Innovation

MSG Entertainment: Christmas Spectacular Sells More Than 1.2 Million Tickets And Sets Another Revenue Record

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s Christmas Spectacular sold more than 1.2 million tickets during its 92nd holiday season, helping the Radio City production contribute to another year of record-setting revenue as demand remained strong across the company’s broader live entertainment portfolio.

Silicon Labs: Medical Revenue Surges 78% To Record As IoT Design Wins Accelerate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Silicon Labs reported record Medical revenue in the second quarter, with sales in the category increasing 78% year-over-year as the wireless semiconductor company also experienced accelerating design-win activity and stronger demand across its broader Internet of Things portfolio.

EquipmentShare: T3 Customers Spend Six Times More As Platform Expands Beyond Equipment Rental

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

EquipmentShare says customers using its proprietary T3 technology platform spend approximately six times more with the company than other customers, underscoring how software is becoming an increasingly important driver of its equipment-rental, service and fleet-management business.

Liquidia: YUTREPIA Reaches 5,000+ Patients As Inhaled Prostacyclin Market Expands Nearly 40%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Liquidia's YUTREPIA launch continues to expand rapidly as the company says the overall inhaled prostacyclin category has grown nearly 40% since the treatment entered the market, with YUTREPIA capturing an increasing portion of that growth.

Tiendas 3B: 593 Stores Open In 12 Months As Negative Working Capital Fully Funds Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Tiendas 3B opened 593 net new stores over the past 12 months while continuing to fund its organic expansion internally through a structurally negative working-capital model that has become an important part of the Mexican hard-discount grocery retailer’s growth strategy.

Helium Ventures Acquires That’s The One To Expand Wedding And Event Software Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Helium Ventures has acquired That’s The One, a software platform built for professional wedding and event planners. The deal expands Helium Ventures’ portfolio of software businesses serving the wedding and events industry following its acquisition of Maroo earlier this year. Financial terms were not disclosed.

HealthSnap Secures $25 Million Growth Financing Led By Eastward Capital Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

HealthSnap has secured a $25 million senior secured growth financing facility led by Eastward Capital Partners to accelerate AI innovation, expand commercial operations, and scale deployment of its Advanced Primary Care Management platform.

The Farmer’s Dog To Acquire Woof To Expand Beyond Pet Nutrition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

The Farmer’s Dog has announced it is acquiring Woof, a pet products company focused on functional enrichment and wellness. The transaction will expand The Farmer’s Dog beyond its core fresh dog food business and create a broader pet wellness platform combining nutrition, enrichment, play, and other products designed to support dogs throughout their lives.

Vexev Raises $6 Million To Advance FDA Clearance And U.S. Commercialization Of Robotic Vascular Imaging Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Vexev has raised $6 million in new funding to advance FDA regulatory activities and accelerate U.S. commercialization of VxWave, its AI-powered robotic vascular ultrasound platform. The new financing brings the Australian medical robotics company’s total funding to $19 million. Existing investors Blackbird Ventures, Neotribe Ventures, Startmate, and Horizon participated alongside new investors TreeArc Investment Group, TEN13, Bioshore Ventures, and Alumni Ventures.

Yuno Raises $45 Million Series B To Scale AI-Native Global Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Yuno has raised $45 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-native global payments and financial services infrastructure and accelerate its path toward profitability. Global PayTech Ventures led the round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, Endeavor Catalyst, Rasmal Ventures, Further Ventures, GrowthX Capital, and other investors.

Pathway Reaches $500 Million Valuation As Total Seed Funding Hits $30 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Pathway has raised additional funding at a $500 million valuation as the AI company prepares to publish benchmarks for its Post-Transformer models. The financing brings Pathway’s total seed funding to $30 million, with most of the new capital expected to go toward additional computing capacity, including new NVIDIA GB300 systems.

Why ContextLogic Is Buying gChem For $850 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

ContextLogic Holdings has agreed to acquire specialty chemicals producer gChem from funds managed by EagleTree Capital and their co-investors in a transaction valuing gChem at approximately $850 million.

Gloo Buying Cedarstone To Expand Its Applied AI Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Gloo has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cedarstone, an integrated business services company providing finance and development outsourcing to nonprofit organizations.

CareTrust REIT Completes $291 Million Of Investments As 2026 Activity Reaches $1.5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

CareTrust REIT recently completed two transactions totaling approximately $291 million, including a 16-property care home portfolio in the UK and two senior housing communities in Utah.

Why Limbach Is Buying CYMCOR For $30 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Limbach Holdings recently acquired CYMCOR for approximately $30 million to expand its position in the rapidly growing data center infrastructure market and move closer to customers earlier in the project development process.

Curio Receives Additional $2.5 Million From DOE ARPA-E To Advance NuCycle Nuclear Recycling Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Curio has received an additional $2.5 million in cost-shared funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to advance development of its NuCycle nuclear recycling technology.

Why Intellistake Is Buying NanoAi For Approximately C$17 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Intellistake Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NanoAi Technologies in an approximately C$17 million stock transaction designed to combine Intellistake’s AI infrastructure with NanoAi’s physical threat detection technology.

Edge Focus Raises Growth Equity Led By Atlas Merchant Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Edge Focus has raised growth equity through a minority investment led by Atlas Merchant Capital to expand its consumer credit technology, capital markets capabilities, and team. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Apex Fintech Solutions And Kalshi Launch API Platform For Prediction Market Access

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Apex Fintech Solutions has launched API technology enabling financial services companies to offer Kalshi-powered prediction markets directly through their own platforms.

Vanguard Launches Custom Model Portfolios To Help Financial Advisors Personalize Client Investments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Vanguard has launched Vanguard Custom Model Portfolios, giving financial advisors greater flexibility to modify the firm’s existing model portfolios while retaining Vanguard’s broader investment framework.

Brookfield: $100 Billion Deployed In Six Months As Deployable Capital Reaches Record $210 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Brookfield Corporation deployed approximately $100 billion into large-scale investment opportunities during the first six months of 2026 while simultaneously raising $98 billion of capital and monetizing $40 billion of assets, illustrating the scale of capital moving through the company’s investment platform.

JD.com: Operating Income Swings To RMB4.5 Billion Profit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

JD.com produced a significant profitability turnaround during the second quarter of 2026 despite reporting lower overall revenue, as operating income swung to RMB4.5 billion from a RMB0.9 billion loss a year earlier.

Tapestry: 11 Million New Customers Join In FY26 As Gen Z Represents 35% Of Acquisitions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Tapestry added approximately 11 million new customers globally during fiscal 2026, including more than 2.5 million in the fourth quarter, as the owner of Coach and Kate Spade continues expanding its consumer base across generations and geographies.

Ascendis Pharma: Product Revenue Surges 105% To €315 Million As Adjusted Operating Profit Turns Positive

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Ascendis Pharma's commercial transformation accelerated in the second quarter of 2026 as product revenue surged 105% year-over-year to approximately €315 million and non-IFRS operating profit swung to positive €92 million from a €23 million loss.

Applied Industrial: $310 Million Debt Paydown And $317 Million Buyback Support $7 Billion Revenue Target

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Applied Industrial Technologies is entering fiscal 2027 with a substantially leaner balance sheet and higher long-term growth targets after using strong cash generation to repay $310 million of debt and spend $317.2 million on share repurchases during fiscal 2026.

Arteris: Interview With President And CEO K. Charles Janac About Semiconductor System IP And Network-On-Chip Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Arteris provides semiconductor system IP and software that help companies design complex system-on-chip and multi-die architectures, including network-on-chip interconnect IP, automation software, cache IP, and functional safety and security technologies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Arteris President and CEO K. Charles Janac to learn more.

STAAR Surgical: China Generates More Than Half Of Q2 Revenue As Total Sales Jump 111%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

STAAR Surgical reported second-quarter 2026 net sales of $93.5 million, up 111% year-over-year, with China generating $52.3 million and accounting for more than half of total quarterly revenue.

WeRide: L2++/L3 Revenue Surges 2,594% As WRD 3.0 Deliveries Reach 30,000 Units

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

WeRide's L2++ and L3 autonomous-driving business entered a rapid commercialization phase during the second quarter of 2026, with revenue surging approximately 2,593.8% year-over-year as deliveries of its WRD 3.0 solution reached approximately 30,000 units.

Harmonic: Broadband Backlog Reaches $588 Million, Exceeding Full-Year Revenue Target Of Up To $525 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Harmonic's Broadband backlog and deferred revenue reached approximately $587.6 million at the end of the second quarter of 2026, up 71% year-over-year and exceeding the company's entire full-year Broadband revenue target of $505 million to $525 million.

Securitize: Transaction Volume Surges 147% To $5.3 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Securitize reported a sharp increase in activity across its tokenization platform during the second quarter of 2026, with aggregate transaction volume surging 147% year-over-year to $5.3 billion even as quarterly revenue declined 5% to $14.4 million.