Website: https://synapticadvisors.com/
Type of Company: Software & application
Company Status: Active
Business: Synaptic is a Baltimore, Maryland based solutions and services company that aims to use AI to accelerate and lower the cost of solution delivery for Salesforce customers.
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Co-investors: Individuals
Wilmington, DE – July 17, 2025 – Travel Curious, a leading B2B technology platform enabling travel, hospitality, and loyalty companies to seamlessly integrate experiences into their offering, today announced its acquisition of Redeam, a premier connectivity platform in the experiences sector. The strategic move marks another significant step in Travel Curious’s growth journey, resulting in the formation of the newly combined company, Travel Curious Group Inc. valued at over $40 million. As part of its accelerated growth plans, Travel Curious is relocating its global headquarters to the United States, while maintaining operational offices in London and Madrid.
Baltimore-based Synaptic Era, a Salesforce provider, is leveraging a recent $5 million seed funding round to build a business model on its emerging solution-as-a-service and agent-as-a-service operations, with CEO Bill Karpovich pushing an outcome-based agenda, CRN reported last week.
“Who wants to buy an hour? An hour is an input,” said Karpovich, who took control of the company in 2020 after becoming the first outside investor in the firm. Customers “want to buy an output. (They are) going to buy the outcome – and that’s where it’s evolving,” he said in an interview with the industry publication.
The James Beard Foundation (JBF) Awards swept Chicago into a frenzy on Monday, June 16, at the Lyric Opera. Of all the Colorado contestants, upscale Italian restaurant Frasca Food and Wine in Boulder was named Outstanding Restaurant. This makes the restaurant’s collective fourth James Beard Award. Though there were six finalists headed into the final night of the ceremony, most of the Colorado contestants lost out.
Harold Tanner ’52, chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees – who helped usher in an era of financial stability as a co-chair of Cornell’s first billion-dollar endowment campaign and served as board chair during the transformative shift of all first-year students to North Campus residences – died June 14 in New York. He was 93.
The AMGA mission drives a robust set of core competencies—education, standard setting, and advocacy—that serve to advance the AMGA community and the guiding industry. The mission positions the organization to tackle big industry challenges while also serving individual guides with career development and community.
In 2024, the AMGA executed high-impact initiatives that touched on all three areas of the mission. On the advocacy front, the passage of the EXPLORE Act in December 2024 was a landmark achievement for guides that will give rise to a new era of increased access and streamlined permitting. In the realm of education, the AMGA redesigned the entrance to the Alpine Guide Program to provide terrain-specific training in snow and glacier guiding, and alpine rock guiding. The new programs will enable guides to quickly gain qualification to work in the classic alpine ranges and will better meet the needs of AMGA Accredited Businesses. As a standard-setting organization, the AMGA made important refinements to the AMGA Scope of Practice including the introduction of a terrain complexity scale.
