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CLASSYS Names Jung-Hee Bae As Chief Commercial Officer To Accelerate Global Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

CLASSYS appointed Jung-hee Bae as Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer and Head of its newly created Go-to-Market Center as the medical aesthetics company accelerates its international growth strategy.

Motive Names Andrew Bennett Chief Marketing Officer As ARR Surpasses $600 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Motive appointed Andrew Bennett as Chief Marketing Officer as the company continues expanding its artificial intelligence platform for physical operations.

FuelCell Energy Names John Dansby As Senior Vice President To Lead Manufacturing Scale-Up

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

FuelCell Energy appointed John Dansby as Senior Vice President, Scale Up Manufacturing, as the company prepares to expand production capacity to support future growth.

Harmony Biosciences Names Peter Anastasiou As President And CEO As Jeffrey Dayno Plans Retirement

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Harmony Biosciences announced a planned leadership transition that will see Peter Anastasiou become President, Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Directors effective January 1, 2027.

Holding Redlich Adds Duncan Travis And Bridget Camilleri As Partners In Six-Person Litigation Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Holding Redlich announced six appointments to its national Dispute Resolution & Litigation practice, including partners Duncan Travis in Melbourne and Bridget Camilleri in Brisbane.

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas Adds Ravindra Bandhakavi, Amarta Roy, Srabanee Ghosh And Poornima Singh As Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 13, 2026

Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co. added four partners to its General Corporate Practice as the firm continues expanding its transactional capabilities. Ravindra Bandhakavi, Amarta Roy, Srabanee Ghosh, and Poornima Singh joined the firm from Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas & Co., along with a team of eight lawyers.

Pinsent Masons Names James Quirke Corporate Tax Partner In Dublin

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Pinsent Masons appointed James Quirke as a partner to lead its corporate tax team in Dublin. Quirke joins the multinational law firm from McCann FitzGerald, where he became a partner in 2024.

Weil Adds Rebecca Ward As Private Equity Partner In London

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Weil, Gotshal & Manges appointed Rebecca Ward as a partner in its Private Equity practice in London as the firm continues expanding its sponsor-side capabilities across Europe.

TROOPS Enters Agreement With EFFORCE Group To Expand Digital Asset Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

TROOPS entered into a conditional sales and purchase agreement with EFFORCE Group, a transaction intended to expand the company’s digital asset infrastructure and broaden its exposure to additional technology-driven business verticals.

Association Of Independent Wealth Managers Singapore Names New Committee For 2026-2028 Term

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

The Association of Independent Wealth Managers Singapore announced its new committee for the 2026-2028 term, appointing six industry executives to leadership roles across the organization.

RBC BlueBay Names Hayley Lai Director Of Marketing For Asia-Pacific

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

RBC BlueBay Asset Management appointed Hayley Lai to the newly created role of Director of Marketing for Asia-Pacific.

Eastspring Investments Names Pierre-Julien Jandrain As Chief Risk Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Eastspring Investments appointed Pierre-Julien “PJ” Jandrain as Chief Risk Officer. Jandrain will be based in Singapore and will succeed Terence Lim.

B. Riley Securities Names Michael Masiuk Managing Director To Expand Technology, Media And Sports Advisory

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

B. Riley Securities appointed Michael Masiuk as Managing Director within its Investment Banking team, expanding the firm’s capabilities across growth capital, M&A advisory, and proprietary deal origination.

NEU Battery Materials Raises Oversubscribed $7.6 Million To Scale LFP Battery Recycling

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

NEU Battery Materials closed an oversubscribed $7.6 million funding round to scale its lithium iron phosphate battery recycling technology and expand production of battery-grade lithium. The round was co-led by Shift4Good and SGInnovate.

Anderson Real Estate Completes $550 Million Refinancing Of Anderson Towers In Century City

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Anderson Real Estate completed a $550 million refinancing of Anderson Towers, its two-building office campus at 1800 and 1900 Avenue of the Stars in Century City.

Sharp Biomedical Closes Pre-Seed Funding Led By Gener8tor 1889 To Advance Outpatient Spine Procedures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Sharp Biomedical closed a pre-seed funding round led by gener8tor 1889, with participation from several physician angel investors. The Fargo, North Dakota-based medical device company is developing streamlined toolsets and implants designed for outpatient spine procedures targeting patients with early-to-mid-stage chronic pain.

N26 Names Marc Hess As Chief Financial Officer And Managing Director

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

N26 appointed Marc Hess as Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director of N26 SE and N26 Bank SE, effective October 15, 2026, subject to customary regulatory approvals.

Ancient Capital Names Imran Ahmed As Chief Investment Officer And Sonya Li As Managing Director

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Ancient Capital appointed Imran Ahmed as Chief Investment Officer and Sonya Li as Managing Director as the firm continues building out its asset management platform.

Canyon Partners Names Chris Hansen Partner And Chief Information Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Canyon Partners appointed Chris Hansen as Partner and Chief Information Officer as the $30 billion alternative investment manager continues expanding its technology and data capabilities.

Theia: Interview With CEO Marcus Brown About Markerless Motion Capture And Ball Tracking

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Theia develops markerless motion capture technology that turns standard video into high-quality biomechanics data without requiring markers or sensors on the person being measured. Theia's core software, Theia3D, is used across sports performance, research, and product development, and the company is expanding into areas such as ball tracking. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Theia CEO Marcus Brown to learn more about markerless motion capture, athlete performance, and the evolution of biomechanics technology.

Meta Introduces Muse Wonder Frontier AI Models For Personal And Professional Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Meta introduced the Muse Wonder series, including Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, describing the models as its most capable systems yet for personal and professional agentic tasks.

Ultralytics: Interview With Founder And CEO Glenn Jocher About YOLO, Computer Vision, And Edge AI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Ultralytics is the company behind YOLO, an open-source computer vision model used for tasks including detection, segmentation, classification, and pose estimation. The company also offers the Ultralytics Platform, which supports workflows spanning dataset annotation, training, validation, and deployment. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ultralytics Founder and CEO Glenn Jocher to learn more about YOLO, computer vision, edge AI, open source, and the company's approach to deploying AI in real-world environments.

Global Settlement Network: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Ryan Kirkley About Digital Settlement Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Global Settlement Network is developing financial infrastructure for regulated digital currency issuance, tokenized assets, institutional cross-border settlement, liquidity, and on-chain identity. Its platform is designed to connect financial institutions, assets, and liquidity across networks and jurisdictions while integrating with existing financial systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Global Settlement Network Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Kirkley to learn more about digital settlement infrastructure, tokenization, interoperability, and the modernization of global financial markets.

Ortet Launches With $500 Million Commitment From Thoreau To Build Patient-Centered Health AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Ortet launched as a frontier artificial intelligence lab for health with a $500 million commitment from Thoreau. The company is building a full-stack AI platform spanning compute and data infrastructure, frontier research, model development, and deployment.

Veregy Awarded $36.38 Million Energy Performance Contract At University Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Veregy was awarded a $36.38 million infrastructure modernization and energy efficiency contract covering approximately 850,000 square feet of facilities within the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Mistlabs Launches Ambi Following $26 Million Funding Round To Advance Real-Time Ambient AI And AI-to-AI Communication

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Mistlabs launched Ambi, an ambient intelligence platform designed to reason in real time, anticipate user needs, and eventually enable communication between independent AI agents.

Gaius Capital Closes Debut Private Equity Funds At €56 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Gaius Capital reached the final close of its debut private equity funds with €56 million in total capital raised.

Oraseya Capital Expands Venture Fund To AED 1 Billion And Broadens International Investment Mandate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Oraseya Capital announced that Dubai Integrated Economic Zones Authority has expanded the venture capital fund from AED 500 million to AED 1 billion.

Apogem Capital Closes Largest Real Assets Fund Program At $472 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

Apogem Capital closed its largest real assets fund program to date with $472 million in total commitments, exceeding the strategy’s original target.

FG Communities Holdings Acquires 49-Site Manufactured Housing Community In Garner, North Carolina

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 12, 2026

FG Communities Holdings acquired a manufactured housing community in Garner, North Carolina, expanding its affordable housing portfolio in the Raleigh metropolitan area.