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Cybersecurity Firm Avertium Confirms 1Q Offers Best Practices for Bot Defense in Market Research Industry
1Q, a leading market research and customer engagement platform, shared a letter of attestation from noted cybersecurity firm Avertium that their platform utilizes industry best-practices to keep bots from infiltrating their market research tools.
Clearlake-Backed symplr To Acquire Phynd
symplr, a leading global healthcare governance, risk management, and compliance (“GRC”) software-as-a-service (“SaaS”) platform, backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. (together with its affiliates, “Clearlake“) and SkyKnight Capital (together with its affiliates, “SkyKnight”), announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Phynd Technologies (“Phynd” or the “Company”). The acquisition further strengthens symplr as a global healthcare GRC leader by adding Phynd’s leading provider directory management SaaS platform. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
LiteLink Signs LOI to Acquire Equity Stake in Canada’s Premier Cryptocurrency Exchange, CatalX
LiteLink Technologies Inc, a company focused in emerging technologies across growth sectors including: crypto, blockchain, AI and cloud technologies. LiteLink is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to complete an equity investment in CatalX Exchange (CatalX), Canada’s premier cryptocurrency exchange with over 40+ Altcoins available for purchase on CatalX.io.
Payroll Infrastructure Startup Check Announces Its Public Launch With $35 Million Series B Investment From Stripe and Thrive
Check, a first-of-its-kind payroll infrastructure startup whose mission is to make paying people simple, announced its public launch with $35 million in Series B funding from Stripe and Thrive Capital. Check was founded in 2019 by the team that built Oyster, the Netflix for books, which was acquired by Google in 2015. The company has employees across the United States, with headquarters/hubs in New York, San Francisco, and Atlanta, and brings together world-class technical and payroll expertise. With the close of its $35 million Series B from Stripe and Thrive, Check has raised $44 million to date. Last year it closed an $8 million Series A led by Bedrock with participation from Thrive and Index, and in 2019 it raised a $1 million Seed round from Bedrock. The company plans to use the funds to continue to grow the team.
Silvus Secures Additional Funding, Advancement to Third Phase of SWARMM Program
Silvus Technologies, Inc. announced the company is going under contract for Phase Three of the DARPA Scalable Wideband Autonomous RF Mapping MANET (SWARMM) program to deliver a matured radio frequency (RF) spectrum scanning technology. The SWARMM program is based on Silvus’ Filtering by Aliasing Spectrum Sensing Technology (FASST). The FASST sensor is designed to deliver extremely fast spectrum scanning speed – 6 to 60 THz/sec – in a form factor the size of an iPhone.