Ad firm – Creativeland Asia has appointed Shalini Sinha as chief executive officer of its consumer intelligence unit and director of strategy. With industry experience of 21 years, she will play a pivotal role in the next phase of growth of CLA. Prior to this, she held the role of commercial lead for the Kantar South Asia’s creative division.…
Freshworks Inc., the intelligent customer engagement software company, has announced the appointment of veteran Software as a Service (SaaS) visionary Stacey Epstein as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Epstein will play a pivotal role in Freshworks’ next phase of growth, global marketing strategy for the company. This news comes on the heels of the company recently…
Arteria AI Inc., a provider of enterprise digital contracting, has closed an oversubscribed Series A funding round, led by Information Venture Partners and Illuminate Financial Management, with participation from Golden Ventures and StandUp Ventures. “At Information VP, we invest in companies with innovative solutions to tangible business problems, amazing teams and novel technology. Current practices…
Pacaso, the company democratizing second home ownership, has announced $75 million in additional growth funding, bringing the company’s total equity financing to more than $90 million. In addition, the company has secured $1 billion in debt financing from financial institutions. “Pacaso, which launched in October 2020, has achieved unicorn status (valuation of $1 billion) faster…
Maker of Budweiser beer – Anheuser Busch InBev, has promoted Vineet Sharma as VP (vice president) – marketing and new business development, South Asia. He had joined AB InBev in 2016 and has previously held the role of trade marketing director for South Asia. Speaking on his appointment, he said, “I am thrilled to embark on this new journey to…
Catalyst has on-boarded Accenture CEO Julie Sweet as its new Board Chair and eight new Board members to its Board of Directors. Sweet, a current Board member, was elected as Board Chair on March 18. She succeeds former Lockheed Martin Chairman, President, and CEO, Marillyn Hewson. She is also the third woman to chair the…
Visionet, a business process management firm, aims 50 per cent year-on-year growth in 2021 and 2022 seeing the rise of digitisation across various sectors such as finance, banking, and insurance segments. The company is also planning to onboard 1,500 people in the current year. Alok Bansal – India managing director and country head, Visionet, informed, “In 2020, we…
y42 (formerly Datos Intelligence), a no-code business intelligence platform, has announced a seed round of $2.9 million, led by La Famiglia VC. Additional investors include the co-founders of Foodspring, Personio and Petlab. “With the advent of cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake, it’s now possible for organizations of any size to utilize data warehousing without large…
Emerald Haven Realty Ltd. (TVS Emerald), a TVS Group company, has partnered with Zolo Stays to avail the services of finding a tenant for their apartment. “The service will now be available for customers of TVS Emerald Lighthouse, the lifestyle residential offering by the brand. The project, located right opposite Embassy IT Park on the 200…
Voyager Labs, a provider of AI-based investigation solutions, has announced that it has partnered with Microsoft to provide cloud-based investigation platforms, guaranteeing fast, automated scalable and secure deployment. “Leveraging Microsoft Azure infrastructure and data services with its own AI technology, Voyager Labs helps investigators to automatically uncover all relevant entities and their context, directing the…
Caton Technology (Asia) Limited, a next-generation IP network transport solutions provider has announced a US$50 million majority equity investment from Pasaca Capital Inc., a California-based private equity firm. This investment will support Caton’s expansion plans to reach more businesses, applications and people with its technology and solution to unlock the internet for superior live video.…
State Street Corporation has announced the appointment of Ann Fogarty to executive vice president and deputy head of Global Delivery with responsibility for State Street’s custody, middle office, transfer agency and client service operations. Fogarty will report to Liz Nolan, executive vice president and head of Global Delivery. She will also join State Street’s Management…
Cleantech business Airly, Inc. has raised a $3.3m funding round to scale its AI-powered air quality platform globally. Airly’s customers comprise over 600 local governments and cities including Hong Kong, Jakarta, Oslo, Granada, corporates such as Philips, Virgin, Innogy, PwC, Veolia and Skanska. Airly will open offices in the UK and US as it doubles…
Even, the solution for medication-induced nutrient depletions (MIND), has announced its brand launch and $1.5 million seed funding led by Align Ventures, Spring Street Group and GAN Ventures. “In my 13 years of working with patients, I heard the same side effects over and over from patients using certain medications,” said Sarah Morgan, Co-Founder &…
ApiJect Systems, Corp., a medical technology public benefit corporation that is making prefilled injectors to deliver medicines and vaccines has announced that Craig Cohon has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer. London-based Mr. Cohon has served since May 2020 as Global Advisor to ApiJect. Mr. Cohon spent 14 years in executive leadership with The Coca Cola Company, spearheading its entry into Russia in 1991 and leading brand work for Coca-Cola globally. He also spent…