Instant Teams Raises $13M in Series A Funding

Instant Teams, a New York-based remote talent marketplace platform provider, raised $13M in Series A funding.

The round was led by Tiger Global, with participation from Plug and Play Tech Center, The Veteran’s Fund, Squadra Ventures, Brick Capital Ventures, Blue Tree Fund and Frontier Capital.

The company intends to use the funds to accelerate their marketplace technology, corporate structure, military market share and expansion towards enterprise customers.

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Project Canary Raises $111M from Top Climate Tech and SaaS Focused Investors

DENVER, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Project Canary, the Denver-based climate tech and environmental assessment company raised $111 million in Series B funding, the company announced today.

The data analytics company plans to scale its core solutions and expand to new sectors as it helps companies reach a net-zero future, with a keen focus on reducing methane. As the business world has become increasingly data-reliant, a holistic, granular view of operations and the environmental footprint of each facility has become a must-have in today's measurement economy.

• Insight Partners (lead investor), Brookfield Growth, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments), and Carica Sustainable Investments – the sustainable investing arm of the Hamilton James Family office invested alongside previous backers – Quantum Energy Partners, Energy Impact Partners, and Frontier Venture Capital.

• Project Canary provides independent, holistic environmental assessments and high-fidelity continuous monitoring solutions at the facility level to allow companies to measure and improve their operations and emissions profiles.

• Project Canary's solutions help financial markets differentiate environmental performance – a matter of interest for Brookfield and CPP Investments, collectively managing over $1 trillion of assets.

• The technology is here to measure instead of estimate, allowing commodity buyers to track the "E" in ESG for intensive industries, including methane, water, and other climate-related energy supply chain risk factors.

"The measurement economy has arrived – expectations for precise, verified environmental action are the new normal," said Project Canary CEO and co-founder Chris Romer. "We provide net-zero proof with trusted data that demonstrates ESG progress to all stakeholders. You can't get to net-zero using estimates."

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Road to victory with Liza Rodewald: Army wife, entrepreneur and CEO

Liza Rodewald is an Army wife, an entrepreneur, and founder and CEO of a company that provides remote careers for military spouses.

According to Rodewald, “Military spouses are extremely resilient. They go into new environments all the time and can live in stressful situations.”

She should know. Her family has moved six times in the last seven years. On each deployment, Rodewald made a point of meeting every military spouse she could. And because remote work had always been one of her passions, she kept hearing the same thing.

“How can I work from home when we move every two to three years”?

Every time the family moved, her goal was to help find consistent work that military spouses could count on regardless of where in the world they were deployed. Rodewald relied on a life mantra she learned from her parents to make that happen.

“See a need, fill a need.”

It’s been in her head since she was a young girl growing up in Missouri, where her parents were successful business owners. That had a very big impact on her.

So, she began helping military spouses find remote careers. That was the beginning of her company, Instant Teams. The company places military spouses around the world in remote careers.

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Syndio Announces Groundbreaking Workplace Equity Platform with Launch of OppEQ

Building on its pay equity product line, OppEQ is Syndio's bold new product that helps companies retain and promote employees equitably to help fulfill their promise of closing pay gaps

SEATTLE, Feb. 17, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Syndio, the leading Workplace Equity Platform, announced OppEQ™, a new product that helps companies unlock employee opportunity to increase diversity across all levels of an organization. With OppEQ, companies can instantly analyze hiring, promotions, performance scores, and retention rates by gender, race, and more to identify the root causes of inequities and pay gaps – and create action plans for improvement.

OppEQ is available as part of Syndio's new Workplace Equity Platform, a groundbreaking suite of products and services that help companies measure and improve all facets of workplace equity — from bringing in talent fairly to compensating, retaining, and promoting them equitably. More than 200 companies, including 10 percent of the Fortune 200 and 20 percent of Fortune Magazine's Most Admired Companies, use Syndio's platform to close pay and opportunity gaps.

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Misty Robotics is acquired by leading social robotics company Furhat Robotics

Sweden-based Furhat Robotics acquires the business assets of Misty Robotics to accelerate development of next-generation social robots.

Boulder, CO – January 17th, 2022 – Misty Robotics today announces that the company is acquired by Furhat Robotics, the Swedish company behind the world’s most advanced social robot, ‘Furhat’. Furhat Robotics will continue to support the Misty Robotics brand and all of Misty’s customers, and empower future Misty robots through the strength of their technology. For Misty’s existing customers, nothing will change apart from the exciting addition of an extended community and more knowledge and research available.

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