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Sequeira says that these promotions and additions are part of the firm’s maturation as it looks to celebrate its fifth birthday. “We think having these five folks, Kamil joining as a partner, two being elevated, it transitions the firm into this next phase where we want to be an elite firm,” he says.

Four years after inception, Defy continues team expansion and portfolio growth

Builders have long believed hands-on education and in-person coaching are the best ways to teach the skilled trades because of the physical approach to learning the necessary job skills. It wasn’t until COVID-19 emerged and social distancing was the norm that companies realized a construction-based education could be delivered successfully in a virtual format.

We are feeling e-commerce tailwinds in the market; our annual recurring revenue grew 300 percent from 2019 to 2020, and we expect a similar growth trajectory this year,” he added. “We have a clear roadmap of the specific modules that we intend to launch. There are additional retail functions we’re building out for this year,…

SoundCommerce aims to help online retailers improve operational efficiency by gathering their data across various systems and channels. The idea is to provide new insights and answer questions about profitability, forecasting, logistics, inventory, and more. SoundCommerce integrates with and pulls data from major commerce systems such as Amazon, Shopify, Magento, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, and more.

For brands and retailers to compete with Amazon and emerging digital-first competitors, it requires cutting-edge data capability and the discipline to apply data to key operations and marketing decisions,” SoundCommerce cofounder and CEO Eric Best told VentureBeat. “While SaaS tools like Shopify become ever easier to adopt and use, data fragmentation prevents consumer brands from…

“Lumiata has been looking for an opportunity to efficiently and effectively support customers on AWS and Azure,” said Miguel Alvarado, Lumiata CTO. “Ascend.io is the right partner to agnostically deliver our Data Management pipeline to healthcare customers that need to maintain their data in a VPC.”

Forbes today announced the first class of 250 entrepreneurs on the Forbes Next 1000, a list of innovators and inspiring small business leaders from all backgrounds and industries who are redefining what it means to build and run a business, amid unprecedented uncertainty.

Pawlicy Advisor, the leading pet insurance marketplace, announced today it has raised a $6.5 million Series A funding round led by Rho Capital Partners and existing investor Defy Partners. The round also included significant investment from Slow Ventures. This brings the company’s total funds raised to $8 million to date.