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The AmeriFlex Group Launches AI Scout Program As Firm Targets 100 Advisor Additions Over 24 Months

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

The AmeriFlex Group has launched an AI-enabled program called Scout that can analyze hundreds of advisory firms and create comprehensive profiles of practices that may be approaching succession, significantly accelerating a process that previously required substantially more manual review.

Booz Allen Completes $720 Million Ultra Mission Solutions Acquisition To Expand Defense Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Booz Allen Hamilton has completed its $720 million acquisition of the Ultra I&C Mission Solutions business, expanding its portfolio of defense technology products across secure communications, edge computing, encryption and battlefield systems.

Quintessent Raises $40 Million Series A As Quantum Dot Laser Targets 40% Lower AI Data Movement Power

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Quintessent has raised $40 million in an oversubscribed Series A round while beginning customer sampling of its single-chip quantum dot-based DWDM comb laser for AI data center optical interconnects.

ePlus Acquires Daymark Solutions Assets To Expand Microsoft, Cloud And Cybersecurity Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

ePlus has acquired the assets of Daymark Solutions, expanding its cloud, cybersecurity and modern data center capabilities while increasing its presence across New England.

Standard Metrics Raises $20 Million Series B As Platform Supports 10,000+ Companies And $400 Billion In Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Standard Metrics has raised $20 million in Series B funding led by 8VC as the AI-driven portfolio management platform expands its technology for venture capital and private equity firms. Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital, January Capital, First Trust Capital Partners, Socii Capital, Kindergarten Ventures, Calm Ventures and Gaingels also participated.

Regent To Acquire Avon North America

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Regent has agreed to acquire LG H&H's entire interest in The Avon Company, bringing Avon North America and Avon's international operations back under common ownership for the first time since 2016. The deal is expected to close September 1.

XPENG Robotics Raises More Than $900 Million At $6.3+ Billion Valuation As IRON Targets Mass Production In 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

XPENG's robotics business has raised more than $900 million at a post-money valuation exceeding $6.3 billion, marking what the company says is the largest single-round private financing ever completed in China's embodied AI industry.

Barings Provides $72.6 Million Financing For 409,197-Square-Foot Boston-Area Office Campus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Barings has provided a $72.6 million loan to a joint venture between Cross Ocean Partners and Lincoln Property Company to finance the acquisition of 140 Kendrick Street in Needham, Massachusetts.

Shein Seeks Up To $1.8 Billion Hong Kong IPO At Nearly $27 Billion Valuation After 70% Reset

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Shein is seeking to raise as much as $1.8 billion through its long-awaited Hong Kong initial public offering, valuing the fast-fashion company at as much as approximately $27 billion after years of efforts to reach the public markets, according to Bloomberg.

RPC Acquires Peracidin Product Line From Angelini Pharma To Expand Dialysis And Water Treatment Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

RPC has acquired the Peracidin product line from Angelini Pharma, expanding its portfolio of peroxyacetic and peracetic acid sterilants used across dialysis, water treatment and life science applications.

NexTech Solutions Acquires BOOMSLANG Aerospace As Fifth Deal Since Clairvest Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

NexTech Solutions has acquired BOOMSLANG Aerospace, adding unmanned aerial systems and counter-UAS technology to its defense technology platform and marking its fifth acquisition since receiving a strategic investment from Clairvest in 2023.

nVent To Acquire Maverick Power For Up To $2.3 Billion To Expand Data Center Power Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

nVent Electric has agreed to acquire Maverick Power for $1.75 billion upfront, with the transaction providing for up to another $550 million in cash based on performance metrics in 2027 and 2028, bringing potential total consideration to as much as $2.3 billion.

X-Caliber Increases Marcella Landing Financing To $313.2 Million With New $131 Million Package

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

X-Caliber has closed an additional $131 million financing package for Phase II of Marcella Landing at Deer Valley East Village in Park City, Utah, bringing its total financing commitment to the luxury residential development to approximately $313.2 million.

RUM Group Signs $13.7 Billion GPU Services Deal With Warrant For Up To 50.8 Million Shares

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

RUM Group has entered into a six-year commercial agreement with an unaffiliated U.S.-based cloud customer covering approximately $13.7 billion of GPU services at the company's Maysville, Georgia data center site, which is currently under development.

Alibaba Launches Record $10.2 Billion Share Sale For AI As Orders Reach $28 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Alibaba has launched a HK$80 billion ($10.2 billion) primary share placement to fund chips, AI infrastructure and models, marking the largest-ever follow-on offering of new shares by a Hong Kong-listed company, according to Reuters.

Redfaire Secures €13 Million Minority Investment From BGF To Support Technology Services Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Redfaire has secured a €13 million minority investment from BGF to support the continued development of its business, workforce and technology services across the regions it serves.

Arnold & Porter Adds Brendan Clegg In Washington To Strengthen Financial Services Regulatory And Enforcement Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Arnold & Porter has added Brendan Clegg as a partner in its Financial Services practice in Washington, D.C., expanding the firm's capabilities across banking regulation, transactions, licensing, enforcement, and compliance matters.

NVIDIA: Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Up To 30x More Agentic AI Throughput Per Megawatt And 35x Lower Token Cost

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

NVIDIA says its Vera Rubin NVL72 platform can deliver up to 30x more agentic AI inference throughput per megawatt than the GB300 NVL72 while reducing the cost per million tokens by up to 35x.

Paul Weiss Adds William Jay To Lead Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has added William M. Jay as a partner in Washington, D.C., and named him head of the firm's Supreme Court & Appellate Litigation Practice as it continues expanding its Litigation Department.

Letara Raises About $16.3 Million Pre-Series A As Plastic-Fueled Hybrid Rocket Engine Wins Government And Commercial Orders

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Letara has raised approximately ¥2.6 billion, or about $16.3 million, in a Pre-Series A financing round to accelerate development and commercialization of its low-cost, mass-producible hybrid rocket engines for launch, on-orbit propulsion, defense, and security applications.

AirPro Diagnostics And Revv Merge To Build End-To-End ADAS Platform Processing 1 Million+ Vehicles Annually

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

The Metals Royalty Company Secures $165 Million Financing To Fund Additional Mesabi Royalty Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

The Metals Royalty Company has secured a fully allocated $165 million financing package to fund its acquisition of an additional 1% royalty interest in the Mesabi Metallics iron ore project in Minnesota and repay existing indebtedness.

Arctos Reportedly Acquiring 10% Of Atlanta Falcons At $10.6 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Arctos has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in the Atlanta Falcons in a transaction valuing the NFL franchise at approximately $10.6 billion, according to CNBC.

Aware: Interview With President And CEO Ajay K. Amlani About Biometric Identity Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Aware develops biometric identity technology through the Awareness Platform, a modular orchestration engine designed to support authentication and identification across deployment environments while defending against spoofing, deepfakes, and injection attacks. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Aware President and CEO Ajay K. Amlani to learn more.

Qnity Names Ken Rizvi CFO As Semiconductor Veteran Brings 25+ Years Of Finance Experience

By Shan Sadiq ● Aug 24, 2026

Qnity Electronics has appointed Ken Rizvi as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective October 1, adding a semiconductor finance veteran with more than 25 years of experience as the company expands across AI, high-performance computing and advanced connectivity markets.

Swift Current Energy Secures Up To $1 Billion Credit Facility As Development Pipeline Exceeds 10 GW

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 24, 2026

Swift Current Energy has closed a $750 million corporate credit facility with an accordion option for an additional $250 million, giving the clean energy developer access to as much as $1 billion of total capacity as it expands its U.S. project pipeline.

Agiloft Launches No-Code Contract Management Integration For Salesforce On AgentExchange

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2026

Agiloft has launched Agiloft for Salesforce on Salesforce AgentExchange, giving customers a code-free way to manage contract workflows directly within Salesforce while synchronizing data with Agiloft's contract lifecycle management platform.

Callosum Raises $100 Million Seed Funding To Build Heterogeneous AI Compute Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2026

Callosum has raised a $100 million seed round led by Atomico to build a global platform that orchestrates AI workloads across different models, chips and infrastructure based on requirements such as cost, speed and energy efficiency. Plural, DCVC and the UK Sovereign AI Fund participated significantly in the financing alongside additional investors and angel backers. The round also marks the first investment made by the UK Sovereign AI Fund.

Werewolf Therapeutics And Ambros Therapeutics Merge With $150 Million PIPE To Advance Phase III CRPS Drug Neridronate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2026

Werewolf Therapeutics and Ambros Therapeutics have entered into a definitive all-stock merger agreement alongside an oversubscribed $150 million private placement that is expected to fund development of neridronate through pivotal Phase III results and a planned FDA submission.

BlackSun Raises $1 Billion For Mega Fund I, Targets $7 Billion Across Sports, Media And Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 23, 2026

BlackSun Private Equity has raised $1 billion for its inaugural investment vehicle, Mega Fund I, as the newly launched private equity firm targets a total of $7 billion to invest across sports, media, entertainment and technology, according to Bloomberg.