Media company Dentsu International has announced that the company has promoted Michael Komasinski to global CEO, Merkle and dentsu international executive team’s member. Wendy Clark, chief executive officer at dentsu international, commented, “Michael’s track record speaks for itself. He inspires and leads teams in developing impactful, data-driven and tech-enabled customer experiences while building lasting and values-based…
Larsen & Toubro (L&T), the technology, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and services conglomerate, has announced the launch of L&T EduTech – a new industry-led, application-based, practical oriented learning platform, rooted in technology. “We are living in a period of accelerating change, with the need to not only learn new things but also seek newer and better…
Royal Dutch Shell plc has announced the appointment of Wael Sawan as Integrated Gas and Renewable and Energy Solutions (R&ES) Director and Zoë Yujnovich as Upstream Director. Both appointments are effective 25th October 2021. Wael, currently Upstream Director, will remain a member of the Executive Committee in his new role and will continue to be…
Mavenir, the network software provider, has announced a strategic partnership with HCL Technologies (HCL), a global technology company with expertise in network systems testing. According to a statement, “the collaboration brings together HCL’s platform for third-party RRU testing and Mavenir’s full Centralized Unit (CU) and Distributed Unit (DU) RAN software stacks. RRU vendors will, as…
AiDash, a provider of satellite and AI-powered vegetation management and sustainability solutions, has announced it has secured a $27 million Series B funding round. Led by G2 Venture Partners with participation from BGV, National Grid Partners, and additional strategic partners, this round brings the company’s total funding amount to $33 million. “Wildfires were rampant in…
STACK Infrastructure, a digital infrastructure partner, has announced its international expansion to the Asia Pacific region with the opening of its Singapore regional headquarters. STACK is sponsored by IPI Partners, a global investment platform with more than $5.25 billion in total equity commitments specializing in acquiring, developing, leasing, and operating critical digital infrastructure assets. STACK…
TradingView Inc, a charting platform and social network for traders and investors, has announced a new $298 million investment round – led by Tiger Global. The financing takes the company – with paying customers in over 180 countries worldwide – to a $3 billion valuation. Denis Globa, CEO and co-founder of TradingView said, “We’re excited…
FloCareer, an “Interview as a Service” platform, has announced $5.7M series-A funding led by Data Point Capital based at Boston, USA, with participation from Uncorrelated Ventures and Orios Venture Partners. FloCareer will deploy this capital to further strengthen its position in gig-workers powered video interview platform in USA and India. Orios’ Managing Partner, Rajeev Suri…
Pagos, a data and insight SaaS platform tailored to drive performance and optimization of their customers’ existing payments infrastructure, has announced $10M in new seed funding. The investment round was led by Underscore VC and Point72 Ventures alongside investors and executives including Amit Jhawar (former GM of Venmo), Bill Ready (President of Commerce, Payments &…
Crayon, a provider of IT services and innovation, has announced that it has acquired rhipe, an Australia-based cloud and licensing specialist, to further Crayon’s global expansion strategy and services portfolio. “We are incredibly excited to welcome rhipe to the Crayon family as part of our global expansion strategy,” said Crayon CEO Melissa Mulholland. “rhipe is…
Clarifai, an AI platform for unstructured image, video, text, and audio data, has announced that it closed a $60 million Series C funding round. This funding round was led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), with participation from existing investors Menlo Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Lux Capital, LDV Capital, Corazon Capital, NYU Innovation Venture Fund, and…
Draganfly Inc., a drone solutions and systems developer, has announced that it has signed a minimum $9 million manufacturing agreement with Digital Dream Labs, Inc. to design and develop an AI consumer companion robot drone. As per the terms of the announced agreement, “Draganfly will be the exclusive manufacturer and assembler of the Drone. DDL…
Poland and US–based startup Spacelift, an integrated management platform for infrastructure as code, has raised $15m in Series B funding led by New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm Insight Partners to scale its management platform for infrastructure as code in the US market. Existing investors Blossom Capital, Inovo Venture Partners, and Hoxton…
SemaConnect, an electric vehicle infrastructure platform, has announced a partnership with Gilbarco Veeder-Root, a market provider of retail and commercial fueling solutions. While commenting on the launch of the partnership, Mr. Prashant Radhakrishnan, VP-Sales & Marketing, SemaConnect India said, “We are looking forward to working with Gilbarco Veeder-Root on the new Amps2Go program. Even though…
London-based consumer tech brand Nothing has announced that it is selecting the Snapdragon® platform to power future tech products and cooperating with Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. to do so. Nothing also announced that it has completed a Series A extension of $50M from strategic and private investors. This will be used towards research and development in…