Penguin Random House to Acquire Boom! Studios

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Penguin Random House is set to acquire comic book and graphic novel publisher Boom! Studios.

The publishing house announced Wednesday that Random House Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, has agreed to the deal for Boom! Studios, which was founded in 2005 by Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby. The deal is expected to close later this summer, and terms were not disclosed. As part of the transaction, Disney is selling its minority stake in Boom! Studios that 20th Century Fox acquired in 2017.

Boom! Studios will continue its editorial and publishing independence and will report to Random House Worlds president Scott Shannon, while Random House Worlds vp publisher Keith Clayton and Random House Publishing Group executive vp of business strategy Bill Takes will help manage the new imprint. Also part of Random House Worlds’ portfolio of imprints are Del Rey, Inklore and the RH Worlds licensing program.

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Findigs: Property Tech Company Secures $27 Million To Simplify Rental Screening

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Findigs, a leading property technology company that simplifies rental screening and leasing decisions, announced $27 million in Series B funding. This funding follows the company’s unannounced Series A and Seed rounds, bringing the total funding raised to date to $48 million. This round was led by Nyca Partners, with participation from existing investors RPM Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, Expa Ventures, Activant Capital, Colle Capital, and Frontier Venture Capital.

Findigs is changing the rental process by addressing the fundamental complexities of rental underwriting, and delivering value back to renters with a fair and simple experience. And the latest funding will be used to expand their screening automation service, grow their team, and increase platform and data sophistication. The company’s increasingly rich dataset offers vital insight into rental industry norms that have long been driven by intuition and best practices.

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DailyPay Adds Brett Pitts to Board

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DailyPay, a leading provider of earned wage access, this week announced that Brett Pitts has joined its board of directors. Pitts, an accomplished leader in the banking and payments industries, brings decades of experience to DailyPay from prominent financial institutions and financial services companies where he drove innovation as an executive leader and board member.

With 25 years of experience in banking/financial services and over 30 years in the digital technology space, Pitts most recently served as the head of North American treasury and payments solutions at BMO Financial Group. His responsibilities included cash management, commercial deposits, corporate cards, BMO’s business-to-business B2B digital and payment strategies, and managing the payments infrastructure for the enterprise. Before this role, Pitts served as BMO Financial Group’s chief digital officer leading the bank’s digital portfolio, overseeing the North American virtual channel experiences and operations for digital and the North American customer contact centers.

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