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Prestigious Annual Awards Program Recognizes Standout Internet-of-Things Companies and Products Portland, ME, January 13, 2022 — HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced that it has been selected as the winner of the “Smart Manufacturing Company of the Year” award in the 6th annual IoT Breakthrough Awards program conducted by IoT Breakthrough, a leading market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, products, and people in the global Internet-of-Things (IoT) market.

Industrial software company accelerates analytics for batch and process manufacturers with HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.2 Portland, ME, December 15, 2021 — HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.2 that extends connectivity to leading historian and time series database applications, including OSIsoft PI System (now part of the AVEVA portfolio) and InfluxDB. HighByte Intelligence Hub is an Industrial DataOps solution enabling manufacturers to merge, prepare, and deliver modeled industrial data to and from IT systems without writing or maintaining code. The new OSIsoft PI AF SDK connector in version 2.2 enables batch and process manufacturers to easily extract and publish data into PI System, accelerate analytics, and get more value from their process historian investments.

Industrial software company secures funding from venture capital and strategic angel investors to meet customer demand and grow market share Portland, ME, December 8, 2021 — HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced the close of its series seed funding round. The fully subscribed round raised $3.5 million in new capital to fuel the company’s next phase of growth. The round was led by the family offices of Seth and Cindy Lawry and Soren and Caroline Oberg. Mr. Lawry and Mr. Oberg served together as long-time partners at Thomas H. Lee Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. The lead investment team was joined by CEI Ventures, Maine Venture Fund, Momenta Ventures, and several angel investors. Funds will be primarily allocated across R&D, sales, marketing, and customer success to accelerate market penetration and expand deployments within existing accounts.

Industrial software company releases HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.1 with improvements for data reliability, access Portland, ME, October 5, 2021 — HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.1 with new capabilities to meet the data reliability and access needs of production deployments. HighByte Intelligence Hub is an Industrial DataOps solution enabling manufacturers to merge, prepare, and deliver modeled industrial data to and from IT systems without writing or maintaining code. With its latest release, HighByte Intelligence Hub introduces new high-availability features like application redundancy and redundant MQTT brokers, ensuring the reliable collection, modeling, and delivery of data in critical environments. The ability to define an Intelligence Hub as a secondary backup provides application-level redundancy to an Intelligence Hub configuration.

Industrial software company releases HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.0 with multi-hub management, auditing, and high-volume data delivery to AWS Portland, ME, July 27, 2021 — HighByte®, an industrial software company, today announced the release of HighByte Intelligence Hub version 2.0. HighByte Intelligence Hub is an Industrial DataOps solution enabling manufacturers to merge, prepare, and deliver modeled industrial data to and from IT systems without writing or maintaining code. With its latest release, HighByte Intelligence Hub now supports enterprise deployments with multi-hub management. Customers can remotely configure hubs, compare configurations, and synchronize models and connections between multiple hubs from a single portal. Multi-hub management enables manufacturers to easily standardize and scale the use of industrial data across the enterprise.