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Amorphical: Interview With CEO Eden Ben About The Biotechnology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Amorphical is a biotechnology company that develops nature-inspired therapeutics and mineral-based dietary supplements, focusing specifically on stabilizing and utilizing Amorphous Calcium Carbonate (ACC) to improve mineral absorption and treat major chronic, inflammatory, and oncological diseases. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Amorphical CEO Eden Ben to learn more.

Wirestock: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Mikayel Khachatryan About Multimodal AI Training Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Wirestock provides an advanced multimodal visual training data platform for AI research and development teams. The company produces rights-cleared datasets across the model training pipeline while connecting photographers, videographers, designers, illustrators, and other creators with paid projects in the AI economy. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Wirestock Co-Founder and CEO Mikayel Khachatryan to learn more.

Qnity: Interconnect EBITDA Jumps 44% As Volume Growth Drives 22% Organic Sales Increase

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Qnity Electronics delivered another quarter of strong semiconductor-related growth during the second quarter of 2026 as rising demand for advanced packaging, complex printed circuit boards, and thermal-management solutions accelerated its Interconnect Solutions business.

Twist Bioscience: Gene Shipments Jump 56% As Revenue Reaches Record $118.4 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Twist Bioscience shipped approximately 369,000 genes during its fiscal third quarter of 2026, representing an increase of nearly 56% from approximately 237,000 genes during the prior-year period.

Tyson Foods: Chicken And Prepared Foods Generate 104% Of Segment Profit As Beef Outlook Worsens

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Tyson Foods’ Chicken and Prepared Foods businesses generated more than the company’s entire adjusted segment operating income during the fiscal third quarter of 2026 as continuing Beef losses reduced the consolidated result.

ArcelorMittal: European Operating Income Jumps 170% Despite 4% Shipment Decline

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

ArcelorMittal’s European operating income increased 170% during the first half of 2026 even as steel shipments declined, as higher selling prices, improved price-cost conditions, trade protections, and the absence of a prior-year impairment strengthened profitability.

Sally Beauty: E-Commerce Sales Rise 11% As Beauty Systems Group Comparable Sales Fall 2.1%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Sally Beauty Holdings generated continued digital growth during its fiscal third quarter of 2026, even as weaker demand at Beauty Systems Group offset improving performance across the Sally Beauty business.

EnCap Flatrock To Sell M6 Midstream To Williams For Up To $5.5 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

EnCap Flatrock Midstream has agreed to sell Momentum Midstream, also known as M6 Midstream, to Williams for consideration of up to $5.5 billion.

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida Renews $350 Million Credit Facility

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Coca-Cola Beverages Florida has renewed its $350 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility to support investments in its operations and future growth.

Blue Owl Capital Appoints Takeo Ikemori To Lead Institutional Capital In Japan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Blue Owl Capital has appointed Takeo Ikemori as Managing Director, Representative in Japan and Head of Japan Institutional Capital.

KKR To Acquire 50% Stake In TotalEnergies’ €1.8 Billion European Renewable Energy Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

KKR has agreed to acquire a 50% interest in a 1.2-gigawatt portfolio of developed solar and onshore wind assets from TotalEnergies. The portfolio carries an enterprise value of €1.8 billion and includes projects located in Germany, Spain, France and Poland. The investment will be made through an insurance account managed by KKR.

Cetera: iTP Partners Joins With $3.5 Billion In AUA And Launches Independent RIA

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

iTP Partners has joined Cetera Financial Group and launched a new independent registered investment adviser called Blue Horizon Equity.

Charterhouse Capital Partners Completes Acquisition Of Animalcare Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Charterhouse Capital Partners has completed its acquisition of Animalcare Group following the animal healthcare company’s delisting from the London Stock Exchange’s AIM market. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Bluerock Expands Wealth Distribution Team With Three Senior Regional Vice Presidents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Bluerock has expanded its wealth distribution team with the appointment of Mick McClendon, Jeff Spah and Jeff Waszak as Senior Regional Vice Presidents at Bluerock Capital Markets.

Bridgepoint Closes Fourth Direct Lending Fund Above Target At €5.1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Bridgepoint has completed fundraising for Bridgepoint Direct Lending IV with €5.1 billion in total capital commitments, exceeding the fund’s original €4 billion target.

KKR Closes Record $19.2 Billion Global Infrastructure Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

KKR has completed the final closing of KKR Global Infrastructure Investors V with $19.2 billion in commitments, making it the firm’s largest infrastructure fund raised to date.

Walker & Dunlop Arranges $137.5 Million Refinancing For Brooklyn Mixed-Use Property

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Walker & Dunlop has arranged $137.5 million in refinancing for 12 Halsey, a newly completed Class A mixed-use multifamily property in Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood.

FMG Suite Adds Four Executives To Expand AI Strategy And Enterprise Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

FMG Suite has added four executives to its senior leadership team as the company expands its artificial intelligence strategy, customer success operations and enterprise sales capabilities.

Jones Walker Adds Environmental Litigator Emma Moppert In New Orleans

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Jones Walker has appointed Emma Moppert as special counsel in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group and environmental litigation team.

Deluxe Completes Celero Commerce Acquisition, Expanding Payments Platform To $70 Billion In Annual Volume

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Deluxe has completed its acquisition of Celero Commerce, expanding its merchant services operation and accelerating the company’s transformation toward payments and data-focused businesses. The deal was initially announced on June 18. Financial terms were not disclosed in the completion announcement.

PDW Receives Conditional $820 Million U.S. Government Loan Commitment For Drone Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

PDW Holdings has received a conditional loan commitment of up to $820 million from the U.S. Department of War’s Office of Strategic Capital to expand domestic manufacturing capacity for drones, robotics and autonomous systems.

Fidelity Bank Completes Affinity Bancshares Acquisition And Reaches $5.5 Billion In Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 4, 2026

Fidelity Bank has completed its acquisition of Affinity Bancshares and its wholly owned subsidiary, Affinity Bank, expanding the North Carolina-based community bank into Georgia.

Vector Legal Raises Seed Round To Help Handle Legal Matters

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Vector Legal has raised a seed financing round led by Base10 Partners and Y Combinator to expand its AI-native legal services and technology platform.

Maia Fertility Raises Strategic Investment From Mercantile Life Science Ventures And Big Idea Ventures

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Maia Fertility has received a joint strategic investment from Mercantile Life Science Ventures IV and Big Idea Ventures’ Generation Food Rural Partners fund.

Vista Gold: Cash Nearly Quadruples To $49.5 Million As Mt Todd Advances Toward 2027 Engineering

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Vista Gold strengthened its balance sheet during the first half of 2026 as the company advanced permitting, technical optimization, and project-execution planning for the Mt Todd gold project in Australia.

Tesollo Begins IPO Process And Completes Series B Financing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Tesollo has started preparing for an initial public offering through South Korea’s technology-special listing process and appointed KB Securities as its lead underwriter.

Agon Launches With $30 Million To Build Physical AI For European Defense

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Agon has launched with $30 million in funding to develop physical artificial intelligence infrastructure for the European defense sector. The financing was provided by investors including Lakestar, Lux Capital, Northzone and XYZ Venture Capital.

Inforcer Raises $50 Million Series C Led By Insight Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Inforcer has raised $50 million in Series C financing to expand its Microsoft security and AI management platform for managed service providers. Insight Partners led the round and acquired a minority stake alongside existing investors Meritech Capital and Dawn Capital.

Perceptron Network Raises $6.5 Million To Launch AI Data-Questing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Perceptron Network has raised $6.5 million in strategic financing to launch a platform that enables artificial intelligence companies to commission specific datasets from a distributed contributor community. The round included EAK Ventures, P2 Ventures, Sigma Capital, Selini Capital, QCP Capital-NY, CoinDCX, Momentum 6, DeFi Capital, Walrus Foundation, Aethir, Colosseum, GuruDev Capital, Tempo Finance, NewTribe Capital, Digital Consensus Fund and CodeCraft Capital.

Organon: $81 Million Jada Gain Lifts GAAP Profit 68% As Adjusted Earnings Fall 29%

By Amit Chowdhry ● Aug 3, 2026

Organon reported sharply higher GAAP earnings during the first quarter of 2026, but its adjusted results declined as an $81 million gain from the sale of the Jada system and lower restructuring expenses improved reported profitability.