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Cision PR Newswire | August 05, 2020

Patra, a leading provider of technology-enabled solutions for the insurance industry, received a strategic investment from SkyKnight Capital ("SkyKnight"), a San Francisco based private equity firm, and other investors. The SkyKnight investment, which closed in late 2019, will help support Patra as it continues its rapid growth, arising from the market's increasing need for technology-enabled services that bring efficiencies to insurance processing and workflows. The investment in ...

Reuters | January 21, 2020

Major central banks are looking at the case for issuing their own digital currencies, the Bank of England and European Central Bank said on Tuesday, amid a growing debate over the future of money and who controls it. The central banks of Britain, the euro zone, Japan, Sweden and Switzerland will share experiences in a new group headed by former European Central Bank official Benoit Coeure and assisted by the Bank of International Settlements, they said. “The group will assess ... economic,...

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Barracuda Networks, KKR and Thoma Bravo | August 18, 2022

KKR, a leading global investment firm, and Barracuda Networks, Inc. (“Barracuda” or the “Company”) a leading provider of cloud-first security solutions, today announced that KKR’s investment funds have completed an acquisition of Barracuda from Thoma Bravo, a leading software investment firm. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Barracuda is a cloud-first provider of cybersecurity solutions for small and medium sized enterprises (SME...

Zendesk | July 08, 2020

Zendesk, Inc. (NYSE: ZEN) today released the Zendesk Startups CX Benchmark Report, documenting how early-stage startups that invest in customer experience (CX) outperform their peers. The data shows that while there is no one-size-fits-all approach, startup success stories have one thing in common: the ability to provide more holistic support to customers from the beginning. The findings feature Zendesk Benchmark data from more than 4,400 early-stage startups from around the world, giving founde...