Innovation

FMG Expands Board As Platform Surpasses 80,000 Financial Professionals

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

FMG announced the appointment of three independent directors and one board observer to its Board of Directors as the company continues expanding across the financial services market.

Nitin Seth: An Interview With The Author And Entrepreneur About His New Book ‘Human Edge in the AI Age’

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Nitin Seth is a technology entrepreneur, corporate leader, and bestselling author who is the Co-Founder and CEO of Incedo, a U.S.-based digital and AI transformation services firm. Recently, Seth wrote a new book called Human Edge in the AI Age. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Seth to learn more.

Edge Focus: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Elliott Lorenz About The Private Credit Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Edge Focus is a technology-enabled private credit firm that utilizes machine learning and AI to analyze credit risk, underwrite loans, and manage portfolios. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Edge Focus co-founder and CEO Elliott Lorenz to learn more.

Wolf & Company: Interview With Principal & Chief Growth Officer Michael Kanarellis About The Business Consulting Firm

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Wolf & Company is a certified public accounting and business consulting firm that provides clients with tailored advisory, assurance, and tax, services. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wolf & Company Principal and Chief Growth Officer Michael Kanarellis to learn more.

1864 Fund Completes Deployment Of $10 Million Seed Fund Across Eight Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

The 1864 Fund, a Nevada-based seed-stage venture capital fund affiliated with StartUpNV, announced that it has raised and invested its $10 million fund across eight companies.

Pine AI: Interview With CEO Stanley Wei About The Autonomous Digital Assistant Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Pine AI provides an autonomous digital assistant that completes real-world customer service tasks, such as making phone calls and sending emails, to help consumers handle bill negotiations, cancel subscriptions, and secure refunds. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pine AI CEO Stanley Wei to learn more.

Prosperity Partners Receives Majority Growth Investment From Lightyear Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Prosperity Partners, a Chicago-headquartered tax, client accounting and transaction support services firm, has announced a majority growth investment from Lightyear Capital, a New York-based private equity firm with approximately $8.1 billion in assets under management. Unity Partners, which invested in Prosperity in April 2023, will retain a minority position in the company. The transaction is expected to close in the third quarter of 2026, subject to customary regulatory approvals. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Velocity Raises $38 Million Series A To Scale Enterprise Stablecoin Treasury And Settlement Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Velocity, a London-based stablecoin treasury and settlement platform founded in 2025, has raised a $38 million Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures, QED Investors, Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures and Ripple.

9fin: Former JPMorgan Executive Huw Richards Joins As Head Of Customer Partnerships

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

9fin announced that Huw Richards is joining the company as Head of Customer Partnerships, based in New York, in a newly created role designed to support customers navigating their own AI transformation efforts.

TYLsemi Raises $43 Million To Launch First Full-Stack Chiplet Platform For Custom AI Silicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

TYLsemi, a San Jose-based chiplet platform company, has emerged from stealth and closed an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round to accelerate development of AI infrastructure silicon. The round was led by Matter Venture Partners with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology and strategic investors across the global semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem.

Zayo Announces Planned CEO Transition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Zayo, the leading digital infrastructure network provider, announced a planned CEO transition, appointing former Verizon executive Sowmyanarayan Sampath as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 1, 2026. Sampath will succeed Steve Smith, who will retire as CEO following a tenure that established Zayo as the foundational backbone of the AI economy, and will continue to serve as a member of Zayo's Board of Directors.

Cognify Health Raises Seed Funding To Build Healthcare Platform For Youth Sports

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Cognify Health announced a seed funding round led by Game Changers Ventures. The company is building a healthcare platform for youth athletics, starting with concussion care.

Cribl Acquiring CardinalOps

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Cribl announced that it is acquiring CardinalOps, an agentic detection engineering company. The acquisition expands Cribl’s AI Platform for Telemetry into security operations.

Strata Decision Technology Acquires c. myers to Unite Strategic Planning, ALM, and FP&A for Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Strata Decision Technology, a leading provider of enterprise performance management solutions for financial institutions, announced the acquisition of c. myers, a trusted advisory firm that has worked with more than 600 financial institutions over its 30-plus-year history. As part of the acquisition, Adam Johnson, CEO of c. myers, and the c. myers team will join Strata.

Guthrie AI Raises $4 Million Seed Funding To Scale Virtual Bid Assistant Platform For Glazing Contractors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Guthrie AI, a Philadelphia-based construction technology company that recruits, trains, and places Virtual Bid Assistants for glazing contractors, has raised a $4 million seed round led by Chicago Ventures. The funding will expand Guthrie AI's engineering team, deepen integrations with tools estimators already use, including Bluebeam, Outlook and Excel—and grow the platform that makes it easy for glazing contractors to hire, supervise and work with a trained bid assistant from day one.

SpinSci Acquires Dialog Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

SpinSci announced that it acquired Dialog Health, a patient communication platform used by Fortune 500 health systems, health plans, and ambulatory surgery centers.

AE Industrial Acquires Powder Alloy Corporation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

AE Industrial Partners announced that it acquired Powder Alloy Corporation, a producer of highly engineered metallic, ceramic, and thermal spray powders used in mission-critical surface enhancement and joining applications. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Williams Secures $5.34 Billion From Blackstone, Apollo And KKR For Five Behind-The-Meter Power Innovation Projects Serving AI Infrastructure Demand

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Williams, the Tulsa-based natural gas infrastructure company that delivers roughly one-third of the nation's natural gas, has signed an agreement with funds managed by Blackstone Credit & Insurance, in partnership with Apollo and KKR, to provide $5.34 billion in committed capital to support the development of five announced behind-the-meter Power Innovation projects: Socrates, Apollo, Aquila, Socrates the Younger and Neo. The transaction gives Blackstone and its partners a 49% noncontrolling equity interest in the five projects while Williams retains 51% ownership and full commercial and operational control.

Corner Health Raises $32.5 Million in Seed and Series A Financing to Rebuild Primary Care

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Corner Health, a company designed to rebuild the healthcare system by empowering Nurse Practitioners to start and scale their own local primary care practices, announced it has raised $32.5 million in Seed and Series A financing. The Series A was led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors First Round Capital and Zigg Capital. The investment follows a period of rapid growth for Corner Health, which has established a network of more than 70 provider-owned primary care practices, making it the fastest-growing primary care network in Arizona and Washington and enabling 35,000-plus patient visits over the past year.

Warren Equity Partners Closes Fund V At Hard Cap With About $2.8 Billion in Commitments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Warren Equity Partners Manager (WEP), a leading investor in infrastructure solutions with $9.6 billion in assets under management, announced the closing of Warren Equity Partners Fund V, L.P. and Warren Equity Partners Fund V-A, L.P., with approximately $2.8 billion in total capital commitments. Fund V surpassed its initial target of $2.25 billion in less than 12 months and closed oversubscribed at its hard cap, receiving commitments from over 60 global institutions, including pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments and foundations, and family offices.

Genco Shipping Tells Shareholders To Reject Diana Shipping’s Extended $24.80 Tender Offer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Genco Shipping & Trading, the largest US-headquartered drybulk shipowner, has issued a statement urging shareholders not to tender their shares into Diana Shipping Inc.'s extended $24.80-per-share cash tender offer, which Genco's board has unanimously rejected as inadequate. The statement highlights a significant and unresolved inconsistency in Diana's conduct: Diana has separately made an indicative, non-binding proposal to the Genco board at terms above the $24.80 tender offer price, yet has still not updated its publicly filed tender offer materials to reflect those higher terms—meaning shareholders tendering at $24.80 would be accepting less than what Diana itself has indicated it may be willing to pay.

LEHR Acquires Emergency Vehicle Upfitting Assets Of ProLogic ITS In Tenth Add-On Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

LEHR, the nation's leading emergency vehicle upfitter and a portfolio company of Broadwing Capital, has acquired the emergency vehicle upfitting assets of ProLogic ITS, a technology and public safety solutions provider headquartered in Acworth, Georgia. The transaction is LEHR's tenth add-on acquisition in approximately two years, adding six locations across Georgia, Alabama and Florida to LEHR's network of more than 30 nationwide sites and deepening the company's presence in the Southeast while unlocking new capabilities to serve federal agency fleets. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Twin Vee PowerCats Merges With USFM Corporation And Privatizes Marine Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Twin Vee PowerCats, a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of power sport boats, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a transformative transaction combining a merger involving the publicly traded company with the concurrent privatization of its boating business under the Twin Vee and Bahama Boat Works brands.

Fulton Financial Merges Blue Foundry Bank Into Fulton Bank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Fulton Financial Corporation announced that it merged Blue Foundry Bank with and into Fulton Bank, N.A., effective July 11, 2026.

Thira Raises $21 Million Seed To Build Self-Learning AI Back-Office Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Thira announced that it raised $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona, with participation from FUSE and a group of global advisors and CIOs.

Draig Therapeutics Closes $65 Million Series B To Advance AMPA And GABAA Receptor Modulators In Neuropsychiatric Disorders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Draig Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company co-founded by Cardiff University and SV Health Investors and headquartered across Newton, Massachusetts and Cardiff, United Kingdom, has closed an oversubscribed $65 million Series B financing. The round was led by new investor Deep Track Capital, with participation from Janus Henderson Investors, Marshall Wace, British Business Bank and Jefferson Life Sciences, joining existing backers SV Health Investors, ICG, Access Biotechnology, Canaan Partners, SR One, Sanofi Ventures and Schroders Capital. Proceeds will be used to accelerate clinical development of the company's pipeline of highly specific AMPA receptor and GABAA receptor modulators.

Cover Genius Raises $100 Million From Vista Credit Partners At $1.9 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Cover Genius, the global infrastructure for embedded protection, announced a $100 million capital raise backed by Vista Credit Partners, a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners and strategic financing partner focused on enterprise software. The raise values Cover Genius at $1.9 billion, marking a new chapter for the company.

Environmental 360 Solutions Enters US Market With Acquisition Of Marcotte Disposal In Port Huron, Michigan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Environmental 360 Solutions, Canada's fastest-growing provider of waste management, environmental and recycling and circular-economy services, has made its first entry into the United States through the acquisition of Marcotte Disposal Co., a well-established waste management company operating in Port Huron, Michigan.

Pelican Energy Partners Acquires Veridiam

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Pelican Energy Partners announced the acquisition of Veridiam from an affiliate of Equity Group Investments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Canada Nickel To Sell Lucas Gold Project To Noble And Acquires Crawford Footprint Claims

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 14, 2026

Canada Nickel announced that it entered into a binding letter of intent with Noble Mineral Exploration to sell the Lucas Gold Project to Noble. The agreement was signed on July 13, 2026.