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PaceMate™ Closes Series A Financing to Accelerate Growth
Source: BuisinessWire PaceMate™, the leading digital healthcare company in compliant cardiac data management, is pleased to announce a recent $8 million Series A investment led by Ballast Point Ventures. PaceMate™’s fully automated, bidirectional EHR-integrated platform—PaceMate™LIVE—is a comprehensive, cloud-native cardiac data management solution, delivering round-the-clock remote monitoring service, customized alerts and automated billing codes. PaceMate™ will use this investment from Ballast Point to expand market reach for PaceMate™LIVE and enable more … Continue reading
PowerChord named winner of the Tampa Bay Top Workplaces in 2021
Thank you Tampa Bay Times – Times Publishing Co for naming PowerChord as a winner of the Tampa Bay Top Workplaces in 2021, as well as awarding us with the top work/life flexibility title! Creating a collaborative, supportive, and safe environment for our employees to learn and grow is our top priority and we couldn’t be more proud of our growth this past year!
Relentlessly (if quietly) preparing the future
In 2011 Peter Thiel famously quipped, “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” His comment was taken by some to suggest that entrepreneurs and their backers had shifted away from transformational technologies. One year later Moderna Theraputics was founded, and one year after that Lucira Health was. Both received backing from venture firms, and both are now transforming the COVID-ravaged world: the former by creating a vaccine to … Continue reading
NEOGOV and PowerDMS Join Forces
Source: NEOGOV NEOGOV, a market leader in public sector human resources software, today announced a definitive agreement to merge with PowerDMS, a leader in cloud-based compliance software that helps customers simplify how they create, track, and attest to policies, training, and industry standards. The merger will expand NEOGOV’s product offerings and further demonstrates its commitment to streamlining the complex processes needed to support the public sector workforce. Terms of the … Continue reading
Mailprotector Awarded Patent for Bracket Email Encryption Technologies
(Greenville, S.C) November 30, 2020 – Mailprotector, a Greenville, SC-based cybersecurity company, announced today that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently issued U.S. Patent No.10708244 for Bracket®, a system and method for encryption, storage, and transmission of digital information. The problem with traditional encryption methodologies is the complexity of the applications, implementation, and decoding processes. With Bracket, users simply wrap the subject line in brackets and hit send. … Continue reading
The Zebra reaches $100M run rate, turns profitable as insurtech booms
Source: TechCrunch By: Alex Wilhelm From a cluster of insurance marketplace startups raising capital earlier this year, to neoinsurance provider Lemonade going public this summer at a strong valuation, Hippo’s huge new round and Root’s impending unicorn IPO, 2020 has proven to be a busy year for startups and other growth-oriented private tech companies focused on insurance. That news cycle continues today, with The Zebra announcing that it has reached a roughly $100 million run rate, and, … Continue reading
AVOXI Named 2020’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For in the Nation
By Jennifer Groese The National Association of Business Resources has announced the Summer 2020 winners of its 10th annual Best and Brightest Companies to Work For? competition. It’s with great pride and enthusiasm to share that AVOXI was one of their high scorers, joining other prominent companies like BlackBerry?, Gables Residential?, and T-Mobile? as recipients of this award. This program provides the business community with the opportunity to gain recognition, showcase their best practices, … Continue reading
Four BPV Portfolio Companies Named to the Inc. 5000 List
BPV is proud to report that four of our portfolio companies have been named to the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest growing private companies in America: a comparative online car insurance platform and three B2B SaaS businesses. Congratulations to Austin’s The Zebra (1st year), Dallas’ Spotio (2nd year in a row), Louisville’s SkuVault (4th year in a row) and Orlando’s PowerDMS (10th year in a row). We’re thrilled to be partnered … Continue reading
Andy Eastes, CEO of SkuVault, says opportunity doesn’t wait
By: Haley Cawthon Source: Louisville Business First Andy Eastes, co-founder and CEO of SkuVault, poses for a portrait at the company’s East Louisville office. Some people in the startup world call it the hustle. Others call … Continue reading
PowerChord, Inc. Promotes William “Bill” Volmuth to Company CEO
PowerChord, Inc. Promotes William “Bill” Volmuth to Company CEO On the heels of milestone announcements including a rebrand and new SaaS platform features, PowerChord promotes company President to CEO PowerChord , a leading SaaS solution company connecting brands to local customers, today announces William “Bill” Volmuth’s promotion from president to CEO. Volmuth joined PowerChord as president in July 2019 and has propelled the company’s vision and mission forward over the last … Continue reading
