Looking to Reignite Your Professional Motivation? Plan a Workcation.

Built In, a Serra Capital III portfolio company, shares interesting insights on the newest trend for invigoration - the “workcation.” It doesn’t take burning through precious PTO in order to experience the world and feel re-inspired. The idea of a workcation is to simply change the scenery, while still maintaining your regular work load.

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Zerigo Health Appoints Helen Calvin as President and Chief Commercial Officer

Zerigo Health, a Serra Capital III portfolio company, announced this week that it has appoint Helen Calvin as the new President and CCO. Helen brings 15+ years of experience in scaling companies across digital health.

Zerigo Health offers the only comprehensive home solution that seamlessly connects patients and providers to deliver optimal dermatological outcomes. Zerigo’s precision solution remotely treats and monitors patients with chronic skin conditions using narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy, a proven, standard-of-care treatment. Patients benefit from the unique combination of advanced technology with personal coaching and support throughout their treatment journey, which results in documented increases in treatment adherence and patient satisfaction. To learn more, visit www.zerigohealth.com.

Paystand Puts Crypto on Its Balance Sheet, Setting a New Standard for B2B SaaS Operations

Paystand – the leader in blockchain-enabled B2B payments – today announced it has been purchasing Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) on its balance sheet. This move marks a significant milestone for B2B SaaS companies and further legitimizes the emergence of cryptocurrency as a viable balance sheet asset. Paystand’s decision to accumulate and hold crypto underscores the company’s belief in the long-term value of digital currency and that owning DeFi assets will soon become essential for businesses in the 2020s and beyond.

"Blockchain technology is one of the best bets a company can make in the 2020s and within that, crypto has become an emerging opportunity to strengthen the corporate balance sheet and better manage capital preservation against external volatility in the fiat money supply," said Jeremy Almond, Paystand’s CEO. “Blockchain and digital currencies are uniquely positioned to transform corporate treasury and revolutionize how companies function at the root level. Just as cloud computing transformed the way companies were run in the early 2000s, blockchain will help businesses unlock newfound potential when it comes to scalability, growth, and revenue.”

Paystand is a Serra Capital II and Serra Capital II Follow-on-Fund company. To read the entire article, follow here.

Built in Chicago: What the Pandemic Taught Us About Company Culture

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was common for tech companies to require most of their employees to work from the office.

After all, being face-to-face with colleagues seemed like a critical ingredient to building culture. Working in person facilitated bonding, made collaboration easy and created a sense of “one team.” The thought of missing out on that, paired with the idea that some jobs just couldn’t be done remotely, forced many CEOs to buck the work-from-home idea.

Peter Evans was one of them. He’s the CEO of PHMG, and was of the notion that working remotely for many jobs simply wasn’t feasible.

“But then the pandemic gave us no choice on the matter,” Evans said.

Now, Evans is a changed man on the topic. And he’s not alone.

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Lisnr Partners With Paga on Contactless Payment Solution Across Africa

Lisnr, a Serra Capital II and Serra Capital II Follow-on-Fund company, has announced its partnership with Nigeria-based payment platform Paga. Lisnr is the global leader in proximity verification that enables contactless ultrasonic authentication. This relationship will allow contactless payments throughout Africa.

The strategic partnership between Paga and LISNR is the first major partnership of LISNR in Africa’s fintech space.

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Droneseed To Be Part Of U.S. Forest Service’s New Reforestation Mission

Droneseed, a Serra Capital Ag Tech Fund portfolio company with rapid reforestation as their mission, is now a integral part of how the U.S. Forest Service will reforest land.

Thousands of acres of California forestland are destroyed every year due to wildfires ‚ and in some areas, the land is unable to regenerate. Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service are hard at work trying to give trees a head start by collecting seeds to start seedlings in greenhouses and planting them by hand. However, enter Droneseed, whose solution can drop seeds from the sky. DroneSeed is paid per acre to plant tree seed vessels after a wildfire, using heavy-lift Drone Swarms. Rapid reforestation, that is quicker, safer and ready to go at a moment’s notice.

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Artio Medical’s Amplifi Vein Dilation System Demonstrates Encouraging Results

Artio Medical, Inc., a medical device company developing innovative products for the peripheral vascular, neurovascular, and structural heart markets, today announced that full results from its first-in-human (FIH) clinical study of the Amplifi™ Vein Dilation System were presented at the 2021 VEITH Symposium by Surendra Shenoy, MD-PhD, an Associate Professor of Surgery at the Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. 

"Data from the first five patients treated with the Amplifi System demonstrated more than a doubling of forearm and upper arm cephalic vein diameters following a mean treatment period of 8.6 days. We were able to successfully create an arteriovenous fistula (AVF) using treated veins in all patients and observed rapid and robust AVF maturation," commented Dr. Shenoy. "This data is very encouraging and I believe this technology has the potential to offer a much-needed solution for increasing AVF suitability and reducing maturation failure."

Artio Medical is a Serra Capital III and Serra Capital III SBIC company. To view the full article, follow here.

Hazel Technologies’ Co-Founder Listed on Forbes ‘30 Under 30’

Hazel Technologies is a stand-out Serra Capital III company that is changing the fresh produce industry with packet inserts that keep food fresher, longer. This week, their co-founder, Patrick Flynn, was featured on the Forbes “30 Under 30 Manufacturing & Industry” List.

Hazel has recently expanded to the West Coast to better offer their solutions in California - where 25% of the United States food supply is produced. The company also recently completed a $70 million Series C funding round.

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