Pulse 2.0

OpenAI Reportedly Explores New Funding At $1.2 Trillion Valuation

Goldman Sachs Alternatives Raises $11.7 Billion Across Private Equity Funds

Raymond James Expands Advisor Succession And Capital Solutions Under Emma Boston

Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion Series F At $30.9 Billion Valuation To Expand Vertically Integrated AI Infrastructure Platform

InPost: FedEx- And Advent-Led Consortium Completes €7.8 Billion Buyout After Securing 89.8% Of Shares

Nscale Files For U.S. IPO On NYSE Under NSCL Ticker

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:52 PM

Nscale has filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering, moving the full-stack AI cloud and data center company toward a public listing in the United States.

Angle Health Raises $600 Million At $2.7 Billion Valuation To Expand AI-Native Healthcare Benefits Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:49 PM

Angle Health has raised $600 million at a $2.7 billion valuation as the AI-native healthcare benefits company accelerates expansion across the small and midsize business market. The financing consists of a $200 million Series C and a $400 million tender offer.

CoreWeave Prices Upsized $3.7 Billion Convertible Senior Notes Offering To Fund AI Cloud Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:48 PM

CoreWeave has priced an upsized $3.7 billion private offering of 2.875% convertible senior notes due 2033, increasing the deal from the previously announced $3 billion as the AI cloud infrastructure company continues raising capital to support its expansion.

H.I.G. Capital To Acquire Industrial Asset Integrity Company MISTRAS Group For Approximately $866 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 5:48 PM

H.I.G. Capital has agreed to acquire MISTRAS Group in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $866 million, including outstanding debt, taking the technology-enabled industrial asset integrity and laboratory testing company private.

Strategic Value Partners Names Goldman Sachs Executive Matt Gibson As President

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:51 PM

Strategic Value Partners has appointed longtime Goldman Sachs executive Matt Gibson as President, adding a senior leader with more than 25 years of experience across investment banking, asset management and global client businesses.

Houlihan Lokey Adds Emil Fajersson As Managing Director To Expand GP-Led Secondaries Advisory Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:50 PM

Houlihan Lokey has appointed Emil Fajersson as a Managing Director in its Capital Solutions Group as the global investment bank continues expanding its GP-led secondaries advisory capabilities.

Apella Wealth Acquires $384 Million Firm Longview Financial Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:47 PM

Apella Wealth has acquired San Rafael, California-based Longview Financial Advisors, adding approximately $384 million in assets under management and expanding the registered investment advisor's presence in the San Francisco Bay Area.

MTA Advances Final Contract For $6.97 Billion Second Avenue Subway Phase 2 Extension To East Harlem

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:42 PM

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is advancing the fourth and final major construction contract for Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway, moving the approximately $6.97 billion project closer to extending Q train service north into East Harlem.

Veridion Raises $20 Million Series A To Build Real-Time Data Graph Covering 642 Million Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:41 PM

Veridion has raised $20 million in Series A funding to expand its company intelligence platform, which continuously collects and refreshes data on businesses around the world. Hoxton Ventures led the round, with participation from Underline Ventures, OTB Ventures, GapMinder VC, Day One Capital and LAUNCHub Ventures.

Integral Raises €18 Million Series A To Expand AI-Native Accounting, Tax And Payroll Platform For SMEs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:40 PM

Integral has raised €18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-native professional services platform, which combines proprietary software with licensed accounting, tax and payroll experts serving small and medium-sized businesses.

Marriott International Appoints Chris Buckner As Senior Vice President Of Loyalty

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:34 PM

Marriott International has appointed Chris Buckner as Senior Vice President of Loyalty, strengthening the leadership team responsible for the hotel company's loyalty and card offerings.

Raymond James Names Scott Curtis To Lead Bank Segment As Steve Raney Moves To Executive Consulting Role

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:31 PM

Raymond James Financial is implementing a series of senior leadership changes across its banking and asset management businesses as part of the firm's long-term succession planning.

Expanse Raises $5.3 Million Seed Round To Improve Infrastructure Utilization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:21 PM

Expanse, an AI infrastructure startup focused on helping companies get more work from existing computing hardware, has raised $5.3 million in seed funding.

LawZero Secures Up To C$300 Million From Canada And Germany To Develop Safe-By-Design AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:20 PM

LawZero has received a commitment of up to C$300 million in joint funding from the governments of Canada and Germany to develop a new form of advanced artificial intelligence designed around safety, reliability and technological sovereignty.

onsemi Launches Embedded Power Platform With Up To 5X Higher Power Density For AI And Electric Vehicles

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:19 PM

onsemi has introduced its Embedded Power Platform, a new semiconductor architecture designed to provide substantially higher power density for AI data centers, electric vehicles and industrial automation.

Metaschool AI Wins Grand Prize For Mobile-First Online High School Serving Ghanaian Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:18 PM

Metaschool AI won the $40,000 Michael & Lori Milken Family Foundation Grand Prize at the 2026 Milken–Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition, taking the top award at the 17th annual event hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education.

Snap Launches SPECS Intelligence To Bring Anticipatory AI Across iPhone, Mac And AR Glasses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:18 PM

Snap has introduced SPECS Intelligence, an anticipatory AI service designed to understand users' goals, routines and priorities and proactively surface information and actions across iPhone, Mac and the company's SPECS augmented reality glasses.

HarbourVest Appoints Tony Ranaldi To Lead Private Credit Evergreen Portfolio Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:17 PM

HarbourVest Partners has appointed Tony Ranaldi as Managing Director of Evergreen Portfolio Management, giving the veteran private credit investor responsibility for leading portfolio management across the firm's Private Credit Evergreen strategy.

Morgan Stanley Investment Management Closes Oversubscribed $1.3 Billion Growth Equity Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:16 PM

Morgan Stanley Investment Management has closed its inaugural North Haven Growth & Innovation Fund with $1.3 billion in capital commitments after the strategy was oversubscribed.

Google And NASA AI Model Detects 50% More Methane Plumes Than Human Experts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:16 PM

Google Research and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have developed MAPL-EMIT, a deep-learning model capable of identifying methane emissions from space at substantially greater scale than conventional manual analysis.

BOXABL Appoints Larry King As CFO And Heather Clayton As Chief Accounting Officer As Public Company Infrastructure Expands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:15 PM

BOXABL has appointed Larry King as Chief Financial Officer and Heather Clayton as Chief Accounting Officer as the modular housing company strengthens its finance organization following its transition to the public markets.

Bavarian Nordic Appoints Tarja Stenvall As CEO To Lead Next Phase Of Global Vaccine Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:14 PM

Bavarian Nordic has appointed Tarja Stenvall President and Chief Executive Officer, bringing in a pharmaceutical executive with more than two decades of leadership experience across Sanofi, AstraZeneca and Pfizer.

Duke Robotics Appoints Avi Levin As CFO As Drone Company Scales Defense And Utility Platforms

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:14 PM

Duke Robotics has appointed capital-markets veteran Avi Levin as Chief Financial Officer as the Nasdaq-listed robotics company moves to expand its drone platforms across defense and civilian infrastructure markets.

Fortitude Appoints Former Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton To Lead Zcash Mining Platform Toward Nasdaq Listing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 4:08 PM

Fortitude Mining Holdings has appointed former Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton as Chief Executive Officer as the vertically integrated digital asset mining company prepares for a proposed combination with HeartSciences and a potential Nasdaq listing.

Aristotle Raises $5 Million Seed Funding To Expand Voice-First AI Tutoring Platform For Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:28 PM

Aristotle, a voice-first AI tutoring platform designed for students ages 13 to 18, has raised $5 million in seed funding to expand its product, grow its team and launch nationwide. True Ventures led the round, with participation from Wicklow Capital and a large group of angel investors with backgrounds across OpenAI, Anthropic, Sierra, Ramp, Cognition and other AI and technology companies.

EnGenius Appoints Rachel Saunders As Vice President Of North American Sales

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 2:19 PM

EnGenius Technologies, a provider of cloud-managed networking and intelligent edge solutions, has appointed Rachel Saunders as Vice President of Sales for North America as the company expands its channel-first growth strategy across the U.S. and Canada.

Solvd Named OpenAI Select Partner To Help Enterprises Deploy GPT-6 Astra And Codex

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:29 AM

Solvd has been named an OpenAI Select Partner within the OpenAI Partner Network, expanding the AI engineering company's work with enterprises deploying OpenAI models and products across software development and complex business workflows.

Upexi: Fiscal 2026 Revenue Rises To $25 Million As Solana Treasury Reaches 2.34 Million SOL

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:03 AM

Upexi reported fiscal 2026 revenue of approximately $25 million, up from $15.8 million in the prior year, as the company completed its first full fiscal year operating a Solana-focused digital asset treasury strategy.

111: Revenue From Promotional Products Jumps 121% As Healthcare Platform Expands AI Agent Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:03 AM

111, Inc., a China-based technology-enabled healthcare platform, reported strong growth in promotional products and marketplace services during the second quarter as the company continues shifting from an asset-heavy pharmaceutical distribution model toward a more asset-light, technology-driven platform.

LuxExperience: Q4 Net Sales Rise 7.6% As NET-A-PORTER And MR PORTER Return To Growth And Profitability

By Amit Chowdhry ● Yesterday at 11:02 AM

LuxExperience reported accelerating fourth-quarter momentum across Mytheresa, NET-A-PORTER, MR PORTER and YOOX as the luxury e-commerce group progresses with its post-acquisition transformation.