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Yuno Raises $45 Million Series B To Scale AI-Native Global Payments Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Yuno has raised $45 million in Series B funding to expand its AI-native global payments and financial services infrastructure and accelerate its path toward profitability. Global PayTech Ventures led the round, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Tiger Global, QuantumLight Capital, Monashees, Kaszek, Endeavor Catalyst, Rasmal Ventures, Further Ventures, GrowthX Capital, and other investors.

SpaceXAI Launches Grok 4.6 With Stronger Agentic Coding And Long-Running Task Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.6, its latest frontier AI model, with a particular focus on long-running agents, coding, knowledge work, and more ambitious interactive and visual projects.

Pathway Reaches $500 Million Valuation As Total Seed Funding Hits $30 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Pathway has raised additional funding at a $500 million valuation as the AI company prepares to publish benchmarks for its Post-Transformer models. The financing brings Pathway’s total seed funding to $30 million, with most of the new capital expected to go toward additional computing capacity, including new NVIDIA GB300 systems.

Why ContextLogic Is Buying gChem For $850 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

ContextLogic Holdings has agreed to acquire specialty chemicals producer gChem from funds managed by EagleTree Capital and their co-investors in a transaction valuing gChem at approximately $850 million.

Gloo Buying Cedarstone To Expand Its Applied AI Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Gloo has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cedarstone, an integrated business services company providing finance and development outsourcing to nonprofit organizations.

CareTrust REIT Completes $291 Million Of Investments As 2026 Activity Reaches $1.5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

CareTrust REIT recently completed two transactions totaling approximately $291 million, including a 16-property care home portfolio in the UK and two senior housing communities in Utah.

Why Limbach Is Buying CYMCOR For $30 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Limbach Holdings recently acquired CYMCOR for approximately $30 million to expand its position in the rapidly growing data center infrastructure market and move closer to customers earlier in the project development process.

Curio Receives Additional $2.5 Million From DOE ARPA-E To Advance NuCycle Nuclear Recycling Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Curio has received an additional $2.5 million in cost-shared funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy to advance development of its NuCycle nuclear recycling technology.

Why Intellistake Is Buying NanoAi For Approximately C$17 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Intellistake Technologies has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire NanoAi Technologies in an approximately C$17 million stock transaction designed to combine Intellistake’s AI infrastructure with NanoAi’s physical threat detection technology.

Edge Focus Raises Growth Equity Led By Atlas Merchant Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Edge Focus has raised growth equity through a minority investment led by Atlas Merchant Capital to expand its consumer credit technology, capital markets capabilities, and team. Financial terms of the investment were not disclosed.

Apex Fintech Solutions And Kalshi Launch API Platform For Prediction Market Access

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Apex Fintech Solutions has launched API technology enabling financial services companies to offer Kalshi-powered prediction markets directly through their own platforms.

Vanguard Launches Custom Model Portfolios To Help Financial Advisors Personalize Client Investments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Vanguard has launched Vanguard Custom Model Portfolios, giving financial advisors greater flexibility to modify the firm’s existing model portfolios while retaining Vanguard’s broader investment framework.

Brookfield: $100 Billion Deployed In Six Months As Deployable Capital Reaches Record $210 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Brookfield Corporation deployed approximately $100 billion into large-scale investment opportunities during the first six months of 2026 while simultaneously raising $98 billion of capital and monetizing $40 billion of assets, illustrating the scale of capital moving through the company’s investment platform.

JD.com: Operating Income Swings To RMB4.5 Billion Profit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

JD.com produced a significant profitability turnaround during the second quarter of 2026 despite reporting lower overall revenue, as operating income swung to RMB4.5 billion from a RMB0.9 billion loss a year earlier.

Tapestry: 11 Million New Customers Join In FY26 As Gen Z Represents 35% Of Acquisitions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Tapestry added approximately 11 million new customers globally during fiscal 2026, including more than 2.5 million in the fourth quarter, as the owner of Coach and Kate Spade continues expanding its consumer base across generations and geographies.

Ascendis Pharma: Product Revenue Surges 105% To €315 Million As Adjusted Operating Profit Turns Positive

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Ascendis Pharma's commercial transformation accelerated in the second quarter of 2026 as product revenue surged 105% year-over-year to approximately €315 million and non-IFRS operating profit swung to positive €92 million from a €23 million loss.

Applied Industrial: $310 Million Debt Paydown And $317 Million Buyback Support $7 Billion Revenue Target

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Applied Industrial Technologies is entering fiscal 2027 with a substantially leaner balance sheet and higher long-term growth targets after using strong cash generation to repay $310 million of debt and spend $317.2 million on share repurchases during fiscal 2026.

Arteris: Interview With President And CEO K. Charles Janac About Semiconductor System IP And Network-On-Chip Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Arteris provides semiconductor system IP and software that help companies design complex system-on-chip and multi-die architectures, including network-on-chip interconnect IP, automation software, cache IP, and functional safety and security technologies. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Arteris President and CEO K. Charles Janac to learn more.

STAAR Surgical: China Generates More Than Half Of Q2 Revenue As Total Sales Jump 111%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

STAAR Surgical reported second-quarter 2026 net sales of $93.5 million, up 111% year-over-year, with China generating $52.3 million and accounting for more than half of total quarterly revenue.

WeRide: L2++/L3 Revenue Surges 2,594% As WRD 3.0 Deliveries Reach 30,000 Units

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

WeRide's L2++ and L3 autonomous-driving business entered a rapid commercialization phase during the second quarter of 2026, with revenue surging approximately 2,593.8% year-over-year as deliveries of its WRD 3.0 solution reached approximately 30,000 units.

Harmonic: Broadband Backlog Reaches $588 Million, Exceeding Full-Year Revenue Target Of Up To $525 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Harmonic's Broadband backlog and deferred revenue reached approximately $587.6 million at the end of the second quarter of 2026, up 71% year-over-year and exceeding the company's entire full-year Broadband revenue target of $505 million to $525 million.

Securitize: Transaction Volume Surges 147% To $5.3 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Securitize reported a sharp increase in activity across its tokenization platform during the second quarter of 2026, with aggregate transaction volume surging 147% year-over-year to $5.3 billion even as quarterly revenue declined 5% to $14.4 million.

PointsKash Secures Up To $100 Million Capital Commitment From Hawk Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

PointsKash has expanded its strategic capital commitment from Hawk Capital Investors to as much as $100 million, creating a staged financing framework designed to support the company's initial commercialization and subsequent national rollout.

ZenaTech Buying Galena-Benchmark Engineering To Expand Its Drone Services Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

ZenaTech recently completed its acquisition of Ketchum, Idaho-based Benchmark Partners, which operates as Galena-Benchmark Engineering. The deal represents ZenaTech's 27th Drone as a Service acquisition and its first location in Idaho, giving the company another established professional services business through which it can deploy its drone technology.

eToro: GAAP Net Income Surges 77% As Net Contribution Rises 9%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

eToro reported a 77% year-over-year increase in GAAP net income during the second quarter of 2026, significantly outpacing the 9% growth in net contribution as stronger equity trading activity and continued account growth supported profitability.

Why Nielsen Is Buying DoubleVerify For $2.15 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Nielsen recently agreed to acquire DoubleVerify in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $2.15 billion, a deal that would significantly expand Nielsen's position across the digital advertising ecosystem and bring independent media verification directly into its broader audience measurement platform.

Why Sunoco Is Buying Offen Petroleum For $600 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

Sunoco recently agreed to acquire Offen Petroleum in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $600 million. While the deal was announced earlier this month, the strategic rationale is straightforward: Offen gives Sunoco additional fuel distribution scale, a larger customer base, and a stronger presence in several U.S. regions where the partnership sees opportunities for further expansion.

AMD Buying Taalas To Strengthen Its AI Inference Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 13, 2026

AMD recently entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Taalas, a Toronto-based developer of specialized AI inference silicon. While the transaction was announced earlier this month, the strategic rationale behind the deal highlights an increasingly important part of AMD's broader AI strategy: improving the performance and efficiency of running AI models after they have been trained.

JPMorganChase To Deploy Over $750 Billion Through 2035 To Expand Housing Supply And Homeownership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

JPMorganChase plans to deploy more than $750 billion through 2035 to increase housing supply and support homeownership across the U.S. as part of its American Dream Initiative.

CAE: Up To Six Civil Training Centers To Close As Transformation Targets C$150 Million Of Annual Savings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 12, 2026

CAE plans to close between four and six Civil Aviation training centers as part of a broader transformation program targeting C$125 million to C$150 million of annual run-rate savings by fiscal 2030.