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Seso Celebrates Major Milestones at the Close of the Year

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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Seso , the workforce management platform for agriculture, is celebrating the close of a landmark year.

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  • Seso , the workforce management platform for agriculture, is celebrating the close of a landmark year.
  • “It was a big, bold and challenging vision, and reflecting back on this past year, I am so proud of all that our team has accomplished.
  • “Seso has helped us tremendously by keeping the H-2A process organized and on track,” says Bob Erickson, General Manager at Foothill Packing.
  • Employee Growth: This year, Seso more than tripled its number of employees based on a remote model across the U.S. and Mexico, Canada, Colombia, and Guatemala.

Vesta Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Security Audit with No Exceptions

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Professional Services, Technology, Finance, Software, Fintech, Banking, Organization, SOC, AICPA, Blend, American Institute, Bain Capital Ventures, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, LOS, Conversational Capital, Privacy, Certified Public Accountant, Index Ventures, Certification, API, SOC 2, Software as a service, Renewable energy, Audit, Vesta

Vesta, the next generation loan origination system (LOS), is proud to announce that it has been SOC 2 certified with no exceptions, demonstrating our commitment to data security and compliance.

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  • Vesta, the next generation loan origination system (LOS), is proud to announce that it has been SOC 2 certified with no exceptions, demonstrating our commitment to data security and compliance.
  • SOC 2 Type 2 certification is a rigorous third party assessment that demonstrates a company’s commitment to upholding the highest standards of security, availability, processing integrity, and privacy for it’s customers.
  • “We’re extremely proud to have built for security and compliance from day one at Vesta, instead of retrofitting our behaviors and procedures to be compliant later on.
  • Investors backing Vesta include: Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Conversion Capital, Index Ventures and Zigg Capital.

Instabase Announces the General Availability of its Automation Platform for Unstructured Data in AWS Marketplace

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Thursday, December 15, 2022
Software, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data Management, NatWest, AXA, NEA, Standard Chartered, Index Ventures, Deep learning, Greylock Partners, Automation, Artificial intelligence, Unstructured data, AWS, Amazon Web Services, Insurance, Spark Capital, Organization, Online shopping, Growth, Instabase

Offering Instabase in AWS Marketplace will provide our customers with streamlined access to our market-leading artificial intelligence capabilities and automation platform," said Joe Ramieri, VP of Growth at Instabase.

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  • Offering Instabase in AWS Marketplace will provide our customers with streamlined access to our market-leading artificial intelligence capabilities and automation platform," said Joe Ramieri, VP of Growth at Instabase.
  • The Instabase Automation Platform for Unstructured Data brings deep learning innovation, a suite of low-code tools, and workflow automation to transform key business processes that are built on unstructured data trapped in documents.
  • Instabase Inc. has built the first Automation Platform for Unstructured Data, enabling organizations to drive transformation across manual processes by unlocking unstructured data with deep learning.
  • The Instabase platform helps institutions transform unstructured data into structured data so that processes, such as client onboarding and mortgage processing, can be automated end-to-end.

ServiceTitan Launches Leads Integration Platform To Help Contractors Capture Leads and Grow their Business

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Professional Services, Data Management, Technology, Other Professional Services, Software, Consulting, The Home Depot, Software as a service, ICONIQ, Bessemer Venture Partners, Integration platform, Index Ventures, T. Rowe Price, Tiger Global Management, TPG, Online shopping, Cryptocurrency

ServiceTitan , a software platform built to power the trades, today announced that it has launched the ServiceTitan Leads Integration Platform , an integrated solution where scheduling service, installation, and repair appointments can be done quickly and easily, right from the ServiceTitan platform.

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  • ServiceTitan , a software platform built to power the trades, today announced that it has launched the ServiceTitan Leads Integration Platform , an integrated solution where scheduling service, installation, and repair appointments can be done quickly and easily, right from the ServiceTitan platform.
  • With the launch of our Leads Integration Platform, contractors can offer their customers a modern experience when booking a service or repair appointment, and as a result, improve customer satisfaction and retention.
  • ServiceTitans Leads Integration Platform empowers contractors to:
    Manage bookings more efficiently and lower costs Eliminates the manual process of checking email for leads, inputting them into multiple systems, fixing human errors, and copying information over to ServiceTitan.
  • ServiceTitan, the ServiceTitan logo, and all ServiceTitan product and service names mentioned herein are registered trademarks or unregistered trademarks of ServiceTitan, Inc. in the United States and other countries.

Capitolis Announces Justin Klug to Leave Firm

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Friday, December 9, 2022
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Capitolis , the technology company reimagining financial markets, today announced that President Justin Klug will be leaving after nearly six years of service to spend time with his family.

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  • Capitolis , the technology company reimagining financial markets, today announced that President Justin Klug will be leaving after nearly six years of service to spend time with his family.
  • Over the past six years, Justin has brought in incredible talent across the firm, launched innovative structures, led early operational and adoption focuses, and helped establish Capitolis reputation as a true client partner.
  • It has been an honor to help build this incredible company alongside our team, said Justin Klug.
  • Capitolis is the technology company reimagining how capital markets operate by unlocking capital constraints and enabling greater access to more diversified capital and investment opportunities.

Lithic Named Best Card Issuing Platform at the Tearsheet Embedded Awards 2022

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Friday, December 16, 2022
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NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lithic, the leading card issuing platform for developers, was named Best Card Issuing Platform at the Tearsheet Embedded Awards 2022.

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  • NEW YORK, Dec. 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Lithic, the leading card issuing platform for developers, was named Best Card Issuing Platform at the Tearsheet Embedded Awards 2022.
  • The Embedded Awards celebrate the most innovative players in the embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service space.
  • The awards marked the end of a year of major growth that saw Lithic increase its processing volume by 5x and launch card programs for top fintech companies including Mercury and Novo .
  • "Before we started Lithic, launching a card program was a frustrating experience," said Bo Jiang, CEO of Lithic.

Good Eggs Introduces National Distribution with Good Eggs Select Featuring Exclusive Momofuku at Home Collection

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022
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Today, Good Eggs , the revolutionary and radically fresh online market introduces Good Eggs Select , a curated selection of peak-season produce, meal kits, and gifts delivered nationwide.

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  • Today, Good Eggs , the revolutionary and radically fresh online market introduces Good Eggs Select , a curated selection of peak-season produce, meal kits, and gifts delivered nationwide.
  • The program debuts with Good Eggs exclusive Momofuku at Home collection that celebrates the iconic recipes and powerful flavors of Momofuku cult-classics with signature sauces, seasonings, and Momofukus first-ever seasonal assortment of meal kits created in collaboration with the chefs of Good Eggs Kitchen.
  • The highly anticipated partnership offers a convenient, one-of-a-kind Momofuku experience at home that only Good Eggs can deliver.
  • We're always looking for more ways to bring Momofuku flavors beyond our restaurants, says Momofuku Chief Executive Officer Marguerite Mariscal.

Wiz Launches Free Cloud Framework to Drive Community-Backed Security

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wiz, the leading cloud security platform that rapidly enables customers to find and remove critical cloud risks, today announced its newest project, The PEACH framework, a tenant isolation framework for cloud applications. This framework will enable industry-wide collaboration and provide cloud customers and cloud application developers with the necessary guidance to build cloud services securely and prevent critical risks in the implementation process.

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  • TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec. 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Wiz , the leading cloud security platform that rapidly enables customers to find and remove critical cloud risks, today announced its newest project, The PEACH framework, a tenant isolation framework for cloud applications.
  • This framework will enable industry-wide collaboration and provide cloud customers and cloud application developers with the necessary guidance to build cloud services securely and prevent critical risks in the implementation process.
  • "Over the past year and a half, Wiz researchers and other members of the cloud security community discovered several cross-tenant vulnerabilities in various multi-tenant cloud applications," said Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport.
  • This framework was reviewed and collaborated on with cloud security industry experts from AWS, Google, IBM, Netflix and Cisco.

MGIC Announces Partnership with Vesta

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Thursday, December 8, 2022
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MILWAUKEE, Wis., Dec. 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation (MGIC), the principal subsidiary of MGIC Investment Corporation (NYSE: MTG), announced today that it is integrated with Vesta, a modern mortgage loan origination system (LOS) and software-as-a-service company. With this partnership, lenders using the Vesta platform will be able to seamlessly, and in real time, request quotes and order private mortgage insurance (MI) from MGIC without leaving the Vesta LOS.

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  • With this partnership, lenders using the Vesta platform will be able to seamlessly, and in real time, request quotes and order private mortgage insurance (MI) from MGIC without leaving the Vesta LOS.
  • We're excited to work with MGIC to deliver a straightforward and modern quoting and ordering experience," said Mike Yu, Vesta CEO.
  • "At MGIC, we understand that our customers benefit from having mortgage insurance readily available when and where they need it," said Leslie Bensen, Director, Partner Solutions at MGIC.
  • "We are thrilled to offer MGIC's customers access to our MI products through Vesta LOS."

CockroachDB Introduces Functions to Increase Development Efficiency and Unlock Easier Migrations to the Cloud

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022
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NEW YORK, Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Cockroach Labs, the company behind the leading cloud-native distributed SQL database CockroachDB, today announced CockroachDB 22.2, which delivers new functionality aimed at increasing developer and operator efficiency while simplifying the architecture of data-intensive applications and enabling teams to migrate off legacy technology to the cloud.

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  • CockroachDB 22.2 delivers User-Defined Functions (UDFs), a top requested feature from customers that will improve development efficiency, reduce application complexity, and streamline database migrations.
  • Now in preview, UDFs extend CockroachDB's PostgreSQL compatibility and will enable more straightforward migrations of legacy workloads with functions to CockroachDB, letting more organizations modernize their applications.
  • CockroachDB's UDFs also lay the groundwork for a new category of capabilities called CockroachDB Distributed Functions, which will deliver compatibility with PostgreSQL functions while also being specifically architected to support distributed, horizontally scalable applications.
  • "CockroachDB 22.2 streamlines application development, helps developers quickly troubleshoot performance issues at any scale, and significantly brings down the cost of powering event-driven architectures."