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Socket Mobile Partners With 3Eye Technologies To Expand Apple-Based Industrial Mobility Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 11, 2026

Socket Mobile has entered into a strategic partnership with 3Eye Technologies to expand the availability of its mobile data capture solutions across industrial and frontline workforce markets in North America.

OPAQUE: Interview With CEO Aaron Fulkerson About Confidential AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

OPAQUE develops Confidential AI infrastructure designed to let enterprises use sensitive data in AI workloads while enforcing policies during execution and producing verifiable evidence of what occurred. Pulse 2.0 interviewed OPAQUE CEO Aaron Fulkerson to learn more.

Oyster: Interview With CEO Hadi Moussa About Building An AI-Native Global Employment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Oyster is a global employment platform that helps companies build distributed teams across more than 180 countries without establishing local legal entities, handling compliant contracts, payroll, benefits, and ongoing compliance through a single platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Oyster CEO Hadi Moussa to learn more.

Translated: Interview With Co-Founder Marco Trombetti About AI-Powered Translation Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Translated combines proprietary AI technology with a network of more than 400,000 professional translators to deliver translation services across more than 200 languages. Its technologies include TranslationOS, Lara, ModernMT, T-Rank, Matecat, MateSub, and MateDub. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Translated Co-Founder Marco Trombetti to learn more.

Archer To Acquire Boeing’s Wisk Aero, Insitu And SkyGrid As Boeing Takes Strategic Stake

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Archer Aviation has signed definitive agreements to acquire Boeing subsidiaries Wisk Aero, SkyGrid and Insitu, creating what the companies describe as an end-to-end physical AI platform spanning commercial aerospace, defense and air traffic management.

Vertical Aerospace: About $100 Million In Financing Commitments To Advance Valo Certification And Commercialization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Vertical Aerospace has announced approximately $100 million in financing commitments from existing and new investors to support certification and commercialization of its Valo electric aircraft platform. The financing is intended to strengthen the company's financial position as it progresses toward several technical and production milestones. The proposed financing consists of three components.

Quanterix: $85 Million Of Savings Realized As Revenue Outlook Falls And Breakeven Moves To 2027

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Quanterix has realized approximately $85 million of cost savings following its integration efforts, but the life sciences company reduced its 2026 revenue outlook and pushed its expected cash flow breakeven into 2027 amid commercial execution challenges and broader market pressures.

Bristol Myers Squibb To Invest $2.3 Billion In New Houston Manufacturing Campus As Part Of $40 Billion U.S. Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Bristol Myers Squibb plans to invest approximately $2.3 billion in a new manufacturing campus at Generation Park in Houston, Texas, expanding its U.S. production capabilities for next-generation medicines.

Ameriprise Financial Donates More Than $3 Million To Support Nonprofits And Communities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Ameriprise Financial has provided more than $3 million through grants and charitable matching programs as part of its efforts to support nonprofit organizations and communities across the U.S.

monday.com: AI Product ARR Doubles And Reaches 17% Of Net New ARR As $500,000+ Customers Jump 68%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

monday.com's artificial intelligence products are becoming a meaningful contributor to growth, with AI product annual recurring revenue doubling sequentially during Q2 2026 and representing 17% of the company's total net new ARR.

Onto Innovation Completes $720 Million Investment For 27% Stake In Rigaku Holdings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Onto Innovation has completed its previously announced acquisition of a 27% minority equity stake in Rigaku Holdings Corporation from Atom Investment, an affiliate of Carlyle, for approximately $720 million.

Discovered Materials Raises $9 Million Seed Funding To Accelerate AI-Powered Semiconductor Materials Discovery

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Discovered Materials has raised $9 million in seed funding to expand its use of AI agents for discovering and accelerating the adoption of new materials used in semiconductor chips. The round was led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV Partners. Angel investors including Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram and Thariq Shihipar also participated.

Point2 Technology Raises $136 Million Series B With Backing From Arm, LB Investment And Maverick Silicon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Point2 Technology has completed an extension of its Series B financing, bringing the total round to $136 million as the company accelerates commercialization of its RF-based interconnect technology for AI data centers. The latest financing was led by LB Investment, with new strategic participation from Arm and continued backing from existing investors including Maverick Silicon. Point2's investor roster also includes NVIDIA, UMC Capital, Molex and Bosch Ventures, along with other new and existing investors.

Cambridge Aerospace Raises $300 Million Series C At $3.4 Billion Valuation Led By DFJ Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Cambridge Aerospace has raised $300 million in Series C funding at a $3.4 billion valuation to expand manufacturing capacity and accelerate development of its air defense technologies.

VSS Capital Partners Makes Growth Investment In Cordoba To Expand Engineering And Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

VSS Capital Partners has completed a significant growth investment in Cordoba, a Los Angeles-based engineering, construction and program management company serving municipalities, public agencies and institutional customers across the Pacific Coast.

Remedium Bio Raises $10 Million Series A Led By Lifespan Vision Ventures With Participation From Eli Lilly And HKX Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Remedium Bio has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by Lifespan Vision Ventures to advance its durable protein therapeutics platform toward first-in-human clinical development. Eli Lilly and Company and HKX Capital also participated in the round. Lifespan Vision Ventures has completed the initial closing, and Harry Robb of the firm has joined Remedium’s board of directors.

Safe Harbor To Acquire MarineMax In $1.5 Billion All-Cash Deal Backed By Blackstone Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Safe Harbor Marinas, a Blackstone Infrastructure portfolio company, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MarineMax in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion.

N-able: $50,000+ ARR Customers Reach 2,671 And Represent 61% Of Total ARR

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

N-able ended 2025 with 2,671 customers generating more than $50,000 of annual recurring revenue, up approximately 14% year-over-year, as larger customers accounted for a growing share of the cybersecurity company's recurring revenue base.

KLA: Services Revenue Jumps 16% To 23% Of Sales As Installed Base Expands

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

KLA's services business continued expanding during fiscal Q3 2026, with services revenue increasing approximately 16% year-over-year to $774.8 million as growth in the company's installed base creates an increasingly substantial recurring revenue stream.

News Corp: Dow Jones Digital Revenue Reaches 82% As Risk & Compliance Grows 20% And WSJ Digital Subscriptions Reach 4.3 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

News Corp's Dow Jones business is becoming increasingly digital and subscription-driven, with digital revenue representing 82% of segment revenue during fiscal Q2 2026 as professional information products and digital subscriptions continued expanding.

Potomac Fund Management Surpasses $5 Billion In AUM As Demand For Risk-Managed Strategies Accelerates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Potomac Fund Management has surpassed $5 billion in assets under management as financial advisors increasingly adopt quantitative, rules-based and risk-managed investment strategies.

CogniCor Adds Beacon Pointe Chairman And Co-Founder Shannon Eusey To Advisory Board

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

CogniCor has appointed Shannon Eusey, Chairman and Co-Founder of Beacon Pointe Advisors, to its Advisory Board as the AI wealth management technology company prepares for its next phase of strategic growth.

Paul Weiss Adds Capital Markets Partners Peter Byrne And Tristan VanDeventer In New York

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has added Peter Byrne and Tristan VanDeventer as partners in its Capital Markets Group within the Corporate Department in New York.

Pasqal Demonstrates Photonic Chip-Based Atom Trapping To Advance Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Pasqal has demonstrated what it believes is the first trapping of individual atoms using laser light generated by a photonic integrated circuit, marking a potential step toward more scalable neutral-atom quantum computers.

NVIDIA Partners With Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs And KKR To Mobilize Over $500 Billion For AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Nvidia is working with a group of major financial firms on a potential $500 billion financing package aimed at supporting the massive infrastructure buildout required for artificial intelligence, according to sources with FT.

Intel Announces $15 Billion Common Stock Offering To Support AI And Manufacturing Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Intel has announced a proposed $15 billion underwritten public offering of its common stock as the semiconductor company looks to strengthen its balance sheet and fund investments tied to growing demand for AI computing.

Robinhood Launches Crypto Trading In UK With Access To More Than 50 Digital Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Robinhood has launched cryptocurrency trading for UK investors, expanding its all-in-one investment platform to include more than 50 digital assets alongside stocks and shares ISAs, equities, options and futures.

Yum China Completes $1.2 Billion Acquisition Of Pizza Hut Brand In Mainland China

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Yum China Holdings has completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of ownership of the Pizza Hut brand in Mainland China from Yum! Brands. The deal was originally announced on June 16, 2026.

Bruker Makes Majority Investment In MIMETAS To Expand Human-Relevant Drug Discovery Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Bruker Corporation has made a majority investment in MIMETAS, a developer of organ-on-a-chip platforms and advanced human tissue and disease models used in drug discovery and development. MIMETAS will continue operating under its existing brand and management team.

Rockefeller Global Family Office Adds Jones Wealth Partners And Expands Into Columbus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 10, 2026

Rockefeller Global Family Office has added Jones Wealth Partners, a veteran wealth management team from Merrill Lynch, establishing a new office in Columbus, Ohio. The move expands Rockefeller’s presence in Ohio, where the firm already maintains offices in Cincinnati and Cleveland.