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Valitana: Growth Equity Investment Raised To Expand Structured Credit Technology Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Valitana, a financial technology company providing analytics, workflow, and portfolio management solutions for structured credit professionals, announced a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital. The funding will support product innovation, enhance artificial intelligence capabilities, and expand Valitana’s technology solutions across the structured credit and specialty finance ecosystem.

Orkes: $60 Million Raised For AI Orchestration Platform Scaling Enterprise Agent Deployments

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Orkes, an agentic workflow orchestration platform built by the original architects of Netflix’s microservices orchestration system, announced it has raised $60 million in Series B funding as demand accelerates for tools that enable reliable AI deployment in production environments. The round was led by AVP, with participation from Prosperity7 Ventures and existing investors Nexus Venture Partners, Battery Ventures, and Vertex Ventures US.

Astor: $5 Million Seed Raised To Build AI Investment Advisor For Everyone

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Astor, an AI-native investment advisory platform registered with the SEC, announced a $5 million seed round led by Monashees, with participation from Y Combinator, Goodwater Capital, Gilgamesh Ventures, 468 Capital, Valutia, Sunshine Lake, and executives from Stripe and OpenAI. The company says the round was driven by strong early traction, including thousands of users and more than $200 million in connected accounts since launch.

Cloneable: $4.6 Million Raised To Launch Agentic AI Platform For Infrastructure Modernization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Cloneable, an AI automation company focused on infrastructure operations, announced the launch of its agentic AI platform alongside a $4.6 million seed funding round led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from First In, Overline, St. Elmo Venture Capital, and Bull City Venture Partners. The funding will support the company’s expansion across infrastructure-heavy industries and further development of its platform.

Youtility Decision Science: $4.2 Million Raised To Build Behavioral AI Platform For Predicting Customer Decisions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Youtility Decision Science, a behavioral AI company focused on understanding and predicting consumer decision-making, announced that it has completed the second close of its seed funding round, bringing total capital raised to $4.2 million. The round was backed by a consortium of strategic investors, including Silver Falcon Capital, Fyllo, and National Media, along with additional industry investors and family offices.

Goshen College: Microsoft And AI Veteran Raj Biyani Named First-Ever Chief Innovation Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Goshen College, a nationally ranked private liberal arts college in Goshen, Indiana, has appointed Raj Biyani, a member of the class of 1992, as its first-ever Chief Innovation Officer. A former Microsoft executive with more than 30 years of experience in technology and artificial intelligence, Biyani returns to his alma mater to help define what responsible AI leadership looks like in higher education.

ABD Group: €500 Million Infrastructure Agreement Signed With Côte d’Ivoire, Bringing Total Project Portfolio To Over €1.4 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

ABD Group, a Philadelphia-based infrastructure developer and investor focused exclusively on Africa, has signed a new agreement with the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire to develop and finance a pipeline of priority infrastructure projects exceeding €500 million. The agreement was signed on April 16, 2026 by H.E. Adama Coulibaly, Minister of Economy, Finance and Budget, and ABD Group CEO John Nevergole, in Washington, D.C. during a Corporate Council on Africa roundtable at the 2026 IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings, in the presence of U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce David Fogel.

Trinity Capital: $395 Million In New Commitments And $306 Million In Funded Investments Recorded In Q1 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Trinity Capital, a Phoenix-based international alternative asset manager, has announced its portfolio update for the first quarter of 2026, reporting $306 million in total funded investments and $395 million in new commitments originated during the period.

AHOY: $100 Million In ARR Surpassed As Company Engages Investment Banks For Growth-Stage Funding Round

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

AHOY, a Montreal-based deep-tech infrastructure company building the operational layer for Real-World AI, has announced it has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, representing 330 times growth over the last five years with positive operating margins. The company has also confirmed it is in advanced discussions with tier-one investment banks to structure a growth-stage funding round to accelerate sovereign and edge deployments worldwide.

University Of Maryland And American University Student Teams Deliver Transportation Innovation Recommendations At Datathon

By Amit Chowdhry ● Apr 26, 2026

Students from the University of Maryland and American University competed in the 7th Annual Smith Analytics Consortium Datathon Finale on April 10, 2026, presenting data-driven recommendations to help connect Marylanders to more jobs and economic opportunity through improved transportation and mixed-use community development. The 15-day competition, open to all UMD and AU students, drew 21 graduate and undergraduate teams and distributed $7,500 in total cash prizes.