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Hoonr Accelerates Enterprise Growth and Expands Global Freelance Management Capabilities

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Three major enterprise client wins and a new partnership with Independently highlight growing momentum for Hoonr’s AI-first Workforce Orchestration platform

ALPHARETTA, Ga., Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hoonr, an AI-first Workforce Orchestration platform, today announced significant enterprise growth and expanded global Freelance Management capabilities, continuing strong momentum since launch in April 2026.

In just five months, this fully integrated Direct Sourcing and Workforce Orchestration platform has been selected by three Fortune 500 enterprises across the life sciences, professional services and engineering sectors for its advanced AI, analytics, and sourcing abilities. 

These early milestones demonstrate the need for Hoonr as enterprises look to truly orchestrate and manage disjointed tech stacks and enhance their workforce strategies with candidate- focused insights. 

“The momentum we have experienced since launching Hoonr validates the need for a fundamentally different approach to workforce management,” said Nimitt Sharma, Chief Growth Officer, Hoonr. “Enterprises need visibility and control across talent, technology, compliance, data, and AI. The growth of our customer base, along with the continued expansion of the platform, reinforces the value Hoonr delivers.”

As part of its continued platform expansion, Hoonr has also introduced a full-cycle global Freelance Management System (FMS), giving organizations a seamless way to source, engage, onboard, manage, and analyze independent talent worldwide. This expertise is strengthened through its partnership with Independently, a global independent contractor classification and compliance platform supporting 60 countries with documentation and audit-ready records. The integration embeds jurisdiction-specific contractor vetting directly into Hoonr, helping clients validate worker classification before an engagement, and minimizing the risk of non-compliance.

“Hoonr is building an intelligent orchestration layer across the extended workforce, bringing together talent, technology, data, and AI in a way that reflects where enterprise workforce management is headed,” said Jeff Nugent, CEO of Independently. “With Independently, classification and compliance become a natural part of Hoonr’s workflow rather than a separate process that happens after the fact.”

Hoonr combines Direct Sourcing, Onboarding and Compliance, Freelance Management, AI Agents, SOW Benchmarking, and Workforce Analytics within a unified, skills-first ecosystem. By reducing the need for fragmented tools across labor categories, Hoonr provides an orchestration layer designed to improve visibility, intelligence, governance, and control across the total workforce.

“Organizations are increasingly turning to freelancers and independent professionals to access specialized skills and create a more agile workforce,” added Namita Tirath, Chief Customer Officer, Hoonr. “Our expanded FMS capabilities, with Independently’s embedded classification expertise, allow customers to manage independent talent as part of a broader, more connected workforce strategy.”

About Hoonr
Hoonr, a division of Pyramid Consulting, Inc., is an AI-first Workforce Orchestration platform enabling clients to deploy and manage integrated human and AI workforces with efficiency, intelligence, governance, and control. Built around a skills-first approach, Hoonr brings together 2M+ vetted candidates with Direct Sourcing, Freelance Management, AI Agents, SOW Benchmarking, and Workforce Analytics within a unified ecosystem. Learn more at hoonr.ai.

About Independently
Independently is a global independent contractor classification and compliance platform that helps organizations confidently engage independent talent while managing worker classification risk. Supporting IC vetting across more than 60 countries, Independently conducts jurisdiction-specific assessments and creates documented, audit-ready records supporting classification decisions. Learn more at independently.ai.

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DataGroomr Recognized in Salesforce 2027 Partner of the Year Awards

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DataGroomr Recognized for Leading the Charge on Agentic Transformation within Salesforce Ecosystem

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — DataGroomr announced that it has been named a recipient of the Salesforce Partner of the Year Award for helping customers continuously understand, measure, and strengthen the reliability of their Salesforce data. DataGroomr combines AI-powered data quality intelligence with operational capabilities that enable organizations to identify data quality issues and their underlying causes, prioritize remediation, and take action to maintain trusted customer data for business operations, analytics, automation, and AI.

DataGroomr announced that it has helped EQT Corporation, one of the largest natural gas producers in the United States, transform its business by using DataGroomr with Salesforce to continuously measure data quality, identify and resolve duplicate records, and protect the integrity of incoming data. EQT has removed more than 20,000 duplicate Contacts and increased its internal data quality score by 50%, even as the number of Accounts and Contacts doubled.

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“Every company is now betting its AI on CRM data it has never actually measured,” said Steve Pogrebivsky, CEO of DataGroomr. “We built DataGroomr so data quality is a number you can watch move, not a project you run once a year and hope holds.””Implementing DataGroomr was a game-changer for us. Within six months, we saw a tremendous improvement in our data quality, reducing duplicates by thousands each month. DataGroomr has truly transformed our approach to data management, ensuring our information is accurate and reliable,” said Joshua Hoyt, IT Director – Salesforce Team at EQT.”Partners are at the heart of everything we do at Salesforce. The pace of innovation has never been faster, and global enterprises are turning to our ecosystem to turn technology into real measurable success, seeking transformation that no single company can drive alone. And the impact is real. From deploying Agentforce to reimagining workflows in Slack to unlocking trusted data with Data 360, partners are at the forefront of redefining how companies operate,” said Andrew Kisslo, Senior Vice President of Global Partner Strategy and Programs, Salesforce.

Salesforce’s expansive partner ecosystem — including certified consulting partners and ISVs building on AgentExchange — is a critical catalyst for organizations looking to rapidly deploy AI and unlock the full power of the Agentic Enterprise. By combining deep industry expertise with our trusted AI, data, and CRM platform, these partners and ISVs ensure every company can scale autonomous agents seamlessly to drive unprecedented business success. DataGroomr is a prime example of an ecosystem partner delivering creative solutions to help customers navigate their biggest hurdles and jump from proof of concept to adoption.

The 14th annual Partner of the Year Awards recognize the significant contribution Salesforce partners have made through AI agent implementations, measurable Agentforce success stories, and driving customer adoption that fuels real business growth. “Today we’re excited to announce the new 2027 Salesforce Partner of the Year Awards Winners, a program that celebrates the partners like DataGroomr doing this work exceptionally well,” Kisslo said.

For a full list of this year’s Partner of the Year Award winners, please see here. Salesforce, and others are among the trademarks of Salesforce, Inc.

About DataGroomr

DataGroomr is an AI-powered data quality platform for Salesforce that helps organizations assess, deduplicate, cleanse, enrich, verify, import, and automate the management of CRM data. DataGroomr combines machine learning, generative AI, data quality monitoring, and automation to help organizations maintain accurate, complete, and trusted Salesforce data at scale. From preventing and resolving duplicates to verifying contact information, enriching records, monitoring data health, and automating remediation, DataGroomr helps organizations establish a reliable data foundation for customer engagement, reporting, automation, and AI.

About EQT Corporation

EQT Corporation is a premier, vertically integrated American natural gas company with production and midstream operations focused in the Appalachian Basin. With operations in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio, we are dedicated to the development of our world-class asset base. As one of the leading producers and movers of natural gas in the United States, we are committed to continually improving and creating long-term value for all stakeholders, including employees, landowners, communities, industry partners and investors.

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Babylist Opens 20,000 Square Foot Showroom in New York City: NYSE Content Update

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NYSE issues a pre-market daily advisory direct from the trading floor.

NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) provides a daily pre-market update directly from the NYSE Trading Floor. Access today’s NYSE Pre-market update for market insights before trading begins. 

Ashley Mastronardi delivers the pre-market update on September 25th

Babylist’s new showroom is designed for the entire early parenting journey.Features include dedicated stroller test tracks, a Volvo for hands-on car seat installation practice, and a 600-square-foot model apartment where parents can see how baby gear fits and functions in a real-world living space.Chief Marketing + Experience Officer Jill Cress will join NYSE Live to discuss why Babylist specifically chose New York City for the showroom’s destination.Energy tech firm Hyliion dual lists on NYSE Texas. The Texas-based company says that the move connects it to the capital markets fueling Texas’ energy and technology growth.Founder + CEO Thomas Healy will join NYSE Live to discuss the strategy of dual-listing and the role its home state of Texas plays in Hyliion’s momentum.Investors monitor elevated Treasury yields and rate decision data.The 30-year U.S. Treasury yield reached its highest level since 2004 this week.New data shows that roughly 70% of traders anticipate the Fed to raise interest rates next month

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Operation Lifesaver, Inc. recognizes the 10th annual See Tracks? Think Train® Week

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XPRIZE celebrates the XPRIZE Wildfire Awardees

For market insights, IPO activity, and today’s opening bell, download the NYSE TV App and check out the NYSE YouTube: TV.NYSE.com and YouTube.com/@NYSEofficial

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BE OPEN Regional Art celebrates the winners of the Central European competition

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LUGANO, Switzerland, Sept. 25, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — BE OPEN Art, an online gallery set up by Elena Baturina’s humanitarian think-tank BE OPEN, continues to run BE OPEN Regional Art competition for the fourth year in 2026. It aims to support those emerging artists whose art best represents their regional, cultural and ethnic identities.

From May to August 2026, the competition explored the art of Central Europe: Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. Artworks by twenty artists from these countries appeared in the online gallery every month, and a public vote selected the Regional Artist of the Month.

At the end of the stage, the four monthly winners were ranged in accordance with the number of votes and assessment by the incredible jury headed by Michal Novotný, Director of the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art at the National Gallery Prague; Branka Bencic, Director of MoMCA, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka, Croatia, and Olga Butinar Čeh, Curator at ZDSLU, the Slovenian Association of Fine Arts Societies.

The title of the Artist of the Region and the €500 grant goes to Marie Bokova, who studies Ceramics and Porcelain at UMPRUM in Prague. Her practice explores the relationship between human histories and the natural world through figurative ceramic sculpture, relief, and material-based processes. Combining ceramics with wood, wax, and organic matter, her work draws on biological processes as both practical techniques and conceptual frameworks.

The honourary mentions are the Artists of the Month Bogdana Peric Milenkovic from Serbia, Helena Mirich from Croatia, and Lorena Iavorschi from Romania.

Another awardee is Elena Baturina’s personal choice – Ester Nemjo, a painter, illustrator, and animator based in Prague. A graduate from the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague and The School of Decorative Arts in Paris, Ester creates dreamlike narratives inhabited by imaginary creatures and symbolic landscapes that explore themes of inner life, transformation, care, and motherhood.

Through the Regional Art competition, BE OPEN Art continues its mission to support emerging artists worldwide, fostering artistic innovation, cross-cultural dialogue, and the preservation of regional identities through contemporary art.

In 2026, BE OPEN Regional Art will proceed with the competition in East Asia.

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