Innovation

ECARX: $23 Million Strategic Investment In Lotus Technology To Deepen Global Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 29, 2025

ECARX Holdings announced it has signed a share subscription agreement to make a $23 million strategic investment in Lotus Technology Inc. through a private placement, aiming to broaden the companies’ collaboration into a more integrated global partnership.

QC Ware: Interview With CEO Matt Johnson About The Quantum Computing Team

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 29, 2025

QC Ware is a leading software and services company at the forefront of quantum and classical computing. Pulse 2.0 interviewed QC Ware CEO Matt Johnson to learn more about the company.

ClickUp Acquires Cursor Competitor Codegen To Advance AI Super Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 29, 2025

ClickUp announced it has acquired Codegen, an AI-powered code generation and agentic AI platform, as the company accelerates development of “Super Agents” designed to operate inside ClickUp’s workspace as collaborative AI teammates.

CACI Agrees To Acquire ARKA Group From Blackstone For $2.6 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 27, 2025

CACI International announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ARKA Group L.P. from funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.6 billion, a deal the company says advances its strategy in space-based sensing and intelligence for national security customers.

reAlpha To Buy InstaMortgage For $8.5 Million, Expanding Into Direct Mortgage Lending

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 27, 2025

reAlpha has signed a definitive agreement to acquire InstaMortgage, a move intended to add direct mortgage lending capabilities alongside the company’s existing mortgage brokerage operations and better align brokerage-to-lending workflows for homebuyers.

Accordion Acquires Pinnacle Healthcare Advisors To Expand Revenue Cycle Management Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 27, 2025

Lucidean: $18 Million Seed Funding Raised To Scale CohZero Data-Center Optics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Lucidean, a Santa Barbara, California–based AI interconnect company developing coherent optical links for data centers, has raised $18 million in Seed financing and appointed Dr. James Raring as chief executive officer.

Howmet Aerospace To Buy Consolidated Aerospace Manufacturing For About $1.8 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Howmet Aerospace said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Consolidated Aerospace Manufacturing (CAM) from Stanley Black & Decker in an all-cash deal valued at approximately $1.8 billion. The acquisition is aimed at expanding Howmet’s aerospace fastening systems business by adding CAM’s portfolio of precision fasteners, fluid fittings, and other highly engineered components used across aerospace and defense platforms.

Clarity Pediatrics: $14.5 Million Series A Raised To Expand Virtual Chronic Care Platform Into Pediatric Obesity Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Clarity Pediatrics, a telehealth company focused on virtual specialty care for chronic pediatric conditions, announced it has raised $14.5 million in Series A financing and plans to expand its platform into pediatric obesity care, with an obesity-services launch targeted for early 2026.

Atavistik Bio: $120 Million Series B Raised To Advance Selective Allosteric Small-Molecule Programs In HHT And MPNs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Atavistik Bio said it raised a $120 million Series B financing to push two selective allosteric small-molecule programs into clinical proof-of-concept studies: an oral, AKT1-selective allosteric inhibitor for hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT) and a JAK2 V617F mutant-selective inhibitor program for myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs).

HBox: Strategic Growth Investment Raised From Charlesbank

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

HBox, a virtual care platform focused on specialty medical practices, said it has received a strategic growth investment from Charlesbank Capital Partners’ Technology Opportunities Fund II to support expansion of its AI-powered virtual care capabilities and broader initiatives aimed at high-risk chronic condition management. The transaction closed on December 17, 2025, and was announced December 19.

Coforge To Buy Encora In $2.35 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Coforge announced it has signed definitive agreements to acquire Encora, an AI-native engineering services firm founded in Silicon Valley, in a transaction that the companies said is designed to accelerate Coforge’s ambition to become a leading AI-driven engineering provider.

Accenture To Buy Cabel Industry, Strengthening Financial Services Capabilities in Italy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Accenture has agreed to acquire Cabel Industry, an Italian technology company that provides specialized core banking and IT managed services to mid-size financial institutions, from the Fibonacci Group. The transaction is expected to bolster Accenture’s banking and insurance technology offering in Italy by expanding its managed services capabilities and adding sector-specific platform expertise.

TMTG Merge With TAE Technologies In All-Stock Deal Valued Above $6 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) announced it has signed a definitive merger agreement to combine with fusion-energy developer TAE Technologies in an all-stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion, a deal the companies say would create one of the world’s first publicly traded fusion companies.

Harbour Energy To Buy LLOG Exploration For $3.2 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Harbour Energy announced it has agreed to acquire privately held LLOG Exploration Company LLC for $3.2 billion, marking Harbour’s strategic entry into the deepwater U.S. Gulf of America and adding a new core operating region alongside its existing positions in Norway, the UK, Argentina and Mexico.

Saipem Wins $3.1 Billion Share Of QatarEnergy LNG Offshore EPCI Award

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Saipem announced it has been awarded an offshore engineering, procurement, construction and installation (EPCI) contract in Qatar as part of the North Field Production Sustainability (NFPS) Offshore Compression Complexes project, with the company’s share valued at approximately $3.1 billion.

Radiant Raises Over $300 Million To Scale Mass-Production Of Portable Nuclear Microreactors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Radiant, a company developing factory-built, transportable nuclear microreactors, has raised more than $300 million in a new funding round to expand commercialization efforts and support construction of its planned R-50 manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The company said the raise was completed just six months after its Series C and was assembled in a matter of weeks.

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals: $55 Million Series B Raised To Advance AV078 For Tuberous Sclerosis Complex-Related Refractory Epilepsy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Aeovian Pharmaceuticals, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company based in Berkeley, California, has closed an oversubscribed $55 million Series B financing to support completion of a Phase 2 proof-of-concept study for its lead candidate, AV078, in tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC)-related refractory epilepsy.

Nvidia Acquiring Groq’s Assets In A Reported $20 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Groq recently announced that it has entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with Nvidia for Groq’s inference technology. This agreement reflects a shared focus on expanding access to high-performance, low-cost inference. While the size of the deal was not officially confirmed, CNBC revealed that Disruptive, the investment firm that spearheaded Groq’s most recent funding rounds, confirmed a massive $20 billion price. Alex Davis, the chief executive of Disruptive, noted that his firm invested over half a billion dollars into Groq over nearly a decade of development. Nvidia plans to pay the full sum in cash to acquire the specialized technology developed by the high-speed chip designer.

Gambit Cyber: $3.4 Million Seed Funding Raised To Scale Agentic AI-Driven CTEM Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Gambit Cyber, a Leiden, Netherlands-based startup focused on AI-native preemptive cybersecurity, has raised $3.4 million in seed funding to expand its KnightGuard continuous threat exposure management (CTEM) platform. The round was led by Expeditions, with participation from Bitdefender Voyager Ventures, the early-stage investment arm of cybersecurity company Bitdefender.

Penn Launches $10 Million StartUP Fund To Back Faculty-Founded Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

The University of Pennsylvania’s Office of the Vice Provost for Research has launched the Penn StartUP Fund, an internal early-stage investment vehicle designed to support startup companies founded by Penn faculty and researchers and based on Penn-developed innovation.

UTulsa’s Hurricane Ventures Backs Electrolysis Startup Tobe Energy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

The University of Tulsa and its venture fund, Hurricane Ventures, have invested in Tobe Energy, an electrolyzer startup co-founded by UTulsa alumni Colby DeWeese and Caleb Lareau. The funding will support Tobe Energy’s efforts to make clean hydrogen production more cost-effective and efficient, with the broader goal of expanding access to low-emissions hydrogen as part of the transition to a lower-carbon economy.

Stereotaxis: Interview With Chairman & CEO David Fischel About The Robotic Magnetic Navigation Systems Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

Stereotaxis develops robotic magnetic navigation systems and related devices that let physicians remotely steer catheters during minimally invasive procedures, especially cardiac ablation to treat heart rhythm disorders (arrhythmias). Pulse 2.0 interviewed Stereotaxis Chairman and CEO David Fischel to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

MetalBear: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Aviram Hassan on Reinventing Developer Experience in Kubernetes

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 26, 2025

MetalBear builds mirrord, a developer tool that lets engineers run services locally while seamlessly connecting to real cloud environments to speed up development, improve debugging, and reduce cloud costs. Pulse 2.0 interviewed MetalBear co-founder and CEO Aviram Hassan to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Janus Henderson To Be Acquired By Trian And General Catalyst In $7.4 Billion Take-Private Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 25, 2025

Janus Henderson Group plc said it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an investor group led by Trian Fund Management and General Catalyst in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $7.4 billion.

StretchSense: $2.3 Million Raised To Drive Global Expansion Of XR Training Gloves

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 23, 2025

Wearables technology firm StretchSense, which develops high-tech hand data capture gloves, has raised $2.3 million (£1.75 million) in a funding round led by PXN Ventures and supported by Scottish Enterprise as it pushes global expansion of its extended reality training glove for enterprise and government use.

HCLSoftware To Acquire Jaspersoft From Cloud Software Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 23, 2025

HCLSoftware, the software business division of HCLTech, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Jaspersoft, an embedded analytics and “pixel-perfect” reporting platform that operates as a business unit of Cloud Software Group. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Picus Capital: €150 Million Preferred Equity Financing From Carlyle AlpInvest Closed

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 23, 2025

Picus Capital has closed a €150 million preferred equity financing from Carlyle AlpInvest, a private markets manager, in a deal the Munich-headquartered venture capital firm said will provide flexible capital for new investments and continued support for its portfolio of nearly 200 companies.

Neural Concept: $100 Million Series C Closed To Scale AI-Native Engineering Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 23, 2025

Neural Concept has closed a $100 million Series C funding round led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, as the company looks to scale its CAD-native, physics-aware AI platform across enterprise engineering workflows. The round included participation from existing investors Forestay Capital, Alven, HTGF, D. E. Shaw Ventures, and Aster Capital.

FoRx Therapeutics: $50 Million Series A Raised To Advance FORX-428

By Amit Chowdhry ● Dec 23, 2025

FoRx Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech developing precision oncology medicines, has closed an insider-led $50 million (CHF 40 million) Series A financing to advance its lead candidate, FORX-428, into and through Phase 1 clinical development in advanced solid tumors.