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Business Wire
4 days ago
- Business
- Business Wire
HG Insights Acquires TrustRadius, Providing GTM Teams With Buyer Intent Insights and In-Market Leads to Accelerate Pipeline Growth and Brand Influence
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HG Insights, a global leader in data-driven insights for B2B go-to-market (GTM) strategies, today announced its acquisition of TrustRadius —a leading provider of buyer intelligence fueled by verified customer reviews. Together, the companies now deliver the most comprehensive AI-powered revenue growth intelligence (RGI) solutions on the market. This strategic acquisition unites HG Insights' unparalleled market and account intelligence with TrustRadius' reliable B2B buyer insights, creating a definitive GTM platform for B2B marketing, sales, strategy, and RevOps teams focused on driving efficient growth, especially in crowded markets. GTM teams can now leverage industry-leading buyer intent data and in-market lead generation within HG Insights' RGI platform to identify, prioritize, and engage best-fit accounts—bridging the gap between strategic planning and GTM execution and helping companies accelerate pipeline. This marks a pivotal step forward in our shared mission to empower B2B buyers and sellers with deeper, more actionable intelligence. From market analysis to efficient pipeline HG Insights has historically provided precise RGI that enables companies to make strategic game-changing decisions, translating to revenue gains and improved customer retention. HG Insights' AI-driven data, which consists of technology usage, spend, buying centers, and intent, helps target high-propensity accounts, allowing customers to identify market opportunities, refine segments, optimize territory coverage, and accelerate revenue. However, a major challenge facing B2B companies today is bridging the gap between these insights and marketing and sales execution—specifically detecting accounts and buyers actively in-market or evaluating competitive solutions. With TrustRadius becoming a part of HG Insights, demand generation and sales teams gain contextualized insights and in-market leads that drive higher campaign performance and faster revenue outcomes. The combined data will unleash marketing and sales teams to identify new target accounts and those at risk of churn. For TrustRadius customers, HG Insights enhances their B2B buyer intelligence platform by enriching buyer intent data and in-market leads with HG Insights' granular account-level data, resulting in faster speed to market. Meanwhile, HG Insights customers can connect with active buyers via TrustRadius, further leveraging the value of validated user reviews and intent data from the TrustRadius buyer community. Marketing teams gain access to the authentic voice of the customer to generate advocacy content that enhances campaigns and increases brand influence. The result is a unified solution that empowers GTM teams to move seamlessly from market analysis to pipeline attainment. 'Our mission is to build the industry's preeminent AI-driven revenue growth intelligence platform. This requires unlocking the holy grail of demand gen and sales—connecting sellers to the right buyers who are ready to purchase,' said Rohini Kasturi, CEO of HG Insights. 'With TrustRadius joining HG Insights, we are uniquely positioned with optimal data sets and buyer intent contextualization to deliver high-propensity accounts and in-market leads that provide the fastest path to revenue.' 'The value of buyer intelligence is fully realized when integrated with GTM strategy," said Vinay Bhagat, Founder and CEO of TrustRadius. 'Together with HG Insights, we unlock the full market analysis-to-pipeline journey—helping companies identify, prioritize, and act with speed and precision." 'HG Insights' acquisition of TrustRadius creates a top tier AI-data partner for large enterprises navigating complex digital and AI transformations,' said Ramesh Venugopal, Partner at Riverwood Capital and HG Insights Board Member. 'In a landscape where time, accuracy, and intelligence defines market winners, HG Insights is now perfectly positioned to serve as the connective tissue between strategic planning and buyer engagement. This is a foundational shift toward real-time decision-making that realizes the full potential of revenue growth intelligence for the world's most demanding B2B organizations.' 'This combination sets a new standard for enterprise go-to-market intelligence,' added Jeff Parks, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Riverwood Capital and HG Insights Board Member. 'By uniting deep market context with the authentic voice of the customer, HG Insights and TrustRadius deliver significant value across large-scale GTM functions. Rohini and the HG Insights team are a remarkable force, executing with vision and velocity to build the category leader in revenue intelligence.' Learn how to accelerate pipeline and revenue growth Rohini Kasturi will be speaking at the upcoming HG AI Revenue Growth Summit 2025 on Tuesday, July 15. Register to learn how you can unlock revenue growth and transform your GTM. About HG Insights HG Insights provides AI-powered revenue growth intelligence (RGI) solutions that deliver unified, comprehensive market, account, and buyer insights and in-market leads to enable B2B technology leaders to modernize GTM decision-making and efficiently identify, engage, and win the most promising opportunities. AI-powered analytics and co-pilots empower marketing, RevOps, sales, and strategy teams to streamline market analyses, leverage deep account and buyer intent details, and optimize campaigns and GTM execution derived from billions of market data points for over 22,000 technologies across 20 million companies worldwide. That's why 95% of Fortune 1000 B2B tech companies and all major hyperscalers rely on HG Insights to increase pipeline and revenue growth and ensure GTM success. For more information, visit
Time of India
6 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Centre issues Census notification, to be held in two phases
New Delhi: The Registrar General of India (RGI) on Monday issued a notification for conducting India's 16th census with caste enumeration in 2027. Top sources have indicated that the primary focus of the exercise will be on capturing caste, rather than class. Each person may have to mention his/her religion and caste, they added. Sources suggested there is no unified single list of Other Backward Classes (OBCs) as it varies from state to state as one caste may be under OBC category in one state and in the general category in another. "And there are two separate lists of OBCs maintained -- one by the Centre and another by the state," a top official added. The census would include a variety of questions to find out economic disparity so that this census could be used for selecting beneficiaries for various centrally-sponsored welfare schemes and may replace the Socio-Economic Caste Census (SECC) 2011, according to multiple people involved in the exercise. There are also indications that preparation of a detailed questionnaire could start as early as next month. According to the RGI notification, the census will be carried out with a reference date of October 1, 2026 in snow-bound areas like Ladakh and March 1, 2027 in the rest of the country. "The reference date for the said census shall be 00.00 hours of March 1, 2027, except for the Union territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand," it said. The massive exercise will be carried out by around 34 lakh enumerators and supervisors and around 1.3 lakh census functionaries armed with digital devices. A provision for self-enumeration would also be made available. The census will be conducted in two phases. In phase one - Houselisting Operation - the housing conditions, assets and amenities of each household will be collected. In the second phase - Population Enumeration - the demographic, socio-economic, cultural and other details of every person in each household will be collected. Stringent data security measures would be followed to ensure data security at the time of collection, transmission and storage, according to the home ministry officials.
Indian Express
7 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
Caste census may club Central, State OBC Lists as Govt looks to avoid 2011 pitfalls
The Narendra Modi-led NDA government is likely to use both the Central List and the State Lists of the Other Backward Classes (OBCs) for the proposed caste census, sources told The Indian Express. The government on Monday issued a notification for conducting India's 16th population Census through 2026 and 2027. Earlier this month, the government had announced that the population enumeration phase of the Census, slated to take place in 2027, will also count castes in what is set to be the first such exercise since 1931. 'The reference date for the said Census shall be 00.00 hours of the 1st day of March, 2027, except for the Union territory of Ladakh and snow-bound non-synchronous areas of the Union territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the States of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand,' Registrar General of India (RGI) Mrityunjay Kumar Narayan stated in the notification. In respect of Ladakh, snow-bound non-synchronous areas of J&K, Himachal and Uttarakhand, 'the reference date shall be 00:00 hours of the 1st day of October, 2026', the notification said. Sources said that using only the Central List could create issues since many castes included in the OBC lists of the states are not part of it. 'So, if only the Central List is used, this could give a misleading picture of the total number of OBCs in a state. Also, states may protest this. So there is an inclination to club the two lists,' a government source said. The source, however, clarified that things are still at the stage of discussions and that a final call would be taken later by the government. There are a total of 2,513 castes listed under the OBC category in the Central List. This list, which mentions OBC castes for each state and UT, is used to determine eligibility for the central government jobs and educational institutions. Many states also have their own lists, which may include castes not recognised at the central level, or may have different classifications for certain castes. This means a caste might be considered a part of the OBCs in one state but not in another, or that it might be classified differently (for instance, as a Scheduled Caste or in a different category) in different states. This was believed to pose a challenge for the caste enumeration process at the national level. Sources, however, said with the clubbing of the two lists, this problem could be overcome. Sources added that it will also be easier this time since the Census will be conducted digitally. 'Currently, caste enumeration is limited to SCs/STs (Scheduled Castes / Scheduled Tribes) and 'Others'. The Census enumeration app and portal has been accordingly designed. There is a drop-down menu for all listed SC and ST castes which can be selected and filled in accordingly. All other castes go into 'Others'. The RGI just needs to add another column for the OBCs – or list all castes among 'Others' including the general category, as the case may be. The drop-down menu could then have all the castes listed in the Central List and the State Lists of the OBCs apart from other castes in case all these groups go into the 'Others' category. At the back-end, the RGI will maintain the database that will determine which list the caste entered during the enumeration belongs to,' a senior official said. These lists, after checking for updations from the states, would have to be compiled before the houslisting phase of the Census in 2026, sources said. However, updations can be made until the commencement of the population enumeration phase, sources added. A similar process is undertaken for the SC / ST lists. As of March 2023, there were 1,270 SCs and 748 STs notified along with their sub-groups in different states and UTs. Significantly, the government had carried out a caste enumeration exercise in 2011 as well, whose data was however never made public. The Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC) 2011 was conducted along with the Census 2011 by the then Manmohan Singh-led UPA government. In response to multiple parliamentary questions and court cases, successive governments (led by both the UPA and the NDA) have said that the 2011 caste data was 'fraught with infirmities', 'unusable' and 'unreliable'. The RGI examined its raw data and was believed to have flagged over 46 lakh caste names, many of which were duplicates, spelling variants, or incorrect entries. A key challenge was that respondents self-declared their caste names, leading to overlapping categories and non-standardised entries (for example, one caste being recorded under multiple names or sub-castes). The government said it was 'not feasible' to consolidate or classify these into a validated national caste list without further detailed verification. Sources said this time such problems are not likely to occur since caste enumeration is expected to be carried out through a well-defined list.
Indian Express
7 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
The many firsts in Bihar elections – phone deposit areas, fewer voters per booth, faster polling
As Bihar prepares for the Assembly elections later this year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) is rolling out several initiatives that will make a debut in the state. 'The ECI is focusing on making voting easier, faster and fairer, and the electoral process more inclusive,' ECI assistant director Apurva Kumar Singh said. 'We're introducing changes based on past feedback, many debuting with the Bihar elections.' For the first time, polling booths will feature mobile deposit facilities – a response to complaints from voters struggling to manage their phones. 'This will ease their burden, especially for those voting alone,' Singh said. The ECI will also cap the number of voters per polling station at 1,200, down from 1,500, to 'cut congestion, reduce waiting times and speed up voting'. Additional booths will be set up in high-rise buildings and residential colonies, targeting densely populated urban pockets, a tactic borrowed from recent Lok Sabha successes in many cities. Voter Information Slips are also getting a makeover. The ECI expects to trim 20-30 seconds off each voter's processing time by enlarging the serial and part numbers for easier readability, leading to shorter queues and smoother voting. Updating the electoral roll is on the ECI's priority list, with a first-of-its-kind Special Summary Revision (SSR) planned ahead of by-elections – the first in nearly two decades. To address outdated entries, the ECI will utilise the Registrar General of India's (RGI) death registration database. 'Using death registration data from the RGI, followed by door-to-door checks, we will keep updating the electoral roll. Deletion is a sensitive issue. We won't remove names without ground verification,' Singh said. For the first time, booth-level agents, including those from 11 Bihar-based parties, have been trained at the India International Institute of Democracy and Election Management (IIIDEM) in Delhi, where all the election-related officials are trained. 'Political parties are our biggest stakeholders, along with the voters,' Singh said. The canvassing distance norm has been slashed to 100 meters from polling station entrances to balance visibility and order. The ECINET dashboard, a single-app solution replacing over 40 existing platforms, will also launch during the Bihar elections. Duplicate EPIC number issues have also been resolved, ensuring every voter gets a unique identifier, the ECI officer said. Election staff are not being left behind. Booth-level officers (BLOs) will now carry standard photo ID cards – another first – to foster trust and ease public interaction. 'Not having proper IDs was a hurdle,' Singh said. Apart from this, over 3,000 booth-level supervisors, including those from Bihar, have been trained at IIIDEM, with plans to train one lakh more nationwide. Similarly, training for a batch of police officers has been conducted at the institute. The ECI assistant director said that the poll body is also considering orientation for media personnel throughout the country at IIIDEM, in batches, starting with Bihar-based journalists to sharpen election reporting and voter education efforts. The electoral body aims to increase voter turnout to the national average of 66.10%, up from Bihar's 56.28% in the last Lok Sabha elections.
NDTV
02-06-2025
- Business
- NDTV
Telangana Aims To Become 3 Trillion Dollar Economy By 2047: Revanth Reddy
Hyderabad: Telangana is working to become a USD 3 trillion economy by 2047 as the country aspires to achieve USD 30 trillion by then, Chief Minister A Revanth Reddy said in Hyderabad on Monday. Speaking at the Telangana Formation Day celebrations, Mr Reddy said the state government hopes to contribute 10 per cent to the national GDP by 2047. "India is making efforts to emerge as a USD 30 trillion economy by 2047. As India and the (Central) government are making plans to become USD 30 trillion, we brought the Telangana Rising 2047 policy document to make the state a partner in it, to put the state at the top," he said. As part of its goal, the state government has introduced several policies, including energy, tourism, industries, investments and health, he said. All these policies together form the vision of 'Telangana Rising 2047'. This envisions making the state compete with the world, he said. The CM said the government is making efforts with the aim of transforming the state into a USD one trillion economy in 10 years and a USD 3 trillion economy by 2047 (to help the country become a USD 30 trillion economy). Telangana's population forms only 2.5 per cent of the country's current population, but the state contributes five per cent to the national GDP, he said. The government aims to increase the state's contribution to the national GDP to 10 per cent by 2047, he said. The CM urged doctors, engineers, bureaucrats, businessmen and other sections of society to support the government in its endeavour. Mr Reddy, who highlighted the welfare and development initiatives, said the government is firming up plans to make Hyderabad comparable to world cities, including to restore the past glory of Musi river in the city and to develop Bapu Ghat, a memorial for Mahatma Gandhi, as 'Gandhi Sarovar' as per international standards. Observing that major cities in the country have developed gradually since old times, he said the government is developing a fully-planned 'Bharat Future City' near the city's RGI airport. The proposed Future City is envisioned to compete with cities like Tokyo and New York. The Future City, proposed to be developed in 30,000 acres as per global standards, would comprise AI City, Sports City, Life Sciences, Health City and Pharma City. The government has already prepared a policy document and appointed a Future City Development Authority, he said. The Future City would be a destination for investments from around the world, he said. Alleging that people's aspirations were not fulfilled after the state's formation in 2014 (during the previous BRS regime), he said the state government, after assuming office in December, 2023, set out to rectify the wrongdoings of the past and to put the state on the path of reconstruction. The CM hoisted the national flag and inspected the parade on the occasion. He presented a cash reward of Rs one crore each to nine eminent persons, including late folk singer Gaddar, who played a key role in the Telangana statehood agitation. The cash rewards were received by the concerned family members in the case of some of the eminent persons. The Mayor of Kitakyushu City in Japan, Kazuhisa Takeuchi, attended the Telangana Formation Day celebrations as a guest. After a protracted agitation for statehood, Telangana came into existence on June 2, 2014, following the bifurcation of undivided Andhra Pradesh.
