Innovation

Runable Raises $21 Million Series A As AI Agent Hits $2 Million ARR In 3 Weeks And 1.5 Million Users

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Runable has raised $21 million in Series A funding as its AI agent platform expands rapidly among small businesses looking to automate not only software creation, but also customer acquisition, marketing and day-to-day operations. Susquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners co-led the round, with continued participation from Together Fund and Array VC.

MBody AI: Check-Cap Prices $10 Million Public Offering At $6.50 Per Share

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Check-Cap Ltd., which operates under the MBody AI brand and trades on Nasdaq under the ticker MBAI, has priced a $10 million public offering of ordinary shares to support its embodied artificial intelligence business.

Liner Raises $36.1 Million Series C As AI Platform Reaches 14 Million Users And 500 Million-Record Database

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Liner has raised $36.1 million in Series C funding to expand its AI research and agent platform as the company moves deeper into enterprise AI while continuing to grow its global consumer business. LB Investment led the round, with follow-on participation from existing investors InterVest, Atinum Investment and CJ Investment. New investors included Korea Development Bank, KB Securities, Daishin Securities, STIC Ventures and Helios Private Equity.

WellStack Acquires DeLorean AI To Build End-To-End Healthcare Decision Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

WellStack has acquired DeLorean AI, a healthcare-focused artificial intelligence company specializing in predictive analytics, risk stratification and action-oriented decision support.

MedScout Names Chris Edwards COO, Cassie Sixt VP Of Customer Success, And Mark Isham VP Of Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

MedScout has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Chris Edwards as Chief Operating Officer, Cassie Sixt as Vice President of Customer Success and Mark Isham as Vice President of Engineering as the company scales its commercial technology platform for the MedTech industry.

Deep Cogito Raises $43 Million Series A As Post-Training Platform Targets Self-Improving Frontier AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Deep Cogito has raised $43 million in Series A funding to expand its post-training research platform for reinforcement learning, recursive self-improvement and enterprise AI specialization.

Arga Labs Raises $10 Million Seed Funding As AI Agent Simulator Clones SaaS Environments In Under 12 Hours

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Arga Labs has raised $10 million in seed funding to expand its simulation platform for testing AI agents against realistic software environments before those agents are deployed into production. General Catalyst led the round, with participation from BoxGroup, Emergence, Gradient and SV Angel.

Gorilla: Revenue Nearly Doubles, But Operating Loss Widens To $47 Million As AI Infrastructure Investment Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Gorilla Technology nearly doubled first-half 2026 revenue as AI infrastructure and data-center programs scaled, but the company's reported operating loss widened sharply as it invested ahead of utilization and absorbed substantial stock-based compensation and accounting charges.

Tuya: GAAP Operating Margin Jumps 860 Basis Points To 10%, Nearly Matching Non-GAAP Margin

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Tuya delivered a substantial improvement in GAAP profitability during the second quarter of 2026, with operating margin expanding 860 basis points and nearly converging with the company's non-GAAP operating margin.

Scotiabank: Canadian Banking ROE Reaches 19.4% As Margin Expands For Fifth Consecutive Quarter

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Scotiabank's Canadian Banking business delivered another quarter of margin expansion in the fiscal third quarter of 2026, lifting segment return on equity to 19.4% and contributing to what management described as a record quarter for the bank.

QumulusAI: Signed Contract Value Reaches $282.5 Million, More Than 40 Times Q2 Revenue As Gross Margin Hits 67%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

QumulusAI reported rapidly expanding contracted demand during the second quarter of 2026, with cumulative signed customer contract value reaching $282.5 million even though quarterly revenue was only $6.7 million.

The9 Posts $32 Million Q2 Profit As Fair-Value Recognition Of 9BIT Tokens Drives Earnings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

The9 reported $32 million of net income for the second quarter of 2026, up more than 39% sequentially, with the increase driven primarily by fair-value recognition of 9BIT tokens received through the company's cooperation agreement with the 9BIT Foundation.

Gogoro: Gross Margin Hits Five-Year High As Net Loss Narrows 82% And Positive Cash Flow Streak Reaches Five Quarters

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Gogoro reported its highest quarterly gross margin in more than five years during the second quarter of 2026 as cost discipline and completion of a battery-upgrade initiative helped the electric mobility company sharply reduce its net loss.

Scinai: Committed CDMO Orders Reach $3.1 Million, More Than Three Times First-Half Revenue

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Scinai Immunotherapeutics is building a substantially larger contracted workload in its CDMO business than is currently visible in reported revenue, with committed customer orders reaching approximately $3.1 million as of August 16.

BMO: Adjusted Net Income Rises 19% While Reported Profit Falls 25% On $962 Million Divestiture Charge

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

BMO Financial Group reported sharply divergent GAAP and adjusted third-quarter 2026 results as a large charge tied to the planned sale of its Transportation Finance and Vendor Finance businesses reduced reported earnings.

Molecular Partners Advances MP0712 To Higher Dose After No Dose-Limiting Events In First Cohort

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Molecular Partners advanced its lead DLL3-targeting Radio-DARPin therapy, MP0712, to the second therapeutic dose level in a Phase 1/2a study after the first cohort completed its safety observation period without dose-limiting events.

PicPay: ARPAC Jumps 52% To More Than Four Times Cost To Serve As Adjusted Net Income Rises 135%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

PicPay reported rapidly improving customer economics in the second quarter of 2026 as average revenue per active customer increased much faster than the cost to serve each client.

NAPCO: Q4 Gross Margin Jumps 850 Basis Points, But Tariff Refunds Account For 600 Basis Points

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

NAPCO Security Technologies reported a major fourth-quarter 2026 gross-margin expansion, although tariff refunds accounted for most of the year-over-year increase.

XPENG: Services Revenue Jumps 94% And Margin Reaches 75% While Vehicle Deliveries Stay Flat

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

XPENG delivered only modest year-over-year growth in vehicle volume during the second quarter of 2026, but a sharp increase in high-margin services and other revenue materially changed the company’s revenue mix and lifted its consolidated gross margin above 20%.

PDD: Operating Profit Rises 8%, But $1.1 Billion Other Loss Pushes Net Income Down 12%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

PDD Holdings increased second-quarter operating profit at the same pace as revenue, but a large swing in other income and losses below the operating line contributed to a double-digit decline in net income.

Abercrombie: Operating Cash Flow Nearly Triples As Company Repurchases 7% Of Its Shares In Six Months

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Abercrombie & Fitch generated a sharp increase in operating cash flow during the first half of fiscal 2026 while aggressively repurchasing shares, reducing its share count by approximately 7% from the beginning of the year.

Qnity Launches AI Advanced Packaging Platform Enabling 2 µm Line/Space Metallization For 2.5D And 3D Chips

By Shan Sadiq ● Aug 26, 2026

Qnity Electronics has introduced an integrated materials platform for advanced semiconductor packaging, combining metallization, bumping, dielectric, and fine-line patterning technologies to support increasingly complex AI and high-performance computing architectures.

Perseus Materials: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Daniel Lee About Large-Scale Composite Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Perseus Materials is developing a continuous composite manufacturing system that combines continuous fiber reinforcement with adaptable geometries and self-propagating chemistry. The technology is designed to manufacture large structural components without the massive ovens, molds, tooling, and autoclaves traditionally required for composite production. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Perseus Materials Co-Founder and CEO Daniel Lee to learn more.

Avos: Interview With Founder And CEO Stef Roussos About Agentic AI News And Research Briefings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 26, 2026

Avos is an agentic news and research platform built around personalized recurring briefings. The platform uses AI agents to research, filter, deduplicate, and synthesize information from across its source catalog into finite editions tailored to each reader's interests, sources, markets, tone, and schedule. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Avos Founder and CEO Stef Roussos to learn more.

Innovation

Runable Raises $21 Million Series A As AI Agent Hits $2 Million ARR In 3 Weeks And 1.5 Million Users

MBody AI: Check-Cap Prices $10 Million Public Offering At $6.50 Per Share

Liner Raises $36.1 Million Series C As AI Platform Reaches 14 Million Users And 500 Million-Record Database

WellStack Acquires DeLorean AI To Build End-To-End Healthcare Decision Intelligence Platform

MedScout Names Chris Edwards COO, Cassie Sixt VP Of Customer Success, And Mark Isham VP Of Engineering

Deep Cogito Raises $43 Million Series A As Post-Training Platform Targets Self-Improving Frontier AI

Arga Labs Raises $10 Million Seed Funding As AI Agent Simulator Clones SaaS Environments In Under 12 Hours

Gorilla: Revenue Nearly Doubles, But Operating Loss Widens To $47 Million As AI Infrastructure Investment Accelerates

Tuya: GAAP Operating Margin Jumps 860 Basis Points To 10%, Nearly Matching Non-GAAP Margin

Scotiabank: Canadian Banking ROE Reaches 19.4% As Margin Expands For Fifth Consecutive Quarter

QumulusAI: Signed Contract Value Reaches $282.5 Million, More Than 40 Times Q2 Revenue As Gross Margin Hits 67%

The9 Posts $32 Million Q2 Profit As Fair-Value Recognition Of 9BIT Tokens Drives Earnings

Gogoro: Gross Margin Hits Five-Year High As Net Loss Narrows 82% And Positive Cash Flow Streak Reaches Five Quarters

Scinai: Committed CDMO Orders Reach $3.1 Million, More Than Three Times First-Half Revenue

BMO: Adjusted Net Income Rises 19% While Reported Profit Falls 25% On $962 Million Divestiture Charge

Molecular Partners Advances MP0712 To Higher Dose After No Dose-Limiting Events In First Cohort

PicPay: ARPAC Jumps 52% To More Than Four Times Cost To Serve As Adjusted Net Income Rises 135%

NAPCO: Q4 Gross Margin Jumps 850 Basis Points, But Tariff Refunds Account For 600 Basis Points

XPENG: Services Revenue Jumps 94% And Margin Reaches 75% While Vehicle Deliveries Stay Flat

PDD: Operating Profit Rises 8%, But $1.1 Billion Other Loss Pushes Net Income Down 12%

Abercrombie: Operating Cash Flow Nearly Triples As Company Repurchases 7% Of Its Shares In Six Months

Qnity Launches AI Advanced Packaging Platform Enabling 2 µm Line/Space Metallization For 2.5D And 3D Chips

Perseus Materials: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Daniel Lee About Large-Scale Composite Manufacturing

Avos: Interview With Founder And CEO Stef Roussos About Agentic AI News And Research Briefings

JOYY: Non-Livestreaming Revenue Reaches Nearly One-Third Of Sales As BIGO Ads Jumps 53%

HEICO: Electronic Technologies Operating Income Jumps 55% As Margin Expands 320 Basis Points

Semtech: Operating Margin Swings 2,260 Basis Points As Revenue Jumps 33%

Zoom: GAAP Net Income Jumps To $1.54 Billion, But $1.61 Billion Of Strategic Investment Gains Exceed Profit

DICK’S Sporting Goods: Business Generates $485.2 Million Profit While Foot Locker Saw $31.9 Million Segment Loss

KANZHUN: Net Income Jumps 173%, But Investment Income Accounts For Most Of Quarterly Profit