Prior to joining Link Money, Loone was Assistant General Counsel at Robinhood Markets, where she was part of the legal team that took the company through regulatory challenges and a successful IPO. She holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.
Link Money’s first employee, Rohit Mehtani, who previously served as VP of Product Management, now serves as its Chief Product Officer. In this role, he will oversee product strategy; roadmap execution; and align product, engineering, data science and design teams to serve the company’s merchants and customers.
Prior to joining Link Money, Mehtani served as product management leader for Early Warning Services (EWS), where he led the industry defining integration of Zelle and Real Time Payments (RTP). Mehtani holds a Masters of Business Administration from University of California at Davis.
“Piret and Rohit have been integral in introducing pay by bank throughout the US. These promotions are well-deserved, and I’m confident that they will continue to meet our mission to bring pay by bank, powered by open banking, to merchants and consumers,” said Eric Shoykhet, Link Money CEO.
About Link Money: Link Money is a payment platform that offers fast and secure payment solutions. The platform enables individuals to make transactions directly with their bank accounts, offering security, ease, and a no-debt option, while offering merchants significantly lower fees than other payment methods.
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Lauren Schiffman, Link Money, 1 415-684-8080, [email protected], https://www.link.money/
Meta Engineering Director, Daniel Kim, Joins as a Venture Partner at SparkLabs DeepTech
SEOUL, South Korea, Oct. 25, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — SparkLabs Korea (http://www.sparklabs.co.kr), Asia’s leading startup accelerator and early-stage investor in South Korea, has launched a new venture capital fund, SparkLabs DeepTech. The first close of the fund was $15 million that will focus on seed and series A stage companies in South Korea.
SparkLabs Korea defines “deeptech” to include artificial intelligence, biotech, spacetech, smart cities, AR/VR, quantum computing, and advanced materials. The fund is led by Eugene Kim, a Managing Partner at SparkLabs Korea. Also Daniel Kim, a Director of Engineering at Meta (formerly Facebook), joins this fund as a Venture Partner.
Daniel is an Engineering Director at Meta (formerly Facebook), which he joined in early 2007 as employee within the first 225 hires, and is currently the 11th most tenured employee. Most recently, Daniel was the lead for NPE (New Product Experimentation) Korea, which is Meta’s in-house incubator and a key part of their global expansion strategy.
Prior to this role, he led engineering teams at Oculus, where his teams were in charge of things such as Horizon Home, Guardian, Anytime UI, and others. At Instagram, Daniel founded and led their growth engineering team, which was directly accountable for Instagram’s user growth from 170 million to 1.1 billion MAU (monthly active users) in under five years. As an engineer, Daniel was a founding member of Facebook’s Android team and helped to usher Facebook’s pivot to mobile in 2010.
“I’m excited that Daniel has joined SparkLabs Korea as a Venture Partner for this new fund and our accelerator fund. His experience and knowledge from the early days of Facebook is incredibly relevant and transferable to our founders. He will have such an impact throughout our portfolio, so we will value any time that he can provide as our new Venture Partner,” said Eugene Kim, Managing Partner at SparkLabs Korea and SparkLabs Group (http://www.sparklabsgroup.com).
About SparkLabs Korea SparkLabs Korea is a startup accelerator and venture capital fund founded by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs in South Korea. The focus is on startup companies from the Internet, online gaming, mobile, ecommerce, digital media, enterprise software and healthcare sectors. The mentorship-driven program is four months in length and provides funding, office space, a structure program and access to a top-tier network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and executives. For more information, please visit http://www.sparklabs.co.kr
Now, with the video personalization, users can personalize the intro and outro of videos. This is especially useful in the channel environment where channel partners can add their personal touch to the marketing and sales videos provided by the vendor’s corporate marketing team. Bridge allows partners to add a personal touch to the videos by editing the first and last frames to include partner logos and contact information. Plus, this is done automatically by the Bridge platform. This new addition to Bridge’s already existing powerful asset co-branding capabilities helps channel partners leverage the corporate brand and also build their local brand.
About Mindmatrix A next-gen PRM and partner marketing software provider, Mindmatrix has been focused on helping companies sell more, faster since its inception in 1998. A pioneer of sales (direct & indirect) and marketing enablement technology, today Mindmatrix is the only company offering a fully unified platform (Bridge ™) that connects and enables sales (direct & indirect), marketing, alliances and partner ecosystems. Through Bridge, Mindmatrix expands sales ecosystem enablement beyond its traditional boundaries to cover not just Sales Ecosystem Enablement, but also Partner Marketing and Multi-vendor Solutions Management.
About Bridge Bridge, from Mindmatrix, is a unified platform built to engage and enable your channel partners, alliances, and internal teams. Bridge takes the complexity out of sales ecosystem enablement by serving as a single platform with all the capabilities of a PRM Software, Partner Marketing Software and, partner and direct sales enablement software. Bridge drives sales ecosystem enablement beyond its traditional role to cover partner marketing and multi-vendor solutions management as well. Bridge provides a personalized collaboration platform that powers shared marketing, sales, and service experiences. Bridge is the only TRUE Partner Marketing Software with to, through, with and for-partner marketing tools to drive all of your partner marketing programs. With tools that facilitate guided selling, multi-vendor collaboration and easy revenue management, Mindmatrix Bridge is your powerful multi-vendor solutions hub.
Ninety-five percent of organizations provided education on organizational DEI&B policies and procedures. Of organizations that offered education on this topic, 20 percent said they did it well, 62 percent said they were doing OK but had room for improvement, and 18 percent said they struggled with educating employees on this topic.
Nearly three in four organizations use self-paced e-learning for DEI&B education, and 43 percent of organizations have employees do additional readings or use additional study materials after they participate in DEI&B education.
“DEI&B education should be a journey, not a one-stop destination,” the report said. “Organizations should use a variety of activities in DEI&B education and give participants assignments so they can continue learning even after the formal program is over.” ATD recommends continuing to make improvements to DEI&B education, getting buy-in from senior leaders, and offering DEI&B education using different modalities (in-person, e-learning, and so forth).
Other key findings include:
Less than half of organizations had a dedicated DEI&B function; however, when organizations had been offering DEI&B education for five or more years, 61 percent had a dedicated DEI&B function.
Forty percent of organizations provided a dedicated DEI&B education budget; however, when they had been offering education for five or more years, 52 percent had a budget.
The most common challenge organizations faced when implementing DEI&B education was that staff were not interested or didn’t want to take time to participate.
The research surveyed 1,048 talent development professionals and focused on how organizations were providing education opportunities, DEI&B budgets, the challenges associated with offering DEI&B programs, and the differences between organizations that had DEI&B programs and those that did not.
A free webinar on the report will take place November 21 at 2 p.m.
About ATD
The Association for Talent Development (ATD) is the world’s largest professional membership organization supporting those who develop the knowledge and skills of employees, improve performance, and help to achieve results for the organizations they serve. Established in 1943, the association was known as the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD).
ATD’s members come from more than 100 countries and work in public and private organizations in every industry sector. ATD supports talent development professionals who gather locally in volunteer-led US chapters, international member networks, and with international strategic partners.
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“Trusted B2B partners provide guidance and expertise that founders rely on at various steps of their organization’s journey. Partners that possess a demonstrated ability to deliver quality support are at the core of entrepreneurship and help bring big ideas to life,” said Scott Omelianuk, editor-in-chief of Inc. Business media.
“Silent Quadrant enters into every partnership with an extreme value creation mindset – never viewing relationships as simply transactional. We understand the overwhelming nature of the complexities of cybersecurity, digital transformation and risk management – thus, we focus heavily on the people and culture within each organization. As well, in order to truly effect change within the firms we serve, we begin by establishing deep levels of implicit trust,” said Kenneth Holley, Founder and Chairman of Silent Quadrant.
Silent Quadrant’s focus is singular – to protect the purpose of those they serve. Their approach is holistic – factoring in the contextual nuances that make each organization unique. They don’t sell products to solve problems. They address critical business challenges to create optimal business outcomes. An engagement with Silent Quadrant leverages their entire executive team’s deep experience – military cyberspace command, governance, risk management, compliance, executive and stakeholder mentoring, digital and cultural transformations – as well as the strategic deployment and management of cybersecurity solutions.
The November 2023 Issue of Inc. magazine will be available online at https://www.inc.com/magazine and will be on newsstands beginning October 31, 2023.
The world’s most trusted business-media brand, Inc. offers entrepreneurs the knowledge, tools, connections, and community they need to build great companies. Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. Its prestigious Inc. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States. The global recognition that comes with inclusion in the 5000 gives the founders of the best businesses an opportunity to engage with an exclusive community of their peers, and the credibility that helps them drive sales and recruit talent. The associated Inc. 5000 Conference is part of a highly acclaimed portfolio of bespoke events produced by Inc. For more information, visit www.inc.com.
For nearly three decades, Silent Quadrant has partnered with and protected the most influential firms in America. The clients we serve trust us to remain ever-vigilant in a rapidly evolving digital world. Leveraging the fabric of resilience and the agency of trust to provide precisely tailored digital protection. The work our clients do is critical, and protecting their reputation and influence is paramount. Learn more at silentquadrant.com.
This transformative shift goes beyond existing B2B2C technologies built on third party data. DrivenIQ’s platform leverages a cookieless, deterministic first party data identity infrastructure to provide a deeper, more accurate understanding of individuals while ensuring all data meets the latest privacy requirements.
With these enhancements, not only will VisitIQ™users be able to see the wide variety of consumer attributes associated with their website visitors, create real-time first party lookalike audiences, and enrich external customer files and disparate data sources, but they will also be able to marry these data points with B2B firmographic details for even deeper insights of their audiences.
This is a first in cookieless audience curation and unification of data linkages between business insights and customer profiles at the household identity level.
“In today’s post-COVID digital age, the lines between our personal and professional lives are converging and more fungible than ever,” said Albert Thompson, Founder and CEO of DrivenIQ. “Remote and hybrid work forces have become the new paradigm in identity management, making firmographic B2B data equally important as part of a household profile. Understanding this intertwined relationship isn’t just innovative; it’s table stakes. With our B2B2C data integration, we’re diving deep into this fusion, providing a richer, more comprehensive perspective of individuals as they navigate their multifaceted lives. This depth enables brands to connect and engage in revolutionary ways, erasing the traditional boundaries and resonating on a deeper, more meaningful level.”
Whether it’s a CEO researching new technologies, revenue teams looking into market trends, or marketing executives analyzing consumer behavior patterns, each action or attribute paints a holistic, 360-degree picture of an individual that can be translated into powerful insights. These insights can be used to drive business decisions or build a custom lookalike audience using the additional capabilities available inside the VisitIQ™ Audience Management Platform.
VisitIQ™ is an Audience Data SaaS Platform built on the company’s cookieless first party identity resolution data technology. DrivenIQ’s technology can identify website visitors and sequentially resolve customer data identifiers, which are stitched together with over 500+ attributes. The end result is one of the most powerful 360-degree customer views at the individual level within the household.
DrivenIQ also provides detailed information about each customer’s journey down to URL, attribution source, medium, and granular level audience segmentation, empowering marketers to build unparalleled data customer cohorts and niche micro-segments.
With a clientele that spans across brands, publishers, and agencies, DrivenIQ continues to pave the way for meaningful personalized marketing.
For a more detailed understanding of the enhanced features and to explore the power of business data now available with VisitIQ™, visit app.visitiq.io or contact DrivenIQ at www.driveniq.com/contact.
About DrivenIQ
DrivenIQ specializes in first party, privacy compliant consumer data and audience technologies, including Identity Resolution, Audience Curation, Data Enrichment, Data Modeling, and Consumer Data Analytics to empower marketers to collect, enrich, activate, and monetize first party data assets. DrivenIQ supplies data to some of the world’s largest Brands, Agencies, and DSPs, while helping Fortune 500 companies and large enterprises forge 1:1 relationships with their ideal customers through meaningful marketing. If you’re a business looking to reach and engage with your ideal customers and exponentially maximize advertising spend, visit www.driveniq.com.
The list of solutions providers is growing daily and includes these top-tier organizations:
3DEO, Inc. 3Dsurvey A2 Surfaces Advanced Navigation Aero – Graphics Inc. Aerometrex Aevex Aerospace AirWorks AmericaView Applied Imagery ArenaCAD USA ASPRS ATIS.cloud AutoMap BAAM.Tech Bad Elf Balko Tech BayesMap Solutions Benaco Blue Marble Geographics Bluesky Geospatial Limited Carahsoft Cardinal Systems LLC CHC Navigation Cintoo US Inc. ClearEdge3D CompassData Inc. DAT/EM Systems International Datum Tech Solutions Dewberry DIELMO 3D S.L. Digital Construction Week Dynamic Aviation EAGLEVIEW Elaine Ball Ltd. Elysium Inc. Emesent Eos Positioning Systems EPS Group, Inc. Esri Exail Exyn Technologies Inc. FARO Technologies, Inc. Feima Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. FIRMATEK FJ DYNAMICS INTERNATIONAL LIMITED FLAI D.O.O. Flyability Frontier Precision Fugro GDU-TECH CO. LTD GEO Business GeoCue Group Geo-Plus Geospatial World Get Kids Into Survey GIS Surveyors, Inc. gNext GPI Geospatial, Inc. GreenValley International Guangzhou TOKSURVEY Information Technology Co. Ltd Hexagon HTS Advanced Solutions LLC Imajing s.a.s. Impulseradar Informed Infrastructure Inside Unmanned Systems ISPRS ITRES Research Limited Jacobs Jakarto KELYN Technologies Keystone Aerial Surveys Kompass Business Management System (BMS) Kucera International Inc. Leica Geosystems LIDAR Magazine (Spatial Media) Lidaretto LidarSwiss Solutions GmbH LIDARUSA LiteWave Technologies, Inc. Lumibird Inc M.J. Engineering and Land Surveying, P.C. Mach9 MAPPS Maptek Merrick & Company Microdrones Mosaic Multicopter Warehouse National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) NavVis US, Inc. NV5 Geospatial Oxford Technical Solutions (OxTS) Parker Hannifin Pavemetrics Systems Inc. Phase One Phoenix LiDAR Systems Pix4D SA PLW Modelworks Pointerra PolyExplore Inc. Prevu3D Prostar Geocorp Quantum-Systems GmbH RDO Equipment Company Revolution Flight RIEGL USA Inc. RPMC Lasers SAM Companies Sanborn Map Company SBG Systems Screening Eagle Technologies Seagate Technology LLC: Lyve Mobile Seiler Instrument Geospatial SHAREUAV Ltd SIMACTIVE INC. Site Scout 360 Skand Skyfront Corp. Skyline Software Systems, Inc. Smart Delta Systems & Solutions SOMAG AG JENA Stonex USA Surphaser/ Basis Software, Inc. TeeLabs Teledyne Geospatial TerraGo Technologies Terrasolid Ltd TopoDOT Trimble UES US Census Bureau US Geological Survey USIBD Vectornav Technologies VeriDaaS Corporation Vexcel Imaging vGIS Inc. Virtual Surveyor nv VRMesh WGIC WISPR Systems Woolpert XenomatiX YellowScan Z+F USA, Inc. ZZCOMM TECHNOLOGY (SUZHOU) Co. Ltd.
Access the newly released Exhibit Hall Preview to discover current exhibitors and special features included with an Exhibit Hall Pass, which includes access to the Exhibit Hall Theater, Academic Hub, Geo Week Award Celebration, Welcome Tailgate, Networking Happy Hour, Pitch the Press Competition, and more.
Other Event Highlights
Robust Conference Programming: The Geo Week Conference Program will showcase real-world use cases, highlighting emerging trends in technology and processes. Session topics include how technology can be used to rebuild critical infrastructure, implementing generative AI into existing workflows, challenges and solutions for educating the future workforce, best ways to pilot new technologies to maximize ROI, and how the democratization of tech will change how we work. In addition to the main Conference Program, education will also take place in the Exhibit Hall Theater and be included with Exhibit Hall pass. The full conference program will be announced soon.
Networking Opportunities: Geo Week provides numerous opportunities for attendees to connect and grow their professional networks. Geo Week kicks off with the Welcome Tailgate hosted by Trimble to open the Exhibit Hall Floor on Sunday. The Networking Happy Hour on Monday connects industry professionals while they explore the latest geospatial and built-world technologies on the show floor.
Geo Week Awards Celebration: To recognize and celebrate excellence across the geospatial industry, Geo Week will host an awards celebration to honor nominated leaders and distinguished professionals for their achievements. In partnership with LIDAR Magazine,Lidar News, and ASPRS, the Geo Week awards will be presented on Monday, February 12 in Denver, CO. The celebration will include the Lidar Leader Awards, Younger Geospatial Professional Award, and the presentation of ASPRS Awards. Submissions are open until November 10, 2023.
Partner Events and Supporters
Event Partners: Geo Week is proud to partner with American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS), International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), MAPPS, U.S. Institute of Building Documentation (USIBD), and the World Geospatial Industry Council (WGIC), providing additional opportunities to learn and connect across the geospatial and built world industries.
150+ Supporting Partners: Leading industry organizations and media from around the globe have signed on to support Geo Week, recognizing it as the premier event for increased integration between the built environment, advanced airborne/terrestrial technologies, and commercial 3D technologies.
Geo Week, presented by Geo Weeks News was created in response to the changing needs of built world and geospatial professionals, and to acknowledge the increasing convergence of technology. Geo Week’s conference program and tradeshow floor feature commercial applications of 3D technologies, innovations, and case studies in the built environment, advanced airborne and terrestrial remote sensing solutions, smart products for a full project team and much more. It occurs February 11-13, 2024, at the Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO. For more information, visit https://www.geo-week.com/.
Geo Week is produced by Diversified Communications’ technology portfolio which also includes Commercial UAV News; Geo Week, Geo Week Newsletter, 3D Technology Newsletter, AEC Innovations Newsletter, Geo Business (UK) and Digital Construction Week (UK). ‥‥‥‥‥
Anthony Levesque, CEO of AAIM, expressed his satisfaction with the collaboration, stating, “HashHouse is a leader in the crypto industry, and we are delighted to use their products, especially their Immersion Mobile Data Centers. This partnership will undoubtedly be mutually beneficial.”
Kirk Su, Chairman of Hash House, shared his enthusiasm about the relationship, saying, “AAIM Data Centers Inc. is operated by industry veterans, and we are thrilled to establish this partnership with them. This collaboration is a testament to the quality and reliability of our products.”
The acquisition includes 10 units of the Trident-128 Mobile Data Centers, each designed to support 1.1MW immersion high-performance computing (HPC) and accommodate various hardware configurations. Notably, the upcoming release of the MicroBT M66 on October 24th, 2023, adds further versatility to the Trident-128.
Matthew Carson, Chief Operating Officer of AAIM Data Centers Inc., added, “The Hash House Trident-128 Mobile Data Centers are well-constructed and reliable. They offer a cost-effective solution that enables us to maintain our budget while building facilities similar to our air-cooled ones.”
Moreover, Carson highlights another advantage of the Hash House Trident-128 Mobile Data Centers. He mentions that these immersion mobile data centers offer the flexibility to achieve up to 66% free overclocking, further optimizing performance capabilities for AAIM Data Centers Inc.
In addition to the initial purchase of 10 units, AAIM has committed to acquiring an additional 10 units to cater to future expansion plans.
In addition to their recent purchase, AAIM has successfully completed the construction of a 10MW facility in Missouri. This facility utilizes Hash House air-cooled technology and is now in full production.
For more information or media inquiries, please contact: Anthony Levesque, CEO AAIM Data Centers Inc. Phone: +1-573-935-7831 Email: [email protected]
About AAIM Data Centers Inc.: AAIM Data Centers Inc. is a leading provider of data center solutions, delivering cutting-edge technology and exceptional services to clients. With over 35 years of industry experience, AAIM continues to drive innovation and provide reliable solutions tailored to meet the unique needs of its clients.
“We are thrilled to partner with Flybuy to enhance our off-premise operations and provide a better experience for our customers,” said Jeremy Theisen, Chief Growth and Development Officer at Craveworthy Brands. “The results of our pilot program have been outstanding, showing an increase in operational efficiency, customer satisfaction scores, and order volume. We look forward to utilizing Flybuy for all Craveworthy Brands concepts in the near future.”
In addition to leveraging Flybuy to predict arrival times of incoming customers, Genghis Grill uses Flybuy to predict the arrival of incoming delivery drivers. Using Flybuy for delivery service provider optimization has eliminated bottlenecks within restaurant lobbies, freed up parking spots, and reduced disruptions to staff and dine-in customers.
Flybuy also fuels Genghis Grill’s virtual brand, Wow Bao, which is a special delivery-only menu available on delivery marketplaces. Wow Bao orders are funneled through Flybuy, and the Flybuy Dashboard displays all Genghis Grill and Wow Bao orders in order of urgency. The kitchen can effectively manage the influx of dine-in and off-premise customers and prepare orders based on exact arrival times.
“We are excited to welcome Genghis Grill into the Flybuy family and provide their customers with a more efficient and seamless experience,” said Marc Wallace, CEO and Co-Founder of Flybuy. “Our technology is designed to enhance the restaurant experience, and we are thrilled to see the quick results of our partnership with Genghis Grill.”
Genghis Grill is leveraging Flybuy at all locations, with plans to expand to all of Craveworthy Brands.
Flybuy, by Radius Networks, is a turn-key productivity platform that optimizes pickup, delivery, dine in, and loyalty for brands worldwide. Flybuy uses AI and location intelligence to reshape the way businesses engage with their customers and empowering them to achieve operational excellence and drive repeat business, Brands are leveraging Flybuy to drive sales, save money, and reduce waste by providing actionable data and insight to streamline their operations and create a seamless customer experience.
Genghis Grill is a popular Mongolian stir-fry chain that offers a unique and interactive dining experience. Customers can create their own stir-fry bowls by choosing from a variety of meats, vegetables, and sauces. Craveworthy Brands is the parent company of Mongolian Concepts, which includes Genghis Grill, BD’s Mongolian Grill, and Flat Top Grill, totalling over 80 restaurants nationwide.
