Day: November 3, 2021

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Neology, a global innovator that is re-imagining mobility for smart cities and safer communities, today announced it has been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Transport Technology and Associated Services (TTAS) framework. As a result of this new supplier status, the government and public sector will be able to procure Neology’s full, turn-key services and solutions covering Transportation Systems, Data Services, Clean and Sustainable Transport Technologies. TTAS went live October 26, 2021 and will conclude October 31, 2025.

The startup is reimaging safe, private B2C communication on the blockchain

LONDON, Nov. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NFT marketplace Exchange.Art has launched its Notification NFT, a new way to communicate with consumers using Web 3.0 technology.

NFTs, non-fungible tokens, are everywhere. Celebrities, pro athletes and everyday people are spending billions on blockchain-based art. In March 2021, artist Beeple sold an NFT for $69 million and a CryptoPunks NFT sold for $7.5 million. But are NFTs more than expensive digital art?

They are, with an innovative utility created by NFT marketplace Exchange.Art. The team has developed a unique mechanism to enable Web 3.0 communication with its clients — all without creating user accounts and asking customers to remember yet another login. Privacy is at the center of the architecture.

The future of Web 3.0 e-commerce is here.

Safe, anonymous and personalized communication

In general, NFT markets are limited to selling only what users are offering for sale. Exchange.Art’s Notification NFT is changing this paradigm. Any shopper can now offer to purchase any NFT they desire, even if it’s not currently for sale. If the owner likes the terms, the sale is only a couple clicks away.

Here’s how it works on Exchange: A user can place a bid on any piece of art they like. The owner receives the offer, right to their digital wallet. The funds are placed in escrow, and the owner can accept or ignore the offer.

Additionally, shoppers gain status as they spend more on Exchange.Art, unlocking exclusive perks and discounts.

How can I use this in my business?

Billions of dollars in transactions are done every month via blockchains. As Web 3.0 evolves, traditional businesses run the risk of being left behind.

The Exchange.Art Notification NFT has applications far beyond digital art.

Picture this: Luxury brands offer exclusive items to their most loyal customers. In Web 3.0, a customer can buy products with their digital wallet and their Notification NFT gains brand status.

When the brand wants to reward its most engaged customers, it knows exactly how to target them with exclusive perks and offers. The best part is they never had to share any personal info.

If this seems far off, know that blockchain technology is already established in the luxury retail space. LVMH, Prada Group, Cartier and Richemont founded the Aura Blockchain Consortium in April 2021 to provide customers authenticity and proof of ownership as products exchange hands.

This is only one step short of rewarding loyalty with the Notification NFT mechanism created by Exchange.Art.

Learn more about Exchange.Art’s Notification NFT by contacting the team at info@exchange.art.

Experience the Notification NFT at Exchange.Art.

Media Contact:
Larisa Barbu, Director
Email: larisa@exchange.art

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New technology platform provides global flex space market insights and solutions

NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES and ATLANTA and TORONTO, Nov. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Colliers, a leading diversified professional services and investment management company, today announced the launch of Colliers SmartFlex to strengthen its flex office space advisory offering. Colliers SmartFlex is a new application that provides a comprehensive database of flex space options across 90 global markets with a transaction workflow manager for Colliers professionals to facilitate client requests quickly. This differentiating platform enhances Colliers’ tenant advisory services in this fast-growth market sector.

“As companies activate their return to office, they will want to take advantage of the amplified value proposition of flex space agreements and new ways of working that the pandemic has driven,” said Scott Nelson, CEO, Occupier Services | Global. “Colliers SmartFlex is also well-aligned with our global ESG strategy, Elevate the Built Environment, as we help companies shape their workplaces, reach their health and wellbeing goals, and create the best experience for their people using innovative tools. Through Colliers SmartFlex, we continue to bring our best data, innovation, and expertise to all of our clients.”

Colliers SmartFlex allows Colliers professionals to deliver the following benefits to occupier clients:

1. Depth of search: A comprehensive, global, real-time database of flex space with pricing and unique market insights.
2. Simplicity: A digital workflow manager to help complete a transaction and negotiation from start to finish efficiently and effectively.
3. Speed: Allow professionals to offer clients flex space alternatives based on their unique requirements within hours.

Colliers SmartFlex complements Colliers Mobility Pass, a booking platform for clients to access coworking spaces through a mobile application with a global network of more than 5,000 on-demand coworking spaces available for a monthly fee.

About Colliers
Colliers is a leading diversified professional services and investment management company. With operations in 65 countries, our more than 15,000 enterprising professionals work collaboratively to provide expert advice to real estate occupiers, owners and investors. For more than 26 years, our experienced leadership with significant insider ownership has delivered compound annual investment returns of almost 20% for shareholders. With annualized revenues of $3.6 billion ($4.0 billion including affiliates) and $46 billion of assets under management, we maximize the potential of property and accelerate the success of our clients and our people. Learn more at corporate.colliers.com, Twitter @Colliers or LinkedIn.

Colliers Contacts:

Scott Nelson
CEO, Occupier Services | Global
470-386-9250

Andrea Cheung
Global Manager, Communications
Andrea.cheung@colliers.com
416-324-6402

mimik’s hybrid edgeCloud platform is poised to revolutionize the delivery of microservices for applications in industries such as healthcare, automotive, manufacturing, logistics, retail, and banking

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — mimik Technology, Inc., a pioneer in hybrid edge cloud technology and business solutions, today announced a $14.3 million Series A funding round led by Pier 88 Investment Partners, a San Francisco-based alternative investment management firm. Other participants include Cathie Wood, Founder, CIO and CEO of ARK Invest and member of the mimik Board of Directors, along with existing investors Primera Capital and NLabs. mimik plans to use the funds to expand its global go-to-market operations including sales, solutions delivery, developer outreach, technical training, and partnership development.

mimik’s hybrid edgeCloud platform transforms cloud applications from a fixed client-server architecture—where server functionality is limited to servers in data centers and gateways—to a fully distributed architecture, enabling billions of smart client devices to act as servers and delivering nearly endless scalability. The mimik platform enables heterogeneous applications, processes, and devices to autonomously communicate in clusters on the edge regardless of their operating system or network. Because data is processed at the edge, mimik’s platform requires significantly less bandwidth and power, reduces cloud hosting costs, is more resilient than traditional client-server architecture, and offers much higher levels of data privacy and security.

“We have spent nearly a decade in R&D, building a platform to address the six major concerns of most developers: speed, cost, security, data privacy, interoperability, and scale,” said mimik Founder and CEO Fay Arjomandi. “The mimik platform offers a strong foundation to build sustainable edge cloud services to help accelerate digital transformation and power the hyper-connected digital economy.”

“Having invested in next-generation technologies like mobility, cloud computing, and cyber security for nearly two decades, our team is excited about the compelling growth opportunities we see in edge computing,” says Frank Timons, Founder and CEO of Pier 88 Investment Partners. “mimik’s technology lead and seasoned executive team position the company to capitalize on the next wave of growth for the computing industry as its nuanced device microservice architecture enhances security and privacy while reducing costs of traditional cloud computing solutions.”

“Primera Capital has funded some of the world’s most transformative technology companies over the past two decades,” said Ori Sasson, General Partner, Primera Capital. “We invest in extraordinary products, opportune markets, and daring entrepreneurs with unwavering visions, and with the disruptive potential of their edge platform and strong leadership team, mimik aligns with these key criteria.”

“We’re thrilled to be working with funding partners such as Pier88, NLabs, Primera Capital and others. They understand the essential benefits of the mimik hybrid edgeCloud platform and the massive market opportunity ahead,” said Siavash Alamouti, Executive Chairman of mimik. “We’re in the midst of a massive transformation across all industries. The burgeoning hyper-connected economy will be orders of magnitude larger than mobile internet, and mimik’s platform will help accelerate this technology revolution and in a much more sustainable way.”

To drive the adoption of hybrid edge cloud computing, mimik has established strategic partnerships with leading cloud companies such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM and technology services companies such as Tata Elxsi. The platform has been successfully used to complete digital transformation with a number of companies with impressive results and is now being used by many early-adopter customers and partners. For more information on mimik’s hybrid edgeCloud platform, available edge-based microservices, and digital transformation services, visit mimik.com.

About mimik
mimik provides a hybrid edge cloud computing application development platform and business enablers for digital transformation. Developers and enterprises can achieve their business objectives without compromising time to market, cost, scalability, interoperability, data privacy and security, and being locked in proprietary technology stacks. mimik enables hybrid edge native application development that works across ecosystems of devices (iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, Linux, QNX, Raspbian, OpenWRT and smart IoT FreeRTOS sensors), networks, and any private and/or public cloud. The mimik platform is the fastest and most direct way of connecting siloed and fragmented applications from the edge with minimal reliance on middlemen. We can help enterprises save millions of dollars in legacy backend integration while reducing their ongoing operational costs through an edge-in approach. mimik enables systematic digital transformation for a sustainable digital economy to help enterprises secure business leadership in the hyper-connected world. For more information, visit: https://mimik.com and https://developer.mimik.com

Media Contact:
Beth Morrissey
PR@mimik.com

Aggressive expansion planned in growing Smart Building and ESG data space

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 03, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Microshare Inc., a leading provider of Smart Building data solutions to multinationals and public sector institutions, has closed $15 million in financing from the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund, L.P., Avenue Capital Group’s vehicle for supporting firms working to bring about a more sustainable world.

Microshare’s EverSmart suite of Smart Facilities solutions help global enterprises like GlaxoSmithKline, Aramark and Rent-A-Center reassure workforce, tenants and customers about the safety of indoor spaces while producing operational efficiencies as well as data insights that boost ESG (Environment | Social | Governance) performance.

“The Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund investment represents a major vote of confidence in the transformational nature of our EverSmart solutions,” said Microshare CEO and Co-Founder Ron Rock. “As the pandemic hopefully subsides, our ability to create data where none existed before has never been more relevant as workers and tenants grappled with new concerns about indoor spaces, and companies rethink their real estate footprint and face new global expectations on climate and other ESG issues.”

“Microshare is a natural fit for our strategy,” said Sean Coleman, co-manager of the Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund. “We are excited to back Microshare’s strategy to address growing corporate demand for improvements in building energy efficiency and water consumption, both of which are critical considerations for a sustainable future.”

Philadelphia-based Microshare provides Sensing-as-a-Service solutions to clients in Commercial Real Estate, Corporate, Healthcare, Manufacturing and Pharmaceuticals sectors. The company received international attention for the Universal Contact Tracing wearables it introduced early in the pandemic, a solution credited with preventing major outbreaks at essential manufacturing industries like pharmaceuticals and logistics.

Microshare will use the funds to expand its sales and development teams, grow its business in North America, Europe and the Middle East, and to solidify the complex supply chain and reseller relationships that underpin its efforts to deploy its data solutions at scale.

Microshare’s solutions create Digital Twins clients’ real-world assets that enable better decisions on operational systems and the data to inform and fuel impactful sustainability initiatives.

The company recently reached a number of milestone agreements, including:

• An agreement with Aramark, the largest facilities management firm in the U.S., for Microshare to provide the technological backbone of its AIWX Connect Predictive Cleaning solutions, now being deployed in major hospitals, stadiums and other infrastructure;
• An agreement with the British government and the University of Leeds on a test of its contact tracing wearables for infection reduction in dozens of elder care settings;
• Renewals of global contracts for Universal Contact Tracing wearables for GSK’s manufacturing plants globally, Rent-A-Center’s headquarters facilities, and several other clients in the Energy/Logistics sectors.

About Avenue Sustainable Solutions
The Avenue Sustainable Solutions Fund, L.P. seeks to provide creative financing solutions to high-growth companies that can demonstrate a measurable, positive environmental outcome alongside competitive financial returns. It focuses generally on North American companies within the underserved segment of the market created by the widening financing gap between commercial banks and larger debt funds. For additional information on Avenue Capital Group, which is a global investment firm with assets estimated to be approximately $11.7 billion as of September 30, 2021, please visit www.avenuecapital.com.

About Microshare
Microshare’s EverSmart suite of Smart Building solutions are deployed at scale around the world to bring safety, wellness, cost savings and sustainability data to our clients’ real estate assets. Microshare is a leader in LoRaWAN applications and a proud member of the LoRa Alliance®. www.microshare.io

Contact: Simon Redgate sredgate@microshare.io  +44(0)7850112703

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