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April 5, 2021
For UK-based Talkative, calendar 2020 was a year of steady increases in demand for the contact center automation SaaS the company has created. Both in spite of, and in some ways because of the global pandemic, clients increasingly embraced the real-time web communications features. These include full voice, video and web co-browsing capabilities for agents,…
April 5, 2021
2020 was a very difficult year for those living and working in senior care residences and other facilities. The COVID-19 pandemic increased the workload for, and expectations of, all staff, and it had devastating effects on both the physical and mental well-being of residents. For example, new regulations by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid…
April 5, 2021
Digital Transformation (DX) are just two words that could be used in describing the global tech industry of 2020. The past year brought about an unprecedented level of digitization and accelerated adoption of technologies across all business sectors. Companies providing solutions that supported, enhanced or enabled that digital transformation journey were able to achieve in…
April 5, 2021
The impacts of the pandemic on enterprises everywhere have meant opportunity for many of the Managed Service Providers (MSPs) who support these businesses, and who constitute the HyAlto target market and customer base. But those opportunities did not materialize as quickly as the pandemic itself did. Through the middle of 2020, like so many companies,…
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…
