Pulse 2.0

GE Vernova To Acquire Trench Group From Triton Partners For $9 Billion

Broadcom And Financial Partners Arrange $63 Billion Financing For Anthropic AI Compute Capacity

Pittsburgh Penguins Name Ted Towne As Chief Financial Officer

University At Buffalo Raises Record $166 Million In Fiscal 2026

Meta Acquires Sundial As Co-Founders Julie Zhuo And Chandra Narayanan Join Company

ChipAgents: Interview With Founder And CEO William Wang About Agentic AI And Semiconductor Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 7:26 AM

ChipAgents is an artificial intelligence company developing agentic AI technology for semiconductor design and verification. The company’s platform combines specialized AI agents with existing engineering tools to automate complex chip development tasks, including design generation, debugging, verification, simulation, and optimization. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ChipAgents Founder and CEO William Wang to learn more about the company's origins, IC-star technology, semiconductor engineering challenges, customer results, collaboration with NVIDIA, and the future of AI-powered chip development.

OH.io Invests $2 Million In CVAT To Accelerate Open-Source AI Data Labeling Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:07 PM

OH.io has partnered with CVAT and added the open-source AI data labeling company to its portfolio, with sister company OH.io Capital making a $2 million investment.

Vertiv Completes UtilityInnovation Group Acquisition For Up To $2.6 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:05 PM

Vertiv has completed its acquisition of UtilityInnovation Group for approximately $1.45 billion in upfront cash, with the transaction potentially reaching $2.6 billion if up to $1.15 billion of additional contingent consideration is earned.

La Caisse To Acquire 49.9% Stake In Bell TowerCo For C$2.45 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:04 PM

BCE has entered into an agreement with La Caisse under which the global investment group will acquire a 49.9% stake in a newly created wireless tower infrastructure company from Bell Canada for C$2.45 billion.

Omabit Raises $2 Million Seed Financing Led By Bright Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:03 PM

Omabit has raised $2 million in seed financing led by Bright Ventures to advance an artificial intelligence platform designed to help life sciences companies analyze scientific evidence and make decisions throughout drug development.

Guidewire To Acquire Hyperexponential For Up To $2.1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:02 PM

Guidewire has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire hyperexponential for a base purchase price of $1.7 billion in cash, with up to an additional $400 million of contingent consideration tied to specified recurring revenue targets. The potential total consideration is therefore approximately $2.1 billion.

Odeko Acquires Nantel McDiarmid In First Cross-Border Transaction

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:01 PM

Odeko has acquired Montreal-based food and beverage distributor Nantel McDiarmid in its first cross-border acquisition, expanding the company’s operations into Canada.

Wisable Raises $5 Million Seed Funding Backed By The D. E. Shaw Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:00 PM

Wisable has raised $5 million in seed funding as the M&A advisory firm looks to bring institutional-style deal execution to owners of small and midsize businesses.

Nord Quantique Secures $10 Million DARPA Stage B Extension For Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:52 PM

Nord Quantique has secured a $10 million extension to its Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Stage B agreement, providing additional funding to evaluate the company’s approach to fault-tolerant quantum computing.

Shrieve Chemical Company Acquires Clear Solutions To Expand Energy And Infrastructure Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:48 PM

Shrieve Chemical Company has acquired Clear Solutions International, a UK-based developer and manufacturer of proprietary water-based drilling fluid systems.

Symbolic Mind And Intel Collaborate To Bring AI Training To CPU-Based Enterprise Servers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:47 PM

Symbolic Mind is working with Intel to bring its Charm AI model to enterprises that want to train and run artificial intelligence models using CPU-based server infrastructure.

Apple Launches M6 MacBook Pro And iMac, Redesigned iPad Mini, And Major Creator Studio AI Updates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:46 PM

Apple has unveiled a broad wave of new hardware and software products centered on artificial intelligence, including a 14-inch MacBook Pro and iMac powered by the new M6 chip, a substantially redesigned iPad mini with the A20 Pro chip and OLED display, and major AI-focused upgrades to Apple Creator Studio.

Leonard Green Acquires Radon Medical Imaging From 5th Century Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:45 PM

5th Century Partners has completed the sale of portfolio company Radon Medical Imaging to Leonard Green & Partners, providing an exit after approximately four years of expanding the medical imaging services business.

EDGE Industrial Technologies Acquires Harvest Blade To Expand Resharpening Network

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:40 PM

EDGE Industrial Technologies has acquired Harvest Blade, a Salinas, California-based provider of industrial blade resharpening and supply services, expanding its presence in food processing and packaging.

Virent Capital Makes First Platform Investment In Kanahoma

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:37 PM

Virent Capital has made its first platform investment in Kanahoma, a San Diego-based higher education marketing and enrollment services company, supporting plans to build a broader full-service enrollment growth platform.

Fairbanks Morse Defense Awarded $99.09 Million U.S. Navy Submarine Contract

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:34 PM

Fairbanks Morse Defense has been awarded a $99.09 million Naval Sea Systems Command contract to provide life-extension services supporting six U.S. nuclear submarines through 2030. The company, which is backed by Arcline Investment Management, will provide repairs, parts, and labor for Emergency Diesel Generator overhauls on attack submarines and ballistic missile submarines.

Kivo Health Raises $10 Million Series A Led By Allumia Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:33 PM

Kivo Health has raised an oversubscribed $10 million Series A round led by Allumia Ventures to expand its AI-powered virtual care platform for seniors living with chronic disease. Corewell Health Ventures, Y Combinator, Heuristic Capital, and MassMutual Ventures also participated in the financing. The round brings Kivo’s total funding to more than $16 million.

Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion Series E At $6.2 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:32 PM

Tenstorrent has raised $1.5 billion in Series E funding at a $6.2 billion post-money valuation to support high-volume manufacturing of its AI computing systems and expand commercially worldwide. The round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participation from new and existing investors including Agostinelli Group, ARK Invest, Brett Barna, Cadence Ventures, Eclipse, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Maverick Silicon, Morgan Stanley, Protagonist, Sandisk, T. Rowe Price, Tether Investments, Troluce Capital, Virtu Financial, and XTX Markets.

Evolve Media Acquires CafeMom, LittleThings And MamásLatinas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:29 PM

Evolve Media has acquired digital media brands CafeMom, LittleThings, and MamásLatinas, expanding its parenting, family, and lifestyle portfolio with properties that collectively reach more than 40 million social media followers. Bright Mountain Technologies previously owned the three brands through Wild Sky Media.

Luxor Technology Raises $16 Million Strategic Round Led By CMT Digital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:27 PM

Luxor Technology has raised $16 million in strategic financing led by CMT Digital to expand its AI compute, hardware, energy, and derivatives businesses. Canaan, MicroBT, Halo, Steelhead, and additional angel investors participated in the round, which includes a combination of primary and secondary capital.

Bizcap Secures $175 Million Credit Facility To Expand Across North America

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:25 PM

Bizcap has secured a $175 million credit facility from a U.S. institutional credit manager to increase its lending capacity and support continued expansion across the United States and Canada.

Enstructure Names Four Regional Presidents Following LOGISTEC Marine Services Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:24 PM

Enstructure has appointed four Regional Presidents to oversee its expanded North American marine terminal network following the acquisition of LOGISTEC’s marine services division.

Terradot Secures $34 Million HASI Financing For Carbon Removal Projects

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:24 PM

Terradot and HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital have closed a $34 million senior secured term loan to finance enhanced rock weathering carbon removal projects across the United States and Brazil.

Avante Raises $30 Million Series A Led By Frist Cressey Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:23 PM

Avante has raised $30 million in Series A funding to expand its enterprise AI platform for employee benefits teams. Frist Cressey Ventures led the round, with participation from Sorenson Capital, Hearst Ventures, Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund, and existing investor FUSE. The financing brings Avante’s total funding to $40 million.

GE Vernova To Acquire Trench Group From Triton Partners For $9 Billion

Broadcom And Financial Partners Arrange $63 Billion Financing For Anthropic AI Compute Capacity

Pittsburgh Penguins Name Ted Towne As Chief Financial Officer

University At Buffalo Raises Record $166 Million In Fiscal 2026

Meta Acquires Sundial As Co-Founders Julie Zhuo And Chandra Narayanan Join Company

ChipAgents: Interview With Founder And CEO William Wang About Agentic AI And Semiconductor Engineering

OH.io Invests $2 Million In CVAT To Accelerate Open-Source AI Data Labeling Platform

Vertiv Completes UtilityInnovation Group Acquisition For Up To $2.6 Billion

La Caisse To Acquire 49.9% Stake In Bell TowerCo For C$2.45 Billion

Omabit Raises $2 Million Seed Financing Led By Bright Ventures

Guidewire To Acquire Hyperexponential For Up To $2.1 Billion

Odeko Acquires Nantel McDiarmid In First Cross-Border Transaction

Wisable Raises $5 Million Seed Funding Backed By The D. E. Shaw Group

Nord Quantique Secures $10 Million DARPA Stage B Extension For Quantum Computing

Shrieve Chemical Company Acquires Clear Solutions To Expand Energy And Infrastructure Portfolio

Symbolic Mind And Intel Collaborate To Bring AI Training To CPU-Based Enterprise Servers

Apple Launches M6 MacBook Pro And iMac, Redesigned iPad Mini, And Major Creator Studio AI Updates

Leonard Green Acquires Radon Medical Imaging From 5th Century Partners

EDGE Industrial Technologies Acquires Harvest Blade To Expand Resharpening Network

Virent Capital Makes First Platform Investment In Kanahoma

Fairbanks Morse Defense Awarded $99.09 Million U.S. Navy Submarine Contract

Kivo Health Raises $10 Million Series A Led By Allumia Ventures

Tenstorrent Raises $1.5 Billion Series E At $6.2 Billion Valuation

Evolve Media Acquires CafeMom, LittleThings And MamásLatinas

Luxor Technology Raises $16 Million Strategic Round Led By CMT Digital

Bizcap Secures $175 Million Credit Facility To Expand Across North America

Enstructure Names Four Regional Presidents Following LOGISTEC Marine Services Acquisition

Terradot Secures $34 Million HASI Financing For Carbon Removal Projects

Avante Raises $30 Million Series A Led By Frist Cressey Ventures

Byzfunder Names Filippo Guidi As Chief Strategy Officer

University Of Detroit Mercy Receives $7.75 Million For Defense Technology Workforce Programs

Sycamore Tree Capital Partners Closes $504 Million Eighth CLO

OriginPoint Adds We Fund LA Team With Over $200 Million In Annual Mortgage Production

HealthSpan Partners To Acquire Surgery Partners For $5.7 Billion

Tata Communications To Invest Up To $450 Million In 10,000-Kilometer India AI Super Highway