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Mattel Names Roger Lynch Chairman And CEO, Succeeding Ynon Kreiz

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Mattel has appointed Roger Lynch as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Ynon Kreiz as the company enters its next phase of growth across toys, entertainment, digital gaming, and other businesses.

PERPTools Raises $5 Million Seed Round At $80 Million Valuation For Decentralized Perpetual Futures Trading Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

PERPTools has raised a $5 million seed round at an $80 million fully diluted valuation, bringing the AI-native perpetuals trading platform's total funding to $8 million across two token rounds. The seed round brought in BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion and Shima Capital as key stakeholders. It followed a $3 million pre-seed round completed at a $30 million fully diluted valuation and led by DEXTools Ventures and Orderly Network. Fundraising began in November 2025, with the pre-seed closing the following month and the seed round following in early 2026.

The Hartford Names A. Morris “Mo” Tooker As CEO And Christopher Swift To Become Executive Chair

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

The Hartford has named company President A. Morris "Mo" Tooker as its next Chief Executive Officer, succeeding Christopher Swift as part of a planned leadership transition.

Nuveen Completes Schroders Acquisition, Creating $2.6 Trillion Asset Manager

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Nuveen has completed its acquisition of Schroders, bringing together the two investment firms to create a global active public-to-private asset and wealth manager with approximately $2.6 trillion in assets under management.

Wealth Enhancement To Acquire RWA Wealth Partners, Expanding Client Assets To More Than $187.1 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Wealth Enhancement has agreed to acquire RWA Wealth Partners, expanding its capabilities for ultra-high-net-worth and family office clients and bringing the combined organizations to more than $187.1 billion in client advisory, trust and brokerage assets.

Broadcom To Lend Anthropic Up To $42 Billion To Finance AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Broadcom has agreed to provide Anthropic with up to $42 billion in financing to support the AI company's massive infrastructure expansion, according to Anthropic's IPO filing reviewed by Reuters. The financing could cover roughly one-third of Anthropic's $125.2 billion commitment to lease tensor processing unit (TPU) computing capacity over five years.

SurrealDB: Interview With Co-Founder And CEO Tobie Morgan Hitchcock About AI Agent Memory And Contextual Reasoning

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

SurrealDB is a UK-based database company developing a unified, multi-model database that supports document, graph, relational, time-series, vector, search, geospatial, and key-value data. With SurrealDB (now at version 3.2), its Agent Memory layer, and next-generation storage layer (SurrealDS), the company is increasingly focused on providing memory, context, and data infrastructure for AI agents and enterprise AI applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed SurrealDB Co-Founder and CEO Tobie Morgan Hitchcock to learn more.

Alinia AI Launches Seny To Provide Real-Time Legal Compliance Controls For AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Alinia AI has launched Seny, a specialized base model designed to evaluate, control, and monitor AI agent behavior against specific legal provisions in real time. The company is positioning the model as the foundation for a new category of AI safety focused specifically on legal alignment.

Armadin Raises $255.5 Million Series B At Over $2.5 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Armadin has raised $255.5 million in Series B funding at a valuation of more than $2.5 billion, just seven months after the AI-native cybersecurity company emerged from stealth. The round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel, with participation from new investors Bain Capital Ventures and Redpoint. Existing investors 8VC, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Kleiner Perkins and Menlo Ventures also participated. The new financing brings Armadin's total funding to $445 million.

Osavul Raises €8.5 Million Series A To Expand Hybrid Threat Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Oct 1, 2026

Osavul has raised €8.5 million in Series A funding to expand its AI-powered hybrid threat intelligence platform across government, defense, enterprise and critical infrastructure markets worldwide. The round was led by 33N Ventures, with participation from Balnord, G+D Ventures and existing investor 42CAP, bringing Osavul's total funding to approximately €12 million.