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As one VC said, "every sports has its top players who are committed to continuous improvement in their skills, always improving, always ...

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With the virus pandemic, racial outage and corporate product failures such as the 737Max (which is still not flying and no firm plans to ...

CEO’s “Take Back” Control of Social Media by Building Their Own Social Media Platforms

By Thomas B. Cross - CEO TECHtionary.com Anytime you deploy a new concept, technology or human idea it needs to find ways to provide a ...

Driving Digitalization – 5 Types of 5G Innovation

By Thomas B. Cross - CEO TECHtionary.com Emerging technology is always something that is "coming soon" to some part of your life at ...

Got the Need For 5G Speed – Many More G’s Driving Digitalization Faster-Farther Than Ever

Pandemics will be more frequent, intense and global as "history is only a prologue" to the future, to not prevent them much less reduce ...

Top-10 Coming Crisis-Driven Innovations and Opportunities

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Designed for MSPs, UC/VoIP Providers, Cloud and other tech companies, this one-day #SalesManager Executive Seminar is for First Time, Team ...

Designed for MSPs, UC/VoIP Providers, Cloud and other tech companies – One-day Sales Manager Executive Seminar

Enterprise Sales Acceleration – Professional Development Program Click here to download the PowerPoint Presentation Overall - ...

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Do a AI Market/Business Validation Before You Buy or Build an AI System or Solution – 30-minute Ondemand

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Football Fans Club Live

Business Espionage & Sabotage – Spies, AI and Spy Games  - “Competitors may have this time prevented us from knowing enough ...

Stop Business Espionage & Sabotage Now – Building Corporate Intelligence Agency (CIA) – onsite or online

By Thomas B. Cross cross@gocross.com 303-594-1694 Abstract: The idea of thought-leadership hits home to my own views of the ...

Accelerate Business Faster – Build Strategic Customer Assessments Now – Overview

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Business has been and always will be about being faster, cheap, better. To accomplish that strategically, the faster you can ...

Digital Meeting Technology Professional Certification – Webinar Overview

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AI Business/Market Validation – Critical Review before you Buy or Build

Social Selling Seminar & Strategy 2020 - Critical Success Factors for The New Sales Force Social Selling is much more than social media ...

Social Selling Seminar & Certification for 2020 Social Video Streaming and much more

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Evan Kirstel Accelerating Customer’s Social Media & Business Performance

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Move Minds, Not Matter

Executive Seminar on Building an Internal Competitive Intelligence Agency (CIA) Spy Rings and Spy Agencies "The enemy have this time ...

Business Espionage & Sabotage – Spies, AI and Spy Games

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“Are you missing the mark by focusing too much on the point” Click on image to play 38-minute anytime. Here are the Top-10 ...

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Mind Meld – iBook on AI

By Thomas B. Cross CEO TECHtionary.com - Linkedin Profile This is a professional services offering, however if you want to understand ...

Building Strategic Channel Customer Assessments: Webinar Ondemand

Expanded Forescout Device Cloud now includes more than 8 million IT, IoT and OT devicesNew Forescout Device Cloud Report reveals ...

Forescout Releases Inaugural Device Cloud Research based on Leading Device Intelligence

 Webscale®, the Digital Cloud Company and the leader in converged software for hyperscale cloud automation, announced today that ...

Webscale Raises $14 Million in Series B Funding to Redefine Digital Commerce in the Cloud

Madison Logic, the leading global account-based marketing (ABM) platform, today announces the launch of the ML Data Cloud, ...

Madison Logic Unveils New Data Cloud to Accelerate ABM for B2B

-SendBird, the fully customizable chat and messaging API service for mobile and web applications, today announced that it has raised ...

SendBird Series B Reaches $102 Million

- Datical, the leading provider of database release automation solutions, today announced $10 million in Series C funding led by ...

Datical Secures $10 Million in Series C

Series C Round Led by Mercato Partners; Platform Spurs Innovation and Integration in the API Economy - Cloud Elements today ...

Cloud Elements Secures $25 Million Funding to Virtualize API Integration

 Turbo Systems, the first universal, no-code engagement platform, today announced an $8 million Series A funding round. Led by ...

Turbo Systems Debuts with $8 Million Series A Round

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Smart Stateless Expands Software Defined Interconnect (SD-IX) for Colocation Providers

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For these investors at HIMSS, their no. 1 investment pick for 2019 is…

Flow Kana, the leading sustainable supply chain company and distributor of sungrown cannabis products and services, today announced ...

Flow Kana Raises $125 Million to Build Largest Sustainable Cannabis Supply Chain

Following a record year of growth for the #insurtech business, INSHUR has today confirmed it has closed a Series A investment round, ...

INSHUR closes $7M in Series A funding

3DEN (pronounced “Eden”), the second generation of the “third place,” today announced the raise of a $2 million seed ...

3DEN Raises $2 Million Seed Round

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-FabFitFun, the leading lifestyle membership and subscription commerce company, announced that it has raised $80 million in Series A ...

FabFitFun Raises $80M Series A Led by Kleiner Perkins Digital Growth Fund

Simplus, a leader in Salesforce Quote-to-Cash, has successfully closed $20 million to further increase capacity across its product and ...

Simplus Closes $20 Million

-GoCo, the easiest to use all-in-one HR and benefits platform, today announced a $7 million Series A funding round led by ATX Seed ...

GoCo Lands $7M in Series A

Logical Buildings Closes $3.5 Million Series C-1 Offering as SmartKit™ AI Smart Building Software Platform Expands Nationally, Achieving ...

Logical Buildings Closes $3.5 Million

Thanks to VentureBeat - Augury counts Johnson Controls, Brooklyn Navy Yard, NYC Department of Education, and Grundfos among its ...

Augury raises $25 million for AI

– Stateless, Inc., the company reinventing network connectivity, today announced it has raised $11.33 million in Series A funding. ...

Stateless Raises $11.33

Avinew, the InsurTech company reinventing auto insurance for the age of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles, is announcing $5M in ...

Avinew Raises $5 Million in Seed

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18 charts to illustrate US VC in 2018

- Vicente Capital Partners (“Vicente Capital” or “VCP”), a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, today announced the sale of ...

Vicente Capital Partners Sells Controlling Interest in Intellectual Technology

 Salt Security, the leading API protection company, today announced it has raised $10 million in funding for its patented ...

Salt Security Announces $10 Million

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Predictive Index, the leader in talent optimization, today announced that it raised $50 million in ...

Predictive Index Secures $50 Million Investment from General Catalyst

StreamElements, the fastest growing production platform for live-streaming, used by more than 200,000 live channels on Twitch and ...

StreamElements Raises $11.3M Series A

Thanks to VentureBeat Silicon Valley venture capital (VC) firm Sapphire Ventures has formally launched a new $115 million ...

Sapphire Ventures launches $115 million sports tech fund with big-name backers

Legal technology company Disco today announced the close of an $83 million funding round to make AI tools for lawyers. The ...

Disco raises $83 for Legal AI

Thanks for VentureBeat - Varada, a Tel Aviv startup that offers “petabyte-scale” analytics for enterprise customers with data ...

Varada raises $7.5 million to apply analytics to data lakes

Thanks to Fortune Magazine - Symbiont announced $20 million in Series B funding led by Nasdaq Ventures. Investors including Galaxy ...

Symbiont Raises $20

Thanks to VentureBeat - Nothing annoys an IT team more than answering the same doggone questions about Wi-Fi passwords over and ...

Electric raises $25 million to automate IT tasks

Avista Development, a wholly owned unregulated subsidiary of Spokane, Wash.-based Avista Corp. (NYSE: AVA) and Duke Energy (NYSE: DUK) ...

Avista, Duke Energy invest in grid edge software technology

Thanks to VentureBeat -- Keyfactor, formerly Certified Security Solutions, was founded in 2001 with the mission of automating digital ...

Keyfactor raises $77 million

Today Redpoint China Ventures announced that it has completed the closing of two new funds totaling $400 Million in committed capital ...

Redpoint China Ventures Closes $400 Million

BFS Capital, a leading small business financing platform, today announced it has now issued more than $2 billion in financing to over ...

BFS Capital Achieves $2 Billion in Financing

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (OTCQB: LWLG),  a technology company focused on the development of Next Generation Photonic Devices and ...

Lightwave Logic, Inc. Secures $25MM

Scribe Technology Solutions (‘Scribe’), a cloud-based developer of healthcare data tools and services, announces a seven-figure ...

Scribe Technology Solutions Secures Investment from Decathlon Capital Partners

Thanks to VentureBeat - Artificial intelligence (AI) chips — that is, microprocessors optimized for machine learning workloads — ...

AI chip startup Hailo Technologies expands Series A to more than $20 million

Thanks to Pitchbook Snoop Dogg has always been someone with his mind on the money and the money on his mind. However, in his ...

Snoop Dogg aims for another VC hit with Klarna deal

Thanks to VentureBeat - Munich-based human resources startup Personio has raised $40 million in venture capital in ...

Personio Raises $40M

Thanks to VentureBeat - Home improvement is easier said than done, depending on the complexity of the job at hand. Finding ...

Pro.com Raises $33M

Thanks to VentureBeat - Veeam, a data management company specializing in backup and disaster recovery services for enterprises, ...

Veeam Raises $500M

Thanks to VentureBeat - Landlines are ever-so-slowly going the way of the dodo, but a few holdouts remain. Almost 43 percent of U.S. ...

Zipwhip Raises $51M

Thanks to TechCrunch Cracking the silos of digital health records promises to bring better care to patients by better informing ...

Innovaccer Raises $11 from Microsoft VC

Thanks to TechCrunch SeeTree, a Tel Aviv-based startup that uses drones and artificial intelligence to bring precision agriculture ...

SeeTree raises $11.5M

Thanks to Xconomy ScoutRFP, whose software is designed to help businesses streamline the process of ordering goods from suppliers, ...

ScoutRFP Raises $33M

Click on image for complete At the end of 2018, we asked our portfolio companies to reflect on their respective tech sectors and ...

Verizon Ventures 2019 Predictions

-- Alation Inc., the data catalog company, today announced it has closed a $50 million Series C funding round led by Sapphire ...

Alation Raises $50 Million in Series C

Get the entire report The 4Q 2018 PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor reviews the final quarter of a year in which annual venture ...

Record $130.9 Billion VC invested 2018

Thanks to Forbes - Chronicled, Inc., a software technology company that gives industries and enterprises the tools to build ...

Chronicled Raises $16M

Thanks to Xconomy - Many of our devices, from wearables to medical instruments to drones, can capture reams of images. Using ...

AlwaysAI Raises $4M

Thanks to Foundry Group -- has co-led a Series B investment in Tidelift. Based in Boston, MA, Tidelift is making open source work ...

Foundry Invests in Tidelift

Via Foundry Group We are pleased to announce Foundry Group’s investment in Knock, part of a $400M total debt and equity ...

Foundry Knocks on Knock

Bain Capital Ventures has led a $261 million Series E investment in Rubrik, valuing the creator of data management software ...

Rubrik raises unicorn round with Bain Capital backing

Bringg, the leading delivery logistics platform for enterprises, announced today that it has raised a new funding round from strategic ...

Brigg Raises $25M

-- BenchPrep, the leading provider of an advanced white-label online learning platform for education and training organizations, ...

BenchPrep Closes $20 Million Series C

First Stop Health, LLC has raised $6.5 million in equity capital to enhance its market position as a leading provider of virtual ...

First Stop Health Raises $6.5 Million

Trice Medical announced today that it closed an $18.3 million Series C Extension financing round. The company will use the ...

Trice Medical Closes $18.3 Million

Thanks to Xconomy Humatics, the Waltham, MA-based startup working on microlocation technology for use in robots and ...

Humatics Raises $28M

Authenteq, creator of the blockchain identity verification technology Trollteq, has raised $5 million in funding and is now touting ...

Authenteq raises $5 million for blockchain

MarketFactory has secured a strategic investment from Accel-KKR, a leading Silicon Valley technology-focused investment firm. The ...

MarketFactory, Inc. Secures Funding from Accel-KKR

-Syncurity, a market leader in Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR), today announced the second and final close of ...

Cybersecurity Firm Syncurity Closes $2M

Courtesy CBS news - detailed text here Kai-Fu Lee built his career working for the giants of Silicon Valley: Apple, Microsoft, and ...

Kai-Fu Lee via Sinovation Ventures, has funded 140 AI startups

CDW (NASDAQ: CDW) today announced its agreement to acquire Scalar Decisions Inc., a leading technology solutions provider in Canada ...

CDW Announces Agreement to Acquire Scalar Decisions Inc

-Bowery Valuation, the world’s first tech-driven commercial appraisal firm, today announced the company closed a $12 million Series ...

Bowery Valuation, the Real Estate Appraisal Secures $12 Million

Thanks to IBG Allos Ventures, an Indianapolis-based venture capital firm focused on Midwest technology companies, announced ...

-GeoSpock® – the extreme-scale spatial big data integration company that provides analytics, builds insight, and enables ...

GeoSpock Secures £10 Million Additional Funding

Allos Ventures, an Indianapolis-based venture capital firm focused on building high-growth tech companies in the Midwest, announces ...

Allos Ventures Announces First Closing for Latest Fund, Allos III

-- Swrve, the the leader in multi-channel marketing automation, today announced it has appointed Barry Nolan as chief strategy ...

Swrve Appoints Barry Nolan as Chief Strategy Officer

The world’s leading employee communications and engagement company, Poppulo, today announced an investment of $35 million by ...

Poppulo raises $35 million

ICOx Innovations Inc, (TSXV and OTC: ICOX) (the "Company" or "ICOx Innovations”), which designs and creates blockchain economies ...

ICOx Innovations Client KODAKOne’s Generated $1M

Thanks to Bloomberg Artificial intelligence was a no-brainer bet for humans in 2018. Venture capital funding of AI companies soared ...

VCs Plowed a Record $9.3 Billion Into AI Startups Last Year

Las Vegas, NV – January 8, 2019 –  The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced today at CES® – ...

CTA Announces $10 Million Fund Commitment to Women, Diverse Founders and Diverse Leadership Teams

-- The demand for Smart Cities across the world has led the HomeGrid Forum to expand its work for 2019 into Smart Grids, Internet of ...

HomeGrid Forum at CES: “G.hn technology is expanding into new markets”

Thanks to Forbes -- Gene sequencing startup 10x Genomics has raised another $35 million in Series D funding, valuing the Pleasanton, ...

10x Genomics Gets $35 Million

Thanks to TechCrunch - Scape Technologies, a London-based computer vision startup, is de-cloaking today to announce that it has ...

Scape Technologies raises $8 million

Thanks to BostonInno - Humatics Corporation, a Waltham-based startup developing micro-location and spatial intelligence ...

Humatics Raises $28M Round to Advance Spatial Intelligence

- Bell and Howell, the leader in retail click-and-collect solutions, announced the debut at NRF 2019: Retail's Big Show ...

Bell and Howell to Debut Fully-Automated Prescription Pickup Solution for Pharmacies

Thanks to TechCrunch Today, many companies provide developer access to their services via APIs. Moesif, a San Francisco ...

Mosif Raises $3.5 for API for APIs