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<p>This week, the <a href="https://machalliance.org/" target="_blank">MACH Alliance</a> announced the addition of two new members: <a href="https://www.onestock-retail.com/en/" target="_blank">OneStock</a>, an ISV, and <a href="https://edg.io/company/about-us/" target="_blank">Edgio</a>, joining as an "Enabler" member. This brings the Alliance's membership total to 80 organizations. </p>
<p>“Our MACH Certification gives enterprises confidence they are choosing best-in-class vendors that can deliver future-proof technology,” said <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/casper-aagaard-rasmussen/" target="_blank">Casper Rasmussen</a>, president of the MACH Alliance. “With order management central to all channels working together in e-commerce, MACH-based order management provides the flexibility needed as fulfillment becomes more complex.”</p>
<h2><strong>OneStock powers omnichannel order management</strong></h2>
<p>OneStock is a France-based company that touts a composable omnichannel order management solution. OneStock helps retailers, manufacturers, and B2B companies streamline their inventory flow through API functionality – providing greater agility through composable commerce.</p>
<p>“We are delighted to be joining the MACH Alliance, which shares a common vision of excellence in delivering the best possible experience for customers,” said <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/romulusgrigoras/" target="_blank">Romulus Grigoras</a>, co-founder and CEO of OneStock. “Our OMS has been ‘MACH’ built from the origin of OneStock, back in 2015. We can’t wait to work with the other members of the Alliance to continue building the future of frictionless commerce.”</p>
<h2><strong>Edgio enables MACH principles</strong></h2>
<p>Edgio is a content delivery network (CDN) that provides global scale and edge-enabled solutions. Its technology helps businesses meet the growing consumer demand for fast, secure, and frictionless digital experiences. The Arizona-based company boasts clients in 38 countries and services 5% of global internet traffic.</p>
<p>As a new Enabler, Edgio will become a foundational infrastructure partner within the MACH Alliance's best-of-breed community for secure, high-performance services. This includes data storage, cluster or container management, tracing, service meshing, API gateways, and orchestration.</p>
<h2><strong>MACH Alliance continues steady growth</strong></h2>
<p>Since the beginning of 2023, the MACH Alliance has added 14 new members to its roster. Before Edgio's induction, <a href="https://cloud.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Cloud</a> and <a href="https://www.vultr.com/" target="_blank">VULTR</a> were the most recent Enabler members to join the MACH Alliance. CMS Critic has covered numerous <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/?s=mach+alliance">member additions</a> in the certified vendor category.</p>
<p>The MACH Alliance has a rigid certification process for membership, ensuring that MACH Certified companies meet its best-of-breed requirements. For more information, visit <a href="https://machalliance.org/" target="_blank">machalliance.org</a>.</p>
<h2><strong>About the MACH Alliance</strong></h2>
<p>The MACH Alliance is a [501(c)(6)] non-profit organization, governed by an independent board and does not endorse specific vendors, members or otherwise. Formed in June 2020, the MACH Alliance helps enterprise organizations navigate the complex modern technology landscape. It aims to guide and show the business advantage of open tech ecosystems that are Microservices based, API-first, Cloud-native SaaS and Headless. All MACH Alliance members meet certification principles that are published on the website. The MACH Alliance welcomes technology companies and individual industry experts who share the same vision for the future. Learn more at <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmachalliance.org%2F&amp;esheet=52478831&amp;newsitemid=20210818005487&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=machalliance.org&amp;index=5&amp;md5=db9d7bdff8c8646152c1923d3ff4adc2" target="_blank">machalliance.org</a>, read here about <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fmachalliance.org%2Fblogdetail%2Fbltfc0a3afbca44303e&amp;esheet=52478831&amp;newsitemid=20210818005487&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=MACH+certification&amp;index=6&amp;md5=ba1c5d6e1bf42963a3a8bb59771d09da" target="_blank">MACH certification</a> and follow us on <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twitter.com%2Fmachalliance&amp;esheet=52478831&amp;newsitemid=20210818005487&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Twitter&amp;index=7&amp;md5=dfeea3f8422d14d51b860d90329a6837" target="_blank">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fmachalliance&amp;esheet=52478831&amp;newsitemid=20210818005487&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=LinkedIn&amp;index=8&amp;md5=a1db2958e174d041221c1705e694b6f0" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p>
<h2><strong>About OneStock</strong></h2>
<p>As Europe's leading Order Management System (OMS) vendor, OneStock provides an intuitive omnichannel order management solution. Based on stock unification and order orchestration, OneStock unifies all available stock and makes it available to all sales channels. As a Web to Store and Store to Web expert, OneStock is customer-centric and offers consistent highly profitable return on investment in addition to enhancing  your customers experience: Order In-Store, Ship From Store, Click &amp; Collect, Reserve &amp; Collect, Returns Management.</p>
<h2><strong>About Edgio</strong></h2>
<p>Edgio (NASDAQ: EGIO) helps companies deliver online experiences and content faster, safer, and with more control. Its developer-friendly, globally scaled edge network, combined with fully integrated application and media solutions, provide a single platform for the delivery of high-performing, secure web properties and streaming content. Through this fully integrated platform and end-to-end edge services, companies can deliver content quicker and more securely, thus boosting overall revenue and business value. To learn more, visit <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fedg.io%2F&amp;esheet=53374696&amp;newsitemid=20230404005770&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=edg.io&amp;index=3&amp;md5=aeb2d13703d2d35f87ad6c39cae2332f" target="_blank"><strong>edg.io</strong></a> and follow us on <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fedgioinc&amp;esheet=53374696&amp;newsitemid=20230404005770&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Twitter&amp;index=4&amp;md5=da18aa0e8cddf46303b3667aa0f17d95" target="_blank"><strong>Twitter</strong></a>, <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fcompany%2Fedgio%2F&amp;esheet=53374696&amp;newsitemid=20230404005770&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=LinkedIn&amp;index=5&amp;md5=6e389c91fcc909d6a55f8307c7f6286b" target="_blank"><strong>LinkedIn</strong></a>, and <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FEdgioinc&amp;esheet=53374696&amp;newsitemid=20230404005770&amp;lan=en-US&amp;anchor=Facebook&amp;index=6&amp;md5=a1a51f813b0895149de1864a9f0c5eb3" target="_blank"><strong>Facebook</strong></a>.</p>


OneStock and Edgio Join the MACH Alliance, Member Total Rises to 80

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MACH Alliance logo with OneStock and Edgio logos

<p>This week, <a href="https://hygraph.com/?utm_term=hygraph&amp;utm_campaign=EN_GL_Brand&amp;utm_source=adwords&amp;utm_medium=ppc&amp;hsa_acc=2816788452&amp;hsa_cam=17743993835&amp;hsa_grp=141602476209&amp;hsa_ad=610084431591&amp;hsa_src=g&amp;hsa_tgt=kwd-1681477926128&amp;hsa_kw=hygraph&amp;hsa_mt=p&amp;hsa_net=adwords&amp;hsa_ver=3&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjww4-hBhCtARIsAC9gR3YU9uocJkJ2l80xEp1BlGTD-17eTEyFU6i_A1B0oVIDPhzZxjfOz7AaAtL0EALw_wcB" target="_blank">Hygraph</a>, an enterprise-level federated content platform, announced a closing round of Series B funding for $30 million, led by the investment firm <a href="https://onepeak.tech/">One Peak</a>. Other existing VC firms <a href="https://openocean.vc/" target="_blank">OpenOcean</a>, <a href="https://peak.capital/" target="_blank">Peak</a>, <a href="https://squareone.vc/" target="_blank">SquareOne</a>, and a new angel investor, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/boris-lokschin-aba53013/?locale=en_US" target="_blank">Boris Lokschin</a>, co-founder and CEO of Spryker Systems, completed the funding round.</p>
<p>“The demand for connected digital services shows no sign of slowing down, but building everything custom is costly and an innovation bottleneck. Today, organizations not only need to distribute content to multiple devices, but they also need to access and serve up content from a myriad of sources,” said <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-lukaszczyk/" target="_blank">Michael Lukaszczyk</a>, Hygraph CEO and co-founder. “In the same way the headless CMS changed content distribution, Hygraph is disrupting the integration of content and data to enable the creation of new digital services and business models in the content economy. Our new funding round will allow us to further scale our business, as we aim to do for content management what the likes of MuleSoft did for integration.”</p>
<h2><strong>Hello, Hygraph</strong></h2>
<p>Last year, GraphCMS – the first GraphQL-native headless CMS – <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/graphcms-rebrands-to-hygraph-launches-new-federated-content-platform/">rebranded itself to Hygraph</a> and focused on a new federated content delivery platform. Since its rebrand, the Berlin-based company currently employs 70 people globally, and boasts more than 400 customers, including Dr. Oetker, Shure, Samsung, and Philips.</p>
<h2><strong>What is a federated content platform?</strong></h2>
<p>Hygraph calls it the “next generation of content management,” particularly in the next step beyond the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/top-free-headless-cms-platforms/">headless CMS</a>. The focus of Hygraph has been to replace “middleware development,” which has naturally occurred since the rise of headless and composable architecture. Through Hygraph’s product, users can connect siloed content across the entire software stack via a single API. Through this approach, content teams can compose content, distribute it and scale it more quickly than by using a traditionally headless system.</p>
<p><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/03/hygraph.png" /></p>
<h2><strong>Hygraph = high growth</strong></h2>
<p>With this new round of funding, investors are anticipating Hygraph to grow their business and expand the reach toward implementing their innovative federated content platform, particularly in North America.</p>
<p>“Despite the rise of the composable enterprise, many organizations are unable to unlock full value from their content,” said David Klein, co-founder and managing partner, and Tatjana Kast, director at One Peak. “Hygraph solves the customization and integration challenges that continue to slow the creation of new or complex digital services at scale. We have been hugely impressed with Hygraph’s strong and capital-efficient growth trajectory and believe that its federated content platform presents a sizeable market opportunity. One Peak is incredibly excited to back the excellent Hygraph team and its founders in their next phase of explosive growth.”</p>
<p>“We are honoured to be able to continue to support Hygraph’s journey,” said Ekaterina Almasque, general partner, OpenOcean. “The Series B validates the company’s unique position as an emerging leader in the next-generation enterprise content management stack. Its powerful GraphQL-native federated platform enables customers to build products like streaming services or fast-moving catalogs with unprecedented speed and ease, without relying on large engineering teams. We’re delighted to be involved in the strides that Hygraph has made since our early-stage investment to reposition the company, rebrand, and show their unique proposition to the enterprise market.”</p>
<h3><strong>About Hygraph</strong></h3>
<p>Hygraph is the enterprise-grade federated content platform that enables content creators to rapidly build and deliver tomorrow’s connected digital experiences at scale. As the next generation of CMS, Hygraph powers a many-to-many relationship between different content sources and devices. Hygraph’s modern API approach allows organisations to innovate faster and at lower cost, whether it’s building content-rich applications, or managing large product catalogues or internal knowledge management systems. Hygraph is headquartered in Berlin, Germany, and currently works with 400+ customers globally including Dr. Oetker, Shure, Samsung and Philips.</p>
<p>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.hygraph.com" target="_blank">www.hygraph.com</a>.</p>
<h3><strong>About One Peak</strong></h3>
<p>One Peak is a leading growth equity investment firm with approx. $2 billion in assets under management that invests in technology companies in the scale-up phase. One Peak provides growth capital, operating expertise and access to its extensive network to exceptional entrepreneurs, with a view to help transform innovative and rapidly growing businesses into lasting, category-defining leaders. In addition to Hygraph, One Peak’s investments include Ardoq, Brightflag, Coople, Cymulate, DataGuard, Deepki, DocPlanner, Emnify, HighQ, Infermedica, Keepit, Lucca, Neo4j, Orgvue, PandaDoc, Paysend, Quentic, Spryker Systems, and many more.</p>
<p>For more information, visit <a href="http://www.onepeak.tech" target="_blank">www.onepeak.tech</a>.</p>


Hygraph Secures $30 Million in Series B Funding

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