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Henkel: Adhesives Group To Buy Specialty Coatings Maker Stahl For €2.1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Henkel has agreed to acquire Stahl Group, a Dutch-based specialty coatings company, for a purchase price of €2.1 billion. Stahl is majority-owned by French private equity firm Wendel SE. The transaction is intended to expand Henkel Adhesive Technologies further into specialty coatings, an adjacent category that Henkel says is highly complementary to its existing customer base and end markets.

BayHawk Capital: PE Firm Closes $616 Million Inaugural Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

BayHawk Capital, a Boston-based private equity firm focused on founder-owned technology and essential services businesses, has closed its inaugural fund, BayHawk Capital Fund I, with $616 million in total commitments. The fund closed oversubscribed at its hard cap and exceeded its original $475 million target, supported by a mix of endowments, institutions, family offices, and long-standing members of the firm’s network.

Hovercraft Ventures: Experience And Innovation Platform Acquires Visual Endeavors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Hovercraft Ventures, a global experience and innovation venture platform, has acquired Visual Endeavors, a Santa Cruz, California-based design and creative solutions agency known for immersive work across live entertainment, brand activations, and experiential installations.

CW Advisors: Acquisition Of $849 Million Firm Rovin Capital

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

CW Advisors has acquired Rovin Capital in a deal aimed at expanding the firm’s presence in the western U.S. and supporting a broader regional growth strategy. Boston-based CW Advisors, a registered investment advisor and subsidiary of Osaic Holdings, said the transaction adds a fee-only RIA with offices in Lehi, Utah, and Mesa, Arizona. Rovin has $849 million in combined assets under management and under advisement. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Marshall University: Haas Foundation Gives $1 Million Toward New CNC Training Lab

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Marshall University’s Marshall Advanced Manufacturing Center is moving closer to a new headquarters after receiving a $1 million donation from the Gene Haas Foundation. The contribution will support plans for a $20 million, 55,000-square-foot facility to be built on the former ACF Industries site on Third Avenue in Huntington, an initiative university officials have identified as a top fundraising priority.

NASA: Johnson Space Center Expands Research And Workforce Development Partnership With The University Of Texas System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and the University of Texas System announced a new agreement designed to broaden research collaboration and strengthen workforce development efforts across NASA centers and UT System facilities.

Sparxell: University Of Cambridge Spin-Out Raises €4.2 Million To Scale Biodegradable Structural Color Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Sparxell, a University of Cambridge spin-out developing bioinspired colour technologies, has raised €4.2 million in a pre-Series A round to scale its 100% bio-based, biodegradable approach to colour. SWEN Capital Partners led the financing through its Blue Ocean 2 fund, alongside Alpha Star Capital and Cambridge Enterprise.

KKR Buying Arctos In $1.4 Billion Deal

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

KKR announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Arctos Partners, the institutional investor known for buying minority stakes in professional sports franchises and for providing structured capital solutions to alternative asset managers.

Climatic: $10 Million Seed Funding Raised For Pioneering Daily Lung Health

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Climatic emerged from stealth with $10 million in seed funding to pioneer the daily lung health category and bring proactive respiratory care into everyday wellness. The company is positioning lung care as a consistent part of daily health and performance, arguing that respiratory support has historically been treated as something people address only reactively during illness or environmental crises.

Timber Bay Partners Closes $281 Million GP-Led Secondaries Fund III

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Timber Bay Partners, a Cincinnati-based private equity firm focused on GP-led secondary transactions, has announced the final close of Timber Bay Fund III at $281 million in total capital commitments.

Huntington Bank Taps Ameriprise To Run Retail Investment Program

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Huntington Bank has selected Ameriprise Financial Services as its new provider of retail investment programs, shifting oversight of its retail brokerage, investment advisory, and insurance services from its bank-owned platforms to the Ameriprise Financial Institutions Group.

CAPTRUST Onboards $2.4 Billion Firm Meritage Portfolio Management Addition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

CAPTRUST Financial Advisors has expanded its Kansas City footprint with the addition of Meritage Portfolio Management, a Kansas City-based wealth and investment management firm serving high-net-worth clients as well as retirement plans, endowments, and foundations.

Prosperity Life Group: Rona Guymon Named As President Of Retail Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Prosperity Life Group has appointed insurance executive Rona Guymon as President, Retail Life and Annuity, a newly created role focused on expanding the company’s retail life and annuity franchise.

Bitwise Launches Digital-Asset Model Portfolios For Financial Advisors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Bitwise, a crypto asset manager with more than $15 billion in client assets, has launched a suite of model portfolio solutions designed to help financial advisors allocate to digital assets through ETFs.

Midas: $10 Million Raised For AI Verification Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Midas, an AI security and reliability company focused on mathematical verification, has launched publicly after closing a $10 million funding round led by Nova Global. The company says it is building a “mathematical trust infrastructure” to ensure AI outputs and underlying reasoning are provably correct before they are used in real-world systems where mistakes are costly.

AngioDynamics Launches Investigator-Led Pulmonary Embolism Research Fund With PERT Consortium

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

AngioDynamics, a vascular-focused medical technology company, and The PERT Consortium, a multidisciplinary organization focused on improving pulmonary embolism care, have launched the ALPHA-PE Research Fund, an investigator-led program to support independent, physician-driven research on pulmonary embolism.

Gerber Taylor Closes $111 Million Co-Investment Fund, Beating $75 Million Target

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Gerber Taylor announced it had completed a final close of its latest co-investment vehicle, GT Co-Invest II, LP, at $111 million as of December 31, 2025, surpassing its original $75 million fundraising target in roughly ten months.

Morningstar Expands Index Business With $365 Million CRSP Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Morningstar has completed its previously announced $365 million acquisition of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) from the University of Chicago, adding a major suite of U.S. equity benchmarks and deep historical data products to its index and research businesses.

26North Takes Control of Middleby’s Residential Kitchen Unit

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

26North Partners LP and The Middleby Corporation announced that affiliates of 26North have completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in Middleby’s Residential Kitchen business, with Middleby retaining a significant non-controlling ownership stake through a joint venture structure.

Evertec: Acquisition Of B2B Fintech Company Dimensa For $181 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

EVERTEC, a Puerto Rico-based transaction processor and financial technology provider serving Latin America, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean, said it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Dimensa, a Brazil-based B2B technology provider to financial institutions, in a deal valued at R$950 million, or about $181 million at current exchange rates.

Installed Building Products Expands Insulation And Building Products Platform With Three Acquisitions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Installed Building Products, an insulation installer and diversified building products contractor, has completed three acquisitions that add more than $22 million in combined annual revenue and broaden its footprint across multiple U.S. regions and end markets.

KKR-Singtel Consortium Buying Stake In STT GDC At S$13.8 Billion Value

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

KKR and Singtel Group, together with ST Telemedia, announced they have signed definitive agreements for a consortium led by funds managed by KKR and Singtel to acquire the remaining 82% stake in ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC) from founding shareholder ST Telemedia for S$6.6 billion, valuing the business at an implied enterprise value of about S$13.8 billion including leverage and capital expenditure for committed projects.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 Adds 1M-Token Context Window And New Agentic Coding, API, And Office Tool Updates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, positioning the model as an upgrade to its Opus line with stronger coding performance, more deliberate planning, and improved reliability on longer, more agentic workflows. The company says Opus 4.6 is better at operating in large codebases, conducting code reviews, and debugging by catching its own mistakes, while also applying those improvements to everyday knowledge work tasks such as financial analysis, research, and building documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

RISR Partners With Allworth Financial To Expand Business Owner Planning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

RISR, a business owner engagement platform built for financial advisors, has struck a strategic partnership with Allworth Financial aimed at expanding business owner planning across Allworth’s national advisory platform. Under the collaboration, Allworth advisors will use RISR’s technology through a unified dashboard to help entrepreneurs navigate the full business lifecycle, spanning growth planning, valuation, succession planning, and exit preparation.

Accrual: $75 Million Raised For AI-Native Accounting Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Accrual has launched with $75 million in funding to bring AI-native automation to accounting firm preparation and review workflows. The funding round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Pruven Capital, Edward Jones Ventures, and a group of industry executives and founders. Accrual said the financing will support product and AI development, team expansion, and onboarding accounting firms as the company scales.

Power Sustainable’s Infrastructure Credit Platform Tops $1 Billion With Final Close of Debut Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Power Sustainable Infrastructure Credit (PSIC) announced it held the final close of its inaugural global infrastructure credit fund in December 2025, bringing total capital aligned with the strategy to more than $1 billion. The firm said that figure includes over $800 million in commitments across the fund and separately managed accounts.

Turnstile: $29 Million Closed For AI-First Quote-To-Cash Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Turnstile has launched an AI-first quote-to-cash platform aimed at sales-led B2B SaaS startups, debuting with $29 million in funding from First Round, OMERS Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and a group of angel investors.

Advance: $8.55 Million Seed Funding Raised For Turning Premium Flows Into Yield and Revenue

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Advance, a financial platform built for insurance, announced it raised $8.55 million in seed funding to modernize how insurance intermediaries manage and move money, aiming to reduce operational friction while keeping premium dollars controlled, compliant, and earning.

Morpheus Space: $15 Million Raised For Electric Propulsion Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Morpheus Space has secured a $15 million strategic investment to accelerate the buildout of its mass-production footprint and support its next phase of growth in electric propulsion systems for in-space mobility. The company said the round was led by Alpine Space Ventures and the European Investment Fund, with continued support from Lavrock Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, Pallas Ventures, Vsquared Ventures, and other new and existing investors.

BRG Adds Former FERC Economist Hans Leonard As Energy & Climate Director

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

BRG announced Dr. Hans Leonard, a former economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has joined the firm as a director in its Energy & Climate practice, based in Washington, DC.