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The latest from Wavecrest Growth Partners — firm announcements, portfolio news, and milestones from the founders and teams we partner with.
Wavecrest News
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RealTime Reservation Acquires STAY to Create Leading Global Guest Experience Platform Serving 2,000+ Properties Across 75+ Countries
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Predictive modeling firm Recentive Analytics raises $45M Series B
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AI Is Not Killing Vertical SaaS – It’s Practical Leverage – Deepak Sindwani
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SPINS Acquires MikMak, Expanding Capabilities in Shopper Engagement and Omnichannel Activation
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Dealerware Acquired by Growth Investors to Accelerate Product Development and Expand Range of Solutions
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Why the Best GPs Refuse to Raise More Capital
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Wavecrest Growth Partners Closes Fund III at $450M
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Rethinking the Tech Funding Model
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Valsoft Corporation Enters Financial Compliance Software Market with Acquisition of Alessa
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Carpool Logistics Secures $12M Series A from Wavecrest and CarMax to Scale Vehicle Shipping Platform
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Driving Growth Through Strategic M&A in Challenging Markets
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Trolley Secures $23 Million USD Series B to Accelerate Global Payout Platform Expansion
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Episode 17: Growth-Focused Financial Planning with Vaibhav Nalwaya
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Growth Elevated Leadership Podcast with Deepak Sindwani
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Episode 24: Chirag Shah of Wavecrest Growth Partners on How to Increase Enterprise Value with Organic Growth Levers
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Cardata Raises $100M in Capital to Accelerate Growth and Investment in Product Innovation
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Practical investor explains the growth equity funding game – Deepak Sindwani
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Rapid Applications Group raises significant growth equity financing to help heavy equipment construction subcontractors run their operations
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Wavecrest Growth Partners Hires New Growth Partner to Help Scale Value Creation Efforts with Portfolio Companies
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Silversmith Leads $104 Million Investment in Software Startup Impel
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Why we invested in HICX
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North American investors are coming to Europe. Here’s why and what European tech founders need to know
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HICX raises $30M to help companies optimize supplier experience
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Leading Cultural Intelligence Company, Collage Group, Raises $25 Million in Growth Capital to Continue to Fuel Leading Brands’ Engagement with Diverse Consumers
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HICX raises $30M to help companies optimize supplier experience
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JLL announces strategic acquisition of leading building operations technology company Building Engines
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Login VSI Receives Significant Growth Investment from Wavecrest Growth Partners Share
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Wavecrest Growth Partners Closes Fund II with $290M in Commitments
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Pole Star Receives Significant Growth Investment to Accelerate Maritime Trade Digitalisation, Surveillance, and Sustainability Solutions
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Wavecrest Growth Partners Expands Leadership Team
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MikMak Secures $10M Series A To Connect Top Brands With Online Retailers
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News Volante Technologies Receives $35m of Growth Funding from Leading International Investors to Accelerate Cloud Expansion Globally
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Stirista Raises $13M from Wavecrest Growth Partners to Scale Identity-Driven Marketing Solutions
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EDITED raises $29m in growth capital to help retailers drive sales with data
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CRE Tech Firm’s New Investment to Fuel National, International Growth
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Building Engines Raises Additional $12.7 Million to Fuel Continued Growth
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Massive Startup Growth In The 2020s Will Be In Middle America -- Not Silicon Valley
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BigTime Software Closes $14 Million Growth Equity Investment Led by Wavecrest Growth Partners
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Wavecrest Growth Partners Closes Inaugural Fund with $190M in Commitments
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Syracuse startup SpinCar receives $22M investment
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Tier1CRM receives significant equity capital to accelerate growth
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Building Engines, Inc. Receives Significant Growth Investment
Portfolio News
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Impel Sales AI Wins 2026 Auto Dealership Solution of the Year Award
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Carpool Named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 and ABC Pacesetter List
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How Impel is building an agent for every job with Claude
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Top 10: Supplier Lifecycle Management Tools
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Dealerware Integrates with Tekion to Enable Data Connectivity Across the Automotive Ecosystem
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Impel and SelectFI Announce Strategic Partnership to Bring Industry-First Financing Intelligence to Automotive AI Agents
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EDITED Launches MCP: Retail Superintelligence, Natively Inside the AI Tools Teams Already Use
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Impel Named to the 2026 Inc. 5000 List, Ranking Among the Top 50 Fastest-Growing AI Companies for a Second Consecutive Year
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Stirista Acquires Alesco Data to Help Shape the Future of Customer Intelligence
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Impel has been Highly Commended in the AI Product category at the Car Dealer Power Awards 2026
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Impel to Provide Expanded AI Capabilities Across General Motors Dealers Nationwide
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HICX has been named a Sample Vendor in the Gartner® Hype Cycle™ for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions, 2026
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Volante launches “Vol360i” Agentic AI at the core of payments, setting a new global standard for intelligence in banking
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Meet the company using AI to help the NFL maximize revenue
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How the NFL uses AI to help solve its schedule-making puzzle
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Introducing Atlas: Your AI-Powered Login Enterprise Expert
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NIQ and Stirista Announce Collaboration to Advance Privacy-Safe Audience Solutions
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HICX launches Supplier Registration solution to fix governance gap
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HICX Named to The Hackett Group’s 2026 50 to Watch
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Volante Technologies named a Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Banking Payment Hub Platforms
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Introducing SBJ’s newest 10 Most Innovative Sports Tech Companies
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Pole Star Defense Tapped for Mission-Critical Maritime Intelligence by Multiple U.S. Federal Agencies
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Volante Technologies introduces Multi-cloud Resiliency Service to ensure non-stop payments processing during major cloud outages
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RapidWorks Launches Rapid Payments to Help Heavy Equipment Service Providers Get Paid Faster
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Pole Star Global launches Maritime Transparency Index -- turning 25 years of maritime intelligence into instant vessel and voyage risk verdicts
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RapidWorks 2025 Year-in-Review
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HICX Recognized in the 2025/26 ProcureTech100
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Login VSI Announces Hydra 2.0 — Introducing Support for Windows 365 and Inviting Customers to Help Shape the Future of Cloud PC Management
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MikMak Announces New MCP-Powered and AI-Driven Innovations to Help Global Brands Drive More Profitable Growth
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EDITEDTM and AlixPartners Bring Retailers a New View of Consumer and Market Dynamics
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Collage Group Announces Leadership Transition: Kevin Daly Appointed CEO; Co-Founder David Wellisch to Serve as Executive Chairman
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Introducing Ask Collage, the Next Level of AI-Powered Cultural Intelligence
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Pole Star Global Partners with Sea to Streamline Vessel Screening in Chartering Workflows
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RapidWorks Acquires CRO Software to Expand into Waste Management
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Trolley Named One of Canada’s Top Growing Companies in 2025 by The Globe and Mail
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Mitsubishi Motors North America Selects Impel to Provide AI-Powered Sales, Chat, and Merchandising Capabilities to All US Retailers
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HICX Names Dafydd Llewellyn as CEO
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Pinterest and MikMak have Announced a New Integration
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Stirista Earns Eighth Consecutive Spot on the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Companies
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Impel Named to Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in America
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Impel Advances Automotive AI with Domain-Tuned LLM and Industry-First Safety Research Initiative
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Leading the AI Revolution in Retail: EDITED Introduces Research AI
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Impel Wins 2025 Car Dealer Power Award for AI Product of the Year
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OpenPlay and Trolley Sign Partnership to Streamline Royalty Payments for the Global Music Industry
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Impel Enhances Automotive Dealership Customer Experience with Fine-tuned LLMs on Amazon SageMaker
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MikMak Unveils Major Platform Enhancements to Power Profitable Growth for Global Brands
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Car Dealers Move to Combat Impact of Trump Auto Tariffs with AI Tools
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EDITED Recognized as “Data Solution of the Year for Retail”
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Pole Star Global Appoints 2 Key Executives to Catalyze Innovation and Accelerate Growth
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ITQ and Login VSI Launch Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Automated Desktop and Application Testing Services
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MikMak Keeps Momentum High in 2025 With New Partnerships, Platform Innovations, and Composable Commerce API Enhancement
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Cultural Intelligence Leader Collage Launches Proprietary AI Solutions to Fuel Client Brand Growth, and Announces New Chief Insights Officer and New Head of Sales
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Stirista Expands Marketing Technology Suite with Strategic Acquisitions of Magnetik and Andrews-Wharton
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EDITED Brings Triple Lens Clarity to the Retail Intelligence Space
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Product Announcement: Introducing Rapid Fleet and Payments
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Impel and FordDirect Partner to Bring Industry-Leading Conversational AI Solutions to Ford Dealers and Lincoln Retailers
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BigTime Appoints Don India as New Chief Executive Officer
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RapidWorks Acquires FleetCommand to Deliver World-Class Fleet Maintenance Solution
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Stirista’s API Marketing Suite – Giving Marketers The Freedom They Deserve
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MikMak Continues Its API-First Platform Enhancements and Caps off a Year of Innovation With Launch of Insights API
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MikMak and TrackStreet Ink Partnership Deal Delivering Unprecedented Profitability and Growth for Multichannel Brands Worldwide
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Standard Bank partners with Volante Technologies to revolutionize payments modernization across Africa in most ambitious Payments as a Service deal in history
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Pole Star Global and Eastnets Target Maritime Trade-Based Financial Crime With Real-Time Vessel Tracking – Pole Star Global
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Cultural Intelligence Leader Collage Releases Q3 Products to Enable Marketers to Future-Proof Their Brands
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EDITED Announces Mike MacKeen as Chief Financial Officer
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Impel: Interview With CEO & Co-Founder Devin Daly About The Auto Retailing Platform
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Impel Integrates with Cox Automotive’s Xtime to Deliver End to End Conversational AI Scheduling Solution
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Pole Star Global Expands Maritime Intelligence with Launch of the DOMAIN Insights Engine Plus New Global Brand
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Stirista Named One of the Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. on Inc. 5000
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Haywood Marsh Joins Cardata as CEO
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Impel Strengthens C-Suite, Adding Veteran Auto Tech Execs as CTO and CPO, and Creating 3 New Executive Positions Amid Aggressive Global Expansion
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RapidWorks Acquires Visual Dispatch, the Market Leader in Crane Services Operations Software
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Ajay Gupta of Stirista On The Future Of Adtech
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EDITED Announces Michael Alter as the Newly Appointed Board Chairman
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Cultural Intelligence Leader Collage Unveils Latest Innovations: Brand Love Dashboard, Competitive Comparisons, Sports Intel & More
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Login VSI Extends Automated Testing to Physical Endpoints and Desktops
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Impel Acquires Automotive Customer Engagement Platform Outsell in $100M+ Deal
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Impel Wins 2024 AI Breakthrough Award
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Impel Wins 2024 AI EDITED™ Releases New AI Summary Feature to myEDITED™ Breakthrough Award
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RapidWorks Partners with Brundage-Bone for Industry-First Online Service Requests in Concrete Pumping
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EY Announces Devin Daly of Impel as an Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 New York Award Finalist
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RetailTech Breakthrough Awards Names EDITEDTM 2024 “Overall RetailTech Company of the Year”
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Login Enterprise 5.9 Dramatically Simplifies Workload Automation and Testing
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MikMak CEO: Legislation Won’t Be the End of TikTok
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Alessa Inc. and RZOLUT Join Forces to Provide Innovative Data, Compliance and Financial Crime Prevention Solutions
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Tech Innovator Collage Group Launches New Industry, Audience, and Head-to-Head Insights to SaaS Cultural Intelligence Engine
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MikMak Launches Latest Platform Enhancements Including Headless Commerce API and Custom Analytics
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Impel Integrates with Tekion to Bring Seamless Connectivity to the Automotive Ecosystem
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EDITED™ Revolutionizes Retail Intelligence With Advanced Product Matching Technology – EDITED Match™
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Volante Technologies’ Deepak Gupta appointed to the U.S. Faster Payments Council Board Advisory Group
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Henry Olawoye Joins Stirista as Vice President of Audience Solutions
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The Kremlin has never been richer – thanks to a US strategic partner
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EDITED Releases Enhanced Functionality for the Beauty Industry
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Strategic Partnership Brings Impel’s Generative Conversational AI Technology to the CDK Modern Retail Suite
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Impel Expands into Automotive Aftermarket Industry to meet Growing Demand for AI-Powered Customer Lifecycle Management
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Rapid Applications Group Announces Rename to RapidWorks
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Alessa Recognized as a Key Player in the Regulatory Technology Sector by RegTech100
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MikMak Unveils Groundbreaking Platform Innovations to Help Brands Measure How Their Digital Marketing Impacts In-Store Sales
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Login VSI Adds Industry Veteran Al Monserrat to Board of Directors
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HICX makes the ProcureTech100 for the third year running
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EDITED™ Adds Renowned Industry Leaders to Its C-Suite & Board
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Volante raises $66M for payments tech for banks and other legacy financial businesses
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2023 Providers: 50 to Know, 50 to Watch and Future 5
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Pole Star Global buys StratumFive in latest maritime tech tie-up
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Pole Star Global acquires StratumFive Group, expanding its coverage in fleet monitoring & voyage optimisation for the global commercial fleet
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Rapid Apps Welcomes New CEO and Executive Team to Drive Growth
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Impel launches AI-powered virtual photo booth for automotive retailers and OEMs
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Volante Technologies scoops spot in D.A. Davidson & Co 2023 Fintech Herd
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Collage Group Recognized on Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies in 2023
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Stirista Recognized as One of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies on the 2023 Inc. 5000 List
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CommerceHub Sells ChannelAdvisor’s Shoppable Media and Brand Analytics Product Lines to MikMak; Acquisition Fuels MikMak’s Global Expansion and Commerce Intelligence Innovation
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BigTime Acquires Resource Management Company Primetric to Unlock Growth for Professional Services Businesses
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Pole Star Defense: A Global Leader in Defense and Maritime Tech Solutions
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Volante Technologies maintains top position in IBS Intelligence Wholesale Payments Sales League Table for third consecutive year
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Impel Hires Former Dealer.com and Cox Automotive Executive
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New generative AI software targets dealerships and automakers
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Login VSI Appoints Ron Oglesby as Senior Vice President for Customer Services and Solutions
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EDITED Introduces Merchandising Experience Index to Measure Retailer’s Customer-Centricity
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Target may have ‘lost control of the narrative’ as financial losses, LGBT anger mounts: consumer researchers
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Volante Technologies celebrates Women’s History Month with strategic hires
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Login VSI Launches Login Enterprise 5.0: Introduces Powerful Dashboards for Cost and Capacity Tracking
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EDITED Receives $15M Funding from Delta-v Capital to Accelerate Growth
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Pole Star Brings Next Generation Maritime & Supply Chain Analytics to North America
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Pole Star Appoints Retired U.S. Naval Vice Admiral Andrew Lewis as a Board Advisor
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Login VSI Looks into the Future From a 360° View
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Stirista Acquires Strategic Lifecycle Marketing Provider Customer Portfolios
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ETA Announces the Top 10 Payments ISVs Award Winners
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Login VSI Appoints New CEO, John Vigeant; CEO and Founder Eric-Jan van Leeuwen Transitions to Board Chairman
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Improve lead conversions with robust digital engagement tools
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Volante Wins Best Wholesale Payment Solutions Provider at Global Brands Awards
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Collage Group Announces New Chief Revenue Officer, Pat McGlynn
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Impel Secures $104 Million Growth Investment led by Silversmith Capital Partners
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Alessa Inc. Hires AML Industry Veteran Holly Sais Phillippi as CEO
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Volante Technologies wins ‘Best Cloud Payments Provider’ at prestigious Middle East and Africa Region Awards for second year in a row
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Volante Technologies listed by CB Insights as one of the 250 most promising private fintech companies in the world
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Pole Star Announces Robert Skea as New CEO
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Impel Acquires CarLabs.ai
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MikMak Secures U.S. Patent On Multi-Retailer eCommerce Enablement Technology
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Impel Selected by Hyundai North America to Provide Digital Merchandising Capabilities for All Dealers
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Login VSI Named as Top 20 Emerging Vendor by DEJ
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Collage Group Appoints Gregory Cypes as Chief Product and Technology Officer
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ACH Colombia offers customers a modern digital payments experience with Volante Technologies
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Volante Technologies named to prestigious IDC FinTech Rankings Top 100 for second year running
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Omnichannel Will Ruin Black Friday. Is Your Data Ready?
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Stirista and TransUnion Collaborate to Bring New Market Leading, CTV-Optimized Data Insights to the TruAudience Data Marketplace
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Q&A: Behind the surge in retail media with MikMak
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Here are the finalists for Chicago’s Best Places to Work
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Cultural Intelligence Firm, Collage Group, Welcomes Victor Paredes as Executive Director of Cultural Strategy
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BigTime Software Acquires Projector to Become Leading Operating Platform for Professional Services Firms
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A firm says it helps companies like McDonald's and P&G advertise to diverse consumers while avoiding backlash — here's how
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Volante Technologies Dominates IBS Intelligence Annual Wholesale Payments Sales League Table for Second Year In a Row
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Stirista Names Data Tech Veteran Anthony Lucia Chief Technology Officer
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EDITED Names Doug Kofoid CEO as the Company Continues Its Rapid Growth
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KPMG and Volante Technologies Launch Strategic Alliance for Real-Time Payments and ISO 20022 Modernization
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SpinCar Announces Company Name Change to Impel and Launch of Conversational AI Solution for Post-Sale F&I Retailing at NADA Show 2022
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Volante Technologies Launches First Unified Service for FedNow℠ and TCH RTP®
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Pole Star Launches New Defense Line Of Business Focused On Government Maritime Intelligence
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BNY Mellon and Poste Italiane Increase Investment in Volante Technologies to Further Payments Innovation
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Pole Star Make Senior Appointment To Steer Strategy & Grow Brand
