Grant Returns to Scale Mission’s Professional Services Organization, Expanding Cloud and AI Services to Meet Growing Customer Demand

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Mission, a leading US-based Amazon Web Services (AWS) Premier Tier Partner, has announced the return of Glenn Grant as Senior Vice President of Professional Services. Grant’s appointment reinforces Mission’s dedication to enabling customers with cloud and AI solutions on AWS and positioning Mission to further deliver cutting-edge services that drive measurable business outcomes for its customers.

Glenn Grant, founder of G2 Tech Group—a company acquired by Mission in 2018—brings over 25 years of experience in IT and outsourced services. A pioneer in managed services in the early 2000s, Grant has a proven track record of transforming businesses and driving growth.

Since the acquisition, Grant has served as Mission’s advisor and board member. At the same time, Grant worked as a business coach and entrepreneur advisor, helping tech companies increase their business value and build strong leadership teams. This experience in scaling businesses and working with private equity-backed ventures is invaluable as Mission grows and expands its services.

“We are thrilled to welcome Glenn Grant back to Mission as our SVP of Professional Services,” said Ted Stuart, Mission’s President and COO. “Glenn’s extensive expertise, entrepreneurial background, and deep understanding of our core values will be instrumental in elevating our AWS initiatives and enhancing our ability to drive customer success.”

“Glenn and I go way back, and I’m excited to see him step into this role at Mission,” said Jay Wessland, CTO of the Boston Celtics. “Glenn’s deep understanding of AWS technologies and business strategy has always been impressive. His leadership will undoubtedly drive innovation and results for AWS customers, including us at the Celtics.”

“Leading Professional Services is an exciting opportunity to work with an incredibly talented team of cloud, DevOps, and AI professionals,” said Glenn Grant. “The advancement of AI technologies, coupled with our strong partnership with AWS, presents huge opportunities for our customers to achieve things they couldn’t before with tools on AWS. It’s exciting to be at the forefront of this industry, helping our customers move AI from experimentation to actual workloads on AWS.”

As SVP of Professional Services, Grant will lead the team in implementing cutting-edge solutions and best practices to support Mission’s growing customer base. He will focus on scaling the professional services organization to meet the increasing demand for AI and cloud services. “We’re taking what we’ve learned over the last few years, especially in AI, machine learning, and data operations, and up leveling our already rock-solid cloud and DevOps offerings,” Grant explained.

Grant’s role reinforces Mission’s commitment to reinvesting in AWS technologies and growing customer workloads on the AWS platform. This strategic direction aligns with Mission’s goal of continually enhancing its service offerings to meet the evolving needs of its cloud customers.

About Mission
Mission Cloud is a leading born-in-the-cloud managed services and consulting provider, offering end-to-end cloud services, innovative AI solutions, and software for AWS customers. As an AWS Premier Tier Partner, we help manage your technology investments, improve performance and governance, scale to meet demand, safeguard your data, and innovate fearlessly. Our team of AWS experts empowers businesses to accelerate the adoption of new technology like generative AI and migrate, manage, and modernize their cloud environments — ensuring a successful future in the cloud. Mission Cloud consistently earns Best Places to Work awards and is recognized across the technology industry for our commitment to closing the cloud skills gap and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). For more information, visit: http://www.missioncloud.com.

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SAN CARLOS, Calif., Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Beacon AI, a Silicon Valley-based aviation intelligence startup, announced it raised $15 million in Series A funding, led by Costanoa Ventures, with significant participation from Scout Ventures, joining numerous new and existing investors including Sam Altman, and JetBlue Ventures – raising the total venture funding to $20M.

Beacon is on a mission to put AI assistance in every professional flight deck to improve flight safety and efficiency for defense and commercial operators. Beacon is focused primarily on aircraft represented in the commercial market and their defense twins. The adaptable platform presents a `dual-use` opportunity by being able to serve both markets on similar aircraft. The Series A investment will allow Beacon to expand its team, deliver on existing DOD and commercial engagements, and accelerate the deployment of its flagship products: Murdock, an AI-powered pilot assistant akin to R2-D2 for pilots, and Lighthouse, its data platform and flight management system.

“From our start, we’ve had the goal of augmenting pilots with advanced technology that helps them perform their jobs more efficiently and safely,” said Matt Cox, CEO of Beacon AI. “Everyone in aviation is under pressure to improve safety, and planes’ flight decks and pilots remain underserved. We are building something I wish I had in my decade as a naval aviator and 20 years as a pilot.”

“There is no better team to bring AI into the flight deck for commercial and military pilots,” said Greg Sands, founder and Managing Partner of Costanoa Ventures. “They have already proven themselves in the most high-stakes cockpits in the world, which is why we’re excited to see their progress with commercial pilots.”

Beacon AI has gained significant traction with ten Department of Defense (DOD) contracts and agreements and is seeing rapidly growing commercial interest. The funding will support the company’s expansion to meet high demand and deploy its first product to customers. While slots for 2024 are currently full, the company is opening beta sign-ups for 2025.

“When we first met Beacon AI, what stood out the most was the team and how laser-focused they are on building for their customer.  Being led by a team of subject matter experts with countless flight hours in the cockpit allows for an unparalleled understanding of this dual-use technology, and their approach resonated with us. We are proud to be backing a top-tier entrepreneur, Matt Cox, and supporting the entire Beacon AI Team,” said Brad Harrison, founder and Managing Partner of Scout Ventures.

Beacon AI is currently hiring across all departments as it scales to bring its vision of safer, more efficient flight to the world.

About Beacon AI:
Beacon AI is a California-based aviation software technology company specializing in developing advanced AI systems to augment commercial and defense pilots. The company’s mission is to enhance the future of flight by making flight operations safer and more efficient. Beacon’s innovative solutions address the complex challenges faced by the aviation sector, backed by leading investors such as Costanoa Ventures, Scout Ventures, Sam Altman through Apollo Projects and Hydrazine Capital, and JetBlue Ventures, and guided by aviation industry advisors including Hon. Robert Sumwalt (former Chairman of the NTSB) and Ali Bahrami (former Associate Administrator of the FAA).

For more information, please visit https://beaconai.co/ contact info@beaconai.co, or follow us on LinkedIn.

About Costanoa Ventures:
Founded in 2012, Costanoa Ventures partners with builders as early as company formation, with a focus on B2B in applied AI, data & developer infrastructure, security, defense, and fintech. Costanoa is a long-term, boutique partner to entrepreneurs from the earliest stages of company building with expertise from its BuilderOps team. For more information, please visit www.costanoa.vc.

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With remarkable new capabilities, launched at Cube Rollup, Cube streamlines data modeling and access

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — At Cube Rollup, Cube’s inaugural in-person user event, Cube announced significant innovations to Cube Cloud, Cube’s universal semantic layer, that improve how data is managed and consumed. New capabilities include a next-generation data modeling engine, code-named Tesseract; Data Access Policies; Cube Copilot; Cube Visual Modeler; and the general availability of Semantic Catalog. In addition, the company announced Cube OSS 1.0, marking a significant milestone.

For data engineers, translating raw data into consistent business definitions so that coworkers, customers, and machines have accessible, trusted, and governed data across AI, BI, spreadsheets, and embedded analytics is not without obstacles. With Cube Cloud, data engineers can more easily unify data modeling and governance, increase productivity and collaboration, and provide a tailored experience to help data analysts and business people find and use trusted data.

“With the latest innovations, Cube’s universal semantic layer leapfrogs the competition by providing benefits tailored to the needs of technical decision makers, data analysts, and business users in addition to data engineers,” said Artyom Keydunov, Co-founder and CEO of Cube. “The new Cube Cloud marks a step change in our flagship product, enabling organizations to solve more complex data problems, empowering data teams to work more efficiently together, and simplifying data discovery, access, and exploration.”

What makes the new Cube Cloud remarkable?

New capabilities in Cube Cloud include:

Next-Generation Data Modeling Engine (Tesseract): Gain significant performance enhancements, starting with new SQL Planner. It adds support for multi-stage calculations, aggregating from query results so that organizations can tackle more complex analytical requirements.Data Access Policies: Define comprehensive role-based access controls, including policies and roles. They can also integrate with external directory services and ensure secure and scalable data access tailored to their security and governance requirements.Cube Copilot: Enhance data engineering team productivity by providing intelligent recommendations and streamlining data modeling tasks in code, allowing them to focus on higher-value activities.Cube Visual Modeler: Turn clicks into code with new no-code data modeling capabilities. This enables more contributors, such as data stewards and analysts, to participate in data definitions, fostering cross-team collaboration and improving communication.Semantic Catalog: Search a unified view of trusted data assets—now with column/member-level lineage. Make it easier for teams to find and use the right data for their needs and ensure that everyone is working with unified data, reducing errors and increasing trust. Available in Cube Cloud Premium and above.

Availability
Cube’s Semantic Catalog is generally available. All other capabilities are in Preview.

About Cube
Cube brings consistency, context, and trust to the next generation of data experiences. Cube Cloud is a leading, AI-powered universal semantic layer platform, helping companies of any size manage and deliver trusted data with a single source of truth. Any data source can be unified, governed, optimized, and integrated with any data application: AI, BI, spreadsheets, and embedded analytics.

Cube is installed on 90,000 servers and used by more than 5 million users. Customers include 20% of the Fortune 1000. Based in San Francisco, Cube is backed by Decibel, Bain Capital Ventures, Eniac Ventures, 645 Ventures, Databricks Ventures, and Betaworks. To learn more, visit cube.dev.

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