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Matt LaPorta Joins Dynasty Financial Partners As Executive-In-Residence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:53 AM

Dynasty Financial Partners announced that former Major League Baseball player Matthew LaPorta has joined the firm as its newest Executive-in-Residence.

Balefire Wealth Names David Serposs Senior Corporate Solutions Advisor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:50 AM

Balefire Wealth announced that David Serposs, AIF, has joined the firm as Senior Corporate Solutions Advisor.

Caprock Names Jennifer A. Ayer Managing Director Of Purpose-Driven Wealth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:48 AM

Caprock announced it has named Jennifer A. Ayer as Managing Director of Purpose-Driven Wealth, a newly created role focused on helping families align their capital with their values, priorities, and legacy.

Willow Wealth Names Larry Greenberg As President

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:47 AM

Willow Wealth announced that Larry Greenberg has been named President, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Mitchell Caplan.

Giannis Antetokounmpo Joins Superpower As Global Brand Ambassador

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:45 AM

Superpower announced that Giannis Antetokounmpo has joined the company as a brand investor and its first Global Brand Ambassador.

Higharc Raises $95 Million To Scale AI For Homebuilding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 10:41 AM

Higharc announced it has raised $95 million in Series C funding to scale its AI platform for the homebuilding industry. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Wellington Management and existing investors including Fifth Wall, Spark Capital, Lux Capital, SE Ventures, Simpson Strong-Tie, PSP Partners, RXR Arden Digital Ventures, Suffolk Technologies, Vertex Ventures, NC Tweener Fund, and MetaProp. The funding brings Higharc’s total funding to more than $170 million.

Paul Weiss Adds Leading Delaware Litigator Blake Rohrbacher

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:54 AM

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison announced that Blake Rohrbacher will join the firm as a partner in the Litigation Department, based in Wilmington.

Raya Power: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Meghan Wood About The Solar-Plus-Battery Pods Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:42 AM

Southworks: Interview With CTO Johnny Halife About The Development On Demand Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:36 AM

Southworks is the provider of the "Development on Demand" software engineering model, designed to help companies move faster, innovate smarter, and scale with confidence by combining 25 years of human judgment with state-of-the-art AI to build and deliver software at a speed and precision traditional teams can’t match. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Southworks CTO Johnny Halife to learn more.

JUPUS Raises €13 Million To Expand Legal AI For Law Firms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:24 AM

JUPUS announced it has completed a €13 million Series A funding round to expand its legal AI platform for small and medium-sized law firms.

Revora Raises $2 Million To Build AI Agents For E-Commerce Merchants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:18 AM

Revora, formerly known as MyAlice, announced it has raised $2 million in funding to help e-commerce merchants improve customer engagement through AI agents.

GrailPay Raises $10.5 Million To Scale Risk Decisioning Infrastructure For Instant And Agentic Payments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:16 AM

GrailPay announced it has raised $10.5 million in Series A funding to expand its risk decisioning infrastructure for instant payments and agentic commerce. The round was led by MissionOG, with participation from EJF Ventures, Counterpart Ventures, Construct Capital, Commerce Ventures, and SSC Venture Partners. The new funding brings GrailPay’s total funding raised to $17.2 million.

Jarvie AI Raises $8.3 Million To Bring AI Agents To Group Chats

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:14 AM

Jarvie AI announced it has raised $8.3 million in seed funding to bring AI agents to everyday consumers. The funding round included Andreessen Horowitz, Base10 Partners, and Lightspeed.

CVC To Invest In Clevertech

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:04 AM

The Reggiani Family and CVC Capital Partners announced they have agreed to make a strategic investment in Clevertech, an Italian industrial automation solutions company.

Paul Hastings Adds Executive Compensation Partner Sasha Belinkie In New York

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 9:02 AM

Paul Hastings announced that Sasha Belinkie has joined the firm as a partner in New York, further strengthening its executive compensation, employee benefits and ERISA practice, as well as its broader public company M&A and corporate platform.

Jimini Health: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Luis Voloch About The Mental Health Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 8:00 AM

Jimini Health provides a clinician-led mental health platform that augments traditional therapy with a clinical-grade, AI-powered assistant named Sage. Sage offers patients continuous, between-session support, such as coping skills practice and mood tracking, while ensuring that all interactions are strictly supervised by licensed human therapists. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Jimini Health co-founder and CEO Luis Voloch to learn more.

Premier Lacrosse League Raises $100 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Today at 7:39 AM

The Premier Lacrosse League announced that it has closed a $100 million Series E financing round. The round was led by Ares and Joe Tsai and represents the largest capital raise in the history of professional lacrosse. The financing also includes a subsequent minority equity investment from ESPN. Additional investors include actor, writer, and producer Glen Powell; Wrexham A.F.C. co-chairman, actor, and producer Rob Mac; country music singer and songwriter Warren Zeiders; and actor Tony Cavalero.

Saviynt: Interview With Chief Product & Strategy Officer Jeff Margolies About The Identity And Access Governance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:52 PM

Saviynt provides an AI-powered identity and access governance platform that manages and secures digital access for human, non-human, and AI agent identities across an organization's applications, data, and infrastructure. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Saviynt’s Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Jeff Margolies, to learn more.

Vena Energy Secures A$1.4 Billion In Green Financing For Australian Solar And Battery Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:36 PM

Vena Energy announced that it has secured about A$1.4 billion in green financing facilities to support solar and battery energy storage system assets across Australia.

Arena Reaches $100 Million Annualized Revenue Run Rate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:33 PM

Arena announced that it has reached a $100 million annualized revenue run rate just eight months after launching its evaluation product. The company is known for operating one of the most widely used AI model evaluation platforms. Arena originally started as a research project at UC Berkeley and became known for its crowdsourced AI model leaderboard, where users compare model responses and select which one performs better.

Cursor Launches Native iOS App For Building With AI Agents From Anywhere

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:28 PM

Cursor announced the launch of Cursor for iOS, a native mobile app that is now available in public beta. The app enables developers to launch always-on agents in the cloud or control agents running on their computers from an iPhone. And developers can use the app to start work when ideas come up, receive notifications when work is ready for review, and merge pull requests while away from their desks.

OpenClaw Launches iOS And Android Apps For Agentic AI Assistants

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:08 PM

OpenClaw announced the release of standalone apps for iOS and Android, bringing its agentic AI assistant to the App Store and Google Play.

Baz Raises $9 Million To Advance Agentic Coding Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:06 PM

Baz announced the launch of Baz Planner, a new product designed to help engineering teams eliminate bugs and vulnerabilities earlier in the software development process. The company also announced an additional $9 million in seed funding, bringing its total funding raised to $17 million.

Quantifind Raises $200 Million To Advance AI-Native Risk Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 9:04 PM

Quantifind announced a $200 million growth investment led by Summit Partners. Existing investors Citi Ventures, S&P Global, Deloitte, and Stephens Group also participated in the round.

Digital Realty Buying Blackstone’s Stake In 3 Northern Virginia Data Centers In $7.8 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 8:43 PM

Digital Realty and Blackstone announced that Digital Realty agreed to buy Blackstone-affiliated funds’ interest in three fully leased data centers in Northern Virginia.

Meta Opens WhatsApp Username Reservations Ahead Of Broader Launch

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 8:39 PM

Meta announced that WhatsApp is introducing usernames as a new privacy-focused feature that lets people connect without sharing their phone numbers.

Why Ipsen Is Buying Kartos Therapeutics For Up To $1.75 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:13 PM

Ipsen and Kartos Therapeutics announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Ipsen will acquire Kartos Therapeutics. The deal adds navtemadlin, a late-stage rare blood cancer asset in Phase III development, to Ipsen’s hemato-oncology pipeline.