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Savant Tax & Consulting Rebrands And Partners With PBM And Summit CPA Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Savant Tax & Consulting has changed its name to Savant Accounting & Business Advisory, or SABA, reflecting the firm's expansion beyond tax services into accounting, consulting, payroll and broader business advisory work.

Astera Labs Expands Leo Smart Memory Controllers To Accelerate Agentic AI Inference And Improve Data Center Memory Utilization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Astera Labs has expanded its Leo Smart Memory Controller family with three new memory connectivity products designed to address rapidly increasing memory requirements across agentic AI, cloud infrastructure and other data-intensive workloads.

Radiant Logic And SailPoint Expand Identity Security Partnership With Certified Integration To Cut Application Onboarding To Two Days

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Radiant Logic and SailPoint have expanded their partnership with a new SailPoint-Certified Technology Integration designed to accelerate identity security deployments by unifying identity data across human, non-human and agentic identities.

Ralo Funds More Than $8 Million In Texas Mortgages As AI-Native Broker Targets Lower Rates And Faster Closings

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Ralo, an AI-native mortgage brokerage that automates much of the traditional loan process, has funded more than $8 million in mortgages for Texas home buyers during the past six months as it looks to reduce borrowing costs by removing intermediaries and using artificial intelligence to shop across lenders.

Choreo Appoints Kelly O’Donnell As Chief People And Transformation Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Choreo has appointed Kelly O’Donnell as Chief People and Transformation Officer, creating a new executive position focused on people strategy, communications, acquisition integration and enterprise transformation as the tax-smart wealth management firm continues to expand.

Liquid Compute Raises $15 Million Seed Round To Build Regulated AI Infrastructure Marketplace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Liquid Compute has raised $15 million in seed funding to build a marketplace and financial infrastructure platform for buying, selling, pricing and managing AI computing capacity. FirstMark and Chemistry co-led the round, with participation from K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Brainchild Holdings, UFO Holdings and investor Dmitry Balyasny.

Jack & Jill Raises $40 Million Series A For AI Agent Hiring Platform That Matches Candidates Directly With Employers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Jack & Jill has raised $40 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered hiring marketplace, where separate AI agents represent job seekers and employers and introduce candidates directly to hiring decision-makers without requiring a traditional job application. Air Street Capital led the financing, with participation from new investors Madrona and Antler. Existing investors Creandum, Ada Ventures, Entrepreneurs First, Expedite Capital and Repeat.vc also participated.

Mediaocean Launches AI Ventures To Invest In And Scale AI Startups Across Advertising

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Mediaocean has launched Mediaocean AI Ventures, a new investment initiative designed to identify, fund and scale artificial intelligence startups developing technology for advertising and marketing.

Exein Raises $270 Million At $1.7 Billion Valuation To Expand Physical AI Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Exein has raised $270 million in new funding at a $1.7 billion valuation as the cybersecurity company expands its platform for protecting robots, drones, autonomous vehicles and other intelligent machines operating in the physical world. The significantly oversubscribed round was led by Headline, with participation from Sofina, Goldman Sachs, the European Investment Bank Group through ETCI, KfW Capital and T.Capital.

OpenAI Reportedly Acquires AI Smartphone Camera Startup Glass Imaging For $300+ Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup developing artificial intelligence technology designed to bring DSLR-level image quality to smartphone cameras, in a transaction valuing the company at more than $300 million, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Steven Bartlett’s Steven.com And Authentic Launch OBSN To Invest Up To $400 Million In Creator-Led Businesses

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Steven Bartlett's Steven.com and Authentic have launched OBSN, a new strategic venture designed to build, invest in and scale creator-led media companies and consumer brands globally.

Nasdaq Verafin And Stablecore Partner To Help Banks Detect Financial Crime Across Fiat And Digital Assets

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Nasdaq Verafin and Stablecore have formed a partnership designed to help banks and credit unions detect financial crime across both traditional fiat transactions and digital asset activity.

SES Launches Final Three O3b mPOWER Satellites To Complete 13-Satellite MEO Constellation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

SES has successfully launched the final three satellites in its O3b mPOWER constellation, completing the company's second-generation medium Earth orbit system and expanding its capacity to provide high-performance connectivity to governments, enterprises, telecommunications providers and mobility customers around the world.

Axe Compute Sells Helomics AI Cancer Diagnostics Business To DataMEDS AI, Becomes Pure-Play Neocloud GPU-as-a-Service Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Axe Compute has sold its legacy Helomics artificial intelligence cancer diagnostics laboratory business to DataMEDS AI in an all-stock transaction that completes Axe Compute's transition into a pure-play neocloud GPU-as-a-Service company.

North American Construction Group Appoints Brad Rogers As CEO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

North American Construction Group has appointed Brad Rogers as President and Chief Executive Officer effective December 1, 2026, selecting an executive with more than 30 years of experience across mining, industrial services, engineering, infrastructure and corporate finance.

FatPipe Appoints Former J.P. Morgan Technology Banker Kanishka Ragula As CFO

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

FatPipe has appointed Kanishka Ragula as Chief Financial Officer as the networking and cybersecurity technology company pursues organic expansion while evaluating acquisitions and other strategic opportunities.

Johnson Winter Slattery Opens New York Office To Support U.S. Investment Into Australia

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Johnson Winter Slattery has opened a representative office in New York as the independent Australian law firm expands its support for U.S. corporations, private capital investors and advisers deploying capital into Australia.

Live Video Technology Provider EVS Appoints Christophe Piron As CFO To Support Next Phase Of Profitable Growth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

EVS has appointed Christophe Piron as Chief Financial Officer on a permanent basis after he served as interim CFO since May 2026.

Tabreed Appoints Dr. Yousif Al Hammadi As CEO After 12 Years With Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Tabreed has appointed Dr Yousif Al Hammadi as Chief Executive Officer, elevating a longtime company executive who has spent 12 years across projects, business development, asset management and senior leadership at the district cooling provider.

Evvy Raises $40 Million Series B As AI-Powered Women’s Health Platform Reaches 100,000+ Patients

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Evvy has raised an oversubscribed $40 million Series B funding round led by Catalio Capital Management to expand its AI-powered precision diagnostics and care platform across women's health, beginning with fertility. The financing includes new investors Catalio Capital Management, US Fertility Innovation Fund, Rethink Impact, Muse Capital and Alumni Ventures. Existing investors LabCorp Venture Fund, General Catalyst, Left Lane Capital, BBG Ventures, Amboy Street Ventures, Ingeborg and Foreground Capital also participated.

Eve Security Raises $4.5 Million For AI Agent Runtime Security

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Eve Security, a runtime security company focused on identifying and stopping dangerous AI agent behavior in real time, announced that it has raised $4.5 million in new funding, extending its seed round to $7.5 million in total funding. The new financing was led by Run Ventures, with participation from Dreamit Ventures and Blu Ventures, along with continued investment from LiveOak Ventures.

Wisp Reaches 2 Million Patients, Names Keira Krausz As CEO, And Expands Women’s Healthcare Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Wisp has reached 2 million patients nationwide and appointed Keira Krausz as Chief Executive Officer as the women’s telehealth company expands beyond sexual and reproductive health into fertility, diagnostics, menopause and other areas of women’s healthcare.

Salesforce Unveils AIforce And Koa, Expands Google Cloud, AWS, And Siemens Partnerships, And Commits $27 Million To Education At Dreamforce 2026

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce has unveiled a broad collection of artificial intelligence products, cloud partnerships, customer deployments and workforce initiatives around Dreamforce 2026, led by the introduction of AIforce, its new interface layer for bringing Salesforce data and business logic into external AI environments, and Koa, its first CRM reasoning model developed with NVIDIA.

Talkdesk: Interview With SVP, Global Head Of People Shauna Geraghty About AI, HR And IT Convergence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

At Talkdesk, AI is increasingly bringing people strategy, enterprise technology, organizational design and business transformation together. As the company pursues an AI-first transformation, its approach includes rethinking workforce planning, employee development, technology adoption, and how human and AI capabilities can work together. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Talkdesk SVP, Global Head of People Dr. Shauna Geraghty to learn more.

Ginkgo Bioworks To Build Autonomous Lab At Novo’s New U.S. R&D Site In Waltham

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Ginkgo Bioworks has been selected to build an autonomous laboratory at Novo's new research and development site in Waltham, Massachusetts, expanding a multi-year relationship between the biotechnology companies.

Salesforce And Google Cloud Expand AI Partnership With Hyperforce, Gemini Enterprise And Agentforce Integrations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Salesforce and Google Cloud have expanded their strategic partnership to more closely connect enterprise data, AI agents, applications, and infrastructure across both companies' platforms.

TransMedics Appoints Fernando Araujo CFO And Reiterates $737 Million To $757 Million 2026 Revenue Outlook

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

TransMedics Group has appointed Fernando Araujo as Chief Financial Officer effective September 21, 2026, while reiterating full-year revenue guidance of $737 million to $757 million as the organ transplant technology company prepares for its next phase of global growth.

Cravath Hiring Michael Aiello, Matthew Gilroy, Eoghan Keenan, Amanda Fenster, Michelle Sargent And Megan Pendleton From Weil For M&A Practice

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Cravath, Swaine & Moore is adding prominent New York dealmaker Michael Aiello and five other mergers and acquisitions partners from Weil, Gotshal & Manges, significantly expanding its transactional practice with one of Weil's most senior corporate teams, according to Reuters.

Latent Expands AI Pharmacy Platform To 60 Health Systems Serving 70 Million Patients

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

Latent has expanded its enterprise pharmacy intelligence platform to 60 major U.S. health systems serving approximately 70 million patients, while introducing a new suite of autonomous clinical agents designed to accelerate access to high-demand and complex medications.

EUCLYD Raises Over €200 Million Series A To Build Ultra-Efficient AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 15, 2026

EUCLYD has raised more than €200 million in Series A financing to develop ultra-efficient semiconductor and data center infrastructure designed to reduce the power, memory and capital requirements of running large foundation AI models. The financing was co-led by Samsung, Somerset Capital Partners, the Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT and Innovation Industries.