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Rhombus Announces $45M Series C Funding to Extend Global Footprint, Led by NightDragon

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New funding with participation from Bluestone Equity Partners will expand proven go-to-market strategy and further enhance product capabilities at a time of increased momentum

SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Rhombus, a leader in cloud-managed physical security, today announced $45 million in Series C funding led by NightDragon, a dedicated cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy investment firm, with participation from Bluestone Equity Partners, and existing investors Caden Capital, Cota Capital, Tru Arrow Partners, and Uncorrelated Ventures. The round brings total funding raised to over $90 million.

Capital raised on rapid growth in the cloud-managed physical security market
The funding comes as Rhombus has fortified its position as a next-generation leader in the $45 billion physical security market. Demand continues to surge as more organizations look to make the shift from complex legacy systems to fully integrated solutions that leverage the power of the cloud and advanced analytics for enhanced security, safety, and operational efficiencies.

Rhombus’ complete hardware-software solution combines smart security cameras, access control, connected IoT sensors, alarm monitoring, and an intuitive console in a cloud-managed and truly open platform. A growing ecosystem of over 40 integrations, along with the ability to easily serve Rhombus data to other critical systems through an open API, arms organizations with personalized end-to-end solutions. This allows users to see, understand, and respond to critical events unique to their operations – whether they are a school taking proactive steps against gun-related violence, a retailer tackling loss prevention, or a construction business tracking high-value equipment.

“Physical security is entering a new era, where it is possible to have smarter, safer spaces through the power of connected systems, cloud platforms, artificial intelligence, and more. NightDragon is proud to lead an investment in Rhombus, which is enabling this transformation through its innovative, leading technology and open platform approach to better secure our world for tomorrow,” said Dave DeWalt, Founder and CEO of NightDragon.

Funding to expand go-to-market strategy and technology investments
The new round of funding comes at a time of increased momentum for Rhombus, including:

Growth to over 3,000 customers, from Fortune 500 companies to school districts and citiesOver 100K devices and cameras securing thousands of locations around the worldOverseeing 5M+ alerts per day to enhance customer security

Rhombus will use the new funding to further expand its go-to-market strategy, including continued investment in its partner and developer ecosystem and expansion of its international presence. Additionally, it will continue advancing internal artificial intelligence and open platform capabilities. As an investor, NightDragon will support these efforts through its proprietary NightScale platform, which includes partnerships, playbooks, people, and platforms for growth.

“We are excited to bring on additional strategic investors, like NightDragon and Bluestone, who bring a wealth of industry experience which will accelerate Rhombus’ go-to-market and product capabilities. Their investment validates the massive market opportunity for global physical security and accelerates our mission of making organizations safer and their spaces more intelligent,” said Garrett Larsson, CEO, Rhombus.

NightDragon Managing Director Morgan Kyauk will join the Rhombus Board of Directors.

About Rhombus

Rhombus is an open, cloud-managed physical security platform that brings security cameras, access control, sensors, alarm monitoring, and integrations together under a single pane of glass. Backed by NightDragon, Bluestone Equity Partners, Cota Capital, Caden Capital, Tru Arrow Partners, and Uncorrelated Ventures, Rhombus is on a mission to make the world safer with simple, smart, and powerful physical security solutions. To learn more, visit www.rhombus.com

About NightDragon

NightDragon is an investment and advisory firm focused on growth and late-stage investments within the cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy industries. Its platform and vast industry network provide unparalleled threat insights, deal flow, market leverage and operating expertise to drive portfolio company growth and increase shareholder value. Founded by Dave DeWalt, the NightDragon team has more than 25 years of operational and market expertise leading technology companies such as Documentum, EMC, Siebel Systems (Oracle), McAfee, Mandiant, Avast and FireEye. Read more about NightDragon at www.nightdragon.com.

About Bluestone Equity Partners

Headquartered in New York City, Bluestone Equity Partners is a private equity firm harnessing a unique combination of blue-chip business and investing experience, coupled with deep industry ties, to forge highly strategic capital partnerships with established Sports, Media & Entertainment businesses and properties. Led by Founder & Managing Partner Bobby Sharma, Bluestone strives to partner with exceptional management teams and rights holders seeking growth and scale on a global basis.

For more information, visit www.bluestoneequity.com and @bluestoneequity on LinkedIn.

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martin.padilla@rhombus.com

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Orange County Register Names Roth Staffing Companies one of the Top Workplaces for 2024

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This year’s recognition marks Roth Staffing’s twelfth time on the prestigious list.

ORANGE, Calif., Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Roth Staffing Companies has been named as one of the Top Workplaces 2024 by Orange County Register Top Workplaces, making it their twelfth time to receive this honor. Roth Staffing earned its spot in the midsize category.

“Having established our business here in Orange County more than 30 years ago, this recognition holds a special place in our hearts. We’re thrilled and grateful to once again be named a Top Workplace!” – Adam Roth, CEO of Roth Staffing Companies.

This list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage, LLC. The confidential survey uniquely measures the employee experience and its component themes, including employees feeling Respected & Supported, Enabled to Grow, and Empowered to Execute, to name a few.

“Having established our business here in Orange County more than 30 years ago, this recognition holds a special place in our hearts. We’re thrilled and grateful to once again be named a Top Workplace!” shared Adam Roth, CEO of Roth Staffing Companies. “At Roth Staffing, our coworkers take pride in their contributions and are inspired to enjoy the process along the way. It’s their dedication to fulfilling our Purpose, ‘To make life better for the people we serve,’ that has made this achievement possible. Here’s to many more milestones ahead in 2025 and beyond!”

About Roth Staffing
Roth Staffing Companies is one of the largest privately held staffing firms in the United States, operating from more than 100 locations across 20 states and the District of Columbia. Roth Staffing consists of five specialized business lines: Ultimate Staffing Services for administrative and office positions, Ledgent Finance & Accounting,Ledgent Technology, Adams & Martin Group for legal staffing, and About Talent for workforce solutions. 

Roth Staffing Companies, L.P. has locations Arizona: Phoenix; California: Brea, Carlsbad, Century City, Cerritos, Costa Mesa, Fremont, Fresno, Inland Empire, Irvine, La Jolla, Los Angeles, Orange County, Oxnard, Palo Alto, Pasadena, Pleasanton, Roseville, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Torrance, Tustin, Woodland Hills; Colorado: Denver; Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven; Florida: Boca Raton, Clearwater, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Tampa, West Palm Beach; Georgia: Atlanta; Massachusetts: Boston; Maryland: Baltimore, Columbia, Frederick, Rockville, Timonium; Michigan: Detroit; Minnesota: Bloomington, Minneapolis; Missouri: St. Louis, Kansas City; North Carolina: Raleigh; New Hampshire: Nashua; New Jersey: Paramus; Nevada: Las Vegas; Oregon: Portland; Texas: Austin, Dallas, Houston, North Houston, San Antonio; Virginia: Arlington; Washington: Wisconsin: Milwaukee. 

About Energage
Energage is a purpose-driven company that helps organizations turn employee feedback into useful business intelligence and credible employer recognition through Top Workplaces. Built on 17 years of culture research and the results from 27 million employees surveyed across more than 70,000 organizations,  Energage delivers the most accurate competitive benchmark available. With access to a unique combination of patented analytic tools and expert guidance, Energage customers lead the competition with an engaged workforce and an opportunity to gain recognition for their people-first approach to culture. For more information or to nominate your organization, visit energage.com or topworkplaces.com.

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Samantha Cabot, Roth Staffing Companies, 714-939-8600, scabot@rothstaffing.com, rothstaffing.com 

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Trading Technologies achieves high spot in Chartis Buyside Platforms 2024 Rankings

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Firm also earns “strong category leader” status for Energy and Equity Trade Surveillance Solutions in new Chartis Market Quadrants report

CHICAGO, Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, has earned the number 12 spot in the Chartis Buyside Platforms 2024 ranking of the top 50 providers of buy-side platforms and technology. The report released this month showcases the leading players in financial infrastructure and highlights providers delivering essential services and tools – including trading networks, market data, prime brokerage services and more – to buy-side market participants. The ranking, which Chartis called a testament of the “commitment to delivering exceptional value and innovation” to that community, provides insights into how the companies are shaping the industry with advanced solutions in asset management, risk assessment and operational efficiency.

Separately, in Chartis’ just-released Market Quadrants report, which provides a detailed evaluation of key providers offering advanced surveillance solutions tailored to the unique needs of the energy and equity markets, TT achieved “strong category leader” status for both energy and equity trade surveillance solutions. In both categories, TT received a four-star rank for “Industry Leading Platform Capabilities.” Of particular note, TT earned “industry-leading” four-star rankings across all measures in the equity surveillance category, including analytics and modeling, pre-trade reporting, post-trade reporting, data infrastructure and database management, and data visualization and ease/speed of access capabilities.

TT CEO Keith Todd said: “With a long history of service to the sell side, we have been working diligently to grow our appeal to buy-side market participants, and we’re incredibly honored to have earned in short order a number 12 ranking on a cultivated list of the top 50 service providers in the buy-side sector. It’s a great accomplishment that our broadening of products, asset classes and services available on the TT® platform – including our expansion from futures trade surveillance to a powerful multi-asset offering – are already achieving industry-leading recognition across important measures.”

Handling over 2.5 billion transactions this year, the TT platform connects to more than 100 global exchanges and liquidity venues across a growing number of asset classes. The platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms and exchanges.

Buy-side participants leverage a wide range of TT tools to meet their trading needs, including a comprehensive suite of advanced execution algorithms, algo design and deployment tools, Autospreader and APIs. Through Abel Noser Solutions, a TT company, market participants employ a wide range of sophisticated transaction cost analysis (TCA) products and services across global equities, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income and options.

In June, the firm launched TT Trade Surveillance, a multi-asset trade surveillance solution combining new multi-asset coverage and dozens of new configurable models to supplement the machine learning-driven models from TT Score, the company’s first-generation trade surveillance platform. TT Trade Surveillance provides enhanced trade surveillance capabilities to a wide range of asset classes, including futures, equities, equity options, fixed income and foreign exchange (FX). The system has also recently added a new, innovative way to identify cross-product manipulation, where users can input correlated instruments directly into the user interface to create a single synthetic instrument, and utilize the machine-learning spoofing models to identify patterns of spoofing activity across multiple order books.

With this recognition, TT has now been honored globally and regionally 14 times this year for the TT platform, trade surveillance capabilities, algorithmic trading solution, TCA tool, execution management system (EMS), order management system (OMS) and market data services.

About Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technology platform provider to the global capital markets industry. The company’s award-winning TT® platform connects to the world’s major international exchanges and liquidity venues in listed derivatives alongside a growing number of asset classes, including fixed income, foreign exchange (FX) and cryptocurrencies. The TT platform delivers advanced tools for trade execution and order management, market data solutions, analytics, trade surveillance, risk management, clearing, post-trade allocation and infrastructure services to the world’s leading sell-side institutions, buy-side firms and exchanges. The company’s blue-chip client base includes the Tier 1 banks as well as brokers, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers and risk managers. These firms rely on the TT ecosystem to manage their end-to-end trading operations. In addition, exchanges utilize TT’s technology to deliver innovative solutions to their market participants. TT also strategically partners with technology companies to make their complementary offerings available to Trading Technologies’ global client base through the TT ecosystem.

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Allo Secures $100 Million in Debt Financing to Expand Bitcoin-Backed Lending Platform

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DUBAI, UAE, Dec. 23, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Allo.xyz, a platform for real-world asset (RWA) tokenization and lending, has successfully secured a $100 million Bitcoin-backed credit facility. This landmark credit facility will further enhance Allo’s BTC-backed lending services, catering to institutional and individual participants eager to engage in the growing crypto lending market.

Bolstering its position in the Bitcoin ecosystem, Allo has staked over 544 BTC (valued at $50M+) through the Babylon Bitcoin Staking Protocol. This positions Allo as a key player in enabling Bitcoin-secured networks, with its BTC staking solution minting the $alloBTC token featured prominently on DeFiLlama

The financing round, facilitated by a consortium of lenders including Greengage and a long-standing US institution, reflects rising demand for Bitcoin-secured lending solutions as Allo continues to bridge traditional finance with blockchain technology. Sean Kiernan, CEO of Greengage, expressed his enthusiasm: “We’re excited to support this much-needed new venture and look forward to seeing great things to come.”

Allo’s growth trajectory is underscored by its inclusion in the Binance Labs and BNB Chain MVB Accelerator program, securing up to $750,000 in investment. Allo is also gearing up to launch its native $RWA cryptocurrency, adding new utility to its ecosystem. Additionally, Allo has also made strides in tokenizing real-world assets, with over $2.2 billion in Total Value Locked (TVL) across various assets on the BNB Chain. Allo’s innovative onchain RWA fund solution allows anyone to create funds in under 60 seconds, opening new opportunities for asset management.

Addressing the $900 trillion real-world asset opportunity, Allo continues to pioneer tokenization solutions that seamlessly integrate traditional and digital finance. The company has also secured a $50 million term sheet for lending against SpaceX stock, enabling efficient borrowing solutions for private market shareholders.

Allo’s achievements have garnered recognition, including acceptance into the Qatar Financial Center Digital Asset Lab, underscoring the platform’s commitment to regulatory compliance and technological advancement. With strategic partnerships across the ecosystem—including BNB Chain, Binance Labs, Cobo,  Babylon, and Chainlink—Allo is supported by a robust network of industry leaders.

Allo’s experienced team, boasting over 60 years of combined expertise in cryptocurrency and real-world assets, remains dedicated to unlocking new opportunities and driving innovation in the decentralized financial ecosystem.

For more information, visit Allo.xyz.

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