Optimove, a leading CRM marketing platform, announced it has acquired Graphyte, a real-time, cloud-based personalization platform optimizing the web and mobile experience for consumers. The announcement comes on the heels of Optimove's purchase of Kumulos, a leading provider of a personalized messaging platform for mobile applications. The combined purchase price of the two deals was not disclosed. The acquisitions help bolster Optimove as one of the most comprehensive CRM marketing platforms. Its AI-driven solutions autonomously determine the next-best-action for each customer, eliminating the need for marketers to manually map every customer journey.

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These companies are leading the way in artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence was once a far-off imagination of scientists and sci-fi enthusiasts. Now, the industry has a value just under $1 trillion and is projected to grow to $14 trillion by 2030, according to Ark Invest. That's because AI is more than just a supercomputer that can play chess and engage in small talk; companies are using AI to automate and streamline their business processes. For example, automated algorithms remove most of the posts that violate Facebook's community standards.

With customer expectations and preferences changing faster than ever, a deep understanding of the customer demand is essential to making the right decisions about marketing spend, sourcing, inventory, production, transportation, staffing, and more. Critical business measures like turnover, capital expenditure, risk evaluation, profit margins, cash flow, and capacity planning are all reliant on accurate demand forecasting, which ultimately can help businesses to estimate the total sales and revenue for a defined future. Typically, demand forecasting includes activities such as supply planning, product manufacturing planning (e.g., sourcing, R&D), and financial planning. The critical aspect of these planning activities is to understand product demands from customers and how to fulfil those demands in the most timely and efficient way. By capturing the variability of future demand through forecasting, businesses can predict customer behaviors more accurately and meet their demands with a higher level of confidence and significantly reduced lead times from order to delivery.

WNS (Holdings) Limited a leading provider of global Business Process Management (BPM) services, today announced it has acquired Vuram, a global leader in enterprise automation services. Vuram helps companies accelerate digital transformation by aligning, automating, and optimizing processes using a combination of low-code software applications and intelligent automation platforms. By integrating these technologies into core business operations, Vuram is able to drive end-to-end enterprise automation and the creation of custom, scalable BPM solutions. These solutions include the ability to extract, collect, and categorize data using OCR and AI-based document processing, develop rule-based processing engines and ML-based augmentation, and leverage advanced analytics to improve decision-making. Vuram has also created customizable, low-code, "plug and play" solutions across front, middle, and back-office functions, including industry-specific solutions for the Banking/Financial Services, Insurance, and Healthcare verticals.

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Dynamo Software, Inc., a market-leading provider of end-to-end cloud software solutions for the alternative investment management industry, announced a partnership with Northfield Information Services, Inc. Through this information technology collaboration, Dynamo will further augment its analytics and reporting by providing Limited Partners (LPs) with enhanced modeling and forecasting of cash flows and fair values, powered by Northfield. "We are thrilled to partner with Dynamo and power their new cash flow reporting engine" The Dynamo-Northfield partnership responds to the growing demand for insight and transparency into investment performance – which investors want readily available in today's dynamic environment. The integration empowers Dynamo's LP clients, including endowments, foundations, pensions, family offices, and fund of funds (FOF), to design allocation plans, assess potential cash flow shortfalls, and conduct stress/scenario testing with increased confidence. The Northfield data integration, combined with Dynamo Data Automation (DDA), also equips LPs to accelerate smart business decisions and optimize investment operations.

Many of us are familiar with Intuit's (NASDAQ:INTU) industry-leading products in personal taxes (Turbo Tax) and small business accounting (QuickBooks). However, the company has expanded well beyond these two areas and assembled a portfolio of products that have improved and will continue to improve the financial lives of its customers. On Intuit's website, CEO Sasan Goodarzi described their mission statement as follows: We are a purpose-driven, values-driven company. Our mission to power prosperity around the world is why we show up to work every single day to do incredible things for our customers. Our values guide us and define what we stand for as a company.

Lightning AI, the startup behind the open source PyTorch Lightning framework, today announced that it raised $40 million in a Series B round led by Coatue with participation from Index Ventures, Bain, the Chainsmokers' Mantis VC and First Minute Capital. CEO William Falcon told TechCrunch that the new money will be used to expand Lightning AI's 60-person team while supporting the community around PyTorch Lightning development. Lightning AI, formerly Grid.ai, is the culmination of work that began in 2018 at the New York University Computational Intelligence, Learning, Vision, and Robotics (NYU CILVR) Lab and Facebook AI Research (now Meta AI Research). After Falcon started developing PyTorch Lightning as an undergrad at Columbia in 2015, he founded Lightning AI in 2019 with Luis Capelo, the former head of data products at Forbes. While working on his PhD at NYU and Facebook AI Research, Falcon open sourced PyTorch Lightning and -- according to him -- the project quickly gained traction.

Metropolis, a startup building payment infrastructure for parking facilities, today announced that it raised $167 million in a Series B round co-led by 3L Capital and Assembly Ventures with participation from Dragoneer, Eldridge Industries, Silver Lake Waterman, UP Partners and former deputy mayor of New York Dan Doctoroff. CEO Alex Israel told TechCrunch via email that the proceeds will be put toward product development, expanding the company's team and expanding into "new mobility adjacent verticals." Israel contends that parking payment infrastructure is outdated on the whole. Parking garages are stuck in the pre-internet age, he asserts -- disconnected from the digital payments ecosystem (e.g., schemes like Apple Pay and Google Pay). Meanwhile, FlashParking, Passport, AirGarage and REEF Technology (formerly ParkJockey) have raised hundreds of millions from SoftBank and others for tech-forward parking management.