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BylineBuddy, the first SaaS solution designed to streamline the process of creating and publishing premium-quality contributed articles at scale, today announced its launch at the Poynter Institute's Bowtie Ball, the industry's largest annual celebration of journalistic excellence. Targeting an untapped market opportunity projected to exceed $160M in 2023 and reach $4 billion by 2030, BylineBuddy has planted its flag in the sand with the goal of defining and dominating the exciting new category of programmatic contributor bylines.

Just in time for the holiday season, Dallas-Fort Worth based public relations and marketing communications firm BizCom Associates ™ is launching a new employee-based philanthropic program, BizComCARES. "Rather than select one or two causes to support as an agency, the beauty of this program is that as a fully-remote agency it provides a way for BizCom and our team members to help address the needs of their communities, no matter where they live," said BizCom co-Founder and CEO Scott White. "There are so many worthwhile causes, and everyone has their favorite, so we decided to put the power of this program in the hands of our employees." The program is designed to empower the agency and individual teammates to select the causes they wish to support. This could range from seasonal opportunities such as holiday programs to providing relief following a natural disaster to supporting local mentoring programs.

Kaleyra, Inc. (NYSE: KLR) (NYSE American: KLR WS) ("Kaleyra" or the "Company"), a rapidly growing omnichannel business communications platform and member of Oracle PartnerNetwork, today announced that many of its upcoming services being launched in late 2022 would be powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This deeper partnership will also allow Kaleyra to extend its existing partnership with Oracle to reach thousands of customers more effectively.

Consensus Cloud Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: CCSI), a leader in enterprise cloud faxing and interoperability solutions, today announced that its government offering, Enterprise Cloud Fax (ECFax), available through a partnership with prime contractor Cognosante, has achieved Authority to Operate (ATO) from Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and is in process of final certification with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) PMO at the highest security impact level. Supporting VA's ECFax program marks Consensus' official entry into the U.S. federal government marketplace.

CELOSPHERE 2022 - Celonis, the global leader in execution management, today announced the launch of two new applications that will help customers address the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions, save time, cut costs and improve sustainability across their supply chain. These applications were developed in collaboration with Celonis partners Climatiq, EcoVadis and IntegrityNext.

Broadcat has been selected as the behavioral compliance micro-learning content partner of award-winning learning technologies company, Learning Pool. The partnership brings compliance leaders the ability to deploy agile, customizable content across diverse communications media, and meet employees where they are by embedding just-in-time guidance into business processes for effective skills gap management.

Agent IQ, a provider of digital customer engagement solutions specializing in making financial services more personal again, announced today that it has successfully raised $10 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Mendon Venture Partners and included participation from renowned VCs Acronym VC and Sierra Ventures and innovative banks including FNBO and others. "Agent IQ's value proposition is among the most relevant opportunities right now for banks to partner and participate in leveraging innovative technologies in both an offensive and defensive manner," said John Clausen, Founding Partner, Mendon Venture Partners. "The company is at the forefront of relationship banking, helping banks engage customers in ways that they have come to demand.

Pantheon Lab Limited, Hong Kong's leading deep-learning start-up, announced today that it has raised seed funding led by Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AEF), managed by Gobi Partners GBA. Since the company's official market debut in April 2022, Pantheon Lab has led the way in AI-driven synthetic media, placing it at the forefront of face-shifting technology and creating ground-breaking human-likeness in the digital sphere.

Investment to accelerate ProsperStack's mission to make it easy for subscription-based brands to prosper by automating and enhancing the customer retention experience. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- ProsperStack, a leader in cancellation flow software boasting the ability to reduce subscriber churn by up to 30%, announced today that they've raised a $2 million Seed round, led by Sandalphon Capital.

Bigeye, a world leader in enabling access to data observability to data teams, has recently signed several strategic partnership and collaboration agreements that will see its footprint grow across several new sectors. Already a predominant data observability company in the Financial Services (FinServ) sector, Bigeye looks forward to serving an expanded customer base, and bringing data quality monitoring to a wider range of organizations.