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DAZN Group has reached an agreement to merge ViewLift, a leading provider of streaming and digital solutions for US sports content owners, into DAZN, the world's leading sports entertainment platform. The transaction is designed to give DAZN a significant foothold in the US sports market, where it is already the primary international destination for American sports through NFL Game Pass and NHL.TV outside the United States. ViewLift's sports clients include 15 major US professional sports teams, five Regional Sports Networks, and global sports properties including the NHL and LIV Golf, making the acquisition a meaningful entry into domestic sports distribution for DAZN. The transaction remains subject to customary closing conditions.

Park Systems, the world's leading provider of atomic force microscopy solutions, has completed the acquisition of Rocky Mountain Nanotechnology LLC, a Salt Lake City-based manufacturer of ultra-high-purity solid platinum and platinum-iridium AFM probes. The acquisition marks Park Systems' first entry into probe manufacturing and is described by the company as a strategic step to bring a critical component of AFM-based nanoprobing and electrical measurement in-house, securing supply chain continuity for high-performance specialty probes that its electrical measurement solutions are built upon. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

Medisolv, a national leader in healthcare quality data management, has announced the acquisition of Health Elements AI, whose technology automates the clinical data abstraction process for quality reporting and clinical registries. The acquisition is designed to address one of the most persistent and costly challenges in healthcare quality programs: the reliance on time-intensive manual chart review to capture the clinical data needed for reporting, performance improvement, and registry submissions. By bringing Health Elements AI into its platform, Medisolv aims to reduce administrative burden for the healthcare organizations it serves while improving the completeness and reliability of the clinical data they work with.

Investing.com, one of the world's largest financial platforms with more than 60 million users each month, has announced the acquisition of Stonki, an AI-powered investing assistant designed to help traders turn ideas into structured, actionable trading plans. The acquisition marks a significant step in Investing.com's evolution toward agentic AI — systems that move beyond answering questions to actively guiding investors through the research, planning, and execution process. The deal builds on the success of WarrenAI, Investing.com's AI-powered financial research assistant launched last year, which has been used by nearly 3 million users to perform market analysis over the past 12 months.

ManpowerGroup has announced the sale of its Jefferson Wells US business to Sikich, a professional services firm specializing in consulting, technology, and compliance, for $100 million. Jefferson Wells delivers solutions in risk and compliance, finance and accounting, and tax across a diverse range of industries, including public and highly regulated companies, through project consulting, integrated resourcing, and executive search. In 2025, Jefferson Wells generated US revenues of $76 million. ManpowerGroup will receive net cash proceeds of approximately $88 million at closing, after working capital and other adjustments.

Intrax, a global leader in international education and exchange programs with a mission to connect people and cultures, has acquired StudyPoint, a national provider of one-on-one tutoring, SAT and ACT test prep, and college admissions support. The acquisition expands Intrax's ability to serve students and families throughout their academic journey by adding a domestic education offering to a portfolio that has historically focused on international exchange, cultural immersion, and J-1 Visa programs. Founded in 1999 in Boston, Massachusetts, StudyPoint has helped over 50,000 students improve grades and test scores through personalized, proprietary curricula and experienced tutors, and now operates in 23 metropolitan areas across the country.

Clearlake Capital Group has completed its acquisition of Qualus Corporation from New Mountain Capital, establishing Clearlake as the new owner of a pure-play, end-to-end electric power solutions platform positioned at the forefront of power infrastructure transformation in the United States and Canada. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Qualus serves a blue-chip customer base comprising the nation's largest investor-owned utilities as well as commercial, industrial, and high-tech clients, delivering an integrated suite of advisory, engineering, technical program management, digital solutions, energy efficiency, and specialized field services across the full infrastructure lifecycle.

Green Boy Group, a global B2B supplier of plant-based, non-GMO, and organic food ingredients, has led an early-stage investment in Fudi Protein, a company developing a proprietary process to extract RuBisCO protein from alfalfa at a commercial scale. The investment further cements Green Boy Group's position as a market leader in plant-based proteins and adds a highly differentiated ingredient to its global distribution portfolio as it moves toward B2B commercialization. Green Boy Group operates offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and Sydney, and was founded in 2016 as a specialist in supplying plant-based ingredients to food manufacturers worldwide.

Satellogic has signed a $12 million agreement with a sovereign defense customer to deliver a commissioned, in-orbit NewSat satellite from its operational Aleph-1 constellation, enabling the customer to achieve independent Earth observation capability with significantly greater speed and cost efficiency than traditional satellite procurement. The agreement encompasses the full transfer of ownership and operations of the satellite to the customer, along with comprehensive support to develop the customer's independent capabilities to command the satellite and process and use its data for both military and civilian applications. The transfer process will begin immediately and is expected to be completed in early 2027, subject to the parties meeting contractual and regulatory milestones.

Tesla has announced that its first Semi truck has rolled off a high-volume production line, marking a significant manufacturing milestone for the all-electric long-haul freight vehicle it first unveiled in 2017. Tesla shared the news in a post on social media platform X, saying simply: "First Semi off high volume line." The announcement confirms that Tesla is on track to begin mass production of the Semi in 2026, with volume manufacturing at its Nevada facility while its Cybercab robotaxi is produced in Texas.

Fitch Group, a global leader in financial information services, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Trepp, a premier provider of data, insights, and technology solutions to the structured finance, commercial real estate, and banking sectors. Trepp was founded in 1979 and serves primary and secondary market participants with products and services supporting trading, research, risk management, surveillance, and portfolio management. The acquisition will see Trepp become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fitch Solutions, Fitch Group's leading provider of insights, data, and analytics. Rothermere Continuation Holdings Limited, the parent company of DMGT, has agreed to sell Trepp as part of the transaction.

Euclid, the operating system for renewable energy M&A, project development, financing, and operations, has announced the acquisition of Thresh Power, an AI-powered platform that automates diligence for renewable energy projects. The acquisition comes at a moment of extraordinary demand for renewable energy development, with US electricity consumption projected to grow 25% by 2030 driven in large part by AI-related power needs. Evaluating a single solar project typically requires working through a data room of thousands of documents — interconnection studies, land agreements, permitting files, environmental assessments, and engineering reports — with some of the most critical documents having upwards of 30 versions. Euclid says the combination with Thresh will give renewable energy teams the tools to compress the time from raw data to investment decision.

ABS, through its affiliate ABSG Consulting Inc., has announced the acquisition of RMC Global, a leading provider of industrial cybersecurity, risk management, and resiliency solutions for critical infrastructure and critical missions. The acquisition brings together two organizations with complementary expertise, shared values, and a common mission to protect critical systems and solve complex challenges in high-stakes operational environments. By combining RMC's capabilities with ABS Consulting's scale, technical depth, and global resources, the deal aims to deliver more integrated solutions for clients facing increasingly complex risk environments across industrial sectors.

Moving iMage Technologies has appointed Bart Bedard as its new Chief Financial Officer, filling the role vacated by Bill Greene, who has retired from the company after making substantial contributions to MiT's growth and transformation. Bedard brings over 30 years of US and international financial and accounting leadership experience in CFO and senior finance positions, with a strong track record of supporting strategic growth plans and identifying and implementing efficiency, cost reduction, and financial controls improvement initiatives. He has directed financial reporting, audits, budgeting, compliance, and dozens of sourcing and other significant cost-saving initiatives throughout his career.

York Space Systems has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ALL.SPACE, a UK-headquartered provider of advanced satellite communications terminals and multi-network connectivity solutions, in a move designed to create a complete communications ecosystem capable of operating in contested environments across commercial and government networks. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in the United Kingdom with operations in Europe and the United States, ALL.SPACE developed its high-performance, software-defined Hydra Terminal Range to enable simultaneous multi-link, multi-orbit, and multi-band connectivity across LEO, MEO, GEO, and HEO networks. The platform provides resilient, network-agnostic communications for platforms on the move across space, air, land, and maritime domains.

Powerus, a US-based autonomous systems company building next-generation drone infrastructure for defense and critical infrastructure, has announced the debut of its Guardian-2 Interceptor system following a successful demonstration that led to a limited procurement order from the US Air Force. The Guardian-2 is a low-cost, semi-autonomous, high-speed counter-drone interceptor platform built to defeat hostile unmanned aerial threats at scale, purpose-built for deployment in the Middle East to defend against Shahed-type attack drones. Its design emphasizes high-volume production and rapid capacity expansion, offering a major cost advantage over traditional drone defense systems that have historically required extensive training and long development timelines.

Ventric Health, maker of the Vivio System — the only FDA-cleared non-invasive device for measuring elevated left ventricular end-diastolic pressure — has appointed Javed Butler, MD, MPH, MBA, and Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD, to its Clinical Advisory Board. The appointments are designed to reinforce Ventric Health's commitment to clinical excellence as the company scales the commercial expansion of the Vivio System into primary care, cardiology, and other outpatient healthcare environments. As leaders in cardiovascular medicine with decades of experience in diagnosing, treating, and managing complex heart failure, both physicians bring the kind of clinical credibility that is essential for a medical device company working to reshape how heart failure is detected and managed in outpatient settings.

Blue Owl Capital reported first-quarter adjusted distributable earnings per share of 19 cents, beating analyst estimates of 18 cents, as the alternative asset manager emphasized growth across its businesses beyond direct lending. Assets under management jumped 15% to $314.9 billion, driven by the company's real assets business, which invests in real estate including data centers and other infrastructure. The results come against a backdrop of heightened scrutiny on private credit and direct lending, where Blue Owl has faced meaningful investor redemptions and market pressure after deciding late last year to merge two of its private credit funds — a merger it subsequently abandoned after its shares fell sharply.

Pmtbox, an enterprise commerce platform built to unify payments, risk, and data for merchants, has raised $15 million in seed funding in what the company says is Utah's largest reported seed round in the last decade. The round was led by Tandem Ventures, with participation from Element Ventures, Cynosure Investment Partners, and Aaron Skonnard, Founder and CEO of Pluralsight. The funding will be used to expand pmtbox's engineering, risk, and enterprise teams while accelerating go-to-market efforts across verticals where commerce complexity is highest. In connection with the raise, Alex Bean, Founding Partner at Tandem, joins the pmtbox board of directors alongside new independent director Nick Thomas, founder of Finicity — two of Utah's most successful fintech founders.

Microporous, a leading manufacturer of advanced battery separators and a portfolio company of Trent Capital Partners, has secured final funding for a new manufacturing facility in Danville, Virginia. Financing is being provided by Trent Capital Partners, Eagle Point Credit Management, and Elda River Capital Management, completing the capital structure needed to move from planning into construction. With comprehensive financing now in place, construction on the new plant is set to begin in May 2026. The Danville facility will produce battery separators for lithium-ion batteries across automotive, industrial, and grid applications.

JuliaHub has raised $65 million in a Series B funding round led by Dorilton Capital, with participation from General Catalyst, AE Ventures, and former Snowflake CEO Bob Muglia, and simultaneously launched Dyad 3.0, an agentic AI platform the company describes as Claude Code for the physical world. Dyad is designed to allow engineering teams to model, simulate, and validate industrial systems — from heat pumps and satellites to semiconductors — using autonomous AI agents, compressing design and testing cycles from months to days. The platform is already in use at several Fortune 100 companies across aerospace, government, automotive, HVAC, and utilities sectors.

BioOrbit, a biotech company developing in-space manufacturing of cancer therapies, has closed a £9.8 million ($13.2 million) seed round, which the company describes as the largest seed round in the history of in-space manufacturing. The round was co-led by LocalGlobe and BREEGA, with support from Seedcamp, Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, Type One Ventures, 7percent Ventures, and others. BioOrbit was founded by Cambridge scientist Katie King and oncology researcher Dr. Leonor Teles, and is building a manufacturing process that removes gravity from the equation entirely — conducting drug production in orbit to achieve formulation qualities impossible on Earth.

CFP Board has appointed Kathryn Berkenpas, CFP, as its new Chief Operating Officer following a national search, with her appointment effective May 4, 2026. Berkenpas currently serves as Managing Director, Corporate Growth at CFP Board and is the first CFP professional to hold the organization's COO role — a distinction the organization says reflects its commitment to leadership that is deeply grounded in the financial planning profession. She succeeds K. Dane Snowden, who was promoted to CEO in March, and will step into one of the most operationally central roles at the body that sets and upholds standards for personal financial planners in the United States.

True Global Ventures has significantly increased its investment in Prezent, nearly doubling its position through a secondary transaction, signaling continued confidence in the company's execution, market positioning, and long-term growth trajectory. The investment coincides with the launch of Prezent Vivo, a new offering that fuses purpose-built artificial intelligence with expert services to deliver enterprise communication outcomes, with a clear focus on the life sciences industry. Prezent has grown more than 200% in annual recurring revenue year-over-year and is currently in a scale-up phase, making it one of the strongest-performing companies in True Global Ventures' portfolio.

American Binary, a US technology company focused on post-quantum cryptography and network security, has announced that Whitfield Diffie has joined its Advisory Board. Diffie is widely recognized as a pioneer of modern cryptography and co-inventor of public-key cryptography, whose work — including the Diffie-Hellman key exchange — fundamentally changed how secure communication is established over open networks. His contributions laid the foundation for the systems that support today's global digital infrastructure, and he is a recipient of the ACM Turing Award, one of the most prestigious honors in computer science. Diffie has held leadership roles across the telecommunications, computing, and academic sectors throughout a career that spans decades.

Boyne Capital, a Miami-based lower-middle-market private equity firm, has closed its third investment fund, BCM Fund III, with total limited partner commitments of $355 million, exceeding its $275 million target and reaching its hard cap. Including parallel funds and GP commitments, total commitments exceed $400 million, with over 10% of total capital coming from Boyne employees — a meaningful signal of internal conviction in the fund's strategy and prospects. The fund closed just 90 days after launch, reflecting strong demand from a diverse group of limited partners, including family offices, fund-of-funds, foundations, endowments, and high-net-worth individuals.

WRITER, an enterprise AI agent platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies globally, has launched event-based triggers for WRITER Agent, enabling enterprises to automate complex workflows across their entire technology stack without any manual initiation required. The update represents what WRITER describes as a fundamental shift in how enterprises deploy AI agents — moving from systems that require employees to initiate every workflow to agents that listen for real-world business signals and act autonomously. WRITER Agent can now respond to triggers across Gmail, Gong, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Microsoft SharePoint, Slack, and more, automatically initiating research, generating deliverables, updating systems, and orchestrating handoffs.

Establishment Labs Holdings has entered into a $300 million senior secured term loan facility with funds managed by Oaktree Capital Management, refinancing its existing debt and providing additional capital for future strategic growth initiatives. The facility is structured in two tranches: a $265 million tranche used to refinance existing indebtedness with a maturity through 2031, and a $35 million tranche available for future growth initiatives. The loan carries a fixed interest rate with a potential step-down based on leverage targets, no amortization prior to maturity, and flexible prepayment capability, consistent with the terms of the company's prior credit agreement with updates reflecting current market terms.

Crescent Cove Advisors, LP, a San Francisco-based private investment firm providing growth capital to high-growth technology companies, has announced the final close of Crescent Cove Fund IV with more than $446 million committed, surpassing its target and closing oversubscribed. Fund IV attracted commitments from a diversified base of new and existing institutional investors, including Ventura County Employees' Retirement Association and Keebeck, the wealth management firm, as well as endowments, foundations, a sovereign wealth fund, registered investment advisers, family offices, investment platforms, asset managers, and OCIO providers. Additional capital was secured through two major national consultants.

Raymond James has welcomed financial advisors Seth Lawless and Charters "Jay" Osborne to Raymond James and Associates in Lexington, Kentucky, where they will operate as Osborne Lawless and Associates of Raymond James. The advisors arrive from Merrill Lynch, where they previously managed approximately $400 million in client assets. Their team specializes in serving multigenerational families, business owners, healthcare professionals, and retirees, and has been recognized as a 2026 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Team. They are joined by client relationship consultant Rob Mitchell and senior registered client relationship associates Karie Howard and Lee Ann Myers.