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Mediawan To Acquire The North Road Company, Building A Global Independent Content Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Mediawan announced it has signed an agreement to acquire The North Road Company, a U.S.-based studio founded by Peter Chernin, in a combination the companies say will create one of the world’s largest independent studios with major creative hubs across five continents. The deal, announced from Paris and Los Angeles, is positioned to broaden the group’s ability to develop and scale premium IP, accelerate international format adaptations, and increase co-production opportunities across markets.

Texas LNG Assembles Bank Group For $5.7 Billion Debt Financing Package For Port Of Brownsville Terminal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Texas LNG Brownsville, an affiliate of Glenfarne Group, announced that it has lined up an initial group of banks to lead a planned $5.7 billion debt financing package for the construction of its liquefied natural gas export terminal at the Port of Brownsville. The company said the four million tonnes per annum facility remains on track to reach a Final Investment Decision in early 2026, a key step toward moving from development into full construction.

Ritholtz Wealth Management Expands Employee Ownership In Succession Plan To Stay 100% Independent

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Ritholtz Wealth Management has rolled out an employee-led succession plan that expands equity ownership to more employees and formalizes a next-generation leadership structure while keeping the registered investment adviser fully independent and free of outside capital.

Abrigo Acquires Journey Technology Solutions To Expand Banking Analytics For Community Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Abrigo, a provider of growth and risk management software for U.S. banks and credit unions, has acquired Journey Technology Solutions, a banking data, strategy, and analytics firm focused on community financial institutions. The deal is designed to strengthen Abrigo’s data analytics capabilities and help banks and credit unions turn complex, fragmented data into clearer, faster, and more actionable insight.

Jetstream Venture Fund Makes First Investment With Exclusive Secondary Stake In Carbogenesis

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Jetstream Venture Fund announced its first portfolio investment, taking an exclusive private secondary position in Carbogenesis, a clean technology company developing processes to convert natural gas and carbon dioxide into industrial chemicals.

Kos Biotechnology Partners Makes First Investment While Leading Epikast Financing Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Kos Biotechnology Partners announced it has closed a financing round in Epikast, a technology-enabled provider of commercial and clinical services for the biopharmaceutical industry. The transaction marks the inaugural investment from Kos’ first fund, which the firm said will target a wide range of life sciences stages, from seeding new platforms to scaling established ones.

Solutions By Text (SBT): Interview With Chief Product Officer Nick Babinsky About The Mobile Texting Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Solutions by Text (SBT) provides a compliance-first text messaging and payments platform that helps consumer finance companies engage customers and drive actions like loan origination, servicing, and bill pay/collections via text via SMS. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Solutions by Text (SBT) Chief Product Officer Nick Babinsky to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

SKIDOS: Interview With CEO Aditya Prakash About The Kids Learning Games Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

SKIDOS is a company that develops a kids’ learning-games platform (mobile and web) that offers a subscription library of 50+ educational games and 1,000+ activities focused on skills like math, reading, tracing, and social-emotional learning. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SKIDOS CEO Aditya Prakash to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Foundation For Financial Planning Names 2026 Board Chair, Vice Chair, And Five New Trustees

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

The Foundation for Financial Planning (FFP), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit focused on expanding access to pro bono financial planning for people in crisis or need, announced its 2026 Board of Trustees leadership and the election of five new trustees for the 2026–2028 term.

OneSeven Adds CFO, Compliance Chief, And New Advisor Advocate Role As AUM Climbs Past $8.6 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

OneSeven, a national registered investment advisor, announced it has expanded its executive leadership team with three senior hires to support continued growth and improve the day-to-day experience for its partner advisory firms. The firm also named Brian Bunker as Advisor Advocate, Betsey Saffar as Chief Financial Officer, and John Carey as Chief Compliance Officer. The additions come as OneSeven reports that it has grown assets under management from about $3.5 billion to more than $8.6 billion over the past year.

Raken Adds Ron Antevy And Robert E. Knowling Jr. To Board As Platform Expands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Raken announced it has expanded its board of directors by adding two technology executives, Ron Antevy and Robert E. Knowling Jr., as the construction management company looks to accelerate product innovation and broaden its field-first roadmap.

Eton Solutions: Interview With Executive Chairman Satyen Patel About The Wealth Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Eton Solutions is a wealth management technology company with an ERP platform called AtlasFive. It is an integrated AI-based wealth management platform that serves wealth owners and institutional investors such as family offices and private equity firms, and ultra-high-net-worth individuals with complex assets, across multiple jurisdictions and multi-currency. For these wealth-owners and PE firms, the solution unifies data, streamlines workflows, offers portfolio insights, reporting, and more in one system. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Eton Solutions Executive Chairman Satyen Patel to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Unifi Aviation Expands Into Continental Europe With Acquisition Of

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Unifi Aviation announced it has acquired Viggo, a Dutch ground handling company with more than 50 years of operating history, marking Unifi’s move into continental Europe and extending its footprint beyond North America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.

Impact Climate Technologies Acquires Larry Wunsch & Associates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Impact Climate Technologies (ICT), an HVAC holding company, has acquired Larry Wunsch & Associates, Inc. (LWA), a commercial HVAC and plumbing equipment representative and distributor based in San Antonio, Texas.

RedBird Capital Partners Completes Refinancing Of AC Milan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

RedBird Capital Partners has completed a refinancing designed to strengthen AC Milan’s capital structure and expand the club’s long-term financial flexibility, replacing acquisition-related vendor financing from entities advised by Elliott Advisors UK Limited with new institutional debt financing arranged by Comvest Credit Partners. The move eliminates loans tied to RedBird’s 2022 purchase of the club and aligns the financing package with RedBird’s long-term strategic and operational plans as the sole control owner.

ZIGChain: Interview With Co-Founder Abdul Rafay About The Layer 1 Blockchain Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

ZIGChain is a Cosmos-based Layer 1 blockchain designed as a "Wealth Management Engine" to democratize access to institutional-grade investment strategies and tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) for everyday users. Pulse 2.0 interviewed ZIGChain co-founder Abdul Rafay Gadit to learn more.

INEOS Quattro Secures €500 Million Funding Package

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

INEOS Quattro Holdings Limited announced it has lined up approximately €500 million of new funding through a pair of inventory monetization agreements expected to deliver about €300 million over an initial two-year period to January 2028, alongside €200 million of incremental equity funding committed by shareholders.

Tesla’s $2 Billion xAI Bet Comes With A Big Pivot: Retiring Model S/X As Robots And AI Infrastructure Take Center Stage

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Tesla announced it is tightening the links between its automotive, energy, and artificial intelligence ambitions in a way few public companies have attempted: by investing directly into xAI while simultaneously reshaping its manufacturing roadmap around robotics. These moves, disclosed in SEC filings and earnings-call coverage, position Tesla less as a premium EV maker and more as a vertically integrated “physical AI” platform, spanning data centers, grid-scale batteries, humanoid robots, and autonomy.

Prometheum: Additional $23 Million Raised To Expand U.S. Digital Markets Push

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Prometheum, a market infrastructure provider for digital assets, announced it has secured an additional $23 million since the start of 2025 from a group of high-net-worth investors and institutions, adding fresh capital to support its plans to modernize how digital asset products are distributed and supported inside U.S. securities markets.

Autonomize AI: Interview With CEO Ganesh Padmanabhan About The AI-Based Healthcare Management Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Autonomize AI provides a HIPAA-compliant "human-in-the-loop" AI platform that uses specialized agents and copilots to organize, structure, and summarize unstructured clinical data (such as notes, faxes, and PDFs) to reduce administrative burden and accelerate workflows for healthcare, payer, and life sciences organizations. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Autonomize AI CEO Ganesh Padmanabhan to learn more.

Reddy Ice To Buy Arctic Glacier From Carlyle

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 31, 2026

Reddy Ice announced it has reached an agreement to acquire Arctic Glacier from The Carlyle Group, expanding Reddy Ice’s footprint across North America and adding a sizable Canadian operating base. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Morris & Dickson Completes Acquisition Of Prodigy Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Morris & Dickson said it has completed its acquisition of Prodigy Health, a specialty pharmaceutical distribution and services company, in a deal the distributor positioned as an expansion of its specialty portfolio and its ability to serve alternative sites of care nationwide. The Shreveport, Louisiana-based company described the transaction as a way to broaden access to plasma-derived therapies while maintaining continuity, compliance, and uninterrupted service for healthcare providers.

Stationhead And Mellomanic Merge To Build ‘First Listen’ Fan Community Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Stationhead and Mellomanic announced they have merged, effective immediately, to form a combined company under the Stationhead name that aims to create a category-defining, direct-to-fan platform for live, interactive listening experiences and scalable online music events.

Pye-Barker Fire & Safety Acquires The Alarm Group To Expand Security Alarm Services In Oklahoma

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Pye-Barker Fire & Safety, a national provider of fire protection, life safety, and security services, has acquired The Alarm Group to broaden its security and alarm capabilities in Oklahoma, the companies announced Wednesday.

Adaptive6 Exits Stealth With $44 Million To Cut Enterprise Cloud Waste With AI Remediation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Adaptive6 emerged from stealth with $28 million in Series A funding, bringing its total capital raised to $44 million as the company pushes an engineering-first approach to cloud cost governance that it says can reduce overall cloud spend by 15% to 35%. The round was led by U.S. Venture Partners, with participation from New Era Capital Partners, Forgepoint Capital, Pitango VC, and Vertex Ventures.

Rogo: $75 Million Series C Secured With Plans To Expand In Europe

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Rogo announced it has raised a $75 million in Series C financing led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from Henry Kravis and Wells Fargo, and continued support from existing backers Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Tiger Global, and J.P. Morgan. The round brings Rogo’s total funding to more than $165 million and marks a new phase of growth as the company expands into deeper enterprise deployments across global financial institutions.

Exxat: Minority Growth Investment Raised From Accel-KKR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Exxat, a provider of software for clinical and experiential education in healthcare, said it has received a minority growth investment from Accel-KKR to accelerate product development and broaden adoption across healthcare education and workforce development.

Bleap: $6 Million Seed Funding Secured For Scaling Self-Custodial Financial Accounts

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Bleap has raised a $6 million seed round led by Blossom Capital to scale its product and expand internationally. The company said the financing follows a $2.3 million pre-seed round raised in late 2024 and will support growth across Europe and Latin America while accelerating product development

Evaro: $25 Million Series A Raised to Expand Embedded Digital Healthcare For Consumer Brands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Evaro, an NHS licensed digital healthcare platform that says it serves more than 2 million patients, has raised a $25 million Series A round led by AlbionVC, with participation from Simplyhealth Ventures, Exceptional Ventures, Cornerstone VC, and BBI. The company positions itself as a healthcare-as-a-service provider that enables consumer brands, healthcare organisations, and employers to offer regulated digital care without building their own clinical or pharmacy infrastructure.

Sense Announces Strategic Investment From Analog Devices To Scale Grid-Edge Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 30, 2026

Sense, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based provider of grid-edge intelligence software, announced it has received a strategic investment from Analog Devices (ADI) to accelerate the development of scalable technologies that help utilities and grid operators improve reliability and visibility across the distribution network.