for decades now,” said Matt Halcomb, Principal Solutions Architect, World Wide Technology (WWT). “We believe Liqid’s composable software will enable our customers to extract increased value from VMware virtualization by drastically accelerating virtual host deployment and scaling straight from vCenter. As modern workloads increase in complexity, Liqid’s software defined hardware allows customer to deploy a fully adaptive bare-metal host environment that compliments VMware’s capabilities.”

While enterprise organizations have been utilizing VMware’s virtualization solutions to address high-value applications such as AI and machine learning, the conventional servers used to host these applications delay time deploy and scale, lack flexibility, and are inefficient, ultimately limiting the value of virtualization by restricting configuration possibilities and increasing datacenter costs. Further, these server configurations prevent critical accelerator resources such as GPU, FPGA, NVMe, and memory from being shared across the network, leading to poor utilization. The manual tasks of moving resources and deploying and scaling hosts increase operational costs.

For organizations utilizing VMware’s virtualization solutions to derive maximum value from their data center, Liqid introduces composable hosts for virtualized environments. With Liqid Matrix CDI, bare-metal host servers can be created via software and matched perfectly to the resource requirements of any given virtual machine to accelerate time-to-value, and increase the agility and efficiency of their new and existing VMware virtual server, desktop and hyperconverged infrastructure environments.

The Liqid vCenter Plug-in for VMware vCenter Server provides a web-based tool integrated with the VMware vSphere Web Client user interface that allows customers to compose bare-metal hosts, add and remove resources, and view key configuration information in their VMware vCenter.

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The new features offer customers the following:

  • Be More Cloud-like: Realize cloud-like, dynamic resource orchestration for bare-metal resources for data centers on-prem, at the edge, or within traditional cloud environments.
  • Accelerate Host Deployment: Reduce host server deployment times from days or weeks to minutes via software composability for accelerated ROI.
  • Scale Physical Resources on Demand: When host severs need more storage or accelerator resources, add them hands-free, in seconds without regard for what will physically fit in a server.
  • Meet Impossible Workload Needs: Liqid composability removes the server chassis as the limiting factor when designing a host server. Since GPU and storage resources can reside outside the server, anything is possible, including 1U servers with 16GPUs.
  • Be Change Ready: With Physical hosts that are as nimble as your virtual environment, you can adapt to new reality quicker and realize the benefits sooner.
  • Increased Resource Utilization: Overprovisioning often leads to trapped, unused resources. With Liqid, only deploy the resources a host needs today. If GPU resources aren’t utilized at night, redeploy them during off hours to maximize results.
  • Reduce Manual Tasks: Instead of spending time manually doing physical adds and changes, leverage vCenter to complete tasks, hands-free.
  • Leverage Existing Investments: Most importantly, Liqid plugs into the existing infrastructure, making VMware virtual environments more flexible, agile and efficient.

“The static nature of traditional server architecture is the primary driver for countless companies moving to the cloud. Liqid is the first company to deliver the efficiency and flexibility that cloud offers to existing, on-prem environments. We compliment VMware nicely in that we accelerate host deployments and scaling so customers can deliver their virtualized systems faster and more efficiently. We’re excited to extend the value of Liqid Matrix composability to VMware users with this groundbreaking integration,” said Sumit Puri, CEO & Cofounder, Liqid. “Liqid’s composable software features can be managed in vCenter via a single pane of glass, enabling IT to dynamically create and manage both virtual machines and the bare metal hosts they reside on, maximizing efficiency as enterprise organizations undergo ongoing digital transformation.”

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Lamar Advertising Upgrades 18 Digital Displays in Downtown Chicago

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As daily life slowly returns to normal and traffic picks up in downtown Chicago, Lamar Advertising Company recently upgraded 18 digital displays with LED digital displays from Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota.

The 10-foot-high by 10-foot-wide high-resolution 10-millimeter pixel pitch digital advertising displays are being used to advertise to street, bicycle and pedestrian traffic in the heart of downtown and River North areas. They reach people in business districts, on the Magnificent Mile, and near fine dining, entertainment venues and popular shopping locations.

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Bill Ripp, vice president of digital development at Lamar, says they have had digital displays in these Chicago locations since 2013. This upgrade to high resolution LED technology gives advertisers exciting new ways to use the technology to shine more brightly.

“These (displays) are predominantly used for advertising, but we also support many public service causes,” Ripp explains. “Our digital 10×10 network allows all clients to contract our displays quickly both through traditional and programmatic platforms.”

Many advertisers are looking for ways to incorporate social media into their campaigns as well. Jeff Burton, vice president and general manager at Lamar Chicago says, “We often receive requests for low, street level inventory that advertisers wish to use as backdrops for social media campaigns. These boards are a great fit!”

Lamar is a big name in advertising media, and they see a clear advantage in using digital LED displays for advertising, and particularly those from Daktronics. First, Daktronics LEDs can handle the extreme temperature changes and harsh conditions of the Chicago climate. Second, the brightness, image quality and lifespan of Daktronics displays are better than the competition, including the displays Lamar replaced. Third, the messaging is dynamic and easy to change.

“Digital products have the obvious advantage over analog displays in that they can display multiple ads and can be changed much more quickly,” Ripp explains. “This affords advertisers much greater flexibility in taking advantage of contextual issues.”

Burton adds that he sees a bright future for digital displays in Chicago and other cities. “Urban panels will prosper in many locations as economics improve and cities allow more signage inside their limits,”

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Nexstar Digital Launches STELLAR, New Data-Driven Audience Insights Platform

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Platform Enables Advertisers to Buy Seamlessly Across Nexstar’s Network of Television Stations, Websites and Mobile Apps

Nexstar Digital today announced the launch of STELLAR, a proprietary data-driven audience platform that gives advertisers the ability to seamlessly purchase digital and linear advertising across Nexstar’s network of 199 owned or operated television stations, 120 local web sites and 284 local news and weather mobile apps. Nexstar Digital is a division of Nexstar Media Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NXST).

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STELLAR is a unified digital platform that enables advertisers to increase customer acquisition and deliver effective omni-channel ad campaigns by using proprietary predictive technology to determine where a brand’s advertising will perform best against campaign goals, based on context and content signals.

“As the ad technology industry continues to evolve, we’re focused on streamlining the buying process for our advertisers to provide an outcome-driven solution that meets their audience targeting needs without using cookies or other third-party identifiers,” said Karen Brophy, President, Nexstar Digital. “Our customers in the Financial Services, Retail, and Quick Service Restaurants industries have seen substantially better results using STELLAR, including an increase of as much as 40 times return on ad spend, a 30 percent increase in online orders leveraging our unique targeting capabilities, and a 40 percent increase in revenue on a per-order basis. It is exceedingly clear that STELLAR meets the needs of our customers and drives strong ROI during a time of fundamental shifts in the media industry.”

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The STELLAR platform is uniquely positioned to benefit advertisers by using rich first-party data and machine learning to orchestrate and optimize omni-channel media spend in real-time, driving higher conversion rates, and providing insights that enable advertisers to truly understand the effectiveness of their campaigns. The scale of Nexstar’s owned or operated television stations, coupled with a premium extended digital network, allows STELLAR to deliver quality impressions and improved outcomes across all media types, including display, mobile, OTT, and linear.

“Our customers are looking for specific results within their advertising campaigns—this is the foundation on which STELLAR was built,” said Lori Tavoularis, Chief Revenue Officer, Nexstar Digital. “We have the ability to deliver a significant increase in performance, as well as the ability to scale our solutions outside of Nexstar’s network and deliver stronger impact and results on ad spend.”

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Mycroft AI Presents Early-Stage Investment Opportunity

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Mycroft AI Presents Early-Stage Investment Opportunity

Technology company seeks investment for open-source alternative as market solution to voice assistance, privacy included

Mycroft AI, the voice assistant that respects privacy, is actively looking to secure fundraising for Mark II, the company’s latest device designed as an open-source alternative to traditional smart speakers.

Mycroft’s community of more than 64,000 developers and early adopters has built a full-stack voice solution as the only open-source alternative for consumers who want privacy. The Mark II ensures that everyone has access to this technology, along with the privacy they deserve.

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“We’re making shares available to the public, giving them an opportunity to invest at an early stage during a time when companies much larger than us are remaining private,” said Mycroft AI Co-founder Joshua Montgomery. “Doing this levels the playing field for the industry and creates the potential for much greater returns.”

As the self-proclaimed ‘operating system’ of the future, Mycroft is capitalizing on a global $25 billion voice assistant market, of which 41 percent of consumers currently have concerns and want the convenience and features of a smart speaker with privacy included.

Roughly 72 percent of consumers who use voice search devices claim they do so as part of their daily routine, according to 2020 voice search statistics. Despite this smart technology’s growth in popularity among consumers, the market lacks an open, neutral, independent and privacy-minded alternative. Mycroft provides that solution with the Mark II, allowing consumers to regain control of their privacy.

The Mark II is a consumer-ready smart speaker with a built-in screen, optional camera and state-of-the-art microphone array with noise cancellation and beamforming. It’s the open-source solution to voice-assisted devices such as Siri, Alexa and Google Home. It’s different in that it offers customization, data privacy, flexibility and privacy with open software and data features.

“At Mycroft the idea is to allow people to use voice in their everyday lives, serving the user’s purpose and need without any ulterior motives,” said Mycroft Co-founder Joshua Montgomery. “Right now, there are no other options out there that offer an alternative to a voice-enabled speaker that also provides transparency and privacy.”

Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Kansas City, MO, Mycroft has received more than $6 million in private equity investments from 500 Startups, Techstars and Kickstarter backers in more than 56 countries and 38 states. It has also received large personal investments from businessman and venture capitalist Albert Wenger and angel investor Rob Ness specifically for the Mark II.

Money raised is going toward mass production of the Mark II, Mycroft’s second-generation smart speaker. Beta-tested developer kits began shipping earlier this year and there are currently more than $1 million in preorders for the privacy device.

Mycroft will spend the next year focused on getting third parties to adopt and integrate the technology into a wide variety of devices and services. The Mark II product is expected in stores sometime next year.

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Ipsos Acquires Infotools and Further Upscales Digital Capabilities to Fuel Growth

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Ipsos announced that it has entered into an agreement for the acquisition of Infotools, a top-rated software and digital services provider specializing in harmonizing, analyzing, visualizing and sharing market research data.

This new acquisition, which seals a fruitful collaboration between both companies since 2010, aims at further enhancing Ipsos’ digital and technological market research capabilities.

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Since its creation in 1990, New Zealand-based Infotools has led the way in bringing data to life, enabling clients’ decision-making with fast and exhaustive data exploration, allowing research professionals to discover and present insights in dynamic and interactive formats.

Infotools’ powerful cloud-based software, Harmoni1, is an innovative platform purpose-built for market research. Harmoni allows researchers to easily process, analyze and share insights from complex survey data, bringing together disparate sources holistically and facilitating statistically-driven analysis. It provides real-time access to the very latest available data, presented and shared through interactive reporting, dashboards and storytelling capabilities.

Infotools is active worldwide and has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, Latin America, South Africa and New Zealand. The company employs 75 people and recorded sales of around USD 7 million in 2020.

Didier Truchot, Ipsos’ Chairman and CEO, said: “In the wake of data’s exponential growth, the imperative to quickly analyze, discover and share critical insights is universal. With Infotools, we will enable clients with the best marketing research technologies on the planet, allowing real time delivery with end-to-end automation, ensuring our teams focus on turning data into actions, insights and impact”.

Ant Franklin, CEO of Infotools, says “We are thrilled to join forces with Ipsos. We will be able to build even further on our three decades of innovation, empowering researchers with smart technology and allowing them to deliver value and make research data more accessible and useful. By working with Ipsos, we will be able to jointly deliver solutions that make market research faster and more efficient”.

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Box Announces Emerging Partners Program

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Featuring Leading Disrupters Shaping The Future Of Enterprise Software

Box, Inc., the leading Content Cloud, today announced the Box Emerging Partners Program, an initiative to support high-growth, enterprise software companies. To kick off the program, the participating organizations will be launching five new Box integrations to transform productivity and create seamless solutions to power work from anywhere.

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Box announces Emerging Partners Program

Businesses are continuing to invest in best-of-breed technology, with the average number of applications used by enterprises increasing to over 175. Serving as the single source of truth to secure and centralize content across the modern IT stack, Box is an open platform that connects to over 1,500 applications to power critical business processes across the enterprise. To extend this philosophy to the next generation of innovators, Box has launched the Emerging Partners Program to highlight key software players that are transforming work and showcase their innovative services, impactful products, and disruptive solutions to its customers.

Participants in the Emerging Partner Program will have the opportunity to take advantage of a variety of benefits including support of the development, launch, and adoption of their partner integrations, direct access to Box technical and sales teams, assigned business development managers, and more.

Today, Box is excited to announce the inaugural class and the new integrations with each partner:

Airtable

Airtable, an app platform that helps organizations build customized workflows, is developing an integration that enables Airtable users to incorporate a Box folder file information directly into their Airtable base. The app is particularly useful for teams that operationalize workflows in Airtable and require the collaboration of assets stored and updated in Box.

For example, with the Box-Airtable integration, a marketing team could manage their creative assets in a Box folder. The core file information of those creative assets could then be synced into Airtable, augmenting the marketing content-creation process managed within Airtable workflows. This integration is in beta and is expected to be generally available later this month.

“Airtable empowers teams to build workflows that modernize their business processes,” said Peter Deng, Chief Product Officer at Airtable. “With Box’s integration with Airtable, people can now easily sync their stored file information into Airtable to enable real-time access to Box content, helping them work with greater agility and breaking down silos between data, teams, and enterprise tools.”

Coda

Coda is an all-in-one document collaboration platform that brings data and teams together. The Box Pack for Coda enables users to turn their Box data into structured data, so they can view and interact with metadata for Box files and folders alongside their text, tables, images, design boards, presentations, PDFs, and more. This integration is expected to be available by the end of Q4 this year.

“As part of Box’s Emerging Partner Program, Coda is eager to help teams organize their informational universe,” said Shishir Mehrotra, Co-founder and CEO of Coda. “By turning Box content into structured data in Coda, teams can create all-in-one docs for everything from product launches to social events while keeping everyone on the same page.”

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Hyperscience

Hyperscience is an AI-based software designed to automate office work processes. The Box for Hyperscience integration leverages state-of-the-art machine learning to automatically extract data from any document in Box and use it to enrich that file’s metadata. Users can query for complex documents, whether they’re handwritten or machine-printed, to get the most out of the Box Content Cloud. This integration is expected to be available by the end of Q4 this year.

“The global tech partner ecosystem can be a messy space for organizations looking to transform how they organize their people, processes, and technology,” said Charlie Newark-French, COO of Hyperscience. “So we’re proud to be named to Box’s Emerging Partner Program, which will give current and future Box customers access to the Hyperscience Machine Learning Platform. We look forward to partnering with Box to serve our mutual customers in the best possible way to deliver better outcomes.”

Tray.io

Tray.io is a cloud-based software integration platform for automators. With the Tray Platform’s powerful Box connector, business users across marketing, finance, and sales can finally streamline collaboration with a modern, low-code automation platform. Organizations will be able to connect Box to the rest of their stack with over 600 connectors for common apps like Slack, Salesforce, and Snowflake to automate critical business processes. This integration is available today with further enhancement expected later this year.

“We are thrilled to establish this partnership with Box in their Emerging Partner Program. By combining the power of the low-code Tray Platform with Box, Box customers can now automate key business processes like connecting critical financial documents hubs to core applications and databases, automating collaboration for new customer onboarding projects, and more,” said Rich Waldron, Co-founder and CEO of Tray.io. “Now business users and technical teams can quickly break down data silos and eliminate manual work by placing Box at the center of their tech stack, without having to rely on hand-coded, brittle integrations.”

Unqork

Unqork is a completely visual, no-code application platform that empowers enterprises to build complex, mission-critical software faster, with higher quality and lower cost than traditional approaches. With this integration, users can smart track user-submitted documents and streamline ongoing end-user engagements, thanks to Box’s robust upload and metadata APIs.

Organizations can integrate Box’s suite of APIs into their business onboarding and operations management applications built with Unqork — all without a single line of code. This integration is expected to be available by the end of Q4 this year.

“Unqork’s no-code platform helps enterprises in the most highly-regulated industries build complex, mission-critical software — all without writing a single line of code,” said Christian Barrera, Vice President, Alliances & Ecosystem, Unqork. “Alongside Box’s smart Content Cloud customers can design and deploy intelligent workflows to streamline end-user engagements. We’re proud to be part of Box’s Emerging Partner Program and excited by the potential of this partnership.”

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Simon Wyld Joins Sentient Decision Science as Senior Vice President

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Senior Addition to Leadership Team Underscores Rapid Growth in Unprecedented Times

Sentient Decision Science, the leading behavioral science-based consumer insights provider, announced significant growth with the recent addition of industry veteran Simon Wyld to lead sales for the fast-growing Sentient Insights division.

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Wyld joins Sentient Decision Science as SVP of sales and is responsible for developing and growing relationships with Sentient’s most strategic prospects and customers. Bringing over two decades of global experience in insights research and technology, Wyld joins Sentient Decision Science from System1 Group, where he worked for over a decade. Prior to this, he had senior research positions at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Walt Disney Television International and Sky.

“We are thrilled to have Simon join us at this very critical and exciting time in our growth trajectory,” said Dr. Aaron Reid, the founder and CEO of Sentient Decision Science. “The need for emotion-detection technology has never been greater, and Simon’s energy and deep expertise in true System1 (emotion) and System2 (reason) measurement will help us continue to meet the demand to quantify the impact of emotion in advertising at scale everywhere.”

Sentient Decision Science has been growing exponentially, leveraging their patented emotion technology to help the biggest brands navigate consumer attitudes and amassing the world’s largest implicit database. Collecting over a half billion subconscious associations on how we feel about everything from ads to smells. Wyld’s appointment follows several recent new hires along the sales, marketing, and technology teams to meet the demand for this predictive emotion technology.

“I’m delighted and excited to be joining a pioneering company like Sentient Decision Science doing scientific research at the cutting edge of emotional measurement and technology,” added Wyld. “At such a time of pivotal change in our industry, I’m thrilled to be joining a team of such inspired, and inspiring, colleagues and clients.”

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Owl Labs Launches Meeting HQ, All-In-One Meeting Room Solution for Simple, Frictionless Videoconferencing

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Start Hybrid Meetings Instantly With a Single Tap, With Newest Addition to Owl Labs Product Suite

Owl Labs, the first company to build 360-degree videoconferencing solutions, announced the launch of the Meeting HQ, an in-room control center for video meetings. When paired with the Meeting Owl Pro, this new device sits in the center of the table and lets users launch meetings simply and effortlessly with a single tap, with no need to plug anything into an external computer. Designed by roboticists and built for rooms of all shapes and sizes, the Meeting HQ eliminates meeting setup time, letting employees focus solely on the conversation.

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There are 89 million total meeting rooms globally, yet only 8% are wired for videoconferencing, even as the future of work is increasingly hybrid due to the pandemic. This number is forecasted to reach 30% by 2025, according to a recent Frost & Sullivan analysis. Owl Labs has had a hybrid workforce since long before the pandemic and its team knows how essential it is that meetings are inclusive of all participants, whether they’re in the office or joining virtually from afar. Now more than ever, companies need affordable and frictionless ways to outfit their spaces for collaboration.

Now, the Meeting HQ, Meeting Owl Pro, and an in-room monitor are the only pieces of equipment businesses need to fully outfit rooms for immersive hybrid meetings. The Meeting HQ integrates with a company’s calendar and room booking system, including Google Workspace and Microsoft Office 365’s Outlook. IT teams can simply set the device up on the company’s calendar as a room resource, then any calendar invites including that room will be added automatically to the Meeting HQ calendar. When in-person attendees enter the conference room, they can just tap the meeting on Meeting HQ’s screen to begin and join their remote colleagues.

“In our current work environment, it’s crucial that all spaces are wired for seamless remote work in order to be inclusive of all team members, no matter where they’re based,” said Josh Allen, Chief Revenue Officer at Owl Labs. “Businesses need easy-to-use, adaptive technologies that they can get up and running quickly, without a ton of logistics and setup. The Meeting HQ is easy to deploy and less expensive than alternatives, making it the perfect solution for video collaboration.”

Due to Owl Labs’s independence, Meeting HQ allows users to switch between different videoconferencing platforms within a single hardware solution, in order to meet with external customers or partners. The Meeting HQ and Meeting Owl Pro work with both Zoom and Google Meet, with more platform integrations on the roadmap, including Microsoft Teams launching in the coming months.

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Capgemini Named a Leader in the US ISG Provider Lens™ Retail Software and Services Report

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Recognized for its retail transformation, platform migration and managed services capabilities

Capgemini today announced that it has been named a Leader by advisory firm ISG in its US Provider Lens™ Retail Software and Services Report. Organized by leading technology research and advisory firm, Information Services Group (ISG), the report recognizes technology providers that are helping retailers respond to pandemic-driven changes and improve customer experience, both online and in-store.

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“Consumer behavior and buying patterns have been drastically changed by COVID-19, making it imperative that retailers improve both the digital and physical customer experience”

As a global leader in strategy and business transformation, Capgemini’s consumer products, retail and distribution practice (CPRD) works with the world’s largest consumer products companies and leading retailers to help them achieve a significant and measurable business impact.

Capgemini was recognized as a leader in three quadrants for its:

  • Retail transformation services that unlock opportunities in omnichannel customer experience, e-commerce, store operations management, automated back offices and agile supply chains.
  • Platform migration services that enable agility and resiliency.
  • Managed services that implement digital experience monitoring, AIOps, and intelligent automation.

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“Consumer behavior and buying patterns have been drastically changed by COVID-19, making it imperative that retailers improve both the digital and physical customer experience,” said Ted Levine, Head of Consumer Products, Retail, Distribution and Services, for Capgemini in the Americas. “This ‘leader’ recognition is a testament to Capgemini’s continuous efforts of delivering tangible business outcomes for our retail and consumer products clients, helping them scale to become more digital, resilient and agile.”

“There has been a sharp shift in consumer buying patterns, from physical stores to online shopping, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Capgemini’s position as a Leader in our Provider Lens™ is attributed to its innovative consulting service offerings, strong technology focus, and robust capabilities that enable retailers to revamp their digital engagement with customers, physical store locations and layouts, and supply chains.” said Ashish Chaturvedi, Principal Analyst at ISG.

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Front Strengthens Its Customer Communication Hub With New Functionality That Brings Actionable Customer Context Into the Inbox

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New capabilities make it easier than ever before for organizations to deliver exceptional experiences to as many customers as possible

Front, the leader in customer communication that brings teams together to offer tailor-made service at scale, has released three major product updates to its innovative and enterprise-grade customer communication hub. Front now makes it easier for teams to deliver exceptional customer experiences at scale by bringing customer data that is typically siloed in CRMs and spreadsheets into the place where customer engagement happens — the inbox. These product updates further enhance Front’s customer communication hub and build upon the company’s promise to help organizations create the strongest relationships with the most loyal customers, at a scale they never thought possible.

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“ said Front’s CEO & co-founder, Mathilde Collin. ”

New research released today by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services sponsored by Front reveals universal challenges preventing thousands of organizations from delivering a quality customer experience. One challenge topping the list is a lack of visibility across departments into customer data and customer conversation history. When asked to name what they consider moderate or significant challenges, nearly two-thirds of those surveyed said data is not accessible to the right employee at the right time, and 64 percent say they lack visibility into the previous conversations the customer has had with other team members.

With these new features, Front allows organizations to leverage data from CRMs and other systems of record right within the inbox, so teammates have easy access to critical information — without context switching or information silos. Up-to-the-minute conversation history across the entire customer relationship gives Front users comprehensive visibility into customer interactions, across all departments. Teams can now use Front to build no-code workflows using customer data, to automatically route conversations into the right hands, and prioritize messages. And, updated analytics enable teams to quantify and track performance metrics at the customer level, identify churn risks, upsell opportunities, and ensure optimal internal work distribution.

“For years now, software vendors have made big promises about a “single source of truth” for customer data. But when it comes to making a real impact on customer experiences, the results have been underwhelming,” said Front’s CEO & co-founder, Mathilde Collin. “Because Front’s customer communication hub is where customer interactions actually happen, it is the best place to engage with relevant customer context. And because Front is as familiar as email, it can be picked up by any department across a company, and help break down the silos that lead to disjointed customer experiences. We’re building the tools to make companies move together as one to impress their customers.”

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Front’s new product functionalities include:

  • Critical insights into customer relationships from the inbox — A new, improved inbox experience gives users holistic customer context at-a-glance, including account information and conversation history, right where they collaborate with teammates and engage with customers.
  • No-code workflows leveraging customer data — Enhanced rule capabilities allow users to leverage customer data to build workflows, without any IT expertise or code required. Users can now route conversations based on the properties of the account to deliver tailored levels of customer support, or automatically assign emails to specific team members to resolve issues more quickly than ever before.
  • New capabilities to measure the quality of service each customer receives — With the addition of customer-level filters into the Front analytics suite, teams gain visibility into how they are interacting with each of their customers. Users can track response times, SLA achievement, and more at the account level, to easily identify support-heavy customers and potential churn risks. These features will be available in Front analytics in fall 2021.

“Front has been a game-changer for the way our organization communicates with customers,” said Jules Funderburk, Head of Account Support at Pilot.com, a leading bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services software company. “With Front’s new product capabilities, we can ensure the right emails get to the right person on our team at the right time, which helps us serve our customers faster than ever before. The new Account features have already had a huge impact on helping us streamline and automate workflows so we can reduce the amount of time it takes to respond to a customer and allow our teams to deliver unparalleled levels of customer care.”

Alvaria Announces New CX and WEM Technology Solutions Scaled for the Enterprise

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Alvaria Announces New CX and WEM Technology Solutions Scaled for the Enterprise

The future of CX takes shape with the Alvaria best-of-breed contact center applications available in the public cloud, private cloud and on-premises.

Today, Alvaria, Inc, releases two feature-rich application suites for their enterprise contact center portfolio, the Alvaria Customer Experience (CX) Suite and the Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) Suite. These new solutions are designed to empower enterprise organizations to make the most of every customer and employee interaction and deliver world-class experiences.

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“The great thing about Motivate is the psychology of it and the way that it engages your employees and makes them happier, healthier and more productive.”

Announced on stage at the Alvaria Customer Experience (ACE) Event, Michael Harris, Chief Product Officer and CMO said, “Today, we are combining the best technology from our recent acquisitions to deliver a new world-class suite of CX and WEM solutions that help our customers build and nurture a customer experience that drives lifetime loyalty among their consumers.”

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The Alvaria CX Suite turns your customer experience into a competitive advantage with, advanced voice and omnichannel capabilities, compliant outreach, sophisticated IVR, natural language understanding (NLU), self-service, customer insights and analytics.

The Alvaria WEM Suite is a powerful set of solutions uniquely designed to optimize the employee experience at enterprise contact centers, while delivering insights that enable organizations to assess and improve business performance. The WEM Suite includes workforce management, quality, performance and workforce insights, as well as game mechanics through the new Alvaria™ Motivate product.

According to Alvaria Chief Technology Officer, David Funck, “The great thing about Motivate is the psychology of it and the way that it engages your employees and makes them happier, healthier and more productive.”

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Brightidea Releases Whiteboard: A Better Way to Brainstorm

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Brightidea Releases Whiteboard: A Better Way to Brainstorm

New hybrid work software empowers professional teams to move ideas from brainstorming to actionable projects so that no great ideas are left behind.

Brightidea, the #1 customer-rated platform for idea management, today announced the release of Brightidea Whiteboard. The native digital whiteboard collaboration software is now available in all Brightidea Innovation Cloud products. Brightidea Whiteboard is included at no additional cost for all current Brightidea customers, and any user can try Brightidea Whiteboard free for 30 days.

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“Zoom fatigue is the single biggest factor preventing remote and hybrid work from becoming permanent”

Remote and hybrid work brought on by the pandemic has forced massive adoption of digital collaboration, and much of that distributed teamwork has made use of digital whiteboard software. Although these tools can support some collaborative creativity, they have limitations. In a fully remote or hybrid working environment, conversations and collaboration around the whiteboard—so-called digital water cooler discussions—are critical to advancing ideas; if there’s not a forum for those interactions, some participants will be walled off from conversation. Current digital whiteboard tools also fail to connect data and results to the whiteboard content, which leaves innovation managers without the data or context they need to make informed decisions and set priorities. These constraints inevitably push the innovation process to other tools, further walling off collaboration across teams and often leading to a degree of Balkanization. Furthermore, most ideas require further development after an initiation brainstorm and then need a defined pathway to become projects; neither will happen in a static digital whiteboard space that traps digital sticky notes to be neglected or forgotten.

Brightidea Whiteboard enfranchises users to collaborate in an infinite, zoomable interface from any location at the same time or asynchronously. For the first time, ideas created in a Brightidea Whiteboard are rich programmable objects that can house additional data, including form submission fields, file attachments, detailed idea history feed, business impact logging and tracking, status changes, tags, idea categorization, and much more. This additional data allows you to reach beyond the sticky note and into the infinite possibilities that ideas represent—any idea created in Brightidea Whiteboard can be linked to any Brightidea Innovation Pipeline, empowering idea managers to cultivate and advance ideas into action and eventually tangible results. By associating context and data with ideas from the initial brainstorming phases, innovation managers have the information they need to prioritize the best ideas. Brightidea Whiteboard also comes with several preloaded templates to help structure brainstorming around common innovation and idea management activities. In addition, Brightidea Whiteboard is built on the WebAssembly open standard to ensure high performance and long-term reliability.

“Zoom fatigue is the single biggest factor preventing remote and hybrid work from becoming permanent,” said Brightidea CEO and founder Matt Greeley. “Digital whiteboard tools provide an engaging alternative, but brainstorming is not sufficient—ideas must be put into action. The seamless integration between brainstorming and project execution is what makes Brightidea Whiteboard unique.”

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BRANDED Announces Executive Leadership Hires as Expansion and Growth Accelerate

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Three Valued C-Suite Hires Prepare BRANDED for Global Expansion into all Areas of E-commerce Acquisitions

BRANDED Group, a leading consumer goods e-commerce company, today announced three executive level hires to prepare the company for its continued global expansion to the e-commerce industry. BRANDED acquires and partners with top performing Amazon entrepreneurs and businesses to transform them into global consumer goods leaders.

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Delphine Bernard was hired as the company’s chief financial officer. Bernard’s goals include elevating and preparing the finance department to evolve from startup phase to mature structure in the fast growing environment of e-commerce and acquisitions. Additionally, Bernard will guide the growth of BRANDED’s consumer categories and design processes with a particular focus on growth stage strategy. In her previous roles at Uber and Kinship, Bernard increased revenue, controlled costs, and optimized overall efficiency. In addition, she prepared two multi-billion-dollar IPOs and closed numerous global M&A transactions that ranged between $200M to $7B+.

BRANDED also welcomed Aaron Singer as chief legal officer. In this role, Singer will be responsible for the development and implementation of BRANDED’s legal strategy to build effective processes for global operations and acquisitions. He brings 15 years of experience in corporate operations, financings and venture, M&A and strategy, public company transactions, brand and product development, technology and data, marketing and consumer protection, , and corporate governance. Prior to joining BRANDED, Singer was general counsel and chief administrative officer at Boxed and senior associate at Latham & Watkins.

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Additionally, Debbie Kemp was named chief human resources officer for BRANDED. Kemp brings over 20 years of extensive operational, talent acquisition, and people advisory experience to her new role as CHRO. Working with both finance and technology companies, Kemp has played an integral role in helping global organizations prepare for mergers and acquisitions, build employee engagement, and launch communications strategies. Leveraging her previous experience, Kemp will focus her role on partnering with executive leadership to distill the purpose, vision, and mission of BRANDED. Kemp is focused on connecting this goal to build a global culture of engaged employees through use of data and technology.

“Adding high caliber hires such as Delphine, Aaron, and Debbie will allow BRANDED to expand with the structure and resources to succeed,” said Michael Ronen, president of BRANDED. “It’s been incredibly inspiring to see that our new executive team members share the vision and commitment to brand-building that attracts BRANDED’s top brands and partners.”

BRANDED is on track to grow 50x in 2021 since launching in 2020. Today, BRANDED has more than 200 employees around the world and has acquired over 30 brands and continued its expansion into Europe, the Middle East and Asia. With this growth, BRANDED is planning for the infrastructure it needs to continue to scale with a specific focus on the technology team.

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ForgeRock Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering

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ForgeRock, Inc. (ForgeRock), a global identity leader, announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock at a price to the public of $25.00 per share. In addition, ForgeRock has granted the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 1,650,000 shares of Class A common stock at the initial public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions.

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The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on September 16, 2021 under the ticker symbol “FORG”. The offering is expected to close on September 20, 2021, subject to customary closing conditions.

Morgan Stanley and J.P. Morgan are acting as lead book-running managers for the offering. Deutsche Bank Securities, Mizuho Securities, and HSBC are acting as joint book-running managers for the offering. BTIG, Cowen, Piper Sandler, Truist Securities, and William Blair are acting as co-managers for the offering.

The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus. When available, copies of the final prospectus may be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014; and J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at 866-803-9204, or by email at prospectus-eq_fi@jpmorganchase.com.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with, and declared effective by, the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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VIQ Solutions Announces Closing of US$18 Million Registered Direct Offering

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VIQ Solutions Announces Closing of US$18 Million Registered Direct Offering

VIQ Solutions Inc. announces today that it has closed its previously announced registered direct offering with institutional investors (the “Offering”). Under the Offering, the Company sold 4,235,294 units (the “Units”) at a price of US$4.25 per Unit for gross proceeds to the Company of approximately US$18,000,000 before deducting fees and other estimated Offering expenses.

A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners acted as sole placement agent for the Offering.

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Each Unit consists of one common share of the Company (a “Common Share”) and one-half of one Common Share purchase warrant (each whole Common Share purchase warrant, a “Warrant”). Each Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share (a “Warrant Share”) at an exercise price of US$5.00, subject to adjustment in certain circumstances. The Warrants will be exercisable beginning on the date that is six months following the issuance date thereof (the “Issuance Date”) and will expire five years from the Issuance Date.

VIQ intends to use the net proceeds from the Offering for continuing development of product and service offerings, potential future acquisitions as well as working capital and general corporate purposes.

The Offering was made in the United States only under the Company’s short form base shelf prospectus dated June 10, 2021 (the “Base Shelf ‎Prospectus”), filed with the securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada other than Quebec, and the corresponding registration statement on Form F-10 (the ‎‎“Registration Statement”) filed by the Company with the U.S. Securities and Exchange ‎Commission (“SEC”) under the U.S./Canada Multijurisdictional Disclosure System (“MJDS”). ‎A prospectus supplement (the “Supplement”) to the Base Shelf Prospectus was filed on a non-offering basis with applicable securities regulatory authorities in Canada and with the SEC as part of the Registration Statement under the MJDS.

No securities regulatory authority has either approved or disapproved of the contents of this press release. This press release is for information purposes only and shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

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