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Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm with offices in Chicago and San Francisco, announced a strategic growth investment in Venafi, the Salt Lake City-based cybersecurity pioneer and inventor of machine identity protection. The transaction values Venafi at $1.15 billion and continues Thoma Bravo’s tradition of acquiring growth
PointClickCare Technologies, a cloud-based medical technology company in Ontario, Canada, providing software for the long-term and post-acute care market, has announced its intent to acquire Collective Medical, a Salt Lake City-based technology company whose software connects more than 1,300 hospitals, thousands of ambulatory practices and long-term post-acute care (LTPAC)
Parents face many challenges as they guide their children and try to solve myriad problems of childhood and youth – physical, emotional, mental health issues, and more. Parents of children with difficult disorders in particular require more information and resources even more urgently.
Parent Playbook, a new Utah software startup, responds
Strider Technologies has established an office in South Jordan, Utah to complement its Washington D.C. office. The company recently closed a $10 million Series A investment led by Koch Disruptive Technologies joined by Ottawa-based One9 Investments. Michael Palmer, president of i360, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries, has
A big problem in K-12 education is the difficulty and inefficiency experienced by schools in finding substitute teachers. When a school needs to fill the spot of an absent teacher, it typically goes through what Andrew Dadson calls “the big hustle.” Dadson is the cofounder and CEO of Ready2Teach, a
These are unique times. 2020 has been a surreal year. The world is gripped by an pandemic that most people thought (hoped) would be abating by now. More and more people are working from home...if they are lucky. Many have seen their jobs evaporate and many businesses are struggling
School districts across the country, especially in rural areas, struggle with finding and retaining competent computer science teachers. During the pandemic it has been even harder, says, Parker Gentry, CEO of Skill Struck.
Schools then have to deal with the twin problems of high turnover rates in computer science teachers
CommerceHub announced today its acquisition of Dsco which is now a wholly owned subsidiary of CommerceHub, based in Albany NY. While specific deal terms of the acquisition have not been publicly disclosed, the transaction represents a meaningful and successful exit for DSCO’s founder Jeremy Hanks, its shareholders, team members,
