Innovation

Lusha: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Yoni Tserruya About The Sales Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Abu Dhabi And Biocom California Partner To Open Strategic Life Sciences Corridor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

The Department of Health – Abu Dhabi and Biocom California announced a strategic partnership to create a formal gateway between Abu Dhabi and California’s life sciences ecosystems.

Cboe Launches Cboe Predicts Prediction Markets Suite With XSP Binary Options

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Cboe Global Markets announced the launch of the first products in its new prediction markets suite, Cboe Predicts. The initial offering includes binary option contracts based on the Mini-S&P 500 Index (XSP), which are listed under the symbols XSPBW and XSPBX.

Selectis Health To Be Acquired By Black Pearl For $5.75 Per Share

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 25, 2026

Advisor CRM Launches Ember AI-Powered Client Engagement Solution For Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Advisor CRM announced the launch of Ember, an AI-powered client experience solution designed for financial advisors and insurance professionals.

Medical Solutions Completes Financing Agreement To Support Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Medical Solutions announced that it has completed a comprehensive financing and exchange transaction with its lenders.

Planview: Interview With CPO Louise Allen About The Strategic Portfolio Management And Digital Product Development Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Planview is a leading end-to-end platform for Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) and Digital Product Development (DPD), enabling organizations to align portfolios with strategic goals, manage resources, and orchestrate product development. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Planview CPO Louise Allen to learn more.

Cameco Welcomes DOE’s Up To $17.5 Billion Commitment To Support Westinghouse AP1000 Reactor Deployment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Cameco announced that it welcomes the U.S. Department of Energy’s conditional commitment for American Nuclear Supply Chain Loans to support the large-scale nuclear reactor supply chain.

Boundless Bio And Serapha Bio Announce Merger And $230 Million Private Placement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Boundless Bio and Serapha Bio announced that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement. Serapha Bio is a privately held biotechnology company developing an investigational in vivo base editing therapy for Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency.

Life Science Connect Acquires CDMO Live And PharmaSource

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Life Science Connect announced that it has acquired PharmaSource and CDMO Live, two brands serving the biopharma outsourcing sector. PharmaSource and CDMO Live were part of Life Science Networks.

Apilex Surpasses $8 Million ARR Nine Months After Launch

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Apilex.ai announced that it has surpassed $8 million in annual recurring revenue in its ninth month since launch.

Agility Robotics To Go Public Through $2.5 Billion Merger With Churchill Capital XI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Agility Robotics announced that it has entered into a definitive business combination agreement with Churchill Capital Corp XI. The transaction values Agility at a pre-money equity value of $2.5 billion.

Andromeda Robotics: Interview With Founder & CEO Grace Brown About The Humanoid Companion Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Canyon Partners Closes €400 Million European CLO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Canyon Partners announced the closing of Canyon Euro CLO 2026-1, a €400 million European collateralized loan obligation. The deal brings Canyon’s European CLO platform assets under management to more than €2.1 billion.

Versework Raises $2.7 Million And Joins Roblox Incubator

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Versework announced that it has been selected for the official Roblox Incubator 2026 and has raised $2.7 million from Altos Ventures. The investment brings Versework’s total funding to about $7.5 million. Versework is a South Korea-based Roblox user-generated content game developer and accelerator.

Anthropic Introduces Claude Tag For Team Collaboration

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Anthropic announced the beta launch of Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude directly in Slack. Claude Tag allows teams to add Claude to selected Slack channels, grant it access to approved tools, data, and codebases, and tag @Claude to delegate tasks.

Juniper Capital Management Invests In Bug ID

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Juniper Capital Management announced a partnership with Bug ID, an audiovisual systems design and integration firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Owaves Names Jason Knapp Chief Product And AI Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Owaves announced that Jason Knapp has joined the company as Chief Product and AI Officer. Owaves is a circadian-health company behind BodyClock AI, a platform for precision lifestyle medicine.

Seven Seven Six Acquires ONIT To Expand College Sports Trading Card Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Seven Seven Six, the venture capital firm founded by Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, has acquired ONIT, an officially licensed college sports trading card company.

NORBIT Acquires Water Linked To Expand Underwater Technology Offering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

NORBIT announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Water Linked, a Trondheim-based provider of underwater navigation and imaging technology.

Barings Acquires Build-To-Rent Project In Tumba, Sweden

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Barings announced that it has acquired a build-to-rent residential project in Tumba, Sweden, on behalf of a European value-add real estate strategy.

TRIMTECH Therapeutics Raises $47 Million Seed Funding To Advance Targeted Protein Degradation Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

TRIMTECH Therapeutics announced that it has raised an additional $14 million in seed funding, bringing the total round to $47 million.

Bridge Logistics Properties Acquires Twinwood Distribution Center III In Texas

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Bridge Logistics Properties announced that it has acquired Twinwood Distribution Center III, a 767,520-square-foot Class A distribution facility in Brookshire, Texas. The property is located at 2193 Discovery Hills Parkway in the West Houston submarket.

Shield AI Completes Acquisition Of Aechelon Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Shield AI announced that it has completed its acquisition of Aechelon Technology, a company specializing in high-fidelity simulation, physics-based sensor modeling, and synthetic reality technologies.

CATL Debuts Field-Validated Sodium-Ion Energy Storage System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

CATL announced the launch of TENER Sodium, a sodium-ion energy storage system designed for commercial deployment.

Groq Raises $650 Million To Scale AI Inference Cloud Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Groq announced that it has raised $650 million in new growth capital to accelerate the expansion of its AI inference cloud. The round was led by Disruptive and Infinitum, with participation from investors that chose to reinvest in the company.

ICE And OKX Form Joint Venture Co-Chaired By Andrew Cuomo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Intercontinental Exchange and OKX announced the formation of a 50-50 joint venture focused on building next-generation infrastructure for tokenized and digitally native financial products.

Brazos Residential Appoints Wyatt Simmons As Chief Investment Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

Brazos Residential announced that it has appointed Wyatt Simmons as Chief Investment Officer.

AlpSemi Raises €17 Million To Scale Solid-State Circuit Breaker Power Switches

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

AlpSemi announced that it has raised €17 million in funding to support the industrialization and commercial scale-up of its next-generation semiconductor power switches.

CroíValve Raises $27 Million Additional Capital To Advance DUO Adapt System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jun 24, 2026

CroíValve announced that it has closed $20 million in Series B expansion financing, along with $7 million in European Innovation Council and DTIF grant financing. The additional capital brings CroíValve’s Series B total to $36 million and $43 million, including grant financing.