Backed by Victory Square Technologies, the venture platform opens applications and assembles a global advisory board to support founders building across the animal health ecosystem.

VANCOUVER, BC, March 10, 2026 – As innovation accelerates across the global pet economy, a new venture platform is emerging to support founders building the next generation of animal health companies. Pawsible Ventures today announced the launch of its Pet Health Incubator alongside their Board of Advisors, bringing together veterinarians, entrepreneurs, and industry leaders to back founders across the animal health ecosystem.

The announcement arrives as the global pet care economy surpasses $270 billion annually and is projected to approach $500 billion by 2034, fueled by rising veterinary spending, longer pet lifespans, and the continued humanization of pets. Yet despite the scale of the opportunity, early-stage founders in pet health routinely navigate fragmented infrastructure: veterinary partnerships, regulatory complexity, capital access, and distribution, all without specialized support. Pawsible was built to close that gap.

A Venture Platform Built for Animal Health Innovation

Pawsible Ventures operates as both an incubator and venture studio, helping founders move from early concept to scalable company through a combination of capital, mentorship, veterinary expertise, and commercialization support. Unlike traditional accelerators, Pawsible works hands-on with founders to validate demand, develop products, navigate regulatory pathways, and accelerate go-to-market.

The platform launched in 2025 with a $10 million Fund I and focuses on innovation across key segments of the pet health ecosystem:

• Veterinary diagnostics
• Pet health technologies
• Digital veterinary care platforms
• Therapeutics and biologics
• Insurance and financial services for pet owners
• Preventive wellness solutions

“After speaking with more than 300 founders across the pet and animal health ecosystem, the pattern became very clear,” said Alex Chieng, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Pawsible Ventures. “Pet health is one of the fastest-growing sectors globally, yet early-stage founders often lack access to the specialized support needed to move from concept to company. Pawsible provides the infrastructure, capital, expertise, and partnerships this category has been missing.”

Strong Global Founder Pipeline

Over the past year, Pawsible has engaged with more than 300 startups globally, identifying a growing wave of founders building innovative solutions in veterinary diagnostics, AI-powered pet health tools, preventive care platforms, therapeutics, insurance, and digital tools for veterinary practices.

The inaugural cohort will include five to seven companies, selected for structured programming, mentorship from industry leaders, and direct access to veterinary professionals, investors, and commercialization partners. The first cohort is designed as the foundation for a broader platform, one intended to repeatedly launch and scale companies across the global pet health ecosystem.

Global Advisory Board

To support the incubator and broader platform, Pawsible has assembled a Board of Advisors spanning veterinary medicine, entrepreneurship, and pet healthcare innovation. Advisors will participate in founder sessions, office hours, and strategic discussions throughout the program.

Joseph Coury
Founder, CFO, and startup advisor working at the intersection of veterinary medicine, finance, and innovation. He serves as CFO and Worker-Owner at Urban Animal, a multi-location veterinary group in Seattle transitioning into one of the largest worker-owned veterinary cooperatives in the United States, and is Co-Founder of Yumby, a pet technology company focused on canine oral health.

Dr. William Thomas
Veterinarian and Founder of Animal Doctors International, where he built a leading international veterinary group across Southeast Asia. He combines clinical expertise with experience raising and deploying growth capital while scaling cross-border veterinary operations, and serves as a Global Board Member of Animals Asia.

Dr. Adam Little
Veterinarian and entrepreneur focused on innovation at the intersection of technology and animal health. He previously served as Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences and was the Co-Founder of GoFetch, a pet-care platform focused on loyalty and subscription services.

Kimball Carr
Entrepreneur and executive with decades of experience building and scaling companies across public and private markets. He has held senior leadership roles at Banfield Pet Hospital and is the current Founder and CEO of Inspire Veterinary Partners, with expertise spanning SaaS, consumer products, and veterinary health.

Dr. Christina V. Tran
Veterinarian, educator, and academic leader with experience across clinical practice, veterinary education, and healthcare governance. She has held faculty and leadership roles at multiple veterinary institutions and currently serves as Executive Associate Dean for the proposed DVM program at Roseman University of Health Sciences.

Dr. Andrew Findlaytor
Veterinarian, entrepreneur, and technology leader focused on building scalable solutions for modern veterinary care. He serves as a Senior Director at The Farmer’s Dog and is the Co-Founder of Vetsie, translating real veterinary workflows into practical digital tools that improve care delivery for veterinary teams and pet owners.

Backed by Victory Square Technologies

Pawsible Ventures is supported by Victory Square Technologies (CSE: VST), a publicly traded venture builder with more than a decade of experience launching and scaling companies across digital health, artificial intelligence, and emerging healthcare infrastructure. Through the partnership, portfolio companies gain access to capital markets expertise, operational support, and a broader ecosystem of technology and healthcare innovators.

“Category-specific venture platforms are where we believe the next wave of durable value will be built,” said Shafin Diamond Tejani, Founder and CEO of Victory Square Technologies. “The most successful venture ecosystems begin with a focused community of founders, operators, and capital and evolve into platforms that repeatedly launch new companies. That is the long-term vision behind Pawsible.”

Applications Now Open

The first Pawsible Ventures Pet Health Incubator cohort launches in March 2026. Founders building in pet health, veterinary medicine, diagnostics, therapeutics, or digital veterinary care are encouraged to apply.

Selected companies will receive:

• Structured founder programming
• Veterinary mentorship and industry guidance
• Investor introductions
• Regulatory and commercialization support

Apply Now: https://www.f6s.com/pawsible-ventures-incubator/apply 

About Pawsible Ventures

Pawsible Ventures is a pet health-focused venture fund and studio building the infrastructure for the next generation of animal health and wellness companies. Operating at the intersection of healthcare, artificial intelligence, diagnostics, insurance, and consumer wellness, Pawsible combines capital, incubation, and early distribution support under one platform, enabling founders to move from idea to impact faster than traditional venture models allow.

Through its $10 million Fund I, Pawsible backs and co-builds companies at the earliest stages of formation, embedding product strategy, regulatory insight, clinical access, and commercialization support directly into company creation.

Learn more: www.pawsible.vc

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Uzum obtiene más de 130 millones de dólares en inversión estratégica liderada por las entidades soberanas del Sultanato de Omán

TASHKENT, Uzbekistán, 10 de marzo de 2026 — Uzum (la “Compañía“), el ecosistema digital líder de Uzbekistán, se complace en anunciar el cierre de una inversión estratégica que supera los 130 millones de dólares, respaldada por las entidades soberanas del Sultanato de Omán (el “Inversor“).

La transacción combina capital primario y capital estructurado y establece un punto de referencia de valoración prefinanciada de 2.300 millones de dólares, con condiciones de conversión vinculadas a la próxima ronda de financiación cualificada de la Compañía. La inversión supone un avance significativo respecto a las rondas de financiación anteriores de Uzum y refuerza sustancialmente el posicionamiento de la Compañía de cara a su Serie B.

La transacción también incluye la participación de los accionistas internacionales existentes VR Capital, Tencent y FinSight Ventures, lo que subraya la fuerte confianza internacional en el crecimiento a largo plazo de Uzum y en la economía digital en rápida expansión de Uzbekistán.

El capital se utilizará para acelerar la siguiente fase de crecimiento de Uzum en sus principales verticales (comercio electrónico, banca digital, pagos y préstamos al consumo), con el objetivo de ampliar la gama de productos, fortalecer la infraestructura y ampliar el acceso a los servicios digitales en todo el país. Uzum ha construido un ecosistema totalmente integrado que combina comercio y tecnología financiera a escala nacional. Sus plataformas, que incluyen Uzum Market, Uzum Tezkor, Uzum Bank y Uzum Nasiya, son utilizadas por más de 20 millones de personas, lo que representa más de la mitad de la población de Uzbekistán.

Convicción global en la historia de crecimiento de Uzbekistán

El inversor aporta una amplia experiencia regional y un fuerte enfoque en los mercados de consumo y tecnología de alto crecimiento. Esta alianza refleja el creciente interés internacional en Uzbekistán como una de las economías digitales emergentes más atractivas del mundo.

“Esta inversión es un fuerte respaldo a la estrategia de Uzum y al potencial digital de Uzbekistán”, comentó Djasur Djumaev, fundador y consejero delegado de Uzum.

“Nos centramos en construir una infraestructura a escala nacional, impulsada por la tecnología, inclusiva y diseñada para el uso diario de millones de personas y empresas. El apoyo del inversor, junto con el de nuestros accionistas globales actuales, nos da un fuerte impulso mientras nos preparamos para la Serie B y seguimos expandiendo nuestro ecosistema”.

Uzum fue asesorado en esta transacción por DLA Piper. El inversor fue asesorado por Greenberg Traurig.

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NEW YORK, March 10, 2026 — Siderofsky Strategic Advisors LLC today announced that its Founder and Managing Principal, Stephen Siderow, has been named a Senior Advisor and Operating Partner to the general partner of RE VC, a real estate tech venture capital fund manager. In this capacity, Mr. Siderow will provide strategic advice, while also playing an active role in helping the leadership of RE VC to build, operate and scale the firm’s fund management business.

RE VC was founded in 2022 to capture the opportunities that are being created as innovative technologies, including AI, continue to disrupt such multi-trillion-dollar verticals within the real estate ecosystem such as prop-tech, construction-tech and RE finance. A new McKinsey Global Institute analysis suggests that automation, including AI applied to knowledge work, could unlock roughly $430–$550 billion in annual value globally across real estate, construction, and development. Funds managed by RE VC invest in early stage real estate tech start-ups, while also providing portfolio companies with access to industry expertise through the strategic, operational and financial experience of the firm’s partners and outside advisors.

Through Siderofsky Strategic Advisors, Mr. Siderow is an advisor to investment managers, fintech companies and other growing enterprises. He is also the former President and Co-Founder of BlueMountain Capital Management. His leadership helped BlueMountain, a diversified alternative asset management firm established in 2003, grow to $23 billion in AUM across 300+ professionals globally, navigating complex investment strategies and institutional partnerships. Mr. Siderow currently advises a number of innovative companies, including Allposit Inc., which delivers integrated digital platforms to the wealth management sector; NewVest, a pioneer in passive index investing for private markets; and Barsys, a maker of AI-enabled cocktail machines.

“We are delighted and proud to welcome Stephen as a Senior Advisor and Operating Partner,” said Alon Gorbonos, General Partner of RE VC. “RE tech is one of the fastest growing segments of the VC market, and Stephen’s vast institutional experience in building and growing significant investment management businesses will help position us to realize the exciting potential we see in the space.”

“Alon and the other RE VC partners are seasoned investors with a deep understanding of diverse aspects of the real estate markets, as well as the opportunities that will be generated by the application of new RE technology,” noted Mr. Siderow. “It’s an honor to be working with them and I look forward to applying my experience and perspective to help the firm advance its investment strategy.”

RE VC’s General Partner, Alon Gorbonos, was previously the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of DTI Holdings, a vertically-integrated private equity real estate fund. Earlier, he was a senior investment manager at MIO Partners, McKinsey & Company’s internal Investment Office, where he helped establish a PE investment fund of funds. Prior to MIO Partners, he worked as a strategic consultant for McKinsey & Company, managing private equity client engagements. He also has served as an Officer in the Intelligence Corps of the Israel Defense Forces.

About Siderofsky Strategic Advisors

Siderofsky Strategic Advisors LLC, founded and led by Stephen Siderow, is an advisor to innovative, growing businesses, with a focus on financial services, alternative asset management and technology companies. The firm leverages Mr. Siderow’s 30+ years of business experience, extensive global relationships and strategic insights as a founder to help early stage companies catalyze growth and effectively manage the challenges and opportunities of fast-growing businesses.

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Revenues Grew 740%+ in 2025 and Targets $4 Billion in Annualized Processing Volume in 2026
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NEW YORK, March 10, 2026 — Nitra, the leading AI-native, all-in-one operating platform for healthcare practices and their back offices, today announced $187 million in financing across its Series A and Series B rounds, venture debt, and warehouse facility, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $205 million and total equity raised to $90 million.

The funding follows a breakout year for Nitra, which grew revenues 740%+ in 2025, surpassing $1 billion in annualized processing volume as healthcare practices increasingly expand uses of AI beyond clinical decision support and scribing into administration, finances and inventory, and the back office.

The financing includes $72 million of new equity across a $50 million Series B round and a previously unannounced $22 million Series A completed in August 2025 from investors including Actions Capital, AppWorks, Comma Capital, Dunamu & Partners, Era Funds, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Pantera Capital, and Sazze Partners.

The financing also included participation from AAF, Gaingels, Hyphen Capital, K8, Mana Ventures, Necessary Ventures, PIDC/Uni-President, Purestone Silks, SignalRank, Simu Liu’s Markham Valley Ventures, Soma Capital, and others.

The company also secured $20 million in venture debt from Avenue Capital Group and an expanded $95 million warehouse facility from Treville Capital Group and Encina Lender Finance, LLC.

Dr. Richard Park, founder and former CEO of CityMD, joined Nitra’s Board of Directors. CityMD merged with Summit Health, and the combined company was acquired by VillageMD (owned by Walgreens) for $8.9 billion in 2023. Today, Dr. Park oversees Ascend Partners as the co-founder and Managing Partner. His appointment adds deep operational healthcare experience as the company scales its platform.

Healthcare is a nearly $5.9 trillion industry in the United States, yet an estimated 25% of spending goes toward administrative costs. Medical practices still rely on fragmented systems for payments, procurement, inventory, scheduling, and insurance verification.

Launched in 2024 by Tim Hwang (CEO) and Jonathan Chen (President), Nitra’s platform embeds AI agents directly into the operational backbone of practices. Nitra gives physicians, who are overwhelmed by administrative overload, complete control over their back office and administrative functions. Nitra’s all-in-one platform for healthcare practices now includes:

• Financial Automation, offering a Visa-powered expense card, expense management, bill pay, patient payment processing, and AI agents for healthcare accounting automation;
• Commerce and Inventory, providing direct access to tens of thousands of biopharmaceuticals and medical equipment products in partnership with firms like McKesson and Medline. Nitra’s AI procurement agents handle suppliers, negotiate prices, onboard vendors, execute purchases, and monitor inventory end-to-end, and
• Patient Management, launched this month, powers voice AI agents for patient scheduling and insurance eligibility checks. The system integrates scheduling, benefits verification, and patient communication into the broader operational stack, reducing administrative burden for healthcare practices.

In 2025, the company grew by over 740% from $4 million of annualized revenues to over $33 million in a single year. This growth was powered by a platform that is now used by thousands of doctors in over 700 clinics and processed over $1 billion in annualized volumes across its platform. In December of 2025, Nitra supported upwards of $9 million in high-stakes, patient-critical biopharma and medical purchases for physicians in a single day.

The company is on track to cross over 3,000 clinics, more than $150 million of annualized revenues, and over $4 billion in annualized processing volumes in 2026. As part of its growth, the company has announced that headcount is expected to grow from 50 people last year to over 200 by the end of 2026 and plans to launch additional AI modules in revenue cycle management, patient marketing, and payroll/staffing. With this raise, Nitra plans to accelerate AI development, expand its engineering team, and scale its operating system across thousands of healthcare practices nationwide.

“We’re on a mission to serve the people that serve our communities and help doctors save time and money,” said Tim Hwang. “Practices are running critical workflows across disconnected systems that were never designed to work together. Nitra brings those layers together into a single AI-native operating system that helps healthcare practices run their operations more efficiently.”

Nitra has attracted some of the most prominent healthcare practices in the country, such as Bay Area Retina Associates, Southern Vitreoretinal Associates (SVA), Elase Medspa, PhyNet Dermatology, Brandywine Urology, and Empower Aesthetics.

“Nitra is creating a new category of platform for healthcare practices,” said Adarsh Bhatt, General Partner at Comma Capital. “From the beginning, we viewed the fintech entry point as the wedge into a much larger opportunity to build the AI-native operating platform for healthcare providers. Since our seed investment, the Nitra team has consistently executed on that vision. As someone who regularly speaks with clinicians and practice owners, it’s clear there is a strong demand for modern financial and operational infrastructure purpose-built for healthcare practices. This round positions Nitra to deepen that platform and expand the capabilities providers rely on every day.”

“Providing $20 million in venture debt reflects our conviction in the Nitra team and the company’s momentum,” said Dan Holman, Senior Portfolio Manager for Avenue Capital Group’s Growth Lending Strategy. “Tim Hwang and Jonathan Chen are exceptional founders with a strong track record of building and scaling ambitious platforms, and we believe Nitra is well positioned to become critical infrastructure for healthcare practices.”

Nitra previously raised its Seed round in 2022 from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, Pantera, KB Financial Group, Jerry Yang/AME Cloud Ventures, Gold House Ventures, Primer Sazze, Will Smith and Keisuke Honda’s Dreamers VC, Sparklabs, Expa, Era, Comma Capital, Dunamu and Partners, etc. and others.

About Nitra

Nitra is an AI-native operating system for healthcare practices to run their business and back office. The platform spans finance, procurement, a medical supplies marketplace and patient administration, automating workflows like payments, purchasing, inventory, scheduling, insurance verification, and patient communication. By embedding AI directly into its infrastructure, Nitra unifies these functions into a single system, reducing manual administrative work and improving operational visibility.

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Investment led by 8VC and Cota Capital follows national expansion and executive appointments

AUSTIN, Texas, March 10, 2026 — Esper today announced a new round of funding led by 8VC and Cota Capital, with participation from Stand Together Ventures Lab. The raise caps a record-breaking year of growth and expanding partnerships across state and local government.

Policy underpins every government function, from health and public safety to licensing and finance. As the best-in-class system of record for policy and regulation, Esper provides a centralized platform where governments can create, manage, and operationalize the policies that shape public services. Today, agencies partnering with Esper collectively serve over 130 million Americans, strengthening the delivery, transparency, and effectiveness of the services communities rely on.

Most recently, the State of Kansas became Esper’s fourth statewide customer, partnering with the company to modernize regulatory management at scale and set a new benchmark for statewide policy infrastructure. Over the past year, Esper also expanded within multiple New York City departments, several state health agencies, and other forward-looking state and local governments.

Esper was also named to the GovTech 100 for the fifth consecutive year, recognizing the most innovative companies transforming state and local government technology.

“Government works best when policy works,” said Maleka Momand, CEO of Esper. “For too long, the systems behind policy have been fragmented, outdated and neglected. We built Esper to strengthen the foundation of governance itself, giving public servants best-in-class infrastructure to collaborate more effectively, increase transparency, and deliver better outcomes for the people they serve. When policy works, communities thrive.”

“Esper is tackling one of the most consequential challenges facing America today: ensuring our institutions are equipped to govern effectively in a complex, fast-moving world,” said Joe Lonsdale, General Partner at 8VC. “By bringing greater clarity and structure to how policy is managed, the company is helping governments perform at a higher level. Esper has already made meaningful progress nationally, and its long-term impact on the effectiveness and resilience of American government will be profound.”

With new investment and strengthened leadership, including the appointments of government technology industry veterans Josh Ellars as Chief Revenue Officer and Rich McVey as Chief Operating Officer, Esper is accelerating the infrastructure that powers public governance at scale.

At its core, Esper is a force for good, equipping public servants with the tools they need to deliver clearer rules, stronger accountability, and measurable results for the American people.

About Esper
Esper is the system of record for government policy and regulation, empowering agencies to strengthen accountability, improve operations, and drive better outcomes for the communities they serve. Learn more at esper.com.

Contact: Gargi Potdar, [email protected]

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Led by industry pioneer Kevin Mandia, Armadin launches an autonomous, agentic attacker swarm to redefine defense for the AI era. 

SAN FRANCISCO, March 10, 2026 — Armadin, an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker, today announced it has raised an industry record $189.9 million in Seed and Series A funding. Led by Accel, with participation from Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Menlo Ventures, In-Q-Tel, and follow-on investment from 8VC and Ballistic Ventures, this marks the largest combined Seed and Series A funding round in cybersecurity history. Armadin’s mission is to prepare organizations for the speed and scale of AI-driven threats.

Closing the Hyperattack Gap

The rise of AI-powered attackers has ushered in the age of Hyperattacks: sophisticated, multi-modal campaigns that move at machine-speed. Traditional human-led defenses are no longer fast enough to bridge the widening security gap, and Armadin is closing this gap by deploying a unified, scalable platform that transforms security by revolutionizing how exploitable risk is identified, proven, and remediated.

“The AI shift is changing cybersecurity more rapidly than any transition in history,” said Kevin Mandia, CEO of Armadin. “In a world of machine-speed attacks, defense must become autonomous. You cannot have a human in the loop for every defense decision and expect to win. We are building the most formidable offense to give organizations the greatest defense. It’s important to national security.”

An Agentic Attacker Swarm

Unlike tools that scan for vulnerabilities, Armadin’s platform features specialized AI agents leveraging custom models in an agentic attacker swarm. These agents continuously reason, plan, and adapt like the most advanced human threat actors and provide CEOs and Boards with decision-grade proof of what can actually be exploited.

“At Accel, we look for companies that don’t just participate in the market, but redefine it,” said Ping Li, Partner at Accel. “Armadin is the first company we’ve seen that truly weaponizes the attacker’s perspective to build a more resilient defense. By combining Kevin’s unrivaled operational experience with a generational AI engineering team, Armadin is delivering the autonomous, comprehensive system of record for an enterprise’s security posture that boards and CISOs have been demanding for years.”

“The most honest measure of security has always been the offensive lens,” said Evan Peña, Founder and Chief Offensive Security Officer. “At Armadin, we are taking decades of human-led red teaming expertise and reinforcing it into AI models. These models are learning our tactics and techniques and are outpacing our human operators at every turn.”

“Security expertise is a constrained resource that organizations never have enough of in the moments when it matters most,” added Travis Lanham, Founder and Chief Technology Officer. “Before Armadin, you could not put a nation-state level adversary inside every network 24/7. We’ve built the ultimate attacker – it doesn’t just follow a script, it reasons and learns as it swarms your defenses. We train our models and build agents to the standards of a world-class red team with safety at the foundation and unleash them to identify exploitable risk at machine speed. We believe that this is the only way to prepare for the coming wave of AI Hyperattacks.” 

Armadin’s founding team is a rare fusion of elite red teaming experts and AI researchers and engineers under the leadership of Kevin Mandia, who maintains deep, trusted relationships across Fortune 100 companies, federal law enforcement agencies, and defense departments.

About Armadin
Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company building the ultimate attacker. With AI-powered Hyperattacks looming on the horizon, Armadin’s customers leverage our platform to proactively find and eliminate exploitable risk. Armadin’s swarm of AI agents operates relentlessly across the entire attack surface, uncovering real kill chains that require immediate action.

Armadin is led by CEO Kevin Mandia and Founders Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater. Together, they lead an elite collective of red team specialists and AI researchers and engineers dedicated to protecting democracy by ensuring Western superiority in cyberspace.

For more information, visit www.armadin.com

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Rally Venture Partner and Former Google CIO Ben Fried will join Captur’s Board of Directors.

NEW YORK, March 10, 2026 — Captur, AI infrastructure for enterprise mobile-apps that instantly verifies user-submitted photos for quality and accuracy, today announced a $6 million US seed round led by Rally Ventures, with continued participation from existing investor SVV (Sure Valley Ventures). The technology runs directly on users’ phones, analyzing images in 30 milliseconds without requiring an internet connection or costly cloud tokens. Captur processes tens of millions of images monthly across delivery, mobility and e-commerce platforms.

When a company needs a photo as proof of something — a delivery, a parked bike, a completed inspection — they’re completely dependent on whoever took it. If the photo is bad, they lose money or lose a contract. Captur fixes that, before the photo is taken.

Existing solutions—cloud-based processing or manual review—are slow, expensive and unable to provide the real-time feedback companies and customers need. Captur runs powerful computer vision models entirely on-device, achieving human-level or better accuracy across 6,000+ mobile devices: from sub-$100 Android phones to the latest iPhones. On-device processing delivers verification instantly, scales without added infrastructure and keeps costs flat no matter how many images are processed.

“As computer vision advanced and smartphones got more powerful, we saw an opportunity to move AI processing from the cloud directly onto user devices, unlocking instant verification that wasn’t possible before,” said Charlotte Bax, Founder and CEO of Captur. “Every industry with mobile users can now deliver instant, intelligent feedback at the moment it matters most.”

The platform doesn’t just detect what’s in an image; it provides actionable feedback directly to users in real-time, enabling them to make adjustments before completing transactions. For example, when a rider photographs a parked scooter to end their trip, Captur validates parking compliance instantly while they’re still there—catching mistakes in the moment rather than discovering them hours later when city fines have already been issued.

Early customers are seeing immediate impact. “We integrated Captur’s SDK and saw disputed delivery claims drop 30% in the first week,” said Heindrik Bernabe, CTO and Co-Founder at GoBolt. “For drivers who need to move fast, cloud processing isn’t an option—uploading, processing and waiting for feedback creates unacceptable delays. Captur delivers both quality and speed, which other AI solutions in logistics just can’t do.”

“Captur is solving a hard technical problem that creates a deep competitive moat,” said Ben Fried, Venture Partner at Rally Ventures. “They’ve brought powerful AI down to the smartphone level, eliminating the need for a data center while delivering human-level accuracy at 30-millisecond speeds across thousands of device types. Achieving this type of performance on-device requires specialized expertise that’s extremely difficult to replicate.”

The company will use the funding to expand its team and accelerate product development as it scales its edge AI engine across new industries including logistics, micro-mobility and retail.

About Captur
Captur is AI infrastructure for enterprise mobile-apps that instantly verifies user-submitted photos for quality and accuracy. The company’s mobile software development kits (SDKs) bring instant image recognition and actionable feedback directly into customers’ apps, running complex machine learning models entirely on-device without cloud inference. This allows businesses to automate tasks that previously required manual review, improving efficiency, reducing costs and enhancing customer experience. For more information, visit www.captur.ai.

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TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, March 10, 2026 — Uzum (the “Company”), Uzbekistan’s leading digital ecosystem, is pleased to announce the closing of a strategic investment exceeding $130 million, anchored by the sovereign entities of the Sultanate of Oman (the “Investor“).

The transaction combines primary equity and structured capital and establishes a $2.3 billion pre-money valuation reference point, with conversion terms linked to the Company’s next qualified financing round. The investment marks a significant step-up from Uzum’s previous funding rounds and materially strengthens the Company’s positioning ahead of its Series B.

The transaction also includes participation from existing international shareholders VR Capital, Tencent, and FinSight Ventures, underscoring strong international confidence in Uzum’s long-term growth and Uzbekistan’s rapidly expanding digital economy.

The capital will be used to accelerate Uzum’s next phase of growth across its core verticals — e-commerce, digital banking, payments, and consumer lending — with a focus on expanding product depth, strengthening infrastructure, and increasing access to digital services nationwide. Uzum has built a fully integrated ecosystem combining commerce and fintech at a national scale. Its platforms — including Uzum Market, Uzum Tezkor, Uzum Bank, and Uzum Nasiya — are used by over 20 million people, representing more than half of Uzbekistan’s population.

Global conviction in Uzbekistan’s growth story

The Investor brings long-term regional expertise and a strong focus on high-growth consumer and technology markets. The partnership reflects growing international interest in Uzbekistan as one of the most attractive emerging digital economies globally.

“This investment is a strong endorsement of both Uzum’s strategy and Uzbekistan’s digital potential,” commented Djasur Djumaev, Founder and CEO of Uzum.

“We are focused on building an infrastructure of national scale — technology-driven, inclusive, and designed for everyday use by millions of people and businesses. The support from the Investor, alongside our existing global shareholders, gives us strong momentum as we prepare for Series B and continue scaling our ecosystem.”

Uzum was advised on this transaction by DLA Piper. The Investor was advised by Greenberg Traurig.

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Ce tour de table de série C soutient l’accélération des déploiements d’infrastructures d’IA de Nscale à l’échelle mondiale, évaluant Nscale à 14,6 milliards de dollars.

Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker et Nick Clegg rejoignent le conseil d’administration de Nscale

LONDRES, 10 mars 2026 — L’hyperscaler britannique pour l’infrastructure d’IA Nscale a annoncé aujourd’hui son financement de série C de 2 milliards de dollars, mené par Aker ASA et 8090 Industries. Ce tour de table évalue Nscale à 14,6 milliards de dollars. Le tour de table a été soutenu par Astra Capital Management, Citadel, Dell, Jane Street, Lenovo, Linden Advisors, Nokia, NVIDIA et Point72. Cette nouvelle levée de fonds permettra d’accélérer le développement mondial de Nscale en matière d’infrastructure d’IA verticalement intégrée – du calcul GPU et de la mise en réseau aux services de données et aux logiciels d’orchestration – en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et en Asie.

L’IA est en train de remodeler les industries, les économies et les stratégies nationales, et les plateformes informatiques accélérées sont le moteur de ce changement. Ce n’est pas la demande qui limite l’expansion du marché, mais la capacité à déployer la capacité et à la faire fonctionner de manière fiable en production. Nscale est spécialement conçu pour accélérer les déploiements d’IA. Ce capital renforce l’empreinte de l’infrastructure de Nscale, élargit ses équipes d’ingénierie et d’exploitation, et renforce la plateforme, permettant à Nscale de continuer à fournir des déploiements d’IA réels, de niveau de production, à très grande échelle.

« Nous vivons la quatrième révolution industrielle ; le monde évolue à un rythme rapide. Au cours des cinq prochaines années, l’intelligence artificielle sera intégrée dans tous les secteurs d’activité, tous les produits et tous les emplois. Elle permettra d’accélérer la découverte de médicaments, de prolonger la vie humaine, d’autonomiser les déplacements et la robotique, d’augmenter la productivité et de favoriser une croissance massive. Cette évolution conduit au plus grand déploiement d’infrastructure de l’histoire de l’humanité », a déclaré Josh Payne, PDG et fondateur de Nscale. « Nscale est à la tête de ce déploiement. Nous construisons les fondations sur lesquelles repose le marché, le moteur de la superintelligence ».

Renforcement du conseil d’administration de Nscale

Nscale accueille également aujourd’hui trois nouveaux directeurs. Sheryl Sandberg, Susan Decker et Nick Clegg rejoindront le conseil d’administration de Nscale, apportant à un groupe de chefs d’entreprise qui est déjà de classe mondiale une profondeur mondiale substantielle dans les domaines de la technologie, des politiques, des opérations et de la gouvernance.

Sheryl Sandberg – Mme Sandberg est actuellement cofondatrice de Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, qui déploie des capitaux privés pour financer l’innovation dans les domaines de la consommation, de l’entreprise, du climat et des technologies de la santé. En tant qu’ancienne directrice de l’exploitation de Meta et ancienne cadre dirigeante de Google, Mme Sandberg apporte une expérience inégalée dans le développement des entreprises technologiques les plus influentes au monde, ainsi qu’une expertise approfondie en matière d’opérations, de stratégie de croissance et de mise en place d’organisations mondiales.

Susan Decker – Susan Decker est PDG et cofondatrice de Raftr, une plateforme d’expérience communautaire pour les universités. Ancienne présidente de Yahoo, Inc., elle est actuellement membre du conseil d’administration de Costco Wholesale Corporation, Berkshire Hathaway, Vail Resorts, Chime, Vox Media et Automattic. Mme Decker apporte son sens aigu des finances, son expertise en matière de gouvernance et son leadership stratégique, acquis au cours de décennies passées à la tête d’entreprises mondiales de médias et de technologies.

Nick Clegg – Actuellement partenaire général de Hiro Capital, Nick Clegg se concentre sur la promotion de la croissance des technologies de pointe en matière d’informatique spatiale en Europe. Il est à la fois ancien vice-premier ministre britannique et ancien président des affaires mondiales chez Meta. Avant d’être élu au Parlement britannique en 2005, M. Clegg a siégé pendant cinq ans au Parlement européen. M. Clegg apporte une expertise approfondie à l’intersection de la technologie, des politiques et des affaires mondiales et a récemment été au centre des conversations extrêmement importantes sur la réglementation et la gouvernance qui déterminent l’avenir de l’IA.

Mme Sandberg, Mme Decker et M. Clegg rejoignent le conseil d’administration de Nscale, où siègent également Josh Payne, Rael Nurick, Jacob Leschly et Øyvind Eriksen.

Rationalisation de l’exécution en Norvège

Parallèlement à ce financement de série C et à ses nouveaux directeurs, Nscale a conclu un accord avec Aker pour intégrer pleinement la coentreprise Aker Nscale – annoncée en juillet 2025 – dans Nscale. À l’avenir, Aker restera l’un des principaux actionnaires de Nscale et son PDG, Øyvind Eriksen, continuera à siéger au conseil d’administration de Nscale.

Cette décision consolide la livraison et la gouvernance au sein d’une seule entité, tout en garantissant que tous les projets existants dans le cadre de la coentreprise se poursuivent et restent pleinement opérationnels en tant que partie intégrante de Nscale. Ce partenariat permanent a joué un rôle fondamental dans la croissance de Nscale et démontre sa volonté persistante de jouer un rôle positif et à long terme dans les communautés où elle est active. L’engagement ferme de Nscale en faveur de la réutilisation de la chaleur perdue, du développement des compétences locales et de l’investissement dans l’infrastructure régionale reste inchangé.

Øyvind Eriksen, président-directeur général d’Aker ASA, a déclaré : « Cette étape renforce l’exécution en plaçant la livraison et la gouvernance sous un même toit, tout en maintenant la continuité pour les personnes et les projets déjà en cours. Nous avons pleinement confiance en la capacité de Nscale à agir de manière responsable en Norvège sur le long terme, et nous pensons que cela prépare le terrain pour progresser plus rapidement et créer une valeur durable. »

Rayyan Islam, cofondateur et partenaire général de 8090 Industries, a déclaré : « Nous vivons une nouvelle ère définie par l’IA, et le facteur limitant est l’infrastructure. Les capacités de calcul, d’énergie et de déploiement à l’échelle industrielle détermineront les nations et les entreprises qui seront à la tête de la prochaine génération de progrès technologiques et économiques.

Nscale a construit une plateforme unique capable de relever ce défi en intégrant verticalement les couches critiques de l’infrastructure de l’IA – de l’énergie et des centres de données au calcul et à l’orchestration.

Chez 8090 Industries, nous investissons dans les systèmes qui permettent à des industries entières de se développer et nous sommes fiers de nous associer à Josh et à l’équipe de Nscale qui construisent l’épine dorsale de l’économie mondiale de l’IA. »

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC et J.P. Morgan ont fait office de co-agents de placement pour Nscale dans le cadre de cette levée de fonds qui comprend le SAFE pré-série C.

À propos de Nscale

Nscale est l’hyperscaler mondial conçu pour l’infrastructure de l’IA. Grâce à des solutions d’IA intégrées verticalement et à la conception modulaire de centres de données basée sur les premiers principes en Europe, en Amérique du Nord et ailleurs, Nscale fournit la base de calcul pour l’entraînement, le réglage fin et l’inférence de l’IA d’entreprise à l’échelle.

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