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JobGet Acquires RippleMatch To Expand Into Early-Career Recruiting

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

JobGet announced the acquisition of RippleMatch, an AI-powered early-career recruiting platform, as the company continues building a unified hiring ecosystem across hourly, frontline, and entry-level talent categories. The deal marks JobGet’s sixth acquisition and expands its strategy of consolidating the fragmented hiring technology market through AI-powered infrastructure.

Cognia: EL Education Merger Creates Unified School Improvement Ecosystem

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Cognia announced a merger with EL Education aimed at creating a more unified and coherent ecosystem for school improvement across K-12 education.

Apex Service Partners: Apollo Funds Makes Strategic Minority Investment In Residential Home Services Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Apex Service Partners, the nation’s largest residential HVAC, plumbing, and electrical services business, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement with funds managed by affiliates of Apollo, under which Apollo Funds will acquire a minority interest in Apex. Existing investor Alpine Investors is also making an additional investment in Apex to support the company’s continued growth. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Countable Labs Raises $26 Million To Accelerate Countable PCR Commercialization

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Countable Labs announced it has raised $26 million in an oversubscribed financing round to accelerate clinical product development and global commercialization of its Countable PCR technology.

AirMDR: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Kumar Saurabh About The Managed Detection And Response Service

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

AirMDR is a company that provides an AI-powered Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service that uses autonomous virtual analysts to handle 80–90% of security operations center (SOC) tasks—such as triaging, investigating, and responding to threats—enabling 24/7, enterprise-grade cybersecurity for small and medium-sized businesses. Pulse 2.0 interviewed AirMDR co-founder and CEO Kumar Saurabh to learn more.

CoreWeave: Unified Agentic AI Capabilities Enable Continuous Autonomous Improvement

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

CoreWeave announced the launch of unified agentic AI capabilities designed to help enterprises deploy AI agents directly into production and continuously improve them using real-world operational data. The new capabilities integrate serverless reinforcement learning, production inference, observability, and autonomous optimization into a closed-loop system designed to improve reliability and reduce the operational burden of scaling enterprise AI agents.

Living Security: Interview With Founder & CEO Ashley Rose About The Human Risk Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Living Security is a Human Risk Management (HRM) platform that reduces cybersecurity threats by analyzing workforce behavioral data, conducting tailored, engaging training, and providing actionable, AI-driven insights to proactively mitigate risk. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Living Security founder and CEO Ashley Rose to learn more.

Fertitta Entertainment: $17.6 Billion Caesars Entertainment Acquisition Deal Announced

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Fertitta Entertainment announced a definitive agreement to acquire Caesars Entertainment in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $17.6 billion, including the assumption of about $11.9 billion in Caesars’ outstanding debt.

Altruix: WindRose Health Investors Completes Sale To Frazier Healthcare Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

WindRose Health Investors announced it has completed the sale of Altruix to Frazier Healthcare Partners. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Matternet: $33 Million Raised As Drone Delivery Platform Goes Public

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Matternet, an autonomous aerial logistics technology company and the only FAA Type-Certified drone delivery platform, announced that it raised approximately $33 million through an oversubscribed private placement offering while completing a go-public reverse merger transaction with Los Altos Ventures Corp., which has been renamed Matternet, Inc.

Payslip: Growth Financing Secured To Scale AI-Powered Global Payroll Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Payslip announced that it has secured new growth financing to support international expansion and continued investment in its AI-powered payroll platform.

DigitalBridge: Up To $1.05 Billion ArcLight Acquisition Creates Power And AI Infrastructure Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

DigitalBridge announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire ArcLight Capital Partners for a total transaction value of up to $1.05 billion, including a base purchase price of $650 million and up to $400 million in contingent consideration. The transaction brings together two specialist infrastructure investment platforms with combined assets representing more than $150 billion, positioning the combined business at the convergence of power, AI, and digital infrastructure.

Carlyle: Dedicated Middle-Market Platform Launched For Aerospace, Defense, Government, And Industrials

By Amit Chowdhry ● May 28, 2026

Carlyle announced the expansion of its Aerospace, Defense & Government and Industrial investment capabilities through a dedicated middle-market platform focused on opportunities across the United States and Europe.