Successful axle.ai Equity Crowdfunding Campaign on Republic.co Passes $250,000 Raised With 4 Days Remaining.

Boston, MA, USA | September 23, 2021 -- Video management software vendor axle.ai was just covered in the prominent Business Insider website https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/axle-ai-the-search-engine-for-internal-media-files-is-equity-crowdfunding-to-make-video-editing-simpler-1030818742 , in an article describing axle’s startup journey and Republic.co equity crowdfunding round which ends midnight Pacific Time on Monday, Sept. 27th.

Axle’s previous equity crowdfunding round, in 2020, was oversubscribed, and the current round is rapidly approaching a similar outcome – over $250,000 (10x the original goal of $25,000) out of a possible $428,000 in this round is already committed. A 3-minute pitch video featuring the axle.ai management team can be viewed at https://tinyurl.com/axlein3mins , and the Republic campaign page is at https://republic.co/axle-ai .

The equity crowdfunding campaign highlights axle.ai 2021, the company’s browser-based remote media search software. The software includes a browser front end allowing multiple users to tag, catalog and search their media files, as well as a range of AI-driven options for automatically cataloging and discovering specific visual and audio attributes within those files. For instance, audio tracks can be automatically transcribed, with the resulting transcript immediately searchable in the timeline; likewise, axle.ai provides face recognition with integrated training for new faces over time. The modular nature of the system supports additional plug-ins for object and logo recognition, and identification of sports highlights. The software can be used to create distributed team workflows for storage pools that would otherwise be siloed and hard to search. To date, axle.ai has more than 700 customers worldwide, including high-profile names such as the NY Yankees, Madison Square Garden, the LA Clippers, PWC, Elevation Church, Paramount and Warner Bros. A recent profile of an axle customer, reality TV production house Pie Town (producers of HGTV’s House Hunting and Flip or Flop shows), can be viewed at youtu.be/H1xkcQ0YJO8.

One key for axle.ai in the last two years has been its software’s ability to enable remote work by video production teams. Often, video collaboration has relied on manual transfer of files between sites, often using portable hard drives and Fedex. Having a browser-based solution gives media teams much more flexibility in managing and staffing their projects to a quick outcome, and the ability to use AI-driven engines to search and reuse the content makes it much more valuable and relevant for modern marketing purposes, especially via social media.

Given the vast amounts of video – often many terabytes – that can be accumulated by a video team in even a single shoot, this system allows rapid search and management of those files over time. The software also includes a range of plug-in panels for Adobe’s Creative Cloud application suite software, which allow creative team members on any Mac or Windows laptop to directly search, access, and download media files wherever they are located. In addition, the company offers a no-code workflow automation tool, Connectr, as well as a freemium speech transcription tool, Ascribe. These are complementary to its core media management software and together provide a complete solution for axle.ai’s customers.

• This month, axle.ai announced that it had completed acquisition of Noscos, an AI/ML startup focusing on face recognition and logo recognition applications. This further enhances axle.ai’s technology stack while bringing new management strength to its engineering team in Eastern Europe.

• Another major announcement by the company was securing its largest deal ever – a $365,000 deployment at a major Asia-Pacific region broadcaster. Combined with other significant new customers as well as the new partnership with Seagate, this puts the company on track for a record year, with sales roughly double its 2020 tally.

• A recent strategic partnership with storage vendor Seagate is driving a new level of opportunity for axle.ai, as joint sales efforts target large brands and media organizations with significant storage needs. The two companies have concluded their first joint sale, with womens’ media network Togethxr, which includes Seagate’s Lyve Cloud and LaCie products, as well as axle.ai 2021.

Sam Bogoch, CEO of axle.ai, said “For years, creative teams have expressed the need for a simplified and cost-efficient way to remotely search and manage their content. Legacy solutions for broadcasters have been expensive and complex, but our mission is to state-of-the-art AI and MAM (media asset management) capabilities to the widest possible range of creative teams. Our second successful Republic equity crowdfunding raise is helping us achieve these goals.”

About axle.ai, Inc.:

Axle.ai (http://www.axle.ai) - We make media smarter. Axle.ai is the recognized leader in developing radically simple media management software. Its solutions have helped over 700 organizations improve the way they create, share and store digital video content with media management solutions that are easy to install, use and afford. axle’s radically simple media management uniquely addresses a burgeoning need and has caught on rapidly among video professionals in post-production, education, broadcast, corporate, sports, house of worship, non-profit, advertising-marketing, and government organizations worldwide. Axle.ai, Inc. is a privately held company; its founders have extensive industry experience in media asset management for creative applications. Investors include Stadia Ventures, Jason Calacanis's LAUNCH accelerator and Quake Capital.

Learn more at http://www.axle.ai and https://republic.co/axle-ai.

There is a worldwide explosion of video content. The market intelligence firm IDC has estimated that the sum of data generated globally by 2025 is set to accelerate exponentially to 175 zettabytes. A growing, double-digit percentage of this storage is used to house media files. Meanwhile, approximately 400,000 video teams worldwide are responsible for capturing, editing, and managing this content, but much of it becomes difficult to leverage soon after capture; in a report commissioned by axle.ai’s partner Seagate, IDC estimates that more than two-thirds of data stored is not readily searchable or available for access after initial use.

axle ai Management team in 3-minute Power Pitch video:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9vJ4LMUnNH8

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axle ai, Inc.
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Oleksandr Usyk collaborated with the newly launched innovative brand JAXET for the victorious fight. Oleksandr gloriously won the fight for the champion title. The team spirit on Usyk's side was also supported by a unique form designed by the brand JAXET (which has earlier launched its collection of innovative multifunctional jackets) in collaboration with Oleksandr.

London, UK, September 27, 2021 -- Tottenham Hotspur Stadium hosted the heavyweight championship fight between Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua.

Oleksandr gloriously won the fight for the champion title.

The team spirit on Usyk's side was also supported by a unique form designed by the brand JAXET (which has earlier launched its collection of innovative multifunctional jackets) in collaboration with Oleksandr.

The brand is inspired by modern heroes and that is why the first collaboration is meant to support the spirit of one of the greatest heroes of nowadays — Oleksandr Usyk.

JAXET team and Oleksandr actively collaborated on Oleksandr’s big entrance outfit, having developed the waistcoat, shorts and shoes in cooperation.

When developing JAXET, the brand’s founder & Chief Product Architect, Artur Mkhitaryan, and the Head of Design and Technology Department, Vik Mankowski, drew inspiration from the technologies of the future and space motives. This was a complete match with Oleksandr and his long-term passion for space and futurism, which adds even more to the meaning of the collaboration.

Oleksandr Usyk shares his thoughts on choosing JAXET for such an important event: “Sports and technology have a lot in common, including the need for precision, determination and ingenuity. I believe that every movement should be calibrated and effective, and here my point of view coincided with the vision of JAXET: this brand works in a proactive mode, merging fashion and technologies. This gives a feeling of not just wearing a clothing item but of going one step further, and living the future which is already happening now. And, genuinely, my first impression after putting on JAXET was “I really do feel like a Superhero!”.

JAXET — is a perfect symbiosis of fashion and innovative technologies.

Brand’s main item — a jacket with built-in additional technological features — is a solution for the challenges of the modern world. It provides protection from the negative environmental impact, card and phone scams, optimizes day-to-day processes and even simplifies communication.

Namely, integrated technologies allow the user to enjoy the benefits of the wireless phone operations, simultaneous translation, NFC token, protective anonymity lens and a special security pocket.

Brand’s founder, Artur Mkhitaryan, was always inspired by innovative solutions that can change the usual perception of reality.

That is why this idea was taken as a base of JAXET creation: the idea to develop technological, stylish and comfortable clothing that will not only help create a personal style, allowing one to stand out in a crowd, but also provide protection from the physical and digital worlds through integrated innovations.

Artur Mkhitaryan, JAXET`s founder and Chief Product Architect: “JAXET is created to inspire you to build the new world where you are a driver for change. It is created for anyone who takes on obstacles and challenges with their head held high, and who wants their style to reflect their determination and ambition. JAXET is an embodiment of the boldness and vigour, irreplaceable for any achievements in sport”.

JAXET is an innovative brand founded in 2021 by Artur Mkhitaryan. The brand draws inspiration from space and gaming worlds. The brand’s unique approach is to combine fashion and technologies in one multifunctional gear of the future. More about JAXET docs.google.com/document/d/1vXFwuFbBg-QrDo-WFl8kTth8LawlzSwhKrt57nDeQCw/edit?usp=sharing.

JAXET - instagram.com/jaxet.official/

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Oleksandr Usyk — a professional boxer from Ukraine. WBO, WBC, WBA, IBF Cruiserweight World Champion and Muhammad Ali Trophy winner. IBF, WBO, WBA, IBO world heavyweight champion.

Olympic champion in 2012 (up to 91 kg), world champion in 2011 (up to 91 kg), European champion in 2008 (up to 81 kg).

The best professional boxer of 2018 according to ESPN, Sports Illustrated and The Ring, the Association of Journalists of America BWAA, BoxingTalk, Yahoo Sports, WBC.

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Google Workspace users worldwide adopt Clariti “TopicFolders” as a Work Hub.

Fort Lee, NJ - USA | September 20, 2021 -- CCE Technologies, Inc., a technology startup based in Fort Lee, New Jersey, announced that since its introduction of TopicFolders earlier this year, it has been seeing continuing interest and increased adoption from Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) users who continue to adopt Clariti’s TopicFolders as their Work Hub.

Clariti’s (www.clariti.app) TopicFolders provide users the ability to seamlessly integrate team chatting and calling with individual email and calendar and organize everything by topic. This has proved to be very useful for small businesses particularly as they are beneficiaries of significant productivity gains because of this unique way of organizing their team’s work in one app, by topic.

“It is no secret that a lot of small businesses and startups naturally gravitate towards Google Workspace, formerly G Suite, for their communication needs. However, it has its limitations. Although it has all the building blocks required for communication, it is not designed to work in concert. That leads to a bunch of disconnected discussions, often times on the same topic, spread across their email, chat, call…apps. Retrieving information in this disconnected ecosystem is a major productivity drain, something that small businesses and startups can hardly afford. The way we have been seeing continued interest from Google Workspace users to our TopicFolder messaging proves that this was a void in the marketplace that Clariti has been successful in filling,” said Vinay Wagle, V.P. Sales & Marketing at CCE Technologies, Inc.

Since securing funding late last year, Clariti has been singularly focused on increasing personal and team productivity, especially in small businesses and startups. It was quick to separate itself from other chat-focused apps like Slack and Teams and present a viable alternative that doesn’t force users to give up emails and yet not hamper productivity.

“TopicFolder seamlessly organizes communication from any source and allows users to naturally go from sharing an email from a customer with an accompanying chat with a colleague, to sharing a document with the whole team and gathering their feedback before responding to the customer. Clariti captures the relationships between these disparate communications and automatically stores them in uniquely named TopicFolders to significantly drive productivity. There is no wasted time searching, and no need to change the way you work. Simply process emails, chats, and documents like you always do and voila, they are all organized,” added Vinay.

Clariti is packed with features to drive effective communications seamlessly with people within the company and outside. Some of the key features of Clariti includes:

* Easy organizing using TopicFolders
* Full-featured email client
* One-on-one & group chats with people in your team
* Chat with people outside your team using OrbitChat
* Direct & Conference calling and screen-sharing
* Calendar for To-dos/Events
* Built-in document storage
* Cloud Storage integration
* Chat directly from an email – no need to forward emails
* Create to-do from email or chat to preserve context

Clariti is securely hosted on Amazon Web Services, providing total reliability, 100% uptime and trusted security. It uses 256-bit SHA encryption for both data and communications.

Clariti has received rave reviews from industry analysts and been featured in several leading publications including Futurism, Entrepreneur, Computer World, VentureBeat, PCWorld, BoingBoing and Black Enterprise among others.

Clariti is available for free for all users. Premium features are available for a low monthly fee. For complete pricing information, visit https://clariti.app/pricing/.

About CCE Technologies:

CCE Technologies, Inc. (CCET) is a technology startup based in Fort Lee, NJ with a development partner in Chennai, India. With its first workplace productivity app, Clariti (www.clariti.app), CCET aims to increase productivity, restore order, and add speed to your work.

Connect with CCET on:

* Twitter - https://twitter.com/getclariti?lang=en
* Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Clariti-504994263177764/
* Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/getclariti/?hl=en
* LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-clariti
* YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJwMx_AINfGT-9-kSLmnmzQ/

Press & Media Contact:
Debankan Chattopadhyay
CCE Technologies, Inc.
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Fort Lee, NJ 07024
United States
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• The Joint Venture between BT and OnePhone Holding AB leverages ECT applications to offer converged fixed-mobile virtual PBX services to small and medium-sized businesses in the UK. In just seven years of operation, BT One Phone rapidly acquired subscribers, attaining both profitability and substantial revenue growth.
• Fredrik Zetterlund, founder and former Executive Vice President and Group CTO of OnePhone Holding, says that agile and cost-effective co-development with ECT facilitates BT One Phone’s rapid growth in a wide range of segments.
• Chris Sims, Managing Director of SoHo (Single/Small office, Home office) within BT Enterprise, sees BT One Phone as a key example of BT Enterprise’s progress in developing a convergent service portfolio which is one of its key goals.

Munich, September 27^th, 2021 ECT (European Computer Telecoms AG), provider of low-code technology and agile co-development dedicated to better business outcomes for CSPs and their customers, has been partnering for over 13 years with OnePhone Holding AB, a Swedish company formed to commercialize converged communications solutions. BT One Phone provides innovative converged virtual PBX (VPBX) services to the UK’s small to medium-sized businesses and is a joint venture (JV) between BT, the UK’s leading telecommunications and network provider, and the OnePhone Holding. This September, BT is finalizing the full ownership of the JV after purchasing the remaining 30% share of the Holding for 97M GBP. The latter is reportedly based on two independent company evaluations which determined the JV to have a total company value in excess of 320M GBP. BT One Phone’s revenues grew +38% for FY19-20 and the company is profitable. ECT provided the core technology, co-development and support behind BT One Phone’s VPBX product.

BT’s Motivation for the Buyout

As reported by TelcoTitans.com’s BTWatch, Chris Sims, Managing Director of SoHo (Single/Small office, Home office) within BT Enterprise “talked-up… BT One Phone, which virtualizes the PBX and is driving contract durations up substantially in the sector.” Sims pointed to the JV “during a 2019 Enterprise Business Briefing as a key example of BT Enterprise’s progress in developing a converged services portfolio – one of the division’s top strategic priorities.”

The Technology Behind This Success Story According to OnePhone Holding

“With ECT, we developed and provided market-leading services cost-effectively,” said Fredrik Zetterlund, founder and former Executive Vice President, and Group CTO of OnePhone Holding. “This facilitated market entry and rapid growth in a wide range of segments, from small enterprises to large government contracts. In several cases, ECT’s agility was key to securing new business, whether due to changing needs or requirements of a specific customer segment”, added Zetterlund, making reference to a contract won by BT One Phone with the help of ECT, with which BT provided an individualized solution to Her Majesty’s Prison Service during the pandemic. Using low code, ECT was able to individualize the OnePhone product in a matter of days and provided the solution as part of ECT’s complementary efforts to support subscriber acquisition and retention.

“During more than a decade, ECT supported our technology transition from legacy to IP, from 2G to 4G/5G and from hardware to software-based functionality,” said Fredrik regarding modernization of their services during a long and successful partnership with ECT. “Crucially, ECT delivered very high performance in terms of resilience, stability and availability, which in our experience is unparalleled,” continued the OnePhone Group CTO. “This reliability is fundamental to sustaining a leading cloud-based telecoms service while also growing fast.”

ECT looks forward to continuing the BT One Phone success story for many years to come. ECT CEO, Marshall E. Kavesh, stresses how “everyone at ECT is extremely proud of the success of OnePhone Holding and BT One Phone. It is yet another example of how CSPs create real shareholder value by offering their own unique and individualized enterprise services instead of just reselling third-party products. This is the better business outcome, for which we are always striving with our low code technology and our collaboration with CSPs.”

About ECT (European Computer Telecoms AG):

ECT is a tech company dedicated to better business outcomes for communications service providers (CSPs) and their customers. With our Telecoms Low-Code Application Platform (T-LCAP), Packaged Business Capabilities (PBCs), ready-to-use apps and agile co-development, we enable CSPs to compose, enhance and individualize telecoms services and products implemented within their telecoms network. We believe that business customers are ready to pay a premium price for reliable, individualized services, continuously evolving in cooperation with their trusted CSP. Toward this end, we collaborate with CSPs long-term and continuously, responding agilely to new and changing use cases, requests from individual customers, and emerging opportunities. Research and development are also a top ECT priority: we consult closely with leading analysts, implement emerging technologies and products early, and then test their viability together with the CSPs in our ecosystem. In addition to our own direct sales and service, primarily in Europe, we also partner with Nokia Networks which offers our products and services worldwide. Together with our clients and our partner Nokia, we at ECT enjoy meeting challenges and creating opportunities.

Founded in 1998, ECT is an unlisted German public company with its headquarters in Munich, Germany and wholly-owned sales and service subsidiaries in England, The Netherlands and the USA.

For more information about ECT, please visit ect-telecoms.com.