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April 5, 2021
OverSOC, part of the Alacrité France cohort of start-up companies in Lille, France, continued to make client progress over the Quarter with their innovative SaaS. The 3D, real-time mapping and analysis application has been designed specifically for enterprise IT teams and SOCs. It enables better collaboration between CISOs, IT leaders, analysts, cybersecurity experts and solution…
April 5, 2021
More than ever, customers, investors, employees and others are taking an interest in the ways in which companies make positive social and community impacts when assessing their performance. This is in addition to, or in some cases even instead of, the traditional view of “how much revenue does the firm generate”. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)…
April 5, 2021
As calendar 2020 came to a close, the portfolio of companies within the Alacrity Global ecosystem grew to 69 businesses across six international locations. Over the twelve-month period, the portfolio achieved a new high-water mark with more than USD$35.0M secured in Series A funding. The teams also managed four exits from the portfolio, with a…
October 16, 2020
It will surprise no one to read yet again that COVID-19 changed the global business and economic landscape dramatically. Some changes have been devastating, as we know, but some have actually been positive. There is one in particular that we want to highlight here. Digital Transformation — the process of companies introducing new or updated…
October 16, 2020
Recognizing the far-reaching effects COVID- 19 was having on local communities at the start of the Quarter, InitLive put together a free product offering for any organization needing to manage volunteers in relief and related programs. The company knew that managing perhaps hundreds of inexperienced volunteers with similarly unseasoned managers and limited tools was only…
October 16, 2020
Portfolio company Thrive has developed a software platform that enables enterprises to provide a range of career transition and management services to individuals departing from their organization. As COVID set in, the team realized there was about to be a significant upheaval in the workforce. And many of the jobs being eliminated in late March…
October 16, 2020
Senior care homes worldwide have been impacted heavily by COVID-19, including an increased demand for consistent and timely resident family engagement. In the U.S., the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) introduced a man- date that, in the event of a suspected positive case of the virus within a nursing facility, operators must notify…
October 16, 2020
Like most hospitality and leisure businesses, the Celtic Manor Resort had to close its main operations to the public in March, in compliance with the coronavirus social distancing measures put in place by the UK government. How long those restrictions would remain in place was not known. Fortunately, management was able to create a new…
October 16, 2020
While COVID-19 disrupted many things this Quarter, one thing that hasn’t changed is the importance of digital marketing. For example, industry reports suggest that with more time on some people’s hands, the engagement with mobile applications and digital and social content has increased 20% during the pandemic. This sort of shift has been under way…
October 16, 2020
The shift to remote work over the past months has meant that ensuring a high-quality, highly reliable user experience from extended corporate infrastructure and applications has become more critical than ever. And for many businesses, these demands are not expected to be temporary — they will continue in a post-pandemic world. As such, Martello has…
