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PresenceLearning Offers Teletherapy Training and Online Therapy Platform to Help Special Education Teams Continue Serving Students During COVID-19 School Closures

Created: March 16, 2020

“As schools urgently seek solutions to move services online, we want to make sure that students with special education needs are prioritized,” said Kate Eberle Walker, CEO of Catalyst-backed PresenceLearning. “Over the past ten years we’ve developed a specific expertise in conducting teletherapy sessions for K-12 students and we have a purpose-built platform that is designed by and for clinicians. We realized that the best way we can help right now is to make our platform available more broadly, and to teach school-based clinicians how to approach teletherapy.”

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Xplornet Communications Inc. Signs Agreement To Be Acquired by Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners

Created: February 27, 2020

Catalyst-backed Xplornet Communications Inc., Canada’s largest rural-focused broadband service provider, and Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners announced that Stonepeak has entered into a binding agreement with Xplornet and its shareholders, through which Stonepeak has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Xplornet.

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TechTarget | EnterpriseDB looks to grow market for PostgreSQL

Created: February 21, 2020

President and CEO of Catalyst-backed EntepriseDB Ed Boyajian talks about the sustained popularity of PostgreSQL and where it is finding new deployments.

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AndNowYouKnow | BrightFarms Partners With Ahold-Delhaize to Expand in the Mid-Atlantic

Created: February 25, 2020

Catalyst portfolio company BrightFarms, the locally grown salad provider, recently announced that it is expanding distribution in the Mid-Atlantic, tapping Ahold banner Food Lion’s more than 330 Virginia-based stores. Following the expansion, the partnered Food Lion locations will be serviced from BrightFarms’ Culpeper, Virginia, greenhouse.

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Research | Intelligent Talent

Created: March 3, 2020

Intelligent Talent is a $9 billion global market growing 18%, comprised of software, content and analytics that leverage data to help companies build teams with the right individuals in the right roles. These solutions allow for improved decision making across the talent continuum – beginning with candidate recruitment and continuing through onboarding, ongoing development and retention.

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Philadelphia Inquirer | New central Pa. greenhouse pushing out leafy greens 24/7, all year long

Created: February 23, 2020

Catalyst-backed BrightFarms opened a 280,000 square feet indoor farm in Selinsgrove, Penn. on what once were soybean fields. It is the latest and largest from BrightFarms, a nationwide hydroponic greenhouse operation that aims to eliminate the long-distance trucking many greens require by growing them locally year-round.