Ohio City software company that targets colleges and universities is sold to Washington firm
Kate Volzer
Ohio City-based Wisr, which provides colleges and other educational institutions with software, is being acquired by EAB, a Washington, D.C.-based education research company.
The first software from Wisr, a company launched in 2016 by co-founders John Knific, Kris Ciccarello and Kate Volzer, focused on engaging students with alumni, with the goal of easing the transition from college to the work world. Its services have expanded, including adding software that helps new, incoming students to connect to upperclassmen, which helped schools decrease the number of students who enrolled but ended up going elsewhere. It also supplied a way for incoming students to access information such as how to register for classes.
80-year-old Progressive works to stay in touch with startup businesses
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Tricia Griffith, CEO of Progressive Corp., speaking at the virtual annual meeting of the North Coast Venture Fund.
Progressive Corp., the Mayfield Village-based insurer, may be the largest company in the region and, at 83 years old, one of its great growth stories, with a worldwide market. But, said CEO Tricia Griffith, it s important that the company think young and stay in touch with what s happening at companies in Northeast Ohio and elsewhere that are struggling to get off the ground. That s how I think about startups, she told the virtual attendees at the annual meeting of North Coast Ventures, the 15-year-old Cleveland investment group that helps to finance technology startups, primarily software businesses. I think about the fact that they don t have the legacy systems and they can be really nimble, and that is going to be expected of all (businesses) to be that way, even though we re over
The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic are opening up the Tuesday, Feb. 23, meeting, which will feature a chat with Tricia Griffith, president and CEO of Progressive Corp., who will discuss the company's data and technology strategy, its approach to innovation and its recent partnerships with technology startups.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Vytalize Health, a leading provider of value-based healthcare, has agreed to acquire MedPilot, a leading digital health platform. The acquisition brings Vytalize a unique, end-to-end patient engagement capability to manage its 65,000 Medicare patients and $1 billion of medical spending. Vytalize Health s mission is, To accelerate the world s transition to value-based care by taking care of the doctors who take care of us. Together, the combined companies aim to transform the $250 billion independent primary care provider Medicare market.
1 The transaction has been approved by both companies Boards of Directors subject to shareholder approval and is expected to close in the coming days.
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