Synapse Financial Technologies, Inc. (SynapseFI), an API-based banking platform for financial institutions, yesterday announced a $17 million Series A investment led by Trinity Ventures and Core Innovation Capital. . Schwark Satyavolu of Trinity Ventures and Arjan Schütte of Core Innovation Capital joined the SynapseFI board of directors. Since its founding in 2014, the company has processed approximately $10 billion in transactions for...
Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) announced this month that the U.S. Air Force has selected the company to provide a package of digital workplace services through which it will securely manage, maintain and monitor the Air Force’s end-user desktop, laptop and mobile devices. The $76 million award covers an engagement that will run for one year. This...
Chevron Technology Ventures LLC (CTV) today launched Fund VII, a new $90 million fund established to sustain Chevron’s (NYSE: CVX) continued venture capital investment across the energy industry. Investments from this newest fund are expected to target early- to mid-stage companies as well as limited partnership funds. Further, Fund VII investments will focus on high-tech,...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced in Bogotá yesterday that it would activate an edge location in Colombia by the end of 2019, making Colombia Amazon AWS’s first Latin American network access point outside of North America or Brazil. The cloud services and retail giant also announced a collaboration with SENA, Colombia’s national community...
NICE (Nasdaq: NICE) last week announced a partnership between NICE Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and CallVU to offer visually enriched IVR (Interactive Voice Response) and digital customer engagement at the front end, together with smart automation of complex back end processes. The integrated offering enables organizations to gain greater operational efficiencies such as increased processing...
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) (NASDAQ: AMZN), and the Volkswagen Group (VW) (ETR:VOW3) announced a multi-year, global agreement to build the Volkswagen Industrial Cloud, a cloud-based Industrial digital production platform that will transform the automotive company’s manufacturing and logistics processes. Volkswagen will rely upon the breadth and depth of AWS’s portfolio of services, including IoT,...
Austin, Texas based real estate technology firm OJO Labs has raised $45 million in Series C funding to accelerate its development and market expansion. The company expects to strengthen its position with significant hiring in its data science, engineering, product and design teams. The round is funded by a syndicate including LiveOak Venture Partners, Realogy...
Global outsourcer Sykes Enterprises has announced the appointment of Ian Barkin — co-founder of global intelligent automation (IA) and robotic process automation (RPA) leader Symphony Ventures, Inc. to be its chief strategy and marketing officer. In November of 2018, Sykes acquired Symphony Ventures a company co-founded by Barkin, making it one of the first front-office business...
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 26, 2019 – Kryon®, a developer of Robotics Process Automation (RPA) software, has announced the completion of its Series C financing round of $40 million led by OAK HC/FT. Both Aquiline Technology Growth and Vertex Ventures – the firms that had led Kryon’s Series B round – have also exercised their...
The São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) and IBM have joined efforts to support the creation of a Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI), within the FAPESP Engineering Research Center Program. The new Center will pursue a disruptive research program, with the potential to promote paradigm shifts in AI. Its mission is twofold: to generate deeper...