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FutureNow Technologies and the business of making things work
A pizza order, a hospital complaint, a utility bill. FutureNow Technologies builds and runs the systems behind ordinary transactions - and its most revealing story starts with five people answering the phone.
The company behind the SAP switch
ACS Systech Integrators built its business in the gap between buying SAP and making it work. Two acquisitions reveal what that expertise was worth - and why geography mattered as much as code.
Advanced Solutions International sells the other 364 days
An association can fill a convention hall and still lose its members. ASI builds the software that keeps the relationship going after everyone goes home.
Secure-24 and the Trouble With a Fast Report
When a business report finishes suspiciously quickly, someone may open a support ticket. Secure-24 built a business around the machinery behind such moments - and NTT bought the company to help run enterprise applications worldwide.
The $5 Billion Inbox: How Submittable Turned a Failed Social Network Into Grantmaking's Quiet Operating System
It started as a social network nobody wanted. Fifteen years later, Submittable sits between millions of applicants and the organizations deciding where billions of dollars should go.
apiphani
apiphani is a Boston-based, AI-native managed services company that keeps mission-critical enterprise applications - especially complex SAP and Oracle environments - running without downtime. Instead of the labor-arbitrage model used by large global systems integrators, apiphani pairs small teams of senior engineers with its proprietary observability platform, luumen, and its Deep Automation technology to detect and resolve issues before users notice them. Founded in 2018 and led by CEO Justin Folkers, the company reports 100% production uptime across its clients for more than two years and raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners in October 2025.
Embark Corporation
Embark Corporation is a New York-based education technology company that has built online application and admissions software since 1995. Its flagship platform, Embark Campus, runs the full admissions lifecycle - recruiting, applications, review, decisions, enrollment and data integration - for colleges, universities, fellowships and scholarship programs. Embark says its software has powered more than 16 million student applications for institutions including Harvard, NYU, Stanford and the Rhodes and Fulbright fellowships.