eeden Closes €18M Series A Financing to Scale its Breakthrough Textile Recycling Technology

eeden Closes €18M Series A Financing to Scale its Breakthrough Textile Recycling Technology




eeden Closes €18M Series A Financing to Scale its Breakthrough Textile Recycling Technology

Münster, 29.04.2025 – German tech startup eeden, which has developed a groundbreaking textile recycling technology, announces the completion of its €18 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Forbion, a leading venture capital firm based in The Netherlands, through its BioEconomy Fund. Also joining as new investors are Henkel Ventures, the strategic venture capital fund of Henkel, with deep expertise in surface and coating technologies through its consumer and industrial business, and NRW.Venture, the Venture Fund of NRW.BANK, North Rhine-Westphalia´s development bank. All existing investors reinvested in the round, including the venture capital investors TechVision Fund (TVF), High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) and D11Z. Ventures – the early-stage investment arm of the family office of Dieter Schwarz. The funding will enable eeden to build its demonstration plant in Münster, optimize large-scale processing, and establish commercial projects with key players in the textile industry.

Steffen Gerlach (CEO & Co-Founder) & Dr. Tobias Börnhost (CTO & Co-Founder) of eeden. (Photo © eeden) 

A major step toward circularity

Ongoing challenges including rising costs, scarcity of resources, material volatility, and growing regulatory hurdles continue to strain the textile industry. To remain competitive, brands and manufacturers are increasingly looking for textile materials that combine high performance, scalability, and circularity at price parity. eeden addresses this need with its breakthrough in chemical recycling technology that recovers pure cellulose and PET building blocks (monomers) from cotton-polyester blends. Their products can be used to produce virgin-quality lyocell, viscose, and polyester fibers thereby offering a resource-efficient alternative to conventional fibers and unlocking new circular value chains.

Steffen Gerlach, CEO & Co-Founder of eeden: “Over the past few years, we have developed a proven solution that has the potential to meet the industry’s long-term need for cost-efficient and high-performing circular materials. We are proud that our new and existing investors believe in our approach and share our vision. With their support, we are ready to scale our technology and turn textile waste into materials the industry truly needs.”

With increasing textile waste comes increased regulation. As of January 2025, EU member states are required to implement separate collection systems for used textiles. eeden’s technology provides a pragmatic solution that is capable of processing complex blended materials.

Alex Hoffmann, General Partner at Forbion noted, “eeden has developed a pioneering solution that can make large-scale textile recycling not only technologically feasible, but also commercially viable in the near future. We see tremendous potential in their approach and are excited to support the team as they bring this breakthrough technology to industrial scale.”

Björn Lang, Partner TVF, “As an early investor, it’s great to see how the team has turned a vision into a validated process and strong strategic partnerships. The progress they’ve made shows what’s possible when the right people and strong science meet real customer needs. We’re excited to keep backing the team as they scale their impact.”

The new eeden demonstration facility in Münster, Germany follows the successful technology validation of its pilot plant with industrial partners. This €18 million Series A financing will enable the company to optimize large-scale processing and establish commercial projects with key players in the textile industry.

ENDS

About eeden

About Forbion

About Henkel Ventures

About NRW.Venture

About TVF

About D11Z. Ventures

About HTGF – High-Tech Gründerfonds

Press Contact: Julian Hertrampf, hertrampf@eeden.world, +49 251 2979 3366

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Amplifier Security and Jamf Partner to Automate Mac Compliance with AI-Powered User Security

Amplifier Security and Jamf Partner to Automate Mac Compliance with AI-Powered User Security




Amplifier Security and Jamf Partner to Automate Mac Compliance with AI-Powered User Security

Integrated solution to be showcased at RSA conference; Introduces free product tier to democratize Jamf Smart Group automation

Atlanta, April 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amplifier Security, the industry’s first Autonomous User Security platform today announced an alliance partnership with Jamf, ​​the leading management and security platform for Apple devices. The partnership will improve user security and employee experience by automating Jamf compliance through AI-powered user engagement. The resulting technology integration drives remediation and closes security gaps faster for Mac devices – advancing the industry’s evolution toward autonomous user security.

Maintaining endpoint hygiene is a tough, manual task for IT, especially those with large Mac fleets. Jamf makes configuration and compliance easier, but getting users to take action has always been a challenge. Amplifier solves this by adding AI-powered user automation to Jamf Smart Groups, conversing with users to update, patch, remove unapproved software and fix endpoint issues without disrupting their work.

“Jamf and Amplifier share a mutual vision in which security and productivity are not separate concerns for users, but are always achieved together,” said Matt Arsenault, VP Corporate Development at Jamf. “We are excited to bring Amplifier’s innovative human-in-the-loop automation to our customers. Amplifier boosts Jamf Smart Groups by giving users control over when and how security actions happen, through smart scheduling and collaborative engagements where users work.”

Deeper Integration For Enhanced Admin and User Experiences
The new technology integration delivers a frictionless setup experience for admins to select existing Jamf Smart groups and trigger Slack, Teams, or browser-based conversations with users for related policy actions. New API integrations connect Jamf Smart Groups and Policies directly to Amplifier’s User Security Graph and AI Automation Studio, enabling faster compliance without extra burden on IT.  Instead of forced updates or policy actions that disrupt workflows, Amplifier engages users through calendar based scheduling of actions and guided security decisions — keeping IT in control while empowering employees to take action.

Free Product Tier: One Smart Group Automation – Free
Amplifier is launching its first free product tier for Jamf customers: one Smart Group automation free – with no user or device limits, no commitments, no credit cards. Just secure workflows, ready to go – where admins can pick one Smart Group to drive any number of compliance actions using Jamf policies. Companies can start their free AI-powered automation with Amplifier by signing up here.

“We’re thrilled to deepen our partnership with Jamf to make possible both user security automation and improved user experience.” said Shreyas Sadalgi, co-founder and CEO of Amplifier. “By automating user engagements for JAMF tasks that require interactions, the integration finally delivers what companies have wanted forever – everyday security workflows that employees love.”


Amplifier x Jamf at RSAC.

RSA Conference: Live Demos and Sessions
Amplifier will be showcasing its innovations at Jamf’s booth at the RSA Conference next week (Booth S-1835) in San Francisco over several spotlight sessions:

Spotlight Session: Amplify Secure Productivity for Users with Smarter Mac Compliance

  • Monday, April 28: 6:00 PM
  • Tuesday, April 29: 11:30 AM
  • Wednesday, April 30: 11:30 AM and 3:00 PM

Fireside Chat: The Future of User Security : AI-Powered and Human-Activated

  • Tuesday, April 29: 3:00 PM

Schedule time here to meet with the Amplifier team at RSA and see a live demonstration.

About Amplifier
Amplifier innovates Autonomous User Security that delivers an incredible employee experience without blocking user productivity. Instead of spending hours chasing employees to fix issues, Amplifier’s AI agents handle those toil-ridden tasks that extend your IT and Security operations to the last mile. Security and IT teams can amplify workforce security by collaborating with end users to enforce controls – leading to a faster response time that dramatically increases the security posture and culture of an organization. Amplifier is crafted with ♥ in Atlanta and San Francisco.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Amplifier Security: Shreyas Sadalgi on shreyas@amplifiersecurity.com

Amplifier Security and Jamf Partner to Automate Mac Compliance with AI-Powered User Security

Amplifier Security and Jamf Partner to Automate Mac Compliance with AI-Powered User Security




Amplifier Security and Jamf Partner to Automate Mac Compliance with AI-Powered User Security

Integrated solution to be showcased at RSA conference; Introduces free product tier to democratize Jamf Smart Group automation

Atlanta, April 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Amplifier Security, the industry’s first Autonomous User Security platform today announced an alliance partnership with Jamf, ​​the leading management and security platform for Apple devices. The partnership will improve user security and employee experience by automating Jamf compliance through AI-powered user engagement. The resulting technology integration drives remediation and closes security gaps faster for Mac devices – advancing the industry’s evolution toward autonomous user security.

Maintaining endpoint hygiene is a tough, manual task for IT, especially those with large Mac fleets. Jamf makes configuration and compliance easier, but getting users to take action has always been a challenge. Amplifier solves this by adding AI-powered user automation to Jamf Smart Groups, conversing with users to update, patch, remove unapproved software and fix endpoint issues without disrupting their work.

“Jamf and Amplifier share a mutual vision in which security and productivity are not separate concerns for users, but are always achieved together,” said Matt Arsenault, VP Corporate Development at Jamf. “We are excited to bring Amplifier’s innovative human-in-the-loop automation to our customers. Amplifier boosts Jamf Smart Groups by giving users control over when and how security actions happen, through smart scheduling and collaborative engagements where users work.”

Deeper Integration For Enhanced Admin and User Experiences
The new technology integration delivers a frictionless setup experience for admins to select existing Jamf Smart groups and trigger Slack, Teams, or browser-based conversations with users for related policy actions. New API integrations connect Jamf Smart Groups and Policies directly to Amplifier’s User Security Graph and AI Automation Studio, enabling faster compliance without extra burden on IT.  Instead of forced updates or policy actions that disrupt workflows, Amplifier engages users through calendar based scheduling of actions and guided security decisions — keeping IT in control while empowering employees to take action.

Free Product Tier: One Smart Group Automation – Free
Amplifier is launching its first free product tier for Jamf customers: one Smart Group automation free – with no user or device limits, no commitments, no credit cards. Just secure workflows, ready to go – where admins can pick one Smart Group to drive any number of compliance actions using Jamf policies. Companies can start their free AI-powered automation with Amplifier by signing up here.

“We’re thrilled to deepen our partnership with Jamf to make possible both user security automation and improved user experience.” said Shreyas Sadalgi, co-founder and CEO of Amplifier. “By automating user engagements for JAMF tasks that require interactions, the integration finally delivers what companies have wanted forever – everyday security workflows that employees love.”


Amplifier x Jamf at RSAC.

RSA Conference: Live Demos and Sessions
Amplifier will be showcasing its innovations at Jamf’s booth at the RSA Conference next week (Booth S-1835) in San Francisco over several spotlight sessions:

Spotlight Session: Amplify Secure Productivity for Users with Smarter Mac Compliance

  • Monday, April 28: 6:00 PM
  • Tuesday, April 29: 11:30 AM
  • Wednesday, April 30: 11:30 AM and 3:00 PM

Fireside Chat: The Future of User Security : AI-Powered and Human-Activated

  • Tuesday, April 29: 3:00 PM

Schedule time here to meet with the Amplifier team at RSA and see a live demonstration.

About Amplifier
Amplifier innovates Autonomous User Security that delivers an incredible employee experience without blocking user productivity. Instead of spending hours chasing employees to fix issues, Amplifier’s AI agents handle those toil-ridden tasks that extend your IT and Security operations to the last mile. Security and IT teams can amplify workforce security by collaborating with end users to enforce controls – leading to a faster response time that dramatically increases the security posture and culture of an organization. Amplifier is crafted with ♥ in Atlanta and San Francisco.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Amplifier Security: Shreyas Sadalgi on shreyas@amplifiersecurity.com

Amplifier Security Raises $5.6M to Power Autonomous User Security

Amplifier Security Raises $5.6M to Power Autonomous User Security




Amplifier Security Raises $5.6M to Power Autonomous User Security

Unveils User Security Graph and AI Automation Studio to scale its platform for real-time user risk reduction, and enters into alliance partnership with Jamf

Atlanta, April 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When it comes to security, many companies struggle to identify and engage their riskiest users. Tasks like patching, removing unapproved software, fixing misconfigured endpoints and responding to anomalies are often delayed or skipped, leading to increased exposure. Most tools rely on compliance snapshots to satisfy audits, missing the steady drift in user behavior. According to the National Cyber Security Centre, AI accelerates the speed and precision of attacks to identify and exploit vulnerable users and their devices. With over 50% of breaches linked to poor user and endpoint security hygiene, businesses remain vulnerable unless they take proactive measures.

To address this growing gap, Amplifier Security today announced innovations to power the industry’s first Autonomous User Security platform – a system that uses AI to automate user engagement, drive remediation, and close security gaps in real time. By making users part of the fix, not just the source of risk, Amplifier reduces the burden on security teams while improving user and endpoint hygiene. Instead of relying on admins to chase users or on tools that stop at visibility, Amplifier activates end users directly, making them part of the security workflows without disrupting productivity –  it’s AI-powered where it matters, and human-activated where it counts.

Amplifier Autonomous User Security.

On the heels of its strong customer traction and market momentum since its launch, Amplifier also announced an oversubscribed $5.6 million seed round led by TechOperators, and an alliance partnership with Jamf. The funding will accelerate Amplifier’s growth as the company expands its platform and customer footprint.

The new round brings total financing raised since inception to $9M and includes participation from Cota Capital and WestWave Capital, as well as security veterans from companies like Arctic Wolf, Duo, Cisco, Citrix, OneTrust, and Greynoise. Notable angel investors include Brian NeSmith (Co-founder and Chairman, Arctic Wolf), Ash Devata (CEO, Greynoise; ex-VP Product, Duo/Cisco), Shawn Bass (CTO, Citrix), and Kabir Barday (Founder and CEO, OneTrust).

New Product Innovations
Amplifier announced two new innovations that power its unique AI-powered, human-activated approach: User Security Graph and AI Automation Studio – a combination that enables orchestration of security workflows while giving employees a seamless, low-friction experience. Instead of chasing down users, IT and Security teams rely on Amplifier’s AI agents to drive remediation at scale, closing gaps without blocking productivity. Amplifier will be showcasing its innovations at Jamf’s booth at the RSA Conference next week in several spotlight sessions.

User Security Graph
Amplifier’s User Security Graph maps real-time data across multiple tools – identity, endpoint, vulnerability management, SIEM, SaaS security, training, and any existing user security tool – to build a live profile of each employee’s security posture. Using AI, it highlights the most vulnerable users, visualizes likely attack paths, and reveals where controls are missing. This data powers personal in-browser dashboards, giving employees direct visibility into their own hygiene and related actions – keeping security top of mind without nagging or noise.

Amplifier User Security Graph.

AI Automation Studio
Legacy workflow tools are inflexible and brittle as they fail to handle the dynamic nature of how users work. Amplifier replaces them with a simple, drag-and-drop AI studio built for human-in-the-loop engagement. Instead of building clunky, multi-branch flows, teams can create smart automations using natural language prompts that guide the right user to take action – or escalate to a manager, IT Ops, or SecOps when needed. Each automation is a targeted conversation driven by agentic AI and outcomes – not workflow spaghetti.

The Future of User Security is Autonomous
“Amplifier is the system of record for user risk, and the system of action that engages users to reduce it,” said Shreyas Sadalgi, co-founder and CEO of Amplifier.  “Our mission is to transform workforce security with a platform loved by employees that helps security and IT teams improve their Net Promoter Score (NPS) to build a positive security culture without all of the toil.”

“What we have is a failure to communicate and inform in a way that meets employees where they are and in their context. Instead we bombard them with training, simulation tests, and instructions that they do not understand or assimilate to meet compliance objectives,” said Jason Kikta, CISO of Automox. “Amplifier closes the gap that security tools cannot address – by guiding the right person to take the right action, which helps users understand the ‘why’ thereby unlocking true engagement and value. Amplifier creates the resilient enterprise we have all been chasing instead of chasing our users.”

“We’ve seen incumbent and new security companies in this space still treat users as passive participants without respecting users’ intelligence. Amplifier flips the script, engaging employees to make security intuitive, friendly, and actionable,” said Daniel Ingevaldson, General Partner at TechOperators. “We’re proud to back Shreyas Sadalgi, Tommy Donnelly and the team as they redefine the human risk management category.”

Brian NeSmith, Co-founder and Chairman, Arctic Wolf: “The lack of human engagement in user security automation is a missed opportunity to educate people on the why behind the risk of each security finding and required immediate actions. Because of today’s hybrid and dynamic workplaces where everyone is moving fast in the age of AI and hyperproductivity, this problem has become harder to solve at scale. I’m a firm believer in Amplifier’s vision of engaging the workforce for security automation – the only modern way to solve today’s dynamic cybersecurity threat landscape.”

Ash Devata, CEO, Greynoise; ex-VP Product, Duo/Cisco: “Security is fundamentally about both people and technology, yet the industry has largely built security tools focused solely on the technology element. When it comes to cybersecurity actions in workplaces, engaging employees is a big opportunity because they have a lot of business context. I’m a big fan of Amplifier’s unique human-in-the-loop approach that engages employees in everyday security workflows – automation that reduces friction for both security practitioners and employees alike”

Aditya Singh, Partner at Cota Capital: “To decentralize security means shifting ownership out to where risk actually lives,  empowering people to take direct action on devices and systems at the edge. To make security autonomous means those actions happen intelligently and automatically, without needing tickets, follow-ups, or top-down enforcement. That’s the ethos be4hind Amplifier: a system where security happens in real time, by design — not by escalation. We’re proud to continue supporting the team and their unique vision that is much needed at the intersection of security and AI”

About Amplifier
Amplifier innovates Autonomous User Security that delivers an incredible employee experience without blocking user productivity. Instead of spending hours chasing employees to fix issues, Amplifier’s AI agents handle those toil-ridden tasks that extend your IT and Security operations to the last mile. Security and IT teams can amplify workforce security by collaborating with end users to enforce controls – leading to a faster response time that dramatically increases the security posture and culture of an organization. Amplifier is crafted with ♥ in Atlanta and San Francisco.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Amplifier Security: Shreyas Sadalgi on shreyas@amplifiersecurity.com

Amplifier Security Raises $5.6M to Power Autonomous User Security

Amplifier Security Raises $5.6M to Power Autonomous User Security




Amplifier Security Raises $5.6M to Power Autonomous User Security

Unveils User Security Graph and AI Automation Studio to scale its platform for real-time user risk reduction, and enters into alliance partnership with Jamf

Atlanta, April 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When it comes to security, many companies struggle to identify and engage their riskiest users. Tasks like patching, removing unapproved software, fixing misconfigured endpoints and responding to anomalies are often delayed or skipped, leading to increased exposure. Most tools rely on compliance snapshots to satisfy audits, missing the steady drift in user behavior. According to the National Cyber Security Centre, AI accelerates the speed and precision of attacks to identify and exploit vulnerable users and their devices. With over 50% of breaches linked to poor user and endpoint security hygiene, businesses remain vulnerable unless they take proactive measures.

To address this growing gap, Amplifier Security today announced innovations to power the industry’s first Autonomous User Security platform – a system that uses AI to automate user engagement, drive remediation, and close security gaps in real time. By making users part of the fix, not just the source of risk, Amplifier reduces the burden on security teams while improving user and endpoint hygiene. Instead of relying on admins to chase users or on tools that stop at visibility, Amplifier activates end users directly, making them part of the security workflows without disrupting productivity –  it’s AI-powered where it matters, and human-activated where it counts.

Amplifier Autonomous User Security.

On the heels of its strong customer traction and market momentum since its launch, Amplifier also announced an oversubscribed $5.6 million seed round led by TechOperators, and an alliance partnership with Jamf. The funding will accelerate Amplifier’s growth as the company expands its platform and customer footprint.

The new round brings total financing raised since inception to $9M and includes participation from Cota Capital and WestWave Capital, as well as security veterans from companies like Arctic Wolf, Duo, Cisco, Citrix, OneTrust, and Greynoise. Notable angel investors include Brian NeSmith (Co-founder and Chairman, Arctic Wolf), Ash Devata (CEO, Greynoise; ex-VP Product, Duo/Cisco), Shawn Bass (CTO, Citrix), and Kabir Barday (Founder and CEO, OneTrust).

New Product Innovations
Amplifier announced two new innovations that power its unique AI-powered, human-activated approach: User Security Graph and AI Automation Studio – a combination that enables orchestration of security workflows while giving employees a seamless, low-friction experience. Instead of chasing down users, IT and Security teams rely on Amplifier’s AI agents to drive remediation at scale, closing gaps without blocking productivity. Amplifier will be showcasing its innovations at Jamf’s booth at the RSA Conference next week in several spotlight sessions.

User Security Graph
Amplifier’s User Security Graph maps real-time data across multiple tools – identity, endpoint, vulnerability management, SIEM, SaaS security, training, and any existing user security tool – to build a live profile of each employee’s security posture. Using AI, it highlights the most vulnerable users, visualizes likely attack paths, and reveals where controls are missing. This data powers personal in-browser dashboards, giving employees direct visibility into their own hygiene and related actions – keeping security top of mind without nagging or noise.

Amplifier User Security Graph.

AI Automation Studio
Legacy workflow tools are inflexible and brittle as they fail to handle the dynamic nature of how users work. Amplifier replaces them with a simple, drag-and-drop AI studio built for human-in-the-loop engagement. Instead of building clunky, multi-branch flows, teams can create smart automations using natural language prompts that guide the right user to take action – or escalate to a manager, IT Ops, or SecOps when needed. Each automation is a targeted conversation driven by agentic AI and outcomes – not workflow spaghetti.

The Future of User Security is Autonomous
“Amplifier is the system of record for user risk, and the system of action that engages users to reduce it,” said Shreyas Sadalgi, co-founder and CEO of Amplifier.  “Our mission is to transform workforce security with a platform loved by employees that helps security and IT teams improve their Net Promoter Score (NPS) to build a positive security culture without all of the toil.”

“What we have is a failure to communicate and inform in a way that meets employees where they are and in their context. Instead we bombard them with training, simulation tests, and instructions that they do not understand or assimilate to meet compliance objectives,” said Jason Kikta, CISO of Automox. “Amplifier closes the gap that security tools cannot address – by guiding the right person to take the right action, which helps users understand the ‘why’ thereby unlocking true engagement and value. Amplifier creates the resilient enterprise we have all been chasing instead of chasing our users.”

“We’ve seen incumbent and new security companies in this space still treat users as passive participants without respecting users’ intelligence. Amplifier flips the script, engaging employees to make security intuitive, friendly, and actionable,” said Daniel Ingevaldson, General Partner at TechOperators. “We’re proud to back Shreyas Sadalgi, Tommy Donnelly and the team as they redefine the human risk management category.”

Brian NeSmith, Co-founder and Chairman, Arctic Wolf: “The lack of human engagement in user security automation is a missed opportunity to educate people on the why behind the risk of each security finding and required immediate actions. Because of today’s hybrid and dynamic workplaces where everyone is moving fast in the age of AI and hyperproductivity, this problem has become harder to solve at scale. I’m a firm believer in Amplifier’s vision of engaging the workforce for security automation – the only modern way to solve today’s dynamic cybersecurity threat landscape.”

Ash Devata, CEO, Greynoise; ex-VP Product, Duo/Cisco: “Security is fundamentally about both people and technology, yet the industry has largely built security tools focused solely on the technology element. When it comes to cybersecurity actions in workplaces, engaging employees is a big opportunity because they have a lot of business context. I’m a big fan of Amplifier’s unique human-in-the-loop approach that engages employees in everyday security workflows – automation that reduces friction for both security practitioners and employees alike”

Aditya Singh, Partner at Cota Capital: “To decentralize security means shifting ownership out to where risk actually lives,  empowering people to take direct action on devices and systems at the edge. To make security autonomous means those actions happen intelligently and automatically, without needing tickets, follow-ups, or top-down enforcement. That’s the ethos be4hind Amplifier: a system where security happens in real time, by design — not by escalation. We’re proud to continue supporting the team and their unique vision that is much needed at the intersection of security and AI”

About Amplifier
Amplifier innovates Autonomous User Security that delivers an incredible employee experience without blocking user productivity. Instead of spending hours chasing employees to fix issues, Amplifier’s AI agents handle those toil-ridden tasks that extend your IT and Security operations to the last mile. Security and IT teams can amplify workforce security by collaborating with end users to enforce controls – leading to a faster response time that dramatically increases the security posture and culture of an organization. Amplifier is crafted with ♥ in Atlanta and San Francisco.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Amplifier Security: Shreyas Sadalgi on shreyas@amplifiersecurity.com

Insuranceopedia Unveils PolicyAI – Worlds First AI-Tool That Slashes Auto Insurance Costs

Insuranceopedia Unveils PolicyAI – Worlds First AI-Tool That Slashes Auto Insurance Costs




Insuranceopedia Unveils PolicyAI – Worlds First AI-Tool That Slashes Auto Insurance Costs

Free AI – tool uncovers hidden coverage gaps, unnecessary costs, and savings opportunities in under 2 minutes

Landing page screenshot of PolicyAI

DELAWARE, Del., April 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today, Insuranceopedia officially launches PolicyAI, a groundbreaking free tool that uses artificial intelligence to analyze auto insurance policies, identify coverage gaps, and provide personalized recommendations to help drivers save money and improve protection.

Most people have no idea what their car insurance actually covers, or more importantly, what it doesn’t,” said Max Coupland, CEO of Insuranceopedia. “PolicyAI helps you spot risky gaps and wasted money before it costs you.

How PolicyAI Works

Users can upload their auto insurance policy and answer a couple of questions. PolicyAI’s AI engine scans the document, cross-checks it against state laws, risk factors (like weather or theft rates by ZIP code), and the user’s profile to highlight:

  • Coverage gaps (e.g., missing uninsured motorist coverage or low liability limits)
  • Unnecessary or duplicate add-ons (e.g., roadside assistance already covered by a credit card)
  • Money-saving opportunities (e.g., low-mileage discounts or policy bundling options)

The tool then provides a personalized “Coverage Strength Score”, a checklist of recommended improvements, and clear, data-driven explanations.

Who PolicyAI Helps

PolicyAI is designed for:

  • Everyday drivers unsure if they’re overpaying
  • People who want to save without sacrificing protection
  • Gig workers and rideshare drivers with risky policy gaps
  • Busy professionals who don’t have time to decode their insurance
  • Anyone who wants to take control of their coverage without talking to an agent

Our mission is simple — make insurance transparent, accessible, and fair,” added Coupland. “PolicyAI is here to make sure you’re not part of the 1 in 3 who find out their policy was missing something when it’s already too late.

Try It Now

PolicyAI is live and free to use at: www.insuranceopedia.com/policyai

About Insuranceopedia

Insuranceopedia is an insurance marketplace on a mission to simplify insurance for consumers. Through expert content, educational tools, and AI-powered innovation, we help people better understand, compare, and manage their insurance coverage.

Media Contact:

Max Coupland
CEO, Insuranceopedia
max@insuranceopedia.com
www.insuranceopedia.com

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Socket Acquires Coana to Bring Best-in-Class Reachability Analysis to Modern SCA

Socket Acquires Coana to Bring Best-in-Class Reachability Analysis to Modern SCA




Socket Acquires Coana to Bring Best-in-Class Reachability Analysis to Modern SCA

Socket’s acquisition of Coana brings best-in-class reachability analysis to application security teams globally, cementing Socket’s position as the leader in software supply chain security. The news comes as Socket has seen over 300% year-over-year revenue growth over the past year with customers including Anthropic, Figma, OpenAI, and Vercel.

San Francisco, April 23, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Socket, the market leader in software supply chain security, today announced it has acquired Coana, a top-tier static analysis and reachability engine built by leading security researchers from Aarhus University. This acquisition significantly strengthens Socket’s platform and positions Socket as the clear market leader in modern Software Composition Analysis (SCA).

Coana brings powerful static control-flow and call graph analysis to Socket’s platform, allowing teams to prioritize vulnerabilities based on whether they’re actually exploitable in a given codebase. Flooding developers with endless security alerts can often subject security teams to “alert fatigue”, meaning real issues don’t get addressed, a common phenomenon with traditional vulnerability scanners. Key to managing this workload is reachability analysis, which enables security teams to prioritize vulnerabilities that need to be addressed rapidly above those which cannot be practically exploited.

Coana’s revolutionary reachability analysis engine solves this problem, eliminating up to 80% of false positives — allowing AppSec (Application Security) teams to cut through the noise and dramatically accelerating time to remediation for the most critical vulnerabilities.

Socket and Coana team: The Coana acquisition positions Socket as the clear market leader in modern Software Composition Analysis (SCA).

“For every team buried under thousands of vulnerability alerts, Coana’s reachability analysis offers a better way forward,” said Feross Aboukhadijeh, CEO and Founder of Socket. “They’ve built the most scalable and accurate reachability engine we’ve seen, and we’re excited to bring it into Socket to give developers precise, actionable vulnerability insights — without the noise. Joining forces with Coana turbocharges our ability to deliver actionable, noise-free security alerts. This is a big win for our customers.”

The world-leading team behind Coana have now joined Socket. Coana was founded by static analysis experts from Aarhus University. Led by Professor Anders Møller, a world-renowned pioneer in JavaScript analysis, Martin Torp, Benjamin Barslev, and CEO Anders Søndergaard, the team has spent years advancing the state of the art in static and control-flow analysis.

Anders Søndergaard, CEO at Coana said: “Joining Socket means we can scale our impact immediately. Together, we’ll help organizations drastically reduce their vulnerability management burden.”

Martin Torp, CPO at Coana said: “We founded Coana to give developers a tool that finds 100 critical issues, not 10,000 trivial ones. Joining Socket enables us to take that vision to the next level. Socket has led the charge on supply chain security, and now together we’ll deliver reachability analysis at a scale and impact that we could only dream of as a standalone product.”

Teams using Coana’s reachability analysis tool have seen up to 10x faster remediation times of critical security vulnerabilities as a result.

With this acquisition, Socket now delivers the most complete and mature SCA platform on the market. The company currently protects over 8,500 organizations and 750,000+ code repositories, scanning every commit in real time. Socket detects and blocks more than 1,000 software supply chain attacks per week, and has identified over 100,000 malicious artifacts across open source ecosystems like npm, PyPI, Maven, and Go.

With the news following Socket’s $40M Series B funding led by Abstract Ventures, Elad Gil and a16z, Zane Lackey, General Partner at a16z, said: “Socket’s approach to open source security is simply better — it’s proactive, precise, and built for how modern teams work. We believe that the combination of Socket and Coana will set a new standard for application security and marks the industry’s shift away from legacy SCA.”

This news comes as Socket has seen over 300% year-over-year revenue growth over the past year, and is now preventing 1,000+ supply chain attacks every week. Teams at Anthropic, Figma, OpenAI, and Vercel have moved from legacy SCA tools to Socket.

“Great technology is built by great people,” said Aboukhadijeh. “The Coana team shares our values and brings world-class engineering talent to Socket. Together, we’re going to redefine what secure software development looks like.”

To learn more about the Coana acquisition and what it means for customers, read Socket’s announcement blog post here.

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About Socket
Socket is a developer-first security platform that protects your most critical apps from software supply chain attacks. Socket was built by prolific security experts whose open source software is installed over 1 billion times per month. Customers include top organizations in tech, media, manufacturing, and finance.

From tiny startups to Fortune 100 enterprises, Socket safeguards over 8.5K organizations (encompassing more than 750,000 repositories) from supply chain threats. Every week, 1,000+ supply chain attacks are prevented using Socket.

To learn more about our approach to developer security, check out a detailed walkthrough of the Socket platform by Feross Aboukhadijeh, Socket CEO. The Coana blog has many examples and case studies of Coana in action.

Socket is actively hiring across engineering, product, design, and sales. Candidates interested in building the future of software supply chain security can learn more at socket.dev/careers. If you’re interested in trying Socket, schedule a live demo, or just reach out – we’d love to show you how we can help.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the Socket press office: press@socket.dev.

Team Ignite Celebrates 30+ Investments and Multiple Series A Successes with Inaugural YC-Focused Fund

Team Ignite Celebrates 30+ Investments and Multiple Series A Successes with Inaugural YC-Focused Fund




Team Ignite Celebrates 30+ Investments and Multiple Series A Successes with Inaugural YC-Focused Fund

Backing 30+ YC startups, Team Ignite Fund I proves speed, signal, and support drive outsized early-stage returns

Team Ignite Ventures Logo

Team Ignite Ventures Logo

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif., April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Team Ignite, an early-stage venture firm born from syndicate roots, today officially announced its inaugural YC-focused fund—Team Ignite Fund I. The $1M rolling fund quietly backed over 30 Y-Combinator startups, including breakout companies like Bland AI, Rollstack, and ParadeDB —each of which has now raised a strong Series A or beyond from top-tier follow-on investors.

“Fund I was our experiment—lean, focused, and built to test our thesis that YC startups near Demo Day could deliver outsized returns when paired with hands-on GTM support and network leverage,” said Brian Bell, Founder and Managing Partner at Team Ignite. “We backed exceptional founders early, and many of those bets are now showing serious momentum.”

Team Ignite launched Fund I after repeatedly facing painful friction in syndicate deals. Many of the best YC rounds closed in days—not weeks—leaving little time to assemble capital. Competitive rounds also drove valuation volatility, with startups starting at a $15M cap and ending at $30M or more within a few days. Some founders were also reluctant to share sensitive fundraising details with large syndicate audiences. These challenges made it clear that to consistently access top YC startups, Team Ignite needed dry powder and fast decision-making—leading to the shift from syndicates to an active fund model. The rolling structure provided an easy on-ramp to invest at speed with clarity.

The fund made over 30 investments across several YC batches, backing bold founders building AI agents, financial infrastructure, marketplace tooling, and next-gen B2B SaaS platforms.

Portfolio Highlights

  • Bland AI – Backed by Emergence Capital, Scale Venture Partners, and angel investor Max Levchin (founder of PayPal), Bland AI has rapidly scaled its AI voice agent platform and recently closed a $40M Series B following exponential revenue growth.
  • Rollstack –Raised a strong Series A led by Insight Partners, helping teams automate and generate live dashboards and business reporting.
  • ParadeDB – Now backed by Craft Ventures, ParadeDB is building a next-gen Postgres-native alternative to Elasticsearch, optimized for real-time, update-heavy workloads.

Why It Worked: A Founder-First, Signal-Led Strategy

Fund I executed a disciplined strategy: invest in the top 10% of founders, just ahead of Demo Day, targeting massive markets with fair terms—and move with speed. With no reserves and 100% of capital deployed into initial checks, the fund optimized for maximum surface area across YC’s most competitive cohorts. Remarkably, Fund I is already a top decile performer per Carta data.

What Founders Are Saying

Founders consistently cite Team Ignite’s agile decision-making and hands-on go-to-market assistance as pivotal to early traction and fundraising momentum.

“Brian was instrumental in helping us close our round. He’s one of the most value-dense investors on our cap table—period.”
Luigi La Corte, Founder of Provision (YC S22)

What’s Next

Fund I is now fully deployed—but the strategy continues. Team Ignite is actively raising its next YC-focused fund – View Fund II Deck Here. Founders currently in or headed into Y-Combinator can learn more and apply for investment at contact info below.

About Team Ignite

Team Ignite is a high-velocity early-stage venture capital firm backing visionary founders at the pre-seed and seed stages. Founded by Brian Bell, a former AI and marketplace leader at AWS and Microsoft, Team Ignite combines founder-first energy with hands-on go-to-market expertise and an unmatched network across the startup ecosystem.

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Team Ignite Ventures
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OneShot.ai Launches Execution OS: The antidote to digital workers. A GTM platform built on the best of AI + human firepower

OneShot.ai Launches Execution OS: The antidote to digital workers. A GTM platform built on the best of AI + human firepower




OneShot.ai Launches Execution OS: The antidote to digital workers. A GTM platform built on the best of AI + human firepower

The first go-to-market platform for sales and marketing teams; orchestrating AI agents, on-demand human experts, and real-time business intelligence.

San Francisco, April 22, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Over the past 18 months, companies rushed to deploy “AI digital workers” to replace headcount. The promise? Faster growth, fewer hires. The reality? Underwhelming performance, churn, and flatlining pipelines. Today, OneShot.ai announced the public release of its Execution OS—a GTM (go-to-market) operating system that blends multi-agent AI, on-demand GTM specialists, and a real-time Analysis Engine to execute go-to-market strategy with zero internal lift.

“Companies didn’t just want automation—they were promised they could replace humans,” said Gautam Rishi, CEO and co-founder of OneShot.ai.“But the results never came. We built a platform where AI and humans work in sync to actually execute and deliver results.”

Execution OS turns any go-to-market task outbound, content, social, SEO, events, into a managed workflow. Its AI scopes the task and orchestrates agent workflows and human experts (SDRs, copywriters, designers, analysts) are deployed to complete the last mile. 

OneShot.ai founders: Peda Pola and Gautam Rishi.

Execution OS is designed to create revenue from raw data and is built around two key engines: The Analysis Engine ingests a company’s CRM, sales calls, meeting transcripts, campaigns, and customer interactions to detect what’s working and why, across messaging, personas, and channels. And the Execution Engine uses those insights to drive action: it scopes the work, spins up multi-agent workflows, recruits on-demand human experts, and executes GTM campaigns end-to-end.

“Most AI agents today are static workflows. But true execution needs a feedback loop,” said Peda Venki Pola, Co-founder and CTO. “That’s what makes Execution OS different. Our platform learns from customer data and GTM activity, and dynamically drives outbound strategy, hiring, and human enablement. It’s not just automation—it’s orchestration.”

It’s already demonstrating its impact for a range of businesses. In one case, after transcribing hundreds of sales calls, OneShot.ai identified a highly resonant message with a specific persona. It sourced new leads with that persona—not in CRM—and enabled human operators to launch real-time outbound within minutes. Similarly, OneShot.ai noticed a spike in demo bookings from California-based financial firms. The Analysis Engine uncovered a recent regulation change, and the Execution Engine immediately targeted 100+ companies impacted, launching campaigns across email, ads, and cold calls in minutes.

OneShot.ai customer Eli Burstein, President at Capstone said: “We’ve worked with OneShot.ai for a while, but the new Execution OS changed the game. Since bringing human specialists into the loop, our pipeline has exploded across multiple GTM channels.” Another user Karl May, Founder and CEO at Join Digital said: “We tried hiring SDRs and agencies—nothing stuck. OneShot.ai changed that. Within weeks, we were landing meetings with the world’s largest enterprises. The scale and consistency are unmatched.”

OneShot.ai dashboard.

OneShot.ai was founded by GTM and AI veterans who understood that AI alone wouldn’t scale go-to-market execution. As LLMs rapidly advanced, one truth became clear: no one really knew which tasks should be handled by AI, and which still required human judgment. That line is constantly shifting, and most teams are guessing. The OneShot team built a new system of work to solve this: one where AI scopes the task, decides who (or what) should do it, and then orchestrates execution with precision.

Since launching Execution OS in December, OneShot has added over $250K in new ARR every month and customers are expanding use cases within weeks. “AI gets you 70% of the way there,” said Gautam Rishi, CEO and Co-founder. “Execution OS gets you all the way—by combining AI with the right humans at the right time.”

The OneShot.ai founders are GTM and AI experts. Gautam Rishi, is GTM leader with over two decades experience in enterprise SaaS (ex-Akamai, CloudBees, 1E), known for scaling sales teams globally and delivering multiple exits. While Peda Pola, a former senior engineering leader having spent a decade at Salesforce, with deep expertise in generative AI, multi-agent orchestration, and large-scale enterprise platform development.

Looking ahead, OneShot.ai is positioning itself as the execution layer for modern B2B companies, starting with GTM and expanding into every operational domain. The platform not only executes—it learns what needs to be done, who should do it, and whether the company has the capacity. If not, it autonomously recruits and enables the right human experts, zero touch.

As AI evolves, OneShot.ai will scale from top-of-funnel activities like outbound and content into deal acceleration, forecasting, CS, RevOps, and more—redefining execution across the enterprise.

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About OneShot.ai
OneShot.ai is the Execution OS for go-to-market teams. It blends multi-agent AI with on-demand human specialists to plan, execute, and scale outbound, content, SEO, social, and more—without hiring internally or using agencies. Founded by senior GTM and product engineering leaders from Akamai, CloudBees, and Salesforce – OneShot.ai powers the next generation of operationally efficient, high-growth companies.

CONTACT: For further information please contact the OneShot.ai: Gautam Rishi on gautam@oneshot.ai

RISA Labs Raises $3.5M to Eliminate Treatment Delays with AI-Powered Workflow Automation in Oncology

RISA Labs Raises $3.5M to Eliminate Treatment Delays with AI-Powered Workflow Automation in Oncology




RISA Labs Raises $3.5M to Eliminate Treatment Delays with AI-Powered Workflow Automation in Oncology

RISA Labs Reduces Prior Authorization Times 10x, Helping Cancer Patients Access Life-Saving Treatment Faster

Palo Alto, April 17, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Cancer patients don’t just fight the disease – they fight the system. Today, life-saving treatments are routinely delayed by days or even weeks due to manual, error-prone workflows. To solve this, RISA Labs has raised a $3.5M funding round to help healthcare organizations eliminate one of the most persistent barriers to timely cancer care: prior authorization delays. RISA Labs has already proven that faster care is possible by dramatically reducing manual workflows and administrative burden.

The seed was led by Binny Bansal (Flipkart co-founder) with participation from Oncology Ventures, General Catalyst, z21 Ventures, ODD BIRD VC, and Ashish Gupta. The capital will accelerate deployments in the next 100 cancer centers across the country within the next two years. 

RISA founders: Kumar Shivang and Kshitij Jaggi.

“Prior authorizations remain one of the least automated parts of our healthcare system,” said Ben Freeberg, Managing Partner at Oncology Ventures. “In oncology, the stakes are higher. 70% of cancer patients experience delays in care because of prior authorization requirements. In 33% of those cases, the delay is one month—a time window that can increase the risk of death by 13% in certain cancer types. The current system isn’t just inefficient – it’s dangerous.”

RISA’s platform—Business Operating System as a Service (BOSS) – is not another automation bot or AI assistant. It’s a full-stack orchestration engine built for the vertical complexity of healthcare, Instead of relying on humans to push paperwork or brittle bots that break when systems change, BOSS decomposes complex workflows into micro-tasks, then delegates them to a network of intelligent agents—LLMs, digital twins, and reinforcement learners, extending across an institution’s entire software stack. This allows BOSS to create a parallel digital workforce, operating on behalf of teams and alongside them. A 1,000-person institution can function like a 2,000-person one overnight, with digital agents making up half the workforce.

“We’ve had Windows, we’ve had Linux, we’ve had Mac, each OS helped humans extract more from machines. But now, we’re drowning in software. There’s too much of it, and a shortage of skilled labor to operate it. Software that was supposed to get work done has become work itself,”  Kshitij Jaggi, co-founder and CEO of RISA Labs adds. “BOSS is an AI OS designed for the post-ChatGPT era : where work is no longer about learning tools, but simply expressing intent.”

At a leading US cancer center, BOSS reduced prior authorization times from 30 minutes to under five. In just a few months, it processed over $1 million in medications, freed up 80 percent of staff time, and cut administrative costs by 66 percent.

“Cancer care is time sensitive. Every delay in treatment can affect outcomes. Prior authorizations continue to slow us down. What RISA is building is not just smart technology. It removes barriers so our teams can move faster and stay focused on what matters most: caring for patients,” said Dr. Jeffrey Vacirca, CEO of New York Cancer and Blood Specialists.

Based in Silicon Valley, RISA is founded by IIT Kanpur alumni and repeat founders, Kshitij Jaggi (CEO) and Kumar Shivang (CTO) who’ve been friends for more than a decade now,  who’ve previously built and scaled Urban Health. Their frustration with fragmented, slow, and error-prone healthcare workflows during that journey inspired the duo to take a systems-first approach, leading them to develop a foundational AI operating system that can simulate, understand, and orchestrate entire institutional workflows from end to end.

“BOSS is low-entropy system design to bring flow state in system-2 thinking for LLMs; it aims to maximise AI agents’ usefulness for critical problems like oncology operations,” said Kumar Shivang, co-founder & CTO of RISA. “Its orchestration layer then turns that intelligence into precise, real-time execution with integrations with systems of record like Flatiron Health’s EMR.”

RISA’s founding team first explored these concepts through research, co-authoring ‘Digital Twin Ecosystem in Oncology Clinical Operations’—an early effort to envision smarter, AI-driven cancer care workflows. This foundational work laid the conceptual groundwork that later translated into tangible improvements in real-world oncology operations.

RISA’s platform signals a broader shift in enterprise AI. “As AI agents unbundle the $4.6 trillion services industry, RISA’s BOSS leads the way—proven in oncology and built to scale,” said Binny Bansal, co-founder of Flipkart and lead investor.”

Looking ahead, RISA plans to extend across multiple nodes within the oncology ecosystem, positioning itself as the AI transformation partner for both operational and clinical workflows. This includes enabling coordination and intelligence across providers, life sciences organizations, and other stakeholders throughout the journey of a drug – extending the company’s long term vision to building a unified layer for AI-driven orchestration in oncology.

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About RISA Labs
RISA Labs is a Palo Alto-based oncology AI company behind BOSS, at the heart of which is the dynamic orchestration engine for mission-critical operations. Founded by Kshitij Jaggi and Kumar Shivang, repeat entrepreneurs and IIT Kanpur alumni, RISA’s platform leverages agentic AI, digital twins, and LLMs to deconstruct complex workflows into micro-tasks and execute them with unprecedented efficiency. Starting with oncology prior authorizations.

CONTACT: For further information, please contact the RISA press office: media@risalabs.ai