Company’s first securitization marks a major milestone in its capital markets strategy and expands access to institutional financing

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2026 — Encore Finance Group (Encore), a private specialty real estate finance company that originates investor-driven real estate mortgage loans, today announced the closing of ENCR 2026-SFR1, a $275 million securitization backed by 5-year fixed-rate mortgage loans it originated. The transaction is Encore’s inaugural multi-borrower single-family rental securitization.

The securitization augments the current growth strategy of increasing balance sheet and building infrastructure to support a growing business model. In addition to raising significant equity capital over the past 12 months, the securitization continues to build out our debt capabilities, further strengthening the balance sheet.

“Balance sheet lending enables us to better accommodate client needs throughout lifecycle lending,” said Beth O’Brien, founder and CEO of Encore Finance Group. “We intend to be a serial issuer in the capital markets to provide greater liquidity and structural flexibility to our clients.”

ENCR 2026-SFR1 issued eight classes of notes collateralized by 36 Encore-originated loans secured by investor-owned real estate properties. The loans, with balances ranging from $1.6 million to $32.2 million, provide permanent fixed-rate financing for 1,308 fully stabilized rental properties.

“The strength of our business-purpose lending model, origination expertise, in-depth underwriting process and access to capital markets enables us to continue to grow with our professional real estate investors and partner with them as their financing needs evolve,” said Caroline Morrill, managing director and head of capital markets at Encore Finance Group. 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as sole structuring agent, manager and bookrunner.

About Encore Finance Group
Encore is a private specialty real estate lender led by industry veterans with deep experience in real estate investment, mortgage lending, and private lending. The firm builds long-term relationships with borrowers and develops creative solutions to help them meet their investment goals, with a focus on being the lending partner that helps borrowers grow their real estate investment businesses over many years. For more information visit https://www.encorefinance.com/.

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Led by Touring Capital, the round funds Clark’s push toward fully autonomous audit employees and its mission to verify the economy in real time

NEW YORK, Nov. 2, 2026 — Clark, which builds AI for the professionals who verify the economy, today launched Clerks, autonomous AI employees that perform audit work for CPA firms. The company also announced an $11 million seed round led by Touring Capital, with participation from returning investors Marathon Management Partners, Rerail and Sofeon Ventures. Together with the $5 million round Marathon Management Partners led in September 2025, the financing brings Clark’s total funding to $16 million.

Every economy runs on claims most people can never check for themselves: that revenue was earned, that retirement contributions were deposited, that public money reached the people it was meant for. Since the railway era, independent auditors have made it possible to rely on accounts kept by someone else. But an audit opinion still arrives as a snapshot of a year that has already ended, and it travels much further than the work behind it.

That gap is widening. AI has made invoices, records and even an executive’s voice cheaper to fake than ever, while an answer that was right in March can be wrong by June. Clark’s mission is to make it possible to verify the economy in real time, with findings that stay current because the checking never stops.

The opportunity reaches well beyond today’s audits. The U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government loses $233 billion to $521 billion a year to fraud, and most audits of public money arrive after it has been spent. As AI makes verification continuous and affordable, CPA firms will be able to offer new audit services that catch fraud and waste in government programs and businesses while a payment can still be stopped or recovered.

Clerks are the first step toward that future. Each Clerk is assigned to an engagement the way a staff auditor would be and works through audit areas from start to finish: reviewing documents, performing tests and preparing workpapers. When something is missing, it requests it from the client, tracks the response and picks the work back up the moment the information arrives, without anyone prompting it again.

Clerks run on Material Intelligence, the AI operating system Clark built to serve as their brain. It combines an agent harness, document processing and a multi-layered memory system modeled on human memory, so a Clerk carries context forward the way an experienced auditor does. Routine updates are handled quietly, and what deserves an auditor’s attention is escalated with the evidence attached. Licensed CPAs make the professional judgments, review the work and sign the opinion.

More than 35 CPA firms, including CliftonLarsonAllen, Aprio, Kreischer Miler, Sensiba, already use Clark on their audits. Clark measures success not by how many alerts its AI produces, but by how much time auditors no longer spend chasing documents, and how much more they spend on the questions that deserve their judgment.

“For as long as people have kept accounts, someone has had to check them. Today that checking happens once a year, long after the decisions it was meant to inform,” said Enes Witwit, founder and CEO of Clark. “Our Clerks don’t sleep. They stay on the engagement, chase what’s missing and keep the work moving between the moments an auditor looks at it. Today they work alongside auditors. We are building toward fully autonomous audit employees, and toward an economy whose claims are verified as they happen, so fraud and waste are caught while the money is still there.”

“Assurance is fundamentally a trust business, and AI creates an opportunity to dramatically expand what CPA firms can accomplish without compromising that trust,” said Priya Saiprasad, co-founder and general partner at Touring Capital. “Clark’s Clerks don’t wait to be asked. They carry an engagement forward on their own, coordinating with clients and acting as new information arrives. We believe this is the foundation of an entirely new operating model for assurance.”

Clark also stands behind the work its AI performs. The company offers CPA firms a 100% accuracy guarantee and a peer review guarantee. “A promise of accuracy only means something when it has money behind it,” Witwit said. “If AI is going to do the work, the company that built it should answer for it.”

Clark will use the funding to expand its senior team across product, engineering and sales, bring Clerks to more firms and more types of engagements, help CPA firms extend their audit services into government, and build toward fully autonomous audit employees. The company is also working toward continuous monitoring that keeps findings current between audits, with each finding stating what it covers and when it was last checked. The goal is for a firm to tell its client, a regulator or the public not just what was true at year-end, but what is true now.

About Clark

Clark builds AI for professional services firms, starting with audit and assurance. Its autonomous AI employees, called Clerks, review documents, perform testing, prepare workpapers and follow up with clients, advancing the work as new information arrives. Clerks run on Material Intelligence, Clark’s AI operating system for agents. Licensed professionals retain responsibility for professional judgments, review and sign-off. Clark’s mission is to make it possible to verify the economy in real time. Formerly known as uiAgent, Clark is headquartered in New York and works with more than 35 CPA firms across the United States. Learn more at getclark.com.

About Touring Capital

Touring Capital is a venture capital firm focused on investing in the next generation of early growth-stage, AI-driven SaaS companies around the world. Its founders have more than a decade of experience working together at leading investment firms and a proven track record of venture capital investing across the global technology startup ecosystem. The Touring Capital team is committed to investing in companies that are leveraging AI to fuel major productivity gains for workers across all lines of business and sectors. Learn more at touringcapital.com.

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• Financing led by Hatteras Venture Partners, with participation from foundational investors Lumira Ventures and adMare BioInnovations and a new syndicate of life sciences investors
   
• Proceeds will be used to advance lead Dualase® therapeutic candidate through initial clinical biomarker proof-of-concept in patients with C9ORF72-associated ALS
• Gene-editing platform designed to precisely remove disease-causing DNA repeat expansions, with potential applications across more than 40 repeat expansion disorders

TORONTO, Nov. 2, 2026 — Specific Biologics, a biotechnology company pioneering a new generation of precision gene-editing therapies for serious genetic diseases, today announced the closing of an oversubscribed US$35 million Series A financing. The round was led by Hatteras Venture Partners, with participation from foundational investors Lumira Ventures and adMare BioInnovations, alongside new investors Genesys Capital, Business Development Bank of Canada’s (BDC) Life Sciences Venture Fund, DeepWork Capital and Seido Capital. 

The financing will support development of Specific Biologics’ lead Dualase® therapeutic candidate through initial clinical biomarker proof-of-concept in the first cohort of an adaptive Phase I/II clinical trial in patients with C9ORF72-associated amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease for which there are currently no approved therapies.

“This financing represents a defining step toward our goal of bringing a potentially transformative medicine to people living with ALS,” said Brent Stead, Chief Executive Officer of Specific Biologics. “Our goal is to address the disease at its genetic source to create a new therapeutic option for patients who have waited far too long.”

“Gene editing has the potential to transform the treatment of genetic diseases, but realizing that promise requires overcoming longstanding challenges in precision, specificity and delivery,” said Ben Scruggs, Partner at Hatteras Venture Partners. “Specific Biologics has developed a highly differentiated technology with significant therapeutic and commercial potential designed to address these challenges, supported by compelling preclinical evidence.”

“Our decision to invest meaningful additional capital in Specific reflects our growing conviction in the scientific differentiation, clinical potential and long-term value of the Dualase® platform,” said Nikhil Thatte, Partner at Lumira Ventures. “We believe the opportunity to generate early clinical proof-of-concept in ALS patients represents an important inflection point for the company and a meaningful step toward realizing the broader promise of its technology.”

Specific Biologics’ proprietary Dualase® platform is designed to overcome important limitations of conventional gene-editing technologies by precisely removing disease-causing DNA repeat expansions while preserving the normal sequences required for biological function. These abnormal stretches of repetitive DNA are implicated in more than 40 genetic disorders. Specific has demonstrated editing in preclinical studies in multiple neuromuscular repeat expansions.

“Specific Biologics has assembled a dynamic and experienced team in the field of genome editing and an excellent syndicate of investors with the strategic vision to translate breakthrough science into clinical proof of concept,” said Paul Hastings, Board Chair of Specific Biologics. “Their technology has the potential to redefine what is possible in gene editing and open the door to therapeutic approaches for devastating genetic conditions that have historically been beyond reach.”

About ALS and Dualase®

ALS is a progressive and ultimately fatal neurodegenerative disease characterized by the loss of motor neurons responsible for voluntary muscle movement, including speaking, swallowing and breathing. An expansion of repeated DNA sequences in the C9ORF72 gene is the most common known inherited genetic cause of ALS and is also associated with frontotemporal dementia.

Specific Biologics’ lead Dualase® candidate is designed to precisely shorten the pathogenic C9ORF72 repeat expansion at the DNA level without off-target effects, offering the potential for durable therapeutic benefit by addressing the underlying genetic driver of disease rather than solely its downstream effects. Unlike larger gene editing systems, its compact size fits within a single adeno-associated virus (AAV) to be delivered directly to the central nervous system to reach affected motor neurons.

In preclinical dose-response studies using patient-derived ALS cell models, Dualase® achieved nearly complete collapse of the pathogenic C9ORF72 repeat expansion. Dualase® also collapses repeat-expanded C9ORF72 in disease-relevant animal models with correction of downstream hallmarks of the disease and no detectable off-target effects.

About Specific Biologics

Specific Biologics is a venture-backed biotechnology company pioneering next-generation precision gene-editing therapies for serious genetic diseases. Its proprietary two-site Dualase® platform is designed to overcome key limitations of existing gene-editing technologies through efficient, precise and highly specific in vivo editing of challenging genetic targets. The versatile Dualase® platform supports both targeted DNA removal and repair using single AAV delivery or lipid nanoparticle-delivered mRNA, creating opportunities across multiple therapeutic areas to unlock new treatment possibilities for patients with devastating genetic disorders.

For more information, visit www.specificbiologics.com or follow Specific Biologics Inc. on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/company/specific-biologics

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Round Backed by Merchant Seven and Private Investor Group

SÃO PAULO, Brazil, Nov. 2, 2026 — PropHub (“PropHub”), a specialist technology provider to brokerages, proprietary trading firms, and crypto platforms, today announced a strategic venture round led by Merchant Seven (“M7”) and a group of private investors. Financing will fund growing PropHub’s product suite, advancing its go-to-market functions, and accelerate international adoption.

“Composability is where the trading industry is heading,” said Gabriel Kassouf, CEO of PropHub. “The next generation of platform builders will assemble their businesses from best-in-class components, across both traditional and on-chain markets. We want PropHub to be the layer that makes that next frontier possible.”

Launching a brokerage, prop firm, or trading platform has traditionally meant assembling front ends, dashboards, CRM, back office, risk tooling, payments, and reporting from a patchwork of providers, then maintaining every integration in between. PropHub replaces that patchwork with a single modular stack of products and features. Operators can start on a single toolset, or commission a fully customized turnkey build, and every product is exposed through consolidated REST and WebSocket APIs.

PropHub’s founders, Gabriel Kassouf, Felipe Vella, CPO, and Rafael Viveiros, CTO, have worked in the trading and investing space for over a decade each, bringing first-hand experience running trading operations day to day. The experience helped them craft a product suite that operators can use on day one.

“We spent years on the operator side of the business, and we know how much time and capital goes into technology that should simply work,” added Kassouf. “Brokers, props, and exchanges shouldn’t have to stitch together a dozen vendors to serve their clients. PropHub is the one-shot composable stack they can launch within days, and can grow into for years to come.”

Through Harbor, PropHub gains access to capital alongside M7’s forward-deployed engineers (FDEs); senior operators who embed directly inside portfolio companies. The model was built by M7 due to the growing constraint in the sector; exceptional category experts in trading technology are increasingly difficult to hire, particularly for younger companies competing with established a foothold.

“It has never been harder to hire world-class talent in trading technology, and that gap holds back too many great young companies,” said Pierce Crosby, Founder and Managing Partner at Merchant Seven. “PropHub’s founders bring rare operator experience and a comprehensive product across brokerage, prop trading, and crypto markets.”

PropHub has built an ecosystem of three core verticals, each available as a white-label platform or a custom turnkey build:

1. Brokers: A full brokerage under the operator’s own brand, including trading platform deployment, CRM and back office, dealing-desk risk management, and payments integration for deposits and withdrawals.
2. Prop firms: An end-to-end operating system for proprietary trading firms, covering trader onboarding and KYC, a challenge engine, automated payouts and profit splits, affiliate attribution, business intelligence, fraud detection and order-flow hedging, delivered through modules including Prop OS, RiskOps, PropOversight and FlowManager.
3. Crypto: White-label decentralized exchange infrastructure on Hyperliquid and other exchanges, spanning perpetuals, spot, tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) and prediction markets, with Web2-grade onboarding through embedded self-custodial wallets, on-chain settlement and a protocol-native revenue layer for operators.

Over the course of the Harbor program, PropHub will expand its product suite across all three verticals, build a repeatable go-to-market engine, establish channel and distribution partnerships, and enter new international markets beyond Latin America.

For more information on Merchant Seven and its offerings, visit www.merchantseven.com

About PropHub

PropHub (www.prophub.tech) builds complete trading technology for proprietary trading firms, brokerages and crypto exchanges, from white-label platforms that launch in days to fully custom turnkey builds, all accessible through consolidated REST and WebSocket API. PropHub gives trading system operators the infrastructure to launch and scale without building the plumbing themselves.

About Merchant Seven

Merchant Seven (www.merchantseven.com) is a New York–based strategy consulting and FDE firm built exclusively for scaling financial technology. Its team of former fintech operators supports companies across strategy, product, corporate development, go-to-market, marketing, investor relations, and market data. Through Harbor, Merchant Seven’s early stage accelerator, the business invests in fintech founders and deploys directly into their organizations.

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With backing from Erin and Sara Foster’s Oversubscribed Ventures, Corazon Capital, Amok Consumer Growth Fund, Quorum Capital Partners, Bluestein Ventures, and other leading investors, Doughy unveils a bold new brand identity ahead of its November 1 launch at Target.

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 2, 2026 — Doughy, Erewhon’s No. 1-selling cookie dough brand, unveiled its new brand identity as it enters its next chapter of growth, supported by an influential group of celebrity and consumer industry investors.

Founded by Kelly Ramey in her Santa Monica kitchen, Doughy has grown from a homemade recipe into a fast-growing sweet treat brand, earning its position as Erewhon’s top-selling cookie dough and establishing a national retail presence at Whole Foods Market, Fresh Thyme Market, Wegmans, and other leading retailers.

Doughy is unlike any cookie dough on the market. Instead of flour, oils, and refined sugar, it’s made with simple, recognizable ingredients. Its signature Chocolate Chip flavor has just six: cashews, maple syrup, chocolate chips, vanilla extract, sea salt, and baking soda. The result is a rich, crave-worthy cookie dough with just 4 grams of sugar and 65 calories per cookie.

Doughy is backed by leading consumer investment firms including Oversubscribed Ventures, Corazon Capital, Amok Consumer Growth Fund, Quorum Capital Partners, Bluestein Ventures, and Simple Food Ventures. Its investors bring deep expertise in building iconic consumer brands, including Erin and Sara Foster of Oversubscribed Ventures; Lindsay Levin, former CMO of RXBAR and Venture Partner at Bluestein Ventures; John Lowe, former CEO of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams and Managing Director of Amok; and Rachelle Lynch, Operating Partner at Amok, who has helped scale brands including Jeni’s, Hu, and Magic Spoon.

“Doughy is our first CPG investment, and it’s exactly the kind of company we set out to back,” said John Lowe, Managing Director of Amok Consumer Growth Fund and former CEO of Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams. “What made Jeni’s special in its early days was the ability to take something familiar and completely reinvent it. Kelly has done the same with cookie dough, building an entirely new recipe around cashews. It’s a game-changing innovation that delivers exceptional taste, simple ingredients, and a naturally gluten-free, low-glycemic product. We see tremendous potential in what she’s building.”

The refreshed identity reflects Doughy’s evolution into a modern sweet treat brand, pairing nostalgic indulgence with bold, playful design. The new branding brings Doughy’s commitment to crave-worthy flavor and simple ingredients to life, positioning the company for its next phase of national growth.

Alongside its rebrand, Doughy is introducing a new flat-pack format that makes baking and enjoying its cookie dough easier than ever this holiday season. Beginning November 1, the new look and format will debut in the refrigerated dough aisle at select Target stores nationwide, featuring limited-edition holiday flavors Gingerbread, Sugar Cookie, and Peppermint Bark, alongside the classic Chocolate Chip.

“When we started Doughy, we didn’t want to make another version of cookie dough. We wanted to rethink what cookie dough could be,” said Kelly Ramey, Founder and CEO of Doughy. “By starting with cashews and maple syrup instead of traditional flour, butter, and sugar, we created something entirely different, without sacrificing the incredible taste and nostalgia that make cookie dough so special. From day one, our belief has been simple: you shouldn’t have to compromise on taste to feel good about what you’re eating. Our new brand identity brings that philosophy to life and reflects just how far we’ve come, and where we’re headed next.”

To learn more about Doughy or find a retailer near you, visit eatdoughy.com, and follow the brand on Instagram and TikTok.

About Doughy
Doughy is reimagining cookie dough as an everyday sweet treat, with crave-worthy flavor and simple, clean ingredients. Doughy’s first-of-its-kind cashew-based cookie dough delivers effortless, genuine daily indulgence without the tradeoffs. Available online and at select retailers nationwide, Doughy’s lineup of edible and bakeable cookie dough includes nostalgic classics of Chocolate Chip, Brownie Batter, Peanut Butter, and Birthday Cake. Simply delicious, deliciously simple.

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Gobaler Investment Manager meldet ein verwaltetes Vermögen von 65,2 Milliarden US-Dollar und eine starke Investitions- und Kapitalbeschaffungsdynamik in den ersten neun Monaten des Jahres 2026

MANAMA, Bahrain, 2. November 2026 — Investcorp, ein führender globaler Manager für alternative Anlagen, gab heute bekannt, dass er in den ersten neun Monaten des Jahres 2026 ein Gesamtvolumen von 11,1 Milliarden US-Dollar in den Bereichen Kapitalbeschaffung, Kapitaleinsatz und Exits verzeichnete, was die anhaltende Stärke und das Wachstum seiner globalen Plattform unterstreicht.

Die Ankündigung, die auf der Gateway Gulf 2026 in Bahrain erfolgte, unterstreicht die globale Investitionsdynamik von Investcorp und sein anhaltendes Engagement für das Königreich, wo das Unternehmen 1982 gegründet wurde.

Zwischen Januar und September 2026 beschaffte Investcorp 4,8 Milliarden US-Dollar von seinem globalen Investorenkreis, investierte 3,7 Milliarden US-Dollar in neue Anlagen und erzielte 2,6 Milliarden US-Dollar durch Exits in seinen Investmentgeschäften. Zum 31. September 2026 beliefen sich die gesamten von Investcorp verwalteten Vermögenswerte auf 65,2 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Im gleichen Zeitraum erreichte Investcorp bedeutende Meilensteine bei der Kapitalbeschaffung über seine nordamerikanischen Private-Equity- und strategischen Kapitalplattformen hinweg und sicherte sich Zusagen in Höhe von insgesamt mehr als 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar.

Mohammed Alardhi, Executive Chairman von Investcorp, sagte: „Investcorp wurde vor mehr als vier Jahrzehnten in Bahrain gegründet, und das Königreich ist nach wie vor von zentraler Bedeutung für unser globales Wachstum und unsere Ambitionen. Unser anhaltender Erfolg spiegelt die Stärke unserer internationalen Plattform und das Vertrauen unserer Investoren und Partner wider. Mit Blick auf die Zukunft bleiben wir unserem Ziel treu, globales Kapital mit alternativen Investitionsmöglichkeiten zu verbinden, Innovationen zu fördern und Bahrains Position als führendes internationales Finanzzentrum zu stärken.”

Wichtigste Investitions- und Innovationshighlights

Investcorp setzte im Jahr 2026 den Ausbau seiner internationalen Investitionstätigkeiten mit bedeutenden Transaktionen und Meilensteinen in allen Geschäftsbereichen fort:

• Private Equity in Nordamerika: Investiert in die Berger Financial Group, eine führende US-amerikanische Vermögensverwaltungsplattform.
• US-Immobilien: Es wurden Transaktionen im Bereich Industrieimmobilien im Wert von rund 800 Millionen US-Dollar angekündigt, darunter Akquisitionen und Verkäufe, sowie der Erwerb von Seniorenwohnanlagen und Mehrfamilienhäusern im Wert von 200 Millionen US-Dollar in wichtigen US-Märkten.
• Private Equity Indien: Erwarb 20Cube 3PL Solutions, ein auf digitale Kontraktlogistik spezialisiertes Unternehmen, um dessen Expansion zu unterstützen und eine landesweite Logistikplattform aufzubauen.
• Private Equity Europa: Investiert in Smart Managed Solutions in Großbritannien und gründete mit NetRom Software und Trivium Solutions eine neue Wachstumsplattform für Softwareentwicklung mit Schwerpunkt auf KI-gestützter Softwareentwicklung. Investcorp erwarb außerdem eine Mehrheitsbeteiligung an Connectif, einem spanischen Anbieter von KI-gestützten Marketingautomatisierungslösungen.
• Private Equity GCC: Erwarb eine strategische Beteiligung an Metra, einer regionalen IT-Distributionsplattform, und schloss sich einem Konsortium zum Erwerb von Reda Gulf Holding an, einem führenden saudi-arabischen Anbieter von Lösungen für Brandschutz, Sicherheit und Gefahrenabwehr.
• Digitale Innovation: Investcorp Wealth, gegründet 2024 und entwickelt von den Teams des Unternehmens in Bahrain, hat seit seiner Gründung die digitale Kapitalbeschaffung von Kunden in Höhe von mehr als 620 Millionen US-Dollar ermöglicht und damit seine internationale Reichweite sowie die wichtige Rolle der Teams von Investcorp in Bahrain bei seinen digitalen Vermögensverwaltungsfunktionen unter Beweis gestellt.
• Künstliche Intelligenz: Wir haben einen KI-Investitionsrahmen eingeführt, um KI-gestützte Investitionsmöglichkeiten zu identifizieren, die Portfolio-Performance zu verbessern und die langfristige Wertschöpfung zu unterstützen.

Diese Erfolge spiegeln die Fähigkeit von Investcorp wider, Investoren mit Investitionsmöglichkeiten in Nordamerika, Europa, dem Nahen Osten und Asien zu verbinden. Die Teilnahme von Investcorp an Gateway Gulf 2026 unterstreicht das langjährige Engagement des Unternehmens für Bahrain und die Rolle des Königreichs als Tor für globales Kapital und finanzielle Innovation.

Le gestionnaire d’investissements mondial annonce 65,2 milliards de dollars d’actifs sous gestion et une forte dynamique d’investissement et de levée de fonds au cours des neuf premiers mois de 2026.

MANAMA, Bahreïn, 2 novembre 2026 — Investcorp, un gestionnaire mondial d’investissements alternatifs de premier plan, a annoncé aujourd’hui avoir enregistré 11,1 milliards de dollars d’activité cumulée dans les domaines de la levée de fonds, du déploiement de capitaux et des sorties au cours des neuf premiers mois de 2026, soulignant la force et la croissance continues de sa plateforme mondiale.

Cette annonce, faite lors du Gateway Gulf 2026 à Bahreïn, souligne la dynamique d’investissement mondiale d’Investcorp et son engagement continu envers le Royaume, où elle a été fondée en 1982.

Entre janvier et septembre 2026, Investcorp a levé 4,8 milliards de dollars auprès de sa base d’investisseurs mondiale, déployé 3,7 milliards de dollars dans de nouveaux investissements et enregistré 2,6 milliards de dollars de cessions dans ses activités d’investissement. En septembre 2026, le total des actifs sous gestion d’Investcorp s’élevait à 65,2 milliards de dollars américains.

Au cours de la même période, Investcorp a franchi des étapes importantes en matière de levée de fonds sur ses plateformes de capital-investissement et de capital stratégique en Amérique du Nord, obtenant plus de 2,3 milliards de dollars d’engagements cumulés.

Mohammed Alardhi, président exécutif d’Investcorp, a déclaré : « Investcorp a été fondée à Bahreïn il y a plus de 40 ans, et le Royaume reste au cœur de notre croissance et de nos ambitions mondiales. Notre essor continu témoigne de la solidité de notre plateforme internationale et de la confiance de nos investisseurs et partenaires. Pour l’avenir, nous restons déterminés à mettre en relation les capitaux mondiaux et les possibilités d’investissement alternatives, à favoriser l’innovation et à contribuer à la position de Bahreïn en tant que centre financier international de premier plan ».

Principaux faits saillants en matière d’investissement et d’innovation

Investcorp a continué à développer ses activités d’investissement internationales en 2026, avec des transactions et des étapes importantes dans l’ensemble de ses secteurs d’activité :

• Capital-investissement nord-américain : elle a investi dans Berger Financial Group, une plateforme américaine de gestion de patrimoine de premier plan.
• Immobilier aux États-Unis : elle a annoncé environ 800 millions de dollars de transactions immobilières industrielles, y compris des acquisitions et des cessions, ainsi qu’une acquisition de 200 millions de dollars de résidences pour personnes âgées et de propriétés multifamiliales sur les principaux marchés américains.
• Capital-investissement en Inde : elle a fait l’acquisition de 20Cube 3PL Solutions, une entreprise de logistique contractuelle axée sur le numérique, pour favoriser son expansion et construire une plateforme logistique pan-indienne.
• Capital-investissement Europe : elle a investi dans des solutions de gestion intelligentes au Royaume-Uni et a établi une nouvelle plateforme de croissance en ingénierie logicielle avec NetRom Software et Trivium Solutions, axée sur le développement de logiciels utilisant l’IA. Investcorp a également acquis une participation majoritaire dans Connectif, un fournisseur espagnol de solutions d’automatisation marketing basées sur l’IA.
• Capital-investissement dans les pays du Golfe : elle a fait l’acquisition d’une participation stratégique dans Metra, une plateforme régionale de distribution informatique, et a rejoint un consortium pour acquérir Reda Gulf Holding, un grand fournisseur saoudien de solutions de protection contre l’incendie, de sécurité et de contrôle des risques.
• Innovation numérique : Investcorp Wealth, lancé en 2024 et développé par les équipes de la société basées à Bahreïn, a numériquement permis de lever plus de 620 millions de dollars de capitaux auprès de clients depuis son lancement, démontrant ainsi sa portée internationale et le rôle important des équipes d’Investcorp basées à Bahreïn dans ses capacités de gestion de patrimoine numérique.
• Intelligence artificielle : elle a lancé un cadre d’investissement dans l’IA pour rechercher des possibilités d’investissement pilotées par l’IA, améliorer la performance du portefeuille et soutenir la création de valeur à long terme.

Ces réalisations témoignent de la capacité d’Investcorp à mettre les investisseurs en relation avec des opportunités en Amérique du Nord, en Europe, au Moyen-Orient et en Asie. La participation d’Investcorp à Gateway Gulf 2026 renforce son engagement de longue date envers Bahreïn et le rôle du Royaume en tant que porte d’entrée pour les capitaux mondiaux et l’innovation financière.

La gestora de inversiones global reporta activos bajo gestión por 65.200 millones de dólares estadounidenses y un sólido dinamismo en inversiones y captación de fondos durante los primeros nueve meses de 2026

MANAMA, Baréin, 2 de noviembre de 2026 — Investcorp, gestora líder mundial de inversiones alternativas, ha dado a conocer hoy que registró una actividad agregada de 11.100 millones de dólares estadounidenses en captación de fondos, despliegue de capital y desinversiones durante los primeros nueve meses de 2026, lo que subraya la continua solidez y el crecimiento de su plataforma global.

El anuncio, realizado durante la celebración del Gateway Gulf 2026 en Baréin, destaca el dinamismo de las inversiones globales de Investcorp y su compromiso continuo con el reino, donde se fundó en el año 1982.

Entre enero y septiembre de 2026, Investcorp captó 4.800 millones de dólares estadounidenses de su base global de inversores, invirtió 3.700 millones de dólares en nuevos fondos y registró desinversiones por valor de 2.600 millones de dólares en sus negocios de inversión. A fecha de septiembre de 2026, el total de activos gestionados por Investcorp ascendía hasta los 65.200 millones de dólares.

Durante el mismo periodo, Investcorp alcanzó importantes hitos en la captación de fondos en sus plataformas de capital privado y capital estratégico en Norteamérica, asegurando compromisos agregados por más de 2.300 millones de dólares.

Mohammed Alardhi, presidente ejecutivo de Investcorp, declaró: «Investcorp se fundó en Baréin hace más de cuatro décadas, y el reino sigue siendo un punto fundamental para nuestro crecimiento y nuestras ambiciones globales. Nuestro continuo impulso refleja la solidez de nuestra plataforma internacional y la confianza de nuestros inversores y socios. De cara al futuro, mantenemos nuestro compromiso de conectar el capital global con oportunidades de inversión alternativas, impulsando la innovación y contribuyendo a la posición de Baréin como centro financiero internacional líder».

Principales logros en inversión e innovación

Investcorp continuó expandiendo sus actividades de inversión internacional durante el año 2026, contando con importantes transacciones e hitos en todos sus negocios:

• Capital privado en Norteamérica: Invirtió en Berger Financial Group, una plataforma líder de gestión patrimonial en Estados Unidos.
• Bienes inmobiliarios en Estados Unidos: Anunció transacciones inmobiliarias industriales por un valor aproximado de 800 millones de dólares estadounidenses, incluyendo adquisiciones y desinversiones, junto con la adquisición de propiedades residenciales para personas mayores y multifamiliares por 200 millones de dólares estadounidenses en mercados clave de Estados Unidos.
• Capital privado en India: Adquirió 20Cube 3PL Solutions, una empresa de logística contractual digital, para apoyar su expansión y desarrollar una plataforma logística a nivel nacional en India.
• Capital privado en Europa: Llevó a cabo la inversión en Smart Managed Solutions en el Reino Unido y estableció una nueva plataforma de crecimiento de ingeniería de software con NetRom Software y Trivium Solutions, centrada en el desarrollo de software con inteligencia artificial. Investcorp también adquirió una participación mayoritaria en Connectif, un proveedor español de soluciones de automatización de marketing con IA.
• Capital privado en el Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (CCG): Adquirió una participación estratégica en Metra, una plataforma regional de distribución de TI, y se unió a un consorcio para adquirir Reda Gulf Holding, un proveedor líder con sede en Arabia Saudí de soluciones de protección contra incendios, seguridad y control de riesgos.
• Innovación digital: Investcorp Wealth, lanzada en el año 2024 y desarrollada por medio de los equipos de la firma en Baréin, ha facilitado digitalmente la captación de más de 620 millones de dólares estadounidenses en capital de clientes desde su lanzamiento, demostrando con ello su alcance internacional y el importante papel de los equipos de Investcorp en Baréin en sus capacidades de gestión patrimonial digital.
• Inteligencia artificial: Se lanzó un marco de inversión basado en IA para identificar oportunidades de inversión impulsadas por IA, mejorar el rendimiento de la cartera y respaldar la creación de valor a largo plazo.

Estos logros reflejan la capacidad de Investcorp para conectar a los inversores con oportunidades en Norteamérica, Europa, Oriente Medio y Asia. La participación de Investcorp en Gateway Gulf 2026 refuerza su compromiso de larga data con Baréin y el papel del reino como puerta de entrada para el capital global y la innovación financiera.

Funding will scale the company’s shared, multi-orbit ground network for commercial, U.S. government, and allied customers

TORRANCE, Calif., Nov. 2, 2026 — Northwood Space Corp. (“Northwood”), the company building the network connecting satellites to Earth, today announced it has closed a $375 million Series C equity financing round. The funding will accelerate delivery on existing contracts, talent acquisition, and the buildout of Northwood’s global ground network for commercial, U.S. government, and allied space missions.

Since its Series B less than nine months ago, Northwood has deployed six multi-orbit-capable sites on two continents, demonstrated geosynchronous command capacity from a commercial phased array in live tests, developed and launched a high-throughput antenna system, and opened a new 185,000-square-foot headquarters and factory in Torrance, expanding its manufacturing footprint more than fivefold. Northwood has also added new customers and contracts across U.S. government agencies, commercial new-space operators, and traditional satellite operators.

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and DFJ Growth co-led the round, with participation from Alpine Space Ventures, Washington Harbour Partners, Stepstone Activate, In-Q-Tel (IQT), and others. A separate multi-year credit facility from HSBC Innovation Banking will also support working capital and network expansion.

“Space began as the frontier of human innovation, and communications sits at the heart of every mission, yet it has been neglected for decades,” said Bridgit Mendler, co-founder and CEO of Northwood. “We have built hardware that performs and a network that can support the most demanding missions. This funding lets us scale that network and build the infrastructure the next generation of space missions will depend on.”

“We’ve backed Northwood in every round since seed because we believe ground infrastructure is essential to making space infrastructure more abundant,” said Katherine Boyle, board director of Northwood and general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. “Northwood is building the ground network of the future and has become an indispensable partner to government and commercial customers alike.”

“What goes up must come down … this is a universal truth of sending data to and from space-based networks. Northwood plays an essential role in an oft-forgotten, yet critical segment, of that ecosystem — purpose-built to ensure mission-critical signals are delivered to and from satcom constellations reliably and securely. Northwood has emerged from a raw startup to a new-generation leader over the past year, changing the game with innovation and speed of execution to quickly surpass legacy incumbents,” according to Randy Glein, Founder and Managing Partner at DFJ Growth. “Northwood’s advanced phased array technologies, innovative systems, and vertically-integrated manufacturing approach are delivering robust capabilities to demanding commercial and government customers. We are thrilled to join the team at Northwood!”

The ground has become the bottleneck
Satellites are multiplying and spreading across orbits. Active satellites have grown from about 3,000 in 2020 to more than 14,000 by the end of 2025, with tens of thousands more projected by 2030, but the ground infrastructure they rely on was built for a different era of space and has not kept pace. Missions need more ground capacity, in more places, with more capabilities. Meeting the demand takes ground infrastructure that can serve multiple satellites at once, support multiple orbits, and deploy in months rather than years. Without modern infrastructure, the ground will limit what we can do in space, from satellite communications to Earth observation, from national security missions to cislunar exploration.

A space network built like infrastructure
Northwood designs and manufactures its own modular antennas in Torrance, California: Portal phased arrays for command and control and Prism high-throughput dishes for payload data. At full production, the company can build hundreds of antennas per year, and each system ships by standard freight and needs only flat ground, power, and fiber, with none of the extensive civil works traditional ground stations require.

Northwood’s own software and proprietary techniques combine multiple antennas into larger effective apertures. In a recent milestone, the company arrayed 10 Portals to achieve the receive performance of a 20-foot dish. That software extends to a modern API that lets satellite operators search, reserve, update, and cancel passes on the network, paired with hands-on Mission Architects who guide each customer from first conversation through deployment. Operators get a live link without building ground infrastructure of their own.

Because Northwood controls the full stack, from antenna hardware to site selection and buildout to scheduling software, space operators book the capacity they need on a shared network instead of spending millions of dollars on dedicated ground stations. And because the antennas are standardized and modular, the network is growing quickly: a new site takes three months rather than years, and new antennas go from truck arrival to live links in three to four hours. For select customers, Northwood also sells its antenna systems directly, the same hardware that powers the shared network.

Momentum since the Series B

• Demonstrated multi-orbit, from LEO to GEO. Northwood demonstrated its multi-orbit capability in a prototype for the U.S. Space Force, delivering dedicated satellite command capacity as a service to geostationary orbit. The demonstration included a full-duplex link to a government GEO satellite from a Northwood Portal phased-array site, building on the company’s existing LEO demonstrations.
• High-throughput links. Northwood released Prism, a parabolic dish built for multi-gigabit links. Together with Portal, Prism will take the network to global coverage, with sites capable of 100+ Gbps in high-demand regions by the end of 2027.
• Production at scale. The company’s new 185,000-square-foot Torrance headquarters and factory, opened in September 2026, will produce hundreds of antennas and other components per year across dedicated production lines.
• Customers. Northwood has added new customers and contracts across U.S. government agencies, commercial new-space operators, and traditional satellite operators.
• Team. Northwood has grown to more than 140 employees and plans to add 400 jobs in Torrance and Washington, DC over three years across RF engineering, manufacturing, software and site operations.

This announcement is only the start. Northwood is rebuilding the full network stack for bringing data to, through, and from orbit, with several site and network expansions to be announced in the first half of 2027.

About Northwood
Northwood builds the network connecting satellites to Earth. Based in Torrance, California, the company combines modular antenna hardware, manufacturing, software, and global site operations into a shared ground network serving commercial, U.S. government, and allied customers. Northwood helps satellite operators establish and expand connectivity across orbits, supporting reliable communications as their missions grow. Learn more at northwoodspace.io. See open roles at northwoodspace.io/careers.

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