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Augmodo has raised an additional $21 million in financing at a $350 million valuation to expand its artificial intelligence assistants for workers operating in retail, manufacturing, automotive, logistics and other physical environments. Existing investor TQ Ventures led the financing after approaching Augmodo to increase its investment in light of the company’s recent growth and customer adoption.

Dan Ye is an entrepreneur and technology executive best known as the co-founder and CEO of CollegeNode, an online platform that provides college admissions guidance and educational technologies. He is a prominent commentator on how artificial intelligence is transforming education and actively advocates integrating AI into traditional learning systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Ye to learn more.

Rime has raised $24 million in Series A funding to expand its enterprise voice AI platform and support the development of speech-to-speech models designed for complex and regulated environments. The round was led by M13, with participation from Twilio Ventures, Corazon Capital, Unusual Ventures and other existing investors. Morgan Blumberg, a partner at M13, will join Rime’s board of directors in connection with the financing.

Float has raised €4.5 million in Series A funding to expand its revenue-based financing business and develop an AI-native financial platform for European technology companies. The round was led by Hamburg-based CHAPTERS Group AG.

LPL Financial announced that the financial advisors of Buell Wealth Management have joined its broker-dealer and Registered Investment Advisor platform. The team reported serving approximately $370 million in advisory, brokerage, and retirement plan assets and joins from Buell Securities Corporation.

Sagard has announced the first close of Sagard Credit Partners III (SCP III), securing more than $1 billion in initial commitments toward the private credit fund’s $2 billion target.

Pivot Point Consulting is a healthcare-focused IT services and consulting firm that provides managed services, strategic advisory, and talent solutions to help providers, payers, and life sciences organizations navigate digital transformation and optimize their technology systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Pivot Point Consulting VP of Managed Services Molly Kalinowski to learn more.

Tempus Realty Partners, an Arkansas-based real estate investment firm, announced the acquisition of two properties totaling approximately $42.1 million for its perpetual-life investment vehicle, Tempus Evergreen. The acquisitions include five buildings spanning 336,242 square feet across roughly 22.5 acres in North Little Rock and Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Apollo has completed the acquisitions of Emerald Holding (NYSE: EEX) and Questex through Apollo-managed funds, combining the two businesses into a single scaled B2B experiential events and media platform. Emerald stockholders received $5.03 per share in cash. Emerald's common stock has ceased trading and been delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. Financial terms of the Questex acquisition were not disclosed.

Thomson Reuters has agreed to sell a 51% stake in its Global Print business to KKR for approximately $500 million, creating a new joint venture focused on distributing legal and tax information through print and digital books.

Google has broken ground on the Steel River Energy Center in Mississippi County, Arkansas, a solar and battery storage facility that will be the largest of its kind in the United States upon completion. The project is being developed in partnership with Cypress Creek Energy. Google is participating as both an anchor investor and an energy offtaker.

Frontier Airlines has announced an agreement to equip its aircraft with Starlink, SpaceX's low-Earth orbit satellite broadband service, with the first Starlink-equipped flight planned for early 2027. The deal is part of a broader commitment by Indigo Partners — Frontier's private equity owner — to deploy Starlink across more than 1,000 aircraft operated by its portfolio airlines worldwide.

Domino's Pizza has appointed Michael C. Creedon Jr. and Anneliese Olson as independent members of its Board of Directors and elected Corie Barry as Lead Independent Director.

StartUpNV is a non-profit business incubator and accelerator that supports early-stage and growing startups in Nevada by providing expert mentorship, structured business programs, and access to a network of affiliated venture capital funds. Pulse 2.0 interviewed StartUpNV Executive Director Jeff Saling to learn more.

AdvanCell, a clinical-stage radiopharmaceutical company developing targeted alpha therapies for cancer, announced the closing of an oversubscribed and upsized $315 million Series D financing. The round was led by Ally Bridge Group and co-led by Alpha Wave, alongside new investors Bain Capital Life Sciences, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., a leading sovereign wealth fund, Eventide Asset Management, and Velosity Capital, with existing investors including Morningside, Eli Lilly and Company, SV Health Investors, Sanofi Ventures, Abingworth, SymBiosis, Tenmile, Brandon Capital, Piper Heartland, Catalio Capital Management, Proto Axiom, and Time BioVentures also participating.

LionLight Capital, a Chapel Hill, North Carolina-based growth-oriented private equity firm, has closed its inaugural fund, LionLight Capital Fund I, at its hard cap of $215 million in capital commitments. The fund was oversubscribed and reached the hard cap in ten weeks. Pacenote Capital served as exclusive placement agent, and Cooley provided legal counsel.

SkyAlyne and PAL Aerospace have reached an agreement for an approximately C$750 million contract covering aircraft modification, training and in-service support for the Royal Canadian Air Force’s Future Aircrew Training program.

HB Wealth, an Atlanta-based independent fee-only registered investment adviser managing more than $32 billion in assets, has launched a dedicated Institutional Advisory and Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) practice. The new business segment formalizes and expands the firm's longstanding service relationships with nonprofit organizations, foundations, endowments, and corporate clients into a purpose-built advisory offering with dedicated personnel and infrastructure.

Oral Biolife has appointed Thomas J. Corrigan, CPA, as Vice President of Finance to strengthen its financial strategy and support the biotechnology company’s next phase of growth.

Infrastructure Consulting & Engineering USA (ICE USA), a transportation-focused engineering and consulting platform backed by lower middle-market private equity firm Godspeed Capital Management, has acquired Southeastern Land Company (SLC), a right-of-way and easement acquisition firm serving public infrastructure and utility clients across North and South Carolina. Financial terms were not disclosed. The transaction is the fourth add-on acquisition under the ICE USA platform. 

Aligned Climate Capital has acquired Armoracia, a 7.3 MW DC community solar project in Collinsville Township, Illinois, through its Aligned Solar Partners strategy. The project will deploy Planted Solar's power deployment platform across a 16-acre site, serving subscribers through the Illinois Adjustable Block Program on the Ameren Illinois grid, with commercial operation expected later this year.

flyExclusive, a Kinston, North Carolina-based provider of private aviation services, has completed its previously announced acquisition of Jet.AI's aviation assets. The transaction delivers a mix of operating assets, future fleet positions, marketable securities, and cash, rather than a straightforward purchase of aircraft and customers alone. Financial terms were not separately disclosed.

Mitsubishi Electric announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Mitsubishi Electric Hydronics & IT Cooling Systems S.p.A. acquired all shares of the APAC group and the COMPAC group, including their operating companies involved in HVAC sales, installation, and maintenance, on July 13. Both groups were headquartered in Utrecht Province in the Netherlands.

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Technical University of Denmark have developed a three-dimensional thermal cloak that can conceal objects from infrared cameras while protecting them from extreme temperatures.

Sofinnova Partners, a Paris, London, and Milan-based European life sciences venture capital firm managing over €4 billion in assets, has appointed David Evans as Partner. Evans joins from the Roche Venture Fund, where he most recently served as Senior Investment Director, and brings a career spanning clinical medicine, global health policy, pharmaceutical drug development, and life sciences investing.

Carlyle AlpInvest, a leading global private equity investor with $107 billion in assets under management, has held the final close of AlpInvest Atom Fund II (AAF II) at its hard cap of $1.7 billion, exceeding its $1 billion fundraising target. The fund is dedicated exclusively to single-asset continuation vehicle (SACV) transactions — a fast-growing segment of the GP-centered secondaries market. Combined with the firm's evergreen vehicles, AlpInvest Secondaries Program VIII, and related sidecar vehicles, AAF II brings Carlyle AlpInvest's total SACV investment capacity to $7 billion during the fund's investment period.

First Washington Realty has acquired Evergreen Village, a 123,562-square-foot grocery-anchored community shopping center in Bellevue, Washington. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Daida, a national provider of business process services, document digitization, digital workflow, and enterprise content management services, announced the acquisition of Foveonics Document Solutions, a New Jersey-based leader in document scanning, digital records outsourcing, and enterprise content management solutions serving state and local governments. The transaction represents Daida's sixth add-on acquisition under the ownership of HiGro Group and its affiliates, and the first of two acquisitions Daida completed in 2026.

Marco Sealing Solutions, a portfolio company of Align Capital Partners, has acquired Rocket Seals, a Denver-based independent distributor of O-rings and other sealing products. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.