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JFFVentures' second fund will back tech startups connecting workers with opportunities to build a stronger, more inclusive workforce BOSTON, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- JFFVentures, an impact fund strategically aligned with the nonprofit Jobs for the Future (JFF), announced the first close of its second fund today. With a target of $50 million, JFFVentures Fund II will back founders with lived experiences who are building innovative HR, education, and workforce solutions that enable economic mobility for workers in middle to low-wage jobs. "At Workday we believe that talent is everywhere but opportunity is not," said Carrie Varoquiers, chief philanthropy officer, Workday. "It's because of this belief that the Workday Foundation is proud to partner with JFFVentures and support its second fund.

DAM Partners of Santa Cruz Software Can Instantly Offer Creative Workflow Tools to End Users SANTA CRUZ, Calif., April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Santa Cruz Software today announced BrandingUI is now available for more than 20 leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) systems that are existing partners with Santa Cruz Software. BrandingUI is a marketing template portal that offers a streamlined workflow for content creation for enterprise end users.

This partnership will offer entrepreneurs and enterprises both in Switzerland and globally the facilities, technologies, and business acumen needed to develop innovative Web3 solutions. ZURICH, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The Hashgraph Association (THA), the Swiss-based organization at the forefront of global digital enablement, and Trust Square AG, a leading player in innovation enablement and positioned at the heart of Switzerland's blockchain and deep-tech ecosystem, have today announced the signing of a strategic partnership.

CLEVELAND, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- RISCPoint, an industry leader in cloud, cybersecurity and compliance management consulting, has partnered with the leader in Compliance Operating Systems, anecdotes. The partnership brings enterprise-grade technology and leading-edge implementation methodology purpose built for the start-up and SMB space, providing access to enterprise-grade programs with the efficiency and price point needed for growing organizations.

SOUTH EASTON, Mass., April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- HW Staffing Solutions, a leading commercial staffing agency providing services throughout the United States, announced today the acquisition of Top Prospect Group, a professional services and Information Technology staffing firm headquartered in White Plains, NY. This acquisition allows HW Staffing Solutions to expand its offerings to clients and candidates, providing them with more comprehensive staffing services.

Developers can now natively use the Elastic vector database to store and search Cohere’s new int8 text embeddings SAN FRANCISCO--( BUSINESS WIRE) -- Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), the company behind Elasticsearch®, today announced the Elasticsearch open Inference API now supports Cohere’s text embedding models. This includes Elasticsearch native support for efficient int8 embeddings, which optimize performance and reduce memory cost for semantic search across the large datasets commonly found in enterprise scenarios.

OctoAI customers can build high-performance generative AI applications on AWS SEATTLE, April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- OctoAI announced today a Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). As a part of this collaboration, OctoAI is using AWS accelerated computing infrastructure services to deliver production-grade generative artificial intelligence (AI) solutions that are empowering builders to launch the next generation of AI applications.

Satori provides authorization and governance to all data from a single CLI that natively integrates with developer tools SUNNYVALE, Calif., April 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Satori, the industry's leading data security platform, today announced the release of its CLI (command line interface), an open-source tool, that enables Satori customers to unify data governance without compromising on security or compliance. The development of this open-sourced CLI is part of Satori's broader commitment to its customer experience.

The Consortium aims to provide actionable insights and identify new opportunities for reskilling and upskilling News Summary: The AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium is led by Cisco and joined by Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft, and SAP. It will assess AI's impact on technology jobs and identify skills development pathways for the roles most likely to be affected by artificial intelligence.

The cybersecurity company will continue operations in Brazil and the U.S, expects more than $50 million in 2024 global revenue SOUTHFIELD, Mich., April 3, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Stefanini Group, a $1 billion global technology company specializing in digital solutions, with locations in 41 countries across the Americas, Europe, Australia and Asia, announced today the acquisition of Protega, a leading Brazilian cybersecurity company. "As part of our aggressive investment plan for the coming years, we will allocate $200 million (R$1 billion) to new acquisitions by 2026, with the cybersecurity area being one of our priorities," said Marco Stefanini, Stefanini's founder and global CEO. "As the cybersecurity market continues to grow, this acquisition will allow us to proactively shield companies of different sizes across many industries from financial and reputational losses." Protega, which has offices in Brazil and New York City, specializes in managed security services, software and hardware integration and consultancy in governance, risks and compliance. In 2024 the company expects at least $50 million in global revenue.