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Business Wire
7 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
Orases Hosts Ribbon-Cutting to Celebrate 25 Years Building Custom Software Innovations
FREDERICK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Orases, an AI-first custom software development firm and a five-time honoree on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies, has marked its 25th year of business. The company celebrated the milestone with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at its Frederick headquarters. The event commemorated a quarter-century of growth and highlighted the company's long-standing commitment to both technology innovation and community development. "To mark this 25-year milestone surrounded by our dedicated team, valued partners, and leaders from the community was the perfect testament to our journey," said Nick Damoulakis, CEO of Orases. "It has always been our belief that true success isn't just about growth or technological innovation, but about building lasting relationships and sharing that success with the community that helped build you." During the ceremony, Orases was presented with four proclamations from Maryland state and Frederick County officials, recognizing the company's contributions to the regional economy and technology sector. "Orases has been a driving force in Frederick's technology sector, creating jobs and attracting talent to our region," stated Rick Weldon, President and CEO of the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce. "Their success story demonstrates what's possible when innovative companies choose to plant their roots in Frederick and grow with our community." Orases is a co-founder of TechFrederick, an organization supporting the area's technology ecosystem, and maintains a decade-long partnership with the LYNX program to prepare high school students for careers in technology. Through these programs, Orases actively invests in the long-term vitality of its local technology community. About Orases Established in 2000, Orases is a custom software development and AI consulting company that helps organizations solve complex challenges and unlock new growth opportunities. We blend deep industry expertise, decades of hands-on tech experience, and AI-enabled development practices to deliver solutions that are technically sound and strategically built to solve unique business problems. Orases has partnered with leading brands, including the NFL, NPR, and Kimberly-Clark, to define strategic visions, rapidly prototype solutions, and bring features to market faster. Visit us at
Express Tribune
07-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Courteney Cox reflects on 'Friends' cast's pre-show ritual
During a fireside chat at the Inc. 5000 Conference on July 6, 2025, Courteney Cox shared a cherished memory from her Friends days, the cast's beloved pre-show 'huddle.' Before filming each episode in front of a live studio audience, she and her co-stars, Jennifer Aniston, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, David Schwimmer, and the late Matthew Perry, would gather in a circle to exchange good-luck wishes, hugs, and high fives. 'It was just 'Alright everybody! Good luck!'' Cox recalled. She said the energy from the live crowd was so strong that producers often didn't need a laugh track. 'Friends was shot in front of a live audience, and that was a whole different thing,' she noted, contrasting it with the single-camera format of many modern sitcoms. The ritual wasn't just routine, it was a sign of the deep connection the cast shared. Cox said it helped ground them before the cameras rolled and strengthened their chemistry, which she believes still exists. She referenced the 2021 Friends reunion, where Matt LeBlanc observed that they could 'pick up right where we left off.' By revisiting this behind-the-scenes moment at Inc. 5000, Cox reminded longtime fans that the enduring appeal of Friends wasn't just its comedy, it was also about the bond between six actors who supported one another from the first take to the final bow.
Business Wire
01-07-2025
- Business
- Business Wire
Top-Producing Brokerage The Legacy Collective Joins Real
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Real Brokerage Inc. (NASDAQ: REAX), a leading real estate technology platform redefining the industry through innovation and culture, today announced that The Legacy Collective, one of Houston's top-performing real estate teams, has joined the company. Led by industry veteran Patrick Winsey, the 30-agent team averages more than 500 home sales each year, with an annual transaction volume exceeding $100 million. Founded nearly a decade ago by Winsey and his wife Jemila Winsey, The Legacy Collective – formerly Legacy Living Real Estate – has built its reputation on a culture of mentorship, flexibility and community. This agent-first approach has fueled the team's success, earning it a place on the Inc. 5000 list and recognition from Real Trends as one of the top 1.5% of real estate teams nationally. In 2024, the team was recognized by the National Association of Real Estate Brokers as the No. 1 Black-Owned Brokerage in Texas and No. 2 in the U.S. In joining Real, Winsey believes The Legacy Collective is now positioned for unprecedented growth. 'Joining Real is the best move for The Legacy Collective. It allows us to take everything we already do well in terms of mentorship, coaching and agent development, while providing our agents with an unmatched technology platform, healthcare offerings and stock incentives – everything they not only want but need to thrive,' he said. 'This move puts our brokerage on steroids.' In welcoming The Legacy Collective to Real, Tamir Poleg, Chairman and CEO of Real, said: 'Patrick's leadership and Legacy's results speak for themselves. He's built a culture of empowerment that aligns perfectly with Real's vision. We're proud to welcome Patrick and his entire team to Real. Together, we'll deliver even more value to agents and clients in the Houston metro area and beyond.' About Real Real (NASDAQ: REAX) is a real estate experience company working to make life's most complex transaction simple. The fast-growing company combines essential real estate, mortgage and closing services with powerful technology to deliver a single seamless end-to-end consumer experience, guided by trusted agents. With a presence in all 50 states throughout the U.S. and Canada, Real supports over 27,000 agents who use its digital brokerage platform and tight-knit professional community to power their own forward-thinking businesses. Additional information can be found on its website at Forward-Looking Statements Some of the statements in this press release are "forward-looking statements," as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding agent growth. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including the risk of slowdowns in real estate markets, economic and industry downturns and Real's ability to attract new agents and retain current agents. Accordingly, these forward-looking statements should be evaluated with consideration given to the many risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results and events to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements. They include the risks discussed under the heading 'Risk Factors' in the Company's Annual Information Form dated March 6, 2025, and 'Risks and Uncertainties' in the Company's Quarterly Management's Discussion and Analysis for the period ended March 31, 2025, copies of which are available under the Company's SEDAR+ profile at It is not possible for management to predict all the possible risks that could affect Real or to assess the impact of all possible risks on Real's business.
Newsweek
23-06-2025
- Business
- Newsweek
AI Impact Awards 2025: How 7 Health Care Winners Measure Impact
Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Artificial intelligence is an all-consuming force in the health care industry—and it's still gaining momentum. In 2024, the global health care AI market was estimated at more than $26 billion, and it's expected to grow to over $187 billion by 2030. There's good reason for the boom. Health care executives, physicians and tech leaders alike agree that AI has enormous potential in the industry. It can help make outdated processes more efficient, generate new meaning from massive pools of data and even improve communications between industry stakeholders. But as the AI market grows, it's becoming more challenging for health systems to parse through the noise and find solutions that will actually improve care outcomes. Newsweek spoke with health care and life sciences winners of our inaugural AI Impact Awards to determine how they define and measure impact. Health care and life sciences were just one of the industries represented, and across more than a dozen categories, there were 38 total winners were selected by a panel of AI and subject matter experts. Here's how seven award-winning companies distinguish their AI models from the hype cycle: Several health care companies received AI Impact awards for their significant contributions to the industry. Several health care companies received AI Impact awards for their significant contributions to the industry. Newsweek Illustration AI Health Care, Best Outcomes, Care Coordination – Xsolis Xsolis has created a suite of AI solutions to better connect health care providers with payer organizations and health plans. It serves more than 500 hospitals and health systems and 18 health plans nationwide—and is rapidly expanding its market share, securing spots on the Inc. 5000 and the Deloitte Tech Fast 500 for the fastest growing private companies. To measure impact, Xsolis tracks the number of cases that are denied and overturned by insurance companies, according to Dr. Heather Bassett, the company's chief medical officer. "We're able to show our clients, through the use of our AI and other analytics, that they were able to appropriately capture revenue based on the medical intensity of their patient population," Bassett told Newsweek. "Today, we're at about $1.5 billion that we've either protected or helped our clients appropriately capture [across our company's lifetime]." Since most hospitals are understaffed, they aren't always able to fight every claim and maximize their reimbursements, she added. Xsolis' tool boosts the efficiency of utilization management teams by approximately 20 percent, allowing them to review a larger share of cases. AI Health Care, Best Outcomes, Health Equity – Bunkerhill Health "For us, it's actually fairly easy to quantify impact," Nishith Khandwala, co-founder and CEO of Bunkerhill Health, told Newsweek. The company uses AI to identify clinically significant findings that are hidden in patient records, and ensure that patients receive the follow-up care they need to prevent future complications. For example, a patient might get into a car accident and receive a CT scan to check for cracked ribs. The CT scan might also find signs of coronary artery disease—but in today's medical system, those findings would never be flagged because they weren't relevant to the car crash. Bunkerhill Health tracks success by counting the number of patients that it flags for a separate encounter with a specialist, like a cardiologist or an oncologist. "In our office, we have a counter," Khandwala said. "Every time we find a patient who we discovered to have high risk for some other problem, we increment that counter, because that's the number of lives that we have impacted." AI Health Care, Best Outcomes, Patient Care – Cera Based in the United Kingdom, Cera is harnessing technology and AI to predict and prevent avoidable falls and hospitalizations in the elderly population. Its ecosystem includes a proprietary app that allows health care staff, patients and families to log health indicators in real time, along with two AI models. The first, Falls Prevention AI, predicts 83 percent of falls up to seven days in advance—allowing health care staff to intervene and prevent the leading cause of hospitalizations in adults over age 65. The second, its Hospitalization Predict-Prevent tool, predicts three-quarters of hospitalizations one week in advance. Together, the pair of AI tools flag up to 5,000 high-risk alerts each day, according to Cera founder and CEO Dr. Ben Maruthappu. Data like this shows the impact that the tools are having on patient safety (and on the U.K.'s health system, which spends over £2.3 billion per year on falls in the over-65 population). "Most importantly of all, we are using AI to make an impact at scale," Maruthappu told Newsweek. "Cera works with over a hundred U.K. Local Governments and the majority of NHS regions, reducing costs, transforming life for patients, and bringing healthcare services into the future." AI Health Care, Best Outcomes, Diagnostics – Color Health Color Health is the largest virtual cancer clinic in the United States, created in partnership with the American Cancer Society. Last summer, it teamed up with OpenAI to develop its Cancer Copilot: a novel AI architecture that creates accurate clinical recommendations for clinicians, expanding access to world-class oncology expertise for doctors working at major cancer centers, small community health facilities and every setting in between. The company primarily charts AI impact in two ways, co-founder and CEO Othman Laraki told Newsweek. First, it tracks how much time clinicians save by using the AI tool. Traditionally, nurses and oncologists had to spend 1-2 hours looking through a patient chart and determining how to prepare them for treatment, Laraki said. Using AI, they can craft the same plan in just 15 minutes. Additionally, Color Health measures how, when and why clinicians opt to change the output of the AI model. The company's most recent data shows that physicians choose to make changes in less than two percent of the clinical decision factors suggested by the model. Most of those changes had to do with formatting, Laraki added; the model has an error rate under one percent. "It's performing way better than anything that we've seen published so far," Laraki said. "And it's not because we're using better models—we're using standard open AI release models—but it's because of this architecture that makes the model behave in a very predictable way." AI Health Care, Best Outcomes, Physician Satisfaction – Iodine Software At Iodine Software, impact is measured in reimbursement gains, along with improvements in productivity and physician satisfaction, according to co-founder and CEO William Chan. The company utilizes AI to automate the middle of the revenue cycle, which traditionally requires nurses and physicians to manually collect, interpret and analyze patient data. By inserting AI into the process, Iodine Software paints a more complete clinical picture for insurance companies, ultimately resulting in fewer denials and more accurate reimbursements to health systems. Across all of Iodine's 1,000 hospital clients, that rightsizing yields a cumulative $2.4 billion per year, Chan told Newsweek. Iodine Software also saves time for health care providers, cutting the time spent reviewing patient case records by "at least half," Chan said. Since the AI model presents information in a concise, precise and actionable way, physicians can respond to information requests more quickly. Clarification asks that once took three days to answer have been whittled down to two hours, in some instances. "Physicians love that interaction compared to what it was previously," Chan said. Best of – Most Innovative AI Technology or Service, Extraordinary Impact in AI Innovation – Phare Bio In 2020, researchers at the Collins Lab at MIT made a landmark discovery when they used AI to identify a new class of antibiotics. Phare Bio was born from that breakthrough, and has since leveraged AI to uncover two additional novel antibiotic classes. The company's model prioritizes the superbugs identified as the most dangerous by the CDC and the WHO, and predicts drug efficacy, toxicity and pharmacokinetics with high accuracy. Phare Bio has also developed AIBiotics, a generative AI platform that designs new antibiotics. Ultimately, the company aims to improve the efficiency of antibiotic research and development, according to Dr. Akhila Kosaraju, its president and CEO. How does it measure that? Ultimately, by "taking better and fewer shots on goal," Kosaraju told Newsweek. It often costs between $1.3 and $1.5 billion to get a single drug over the finish line for FDA approval. "Those numbers are so high [because they] encompass all of the failures along the way to get to that one exceptional drug," Kosaraju said. "If we can reduce the number of shots on goal substantially, we can half or quarter the cost and time to get these drugs into clinical trials, and then ultimately to be FDA-approved." AI Education, Best Outcomes, Higher Education – MedCerts MedCerts has integrated conversational AI, generative AI and natural language processing into its training programs for health care and IT students. Now, students can interact with virtual patients who respond and adapt to their input in real time. One of the company's major innovations was an in-house AI program for certified nursing assistants (CNAs), designed to develop and assess soft skills like empathy, communication and problem-solving. Traditionally, these skills have been tough to measure—but with MedCerts' AI model, students can practice responding to high-pressure situations in a safe, yet nuanced environment. Student engagement is a primary indicator of an educational tool's impact, according to Dana Janssen, MedCerts' chief product officer. AI has enabled the company to give students a more interactive experience and bolster their chances of success. "One of the biggest KPIs for us is program completion, because you can't get certified and you can't get a job without first completing your programs," Janssen told Newsweek. "The more engaging we can make our content or our training—the more interactive—the more effective it ultimately is." To see the full list of AI Impact winners, visit the official page for Newsweek's AI Impact Awards. Newsweek will continue the conversation on meaningful AI innovations at our AI Impact Summit from June 23 to 25 in Sonoma, California. Click here to follow along on the live blog.
Yahoo
17-06-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Chaberton Energy Named to Inc.'s 2025 Best Workplaces List
Annual list recognizes the businesses that set the standard for workplace success and awards excellence in company culture ROCKVILLE, Md., June 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Chaberton Energy has been named to Inc.'s 2025 Best Workplaces list. The award honors companies that have built exceptional workplaces and vibrant cultures by supporting their teams and their businesses. Rooted in values of creativity, excellence, and humanity, Chaberton earned the award by demonstrating deep employee engagement, a supportive and collaborative culture, growth opportunities and excellent benefits. Through its values, Chaberton builds and maintains a culture where employees are encouraged to develop innovative projects, to emphasize quality, and to prioritize people, communities and the planet. The award process involved a detailed employee survey conducted by Quantum Workplace covering critical elements such as management effectiveness, perks, professional development, and overall company culture. Each company's benefits were also audited to determine overall score and ranking. Chaberton is honored to be included among the 514 companies recognized this year. "We are grateful to Inc. for recognizing the thoughtful work we've done to build a successful company with a set of values that are deeply meaningful to our employees," said Chaberton president and co-founder Mike Doniger. "Our team truly lives and breathes creativity, excellence, and humanity. We hire for these values, and we reference them daily." This year's list, featured on is the result of comprehensive measurement and evaluation of American companies that have excelled in creating exceptional workplaces and company cultures — whether in-person or remote. Chaberton develops community solar and solar for business. The electricity generated from Chaberton's community solar projects goes to the grid so community members can buy renewable energy on a subscription basis regardless of if they own their own home or have a roof that works for solar. To view the full list of winners, visit About Chaberton EnergyHeadquartered in Maryland, Chaberton Energy is a public benefit corporation developing renewable distributed energy projects, with a particular emphasis on community solar, solar for businesses and battery storage. Chaberton was named to the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies and ranks as the No. 1 fastest-growing community solar company, the No. 2 fastest-growing Maryland company, and the No. 34 fastest-growing company overall. Media Contact:Lia Morrison View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Chaberton Energy Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
