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Paytient, the leader in employer-sponsored healthcare payment solutions, today announced it has been named to Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech, an annual list recognizing breakthrough technologies with the potential to transform industries and shape the future. Paytient was selected in the Health and Medicine Category for building the Healthcare Payability Platform — technology they purpose-built to give employers and health plans a new lever for managing healthcare spend. That lever: the ability to redesign benefit structures around the confidence that every employee can pay for care when they need it…

Clever Closings, the digital title and escrow division of Clever Real Estate, is now live in 11 states, up from three in June 2025, and expects to open Ohio and Pennsylvania before the end of the year. The expansion will put the division in 13 states less than three years after it began closing transactions. Clever Closings takes a tech-forward approach to title and escrow, running every file on a single digital platform. Agents, buyers, sellers, and loan officers see every update in real-time, without the need to call or email for updates. Documents and messages are encrypted, and clients can deposit earnest money from their phone. Built-in fraud protection verifies each party’s ID against public records and screens wire instructions before any money moves…

FinTech Studios, a leading AI-native market and regulatory intelligence platform with over 1 million active users, today announced the general availability of the FinTech Studios Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector for Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The connector is now listed in the official connector directories of both platforms, and the FinTech Studios connector can also be easy added to a user’s Claude for Financial Advisors set of tools. Users can connect FinTech Studios connector in a few clicks and then work with FTS market and regulatory intelligence directly inside the AI assistants they already use…

Milliman, one of the world’s largest independent risk, actuarial, and technology consulting firms, and Monitaur, the AI assurance platform for enterprises that have to prove their AI works, today announced a collaboration under Milliman’s Strategic Alliance and Ecosystem Program to offer a comprehensive AI governance solution. Milliman consultants supporting clients with AI deployments can build upon the Monitaur platform, and Monitaur’s customers can have their most consequential AI systems independently reviewed by a Milliman expert, inside the software they already run their program in…

Today FinOpsly introduced AI Cost Governance, a financial operating discipline that gives enterprises a unified way to understand, manage and prove the business value of AI. Positioned as “FinOps for AI,” it extends the principles of cloud FinOps beyond infrastructure to the entire economic footprint of artificial intelligence…

Cliff Holekamp will speak about intellectual property for Tech Week Greenville at Flywheel Coworking on September 25th. Tech Week Greenville is a high-energy, week-long celebration of innovation, technology, and community. From workshops and keynotes to block parties and fireside chats — it brings together creatives, developers, designers, founders, and tech enthusiasts to connect, create, and level up across the Upstate…

Nearly 15 years after its launch, hospitality management system Cloudbeds has become an integral tool for more than 20,000 properties scattered across 150-plus markets, processing roughly $12 billion in booking value each year. Revenue jumped nearly 500% between 2020 and 2023, and last year, the company turned profitable. “We keep telling ourselves, 20,000-plus properties isn’t enough, we need 100 [thousand],” said CEO and co-founder Adam Harris. “So our next goal is 100 [thousand]. That’s what we’re marching toward…

Hydrosat, the leading provider of thermal infrared satellite data and AI-powered analytics, today announced a $10 million investment from Suma Capital through an extension of its Series B financing. Suma Capital joins Hydrosat’s shareholder base following the company’s $60 million Series B financing announced earlier this year, alongside Hartree Partners, Subutai Capital Partners, Space 4 Earth and Truffle Capital. Existing investors – including Luxembourg Future Fund, OTB Ventures, Blue Bear Capital, Statkraft Ventures, Cultivation Capital and Santa Barbara Venture Partners…

This year, 100 startups from across the St. Louis region entered the competition, representing some of the most promising emerging companies in AI, cybersecurity, biotech, health innovation, accessibility, geospatial, logistics, climate technology, education and more. Ops Companion, by Kenneth Eversole: OpsCompanion is a sovereign intelligence company dedicated to ensuring that the most capable AI is owned and controlled by the people who depend on it. Built for banks, hospitals, and law firms…

This year, 100 startups from across the St. Louis region entered the competition, representing some of the most promising emerging companies in AI, cybersecurity, biotech, health innovation, accessibility, geospatial, logistics, climate technology, education and more. CapyBio, by Guillermo Rivera-Gonzalez: CapyBio helps biotech and pharma build better human cell models, reducing costly failures and accelerating drug development…