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BlueOrchard Climate Action Mobilisation Fund Reaches $250 Million First Close For Emerging Markets Climate Finance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

BlueOrchard has reached a $250 million first close for its Climate Action Mobilisation Fund, creating a blended-finance strategy designed to channel institutional capital into climate-related investments across emerging and frontier markets.

Factory Raises $200 Million At $5 Billion Valuation To Scale Self-Improving Software Development Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Factory has raised $200 million in new financing at a $5 billion valuation as the enterprise AI software company scales its platform for autonomous and self-improving software development. The round included Blackstone, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Insight Partners, Evantic Capital, Sound Ventures, NEA, Mantis VC and Clearlake, along with angel investors including Nico Rosberg, Brad Gerstner and Marc Benioff. The financing brings Factory's total funding to more than $400 million.

TLD Robotics Launches After ALVEST Acquires EasyMile, Building On More Than 50,000 Autonomous Missions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

TLD Robotics has launched as a new ALVEST company focused on autonomous ground operations following ALVEST's acquisition of EasyMile, combining EasyMile, TractEasy, and TLD's existing driverless activities into a single business serving airports and industrial facilities.

Cerenome Appoints Samantha Fowlkes As Vice President And Head Of Commercial Sales For CNSide Diagnostics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Cerenome has appointed Samantha Fowlkes as Vice President and Head of Commercial Sales for CNSide Diagnostics, its wholly owned central nervous system oncology diagnostics subsidiary, as the company works to expand adoption of the CNSide platform among physicians, health systems and pathology organizations.

Cohere And Aleph Alpha Sign Deal To Create Transatlantic Sovereign AI Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Cohere and Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement that will bring together the Canadian and German AI companies under the Cohere name, creating what the companies describe as the first transatlantic sovereign AI provider.

Smart Communications Reports 17% Rise In First-Half Bookings And Names Rachel Elias-Jones As CFO And Chris Manton-Jones CCRO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Smart Communications, a customer engagement technology provider serving regulated industries, reported its strongest-ever first-half bookings performance, with bookings increasing 17% year over year as enterprises invest in modernizing customer communications and preparing their operations for AI.

Quorum Cyber To Acquire Ontinue To Build Microsoft-First Agentic Security Operations Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Quorum Cyber has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Ontinue, a managed extended detection and response provider, in a transaction designed to create a larger Microsoft-focused cybersecurity platform built around agentic AI and 24/7 security operations. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Circular Adds Blood Pressure Monitoring To Circular Ring 2 Using ECG And PPG Sensors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Circular has introduced blood pressure monitoring for the Circular Ring 2, allowing users to estimate systolic and diastolic blood pressure from their finger in approximately 60 seconds.

Checkbox Launches First Pass AI Agent To Review Legal Requests, Contracts, And Invoices

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Checkbox has launched First Pass, a context-aware AI agent designed to review incoming legal requests, contracts and invoices before they consume lawyer time, helping in-house teams resolve routine work earlier and route more complex matters to the right people.

HubSpot Launches New Breeze Assistant, Self-Updating Smart CRM, And Marketing Studio In Major AI Platform Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

HubSpot has unveiled one of its largest product updates in years, introducing a redesigned Breeze Assistant, a self-updating Smart CRM, Context Home, Marketing Studio, and expanded AI-powered sales and revenue capabilities as the company reorganizes its platform around what it calls "Growth Context."

Janus Henderson Launches International Core Alpha ETF To Expand SystemActive Strategy Into Global Markets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Janus Henderson has launched the Janus Henderson International Core Alpha ETF (JINT), an actively managed exchange-traded fund designed to pursue long-term capital growth through investments across international equity markets.

Patriot Hydro Appoints Nathan Dixon CEO, Matt Stanley COO, And Daniel Yang CFO And Chief Commercial Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Patriot Hydro, an LS Power portfolio company that owns and operates 39 hydroelectric power generation projects totaling 311 megawatts across 10 states, has appointed a dedicated executive leadership team to oversee operations and support the company's next phase of growth. Nathan Dixon will serve as Chief Executive Officer, Matt Stanley as Chief Operating Officer, and Daniel Yang as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Commercial Officer.

Taktile Appoints Former Databricks Engineer James Broadhead As First CTO Amid Global AI Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Taktile, an AI-powered decisioning platform for banks and insurers, has appointed former Databricks engineer James Broadhead as its first Chief Technology Officer as the company expands its engineering organization and global footprint.

BRG Adds Former Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick As Managing Director To Corporate Finance Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

BRG has appointed former Saks Global CEO Marc Metrick as Managing Director in its Corporate Finance practice, adding more than 30 years of retail, operational, financial and transformation experience to the firm's New York office.

LinkSquares Launches Workflow Builder Agent And Workflow Blueprints To Automate Complex Contract Processes

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

LinkSquares has introduced Workflow Builder Agent and Workflow Blueprints, two new capabilities for its agentic contract lifecycle management platform designed to help legal and business teams create sophisticated contract workflows using plain-language instructions instead of manual configuration.

Reckitt Invests Up To $600 Million To Expand U.S. R&D And Healthcare Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Reckitt has announced plans to invest up to $600 million in a multi-year transformation of its U.S. operations, expanding research and development capabilities in New Jersey and significantly increasing manufacturing capacity at its over-the-counter healthcare facility in North Carolina.

Mozilla Partners With Mistral To Bring Mistral Small 4 To Firefox Smart Window Beta

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Mozilla has partnered with Mistral to bring the European AI company's Mistral Small 4 model into Firefox Smart Window beta, expanding the browser's AI options while emphasizing user choice, interoperability and open-source competition.

BackOps Raises $42 Million Series B To Scale AI Resolution Layer For Supply Chain Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

BackOps, an AI platform that automates complex operational workflows for companies that make or move physical goods, has raised $42 million in Series B funding to expand its resolution layer across supply chain, finance, and customer service processes. Insight Partners led the round, with participation from existing investors Theory Ventures, Construct Capital, Gradient Ventures and 10VC.

Rhino.fi: Interview With Founder Will Harborne About Enterprise Stablecoin Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Rhino.fi provides a stablecoin activation stack that helps fintechs, payment processors, neobanks, and other businesses accept and use stablecoins without building the underlying infrastructure themselves. Its technology supports deposits, chain and asset abstraction, cross-chain movement, settlement flows, liquidity access, and the operational infrastructure needed to make stablecoin payments work in practice. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Rhino.fi Founder Will Harborne to learn more.

Decimal AI Raises $4 Million Seed Round To Expand Customer Engineering Platform For Technical Support Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Decimal AI, an AI-powered customer engineering platform for technical support teams, has raised $4 million in seed funding to expand technology that helps software companies investigate and resolve complex customer issues using code, logs, production data and other technical context. The round was co-led by Khosla Ventures and Kearny Jackson, with participation from Atlassian Ventures and Weekend Fund. Additional investors include former Stripe COO Claire Johnson, Anrok founder and Executive Chairman Michelle Valentin, and former Eightfold Chief Customer Officer Rimple Patel.

Beyond Reach Labs Opens 16,000-Square-Foot Brooklyn Facility To Build Solar Arrays For Space Stations And Orbital Data Centers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Beyond Reach Labs, a Brooklyn-based aerospace company founded by SpaceX veterans, has opened a 16,000-square-foot research and manufacturing facility at Industry City to develop deployable solar arrays for high-powered satellites, commercial space stations and orbital data centers.

Casepoint Appoints Former ATF Chief Privacy Officer Varun Bisht Vice President Of Governance And Compliance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Casepoint, a provider of eDiscovery, legal hold, FOIA, investigations and compliance technology, has appointed Varun Bisht as Vice President of Governance and Compliance as the company expands its work with government agencies and highly regulated enterprises.

Hang Ten Systems Raises Additional $53 Million For Enterprise AI Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Hang Ten Systems, an enterprise AI services company founded by former SAP CEO Vishal Sikka, has raised an additional $53 million in seed funding led by Xora, a Temasek-backed investment fund, bringing the company's total funding to $85 million.

Betterworks Launches AI-Powered Workforce Readiness Tools To Identify Skill Gaps And Accelerate Employee Development

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Betterworks, an AI-native performance management and workforce intelligence platform, has introduced new AI-powered capabilities designed to help organizations identify emerging employee skills, close capability gaps faster and gain a more real-time view of workforce readiness.

Footprint Raises $25 Million Series B To Expand AI Financial Crime Compliance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Footprint has raised $25 million in Series B funding to expand Percy, its agentic AI operating system for financial crime compliance, and Trust Fabric, the underlying infrastructure designed to turn individual investigations into reusable organizational knowledge.

Matter Venture Partners Closes $450 Million Fund II For HardTech, Robotics, And Physical AI Startups

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Matter Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $450 million to invest in early-stage HardTech companies spanning semiconductors, robotics and Physical AI, AI infrastructure, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, energy technologies and AI applications for scientific research.

ACAMS Appoints HSBC Financial Crime Risk And Compliance Head Jen Calvery To Board Of Directors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

ACAMS has appointed Jen Calvery, Group Head of Financial Crime Risk and Compliance at HSBC and former Director of the U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, to its Board of Directors as the organization expands its focus on technology-driven financial crime risks.

ETFBOOK Raises $13 Million To Expand ETF Data And Analytics Platform Into U.S. And Asia-Pacific

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

ETFBOOK, a Zurich-based ETF data and analytics platform, has raised $13 million to expand its intelligence infrastructure beyond Europe and accelerate growth across the U.S. and Asia-Pacific markets.

Neo4j Launches GraphAware Financial Crime Intelligence Following GraphAware Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Neo4j, a graph intelligence platform used to connect and analyze complex data relationships, has launched Neo4j GraphAware Financial Crime Intelligence, a new graph-native solution designed to help banks and insurers detect, investigate and prevent fraud, money laundering and other financial crimes.

Kier Group: FY26 Revenue Rises 7.5% To £4.39 Billion As Order Book Reaches Record £11.9 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 16, 2026

Kier Group, a UK infrastructure and construction company, reported strong fiscal 2026 growth as revenue increased 7.5% to £4.39 billion and adjusted operating profit rose 6.7% to £169.8 million.