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Cequence Security, a Santa Clara-based application, API and agentic AI protection company, has appointed Rupal Shah Hollenbeck, former President of Check Point Software, to its board of directors. Hollenbeck will advise on growth strategy, marketing and positioning as Cequence accelerates its expansion in the agentic AI era, where securing and governing AI agent workflows is becoming a critical enterprise priority.

Prolo, a London-based AI-powered procurement platform designed to help SME construction firms source materials, equipment and plant hire at competitive market rates, has closed an oversubscribed £4.2 million Seed round. The round was led by Triple Point Ventures and joined by a16z Scout Fund, Anamcara Capital, Concrete VC, Foundation Ventures, Haatch, Koro Capital, Love Ventures and Portfolio Ventures. Proceeds will fund go-to-market sales and marketing and accelerate new technology and product rollouts to support the company's growing base of SME contractor customers.

Mayer Brown has expanded its Los Angeles real estate practice with the addition of Daniel Rothberg as a partner, joining from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP. The hire is part of a broader period of strategic growth for Mayer Brown's nationally recognized Real Estate practice, which the firm says has seen significant expansion over the past year.

InstaLILY AI, creator of the world's first AI Forward Deployed Engineer, announced a $60 million Series B round led by Energize Capital, with participation from Insight Partners, which increased its investment, and new strategic investors including Home Depot Ventures and United Rentals. The round brings the company's total raised to nearly $100 million, and revenue grew 5x over the past year.

Feenko, a Kyiv-based smart subscription tracking and management app, has secured $30 million in user acquisition financing from PvX Partners, a financial services firm specializing in non-dilutive revolving credit facilities for consumer applications. The capital will be used to accelerate user growth and expand Feenko's reach across key international markets as demand for subscription management tools continues to grow alongside the proliferation of recurring digital charges.

Hadrius announced that it raised $27 million in seed and Series A funding led by CRV, with participation from Y Combinator, Pathlight Ventures, and the founders of Altruist, Jump AI, and FINNY.

Cribl announced that it is acquiring CardinalOps, an agentic detection engineering company. The acquisition expands Cribl’s AI Platform for Telemetry into security operations.

Strata Decision Technology, a leading provider of enterprise performance management solutions for financial institutions, announced the acquisition of c. myers, a trusted advisory firm that has worked with more than 600 financial institutions over its 30-plus-year history. As part of the acquisition, Adam Johnson, CEO of c. myers, and the c. myers team will join Strata.

Guthrie AI, a Philadelphia-based construction technology company that recruits, trains, and places Virtual Bid Assistants for glazing contractors, has raised a $4 million seed round led by Chicago Ventures. The funding will expand Guthrie AI's engineering team, deepen integrations with tools estimators already use, including Bluebeam, Outlook and Excel—and grow the platform that makes it easy for glazing contractors to hire, supervise and work with a trained bid assistant from day one.

SpinSci announced that it acquired Dialog Health, a patient communication platform used by Fortune 500 health systems, health plans, and ambulatory surgery centers.

AE Industrial Partners announced that it acquired Powder Alloy Corporation, a producer of highly engineered metallic, ceramic, and thermal spray powders used in mission-critical surface enhancement and joining applications. Financial terms of the private transaction were not disclosed.

Williams, the Tulsa-based natural gas infrastructure company that delivers roughly one-third of the nation's natural gas, has signed an agreement with funds managed by Blackstone Credit & Insurance, in partnership with Apollo and KKR, to provide $5.34 billion in committed capital to support the development of five announced behind-the-meter Power Innovation projects: Socrates, Apollo, Aquila, Socrates the Younger and Neo. The transaction gives Blackstone and its partners a 49% noncontrolling equity interest in the five projects while Williams retains 51% ownership and full commercial and operational control.

Corner Health, a company designed to rebuild the healthcare system by empowering Nurse Practitioners to start and scale their own local primary care practices, announced it has raised $32.5 million in Seed and Series A financing. The Series A was led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from existing investors First Round Capital and Zigg Capital. The investment follows a period of rapid growth for Corner Health, which has established a network of more than 70 provider-owned primary care practices, making it the fastest-growing primary care network in Arizona and Washington and enabling 35,000-plus patient visits over the past year.

Warren Equity Partners Manager (WEP), a leading investor in infrastructure solutions with $9.6 billion in assets under management, announced the closing of Warren Equity Partners Fund V, L.P. and Warren Equity Partners Fund V-A, L.P., with approximately $2.8 billion in total capital commitments. Fund V surpassed its initial target of $2.25 billion in less than 12 months and closed oversubscribed at its hard cap, receiving commitments from over 60 global institutions, including pension funds, insurance companies, asset managers, endowments and foundations, and family offices.

Genco Shipping & Trading, the largest US-headquartered drybulk shipowner, has issued a statement urging shareholders not to tender their shares into Diana Shipping Inc.'s extended $24.80-per-share cash tender offer, which Genco's board has unanimously rejected as inadequate. The statement highlights a significant and unresolved inconsistency in Diana's conduct: Diana has separately made an indicative, non-binding proposal to the Genco board at terms above the $24.80 tender offer price, yet has still not updated its publicly filed tender offer materials to reflect those higher terms—meaning shareholders tendering at $24.80 would be accepting less than what Diana itself has indicated it may be willing to pay.

Apple has agreed to acquire certain assets and hire employees from SigScalr, according to a notice published on the European Commission’s website.

LEHR, the nation's leading emergency vehicle upfitter and a portfolio company of Broadwing Capital, has acquired the emergency vehicle upfitting assets of ProLogic ITS, a technology and public safety solutions provider headquartered in Acworth, Georgia. The transaction is LEHR's tenth add-on acquisition in approximately two years, adding six locations across Georgia, Alabama and Florida to LEHR's network of more than 30 nationwide sites and deepening the company's presence in the Southeast while unlocking new capabilities to serve federal agency fleets. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Twin Vee PowerCats, a manufacturer, distributor and marketer of power sport boats, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a transformative transaction combining a merger involving the publicly traded company with the concurrent privatization of its boating business under the Twin Vee and Bahama Boat Works brands.

Fulton Financial Corporation announced that it merged Blue Foundry Bank with and into Fulton Bank, N.A., effective July 11, 2026.

Thira announced that it raised $21 million in seed funding led by Madrona, with participation from FUSE and a group of global advisors and CIOs.

Draig Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company co-founded by Cardiff University and SV Health Investors and headquartered across Newton, Massachusetts and Cardiff, United Kingdom, has closed an oversubscribed $65 million Series B financing. The round was led by new investor Deep Track Capital, with participation from Janus Henderson Investors, Marshall Wace, British Business Bank and Jefferson Life Sciences, joining existing backers SV Health Investors, ICG, Access Biotechnology, Canaan Partners, SR One, Sanofi Ventures and Schroders Capital. Proceeds will be used to accelerate clinical development of the company's pipeline of highly specific AMPA receptor and GABAA receptor modulators.

Cover Genius, the global infrastructure for embedded protection, announced a $100 million capital raise backed by Vista Credit Partners, a subsidiary of Vista Equity Partners and strategic financing partner focused on enterprise software. The raise values Cover Genius at $1.9 billion, marking a new chapter for the company.

Environmental 360 Solutions, Canada's fastest-growing provider of waste management, environmental and recycling and circular-economy services, has made its first entry into the United States through the acquisition of Marcotte Disposal Co., a well-established waste management company operating in Port Huron, Michigan.

Pelican Energy Partners announced the acquisition of Veridiam from an affiliate of Equity Group Investments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Canada Nickel announced that it entered into a binding letter of intent with Noble Mineral Exploration to sell the Lucas Gold Project to Noble. The agreement was signed on July 13, 2026.

CSL Group, a London-based provider of Critical Connectivity services for IoT deployments, has acquired IoTM Solutions Ltd, a cloud-native SIM and eSIM management platform that consolidates fragmented carrier systems, connectivity management platforms and eSIM workflows into a single managed service.

ERShares, adviser to the ERShares Private-Public Crossover ETF, announced that XOVR has invested $30 million in Kalshi as part of the fund’s latest rebalance. The investment adds exposure to Kalshi, a federally regulated prediction market company, and represents one of XOVR’s largest private-company investments.

ECI Group, a fully integrated Atlanta-based multifamily real estate firm with more than 50 years of operating history and a portfolio of more than 7,500 units across the Southeast and Texas, has appointed Thomas Rowe as Chief Financial Officer. Rowe succeeds Ben Engel, who is retiring after a decade guiding ECI's expansion, and joins as the firm continues to scale its development, construction, investment, and property management platform nationally.

Vita Inclinata Technologies, a developer of safety, precision and operational performance products for demanding environments, has signed a non-binding letter of intent with Tavia Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: TAVI), a London-headquartered special purpose acquisition company, for a business combination that would result in Vita becoming a publicly traded company through a de-SPAC transaction on Nasdaq. The proposed deal values Vita at a pre-money enterprise value of $450 million, contingent on Vita successfully completing a pending strategic acquisition in the defense and industrials market.

Warburg Pincus announced that a Warburg Pincus-led investor group has agreed to acquire a controlling interest in PANTHERx Rare from Nautic Partners, General Atlantic, and The Vistria Group.