Lior Shacham, CEO at PicUP, met with Alexandre Allemand, the business development lead for RBM, last week at Google. After the meeting, Shacham had this to say: “I can’t share much now, but stay tuned for exciting news coming soon from PicUP and Google. If you’re running outbound calling campaigns anywhere in the world and you’re not yet aware of Google’s RBM and how it can help boost your results, now is the time”.

Pontera has been honored as a finalist for the prestigious ThinkAdvisor Luminaries Awards in the Financial & Investment Innovation category. The company expressed deep gratitude to their advisor community, acknowledging their pivotal role in enabling Pontera’s mission to help Americans retire better. In a statement, Pontera said, “Big thanks to you—our advisor community—who make our efforts to help Americans retire better possible.” ThinkAdvisor provides financial advisors, registered investment advisors and wealth managers with comprehensive coverage of the products, services and information they need to guide their clients in making critical wealth, health and life decisions.

EasySend has been featured in this week’s edition of “The Rising 100” report by Sifted for 2023. The company believes that this recognition highlights the remarkable impact, scalability, and excitement within the B2B SaaS ecosystem. EasySend expressed their gratitude, stating, “It is an honor to be among these companies – all of whom are building products that solve critical problems and offer real-world value to their customers.” “The Rising 100” report, recently launched by Sifted, focuses on showcasing Europe’s hottest B2B startups for 2023. The report aims to shed light on the most promising companies in this space. Sifted’s comprehensive…

Contguard’s R&D division attended the Sela Technology conference, last week. According to the company, This conference provided an excellent opportunity for their tech experts, developers, engineers, and executives to explore the forefront of innovation and the latest advancements in microservices technology, serverless solutions, bigdata streaming, cloudbased platforms, and the transformative powers of devops & finops processes. Contguard: “The insights and knowledge gained from this experience have empowered Contguard’s R&D division to harness the full potential of modern technology and drive unparalleled innovation within our organization.”

Laguna Health, the AI-powered contextual care management platform, announced this week that Evelyn Daniels has joined as Vice President of Business Development. According to the company, Evelyn brings over 20 years of healthcare business development experience working with companies that have developed new and emerging technology in healthcare IT. Evelyn joins Laguna Health during a moment of pivotal growth after it recently closed a $15M Series A fundraise to fuel Laguna’s go-to-market expansion and deepen its AI capabilities in the care management context. “Laguna Health is a game changer with its AI-powered care management solution, focused with acute transitions,” said Evelyn Daniels, Laguna Health’s Vice President…

Insurity, a leading provider of cloud-based software and analytics for insurance carriers, brokers, and MGAs, today announced that it has partnered with GeoX to provide P&C insurance organizations with geospatial property data and first floor elevation data to more accurately classify and assess risk. Insurity customers can leverage GeoX’s proprietary artificial intelligence and patented technology to automate the extraction of 3D objects from aerial imagery to create more precise risk models. As advanced imagery-based data and analytics makes it more efficient to determine the condition and characteristics of a property attribute and accurately price the risk, it becomes imperative for insurance organizations…

Lemonade, the digital insurance company powered by AI and social impact, announced it has partnered with General Catalyst (GC), a leading venture firm and an early investor in Lemonade, to create Synthetic Agents, a novel financial structure that unlocks growth without depleting cash. Lemonade enjoys strong unit economics – investments in customer acquisition (CAC) are typically repaid three times over – but the initial CAC payback can take a couple of years. This ‘cash flow gap’ means that many opportunities for profitable growth are passed on, pending payback from prior acquisitions. Insurers often turn to independent agents to solve this…

Empathy, a platform helping families navigate the emotional and logistical challenges of loss, today announced a new partnership with Family First, a provider of personalized solutions helping alleviate caregiving challenges faced by employees. Through this partnership, Empathy and Family First will empower progressive, family-oriented employers with the tools they need to fully support employee caregivers facing a wide array of challenges, including those following loss. Over 40 million Americans care for an unwell family member over the age of 50. Many of these caregivers are forced to reduce their working hours or resign from their positions completely to deal with…

Binah.ai, the artificial intelligence (AI) powered health and wellness check software, announced this week that it has expanded its health and wellness check capabilities to support continuous health checks using PPG sensors. Binah.ai now offers continuous monitoring using a market-leading sensor with an ideal form factor, supporting biomarker monitoring at work, sleep and activity tracking, chronic disease management, and more. Why extend support to PPG sensors? Binah.ai currently offers a software-based solution that enables camera-based face spot checks for anyone, anytime, anywhere. However, certain use cases, such as monitoring at work, during sleep and activity, and chronic disease management require…

SueApp has expanded their intern team with young individuals. According to the company, the interns come from prestigious institutions, specializing in marketing, legal, and programming. SueApp stated, “We are eager to see their amazing contributions in the near future.”