SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Remote, the leader in building, managing, and supporting globally distributed workforces, today announced the winners of its first-ever Remote Excellence Awards. The Awards recognize companies that have demonstrated exceptional commitment, innovation, and enthusiasm in navigating the challenges and opportunities presented by remote work. The Awards celebrate the visionary efforts driving success in the realm of remote work and distributed teams and provide a roadmap of effective strategies and practices for other businesses to follow. The Awards recognize inspiring winners across 10 categories covering vital aspects of modern business:. Excellence in Remote Work Culture:

In line with its expansion strategy, Earnnest has teamed up with Side, an alternative brokerage brand, to test the waters with the new product.

German firm Cello has raised a €3.1 million in, what it is calling, a preempted Seed round led by HV Capital and includes angel investment from Alison Pickens (dbt), Phil Chambers (Workday), Julius Göllner (ARRtist) and Patrick Andrae (HomeToGo).The platform is a referral vehicle for SaaS products giving SaaS businesses the ability to rapidly grow word-of-mouth into a valuable acquisition channel. The company raised a €2.3 million pre-seed round last year. The fresh funds will fuel the growth of its engineering organisation and see it expand further in Europe and the US.“With the twin trends of product-led growth (PLG) and community, B2B companies are turning to near-$0 CAC channels to drive efficient growth. With Cello, businesses can add a new ROI-positive, scalable channel in hours to improve their payback period, LTV:CAC, and capital efficiency," says Stefan Bader, co-founder, and CEO at Cello.Cello counts Personio, Superside, sevDesk, and tl;dv amongst its customers.“Cello’s solution is well-timed with the current market trends. The team continues to make quick progress, especially considering the global market conditions where building rapidly growing SaaS is challenging. This is one of the many reasons we believe that Cello is well-positioned to reinvent how companies sell and market products," says David Stefan Fischer, Principal at HV Capital