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Benefitfocus Announces $80 Million Investment by BuildGroup LLC

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CHARLESTON, S.C., May 26, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Benefitfocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNFT), the technology platform driving rapid innovation for employers, health plans and consumers, today announced an $80 million investment from BuildGroup LLC, subject to customary closing conditions. 
Ray August, President and CEO of Benefitfocus, commented, “This investment provides us added financial flexibility to further our mission of improving lives through benefits. The net proceeds from this investment will allow us to accelerate ongoing initiatives, including the potential reduction of debt and the review of value-enhancing acquisitions that meet our stringent criteria and would extend our market or technology leadership. The investment by BuildGroup should help us unlock the Company’s full potential to connect buyers and sellers on our digital benefits platform and drive continued profitable growth for the benefit of our investors.”Benefitfocus (NASDAQ: BNFT) unifies the entire U.S. benefits industry on a single technology platform to protect consumers’ health, wealth, property and lifestyle. Our powerful cloud-based software, data-driven insights and thoughtfully-designed services, enable employers, insurance brokers, carriers and suppliers to simplify the complexity of benefits administration and deliver a world-class benefits experience. Learn more at www.benefitfocus.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.About BuildGroupBuildGroup is an operator-driven, permanent capital investment company that invests in Modern Business Models – companies that have engaging SaaS offers with subscription revenues, significant data assets, and multi-sided marketplace platforms serving large and connected networks. It invests in both smaller growth companies that seek to transform industries and small cap public companies that can benefit from its permanent capital, Modern Business Model expertise, and operator experience.  For more information about how to build your Modern Business Model today, contact BuildGroup: http://www.buildgroup.com/, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Safe Harbor StatementExcept for historical information, all of the statements, expectations, and assumptions contained in this press release are forward-looking statements. Actual results might differ materially from those explicit or implicit in the forward-looking statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: risks related to the Company’s ongoing transformation; volatility and uncertainty in the global economy and financial markets in light of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic; our continuing losses and need to achieve GAAP profitability and generate sufficient cash to pay our debt and dividend obligations; fluctuations in our financial results; our ability to maintain our culture, retain and motivate qualified personnel; the immature and volatile market for our products and services; risks related to changing healthcare and other applicable regulations; risks associated with acquisitions; cyber-security risks; the need to innovate and provide useful products and services; our ability to compete effectively; privacy, security and other risks associated with our business; and the other risk factors set forth from time to time in our SEC filings, copies of which are available free of charge within the Investor Relations section of the Benefitfocus website at http://investor.benefitfocus.com/sec-filings or upon request from our Investor Relations Department. Benefitfocus assumes no obligation and does not intend to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law.Source: Benefitfocus, Inc.Benefitfocus, Inc.
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