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Experts Explain Why The Credit Score Influences Car Insurance Rates


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“Credit score has become a very important rating for many insurance providers. Improving or keeping the score at Good to Excellent values will only help you save money on auto insurance and provides more benefits to other financial activities” said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director

Compare-autoinsurance.org has released a new blog spot that highlights the importance of credit score in determining auto insurance premiums.

For more info and free car insurance quotes online, visit http://compare-autoinsurance.org/credit-score-and-insurance-rates/

Amongst the many factors used to create a risk profile for their customers, insurance companies take into consideration credit score. This factor tells the companies how likely you are to pay your premiums. Since it is a risk-based business, the ability to repay your debts becomes critical.


  •     There are few states where legislation forces insurance companies not to take into consideration credit score when rating a potential customer. In California, Massachusetts, and Hawaii using credit score as a rating factor is illegal. Otherwise, it will impact costs. To find out more about how car insurance rates are determined, you can visit http://compare-autoinsurance.org.
  •     Naturally, drivers will poor FICO score will have to pay more for car insurance, in order for the companies to compensate for the increased risk. Also, many companies claim that there is a correlation between credit score and the chances of making a claim. According to them, people with a poor credit score are not that capable of handling finances and are more likely to ask for reimbursement when accidents happen. They will even ask money for a minor accident which would otherwise be paid from personal finances by responsible persons.
  •     Drivers with a poor score, 524 or below, will pay twice or more for car insurance when compared with a driver of similar profile, but with an excellent credit score. Credit score can be improved over time, with each improved tier saving on average 17% on annual premiums.
  •     Improving the credit score from poor to good, can save 32% on insurance premiums. Improving the credit score from good to excellent can save an additional 27% on car insurance rate.

Compare-autoinsurance.org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

For more information and money-saving tips, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.org

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Utilant ensures loss control surveys continue during the COVID-19 crisis


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We are pivoting our organization to meet both the long-term and immediate needs of loss control vendors and carriers, said Pat Davis, CEO at Utilant.

Utilant, the Property and Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry’s premier loss control survey management SaaS platform, is ensuring loss control surveys continue during the COVID-19 crisis.

Effective immediately, customers and prospects can get access to Utilant’s Loss Control 360 (LC360) Self-Survey Module with module deployment and configuration fees waived through May 31, 2020, and companies only paying for survey transactions that are successfully completed by the insured/agent inside of LC360. This allows loss control professionals to continue to do business at a time when direct interaction and onsite visits may not be possible.

“We are pivoting our organization to meet both the long-term and immediate needs of loss control vendors and carriers,” said Pat Davis, CEO at Utilant. “The current situation in NY, PA, CA, WA, and other states has effectively made completing loss control visits impossible. We need to bridge that gap to keep our customers’ businesses moving during these times and will do everything in our power to make sure we are there to help them through this.”

Utilant has realigned nearly all internal product and development resources to immediately bring this offering to market, realizing that face-to-face visits will become increasingly more difficult over the coming months.

About Loss Control 360 Self-Survey:

Self-Survey enables you to continue to gather vital information about the risks you cover by means of a step-by-step workflow that guides the insured or agent to complete their own survey, upload photos, upload documents, and fill out form data.

Users can perform the entire self-survey from their mobile device without installing an app, which is ideal for this simple, one-time process.

LC360’s Self-Survey module has been under development since late Summer 2019 and went live in February 2020.

With varying state, national, and international restrictions because of COVID-19, Utilant is equipping loss control professionals with the ability to obtain information needed to continue surveying risks even if there is no ability to travel to the risk (or access is restricted to the exterior).

Along with Self-Survey, Utilant is unveiling a new product, Guide Stream 360, to further enable the self-service and virtual inspection market by equipping the risk control teams at our carriers and vendors. Guide Stream 360 will be available with integration into Loss Control 360 by early May 2020.

About Guide Stream 360:

Guide Stream 360 enables our customer’s loss control professionals to mentor the policyholder or agent through the process of gathering onsite information about the risks that will be covered.

Guide Stream 360 creates a real-time video session between the two parties. The loss control professional can see everything the policyholder sees as well as direct them to get a more detailed look at any risk where additional information is needed.

GPS data and still photos are gathered throughout the session and simultaneously annotated by the mentoring consultant. The recorded Guide Steam 360 video is maintained for posterity and further analysis.  

Guide Stream 360 is fully integrated with Loss Control 360 and does not require the installation of an app on the mobile device.

Pairing LC360’s Self-Survey and Guide Stream 360 offerings with additional virtual survey information available through the tools available in LC360 will enable carriers and vendors to conduct their workflow in a modified but effective way.

“As we manage through this unprecedented global situation together, Utilant remains firmly committed to enabling insurers to continue underwriting P&C risks at a time when physical visits are not possible,” said Michael Cichowski of Aquiline Technology Growth and member of Utilant‘s Board of Directors.

Utilizing these virtual survey tools is highly encouraged during the coming months to both enable business to be conducted as usual and keep workloads manageable when social distancing begins to subside as the insurance industry ramps production back up once this initial period has passed.

About Utilant and Loss Control 360

Utilant’s Loss Control 360 is the best-in-class loss control survey management Platform for P&C insurance and survey/risk engineering companies, establishing its position as the hub for connecting insurance carrier core systems, vendor survey firms, and InsurTechs to comprehensively transform the global insurance industry workflow. The solution supports Commercial, Personal, and Specialty lines, and is deployed via a SaaS model. Utilant’s Loss Control 360 platform is used by leading Insurers and top vendor survey companies around the world. The Loss Control 360 platform automates the survey and service processes for carriers. It scores risks for an efficient underwriting process across all lines of commercial and residential business. A typical implementation provides positive ROI within the first year. For more information, visit http://www.losscontrol360.com.

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iboss Announces Industry Leader, Nikesh Kalra, as Chief Strategy Officer


iboss welcomes Nikesh Kalra as Chief Strategy Officer

“Nikesh brings extensive knowledge and expertise leading successful business development teams at Aryaka, Equinix, and Palo Alto Networks. His broad experience in marketing, business development, and sales will help accelerate our growth as we expand our enterprise customer base and transform SASE.”

iboss, the leader in cloud delivered network security, announced today that Nikesh Kalra, has been appointed to the position of Chief Strategy Officer. Nikesh brings over twenty years of industry experience building businesses using creative GTM techniques in enterprise technology.

In this role, Nikesh will be responsible for developing go-to-market plans heavily focused on partner programs and strategic alliances to drive awareness, growth, and more complete solutions for the expanding needs of enterprise customers.

Nikesh joins iboss from Palo Alto Networks, where he served as a GM of the Prisma Access product line and developed it into an early leader in cloud delivered network security. Prior to Palo Alto Networks, Nikesh served on three critical product launches at Equinix that included the bare metal cloud and cloud exchange and grew the cloud business to a market leading position. In addition, Nikesh has led business development and sales efforts for several innovators in the networking including Aryaka Networks (SDWAN), Front Porch Digital (acquired by Oracle), Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm), and StreamVision (CDN). As an investment banker, Nikesh also served as an advisor on several significant technology transactions. Nikesh holds an Executive Certificate from MIT, an MBA from the University of Oxford, and a BS from the University of Southern California. 

“I am delighted to welcome Nikesh as our Chief Strategy Officer,” said Paul Martini, iboss Co-founder and CEO. “Nikesh brings extensive knowledge and expertise leading successful business development teams at Aryaka, Equinix, and Palo Alto Networks. His broad experience in marketing, business/corporate development, and sales will help accelerate our growth as we expand our enterprise customer base and transform SASE.”

iboss secures Internet on any device, from any location, in the cloud. The iboss cloud platform delivers all network security capabilities in the cloud as a SaaS offering. This eliminates the need for traditional network security appliances allowing organizations to secure network traffic from anywhere, at any scale. With its unique patented containerized cloud architecture, found in no other vendor, iboss cloud can ensure a smoother and more seamless transition to the cloud than any other cloud security vendor on the market.

According to Gartner, the future of network security is in the cloud. Gartner recommends security and risk management leaders who are responsible for security of networks and endpoints should position the adoption of secure access service edge (SASE) as a digital business enabler in the name of speed and agility. The iboss cloud is the easiest path to transition network security from network security appliances to Security as a Service, delivered in the cloud. With an extensive feature-set required by the most demanding enterprises, only iboss cloud can transition all of the capabilities found in traditional web gateway proxies and network firewall appliances to the cloud. 

“I am excited about the opportunity to lead Strategy at iboss, and help create our next wave of partner-driven growth,” said Nikesh Kalra, iboss Chief Strategy Officer. “As a leader in SASE and an originator of cloud native network security, iboss has helped thousands of companies secure their users, locations, and applications. Paul Martini has built an exceptional team, positioning the company for hyper growth. I look forward to the future with iboss and am delighted to be part of the company that designed the most comprehensive cloud network security platform on the market.” 

About iboss 

iboss is a cloud security company that provides organizations and their employees secure access to the Internet on any device, from any location, in the cloud. The iboss cloud platform provides network security as a service, delivered in the cloud, as a complete SaaS offering. This eliminates the need for traditional network security appliances, such as firewalls and web gateway proxies, which are ineffective at protecting a cloud-first and mobile world. Leveraging a purpose-built cloud architecture backed by over 190 issued and pending patents and more than 100 points of presence globally, iboss protects more than 4,000 organizations worldwide. To learn more, visit http://www.iboss.com.

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Twin Cities Title Company, Legacy Title Provides Drive Thru Service During Covid-19 Pandemic


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“The drive thru ensures we are adhering to social distancing”

Legacy Title, a full-service Title Insurance and Real Estate Closing Company announced today it is offering a safe and unconventional way to close real estate transactions during the Corona Virus Outbreak.

On the heels of Governor Tim Walz ordering Minnesotans to stay at home until April 10, except for essential duties, the advent of a drive thru service at Legacy Title’s Blaine location at 12301 Central Ave NE, is being met with open arms and even accolades from competitors.

Connie Clancy, President of Legacy Title said the idea came out of necessity.

“We recognized immediately that this situation would cause a shift in the traditional way of doing closings and began implementing changes right away,” said Clancy. “We started with separating parties into different closing rooms, offering curbside service and then saw the opportunity to offer the drive-thru option and acted quickly to make it happen for our customers.”

Since commencing this innovative service customers have sung its praises. “They are relieved and appreciate the ability to close safely from their car,” said Carmen Jorgensen, Executive Closer.

“We began offering Drive-Thru service March 23. We have had several closings in this drive-thru already and have it booked for the next several days,” said Carmen. “Its really catching on.”

Clancy said that the industry is in the midst of its strongest March ever with the recent drop in interest rates. Clients who are purchasing or re-financing a home depend on the ability to close on a transaction while the rates remain favorable. Many of these pending refinances will allow consumers to potentially save hundreds of dollars per month in mortgage payments which is very valuable-especially now.

“All of our 12 locations have Curbside Closing services available, but this drive thru concept is unique,” she said. “We are taking many precautions to ensure we are always keeping a safe distance and using best practices to ensure everyone remains healthy and safe.”

Jorgensen, who oversees the drive thru closings says that clients appreciate the drive thru option.

“Some of our clients need to have their children with because school is closed. Doing this in the drive thru ensures we are adhering to the social distancing orders all of us have been given,” said Jorgensen. “A few clients told us they were considering canceling their closing for safety reasons until they found out about this convenient option.”

While closings are usually very intimate gatherings with all parties present at a table, this new and necessary concept allows for the transaction to be completed without putting clients and Legacy Title employees in harm’s way.

“Is this the new normal? Probably not. But it is the right thing to do right now,” said Clancy. “Closings are usually celebrations. But even in difficult situations, essential business like this must happen. Whether someone is buying, selling or refinancing we recognize the importance of their investment and want to continue to make this experience as positive as possible for all involved.”

Clancy recognizes in this state of change that teamwork and collaboration are critical. ”I am so grateful to work with such a wonderful group of people at Legacy Title and within an industry that really supports working together to put the consumer first and do what’s best and safest for them.”

Attention Assignment Editors, Show Producers and Reporters:

All of the newsmakers in this press release are available for interviews. Any photographer assigned to shoot digital photos or video of this drive thru title closing window will be accommodated during regular business hours. To help make coordinating coverage easy and hassle-free contact publicist Robb Leer at 612.701.0608.

About Legacy Title:

Legacy Title is a full-service Title Insurance and Real Estate Closing Company. We are locally owned, independent and motivated by exceptional customer service, efficiency, innovative technology, entrepreneurial spirit and a commitment to excellence above all others. We serve Realtors, lenders, builders home buyers and sellers throughout Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. For more information, please visit https://legacy-title.com/.

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Major Car Insurance Claim Mistakes That Must Be Avoided


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“Handling a car accident must be done with utmost care. Contact the authorities, take pictures and gather relevant info. And avoid doing the mistakes mentioned in the blog post.” said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company

Carinsuranceplan.org has released a new blog post that explains what major mistakes can be done during the car insurance claim process.

For more info and free car insurance quotes, visit http://carinsuranceplan.org/major-car-insurance-claim-mistakes/.

Policyholders who expect a smooth and easy claim process should be prepared with solid proofs that back their claims and avoid making foolish mistakes.


  • Admitting guilt is one of those mistakes that could invalidate ulterior claims. Guilt must be determined by the authorities. Admitting guilt in front of the other driver invalidates ulterior claims. Plus, the insurance company will no longer be able to provide legal defense. Drivers should let the experts decide who is guilty. Some drivers may think they are guilty, but in fact, the other driver was speeding, or crossed the wrong lane or took a wrong turn. Criminalists will be the ones to analyze the circumstances of the accident.
  • Failing to gather proofs is another costly mistake. Drivers should take photos immediately after the accident. This not only will back the driver’s financial claims but will also help the police determine the circumstances of the accident and who is guilty. Take clear photos of the cars, the surrounding area and road conditions.

The blog post presents other costly mistakes and how to avoid them. Being involved in an accident can be a traumatizing experience. A driver should keep his calm and gather sufficient evidence to support his claims.

For more car insurance information and money-saving tips, please visit http://carinsuranceplan.org/.

Carinsuranceplan.org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

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Klearly Strengthens Leadership Team With the Addition of Matt Webbink as Chief Product Officer


I’m excited about joining Klearly because our technology is empowering marketing teams of any size to focus on those activities that will positively impact the business and stopping those activities that won’t.

Klearly, the intelligent revenue operations platform, today announced the addition of top technology marketing operations executive Matt Webbink to its executive team. Matt will join Klearly as Chief Product Officer and oversee the company’s product strategy, roadmap, and Voice of the Customer program. Webbink’s appointment comes on the heels of Klearly’s announcement of its $1.5 million round of seed funding.

Prior to joining Klearly, Webbink spent 18 years at Red Hat, the top provider of open source solutions, which was recently acquired by IBM for $34 billion. During his time at Red Hat, Webbink developed and led the expansion of the company’s marketing technology and analytics capabilities, empowering his team of marketers with the tools and insights needed to efficiently and effectively do their jobs.

“Marketing teams have long had to defend their impact on key business outcomes, which hasn’t always been easy, nor highly valued by executive teams,” said Webbink. “I’m excited about joining Klearly because our technology is empowering marketing teams of any size to focus on those activities that will positively impact the business, while stopping those activities that won’t. Democratizing this analytics capability is a natural extension of my Red Hat experience, and I look forward to helping marketing teams put their best foot forward on a smarter path to business growth.”

“Having led marketing operations for one of the most successful, global, B2B tech companies, Matt has significant, first-hand experience with how marketers need better, more actionable data to meet and exceed revenue targets and understand how they’re contributing to the business,” said Alex Krawchick, founder and CEO, Klearly. “We’re thrilled to have Matt on board as we grow the Klearly team, invest in our product, and expand our customer base. Matt’s knowledge of this marketplace is unparalleled and we’re looking forward to his continued contributions.”

Klearly’s SaaS-based platform uses data science and machine learning to help marketing and sales teams quantify how their activities influence revenue, and provides actionable recommendations on future activities. Klearly’s platform helps marketing and sales leaders understand the ideal combinations of activities that will most significantly influence future growth.

About Klearly

Klearly is the revenue operations platform for B2B marketers who desire the smarter path to growth. Headquartered in Durham, NC, Klearly uses data science and machine learning to help marketing and sales teams understand how they’re contributing to the business and prioritize how to most effectively grow the business. Klearly’s SaaS platform identifies the ideal combinations of marketing and sales activities that will most significantly impact future growth. The result is a forward-thinking revenue function armed with the right data to be a more accountable contributor to business growth. Visit http://www.klearly.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/klearly/ for more information.

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What Factors Should Be Analyzed Before Renewing Car Insurance


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“Before renewing, spend some time analyzing what has changed since the last renewal and if you will pay more or less.” said Russell Rabichev, Marketing Director of Internet Marketing Company.

Renewing car insurance is important for any policyholder. The alternative is to switch the carrier at the right time. Otherwise, having a coverage lapse will make drivers pay more expensive premiums. Before making any change, make sure to get car insurance quotes and compare prices. Use https://compare-autoinsurance.org to get free car insurance quotes online.

There are a few things to analyze before renewing the contract:

  • Available budget. Check if the rates have increased and they are now more expensive than you can afford. If the income is the same, but the rates are higher, you should give the insurance company a call and seek ways to negotiate and an explanation of the higher premiums.
  • Look for major changes. Some major lifestyle and age changes will deeply impact the insurance premiums. Some of them can even improve the rates. Top influential changes include moving to a new neighborhood, getting married, driving less to work.
  • Traffic violations. Recent violations will surely increase the insurance costs. The company will conduct its own research before renewing and will surely find out about the wrongdoings.
  • Car modifications. If you added new parts to the car, check how the customization will impact the insurance cost. Some devices will make the car cheaper to insure, while others (usually performance boosters) will have a negative effect.

Compare-autoinsurance.org is an online provider of life, home, health, and auto insurance quotes. This website is unique because it does not simply stick to one kind of insurance provider, but brings the clients the best deals from many different online insurance carriers. In this way, clients have access to offers from multiple carriers all in one place: this website. On this site, customers have access to quotes for insurance plans from various agencies, such as local or nationwide agencies, brand names insurance companies, etc.

For more information, free quotes and money-saving tips, please visit https://compare-autoinsurance.org/.

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InfoCepts Builds on a Record Breaking 2019 with New Talent, Partnerships, and Solutions


“We see more and more customers exploring modern tools and technologies and our CoEs inform their decisions by offering evidence-based advice that they can trust,” said Subhash Kari.

InfoCepts, a Gartner recognized global leader in Data and Analytics, announced several key updates to strengthen its global offerings for new and existing customers. This recent expansion includes the growth of its leadership team, investments in multiple Centers of Excellence, an extension of its partner network, and increased availability of solution accelerators aimed at improving business outcomes for its customers.

Expansion of Leadership Team – InfoCepts added three key executives to support the demand from InfoCepts’ customers for broader adoption of data & analytics solutions across multiple technologies and business domains.


  • Subhash Kari, Executive Vice President, Global Practices – as a highly respected leader in the data and analytics, Subhash will be responsible for leading & expanding InfoCepts’ Centers of Excellence (CoE) around cloud, data, platforms, analytics, and adoption to strengthen the company’s competencies through expanded talent, alliances, and innovation to meet the future needs of our customers. “Subhash brings two decades of experience providing data and analytics solutions, advisory consulting, and large-scale managed services. We are delighted to have him onboard to oversee our growing Practices organization, advising our customers on major data and analytic investment decisions, growing local talent and strengthening our organizational capabilities to help our customers realize the full potential of their data assets,” said Shashank Garg, InfoCepts’ CEO.
  • Rob O’Brien, Vice President of Sales & Customer Success (North America) – an industry veteran with a long track record of growing successful customer partnerships, Rob will oversee InfoCepts market operations, customer relationships, and business development for its aggressively growing North American region. Rob’s leadership will better enable the voice of the customer to be operationalized across all InfoCepts teams while serving as a trusted advocate for the impact of analytics investments amongst customer executives.
  • Katherine Gabriel, Director of Global Marketing – another highly respected leader, Katherine will oversee InfoCepts global marketing function focused on furthering InfoCepts positioning as a global thought leader in the Data and Analytics space.

Centers of Excellence – InfoCepts has invested in Cloud and Data Engineering, Modern Analytics, Data Management, and Managed Services CoEs with a focus on modernization, automation, and scaling of analytics within Fortune 1000 organizations. As a technology agnostic data and analytics Advisory, InfoCepts has built a strong network of 60+ platform partners which include rapidly expanding partnerships with AWS, Microsoft Azure, Snowflake, ThoughtSpot, and Automated Insights.

“Our customers are considering hybrid infrastructures moving their analytic workloads to cloud using best-fit technologies. We see more and more customers exploring modern tools and technologies and our CoEs inform their decisions by offering evidence-based advice that they can trust,” said Subhash Kari.

Solution Accelerators – InfoCepts continues to identify solutions to common problems across its customer base and in response provides reusable tangible solution accelerators that reduce cost, time-to-value, and quality risks for its customers. Recent additions to InfoCepts accelerator library include a Data Steamer for accelerating the development of real-time data pipelines, DevOps automation tools for faster deployment of analytic projects in COTS Platforms such as MicroStrategy, Tableau, and PowerBI, and, migration utilities to enable customers to move out of legacy technologies such as from Netezza to Snowflake.

For more information on Real Time Data Streamer, please visit: https://www.infocepts.com/accelerator/infocepts-real-time-streamer/

About InfoCepts:

InfoCepts is a Data & Analytics Services firm – recognized by Gartner amongst the Top 50 in the world – who enables its customers to optimize & accelerate the value of all its data assets. Unique amongst its peers, InfoCepts operates with the scale as a global consulting firm, yet the expertise of a niche partner.

Founded in 2004, InfoCepts is headquartered in Tysons Corner, VA, with offices throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Every day more than 130,000 people use solutions powered by InfoCepts to make better decisions.

For more information visit: http://www.infocepts.com or follow @InfoCepts on Twitter

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SendBird Builds Out In-App Interactions Platform for the Future with Addition of Voice and Video


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By adding voice and video to our world-class in-app chat experience, SendBird makes interactions even richer and more personal.

SendBird, the leading interactions API service for mobile and web applications, today announced that it has added voice and video interaction capabilities to its powerful in-app chat experience. In doing so, it continues to fill out its product portfolio to provide customers with a comprehensive interaction platform via its APIs.

“With every e-commerce transaction, every grocery delivery, every attempt to connect with a potential match on a dating service, human interactions are increasingly taking place in-app,” said SendBird CEO and founder John Kim. “By adding voice and video to our world-class in-app chat experience, SendBird makes these interactions even richer and more personal. SendBird can now serve as the backbone for communications in the ever-growing app-driven economy.”

The combination of chat, voice, and video sets the SendBird APIs apart as they enable SendBird to deliver a new level of connectedness for an app-based world at a time when people are seeking more authentic connections within their digital interactions. SendBird’s latest release facilitates human connections across a wide range of instant services and transactions, where everything from an on demand cleaning service to buying a sweater on a marketplace app happens in-app. SendBird also makes the addition of voice and video possible in as little as 15 minutes because its native SDKs make integration via the API easy. Existing customers, such as Virgin Mobile UAE, have already signed onto the beta program.

A New Communications Experience

The SendBird Calls Voice and Video APIs provide premium in-app audio and video interaction and immersive experiences that translate emotions, deepen connections, and elevate users into sensing real presence no matter how far away they are.

Designed for a mobile-first world with native SDKs for iOS and Android, the SendBird Calls Voice API and SendBird Calls Video API enable organizations to rapidly integrate white label premium 1:1 audio and video calling in their applications right out of the box. The experience is powered on a highly available global infrastructure that provides unparalleled stability for some of the largest brands in the world. SendBird also boasts industry-leading security features. Organizations and their users can feel confident that every audio and video call is secure.

SendBird delivers a best-in-class developer experience as well, making it easy to test, manage, and monitor in-app calls from the SendBird dashboard. With SendBird, companies can bring these capabilities to market much faster and with a cohesive user experience that they can control. Several leading customers are currently testing the SendBird Calls APIs.

“The SendBird customer interaction API across chat, voice, and video makes it possible for us to give our customers the full Virgin brand experience they deserve, ” said Özgür Gemici, Senior Manager Digital Customer Experience at Virgin Mobile UAE. “With every update on the SendBird platform, we’re able to continually evolve and improve the experience we’re giving our customers.”

SendBird Calls arrives as more than 5 billion people globally have grown accustomed to using messaging services on a regular basis. The world is increasingly growing more digital day by day, sometimes by choice, sometimes by necessity. SendBird Calls helps customers thrive in this digital-first new world through an even richer user engagement portfolio now spanning chat, voice, and video. To date, SendBird supports more than 100 million active users across the globe, with over one and a half billion messages sent through the SendBird platform every month.

“With the API economy taking off globally, companies are looking to vendors to solve parts of their user experience that are not absolutely core to their business,” noted Kim. “Leveraging an API is the perfect way to access voice and video communication, especially compared to building in-house, given the complexity of tasks such as maintaining high-uptime, low-latency infrastructure and implementing real-time communication modules across all relevant user platforms. Instead, companies can now rely on a single vendor—SendBird—to manage all of their interaction experiences on one simple-to-use platform.”

To learn more about the SendBird Calls API, please visit https://sendbird.com/features/voice-and-video.

About SendBird

SendBird is a fully customizable chat and messaging platform with a managed infrastructure for mobile and web applications. It provides the necessary Software Development Kits (SDK) and API, front- and back-end technology so that businesses can launch a customized in-app messaging experience quickly, efficiently and at scale. SendBird powers in-app chat for the world’s leading companies in industries ranging from marketplaces, on-demand and online communities to gaming, live video streaming and healthcare. It has SDKs for popular platforms, including iOS, Android, Javascript, React Native, .NET and Unity.

SendBird’s top global customers include Yahoo! Sports, gojek, Careem, OLA, Headspace, Carousell, Virgin Mobile UAE, YOLO, Dream 11, Meetup, Paytm, Grand Rounds, Livongo, Nexon, TriNet, Accolade, Hinge, and Kookmin Bank. It is backed by Shasta Ventures, August Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Tiger Global Management, Y Combinator and FundersClub. SendBird is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Please visit https://sendbird.com for more information.

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Option3Ventures Appoints Rick Andlinger as Partner and Chief Investment Officer as It Launches New Cybersecurity Venture Capital Fund


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Option3Ventures, a leading cybersecurity investment specialist firm based in New York and the Washington DC area, recently appointed Rick Andlinger as Partner and Chief Investment Officer. The announcement was made today by Manish Thakur, Managing Partner of Option3Ventures.

“We are thrilled to have Rick take on the role of Chief Investment Officer, especially at a time when the cybersecurity industry is pivoting to meet new challenges ranging from profound COVID-19 disruptions to maintaining the integrity of the November election,” said Manish Thakur, Managing Partner, Option3Ventures. “Rick brings deep skills and capabilities that will be critical as we grow Option 3 Cyber Investments, a venture capital fund specifically focused on the frontiers of this industry.” Rick joins a team of specialists who have spent their careers focused on national security challenges.

Before taking this role, Rick Andlinger has spent over two decades as President of an extended family office, Andlinger & Company, where he specialized in private equity and venture capital investing. He also has helped companies grow in his various roles as a CEO, a board member and an investment banker. With this appointment as Chief Investment Officer of Option3Ventures, its new Fund will further expand its push to address the industry’s most pressing problems such as the need for automation, protecting critical infrastructure and utilizing transformational technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain.

“After serving on Option3Ventures’ Investment Committee since its inception, I am looking forward to greatly expanding my role with this team that uniquely combines decades of experience gained in both the national security community and the investment industry”, said Rick Andlinger. “It is more important than ever to invest in next generation cybersecurity technologies that addresses challenges which existing solutions cannot. We need to be in a position to protect our nation and the greater good from the evolving threat landscape”

To learn more about Option3Ventures, visit: http://www.option3ventures.com.

About Option3Ventures

Option3Ventures is a leading cybersecurity investment specialist made up of professionals drawn from both the national security community and the investment industry. It focuses on those companies at the very frontiers the of the cybersecurity sector, offering solutions to problems that existing technologies cannot address. Over the past five years, O3V has built up a track record of venture investing in a select group of category leaders, and is now raising its first dedicated cyber venture capital fund, Option 3 Cyber Investments. O3V is based in New York and the Washington DC area, and its Board of Advisors range from former Chief Information Officers at such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency and Department of Defense to the former CIO of Merrill Lynch and former CEO of Lehman Brothers.

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