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KKR And HMC Capital Form A$600 Million Energy Transition Strategic Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

HMC Capital and KKR announced they have established a strategic partnership under which KKR-managed funds will invest up to $603 million into HMC’s Energy Transition Platform. The investment would add KKR as a strategic partner alongside HMC to the platform’s existing 652MW of operational assets, its 5.7 GW battery energy storage system, and its wind development pipeline.

Bosta: $5 Million Raised For Building Automated Sorting Machine

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Bosta announced it has launched what it describes as the largest automated sorting machine in the Middle East, marking a major infrastructure milestone to improve delivery efficiency and support the rapid growth of Egypt’s e-commerce sector.

Rematch: AI-Powered Youth Sports Highlights Platform Tops One Billion Views

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Rematch, an AI-powered sports highlights platform focused on youth and emerging sports, said it has surpassed one billion views globally across its platforms, pointing to accelerating adoption in France and the U.S. The company framed the milestone as evidence of a growing community of clubs, parents, volunteers, athletes, coaches, and fans using Rematch to capture and share game moments at scale.

Anima: AI Design-To-Code Platform Lands IBM Strategic Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Anima announced it has received a strategic investment from IBM to accelerate enterprise adoption of “vibe coding,” which the company describes as a workflow in which product teams design and build apps by telling AI what they want. The Tel Aviv-based company positions the deal as a way to broaden enterprise uptake of its AI design-to-code platform, deepen integrations with enterprise design systems, and extend support for legacy front-end code.

Arbor: $6.3 Million Raised To Turn Frontline Voices Into Operational Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Arbor, an AI research platform focused on enterprise operations, has raised $6.3 million in combined seed and pre-seed funding as it looks to scale product development and expand its team in New York. The seed round was led by 645 Ventures, with participation from Next Play Ventures, Chaac Ventures, Comma Capital, and notable angel investors, and was followed by a previously unannounced pre-seed round.

Refute: £5 Million Raised For Scaling Military-Grade AI Across Europe

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Refute has raised a £5 million seed round to expand its AI-driven platform for detecting and countering online manipulation amid accelerating disinformation threats across Europe and beyond. The UK company says it is responding to an intensifying “hybrid warfare” environment in which threat actors are blending bot infrastructure with influencer-driven campaigns, using agentic AI to automate operations end-to-end, and increasingly targeting commercial organisations alongside governments.

Dynasty Financial Partners: Wealth Management Platform Closes Minority Capital Raise

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Dynasty Financial Partners announced it has closed a minority capital raise, backed by a broad group of stakeholders, including employees, clients, and resource partners, as well as several long-standing investors and members of its board. The investor group includes The Charles Schwab Corporation, BlackRock, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Abry Partners, Glick Family Office, and Dynasty Chairman Harvey Golub, as well as various clients. Fortress Investment Group participated as a new investor. Dynasty said the transaction represents its sixth capital raise since the firm’s founding in 2010.

pHathom Technologies: Seed Round Pushes Total Committed Capital Past $12 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

pHathom Technologies, a climate technology company developing carbon capture solutions for existing coastal bioenergy and industrial facilities, has closed its seed financing round, bringing total committed capital to over $12 million. The seed round was led by Propeller Ventures, with participation from the New Brunswick Innovation Foundation, Invest Nova Scotia, and strategic investor Carmeuse Ventures.

Fundamental: $255 Million Raised And AWS Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Fundamental, an AI company focused on predictive intelligence from enterprise data, announced it has emerged from stealth with $255 million in funding and has publicly launched its most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM), called NEXUS.

East Texas A&M University Receives $8 Million Gift From Rene’ Griffin

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

East Texas A&M University announced it received an $8 million gift from alumnus Rene’ Griffin, calling it the largest single philanthropic contribution in the university’s history and the biggest ever to Lion Athletics.

Colossal Biosciences: UAE Launches BioVault Partnership To Expand Biodiversity Preservation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

The United Arab Emirates has announced a major collaboration with Colossal Biosciences to advance global conservation, biodiversity protection, and scientific research, positioning the UAE as a regional and global hub for knowledge-driven environmental innovation across the Middle East, Africa, and beyond.

RTX To Invest $139 Million In Singapore Through New EDB MOUs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

RTX announced it will invest over $139 million in Singapore after signing multiple memoranda of understanding with the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) at the Singapore Air Show, reinforcing the country’s role as an Asia Pacific aerospace hub for advanced manufacturing, maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO), and high-value engineering work.

SBA: Working Capital Pilot Program Delivers $150 Million In New Lending For U.S. Manufacturers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

The U.S. Small Business Administration announced its 7(a) Working Capital Pilot (WCP) Program has generated more than $150 million in new lending since the program began, with more than $125 million of that total approved since President Trump took office last January.

OnCorps AI: Former BlackRock Executive Ron Allen Named As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

OnCorps AI, an agentic AI platform focused on fund operations, has appointed former BlackRock executive Ron Allen as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Founder Bob Suh will transition to Chairman and will remain involved in shaping product direction and supporting the company’s strategic growth.

Snowflake: $200 Million OpenAI Partnership Brings Enterprise AI Models To Cortex AI And Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Snowflake announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership with OpenAI to help enterprises deploy AI agents and context-aware applications on governed enterprise data. The collaboration centers on co-innovation and joint go-to-market, with Snowflake and OpenAI developing customized AI solutions for shared enterprise customers.