An addax, Arabian oryx, two Grevy’s zebra and two giant elands were born last week.
Zoo Miami has welcomed six new baby animals to six different mothers at its sanctuary.
All six animals are females and from species that have been classified as either endangered or vulnerable.
The first birth was a female addax born on July 2. Addaxes are African desert antelopes and are one of the most endangered animals in the world, with fewer than 100 left in the Sahara.
The second birth was a Grevy’s zebra born on July 5.
They have thin stripes and large ears, and are indigenous to north-eastern Africa.
Two days later, an Arabian oryx, a species that was recently successfully reintroduced to the wild, was born.
The week finished with the births of another Grevy’s zebra and two giant elands, large antelopes found in central Africa deemed vulnerable.
The zoo is also anticipating two more births any day now, of another giant eland and a giraffe.
STAMFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov 14, 2024--
SwiftConnect today announced the closing of a $37 million Series B financing to expand its access network for connecting people to the right place at the right time. The company’s latest investment round is led by Quadri Ventures, with participation from new investors HID (part of ASSA ABLOY), Egis Capital Partners, and Klingenstein Fields Advisors. Returning investors include Crow Holdings, JLL Spark, Navitas Capital, Tanzola Corp., and Spring Rock Capital. In addition to expanding the company’s access network, the funding will be used to scale operations, drive geographic expansion, and support new product initiatives. SwiftConnect has raised $74 million in total funding to date.
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“We are thrilled to make a significant further investment in SwiftConnect, recognizing the company’s innovative solution for physical access, driven management team, and viral market adoption with major enterprise brands and real estate customers,” said Chris James, Managing Partner atQuadri Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on enterprise software. “We are fully committed to supporting SwiftConnect’s next phase of growth as we embrace its transformative vision of being the global network for access to everything people need, when they need it.”
SwiftConnect’s success is grounded in its ability to automate, centralize and digitize access management, user provisioning, and credential lifecycle management. This gives people the freedom to use their mobile access pass in NFC wallets and any other credentials to conveniently access buildings, offices and enterprise resources, amenities, and much more–regardless of the existing access control, identity management and building systems in place.
“Our Series B fundraise signals strong and ongoing investor confidence in SwiftConnect as we continue to reshape the physical access paradigm,” said Co-CEOs Chip Kruger and Matt Kopel of SwiftConnect. “As the network that powers a hassle-free experience for accessing places, spaces and things, SwiftConnect combines our vast partner ecosystem and vendor-neutral SaaS platform with our customer base of multinational organizations, iconic commercial real estate properties and portfolios, and other organizations to deliver the future of truly connected access and identity management. The new funding will continue to drive our leadership position in making seamless and secure access to anywhere possible so people can more easily access the most important things in their lives.”
SwiftConnect is live in hundreds of millions of square feet across multiple types of customers and vertical markets, globally. The company’s current customer base represents a potential opportunity of over a billion square feet of office space and more than two million users. SwiftConnect’s market traction includes:
Following on from SwiftConnect’s acquisition of Detrios, the company recently purchased UK-based FlitchTech to expand its ability to provide highly complex access control integration services across multiple continents, while increasing its footprint in the higher education vertical. SwiftConnect has also extended its expertise into the high-end multifamily rental market and has completed deployments in North America.
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The company’s momentum is powered by its AccessCloud platform, the backbone of the SwiftConnect access network. Built for interoperability, the SaaS platform integrates mobile wallets, credential technologies, readers, locks and devices, access control systems, identity providers, and other business systems that govern physical access across multiple locations worldwide.
About SwiftConnect
SwiftConnect is the access network for connecting people to the right place at the right time. We delight users with elegant ways to interact with places, spaces and things by ensuring your digital pass is on your phone, watch or anywhere it needs to be. Powering connected access experiences for commercial real estate owners and enterprises across financial and professional services, life sciences, technology, and other leading organizations, our platform integrates with existing mobile platforms, credential technologies, and business systems to provide authorized access to everything, everywhere through centralized access management. We provide a street-to-seat journey that users love, automation that redefines operational efficiency, and a foundation of security and privacy that administrators trust so you can navigate your world better For more information, visit. www.swiftconnect.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
SwiftConnect Raises $37 Million of Financing in Series B Round
