Innovation

Volara Motorsports: Acquisition Of Lynx Motor Works Expands Premium Automotive Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Volara Motorsports Group announced the acquisition of Austin-based Lynx Motor Works, a manufacturer of limited-production reimagined classic vehicles inspired by motorsport heritage and bespoke craftsmanship. The acquisition represents one of the largest investments made by Volara Motorsports Group to date and reinforces the company’s strategy of growing a portfolio of iconic performance automotive brands.

Flexential: Strategic Acquisition Of Hillsboro Data Center Properties Expands Long-Term Control In Oregon Market

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Flexential announced it has acquired its Hillsboro 4 and Hillsboro 5 data center properties in Hillsboro, Oregon, marking the largest real estate transaction in the company’s history.

OuterSignal Acquires AI Marketing Automation Company Monocle

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

OuterSignal announced the acquisition of Monocle, an AI-powered lifecycle marketing platform focused on replacing traditional rules-based marketing flows with autonomous, individualized customer journeys across email, SMS, and web. The acquisition combines OuterSignal’s customer intelligence and personalization engine with Monocle’s autonomous AI marketing agents to create a full-stack agentic personalization platform.

Psilera: $8.8 Million Seed Round Closed To Advance Neuroplastogen PSIL-006 Into Clinical Trials

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Psilera announced the closing of an oversubscribed $8.8 million Series Seed extension funding round led by a syndicate of institutional and strategic investors. The company said the capital will be used to advance its lead clinical asset, PSIL-006, toward first-in-human trials targeted for 2027.

Solstice: $21 Million Series A Raised To Accelerate Pharma Commercialization

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Solstice, an AI-native marketing agency focused on accelerating pharma commercialization, announced it has raised $21 million in Series A funding led by Transformation Capital with participation from Twelve Below, Virtue Ventures, and others. The funding round brings the company’s total funding to approximately $25 million.

Kubera Health: $6.5 Million Raised To Repair Healthcare Payment Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Kubera Health announced it has raised $6.5 million in seed funding led by Upfront Ventures, with participation from Company Ventures, Dria Ventures, and SemperVirens. The company is building an AI-native contract-to-payment system of record designed to connect payor-provider agreements directly to healthcare payment operations.

Bansk Group: PetIQ Veterinary Services Business Sold To Tractor Supply Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Bansk Group announced that its portfolio company, PetIQ, has completed the sale of its veterinary services business, VIP Petcare, to Tractor Supply Company. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Triomics: $22 Million Raised To Scale AI Infrastructure For Oncology Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Triomics, an oncology AI company helping cancer centers operationalize complex clinical information, announced it has raised $22 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures, with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Lightspeed, and Y Combinator, alongside strategic backers Oncology Ventures and Precision Health Informatics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Texas Oncology. The round brings the company’s total funding raised to more than $36 million.

Edged: Nearly $2 Billion Financing Secures Expansion Of AI-Ready Data Center Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Edged announced that it has secured nearly $2 billion in cumulative financing year-to-date to accelerate the expansion of its sustainable, AI-ready digital infrastructure platform across major U.S. markets, including Atlanta, Chicago, and Council Bluffs.

Rep AI: $6.2 Million Raised To Advance AI Platform For Ecommerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Rep AI announced it has raised $6.2 million in strategic follow-on funding to advance its AI platform for ecommerce brands and online retailers. The funding round was led by Silicon Road Ventures, with participation from Osage Venture Partners, Flashpoint Venture Capital, and strategic investor Zendesk.

Modiqo: $3 Million Pre-Seed Raised For Deterministic AI Workflows

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Modiqo, an AI infrastructure company, announced a $3 million pre-seed funding round to help enterprises turn AI experiments into dependable production systems. The round was co-led by Heavybit and Seligman Ventures, with participation from Irregular Expressions and angel investors.

Daloopa: $47 Million Series C Raised To Power The Data Layer Behind AI-Driven Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Daloopa, a company providing data infrastructure for AI and agentic workflows in finance, announced it has raised $47 million in Series C funding led by Brighton Park Capital, with participation from Squarepoint Capital, Touring Capital, and Nexus Venture Partners.

‘Ôrəbella: Series A Investment And Anish Agarwal Named CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

'Ôrəbella, the fragrance brand founded by Bella Hadid, announced the closing of a Series A financing round led by Silas Capital, with participation from existing investor Celebrands. The company said the financing will support accelerated growth initiatives, including product innovation, international retail expansion, and broader global distribution.

Metis MedTech: John Slump Launches Medtech Investment And Advisory Platform Following Atraverse Medical Exit

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

John Slump, the co-founder and former president and CEO of Atraverse Medical, announced the launch of Metis MedTech, a new investment and strategic advisory platform focused on helping medical device founders build, fund, and scale their companies.

Architect Financial Technologies: U.S. Futures Exchange For AI Commodities Launches Following DCM Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Architect Financial Technologies announced it has acquired IMX Health, a U.S. Designated Contract Market (DCM), and plans to launch the American Innovation Exchange, described as the first CFTC-regulated U.S. derivatives exchange purpose-built for the artificial intelligence economy.

Reactor: $59 Million Raised To Build Platform For Real-Time AI Worlds

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Reactor, a developer platform for real-time generative video, emerged from stealth with $59 million in funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from WndrCo, Amplify Partners, Sky9 Capital, FPV Ventures, and additional investors.

Opto Investments: AI Fund Closed To Back Next-Generation Innovation

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Opto Investments announced the close of its AI-focused venture fund, designed to provide RIAs and family offices with differentiated access to private market opportunities tied to next-generation artificial intelligence innovation. The fund uses a multi-strategy approach focused on foundational AI technologies, including infrastructure, developer tools, specialized frameworks, energy systems, and enterprise applications.

Apogee Therapeutics: $1.3 Billion Blackstone Financing To Advance Zumilokibart Phase 3 Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Apogee Therapeutics announced a strategic financing collaboration with Blackstone Life Sciences worth up to $1.3 billion to support the Phase 3 development and potential commercialization of zumilokibart, the company’s lead treatment candidate for moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis and other inflammatory and immunology indications.

Median Technologies: €40 Million Capital Increase Launched To Support eyonis LCS Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Median Technologies announced the launch of a €40 million capital increase, with the potential to increase to €50 million, to support the commercial deployment of its AI-powered eyonis LCS lung cancer screening platform in the United States and Europe while advancing additional cancer indications across its eyonis portfolio.

Rightsline: $500 Million Strategic Growth Investment From Hg

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Rightsline announced a $500 million strategic growth investment from Hg to accelerate the company’s AI innovation initiatives and international expansion efforts.

Periscope Equity: Strategic Investment Made In Amusement Connect

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Periscope Equity announced a strategic investment in Amusement Connect, a Kansas City-based specialty payments platform focused on the amusement industry. The deal marks the first platform investment from Periscope Equity’s third fund, which closed last year.

Cato Networks Appoints Tristan Elder As Vice President Of EMEA Channel

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Cato Networks announced the appointment of Tristan Elder as Vice President of EMEA Channel, reinforcing the company’s commitment to expanding its partner ecosystem across the region amid growing enterprise demand for AI security solutions.

Focused Energy: $240 Million Raised For Laser Fusion Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Focused Energy, a laser fusion company focused on developing clean fusion energy systems, announced it has raised $240 million in Series A financing. The company said the round is the largest fully secured Series A financing in the global fusion industry to date.

Reimagine Care: Interview With Chief Growth Officer John Elliott About The At-Home Cancer Care Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Reimagine Care partners with health systems and oncology providers to deliver tech-enabled, at-home cancer care by combining an AI-powered virtual assistant with a 24/7 team of clinical experts. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Reimagine Care chief growth officer John Elliott to learn more.

Perceptic: $12 Million Raised For AI Operating System For Drug Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Perceptic, an AI-first operating system for biopharma, officially emerged from stealth and announced $12 million in funding backed by investors including Accel, Air Street Capital, and Elder Gull, as reported by Fortune.

CERo Therapeutics: Interview With CEO Chris Ehrlich About The Immunotherapy Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

CERo Therapeutics is a clinical-stage immunotherapy company developing next-generation engineered T cell therapies (CER-T) that combine innate and adaptive immunity to enhance the body's ability to eliminate solid and hematological tumors. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CERo Therapeutics CEO Chris Ehrlich to learn more.

AirMDR: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Kumar Saurabh About The Managed Detection And Response Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

AirMDR is a company that provides an AI-powered Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service that uses autonomous virtual analysts to handle 80–90% of security operations center (SOC) tasks—such as triaging, investigating, and responding to threats—enabling 24/7, enterprise-grade cybersecurity for small and medium-sized businesses. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AirMDR co-founder and CEO Kumar Saurabh to learn more.

CoreWeave: Unified Agentic AI Capabilities Enable Continuous Autonomous Improvement

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

CoreWeave announced the launch of unified agentic AI capabilities designed to help enterprises deploy AI agents directly into production and continuously improve them using real-world operational data. The new capabilities integrate serverless reinforcement learning, production inference, observability, and autonomous optimization into a closed-loop system designed to improve reliability and reduce the operational burden of scaling enterprise AI agents.

Fertitta Entertainment: $17.6 Billion Caesars Entertainment Acquisition Deal Announced

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Fertitta Entertainment announced a definitive agreement to acquire Caesars Entertainment in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $17.6 billion, including the assumption of about $11.9 billion in Caesars’ outstanding debt.

Altruix: WindRose Health Investors Completes Sale To Frazier Healthcare Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

WindRose Health Investors announced it has completed the sale of Altruix to Frazier Healthcare Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.