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MessageGears, the leading customer engagement platform for big consumer brands, today announced the completion of a $62 million growth financing round. The round was led by Long Ridge Equity Partners with participation from Argentum Group and Atlanta Ventures.

Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the experience management category, today announced new XM Platform innovations to offer organizations the most flexibility to gain a complete understanding of their customers’ wants and needs, and take automatic action to deliver personalized experiences at scale and in real-time. The innovations come as the Qualtrics XM Platform reaches 10 billion Experience iDs–a growth rate of 100% year over year–serving as the largest human sentiment database in the world, and deepening the ability to give organizations quick actionable insights to drive their business and improve their customer relationships.

Zappi, the leading consumer insights platform designed for creators, today announced it has raised $170 million in growth capital from Sumeru Equity Partners (“Sumeru”) and co-investors. This strategic investment from Sumeru follows several years of strong momentum for Zappi and expansion of its team to over 300 people in 13 countries.

WordPress VIP, the technical source and provider of enterprise WordPress, has added KrishaWeb, a WordPress development company based in Asia Pacific and North America, to its prominent VIP silver agency program. Owned by Automatic, WordPress VIP selects top-performing companies from across the globe for their VIP agency program.

The Brains Marketing continues its winning streak into 2022, demonstrating its commitment to excellence and its drive to help businesses achieve their organizational objectives. In 2021, The Brains was a UK Digital Growth Awards winner as well as the winner of a Global Digital Excellence Award.

CapTech Ventures, Inc. (CapTech Consulting) announced today that they have achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Tier Partner status within the AWS Partner Network (APN). AWS Advanced Tier Services Partners are organizations recognized for proven technical expertise and demonstrated customer experience.

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Cherry Bekaert (the Firm) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Treacy & Company (T&Co.), a boutique growth and innovation consulting firm. The acquisition of T&Co expands Cherry Bekaert's focus on helping clients grow from strategy through execution.

Taskade is excited to announce the beta launch of Taskade AI powered by OpenAI's GPT-3 and ChatGPT. This new feature allows users to get assistance with complex questions, writing, and organization, and summarizing long-form content.

Tampa Bay Wave is proud to announce a three-year grant commitment by the Nielsen Foundation to power the 2023, 2024 and 2025 TechDiversity Accelerator program cohorts and their incredible high-growth diverse-led tech startups. TechDiversity cohort participants are selected from hundreds of applications from across the United States and abroad.