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Pivoting from offline into virtual events for enterprises nets Tame a $5.5M seed round

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But with the pandemic hitting, it did a hard pivot into providing a highly customizable virtual events platform, primarily used by companies for their sales events. Founder Jasenko Hadzic , CEO and co-founder, said the pivot to virtual grew revenues “by 700% organically last year. and grow revenues. No marketing. Organically.

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Nerdio lands $117M to build management tools on top of Azure Virtual Desktop

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” Nerdio’s platform lets customers deploy, manage and cost-optimize virtual desktops running in Microsoft Azure, extending the capabilities of Azure Virtual Desktop , Microsoft’s cloud-based system for virtualizing Windows. Nerdio runs in a customer’s own Azure subscription as an Azure-based application.).

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Pivoting in the pandemic, Citysocializer relaunches as a ‘Get Your Guide for virtual events’

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As many of us have seen, personal trainers, yoga teachers and similar types of freelance professionals have all had to shift to offering virtual sessions over Zoom and similar platforms. It’s now become a platform for virtual fitness classes, learning workshops and the like, with users in the U.K., Europe, the U.S.

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Healthie lands $16.5M to build the Stripe for virtual patient care

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The company provides their customers with templates they can customize to fit their needs all while allowing companies to provide users with virtual engagements. For the fiscal years of 2020 and 2021 they operated with FCF, EBITDA, aEBITDA and GAAP net income. Healthie also said they have been profitable for the past few years.

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How to Make a Body or Object in VR (Virtual Reality)?

The Crazy Programmer

Nowadays, the concept of virtual reality or VR is finding across-the-board applications, including healthcare, defense, aerospace, and many other industries. How to Make a Body or Object in VR (Virtual Reality)? apiece) and net access, particularly to glitch.com. The post How to Make a Body or Object in VR (Virtual Reality)?

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AI in action: Stories of how enterprises are transforming and modernizing

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AI practitioners and industry leaders discussed these trends, shared best practices, and provided real-world use cases during EXLs recent virtual event, AI in Action: Driving the Shift to Scalable AI. Generative and agentic artificial intelligence (AI) are paving the way for this evolution. Its a driver of transformation.

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Everlywell raises $175 million to expand virtual care options and scale its at-home health testing

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“Our COVID-19 test is 75% new people buying our product, and it has an NPS [net promoter score] of 75,” she said. But what is new is the expanded reach, and the realization among many Americans that virtual care and at-home options are available, and are effective. “It’s not just for Everlywell.