CANCUN, Mexico, 22 de abril de 2023 — Ventura Park, el único parque acuático en Cancún y miembro de la familia The Dolphin Company, operador de parques de presencia mundial, anunció que será sede de 10,000 Sonrisas, un conocido evento con causa que en esta 7a edición recaudará juguetes nuevos para donar a tres diferentes fundaciones, con motivo del Día del Niño y la Niña.

Hasta antes de la pandemia, The Dolphin Company había realizado 6 exitosas ediciones de 10,000 Sonrisas a través de su Fundación Dolphin Discovery I.A.P. en varios parques y hábitats de su familia, que en conjunto apoyaron a diversas fundaciones de niños y niñas en temas de salud y educación. Durante esta 7ª edición, todas las personas que quieran visitar el parque, podrán hacerlo el 1° de mayo con el Pase Fun que incluye los mundos Ventura Park, como Wet’n Wild, Aaah Ventura, Fun World y un box lunch, a un precio preferencial de $150.00 MXN al entregar un juguete con un valor desde $150.00 MXN. Las personas que deseen participar, podrán hacer su reservación al teléfono 998 849 4748, el cupo es limitado.

Los juguetes recaudados durante esta edición, serán donados a Huellas de Pan, una fundación que cuenta con un centro de alimentación para niños, niñas y adolescentes, a Torontos FC Club, un grupo deportivo que fomenta el ejercicio, y a la Fundación Casita Corazón I.A.P., que brinda servicios de rehabilitación integral a niñas y niños con discapacidad en la Zona Maya de Quintana Roo.

“Estamos muy contentos de retomar este importante y bonito evento que es 10,000 Sonrisas. Sin duda, el Día del Niño y la Niña es el pretexto perfecto para realizar esta actividad que traerá alegría en la infancia de quienes recibirán los juguetes que recolectaremos. A través de nuestras acciones, siempre procuramos contribuir positivamente a las comunidades en las que nos desarrollamos; estamos muy agradecidos con nuestros asociados y asociadas que nos ayudan a hacer esto posible y que realmente se involucran en el cumplimiento de los sueños de estos niños y niñas”, comentó la Mtra. Guadalupe Jiménez, Directora de Valor Humano de The Dolphin Company.

Además de Ventura Park, The Dolphin Company replicará esta acción en su parque Selva Mágica ubicado en Guadalajara, el cual donará los juguetes recolectados a la Casa Hogar Escalar A.C., al albergue Mi Último Deseo A.C. (MUDAC) y a la Casa Hogar Amigos del Niño Madre Felicitas A.C. Así mismo, Aquaventuras Park, en Nuevo Vallarta, también formará parte de esta edición y apoyará con lo recaudado a la Fundación Corazón de Niña, a la Casa Hogar Máximo Cornejo Quiroz A.C., y a Pasitos de Luz A.C.

Acerca de Ventura Park
Ventura Park es el único parque acuático con vista al mar caribe y desde hace más de 26 años ofrece actividades divertidas para toda la familia. Sus visitantes podrán disfrutar de las diferentes entradas a Ventura Park Cancún con albercas y toboganes, tirolesas, Go-Karts, montaña rusa, realidad virtual y más de 15 atracciones diferentes en los 5 mundos temáticos que ofrece para refrescarse y divertirse. Orgullosamente, forma parte de la familia The Dolphin Company, operador de parques con presencia mundial. Para más información visite https://www.venturapark.com/ y www.thedolphinco.com

Acerca de The Dolphin Company
Por más de 28 años, The Dolphin Company, operador de parques de presencia mundial, ha brindado ‘La experiencia de su vida’ a más de 21 millones de visitantes en sus 32 parques, hábitats de delfines y marinas, alrededor del mundo. Con presencia en México, el Caribe, Estados Unidos, Argentina e Italia, The Dolphin Company ofrece actividades emocionantes que brindan experiencias únicas y memorables, al mismo tiempo que sensibilizan a sus visitantes acerca de la importancia del bienestar animal, la preservación y cuidado del medio ambiente. Para más información visite www.thedolphinco.com

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Statements by Dr. Elizabeth E. Hood, Founder and Director of Research and Development and Karen B. Wilson, Co-Founder and Director of Corporate Development, GreenLab, Inc.

JONESBORO, Ark., April 21, 2023 — GreenLab, Inc. “The theme for Earth Day 2023 is ‘Invest in the earth.’ As a scientist, mother, wife, and plant biotech startup founder, I believe this represents a real opportunity to dig deeper for solutions that truly green industry and get beyond the corporate cliches and rhetoric associated with this annual event. 

Throughout my life, I’ve always cared about the environment, even undertaking organic gardening to grow healthier foods for my family. It was around then that I learned about the crisis in farming where important plant traits were threatened in many of the crops producing our food. This undoubtedly influenced my choice to obtain my PhD from Washington University in St. Louis and become a plant biologist. 

Since then, I’ve collaborated with scientists in multiple nations to help solve this problem via biotechnology, growing more food safely on less farmland with fewer inputs and energy than ever before. The technology was genetic engineering – rejected by a few but embraced by farmers all over the world. 

Fast forward to today, and the team we’ve assembled at GreenLab now uses the next generation of plant biotech in corn to sustainably produce new proteins and enzymes at scale with applications which literally are ‘greening industry.’ The outcomes created by these innovative proteins do more than fuel hope; they quantifiably move us toward a better, cleaner future. 

I believe it’s imperative for the business sector and society at large to not just embrace the promise of apolitical, evidence-based ESG standards, but capitalize on it. The companies who partner with GreenLab will benefit by making meaningful progress achieving their own ESG objectives. Together, our collaboration can ultimately be a quantum leap for the eco revolution that inspired Earth Day over 50 years ago, seeking balance and meeting people where they are.”

– Dr. Elizabeth E. Hood, Founder, Director of Research and Development, GreenLab, Inc. 

“After decades in Silicon Valley, I came home to Arkansas and met my friend Dr. Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Hood, battling as a female scientist and startup founder to bring groundbreaking biotechnology to market. At the time, her ideas about ‘the greening of industry’ got the attention of some heavy hitters in the biotech industry, which made me even more excited to help make this happen. 

In the United States, in 2022, according to Springboard Enterprises, a leading platform supporting women entrepreneurs, only 2% of all venture capital goes to female founded companies. As one of the earlier female founders to successfully raise VC, it was one of the hardest things to do, but also the most important. There is a renaissance of female founded biotech companies right now and a market that demands novel proteins across every major vertical we know- energy, pharma, industrial use, nutraceutical, food, and environmental. The challenge could not be more clear. We should prioritize investment in biotech companies and meet these challenges, especially when they were founded by female entrepreneurs. 

Earth Day’s ‘Invest in the earth’ message could hardly be more well-timed, as biotechnology represents one of the largest impactful investment opportunities ever. GreenLab’s biotech platform will advance current challenges for partner companies looking to elevate ESG standards and solve sustainability issues by investing in the earth through biotechnology.”

–Karen B. Wilson, Co-Founder and Director of Corporate Development, GreenLab, Inc. 

About Elizabeth E. Hood, PhD 

Over forty years of experience in biology. Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University. Runs an active research lab for GreenLab, Inc., in plant-based protein production and applications. Dr. Hood is internationally recognized for her research program and associated experience as evidenced by over 75 publications and patents, as well as invitations to speak around the world. 

About Karen B. Wilson 

Karen has founded multiple startups and served in senior executive roles at Fortune 500 companies generating over $300 million in strategic partnerships and alliances. As a startup founder in Silicon Valley, she successfully raised $50 million in private equity from seed financing through series C. Prior to that, Karen was a member of the inaugural class of female founders at world-renowned Springboard Enterprises. 

About GreenLab, Inc. 

GreenLab is a biotech startup on a mission to green industry with next-generation plant biotechnology. GreenLab’s biotech platform transforms a cornfield into the factory of the future, open today. We deliver on biotech’s promise of novel protein and enzyme production with end-to-end sustainability, and unlimited scalability. 

Contact: Cordell Jeffries (314) 669-5510 [email protected]

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Isabella Teng and Varsha Raghavan Will Use the $100,000 O’Shaughnessy Fellowship Grant to Build Rue, an AI-Powered Next-Generation Video-Production Platform. 

GREENWICH, Conn., April 21, 2023 — O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC (“OSV”), an investment firm that empowers creators, has announced that it has awarded an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship to Isabella Teng and Varsha Raghavan. 

Teng and Raghavan will use their $100,000 fellowship grant to build Rue, an AI-powered next-generation video-production platform. Rue’s tools eliminate process redundancies and drive creative visions, helping video projects get off the ground faster. 

OSV’s founder and CEO, Jim O’Shaughnessy, commented as follows:

“By harnessing the opportunities unlocked by the AI revolution and aiming to democratize the video-creation process so more creators have access to the tools they need, Isabella and Varsha’s Rue platform could not be more aligned with OSV’s mission to help creators unleash their infinite potential. We’re excited to support them however we can over the coming months.” 

Teng said, “We both know how important it is to express ideas, thoughts, and concepts creatively through media. Building Rue will democratize the video-creation process so anyone can share their stories. The O’Shaughnessy Fellowship is helping us march toward our first product launch. We are so excited to work with a team that supports creators worldwide.”

About Teng and Raghavan

Teng grew up in the Bay Area before studying and completing a B.S. in computer science at Yale. At Yale, she attended hackathons, programmed various mobile and web apps, TA-‘ed CS courses and conducted bioinformatics research. 

Teng has previously spent a month in Tel Aviv completing a data science fellowship and four months in Berlin working at an AI fintech startup. Before co-founding Rue, Teng was a fintech product manager working on real-time fraud detection models. She is also a photographer and painter. 

More information about Teng is available on her website and LinkedIn page.

Raghavan has a keen interest in new technology and its sociological ramifications. As a high school student, she would spend days and nights fabricating hunks of metal into a 120-lb robot. She graduated with a B.S. in computer science from Yale, where she organized conferences on the ethics of AI and founded a licensed open-source web app called PPETrackr. 

Before co-founding Rue, Raghavan was a machine learning engineer at a drug-discovery startup. She used machine learning to identify novel gene therapies for oncology and published a paper on this work at the International Conference for Learning Representations. She is also a videographer and wildlife photographer. 

More information about Raghavan can be found on her LinkedIn page. 

About the Fellowship Program

OSV launched the Fellowship Program in 2023. It is a one-year program for ambitious people who want to build something great. Fellows receive a $100,000 grant and access to OSV’s network of founders, investors and experts to support them in bringing their projects to life. 

OSV has awarded six Fellowships to date and will award twelve in total. Applications for the Fellowships remain open through April 2023. Creators interested in applying can do so via OSV’s website.

About O’Shaughnessy Ventures

OSV is a creative investment firm that empowers and inspires creators to bring their ideas to life. Founded by Jim O’Shaughnessy, a pioneer in quantitative investing, founder of O’Shaughnessy Asset Management, and author of four books on investing, OSV aims to provide financial support and to partner in growing the next life-changing creative ideas. 

OSV combines Jim’s deeply rooted interest in all things art, science, investing, and tech with his long-held desire to establish scenarios designed to help promising creators and their inspiring ideas succeed, regardless of age, location, job history, or level of education. For more information, visit https://www.osv.llc/.

Media Contact:
Ena Gong
O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC
(917) 355-7420
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Company’s open source vector database and new cloud service are essential to rapidly growing AI application development market

AMSTERDAM, April 21, 2023 — Weaviate.io, developer of the AI-native Weaviate vector database, today announced a $50M round of funding led by Index Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures. Weaviate’s existing investors, including NEA, Cortical Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, and ING Ventures also joined this round. The capital will be used to expand the Weaviate team and accelerate the development of its popular open source database and new Weaviate Cloud Service to satisfy the rapidly growing AI application development market.

AI Innovation is Fueled by Algorithmic “Vector Data”
Global spending on artificial intelligence (AI) technology and services is expected to reach $154 billion in 2023 and surpass $300 billion in 2026 (source: IDC). This massive wave of application development will be powered by a new type of data, embedding vectors, which are AI-generated representations of documents, images, customers, products, and other objects. The Weaviate AI-native vector database is essential to the growth of AI applications, including generative AI. It is used by developers who need to generate, store, share, and search millions or even billions of vectors, very often in real-time.

“The Weaviate vector database is used as core infrastructure in the emerging AI-native ecosystem,” said Weaviate CEO and co-founder, Bob van Luijt “It allows users, from startups to enterprises, to create a new wave of applications ranging from custom-made search and recommendation systems to ChatGPT plugins.”

Simpler AI Development, millions of downloads, and new Cloud Services
The Weaviate database simplifies vector data management for AI developers. An essential AI-native infrastructure component, it solves the hard problem of generating, storing, and searching embedding vectors and their corresponding objects. AI-native vector database capabilities include:

Extensible, built-in machine learning (ML) modules –  Just load and search; Weaviate does the ML heavy lifting – any data type, any model, any use case.
Richer vector search – Supports a variety of ML searches with the added benefit of being able to search vectors AND the source objects from which the vectors were generated.
High performance – Sub-second search, scales to billions of objects, runs non-stop.

Since raising its series A funding in early 2022, Weaviate has seen open source downloads pass the 2 million mark. Weaviate has also launched a new Weaviate Cloud Service, which gives developers the full power of the Weaviate database without any of the operational overhead. The Weaviate Cloud Service is available immediately and can be used for free for 14 days.

“Weaviate’s vector database and search engine provides a critical piece of infrastructure that’s helping to drive a massive AI platform shift,” says Index Ventures partner Erin Price-Wright. “The pace of adoption across enterprises and AI-native startups alike developing multimodal search, recommendation, and generative applications with Weaviate is incredible. This is the best-in-class product for developers building with AI and we are thrilled to be partnering with them to help drive the next phase of growth.”

In February, the company introduced generative search support to make it easier for developers to meaningfully harness the power of large language models (LLM) like GPT-4 and their human-like ability to seemingly understand and respond to queries in natural language.

“With every major data-platform shift, we’ve seen the emergence of a new, underlying technology – and the explosion of generative AI is no different,” said Dharmesh Thakker, a general partner at Battery Ventures. “Just as Elastic and MongoDB helped companies leverage non-tabular data, we believe Weaviate is poised to lead the revolution of vector databases, giving organizations critical tools to store, index and retrieve unstructured data through vector embeddings. We could not be more excited to partner with the Weaviate team and help the company refine its go-to-market program, particularly in the U.S.”

For more information visit weaviate.io or join the Weaviate community forum on Slack. Weaviate is hiring–openings can be found on the Weaviate careers page. 

About Weaviate
Weaviate is the developer of the popular Weaviate open source vector database. AI innovation is fueled by machine learning-generated embedding vectors data, which makes the Weaviate vector database an essential part of the AI-native infrastructure. The company was founded in 2019 and is funded by Index Ventures, Battery Ventures, NEA, Cortical Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, and ING Ventures. Weaviate is headquartered in Amsterdam with offices in the U.S. and Australia.

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BOSTON and NASHVILLE, Tenn. and RALEIGH, N.C. and DURHAM, N.C., April 20, 2023 — After several months of foundational activities, Dental Innovation Alliance (DIA) has made inaugural investments in UptimeHealth and Relu, both early-stage dental technology companies.

UptimeHealth simplifies dental equipment maintenance, repair, and purchase events through automation and predictive analytics. The easy-to-use software will keep track of equipment, create and assign maintenance tasks to staff, and dispatch service technicians with a click of a button. The data gathered within the system sends reports to leadership, including dashboards for compliance adherence and lists identifying problematic equipment that are ripe for replacement.

“DIA is attracted to UptimeHealth’s compliance management tracking and equipment solutions. We see potential for the company to grow beyond dental into other healthcare sectors,” says Doug Brown, DIA Managing Partner.

“We value everything that DIA and their member base will bring to the table for UptimeHealth. Their deep industry knowledge, connections, and expertise will help us continue to build products that support the future of dental equipment management,” says Jinesh Patel, CEO and Co-Founder of UptimeHealth.

Relu provides a platform-agnostic approach to automatically segment 3D medical images in the dental and maxillofacial market. Its technology helps address the requirements of technology and medical device companies to provide enhanced surgical navigation and treatment planning solutions.

“We’re excited about Relu’s vision and its application of AI to surgery. Their advances in artificial intelligence applied to 3D images have broad applications within the dental industry and provide numerous angles to develop new products and customers,” says Thomas Sharpe, DIA Managing Partner.

“Teaming up with DIA is a dream come true. From day one, their deep industry knowledge and outstanding network have provided added value to Relu. They are closely following new technologies in dentistry, and we are grateful to receive their funding and support. It strengthens Relu in our vision to build a future with better, faster, and safer dental treatments thanks to the help of AI,” shares Holger Willems, Co-Founder & CEO of Relu.

DIA is the first firm of its kind that funds, advises, and propels the success of early-stage dental technology companies through its leadership team, which has a combined 200 years of dental industry experience. Many of the country’s most successful dental leaders are DIA investors, with connections to over 5,300 dental offices. DIA seeks to become the preeminent resource for fostering innovation and collaboration in the dental and health sectors.

About Dental Innovation Alliance
https://www.dialliance.com
Dental Innovation Alliance (DIA) is a collection of dental industry executives that funds, advises and propels the success of early-stage companies building the future of dentistry through technology. Its investor base includes executives and experts from some of the largest and most innovative dental support organizations and other dental businesses. DIA has offices in Boston, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham.

About UptimeHealth
www.uptimehealth.com
UptimeHealth, headquartered in Boston, provides healthcare administrators and operators with simple-to-use software to manage compliance tasks, increase operational efficiencies, and tap into a large network of qualified biomed technicians to support their medical devices. UptimeHealth products were developed to support the movement of healthcare to in-home and outpatient settings.

About Relu
https://relu.eu/
Founded in 2019, Relu has grown to a 15-person team with the vision to make all dental treatments better, safer, and faster by empowering existing dental treatment workflows with AI. Relu collaborates with major dental software companies in the EU, US, and Asia to make these technologies accessible to dentists. Relu is located in Leuven, Belgium, near the EU’s capital, Brussels.

SOURCE Dental Innovation Alliance (DIA)

Former AMEX Ventures Managing Directors launch debut fund to identify and access game-changing business development opportunities for early-stage fintech companies

Founding partners bring decades of investing and business development expertise, having made early investments in 50+ fintech companies including Melio, Plaid, Stripe and Trulioo

Vesey Ventures will leverage its extensive network and domain expertise to identify, fund and scale the next generation of great fintech companies

NEW YORK, April 20, 2023 — Vesey Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in companies transforming financial services, today announced the close of its debut fund totalling $78 million. Vesey Ventures was founded by three former Managing Directors at AMEX Ventures, Dana Eli-Lorch, Lindsay Fitzgerald and Julia Huang, and will invest in early-stage fintech and enabling technology companies where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist. Based in the United States and Israel, the fund has already made several notable investments including Coast, Cyrus, Grain, Equi and Proper.

With nearly a decade of experience investing together and establishing partnerships for fintech companies, Eli-Lorch, Fitzgerald and Huang are uniquely positioned to identify and access game-changing business development opportunities for their portfolio. The founding team has a track record of investing in early fintech winners like Melio, Plaid, Stripe, and Trulioo and has established more than 100 partnerships between startups and financial services institutions. Vesey Ventures combines the best of their backgrounds – deep domain expertise in traditional financial services and a unique understanding of the startup ecosystem – to identify, fund and scale the next generation of great companies. 

“Financial incumbents still own the crucial pieces startups need to succeed – infrastructure, capital, licenses and customers – and we’ve seen firsthand how the most successful fintech companies were built in partnership with incumbents,” said Founding Partners Dana Eli-Lorch, Lindsay Fitzgerald and Julia Huang. “We created Vesey Ventures to give our portfolio companies a competitive edge early on by bridging the gap between the companies in need of new technologies and those building them. Partnerships can be a game-changing part of a fintech company’s growth story and we have an unparalleled track record of delivering these for our founders.”

In addition to every Term Sheet, Vesey Ventures issues a ‘Strategy Sheet’ to every portfolio company outlining how the firm will leverage its extensive network of strategic investors and advisors to act as a company’s first business development team. As industry insiders who have operated for years at the intersection of finance and technology, the firm specializes in identifying partnerships and providing strong access points within the financial services ecosystem to make them happen. 

“Partnering with Vesey Ventures has been jet fuel for Coast” said Coast Founder and CEO Daniel Simon. “The team immediately showed a deep understanding of my business and identified the tactics they could deploy to move the needle for us. They put it on paper right away, and they’ve delivered. They had innovative, actionable business development ideas that helped shape our go-to-market strategy. They found us the right hires and advisors when we needed them. They are indispensable to fintech founders.”

“Business development in the financial industry is not just a nice to have, it’s a need to have, and Vesey Ventures are the type of insightful, strategic partners you want at the table,” said Trulioo Co-Founder Stephen Ufford. “Founders working in banking, payments, data networking and compliance will find the team’s expertise to be unmatched. Vesey Ventures know the decision makers, they can make connections and they have experience. They are relentless when it comes to business development and never gave up on helping Trulioo acquire our first major banking customer.”

Israel serves as a critical market for a number of Vesey Venture’s focus areas including early-stage fintech, enterprise software, cybersecurity and data & AI. The team previously invested in a number of Israeli companies including BioCatch, Melio, and Next Insurance, and the fund has already invested in two Israeli-based portfolio companies. With offices in the US and Israel Vesey Ventures is well positioned to help local startups partner, expand and commercialize in the US.

The founders previously made early investments in some of the world’s most successful fintech companies including Stripe, Plaid, Toast, Melio, Trulioo, Signifyd, iZettle, FalconX, Menlo Security, BioCatch, and Codat.

About Vesey Ventures

Vesey Ventures is an early-stage venture firm based in the US and Israel investing in companies transforming financial services. Founded by a trio of longtime fintech investors and operators, Vesey Ventures invests in companies where opportunities for early partnerships with financial incumbents exist. Vesey Ventures combines deep domain expertise in traditional financial services with a unique understanding of the fintech startup ecosystem to bridge the gap between the companies in need of new technologies and those building them.

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BEIJING, April 20, 2023 — March 11, 2023, TOJOY, China’s largest business acceleration platform announced plans for its new Oxygen-negetiveBar Hotel business during the China Hotel Green Development Forum.

TOJOY CEO Ge Jun’s keynote on speech outlined TOJOY’s approach to unifying enterprises and talent on health issues to spur new business in China’s booming hospitality and health sectors.

The health and comfort of guests in hotels across China is an increasing priority for many hospitality businesses. According to Chinese Academy of Engineering medical and engineering expert Yu Mengsun, “Turning hotels into a healthy living environment that make use of air purification” can improve air quality in confined spaces and provide better sleep and recovery for guests.

TOJOY’s Oxygen-negetive Bar Hotel business will primarily integrate air purification technology known as Boss Health Hotel Oxygen-negetive Bar into existing hotels. Hotel clients can work with TOJOY partners to integrate and maintain negative ion generators to existing hotel rooms without additional investment to remodel rooms or air circulation systems. TOJOY says the resulting air conditions in rooms with the technology installed will be near forest-level. Hotels may find the service useful for aiding in room sterilization, disease prevention, better sleep for guests, and overall guest health.

Boss Health Hotel Oxygen-negetive Bar president Zhang He said that the service is operating in more than 63,000 rooms nationwide. This is the second phase of the technology service’s nationwide rollout, bringing a higher tech, lower investment model to entrepreneurs across the country.

According to Zhang, more than one thousand four- and five-star hotels have signed contracts with Boss Health Hotel Oxygen Bar, including well-known brands such as Jianguo Hotel, Narada, Marriott, Arcadia, and Wanda.

During the forum, Robam Health Technology Group also established a “China Hotel Association Oxygen Bar Hotel Special Working Group” under the guidance of China Hotel Association.

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The investment is being made through the first round of PartnerHero’s CX Innovators Fund

BOISE, Idaho, April 20, 2023 — Customer operations outsourcing leader PartnerHero (www.partnerhero.com), announced today that it is investing $50,000 in a customer experience-focused startup, Jiffy (https://www.learnwithjiffy.com/). The investment is part of the CX Innovators Fund, an investment vehicle launched by PartnerHero in 2022 to support founders coming from backgrounds in customer experience who are working on products designed to improve the CX landscape.

In addition to the $50,000 in funding, invested using a SAFE note, Jiffy will receive mentorship from a group of CX experts from PartnerHero and other companies.

“We created the PartnerHero CX Innovators Fund because we saw a gap in the startup funding landscape,” said Mercer Smith, VP of Insights & Community at PartnerHero. “Traditional equity investors tend to back engineers, designers, and business school grads, but we think a career in customer experience is just about the best preparation someone can get for being a founder. We were rewarded with applications from some extremely innovative companies, including our winner Jiffy.”

The company selected for the inaugural CX Innovators Fund will also be able to receive valuable feedback on their products from PartnerHero’s more than 2,000 customer experience associates.

“The CX Innovators Fund is truly one of the only funds that is specifically tailored to the world of CX and support,” said Ben Wright, cofounder of Jiffy. “I have admired the PartnerHero team for many reasons, and that made the decision to apply that much easier. We’re seeing decent early traction with Jiffy, and have validated the product with over 50 CS leaders. This money will help get the MVP into our early customers’ hands, as well as additional marketing support.”

PartnerHero intends to repeat the CX Innovators Fund in 2023. Details will be made available later this year.

About Jiffy
Jiffy is an automated knowledge base that helps CX teams save time and streamline operations by making knowledge management part of the team’s day-to-day workflow.

About PartnerHero
PartnerHero is a provider of premium customer operations outsourcing, including customer support, trust & safety, content moderation, QA, tooling implementation, and CX strategy. The company has offices in the United States, Honduras, Romania, and the Philippines, and remote employees in dozens of additional countries.

SOURCE PartnerHero

Cloud Security Innovator Optimizes Security Posture with AI and Human Expertise

SAN FRANCISCO, April 20, 2023 — Tamnoon, an innovator in Managed Cloud Protection, announced they have emerged from stealth, secured funding, and will be showcasing their Assisted Remediation solution at the upcoming RSA Conference in San Francisco. The revolutionary solution leverages the power of AI coupled with human expertise, empowering security teams to deliver a superior level of cloud protection for organizations of all sizes.

Tamnoon, founded by industry veterans previously at Deloitte and Dome9 Security (acquired by Check Point), has raised a round of seed funding from investors including Merlin Ventures, toDay Ventures, Secret Chord Ventures. The funds will be used to expand services delivery capacity across all major Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) providers.

“We are thrilled to be showcasing Tamnoon’s managed cloud protection solution which supports all major CNAPP players such as Wiz, Orca, Check Point’s CloudGuard and Palo Alto Networks’ Prisma Cloud,” said Marina Segal, co-founder and CEO of Tamnoon. “Cloud security remains challenging despite the advanced technologies available today. We see a growing number of opportunities to help customers maximize the value of their existing cloud security tools and boost the productivity of security teams.”

The company’s solution augments existing security tools by providing focused priorities, smart insights and ready-to-apply remedies to enable security teams to perform better and maintain a stronger, more resilient cloud security posture. In addition, its innovative Assisted Remediation allows security teams to minimize the strain on development, IT and DevOps teams within their organizations.

Tamnoon already is serving dozens of customers across various industries including insurance, entertainment, software and services. The open-insurance provider, Zinnia, is an early customer that relies on Tamnoon to provide assisted cloud protection services for their cloud environment. “Providing effective auto-remediation and prevention solutions that augment our existing cloud security technology, Tamnoon’s Managed Protection Services allows us to quickly and seamlessly resolve misconfigurations, without impacting our core operations” said Saul Schwartz, Cloud Technology Leader at Zinnia.

As part of its commitment to providing the most comprehensive and effective cloud protection solutions, Tamnoon has also announced several strategic partnerships and integrations with major CNAPP space players such as Check Point, Palo Alto Networks and Sysdig to be part of their Managed Services delivery arm. “We’re thrilled to be partnering with Tamnoon, who will enable our customer’s CloudGuard solution implementations and ensure their cloud protection is maximized at all times through this joint offering,” said Itai Greenberg, Chief Strategy Officer of Check Point.

Tamnoon has also attracted top talent to its advisory board, including Ryan Davis, Chief Information Security Officer at NS1 who shared, “As a CISO, I am constantly looking for ways to improve our organization’s cybersecurity posture. Security teams face a constant stream of alerts and notifications from a variety of sources that yield manual effort to remediate and create alert fatigue. Tamnoon’s approach of using an innovative service delivery platform to provide highly accurate triage process and remediation playbooks coupled with a team of cloud configuration experts, yields a scalable solution that reduces operational burden and prioritization for overtaxed security teams.”

Tamnoon will be showcasing their innovative managed cloud protection platform at the RSA Conference RSAC2023 at Booth #0231 in Moscone South Expo Hall.

About Tamnoon
Tamnoon, the leading Managed Cloud Protection innovator, empowers organizations to strengthen their cloud security posture through an AI driven solution coupled with human expertise. Tamnoon prioritizes critical security tasks, streamlines processes, and offers assisted remediation, prevention, and automation solutions. Tamnoon enhances existing security resources and tailors its solutions to organization’s unique security policies and business context. Tamnoon maximizes security team productivity and strengthens cloud environment protection. Tamnoon’s founders bring decades of industry experience from top-tier companies such as Deloitte, Checkpoint, Dome9, Sysdig, Intel, Fortscale, and others. For more information, visit www.tamnoon.io.

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