Our Portfolio

Acquired by Adecco Group. Provider of in-demand education and career services created to empower individuals to pursue work they love. The company's full-time immersive programs provide educational programming, space and support to facilitate collaborative practices and learning opportunities across the community, providing users with employment information and opportunities in technologies.

Acquired by Quest Analytics. Provider of a healthcare provider data platform designed to improve the flow and quality of healthcare data so that patients can get the care they need when required. The company's doctor searching platform offers a web and mobile application that helps to validate and deliver accurate provider data of health plans, health systems and other doctor related data, enabling patients to find all health related information at one place.

Acquired by Tecsys. Provider of omni-channel commerce services. The company's services include e-commerce trading applications, advisory, support and software services, enabling brand owners and retailers to sell their products across multiple global channels.

Acquired by Sirius XM Radio. Provider of a driving assistant application designed to connect cars on the road to the internet and empower drivers with knowledge about themselves and their cars. The company's proprietary Automatic Pro and Automatic Lite connected car adapters provide vehicle diagnostic alerts, emergency crash assistance, fuel monitoring, access to parking information, live vehicle location tracking, enabling vehicle owners to be safer and drive smarter.

Acquired by Anaplan. Developer of an online predictive analytics platform designed to identify the prospects faster. The company's platform uses artificial intelligence technology to offer insights to marketing and sales teams on how they can intelligently engage with them, enabling clients to understand, target and acquire their ideal customers easily.

Provider of on-demand transportation services intended to promote mobility in cities. The company's services offer clean, modern cars with added features including choice of music, magazines, water, among others, driven by hand-picked and specially trained drivers, providing users with affordable, safe, and reliable rides wherever required.

Developer of cloud-based retail management software designed to offer online sales, POS, purchasing, CRM, and inventory management. The company's platform offers full omnichannel inventory management, inventory updates across all channels and helps to prevent double selling, reduces errors, and saves team time, enabling omnichannel merchants to streamline sales and supply chain functions across multiple online and offline channels.

Acquired by Olapic. Provider of a multi-channel visual marketing and visual commerce platform for businesses and publishers. The company provides a platform for brands to track metrics around pins, in order to see which ones are trending as well as to discover, curate, analyze and publish socially validated photos on Instagram, Pinterest, Web Pages and other social channels.

Developer of a SaaS-based campaign-management software designed to conduct customer acquisition and engagement in the field in conjunction with existing CRM. The company's software helps non-profits use technology to grow their constituent base, raise more money and capture information that is turned into useful data to be used in outreach efforts across their organization, thus enabling campaign directors to track the position and progress of all field canvassers while providing up-to-the-minute tallies of all their activities at the individual and group level.

Provider of social commerce platform intended to help online retailers increase referral traffic and sales. The company's platform focuses on delivering and measuring traditional ecommerce metrics, such as traffic, conversion rates and sales, enabling retailers to socialize buyers opinions and help discover products based on buyer's friends' advice, right at the point of purchase.

Acquired by LifeLock. Provider of cloud-based receipt organizer and spending tracker for Android and iOS devices. The company allows user to store a digital copy of all of their cards-ID, insurance, loyalty and payment cards. It digitizes user cards with interactive balance updates, personalized offers and a way to communicate with brands and merchants.

Developer of a remote support technology designed to solve remote access needs of computers from any device. The company's technology offers an engine that provides reliable access to all business applications and data from any device while offering policy-driven control to the IT team, system integrators, and service providers, enabling clients to access and control their applications, files, and data via other devices.

Acquired by MasterCard. Provider of a customer data and engagement platform designed to empower innovative brands to forge stronger and more profitable customer relationships. The company's platform scales for the enterprise globally by analyzing behavioral and transactional data in real time and by applying advanced machine learning, delivers personalized experiences based off individuals' unique characteristics, enabling companies to engage each individual customer with the offers, product recommendations and incentives.

Acquired by Jabil. Manufacturer of recycled paper bottles designed to reduce the environmental impact associated with plastic bottles. The company's bottles are made from recycled cardboard and old newspapers and can be recycled, again and again, enabling consumers to minimize the use of plastic while maintaining functionality and convenience.

Operator of an online food platform intended to offer food ordering services for children. The company's platform offers a customized meal for school children from their daily menu that is prepared by local catering partners and is hand-delivered to the school partners before lunchtime, enabling parents to get lunches for their kids delivered directly at their school.

Acquired by NRG Energy. Provider of rooftop solar energy systems. The company advises homeowners on residential solar systems and home conservation products to help them save money.

Developer of real-time emotional intelligence software designed to improve customer engagement. The company's software enhances the emotional intelligence of phone professionals by applying behavioral science through artificial intelligence and machine learning and analyzes conversational dynamics to provide live guidance for agents and a real-time measure of customer experience for every call, enabling enterprises to build better relationships with millions of customers, improve sales results and enhance the quality of care.

Operator of an online grocery delivery platform intended to delivers thoughtfully sourced fresh produce to consumers. The company provides a wide assortment of local and organic produce, sustainable meat, seafood products and grocery staples from nearby farms and local food producers, thereby enabling consumers to order fresh groceries and get them delivered at their home or office.

Acquired by Ribbon Communications. Provider of software defined networking services. The company provides Network-as-a-Service to optimize networks for voice, video and unified communications that addresses the needs of both the enterprise and service provider.

Developer of a global petition platform intended to manage petitions and campaigns for its customers. The company's platform helps people around the world win their campaigns by offering financially supporting expert coaching, media support, and free technology, enabling customers to transform their communities for a social cause.

Acquired by eBay. Operator of an e-commerce delivery platform intended to connect retailers with local courier companies. The company's platform facilitates the delivery of online purchases either within as little as 90 minutes or within a 1 hour window, enabling online and in-store customers to receive their shopping couriers faster.

Acquired by GlassBridge Enterprises. Developer of social storage appliances. The company provides products enabling consumers, professionals and small businesses to securely group, share and protect data.

Provider of an interactive content creation software designed to create rich, engaging content, without code or traditional web development. The company's software is a cloud-based design studio that makes it easy to collaborate on digital projects in real-time and publish with the click of a button, enabling brands to share their stories and engage their audiences.

Developer of a cloud-based video encoding platform designed to empower video transcoding for leading companies. The company's platform can be used to transcode millions of videos each month by offering a comprehensive suite of high-volume transcoding, digital rights management (DRM), playout graphics and editing, adaptive bitrate packaging and video hosting, enabling media and entertainment brands to rapidly scale processing capacity to meet the project demands.

Developer of an enterprise video and webcasting platform designed to enhance knowledge sharing and collaboration within an enterprise. The company's platform offers on-demand video and live webcasting for internal communications, training and marketing to create more engaging executive messaging, enhance e-learning programs and promotes employee communications, enabling businesses to reach any employee, partner, or customer at any location with high-definition video casting.

Acquired by Samsung Electronics. Operator of an open platform intended for the smart home and the consumer Internet of Things. The company's platform installs connected devices and controls them through a single mobile application offering a kit that allows everyday objects such as light switches and door locks to be controlled through a smartphone application.

Acquired by Beanstock Media. Provider of platform for publisher to improve their content and advertising on touch-enabled devices via web browser. The company transforms and simplifies how media companies publish across all touch-enabled devices.

Developer of a fantasy sports game platform created to make sports more exciting. The company's gaming platform allows players to build virtual teams of professional players from a range of sports with winnings paid out depending on performance, enabling sports enthusiasts to engage with their favorite teams and earn cash prizes.

Acquired by Nokia. Developer of a travel application. The company's application helps in delivering custom travel recommendations, including hotels, events, attractions and restaurants, using natural language processing and Virtual Personal Assistant (VPA) technology.

App- and web-based shopping for clothing, accessories, games and equipment, cosmetics, personalized products, mobile accessories, and much more.

Acquired by LeftLane Sports. Provider of an online platform designed to sell discounted outdoor products. The company's online platform shares new personalized sales events featuring incredible deals on the premium outdoor equipment, enabling consumers to get fresh adventure lifestyle looks.

Acquired by Unified Commerce Group. Designer and provider of an online shopping platform designed to offer ways to shop the latest trends in menswear and women's wear. The company's platform vertically integrates brand designs, manufactures and sells premium clothing and accessories, enabling users with a simple and personalized way to shop for clothes online.

Operator of an artist-driven 3-D animation and visual effects studio designed to develop content and create state of the art. The company's studio develops visual imagery for full-length feature animated films, visual effects for live-action and hybrid films, short-form media and special venue attractions, enabling clients to execute stereoscopic animation and image creation projects successfully.

Provider of an online service which allows users to receive offers from local car dealers after having filled out basic information concerning what type of vehicle they are looking for.

Acquired by Allscripts Healthcare Solutions. Developer of a cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) platform designed to connect doctors, patients and data to drive better health and save lives. The company's EHR is a comprehensive practice management software platform that includes charting, scheduling, billing, e-prescribing, lab integrations and secure messaging, enabling health care providers to manage their patient population and coordinate care.

Developer of a cloud-based subscription commerce platform designed to help brands and retailers with their subscription models and retention rates. The company's platform works on both standalone platforms and platforms that are integrated within an existing ecosystem, enabling brands to identify and interact with their profitable customers to maximize lifetime value.

Health insurance with a platform that includes virtual care, doctor support, scheduling appointments, and other healthcare services.

Developer of spinal function products intended to provide spinal implants that will address the unmet needs of degenerative disc disease patients. The company's spinal function products that are freedom cervical disc and freedom lumbar disc help in spinal implants and disc replacement and it also offers expertise including early artificial disc development efforts, enabling the healthcare industry to advance the standard of care beyond fusion and first-generation artificial discs.

Operator of a data quality management platform intended to assess, verify and validate the quality and integrity of hundreds of data types. The company's platform aggregates data from the broadest range of sources in the industry, ensuring data quality and completeness, and forming a strong foundation for better business decisions, enabling clients to make business decisions based upon a unified view of complete and accurate IT and OT data, significantly improving business outcomes.

Acquired by Computer Sciences. Provider of an enterprise cloud platform designed to bridge cloud computing technology and real enterprise business. The company's platform automates the deployment and management of enterprise applications across private, public and hybrid cloud environments, offering a single, policy-driven, integrated control point for governance, compliance and security across cloud applications and environments, enabling employees to get access to fully governed, self-service access to applications, platforms and services.

Operator of a women's digital media brand on beauty, health and fitness. The company focuses on topics related to hairstyles, beauty, food, face shape, exercise, sleep and other related information that emphasizes women.

Developer of an online fundraising software designed to offer automated bidding, auction, and fundraising processes for non-profit organizations. The company's software initiates fundraiser events by attracting investors from all over the world, receive outbid alerts, automatically watch favorite items, place maximum bid amounts, view items with no bids and fund a need or donate cash and receive instant notification of items won, enabling organizations and donors to bid from anywhere at any time while creating a more enjoyable, competitive environment.

Acquired by IHS Markit. Provider of online automotive shopping analytics platform. The company observes automotive websites and then aggregates, indexes and summarizes this data into intelligent insights.

Developer of immuno-personalized diagnosis devices designed to detect bacterial and viral infections. The company's immuno-personalized diagnosis devices distinguish between bacterial and viral infections based on patient's immune responses to different infection types, enabling physicians to get rapid and actionable clinical information that guides them to make informed antibiotic treatment decisions.

Provider of mobile marketing software. The company offers a customer relationship management (CRM) platform that tracks customer phone calls and automates the process of creating e-commerce websites.

Developer of a social media application that intends to aggregate real-time, social media content local tools that bridge consumers, merchants, and brands. The company's application aggregates social media check-ins from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Instagram and dozens of other services to provide a simple interface for local businesses to directly respond to their most influential and valuable customers and also analyzes massive amounts of data in addition to check-ins from the Twitter firehose, photo sharing sites and more to find other forms of check-ins, enabling their clients to grow their business through a marketing campaign, coupon or advertisement.

Operator of an online marketplace created to connect freelance writers with businesses for blogs, articles and social media posts. The company's marketplace has a pool of professional writers who have been vetted by area of expertise to write content ranging from blogs to articles and from press releases to social media marketing, thereby enabling businesses to improve the quality of brand awareness on the Internet.

Provider of a consumer intelligence platform. The company provides big data applications for marketing segmentation. It also combines existing, new and emerging channels of information to segment consumers, understand consumer behavior, commercial intent and drive customer acquisition, retention and engagement.

Acquired by AdLabs Technology. Developer of an optimization platform designed to empower advertisers with a way to provide rich personalized creative at scale. The company's platform helps to create emotionally engaging advertisements with diverse and scalable creative sourcing from a marketplace of expert writers and designers, enabling businesses to increase their revenue and generate more conversions.

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Acquired by Acronis. Provider of cloud based data backup services to mid-size companies. The company provides hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) for the enterprise.

Acquired by Gap. Developer of a digital data driven wedding shopping marketplace created to pioneer a community-centric shopping experience that lets friends shop together online in a virtual showroom. The company's digital data driven wedding shopping marketplace lets friends shop together on an online virtual showroom enabling millennials to avail a new way of shopping for weddings, featuring an exclusive collection of fresh and modern bridesmaid dresses.

Provider of a social commerce platform for jewelry and accessories. The company provides a portal that lets its users open their own Internet boutiques.

Acquired by GigaOm. Provider of online media, events and research services. The company offers analysis and research on emerging technology markets.

Acquired by Unified Women's Healthcare. Developer of a maternity analytics platform designed to help Medicaid providers to identify pregnant mothers within the first two trimesters to assist with early intervention programs. The company's platform identifies women at risk of preterm birth, usually within the first trimester, with personalized health improvement resources, enabling would-be mothers and care managers to make critical health decisions that can make a difference in the health of the baby.

Provider of an online marketplace intended to connect homeowners with local tradespeople to provide work, good homes and lives. The company's marketplace posts over 1 million jobs every year by homeowners wanting to make the most of where they live which automates repetitive questions of customers using deep learning and artificial intelligence, enabling businesses to manage their customer support processes, use the site to fill gaps, grow their reputation and expand their business.

Provider of credit scoring and online identity verification platform intended to economically empower middle-class families by helping them build their creditworthiness and gain access to local financial services. The company's platform uses machine learning techniques to build predictive algorithms and non-traditional data to compute people's credit scores, enabling financial service providers to access and serve new and under-served markets.

Developer of a mobile-payment application designed to transform mobile payments. The company's application process credit card payments by scanning or keying card, enabling users to make encrypted payments.

Operator of an online marketplace designed to offer investment services in promising startups. The company's platform uses software and networks to discover, fund, and support the world's founders, enabling startups to get investment access easily.

Acquired by PVH (US). Provider of an online lingerie marketplace designed to offer personalized lingerie shopping. The company's online lingerie marketplace takes an online quiz about the comfort and fit of existing lingerie and provides a personalized home try-on kit with shipping and returns facility, enabling women to find better-fitting brassieres in a hassle free way.

Acquired by Appodeal. Developer of a 2D mobile app development platform designed to provide cross-platform technology for app developing projects. The company's 2D mobile app development platform provide a system with tools, plugins and features for the development of 2D games, enabling users develops apps for mobile, connected TV and desktop platforms.

Provider of visual search and image recognition technology. The company's visual search and image recognition technology analyzes an image algorithmically, offering similar and near identical images, enabling developers to add visual search technology to their mobile or web app.

Operator of a catering management platform intended to offer a chain of food and beverage restaurants. The company's platform operates multi-brand and multi-format food and beverage restaurants mainly focusing on Taiwanese casual dining and snacks, enabling consumers to avail top class meals at affordable prices.

Provider of an online and physical retail gift card mall designed to offer customer loyalty programs. The company's physical retail gift card mall offers retail gift card processing and card management services, enabling consumers to buy gifts of their choice.

Acquired by Blue Bottle Coffee. Manufacturer of coffees intended to serve the coffee lovers. The company's coffees are freshly roasted and shipped to its customers when they order it online from the platform, enabling people to enjoy coffee at their homes and offices.

Provider of a social dating network. The company's social networking site helps in discovering people, places and things via social graph interests and social games.

Acquired by Participate Learning. Developer of a social education platform designed to improve the learning experience. The company's platform features offers a collaborative virtual pinboard to explore and share news, videos, study materials and presentations, enabling educators to curate and share content with colleagues and students.

Acquired by Samsung Electronics. Developer of a cross-platform application search engine designed to link personal actions in an application without requiring user registration. The company's search engine helps users to search for mobile, desktop, web and browser applications delivering relevant application content and functionalities via advertising, search, social and messaging platforms without users registration, enabling users to save their time in doing repetitive registrations.

Provider of a bio-processing platform intended to improve waste carbon treatment. The company's platform offers an economically robust route to capture and re-use and recycle carbon from industrial off-gases and syngas generated from any biomass resource, enabling the monetization of local gas sources with minimal capital investment, giving off-grid communities access to clean, cost-competitive and reliable energy.

Developer of a patient relationship management platform designed to facilitate coordinated and comprehensive cancer care. The company's platform develops innovative technology solutions to improve oncology care and aware the patients about their disease, discuss ailments, organize personal health records, and prepare for doctor visits, enabling cancer patients to avail treatment at lower costs and drive better outcomes.

Provider of event tickets booking platform intended to make client entertainment feasible. The company's platform works directly within salesforce, concur, opentable and outlook, to offer multi-customer outing and helps in team building events, enabling companies to arrange huge events through a single platform.

Acquired by Glansaol. Operator of an omnichannel beauty brand intended to provide products based off crowdsourced customer feedback gathered via social channels. The company's beauty products include nail polishes, skincare and makeup items that are available online, in retail stores or through a customizable monthly subscription, enabling consumers to influence the company's product offerings through customer discussions and selections.

Acquired by Pronoun. Provider of digital publishing and subscription reading services. The company provides a discovery engine for readers to find form content.

Acquired by Premiere Global Services. Provider of a cloud-based social collaboration platform that helps people to connect and share information to drive profitable business results. The company's software collaboration solution allows business teams to interact, share and manage their daily work activities from anywhere at any time.

Acquired by Dell EMC. Provider of elastic cloud technology. The company delivers an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure system for enterprises, SaaS providers and cloud service providers.

Operator of a financial technology company intended to offer advanced alternatives in working capital, trade finance and insurance. The company provides technology services for origination, financing and distribution of trade finance and working capital assets, enabling clients to trade risk and to invest in the asset class freely.

Acquired by Aisle Rocket. Developer of a big data and analytics platform designed to offer marketing services. The company's big data and analytics platform provides end-to-end services for integrated mover marketing as well as helps businesses to identify and market to moving consumers, enabling marketers to generate actionable insights from their data, campaign performance, improve their bottom line and grow their customer base.

Developer of a video streaming platform intended to upload, download and watch online videos smoothly. The company's video streaming platform share files, for two or more people to simultaneously surf the Web, work together, shop together as well as provides web shopping and web conferencing tools for businesses and individuals to host virtual shopping parties, shopping webinars and online sales events, enabling users to do various web activities at a single point of time.

Developer of health and fitness applications designed to improve human health by providing AI-driven smartphone technologies. The company's applications are based on food AI image recognition that utilizes convolutional neural networks and deep learning to identify thousands of food categories, enabling consumers to enhance the quality of health and livelihood.

Developer of a gaming platform designed to offer mobile and social casino games. The company's gaming platform provides mobile and social casino content across social web and mobile operating systems, offering real time reporting, player notification, remote updating and performance tuning of the network of applications, enabling users to get infinite gaming experience.

Acquired by Avaya. Provider of a video management technology. The company provides video streaming, video distribution and management services through a cloud infrastructure.

Acquired by ADT Security Services. Provider of wireless home security systems. The company offers fire and carbon monoxide sensors, cameras, automatically record video and live video monitoring applications for vacation, elder parent, mobile and other homes as well as home offices.

Acquired by Arthrex. Operator of an orthopedic device company designed to offer fracture fixation devices. The orthopedic device company offers operative treatments to repair fractures at the core of the bone and return patients to work and activity sooner, enabling orthopedic surgeons to quickly and easily repair bones with difficult geometries.

Operator of a risk management software platform designed to visualize risk and improve decisions with real-time data visualization. The company's integrated risk management platform is based on cloud computing technologies which are unified, highly configurable set of modules that provide the tools and business intelligence needed to reduce losses, control risk, manage key stakeholder relationships and increase shareholder value enabling organizations of any size to easily review, analyze and report on data from web-based interfaces- all within a single point of access platform.

Acquired by CA Technologies. Provider of zero trust access control software. The company products are used by large enterprises and global government agencies to meet stringent security and compliance needs.

Operator of physical therapy clinics network intended to help users to discover wellness through physical therapy. The company's clinics offer rehabilitation, preventative care, and long-term wellness programs in a warm, welcoming, and comfortable environment as well as focus on ongoing wellness programs such as yoga, TRX, and pilates, enabling users to get inspired, rejuvenated, and help them to reach their goals.

Acquired by Rosetta Stone. Provider of web based language learning solutions integrating online instructional content with a community of language learners. The company offers English, Spanish, French, Hindi, German and Mandarin Chinese languages learning programs.

Developer of a transformative X-ray technology designed to offer materials analysis and imaging. The company's X-ray technology provides miniature X-ray devices with applications for the mining, industrial, military and medical imaging markets and uses a process similar to static electricity to generate X-rays, enabling customers to have low cost and portable devices to undertake X-ray functions anywhere and anytime.

Acquired by The Interpublic Group of Companies. Provider of marketing management services. The company enables firms to identify, measure and impact how opinion leaders shape their followers purchasing decisions.

Developer of a feedback management software designed to analyze customer feedback. The company's software prioritizes data-driven insights from customer feedback and helps to capture, gather, aggregate, analyze and follow through on feedback from customers and internal teams, enabling businesses to build software and digital products for the better.

Acquired by Jilin Zixin Pharmaceutical Industrial Company. Developer of genome-mapping products designed to analyze whole genome mapping in high definition. The company's products use solid-state nano-detectors which is capable of analyzing entire genomes, in very large fragments traveling at high velocity, enabling scientists to easily analyze structural variation and assembly of genomes as a way of confirming putative variants.

Provider of a patient intelligence platform designed to offer health-related insights. The company's patient intelligence platform provides real-time actionable patient insights about different brands and conditions to align with strategic pharmaceutical marketing and business goals, enabling patients and caregivers to make informed healthcare decisions by analyzing online conversations about medications and health conditions.

Operator of a subscription-based fashion platform created to build high-value global fashion brands. The company's platform integrates data science and personalization to provide access to fashion tips and content, clickable style boards to shop curated outfits, accessories, and footwear from high-value membership-driven fashion brands, enabling customers to buy smarter, quicker, and better.

Acquired by Stripe. Provider of an open-source distributed database management platform designed to store data in JSON documents and scale to multiple machines. The company 's open-source distributed database management platform designed for reliability on different workloads and edge cases for the realtime web sought to strike a balance between a database that is simple to use and one that is scalable across many servers, enabling users to monitor production cluster with live statistics and complete visibility into running jobs.

Acquired by Epicor Software. Provider of business intelligence and retail analytics services. The company combines business intelligence with industries best practices to ensure the most profitable merchandising and store operations decisions.

Acquired by CA Technologies. Provider of Application Service Automation software. The company develops a software for deploying and managing applications across the data center.

Acquired by Kibo Software. Cloud-based platform that offers a multi-channel personalization software and selects the right content or products to show each individual in real-time, enabling marketers to optimize and personalize the customers' experience and increase engagement as well as improve performance.

Acquired by Sun Life Financial. Provider of an employee benefits management platform designed to simplify benefits and human resources. The company's employee benefits management platform includes a marketplace that makes buying benefits intuitive for employees, tools that automate benefits and human resource and a mobile application that makes using benefits easy, enabling human resource professionals and benefits advisors to eliminate the hassle of day-to-day benefits administration and provide a beautiful, streamlined experience for employees.

Acquired by Stryker. Developer of non-invasive surgical skin closure devices intended to eliminate skin puncture and decreases the risk of needlestick injury. The company's product is a skin closure that offers secure skin layer closure for surgical incisions of any length, enabling medical surgeons to incorporate a force distribution structure that is designed to distribute closure forces uniformly along the incision to minimize high localized forces that can occur with other closure methods.

Acquired by PRA Health Sciences. Provider of high-value data, analytics, and technology services intended to deliver strategic market data insights. The company's unique data, research capabilities and powerful analytics help professionals understand the full market lifecycle, from predictive market analysis to patient influence, physician prescribing, pharmacy fulfillment, payer reimbursement, and sales compensation, enabling biopharmaceutical manufacturers, healthcare providers, and payers to dramatically improve their performance, productivity, and profitability while providing critical insights on how to effectively adapt to the changing healthcare ecosystem.