Innovation

Curion Expands Global Delivery Capabilities Through Acquisition Of Blue Yonder Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Curion, a portfolio company of Summit Park, has acquired Blue Yonder Research, a U.K.-based market research agency focused on R&D and innovation insights, as Curion looks to broaden its global delivery footprint and deepen support for multinational clients.

Zelis Acquires Rivet To Expand Revenue Cycle Analytics Offering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Zelis, a healthcare technology company focused on modernizing payments across the payer-provider ecosystem, has acquired Rivet, a revenue cycle analytics provider, in a deal aimed at improving claim-payment transparency and reducing administrative friction for providers and health plans.

insitro To Buy CombinAbleAI, Launching TherML Platform To Unify AI-Driven Therapeutic Design Across Modalities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

insitro announced it will acquire CombinAbleAI and, alongside the deal, has launched TherML (Therapeutic Machine Learning), a platform it describes as a single, modality-agnostic AI engine for drug discovery and design.

Hippocratic AI Consolidates Life Sciences Leadership With Grove AI Acquisition And Executive Appointments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Hippocratic AI announced it has acquired Grove AI and launched a dedicated Life Sciences Division, alongside leadership additions including a new president for the unit and a senior executive advisory council, as the company pushes to expand the use of patient-facing generative AI agents across biopharma and medtech workflows.

NVIDIA And Lilly Announce Co-Innovation AI Lab To Reinvent Drug Discovery In The Age Of AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

NVIDIA and Eli Lilly and Company said they will jointly invest up to $1 billion over five years to launch a new AI co-innovation lab aimed at tackling persistent bottlenecks in pharmaceutical R&D, from early discovery through development and, longer term, manufacturing and supply chain optimization. The companies unveiled the initiative around the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, positioning the effort as a combined push to pair Lilly’s drug discovery, clinical, and manufacturing expertise with NVIDIA’s accelerated computing stack and life sciences AI platforms.

Denison Consulting And Newmeasures Merge To Expand Employee Listening And Organizational Performance Offerings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Denison Consulting and Newmeasures have merged to create a combined organization aimed at linking employee feedback more directly to measurable business outcomes.

Cherry Street Energy Advances Growth Strategy With 16-Site Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Cherry Street Energy announced it has acquired a portfolio of 16 operating distributed generation projects from Inman Solar, adding 12.7 megawatts of solar capacity across five states and expanding its base of long-term contracted renewable assets.

Google And Apple Sign Multi-Year Deal To Base Next-Gen Apple Foundation Models On Gemini

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Apple and Google announced they have entered into a multi-year collaboration that will see the next generation of Apple Foundation Models built on Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology, positioning Gemini as a key backbone for future Apple Intelligence capabilities.

EnableComp Acquires H/ROI To Build A More Comprehensive Platform For Complex Revenue Recovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

EnableComp announced it has acquired Health Resources Optimization, Inc. (H/ROI), adding specialized clinical denials and revenue recovery capabilities to help hospitals recapture revenue lost to some of the most difficult denial types. The deal is intended to strengthen EnableComp’s complex revenue cycle offering, particularly around DRG downgrades, medical-necessity denials, and post-bill DRG validation.

Control Devices Buys Sherwood Valve To Expand Compressed Gas Flow Control Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Control Devices, a portfolio company of HBM Holdings, has acquired Sherwood Valve in a deal aimed at broadening its flow control offering across industrial gas, specialty gas, high-purity gas and medical gas applications. Financial terms were not disclosed.

SalesRabbit Acquires Roofle To Link Field Sales, Online Buying, And Production For Roofing Contractors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

SalesRabbit announced it has acquired Roofle, bringing together field sales management, online purchasing, and sales-to-production workflows in a single platform built for roofing and home improvement contractors. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Carson Group Acquires Minneapolis Carson Wealth Office In First Deal Of 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Carson Group has fully acquired its Carson Wealth location in Minneapolis, marking the firm’s first acquisition of 2026 as it deepens its presence in the Twin Cities market.

Healthpeak Properties Reports $925 Million In Deals, Adding $600 Million South San Francisco Life Science Campus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Healthpeak Properties announced it has completed roughly $925 million in recent transaction activity, advancing what the healthcare-focused REIT described as a capital recycling strategy to sell stabilized outpatient medical assets and redeploy proceeds into life science properties in core markets.

B-FLEXION Life Sciences To Buy Out Patient Square And Webster Stakes In Radius Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Radius Health announced B-FLEXION Life Sciences has agreed to acquire the remaining 57% interest in the specialty biopharmaceutical company, purchasing shares currently held by affiliates of Patient Square Capital and Webster Equity Partners.

Cast AI Surpasses $1 Billion Valuation Following Pacific Alliance Ventures Strategic Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Cast AI announced it has crossed a $1 billion valuation following a strategic investment from Pacific Alliance Ventures (PAV), the U.S.-based corporate venture arm of Shinsegae Group, as the company launched OMNI Compute, a unified compute marketplace designed to help enterprises access and operate GPU capacity across clouds and regions without making code changes.

Inflexion: John DiGiovanni Named As Head Of Healthcare

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Inflexion has appointed John DiGiovanni as Head of Healthcare, adding senior sector leadership as the European mid-market private equity firm continues to build its healthcare investing capabilities. DiGiovanni will work closely with Andy Neville, a Partner on Inflexion’s Healthcare team who has served as interim head in the lead-up to the appointment.

Alvarez & Marsal: Tom Parkinson Named As Managing Director In London to Bolster Private Equity Carve-Out Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) has appointed Tom Parkinson as a Managing Director in its Private Equity Performance Improvement (PEPI) practice, based in London, as the firm continues to build out its European capabilities supporting private equity clients on complex carve-outs and integrations.

Mutares To Acquire SABIC Engineering Thermoplastics Business In The Americas And Europe For $450 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Mutares SE & Co. KGaA signed an agreement to acquire SABIC’s Engineering Thermoplastics business in the Americas and Europe in a deal valued at $450 million on an enterprise-value basis, marking the largest transaction in Mutares’ history by revenues. The company said the acquisition is expected to close in the second half of 2026, subject to customary regulatory and other approvals.

Aquanow: Interview With VP Of Research Sebastian Davies About The Infrastructure Provider

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Aquanow is a leading infrastructure provider that enables institutional and enterprise use-cases for digital assets. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Aquanow VP of Research Sebastian Davies to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Tench And Simone Coxe Donate $100 Million To Launch UT Austin Academic Medical Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

The University of Texas at Austin said it is moving forward with its planned academic medical center after receiving a $100 million gift from Austin residents Tench and Simone Coxe, one of the largest donations in the university’s history.

Koch Companies Acquires Store Opening Solutions (SOS) To Expand Koch Logistics & Warehousing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Koch Companies announced it has acquired Store Opening Solutions (SOS), a retail inventory consolidation specialist based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from Marmon Holdings, Inc., marking a strategic move aimed at accelerating growth and expanding Koch’s warehousing and fulfillment capabilities as the company approaches its 50-year anniversary in 2026.

XData Group: Interview With Founder And CEO Roman Eloshvili About AI, Expansion, And The Future Of Internet Banking

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

XData Group is a B2B software company that builds end-to-end digital banking solutions for banks and other online financial services providers, including web/mobile development, custom software, and UI/UX design. Pulse 2.0 interviewed XData Group founder and CEO Roman Eloshvili to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Fundbox: Interview With Chief Business Officer Anchit Singh On Powering Embedded Capital For Small Businesses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Fundbox is a leading capital infrastructure provider behind the digital SMB economy funding, using data-driven underwriting to make approval and funding quicker. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Fundbox Chief Business Officer Anchit Singh to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Hurricane Capital Acquires Kiyomi AI, Expanding Its AI-Driven Trading Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Hurricane Capital announced it has acquired Kiyomi AI, positioning the technology as a new portfolio-intelligence layer intended to deepen the firm’s AI-enabled institutional trading and execution workflows.

Plume Buys Sweepr To Combine Real-Time Network Intelligence With AI Customer-Care Orchestration for ISPs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Plume Design announced it has acquired Sweepr in a bid to combine real-time home-network intelligence with AI-driven customer-care orchestration, giving internet service providers a single platform to detect issues, guide subscribers and agents, and automate fixes across digital and assisted support channels.

CloudBees: Interview With Chief Product Officer Shawn Ahmed About The DevOps Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

CloudBees provides an enterprise DevOps and CI/CD platform built around Jenkins that helps software teams automate, govern, and accelerate application delivery across cloud and on-prem environments. Pulse 2.0 interviewed CloudBees Chief Product Officer Shawn Ahmed to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Allos: $5 Million Raised To Apply Causal AI Across Complex Drug Reformulation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Allos AI has raised $5 million in seed financing to commercialize what it calls the industry’s first “glass-box” Causal AI platform for reformulating complex generic drugs, as developers and manufacturers look for lower-risk ways to improve how established medicines are delivered and tolerated over long-term use.

Izzi Software: Interview With CEO Jennifer Nelson About The Criticality Of The Mainframe And Midrange Software Landscape

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Izzi is a technology innovator, supporting the legendary systems that power the modern world by bringing together proven companies to create a portfolio of mission-critical software applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Izzi Software CEO Jennifer Nelson to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Sole Source Capital Acquires Brite In First Platform Deal From Fund III

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Sole Source Capital announced it has acquired Brite, a cybersecurity and IT managed services provider, marking the private equity firm’s first platform investment from SSC Partners Fund III as it expands into the cybersecurity and managed services market.

Collision Partners Completes First Acquisitions And Launches Quality-First Growth Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 12, 2026

Collision Partners, a collision-repair platform focused on acquiring and scaling independent collision-repair businesses, announced it has completed its first two acquisitions—Fantastic Finishes and Chassis Master—kicking off what the company described as a disciplined growth strategy across the Southeastern United States.