CoverPin is an AI-powered global entity management and compliance platform that helps companies manage corporate registrations, business licenses, tax filings, governance requirements, and insurance obligations. The company supports compliance operations across more than 80 countries and all 50 U.S. states, serving over 100 customers across industries including technology, healthcare, private equity, and consumer businesses. Its platform combines AI automation with local professional expertise to handle regulatory requirements and administrative tasks, allowing organizations to focus on growth rather than fragmented compliance workflows. Steven Choi, an investor and director of CoverPin, is a Bay Area entrepreneur with experience at Google and Uber and involvement in startups that achieved IPO and acquisition exits. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CoverPin Investor and Director Steven Choi to learn more about the company's origins, AI-powered compliance infrastructure, international expansion, customer success stories, and its plans to connect compliance management with commercial insurance.

Rivian Automotive has acquired Third Dimension AI, a developer of AI-powered 3D spatial generation technology, as the electric vehicle maker expands its autonomous driving and simulation capabilities.

Norges Bank Investment Management has agreed to form a new strategic partnership with Ares Real Estate focused on investing in, developing, and operating logistics properties across Europe.

UDR and Apollo have agreed to form a new long-term joint venture involving a portfolio of 19 apartment communities valued at approximately $2 billion.

Alcon has acquired Neurotech Pharmaceuticals for $550 million, expanding its retina portfolio with ENCELTO, the first and only U.S. FDA-approved treatment for adults with idiopathic Macular Telangiectasia Type 2, or MacTel.

CBRE Group has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Onnec Group Limited, a provider of data center infrastructure services across Europe and Asia Pacific, for an initial purchase price of £460 million, or approximately $610 million, in cash.

Partners Group has closed its second rated feeder vehicle of 2026 for its private credit evergreen strategy, raising $510 million from U.S.-based insurance companies.

Hines Private Wealth Solutions has completed its ninth Delaware Statutory Trust offering, totaling approximately $591 million, the largest completed DST offering in the firm’s history.

Robinhood Ventures Fund I has completed approximately $10 million in investments in Cognition, the artificial intelligence software company behind the autonomous coding agent Devin.

Madison Capital Group has appointed Chris Best as Managing Director to lead the firm’s expansion across registered investment advisor and family office channels.

Redesign Health, a healthcare venture development and applied technology firm, has announced a merger with ARC Global, the healthcare innovation organization founded at Sheba Medical Center in Israel. The combined organization also plans to acquire AVIA, a U.S.-based digital transformation platform serving healthcare systems, creating a broader network for developing and deploying healthcare technologies.

Obra Capital has closed its fifth collateralized loan obligation offering, Obra CLO 5, with a total size of $403.6 million, bringing the alternative asset manager’s cumulative CLO issuance to more than $2 billion across five transactions in less than two years.

American Beacon Partners has appointed Matthew Tripp, CFA, as Vice President and Senior Client Portfolio Manager for ARK Invest, expanding the firm’s support for ARK’s investment strategies across the U.S. wealth management market.

Recast Software provides technology for modern endpoint and application management, serving as an operational layer for Microsoft environments by extending ConfigMgr and Intune. Its platform spans application management, third-party patching, endpoint visibility, reporting, and operational tooling across on-premises, co-managed, and cloud deployments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Recast Software Chief Technology Officer Rashmi Sharma to learn more about the company's evolution, its cloud strategy, and how it is helping IT teams navigate the transition from ConfigMgr to Intune. 

Womble Bond Dickinson has added Robert J. Bello as a partner in its Real Estate practice in Houston, continuing the law firm’s expansion in the market.

Foley & Lardner has added partners Marisa White and Rena Andoh to its New York office, expanding the firm’s capabilities across private capital, mergers and acquisitions, commercial litigation, and trade secret disputes.

Share is a bandwidth marketplace that lets anyone build their own programmable internet network. The company started in Kenya, where it built a network connecting fiber operators, data centers, internet exchanges, and subsea cable capacity, and used it to help local ISPs bring faster, more reliable internet to homes and businesses. That network is now the foundation of a neutral marketplace where the companies that own the internet's infrastructure and the networks that need capacity can trade routes on demand. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Share Co-Founder Luis Munoz Aycart to learn more about the company's model, technology, expansion strategy, and efforts to increase internet access across Africa.

Paine Schwartz Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments across the sustainable food and agriculture value chain, has made a strategic investment in First Day Life, an Austin, Texas-based health and wellness company that offers vitamins and nutritional supplements for families. The investment was made through Paine Schwartz Food Chain Fund VI in partnership with First Day founder and CEO Alice Li, who will continue leading the business.

AQi is a Regulation Crowdfunding platform focused on expanding access to capital for women-led businesses while opening private-company investment opportunities to a broader group of investors. The company combines capital raising with hands-on campaign support and an affiliate network spanning areas such as marketing, accounting, legal services, business development, and strategy. AQi is registered with the SEC and is a FINRA member. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AQi Founder and CEO Molly Huyck and COO/CCO Amie Konwinski to learn more about the platform, crowdfunding, and improving capital access for women entrepreneurs.

NextGen Healthcare has appointed Anthony Palladino as Chief Financial Officer, adding a veteran software finance executive with more than 30 years of financial and operational leadership experience.

Sage is the first integrated Care Intelligence Platform built for senior living and skilled nursing. Its platform connects staffing, care coordination, resident monitoring, and documentation to help caregivers respond to residents' needs and improve care delivery. The company's products include the Sage Care Platform that helps caregivers stay organized throughout their shift and provides actionable intelligence across communities to drive better, more efficient care. Sage also offers AI-powered hardware including nurse call, fall management and elopement management tools.  Pulse 2.0 interviewed Sage Co-Founder and CEO Raj Mehra to learn more about the company's origins, its approach to modernizing senior care, and its plans to expand into skilled nursing and preventative AI.

AEW Europe has acquired a 26,677-square-meter urban retail park within the Granaita Retail Park in Granada, Spain, expanding its European retail real estate portfolio with a nearly fully occupied asset.

Ember Infrastructure Management has reached an agreement to acquire Ashtead Technology Holdings in a recommended cash transaction valuing the subsea technology company at approximately £505 million on a fully diluted basis.

Labcorp has agreed to acquire Millennium Health, a specialty laboratory focused on drug testing and surveillance, expanding Labcorp’s toxicology capabilities and nationwide access to testing services.

Vitol Aviation Co. has been awarded a U.S. Department of Defense contract worth up to $230.1 million to supply various fuels to the Defense Logistics Agency.

The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor has received a $2 million challenge grant from an anonymous donor to support construction of its new $50 million science laboratory facility in Belton, Texas.

Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. has been awarded a $43.9 million U.S. Navy contract to support the design of new rocket motor production facilities and equipment in Magna, Utah.

Gilead Sciences has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire an oral IL-23 receptor inhibitor program, including lead asset HCXT-2001, from PepStar Therapeutics Limited for $1.275 billion in upfront cash.

Bolt Biotherapeutics has acquired Prana Therapies in a stock-for-stock reverse merger and secured a concurrent $120 million private placement to advance Prana’s pipeline of next-generation multispecific antibodies.

Great Scott Financial Services has joined Kintra Wealth, bringing approximately $355 million in client assets to the advisor-owned wealth management platform. The practice is led by Scott Seymour, who joins Kintra as Partner and Senior Wealth Advisor. Seymour brings nearly three decades of wealth management experience and has built his practice around long-term relationships with individuals and families spanning multiple generations.