NEWS
Vonage partners with Altice
Portugal to provide leading-edge
customer communications
featuring mobile, SMS and voice tools. Such a solution will, for
example, facilitate brand-to-consumer communication while
protecting user privacy and allowing businesses to track, record and
analyse calls to gain new insights.
V
onage, a global business cloud communications leader,
has announced a partnership with Portugal-based
telecommunications service company, Altice Portugal, to provide
seamless, contextual SMS and voice communications to its
customers via Nexmo, the Vonage API platform.
Together, Vonage and Altice Portugal, through its corporate brand,
PT Empresas, will be the first in the region to offer businesses a
fully comprehensive, pre-packaged cloud communications solution
“We’re excited to partner with Vonage and empower businesses to
reach their customers via contextual SMS and voice communications
provided by Nexmo, the Vonage API platform,” said João Sousa,
Chief Sales Officer/B2B of Altice Portugal. “Connecting to
customers on their preferred channel and providing meaningful
communications experiences will improve the customer experience
and result in increased customer loyalty and ultimately, better
business outcomes.”
“Vonage leverages cloud communications technology to build
solutions that help businesses offer best-in-class customer
engagement and seamless communications experiences,” said
James Lasbrey, Senior Director Carrier Relations, Vonage. “We’re
thrilled to be the first to offer Portugal-based businesses a
comprehensive packaged mobile, SMS and voice solution, through
our partnership with Altice Portugal.”
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Aqua Security closes US$62 million in
funding to cement cloud leadership
I
srael-based Aqua Security, a market
leader in protecting container-based,
serverless and cloud-native applications, has
announced that it has closed a Series C round
of US$62 million led by Insight Partners.
Aqua’s existing investors – Lightspeed
Venture Partners, M12 (Microsoft’s venture
fund), TLV Partners and Shlomo Kramer –
www.intelligentcio.com
have also participated in the round. The Series
C investment brings Aqua’s total venture
funding to more than US$100 million.
“As investors in several leading cloud
technology providers, we were impressed
by Aqua and its track record as a security
leader in this hyper-growth space,” said
Jeff Horing, Co-founder and Managing
Director at Insight Partners. “Aqua’s vision,
its unrivalled investment in open source
technologies and deep relationships
with strategic partners have created a
tremendous opportunity as customers
accelerate their move to cloud-native
platforms. We look forward to Aqua
joining the Insight portfolio and seeing its
continued growth.”
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