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Dimension Raises $1.65 Million Seed Round To Expand Seller OS For Social Commerce

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Dimension has raised $1.65 million in seed financing to expand Seller OS, an agentic AI platform designed to manage TikTok Shop and other social commerce operations. Investors included Science Inc., UpscaleX, OpenSky, Long Run Capital, 1864 Fund, Lawrence Hsu and creator-investor Austin Sprinz.

Centralize Raises $19 Million To Expand Enterprise Relationship Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Centralize has raised $19 million in total funding led by New Enterprise Associates. Salesforce Ventures, Y Combinator, 20SALES, Ritual Capital and Adverb Ventures also participated. Individual investors included Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield and Metronome co-founder Scott Woody.

Shield AI: Innovation X Advisors Participating In $1.5 Billion Series G At $12.7 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Shield AI has raised $1.5 billion in Series G financing at a post-money valuation of $12.7 billion. Innovation X Advisors participated alongside other existing investors. The transaction also included $500 million of fixed-return preferred equity financing and a $250 million delayed-draw facility.

Adjuvia Therapeutics Raises $8 Million Series Seed To Advance ATI-105 Into Clinical Trials

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Adjuvia Therapeutics has raised $8 million in Series Seed funding to advance ATI-105, its lead experimental treatment for mitochondrial diseases. The round was led by JLO Ventures, with participation from Portfolia Ventures and biotechnology industry investors.

Intermap Technologies To Acquire Remaining Shares Of PCI Geomatics Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Intermap Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the remaining shares of PCI Geomatics Group that it does not already own for $11 million in cash. Intermap currently owns all of PCI’s Series B preferred shares and approximately 3.3% of its common shares.

Allied Gold Secures $295 Million Investment From Zijin Gold After Acquisition Agreement Ends

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Allied Gold and Zijin Gold International have terminated their previously announced acquisition agreement after determining that the transaction’s closing conditions were unlikely to be satisfied by the July 29, 2026 deadline or within a reasonable period afterward.

Pangram Raises $9 Million To Expand AI Text And Image Detection Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Pangram has raised $9 million to improve its AI-generated text detection technology and expand into image detection. The round was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp Venture Capital, Script Capital, and Cadenza.

State Street Plans To Acquire Santander CACEIS Latin American Securities Services Business

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

State Street has signed an initial agreement to acquire the Santander CACEIS Latam Securities Services joint venture in Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.

Verisk Acquires McKenzie Intelligence Services To Expand Catastrophe Response Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Verisk has acquired McKenzie Intelligence Services, a provider of geospatial intelligence and real-time analysis of catastrophes, conflicts and other major events.

Lomiko Metals To Be Acquired By Global Battery Materials For Approximately C$11 Million

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Global Battery Materials has agreed to acquire Lomiko Metals in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately C$11 million on a fully diluted basis.

Curium Reportedly Nears Acquisition Of Lantheus For Approximately $7 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Curium Pharma is reportedly in advanced discussions to acquire radiopharmaceutical company Lantheus Holdings in a transaction valued at approximately $7 billion, according to Bloomberg. The potential acquisition would bring together two major businesses operating across nuclear medicine, diagnostic imaging and targeted radiopharmaceutical development.

Dover To Acquire Cloeren And Expand Polymer Processing Portfolio

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Dover has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cloeren, a manufacturer of extrusion T-dies and feedblocks used primarily in polymer and plastics production. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Honeywell Completes Sale Of Warehouse And Workflow Solutions Business To American Industrial Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Honeywell Technologies has completed the sale of its Warehouse and Workflow Solutions business to American Industrial Partners in an all-cash transaction. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Upstart Secures Up To $4 Billion Consumer Loan Purchase Commitment From Castlelake

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Upstart has entered into a multiyear forward-flow agreement under which Castlelake-managed funds may purchase up to $4 billion of consumer loans originated through the Upstart platform. The loans may be purchased over a period of up to 24 months.

Humand: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Nicolas “Nico” Benenzon About Building An AI-Based Operating System For Deskless Workers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Humand is an AI-powered operating system for deskless workers, giving employees access to onboarding, training, benefits, recognition, and company updates through a single mobile platform. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Humand Co-Founder & CEO Nicolas "Nico" Benenzon to learn more.

Octaura: Interview With Chief Financial Officer Cristina Kim About Electronic Trading For Leveraged Loans And CLOs

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Octaura is an electronic trading and data analytics platform focused on fixed-income asset classes, particularly leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Octaura Chief Financial Officer Cristina Kim to learn more.

Addepar: Interview With Chief Client Officer Janeen France About The Wealth And Investment Technology Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Addepar is a data and AI platform that helps investment professionals aggregate, analyze and act on complex portfolio data across public and private markets. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Addepar Chief Client Officer Janeen France to learn more.

Google Cloud Selected As NOAA’s Primary Weather Supercomputing Provider

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has selected Google Cloud as the primary provider of high-performance computing infrastructure for its Weather and Climate Operational Supercomputing System.

Microchip To Acquire Edge AI Processor Company Hailo

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Microchip Technology has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, a developer of edge AI processors, vision processing systems and AI software. Financial terms were not disclosed.

S&P Global To Acquire Majority Stake In Agusto & Co. To Expand African Credit Ratings Presence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

S&P Global has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Agusto & Company, a Pan-African credit rating agency operating in Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda and Ghana. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Pentair To Acquire Taco Group Holdings For Approximately $1.4 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Pentair has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Taco Group Holdings for approximately $1.4 billion, subject to customary adjustments. The purchase price represents approximately 10.5 times Taco’s estimated 2026 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. That calculation includes approximately $165 million in expected tax benefits and $30 million in anticipated annual cost savings.

Lumotive: Interview With CEO Dr. Sam Heidari About The Optical Chips Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Lumotive is a semiconductor company pioneering software-defined, programmable optical chips that utilize patented Light Control Metasurface (LCM) technology to electronically steer and shape light. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Lumotive CEO Dr. Sam Heidari to learn more.

Qualcomm Named BMW’s Lead Compute Silicon Provider For Digital Cockpit And Automated Driving

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Wellumio Raises $9.75 Million Pre-Series A To Advance Portable Stroke Imaging Technology

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Wellumio has completed an oversubscribed $9.75 million pre-Series A funding round to advance the clinical development, regulatory approval and commercialization of Axana, its portable brain imaging system for point-of-care stroke detection. The final close added Bioshore Ventures, an Australian medical technology investor, and Jumpspace Ventures, a U.S. early-stage venture capital firm focused on neurotechnology.

Qualcomm Completes Acquisition Of Modular To Expand AI Compute Platform From Edge To Cloud

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Qualcomm has completed its acquisition of Modular, an AI-native software infrastructure company whose platform helps developers optimize and deploy generative and agentic AI workloads across different types of computing hardware. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

ThreatLocker Raises $190 Million Series F To Expand Zero Trust Cybersecurity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

ThreatLocker has raised $190 million in Series F funding to accelerate product development, strengthen its artificial intelligence security capabilities and expand internationally. The round was led by Elephant, with continued participation from D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures. Koch Disruptive Technologies made a significant new investment in the company.

Processa Pharmaceuticals Acquires Vidya Therapeutics And Raises About $200 Million To Advance VT-7208

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Processa Pharmaceuticals has acquired Vidya Therapeutics in a stock-for-stock transaction and entered into an agreement for an approximately $200 million concurrent private placement.

Cowbell Launches OMNI AI Decision Intelligence System For Specialty Insurance

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Cowbell has launched OMNI, an AI-native decision intelligence system designed to improve underwriting, claims, cybersecurity services, customer engagement and product development across its specialty insurance business.

Naoma: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Dmitry Zakharov About The Conversational AI Video Agent Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

Naoma builds conversational AI video agents that deliver personalized, live B2B software product demos on demand. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Naoma co-founder and CEO Dmitry Zakharov to learn more.

Viktor Appoints Robbie O’Connor As Chief Revenue Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Jul 29, 2026

European AI startup Viktor has appointed Robbie O'Connor as Chief Revenue Officer to lead its next phase of commercial growth. O'Connor previously held commercial leadership roles at Dropbox, Asana and Notion. He will oversee Viktor's revenue strategy as the company expands adoption of its AI employee platform among enterprise customers.