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Ameriprise Financial: Father-Son Advisory Team Managing $190 Million Joins

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Ameriprise Financial announced financial advisors Bryan Hildebrand and Hayden Hildebrand have joined Community Wealth Services, a financial advisory practice within the Ameriprise Financial Institutions Group (AFIG) in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Diginex Closes Acquisition Of The Remedy Project To Expand Human Rights Due Diligence Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Diginex, a London-headquartered sustainability RegTech provider, has completed its acquisition of The Remedy Project Limited, a Hong Kong-based advisory and research organization focused on labor and human rights in global supply chains, as companies face rising pressure to strengthen supply chain transparency and worker protections.

Princeton Radiology Acquires RAI Imaging Centers In Hamilton And Lawrenceville, New Jersey

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Princeton Radiology has acquired two outpatient imaging centers in Hamilton and Lawrenceville, New Jersey, from Radiology Affiliates Imaging (RAI), a Radiology Partners practice, expanding its footprint in the region.

Eir Partners Closes Oversubscribed Fund III At $1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Eir Partners Capital, LP announced it has closed its third private equity fund with $1 billion in total commitments, exceeding an initial target of $800 million and doubling the size of its prior fund.

Ventaris Surgical: $30 Million Series A Raised To Develop Next-Generation Kidney Stone Treatment System

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Ventaris Surgical, a San Carlos, California-based medical device company, has raised $30 million in a Series A financing to advance a new ureteroscopic system designed to improve stone clearance during kidney stone procedures.

Compass Completes All-Stock Combination With Anywhere Real Estate

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Compass announced it has completed its all-stock combination with Anywhere Real Estate Inc., bringing the two companies together under Compass International Holdings as they pursue a shared strategy focused on supporting real estate professionals.

Platinum Equity Invests In Norton Packaging

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Platinum Equity has made a significant investment in Norton Packaging, a maker of plastic pails and other rigid packaging products used across industrial and consumer end markets.

Boyd Group Closes $1.3 Billion Acquisition Of Joe Hudson’s Collision Center

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Boyd Group Services announced it has completed its acquisition of Joe Hudson’s Collision Center, a deal that significantly expands Boyd’s footprint in the U.S. Southeast and reinforces its position among the largest non-franchised collision repair operators in North America.

NIIT MTS Acquires SweetRush To Expand Strategic Learning Offerings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

NIIT Learning Systems Limited, through its NIIT Managed Training Services business (NIIT MTS), has acquired SweetRush, Inc., an AI-enabled custom learning experience design firm known for strategic training interventions and work with Fortune 1000 enterprises, professional associations, and not-for-profit organizations.

Meta Lines Up Nuclear Energy Deals Targeting Up To 6.6 GW To Support US AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Meta announced it has reached agreements with Oklo, TerraPower, and Vistra to support a mix of new and existing nuclear generation that could total up to 6.6 gigawatts by 2035, positioning nuclear power as a key pillar in the company’s growing electricity strategy for data centers and AI workloads.

Blockstream Capital Partners To Acquire Numeus Derivatives Trading Team In Deal Backed By Komainu Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Blockstream Capital Partners (BCP) announced it has signed an agreement to acquire a division within Numeus Group’s digital asset trading and investment business, bringing a 10-person derivatives trading team and select Bitcoin-focused yield strategies into the Blockstream Capital platform.

Bain Capital And BlueWater Marinas Buy Kent Narrows Boatel Near Annapolis

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Bain Capital Real Estate and BlueWater Marinas have acquired Kent Narrows Boatel, a heated, Class A drystack marina in Kent Narrows, Maryland, adding the property to a growing portfolio of marina investments along the East Coast.

Good Culture Announces Majority Investment From L Catterton

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Good Culture announced L Catterton has entered into a definitive agreement to make a majority investment in the Austin, Texas-based clean-label cultured dairy brand, positioning the company for expanded production capacity, broader distribution, and faster product innovation as demand for high-protein, clean-label foods continues to climb. Financial terms were not disclosed.

GTreasury Buys Solvexia To Expand Reconciliation And Regulatory Reporting Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

GTreasury, a Ripple Solution, announced that it has acquired Solvexia, a provider of no-code financial automation, data management, and analytics tools, in a deal aimed at modernizing reconciliation and regulatory reporting workflows for finance teams.

Barclays Backs Ubyx To Expand Connectivity For Tokenized Deposits And Stablecoins

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Barclays has made a strategic investment in Ubyx, a U.S.-based clearing system designed to support new forms of digital money, including tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins.

Contemporary Leadership Advisors Acquires Momentum Global

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Contemporary Leadership Advisors (CLA), a consulting firm focused on leadership and organizational effectiveness, has acquired Momentum Global, a boutique advisory founded by former chief people officers Scott Slipy and Suni Lobo.

Heartland Renaissance Fund Wins $85 Million New Markets Tax Credits Allocation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Heartland Renaissance Fund, an affiliate of ACC Capital, announced it has received an $85 million New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) allocation from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, positioning the organization to attract private capital for manufacturing and small-business projects across a seven-state footprint in the central U.S.

Janus Acquires Kiwi II Construction For $97.2 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Janus International Group, a supplier of building product solutions and access control technologies for the self-storage market and other commercial and industrial end markets, said it has completed an asset acquisition of Kiwi II Construction, a provider of self-storage and pre-engineered buildings.

Silver Hill Energy Partners Expands In South Texas With Acquisition From 1776 Energy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Silver Hill Energy Partners announced it has closed the acquisition of 100% of 1776 Energy’s interest in oil and gas properties, rights, and related assets in South Texas, primarily in Karnes and Gonzales Counties, Texas.

OpenAI Hires Team From Convogo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

The team behind Convogo, a software platform built to help executive coaches and HR leaders streamline leadership assessments and feedback reporting, is joining OpenAI, according to a LinkedIn post from Convogo co-founder Matt Cooper.

Torq: $140 Million Series D At $1.2 Billion Valuation Raised For Agentic AI-Focused Security Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Torq, an agentic AI-focused security operations company, said it has raised $140 million in a Series D financing at a $1.2 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $332 million. The round was led by Merlin Ventures with participation from existing investors Evolution Equity Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Insight Ventures Partners and Greenfield Partners.

Andreessen Horowitz Raises Over $15 Billion Across New Funds

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Andreessen Horowitz announced it has raised more than $15 billion in new capital, with co-founder Ben Horowitz framing the fundraise as part of the firm’s mission to help the United States maintain technological leadership in an increasingly competitive global environment.

Equitable Earth: €12.6 Million Raised To Advance Certification Of Nature-Based Climate Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Equitable Earth has raised €12.6 million to expand its certification programme for nature-based carbon projects and invest further in data, technology and methodologies aimed at increasing trust and scalability in the voluntary carbon market.

NVIDIA: Alison Wagonfeld Hired As Chief Marketing Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Alison Wagonfeld, a senior marketing leader at Google Cloud, announced she will leave Google in late January to join NVIDIA as chief marketing officer, where she will lead the company’s marketing and communications as it enters its “next phase of growth.”

TerraVest Acquires KBK Industries For $90 Million In Cash

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

TerraVest Industries announced it has acquired KBK Industries, LLC, a Texas-based manufacturer of fiberglass and steel storage tanks, expanding TerraVest’s footprint in the U.S. tank market and adding manufacturing capacity in both Texas and Kansas.

Titan America To Buy Keystone Cement Company For $310 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Titan America SA announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Keystone Cement Company, a Pennsylvania-based cement manufacturer and aggregates producer, expanding Titan’s footprint in the Mid-Atlantic and adding capacity in markets the company describes as benefiting from infrastructure, technology investment, and transportation modernization programs.

Vivasure Medical Acquired By Haemonetics In Deal Valued Up To €185 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

Vivasure Medical, a Galway, Ireland-based developer of fully absorbable technology for percutaneous vessel closure, said it has been acquired by Haemonetics Corporation in a transaction valued at up to €185 million (about $215 million), including milestone-based payments.

Medipost Closes In $140 Million Funding To Back Planned U.S. Phase III Trial

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

MEDIPOST, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based biotechnology company developing allogeneic, umbilical cord blood-derived stem cell therapies, said its parent company, MEDIPOST Co., Ltd., has closed $140 million in funding to accelerate late-stage clinical development and expand manufacturing and operational infrastructure.

AirNexis Therapeutics Launches With $200 Million Series A To Advance Phase 2 Dual PDE3/4 Inhibitor AN01 For COPD

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

AirNexis Therapeutics has launched as a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on pulmonary diseases, closing a $200 million Series A financing and securing an in-license to a Phase 2 dual PDE3/4 inhibitor for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) from Haisco Pharmaceutical Group.

FineHeart: €83 Million Secured To Develop Implantable Solutions For Cardiology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jan 11, 2026

FineHeart, a clinical-stage medical technology company developing implantable solutions for cardiology, has secured a total of €83 million in financing that blends private capital with non-dilutive European public funding to advance its FlowMaker device and accelerate the company’s path toward industrialization and clinical development.