Innovation

Point2 Technology Raises $136 Million Series B With Backing From Arm, LB Investment And Maverick Silicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Point2 Technology has completed an extension of its Series B financing, bringing the total round to $136 million as the company accelerates commercialization of its RF-based interconnect technology for AI data centers. The latest financing was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued backing from existing investors including Maverick Silicon. Point2's investor roster also includes NVIDIA, UMC Capital, Molex and Bosch Ventures, along with other new and existing investors.

Cambridge Aerospace Raises $300 Million Series C At $3.4 Billion Valuation Led By DFJ Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Cambridge Aerospace has raised $300 million in Series C funding at a $3.4 billion valuation to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate development of its air defense technologies.

VSS Capital Partners Makes Growth Investment In Cordoba To Expand Engineering And Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

VSS Capital Partners has completed a significant growth investment in Cordoba, a Los Angeles-based engineering, construction and program management company serving municipalities, public agencies and institutional customers across the Pacific Coast.

Remedium Bio Raises $10 Million Series A Led By Lifespan Vision Ventures With Participation From Eli Lilly And HKX Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Remedium Bio has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by Lifespan Vision Ventures to advance its durable protein therapeutics platform toward first-in-human clinical development. Eli Lilly and Company and HKX Capital also participated in the round. Lifespan Vision Ventures has completed the initial closing, and Harry Robb of the firm has joined Remedium’s board of directors.

Safe Harbor To Acquire MarineMax In $1.5 Billion All-Cash Deal Backed By Blackstone Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Safe Harbor Marinas, a Blackstone Infrastructure portfolio company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MarineMax in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.

N-able: $50,000+ ARR Customers Reach 2,671 And Represent 61% Of Total ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

N-able ended 2025 with 2,671 customers generating more than $50,000 of annual recurring revenue, up approximately 14% year-over-year, as larger customers accounted for a growing share of the cybersecurity company's recurring revenue base.

KLA: Services Revenue Jumps 16% To 23% Of Sales As Installed Base Expands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

KLA's services business continued expanding during fiscal Q3 2026, with services revenue increasing approximately 16% year-over-year to $774.8 million as growth in the company's installed base creates an increasingly substantial recurring revenue stream.

News Corp: Dow Jones Digital Revenue Reaches 82% As Risk & Compliance Grows 20% And WSJ Digital Subscriptions Reach 4.3 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

News Corp's Dow Jones business is becoming increasingly digital and subscription-driven, with digital revenue representing 82% of segment revenue during fiscal Q2 2026 as professional information products and digital subscriptions continued expanding.

CogniCor Adds Beacon Pointe Chairman And Co-Founder Shannon Eusey To Advisory Board

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

CogniCor has appointed Shannon Eusey, Chairman and Co-Founder of Beacon Pointe Advisors, to its Advisory Board as the AI wealth management technology company prepares for its next phase of strategic growth.

Pasqal Demonstrates Photonic Chip-Based Atom Trapping To Advance Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Pasqal has demonstrated what it believes is the first trapping of individual atoms using laser light generated by a photonic integrated circuit, marking a potential step toward more scalable neutral-atom quantum computers.

NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs And KKR To Mobilize Over $500 Billion For AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Nvidia is working with a group of major financial firms on a potential $500 billion financing package aimed at supporting the massive infrastructure buildout required for artificial intelligence, according to sources with FT.

Robinhood Launches Crypto Trading In UK With Access To More Than 50 Digital Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Robinhood has launched cryptocurrency trading for UK investors, expanding its all-in-one investment platform to include more than 50 digital assets alongside stocks and shares ISAs, equities, options and futures.

Bruker Makes Majority Investment In MIMETAS To Expand Human-Relevant Drug Discovery Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Bruker Corporation has made a majority investment in MIMETAS, a developer of organ-on-a-chip platforms and advanced human tissue and disease models used in drug discovery and development. MIMETAS will continue operating under its existing brand and management team.

Sila Receives Conditional $1.4 Billion U.S. Department Of War Loan Commitment To Expand Domestic Battery Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Sila has received a conditional loan commitment of up to $1.4 billion from the U.S. Department of War through its Office of Strategic Capital to expand domestic production of advanced battery materials and cells. The financing would support an expansion of Sila’s silicon-carbon anode manufacturing capacity at its Moses Lake, Washington, facility and the development of a lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facility.

Energy Fuels: Mine-To-Magnet Platform Targets 15,700 Tons Of Annual Magnets As $725 Million U.S. Financing Advances

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Energy Fuels is advancing a vertically integrated rare-earth strategy that could ultimately support production of approximately 15,700 tons of rare-earth permanent magnets annually, while a conditional $725 million U.S. financing commitment could help fund expansion of its domestic critical-minerals infrastructure.

I Squared Capital To Acquire oOh!media For A$1.04 Billion Enterprise Value

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

I Squared Capital has entered into a Scheme Implementation Agreement to acquire Australian out-of-home advertising company oOh!media Limited in a transaction implying an enterprise value of approximately A$1.04 billion, or about US$733 million.

FTAI Infrastructure: Long Ridge Sale Targets Roughly $1.46 Billion Of Debt Reduction As Rail Business Hits Record

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

FTAI Infrastructure is preparing for a major balance-sheet reset through the anticipated sale of Long Ridge Energy & Power Generation as its rail operations simultaneously deliver record quarterly revenue and Adjusted EBITDA.

e.l.f. Beauty: Sales Rise For 30th Straight Quarter As Fiscal 2027 Growth Outlook Increases To 20%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

e.l.f. Beauty extended its growth streak to 30 consecutive quarters during its fiscal first quarter of 2027, with net sales increasing 36% as the company raised its full-year growth outlook to as much as 20%.

APA: Debt Falls $2.3 Billion As Annual Interest Expense Drops More Than $155 Million And Cost Savings Reach $500 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

APA Corporation has reduced total debt by $2.3 billion since the end of 2024, cutting annualized interest expense by more than $155 million as stronger cash generation and cost reductions reshape the exploration and production company's balance sheet.

Clarecast: Interview With CEO And Co-Founder Bradley Taylor About Predictive Workforce Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Clarecast is an agentic AI platform that delivers predictive intelligence across people, customers, markets, and prospects, helping organizations gain forward-looking insight for planning and growth. Built on Databricks from Day 1, the platform continuously scores more than 18 million companies across growth, hiring, and market signals and has achieved 80%+ headcount forecast accuracy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Clarecast CEO and Co-Founder Bradley Taylor to learn more.

Universal Technical Institute: Atlanta Student Starts Beat Expectations By 30% As Skilled-Trades Demand Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Universal Technical Institute is seeing skilled-trades demand accelerate faster than anticipated, with its new Atlanta campus opening in July with initial student starts approximately 30% above the company's expectations.

Helmerich & Payne: Offshore Backlog Reaches $3.6 Billion As Argentina Adds Five FlexRigs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Helmerich & Payne's international and offshore businesses are building momentum, with the drilling contractor securing contracts for five additional FlexRigs in Argentina while a four-year Norwegian contract renewal helped lift its offshore backlog to $3.6 billion.

Bradesco: Fully Digital Clients Top 30 Million As Net Income Rises For Tenth Straight Quarter

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Bradesco reported its tenth consecutive quarter of rising net income during Q2 2026 as its transformation strategy expands digital adoption, improves operating efficiency and diversifies revenue across lending, insurance and capital-markets businesses.

Honest Company: Consumption Grows 7.7% Versus 2.3% Category Growth As Organic Revenue Rises 6.7%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

The Honest Company's underlying consumer demand significantly outpaced its reported revenue performance during the second quarter of 2026, with tracked-channel consumption increasing 7.7% compared with 2.3% growth across the categories in which it competes.

Bumble: Reimagined App Overhauls Matching Algorithms And Adds Group Experiences As Paying Users Fall 16%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Bumble is undertaking a broad product overhaul that includes a platform migration, redesigned matching algorithms, new conversation tools and upcoming group experiences as the dating company attempts to stabilize engagement following a 16.4% decline in paying users.

ADNOC Gas Commits $13.2 Billion To Rich Gas Development Project

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

ADNOC Gas reported second-quarter 2026 net income of $665 million, exceeding its previously issued guidance range of $400 million to $600 million despite operational and maritime disruptions during the period.

Duolingo: Daily Active Users Reach 58.7 Million As Retention Hits Record 84% And Social Accounts Top 1 Billion Organic Impressions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Duolingo's Daily Active Users increased 23% year-over-year to 58.7 million during the second quarter of 2026 as product improvements pushed retention to a record level and the company's social-media presence surpassed one billion organic impressions per quarter.

Firmus Raises $2 Billion Strategic Equity Round At More Than $10.5 Billion Valuation To Expand NVIDIA AI Factories

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Firmus has secured full commitments for a $2 billion strategic equity financing round to accelerate the expansion of its AI infrastructure platform across Australia and prepare for further growth throughout the Asia-Pacific region. The round includes follow-on investments from Coatue and NVIDIA, along with new capital from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and other Blackstone vehicles. Jane Street also participated.

Kalshi Adopts Nasdaq Market Surveillance To Strengthen Prediction Market Oversight

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Kalshi has entered into a multi-year partnership with Nasdaq Market Surveillance to enhance monitoring and oversight of trading activity across its markets. The agreement is part of Kalshi’s broader market oversight strategy and will complement the exchange’s existing surveillance framework.

Bechtel Takes Over Site Management For Poland’s First Nuclear Power Plant As Construction Preparation Begins

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Bechtel has assumed responsibility for managing the site of Poland’s first nuclear power plant as the project moves from planning, permitting and design into large-scale site preparation and construction activities. The handover from Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe, or PEJ, coincides with the start of earthworks at the future plant site in Choczewo.