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Ameritas Names Kelly Halverson Executive Vice President Of Individual Division

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Ameritas has named Kelly Halverson Executive Vice President of its Individual Division, effective September 1, 2026.

Vestwell: Interview With Founder Aaron Schumm About Building Financial Savings Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Vestwell is a fintech company focused on expanding access to financial wellness and savings programs, supporting more than 750,000 businesses and over 2.55 million active savers with nearly $56 billion in assets through partnerships with financial institutions, government, and payroll providers. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Vestwell Founder Aaron Schumm to learn more.

Yale School Of Medicine Receives Nearly $25 Million Grant To Map Developing Brain And Advance Autism Research

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Yale School of Medicine has received a nearly $25 million grant from the Aligning Research to Impact Autism initiative to develop foundational maps and models of the developing human brain and investigate how and when autism-related differences emerge. The grant is part of ARIA's Human Developmental Neurobiology Research Hub.

NuvemRx: Interview With CEO Scott Seidelmann About Technology-Enabled 340B Pharmacy Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

NuvemRx is a technology-enabled pharmacy services company that provides third-party administration, entity-owned pharmacy management, and 340B referral capture services powered by its Apollo data platform and Mission Control, the company's team of clinical and 340B experts.. Pulse 2.0 interviewed NuvemRx CEO Scott Seidelmann to learn more.

University Of Houston Launches Housing, Homelessness, And Health Institute With $5 Million Gift

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

The University of Houston has launched the Institute for Housing, Homelessness, and Health, a university-wide initiative established through an anonymous $5 million gift.

BOLTS Technologies: Interview With Founder Yoon Auh About Post-Quantum Cryptography And Hyper Crypto-Agility

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

BOLTS Technologies is developing technology designed to help blockchains transition to Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC), with its QFlex protocol enabling cryptography and digital signatures to be changed on a per-transaction basis without requiring structural changes to blockchain nodes. The company was spun out of NUTS Technologies to apply its cryptographic inventions to blockchain security. Pulse 2.0 interviewed BOLTS Technologies Founder Yoon Auh to learn more.

Mayer Brown Adds Pablo Bentes As International Trade Partner In Brussels

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Mayer Brown has expanded its International Trade practice with the addition of Pablo Bentes as a partner in Brussels, strengthening the firm's capabilities in trade dispute resolution and matters involving sovereign states.

Seez: Interview With Founder Tarek Kabrit About AI-Powered Dealership Operations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Seez develops AI-powered technology for automotive dealerships, with its CARS AI Operating System serving as a shared intelligence layer across customer engagement, dealership operations, sales outreach, and aftersales. The company has evolved from a consumer car-discovery app into an AI-driven operating layer used across more than 2,000 showrooms in 25 countries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Seez Founder Tarek Kabrit to learn more.

LGT Capital Partners Raises €850 Million For Crown Europe Small Buyouts VII

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

LGT Capital Partners has raised €850 million for Crown Europe Small Buyouts VII, exceeding the fund's €800 million target.

Cymphony Raises $30 Million To Build AI Agent Governance And Enterprise Security Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Cymphony has launched with $30 million in funding to develop an AI-native governance and security platform designed to give enterprises visibility and control over how employees and AI agents access sensitive data and critical systems. The financing was co-led by Sequoia Capital and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund. Cymphony is building its platform around the growing use of autonomous AI agents inside enterprises, where software increasingly interacts directly with company systems, sensitive information and business processes.

Mastercard Launches Agent Connect And Expands Agent Suite For Merchants To Support AI-Powered Shopping

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Mastercard has introduced Mastercard Agent Connect and expanded Mastercard Agent Suite for Merchants, giving businesses new tools to build AI-powered shopping experiences, make products discoverable across AI ecosystems and support consumer-authorized agentic transactions.

Crossbow Therapeutics Doses First Patient In Phase 1 Trial Of CBX-663 For Hematologic And Solid Tumors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Crossbow Therapeutics has dosed the first patient in the TelOscope-001 Phase 1 clinical trial of CBX-663, a first-in-class T-cell engager being developed for multiple hematologic and solid tumors.

Vanderbilt Law School Partners With AltaClaro To Bring AI-Powered DepoSim Deposition Simulator To Students

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Vanderbilt Law School has partnered with AltaClaro to bring DepoSim, an AI-powered deposition simulation platform developed in collaboration with Verbit, to students beginning in the Fall 2026 semester.

Granite Asia Surpasses $500 Million Target For Pan-Asia Private Credit Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Granite Asia has surpassed the $500 million target for its Pan-Asia private credit strategy, Libra Hybrid, after securing new commitments from a leading insurer, DBS Private Bank and other institutional investors.

Star Mountain Capital Names Adam Fitzner As Managing Director And Strategic Portfolio Partner

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Star Mountain Capital has appointed Adam Fitzner as Managing Director and Strategic Portfolio Partner, adding a private equity and operational value creation executive with more than 30 years of experience to its approximately $5 billion AUM lower-middle-market investment platform.

ARK MFG Acquires Therma-Tek Commercial Cooking Solutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

ARK MFG has acquired Therma-Tek Commercial Cooking Solutions, expanding its U.S. manufacturing portfolio into professional hot-side commercial kitchen equipment.

WNC & Associates Closes $66.3 Million California Affordable Housing Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

WNC & Associates has closed WNC Institutional Tax Credit Fund X California Series 23, L.P. at $66.3 million, marking the company's 23rd consecutive California-focused multi-investor affordable housing fund for institutional investors. The closing comes as WNC marks 55 years of operations in California.

Stryker To Acquire ZuriMED To Expand Shoulder And Rotator Cuff Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Stryker has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ZuriMED, a privately held medical technology company that developed the FiberLocker System for rotator cuff augmentation.

Suniva Raises $835 Million To Expand Solar Cell Capacity To 5.5 GW

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Suniva has completed an $835 million debt and equity capital raise to fund construction of its second major U.S. solar cell manufacturing facility and increase its total domestic manufacturing capacity to 5.5 GW.

Cerberus Sells Tenet Equity To CBRE Investment Management For $1.6 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Cerberus Capital Management has sold Tenet Equity to CBRE Investment Management for $1.6 billion, exiting the national net lease investment platform Cerberus established with management in 2021.

Amkor Technology Expands Arizona Advanced Packaging Investment To $12 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Amkor Technology is moving forward with Phase 2 of its Arizona advanced packaging and test campus, increasing its planned investment to about $12 billion.

Trimble Acquires Terasat Japan To Expand Centimeter-Level Positioning Services

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Trimble has acquired Terasat Japan, one of Japan's largest virtual reference station service providers, expanding its ability to directly deliver real-time centimeter-level positioning services in the country. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Thoma Bravo Makes Strategic Growth Investment In Tanda

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Thoma Bravo has made a strategic growth investment in Tanda, a workforce management, payroll and HR software platform serving shift-based employers.

NIIF Names Gauravjit Singh As Managing Partner And Global Head Of Capital Formation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

National Investment and Infrastructure Fund has appointed Gauravjit Singh as Managing Partner and Global Head of Capital Formation, strengthening its senior leadership team with an investment professional who brings nearly two decades of global fundraising and institutional capital experience.

Chime To Acquire Stride Bank For $590 Million, Expects More Than $100 Million In Net Synergies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Chime has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Stride Bank for $590 million in cash, bringing one of its longstanding banking partners directly into the financial technology company's platform.

Palantir And Nebius Partner To Deliver Sovereign AI Stack To Commercial Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Palantir Technologies and Nebius Group have formed a strategic partnership to bring Nebius' AI-native compute infrastructure and cloud platform to Palantir's commercial customers, creating a more integrated sovereign AI offering for organizations that want greater control over their compute, data, and models.

Roivant Reports 56.3% Placebo-Adjusted PVR Reduction In Phase 2 Mosliciguat PH-ILD Study, Starts Phase 3 PHrontier Trial

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

Roivant Sciences announced positive results from the Phase 2 PHocus study of mosliciguat in patients with pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease, or PH-ILD, with the study meeting its primary and secondary endpoints and supporting advancement of the therapy into Phase 3 development.

MFA Names Zach Gates As Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

MFA has named Zach Gates Vice President, U.S. Government Affairs, adding a former senior House Financial Services Committee staff member to its government affairs team in Washington, D.C. Gates most recently served as Staff Director of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets.

UT Medical And TransformativeMed Partner On Agentic AI Discharge Planning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

UT Medical and TransformativeMed have formed a development partnership to create an agentic AI-powered discharge planning solution intended to streamline one of the more complex workflows in acute care.

ECI Partners Invests In Shaw Gibbs As Apiary Capital Fully Exits

By Amit Chowdhry ● Sep 9, 2026

ECI Partners has invested in Shaw Gibbs, a top 35 U.K. accounting, tax and business advisory firm serving approximately 25,000 clients across the U.K. and Ireland. The transaction provides a full realization for Apiary Capital, which has backed Shaw Gibbs since 2022. Financial terms were not disclosed.