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TAMPA, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Healthcare--Elite365 - Healthcare Workforce Solutions today announced healthcare staffing veteran Russel Hicks as President of its new locum tenens division.

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #AffordableHealthcare--Pebble, a new company dedicated to providing better, smarter and more comprehensive health benefits plans to startups, publicly launched today after completing a highly successful, invite-only beta program. Its first-of-its-kind financial engineering and technology applications build generous employee benefits plans within the ideal construct for employees and small companies while keeping costs under control. Pebble partners with all major health carriers to create pa

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--15Five, the holistic performance management company, announced a strategic investment of an undisclosed amount from ServiceNow, adding to the $52M Series C round 15Five announced in July. The funding underscores ServiceNow's commitment to building and investing in technology that reinvents work and drives productivity. This is ServiceNow Ventures’ first investment in the talent technology space. The funding will accelerate 15Five’s ongoing product development, sp

EL CERRITO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NESsT, a global impact investor and venture philanthropist, announced today two partnerships, with the C.S.Mott Foundation and Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), respectively. The two partnerships will conduct action research in the Amazon to understand the challenges and degradation of climate change on local communities and empower them for positive change. The research will result in the systemization of knowledge and the developme

OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #lending--Peach Finance joined the Mastercard Engage Partner Network, and will support lenders developing BNPL solutions through Mastercard Installments.

SOMERSET, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #Blockchain--Organizations shopping for CIAM solutions that require strong, standards-based consumer authentication capabilities will want to consider 1Kosmos.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #FASB--LeaseQuery, a leading provider of software built to simplify the complexities of accounting, today announced the LEASE Summit – The FASB Series, an upcoming virtual CPE event highlighting processes that will help private companies smoothly transition to ASC 842. The summit will occur on December 14, 2022, at 1 p.m. EDT. Speakers include experts from LeaseQuery, Chick-Fil-A Inc., Grant Thornton LLP, and Middleby Corporation. Each session will provide insight into critic

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ICR, a leading strategic communications and advisory firm, is pleased to announce that Kyle Kazan, CEO of Glass House Brands, one of the fastest-growing, vertically integrated cannabis companies in the U.S., recently appeared on Episode 53 of ICR’s “Welcome to the Arena” podcast. Welcome to the Arena is hosted by Tom Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of ICR. Tom spoke with Kyle about the current state of the regulated cannabis market, the top challenges in the industry, how

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wasabi Technologies, the hot cloud storage company, today completed its Series D funding round with an additional $15 million in new equity headlined by Azura, SiS Cloud Global Tech Fund 8, and existing investors including Prosperity7 Ventures. Following $125M in equity closed in September 2022, the additional funding brings Wasabi’s Series D to $140 million. Along with its existing debt facility, the company has now raised over $500M to date, most recently on a $1.1B v

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Columbia Threadneedle Investments today announced that Melda Mergen, Global Head of Equities, has been recognized as one of the top women in asset management by DiversityQ as part of its 2022 U.S. Women in Asset Management Awards program.1 Melda was named a co-winner in the global equities category. The Women in Asset Management Awards series, now in its fourth year, has been providing a platform to showcase and honor the outstanding professionals and firms in asset man

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, announced today the company’s strong momentum in 2022, driven by new client and agency partner growth, strategic investment in its business, expansion in Europe and Asia, trailblazing initiatives with leading companies like Walmart by powering its new content creator portal, Walmart Creator, and new partnerships and integrations with Adobe Commerce, BigCommerce, and more. In 2022, impact.com welcomed mor

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--1E, a leader in Digital Employee Experience (DEX), today announced the results of the commissioned Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact (TEI™) study, examining the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises realize by deploying 1E’s software. The study found that a composite organization - a global enterprise with 20,000 endpoints and an internal service desk team including 200 engineers - achieved an ROI of 202% and a net present value (NPV) of $5.11 millio

BOCA RATON, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)---- $DIVZ--Opal Capital launches with a focus on equity-driven income solutions designed to meet specific client needs primarily through ETFs and SMAs.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regions Bank on Wednesday announced the creation of a Franchise Lending team led by industry veteran Peter Salas. A key part of Regions’ services designed to support small-business growth, Salas and his team are focused on helping drive business sustainability and expansion through their specialization in franchise concepts. Under Salas’ leadership, Regions’ Franchise Lending team is focused on developing relationships with franchise owners throughout Regions’

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #avantforward--Avant, LLC, a credit-first financial technology company* that provides access to innovative financial solutions to underserved non-prime consumers (“Avant”), today announced it secured $250 million of corporate debt and redeemable preferred equity from Ares Management Alternative Credit funds (“Ares”). "Avant has established a track record of success over the course of a decade of delivering on our mission to empower customers to reach their goals with innovative solut

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fiverr launched an online recession hub called “The Lift.”

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #NICE--NICE Actimize, a NICE (NASDAQ: NICE) business, today announced its partnership with The Knoble, a global non-profit network of experts working to protect the vulnerable against a range of financial crimes and other fraudulent activity. Through the partnership, NICE Actimize will provide technology expertise, research support and other resources to The Knoble’s Financial Crimes Working Group with the goal of supporting the detection and elimination of scams in act

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), one of the largest public land-grant research universities in the United States, has adopted Continual Engine’s PREP PDF and document remediation platform to strategically improve accessible communications across the institution. Continual Engine and Virginia Tech are partnering on a large-scale initiative to make document accessibility easier, faster, and more pervasive throughout the university. The

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A new study released today by Billtrust examines Generation Z and their evolving views and behaviors when it comes to digital payments.

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Immuta today announced the findings of its third annual State of Data Engineering Survey, which highlights the top data engineering challenges and blind spots as organizations strive to become more data-driven. The findings show the tangible impacts of these challenges, including the fact that 89% of organizations report missing business opportunities because of data access bottlenecks. The 2023 State of Data Engineering Survey, commissioned by Immuta and conducted by g