The inaugural program connects biotech and medtech startups from Israel and Taiwan with U.S. investors, regulators, mentors and industry partners.

BOSTON, July 29, 2026 — MassChallenge launches Breakthrough Bio, a global program built to give top biotech and medtech startups in-depth access to the U.S. life sciences ecosystem and the commercialization support that has long been out of reach from abroad. The Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) and Taiwan’s Development Center for Biotechnology (DCB) join Breakthrough Bio as its inaugural partners, leading the way for their startup ecosystems.

Innovation in biotech and medtech has gone global. Groundbreaking science and technology are emerging from academic labs, corporate spinouts, and founder-led startups across Israel, Taiwan, and other countries worldwide. What has not kept pace is access. The capital, mentorship, regulatory expertise and industry relationships that turn breakthroughs into products that reach patients and create durable companies remain concentrated in a few ecosystems.

Breakthrough Bio exists to close that gap. With deep roots in the U.S. life sciences ecosystem, MassChallenge gives high-potential startups from Israel and Taiwan a direct, guided path into one of the most critical expansion markets for their growth, helping them form strategic partnerships, secure investment, and accelerate the development and early market entry that turn breakthroughs into scalable companies.

Breakthrough Bio provides a highly personalized commercialization experience tailored to each company’s stage, technology and growth objectives. Participating startups receive curated engagement with U.S. investors, pharmaceutical and healthcare leaders, regulatory experts, talent, mentors and business development partners.

The program kicks off in early January 2027, anchored by ecosystem immersions on the ground in Boston and Cambridge, in San Diego around LSI USA and in Philadelphia around the 2027 BIO International Convention. Between immersions, participants continue with personalized virtual engagement from a curated roster of expert mentors, targeted curriculum and hands-on preparation for each conference and ecosystem visit. At each stop, MassChallenge guides participants through the largest and most influential gatherings in the field and brings the full weight of the U.S. ecosystem to bear on their success.

Applications for the inaugural Israel cohort open July 29 and close at 12:00 p.m. Israel time on August 18, 2026. Eligibility details and the application are available upon logging into the Israel Innovation Authority online portal at https://innovationisrael.org.il/en/calls_for_proposal/pilots-accelerator-biotech-medtech/.

Applications for the Taiwan cohort open September 1, 2026, and close October 16, 2026. Eligibility details and application information will be available through MassChallenge and the Development Center for Biotechnology closer to the opening date.

Cait Brumme, CEO, MassChallenge: “Great science is being created everywhere, but the path to market still is not open to everyone. Breakthrough Bio goes beyond exposure programs to give the best companies from these ecosystems the one-to-one support, regulatory guidance, investor relationships and industry connections that accelerate commercialization faster, so their innovations reach patients here and in their home countries.”

Dror Bin, CEO, Israel Innovation Authority: “Israel is home to a vibrant innovation ecosystem that consistently produces world-class technologies and companies. One of the most important challenges for early-stage startups, however, is transforming technological excellence into commercial success by securing their first strategic customers and partners in global markets. That is where the Israel Innovation Authority plays a critical role in helping promising startups bridge this critical gap by connecting them with the right ecosystems, expertise and opportunities. Breakthrough Bio provides exactly this kind of bridge, enabling Israeli biotech and medtech companies to validate their technologies, forge strategic partnerships and accelerate their path to international growth. By helping more Israeli startups succeed globally, we strengthen both our innovation ecosystem and Israel’s position as a leading hub for science, technology and innovation.”

Tsai-Kun Li, President, Development Center for Biotechnology: “With National Health Insurance and science institutes, exemplified by DCB, based on a public-private partnership, Taiwan has built up one of the most dynamic biotech and medtech ecosystems in Asia, with a growing startup pipeline ready to leap into global markets. It has been a great challenge for many of them to soft-land in the U.S. market. Sustained access to investors, regulatory expertise and industry partners who understand how to translate innovation into commercialization in the U.S. is needed. Breakthrough Bio bonds our efforts and connects Taiwan’s bio-clusters and startups with leading U.S. life sciences hubs. Through our leadership of the BIO HUB at the National Biotechnology Research Park, we bring together resources from industry and government with academic strengths in basic research and clinical medicine to boost young startups. Cooperation with Breakthrough Bio and MassChallenge further opens critical pathways for introducing ‘created in Taiwan’ innovations to the U.S. market. Moreover, enhanced by the Taiwan-Berkeley Health Innovation Accelerator, the joint program driven by Taiwan’s National Development Council and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, this partnership gives Taiwanese innovations access to complementary networks and commercialization resources across both the East and West Coasts.”

Partnership Inquiries
Government and innovation agencies interested in participating in the 2027-28 Breakthrough Bio program can contact John Valentine, Senior Director of Industry Alliances, at [email protected].

About MassChallenge

MassChallenge is a global institution that backs startups building solutions to complex, systems-critical challenges, working where complexity is high and the path to market is hardest. Founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with offices in Texas, Israel, Switzerland and the UK, MassChallenge connects startups with the partners, programs and capital needed to accelerate commercialization and real-world impact. Since 2009, MassChallenge has supported more than 5,000 startups that have raised over $27 billion in funding. Learn more at masschallenge.org.

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FirstMark Capital led the round, with Thomson Reuters Ventures and Y Combinator participating.

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 — Henry AI Inc. (“Henry”), the AI platform automating back-office knowledge work for commercial real estate teams, today announced a $16.5 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital, with strategic participation from Thomson Reuters Ventures and follow-on investment from Y Combinator, Susa Ventures, 1Sharpe, StoryHouse Ventures, Pioneer Fund, RXR Arden Digital Ventures, Karman Ventures, and Coalition Operators. Adam Nelson, Partner at FirstMark Capital, has also joined Henry’s board of directors.

The raise comes as Henry has established itself as operating infrastructure for the industry’s largest firms. Today, teams from all of the largest commercial real estate brokerages are on the platform, reaching more than 150 firms in total.

Henry automates the document layer that has long functioned as CRE’s most expensive hidden cost: offering memorandums, underwriting, pitch decks, and buyer lists. The platform has produced more than 20,000 client-ready deliverables representing more than $150 billion in underlying deal value. Analyst production time is down 90%, work previously estimated at 15 hours per deliverable now takes about 30 minutes of human review, with a platform-wide median turnaround of under four hours. More than 20% of Henry’s customers have reduced staffing requirements as a direct result.

The customer impact is concrete. At Colliers, EVP Tom de Jong cut broker-opinion-of-value turnaround from three to four days to under two hours. At Cooper Horowitz, a single deal memorandum went from as much as 18 hours to under 15 minutes. At Compass, broker Erich Bubbel cut time per offering package from up to seven hours to about 20 minutes. At Marcus & Millichap, National Retail Group’s Kodi Traver describes the platform as “almost like a second office of agents — a new teammate, but he never sleeps and always gets work done fast.”

Commercial real estate firms sit on decades of proprietary transaction data, including underwriting models, client relationships, deal history, scattered across old files and individual analysts’ heads. That is why Henry has launched Henry Deal, which turns a firm’s entire institutional memory into deliverables across the full lifecycle of a transaction, from underwriting to packaging to close.

“Every deal in commercial real estate is buried under a pile of documents that someone had to make by hand,” said Sammy Greenwall, co-founder and CEO of Henry. “But the documents are just the surface. The real problem is that these firms are sitting on the most valuable data in the industry and can’t actually leverage it. We started by automating the deck. With Henry Deal, we’re shipping the system of record that turns that institutional knowledge into every deliverable a deal needs. Winning the deal today, the entire back office tomorrow.”

“What made Henry impossible to ignore was not just the growth, but the evidence that customers were beginning to treat it as an extension of their team,” said Adam Nelson, Partner at FirstMark Capital. “Henry combines deep commercial real estate expertise with a technical team that is translating that insight into product at remarkable speed. The company began with one of the industry’s most painful back-office bottlenecks; today, it is becoming the system firms rely on to underwrite, win, and execute deals. We believe Henry is on a path to becoming the intelligence layer for commercial real estate.”

Henry will use the new capital to expand its engineering and product teams and build out from a document engine into the system of record for CRE deals. The proceeds fund that expansion, beginning with the June 15 launch of Henry Deal.

“The bottleneck in CRE has never been the data — it’s the cost of turning data into finished deliverables,” said Adam Pratt, co-founder and CTO of Henry. “Every step in the deal chain has been done manually by expensive people under deadline pressure. We built Henry to automate that entire layer. Now we scale it.”

About Henry

Henry is the AI platform automating back-office knowledge work for commercial real estate teams. By replacing manual, high-cost workflows across deal production — from offering memorandums and pitch decks to underwriting packages and transaction summaries — Henry reduces deliverable production time by 90% and helps CRE firms close more deals with fewer resources. Henry is backed by FirstMark Capital, Y Combinator, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Susa Ventures, 1Sharpe, StoryHouse Ventures, Pioneer Fund, RXR Arden Digital Ventures, Karman Ventures, and Coalition Operators. Learn more at henry.ai.

About FirstMark Capital

FirstMark Capital is a New York-based venture capital firm and one of the most active early-stage investors in enterprise technology. Its portfolio includes Shopify, Discord, Pinterest, Miro, and DraftKings. For more information, visit firstmark.com.

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Insait IO rebrands as Encore AI and raises $30M Series A to deploy AI agents powered by the company’s patented Interaction Mining technology across every channel

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 — Encore AI, the first agentic customer interaction platform built to automatically drive more revenue, announced today a $30 million Series A led by Team8,  Planven and The Garage, to expand global deployment of its enterprise AI platform. While most AI agents are designed to deflect calls and reduce the number of customers who ever reach a human agent, Encore AI was built to increase revenue from every customer interaction.

Top sales performers generate disproportionate revenue. They convert more customers, recover more opportunities, and close more deals, but they are scarce. No company can scale its best people across every call, every channel, and every hour. Encore AI removes this ceiling by capturing and replicating the behaviors of top performers. The company partners with leading organizations in the most demanding and regulated industries, including financial services.

Encore AI’s patented Interaction Mining technology studies an organization’s top performers, extracts specific actions that drive results, and deploys them as AI agents. Those agents operate autonomously or alongside live teams, across every channel, in any language, while meeting demanding compliance requirements of the most stringent regulated environments.

“Today’s enterprise AI industry is optimized for cost reduction. Encore was built for the other side of the equation. Every organization already has data showing what its best people do differently. Encore trains AI agents on this data, enabling them to deliver quality and effective customer interactions at scale, resulting in uplift in revenue and satisfaction,” said Dr. Dvir Ginzburg, Encore AI Founder and CEO.

The Series A round was led by Team8, Planven and The Garage, alongside Lukatz and several large commercial banks and insurers that first came on as Encore AI customers and chose to invest after seeing the platform’s impact on their own operations. The Garage, which led the company’s earlier seed round, has backed Encore since its founding.

“Every enterprise is sitting on years of customer interaction data that it is not fully using,” said Hadar Siterman Norris, Partner at Team8. “Encore AI turns that data into revenue by learning what top performers do differently and deploying those behaviors at scale. Just as important, it has built the compliance architecture needed to operate in the most demanding regulated industries. That combination gives Encore the potential to define a new category.”

“The next generation of AI leaders will be defined by the enterprise value they create. We believe vertical AI companies with proprietary data advantages and deep domain expertise will build the enduring platforms of this decade. Encore AI is a compelling example of this vision, transforming years of data into AI that can consistently drive revenue at enterprise scale. We are proud to partner with Dvir and the team as they build what we believe can become a category-defining company,” Eran Westman, Managing Partner at Planven.

“We backed this team from the very beginning, leading both their pre-seed and seed rounds,” said Omer Nagar, Managing Partner, The Garage. “Beyond capital, we worked hand in hand with the founders to validate the product in live banking environments and open doors across our ecosystem. Watching that vision become reality has been rewarding, and we’re as confident today as we were on day one.”

Encore AI can go live in weeks. It does not require months of configuration, testing, and tuning. It builds from a company’s actual operating reality, ingesting calls, chats, emails, and CRM data to rapidly deploy across enterprises. Results are produced rapidly, too: one of Encore AI’s largest lending clients saw a 10x return on investment within months of implementation.

Dr. Ginzburg founded Encore AI in 2022, bringing a background precisely suited to the problem the company solves. His Ph.D. in Geometric Deep Learning and years as a recommendation-systems researcher at Microsoft are the technical lineage behind Encore AI’s patented Interaction Mining technology. His work centered on finding signals in large, complex behavioral datasets, the same challenge Encore now solves at scale.

About Encore AI
Encore AI is the only enterprise agentic AI platform built to generate revenue from complex customer interactions, not deflect them. Using patented Interaction Mining technology, Encore AI deploys AI agents that convert leads, close applications, recover balances, and drive upsell and cross-sell at scale, across voice, chat, IVR, and live form-fill, in even the most regulated environments, including financial services. Encore AI is headquartered in New York with a global presence in APAC and EMEA. Learn more at www.gainencore.ai.

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Expands Enterprise Partnerships with Leading Health Systems

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2026 — Precise Behavioral, a physician-led behavioral health services and technology company, today announced $14.2 million in venture funding. The round was led by A1 Health Ventures, with participation from Ziegler Link-Age Fund, Converge Capital Partners and Granite Financial Holdings, an affiliate of Blue Cross of Idaho. Already profitable, the investment will help scale the company’s operations, digital SaaS capabilities, and AI roadmap. One of the few companies that can deliver behavioral healthcare both virtually and in-person across multiple care settings and manage the full revenue cycle, this investment follows significant customer growth including expanded partnerships with nationally recognized health systems and academic medical centers.

“As a serial entrepreneur and long-time practicing geriatric psychiatrist who has worked inside of hospitals, emergency rooms and skilled nursing facilities, I have seen firsthand how rising patient demand, workforce shortages and fragmented care are impacting health systems today,” said Nitin Nanda, MD, founder and CEO of Precise Behavioral. “Behavioral health continues to be one of the greatest operational challenges facing hospitals. Service line owners are managing numerous vendors and fragmented workflows when they need a singular enterprise solution that improves access, outcomes, and operational performance. This investment allows us to continue to scale our operating system for the next wave of behavioral health.”

Founded by clinicians and deep healthcare operators, Precise Behavioral partners with hospitals, health systems, ACOs, skilled nursing facilities and correctional facilities to modernize behavioral healthcare delivery through its integrated technology, operational services and clinical programs. One of the few companies that delivers care across Inpatient, Emergency and Ambulatory settings, Precise offers a singular unified platform that replaces the need for multiple, disconnected vendors by offering a modular and fully customizable solution set.

“No one has holistically addressed the behavioral health needs of health systems and hospitals comprehensively. Precise Behavioral targeted this niche early on and has scaled rapidly, reaching profitability in under three years, delivering more than 100,000 patient encounters, and building a national clinical footprint,” said Karim Botros, Managing Partner at A1 Health Ventures. “We believe Precise is uniquely positioned to define this enterprise behavioral health category.”

Leading Health Systems Choose Precise Behavioral
Over the past year, Precise Behavioral has continued to expand its footprint with health systems seeking support across consultation-liaison psychiatry, outpatient behavioral health, collaborative care, digital patient engagement, referral management, and care navigation. The company partners with several leading health systems, including: CommonSpirit and Prime Healthcare. These partnerships reflect growing demand for integrated psychiatric and therapy care models that reduce operational complexity and expand access.

“As patient demand for mental health services continues to increase, there’s never been a more important time for us to expand our offerings to reach more people,” said June Collison, former President of Community Hospital San Bernadino, CommonSpirit. “Precise is one of the few companies that offers a hybrid of in-person and virtual on-demand psychiatric services across inpatient and outpatient settings. They seamlessly integrate high-quality behavioral healthcare services into our healthcare system across the continuum and drive quality measure improvements while increasing patient access to essential services.”

“We invested in Precise Behavioral because its product is uniquely flexible and its leadership is extremely qualified,” said Jenny Poth, SVP at the Ziegler Link-Age Fund. “The company has a plug-and-play platform that supports patients across the continuum of care – from hospital entry, through post-acute care and even into the home. Every module can be combined, expanded or reconfigured, creating a tailored behavioral healthcare solution that integrates seamlessly into any ecosystem. The CEO and founder is a highly experienced physician who has cultivated a team with deep clinical and operational backgrounds. We are confident they will deliver exceptional experiences to their partners and patients.”

Delivering Comprehensive Behavioral Health Care Across All Settings
The company has built the Precise Behavioral Operating System (BOS) which unifies clinical delivery, operational workflows, and revenue cycle management into a single, scalable system. The platform is configurable across care settings and provides on-demand clinical consults, a virtual psychiatry and ambulatory clinic, a post-discharge emergency room follow-up solution and collaborative care to help integrate behavioral health into primary care settings. These four solutions all come with specialized revenue cycle management and billing services that help clients streamline reimbursement and maintain regulatory compliance.

The current round of financing will support the company’s continued enterprise platform growth, including enhancements to AI-powered patient engagement tools, referral management capabilities, virtual care operations and analytics.

About Precise Behavioral
Precise Behavioral is a technology-enabled behavioral health company founded in 2022 by Dr. Nitin Nanda, a geriatric psychiatrist and healthcare entrepreneur who exited his last company (Aligned Telehealth) to Amwell, Inc, a publicly traded telehealth company. Building on that success, Precise Behavioral aligns clinical delivery, operational workflows and reimbursement into a single unified system supported by a nationwide clinical network and AI-enabled technology. It provides behavioral healthcare services and technology solutions to health systems, skilled nursing facilities, ACOs, medical groups and correctional facilities by offering four core out-of-the-box configurable solutions, including: Precise Clinical, a national network of psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, therapists, and care managers providing on-demand and embedded behavioral health coverage in the ED, inpatient, and outpatient settings; Precise Digital Outpatient OS, a virtual psychiatry and ambulatory clinic that supports measurement-based care, patient monitoring, risk scoring, and virtual visits; Precise ConnectED, a post-discharge follow-up application for ED patients that offers virtual care and engagement to reduce repeat visits and support HEDIS measures; and Precise Collaborative Care psychiatric consults, care management, and population tracking for primary and specialty care practices.

For more information or to inquire about partnership opportunities, visit https://precisebehavioral.com.

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NEW YORK, SINGAPORE and ABU DHABI, UAE, July 29, 2026 — AIBNKO today announced the official launch of its AI-based, multi-agentic sell-side research platform – the first system of its kind capable of initiating, producing, and distributing institutional-grade equity research entirely without human intervention. The platform can track and cover an unlimited number of global equities in real time – a scale no traditional sell-side desk, constrained by analyst headcount, can match.

Traditional sell-side research has long struggled with three structural bottlenecks: limited coverage capacity, inherent conflicts of interest, and single-analyst subjectivity. AIBNKO’s fully autonomous, multi-agentic workflow removes all three constraints without compromising research quality.

Purpose-built for institutional workflows, AIBNKO is an AI-based, multi-agentic platform that generates comprehensive, deep-dive investment research reports on global equities – on demand. Rather than relying on generic LLM summaries, portfolio managers can now produce institutional-grade analysis in a few minutes – for any stock in any market. The era of digging through static research libraries in search of coverage is over. AIBNKO seamlessly replicates the rigorous methodology of a top-tier analyst team, serving as the investment committee of the new era: faster, smarter, and inherently unbiased.

“For decades, sell-side research has been bottlenecked by headcount and, too often, quietly shaped by incentives that have nothing to do with getting the call right,” said Zvika Fine, Founder of AIBNKO. “We built AIBNKO to remove both problems at once. It doesn’t get tired, it doesn’t play favorites, and it doesn’t skew bullish. When only one in five of your ratings is a Buy, that’s not a platform trying to please anyone – that’s a platform doing its job. This is our moat, and it’s not one anyone can replicate by hiring more analysts. We built this from the ground up to be unbiased, and the industry is going to have to catch up to that standard.”

About AIBNKO

AIBNKO redefines institutional equity research by replacing static models with a dynamic, multi-agentic AI framework that operates with the precision of a high-performance investment committee. By orchestrating specialized AI agents, the platform ensures every recommendation is stress-tested against diverse strategies and rigorous governance standards. This fully independent framework doesn’t just monitor global markets and summarize earnings – it actively learns from its own hits and misses through a closed-loop auditor agent, continuously refining its methodology to deliver unbiased, alpha-generating insights that evolve in real time with the market.

AIBNKO research reports are accessible to qualified investors via leading financial terminals and through its subscription-based platform at aibnko.com.

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Massive spending on AI, cloud computing, and hyperscale infrastructure is creating powerful long-term growth opportunities across the digital infrastructure sector

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 — Market News Updates News Commentary – The race to build the next generation of AI infrastructure is turning into one of the biggest investment stories in tech. Behind every ChatGPT prompt, cloud app, streaming service, online payment, and AI business tool sits a sprawling network of data centers. As demand for artificial intelligence keeps climbing, the companies that build, own, and equip these facilities are moving to the center of a multi-trillion-dollar growth story.  JLL projects global data-center capacity could roughly double—from about 103 gigawatts today to around 200 gigawatts by 2030—and that expansion may require as much as $3 trillion in new infrastructure spending. McKinsey’s numbers run even higher, suggesting total worldwide outlays on data-center build-out could approach $7 trillion by the end of the decade.  This may be creating opportunities for active tech companies that include:  CleanCore Solutions, Inc. (NYSE American: ZONE), Cipher Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR), TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF), Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ: HUT), Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS).

The opportunity isn’t limited to the owners of the buildings. It stretches across the whole supply chain: makers of AI servers, networking gear, advanced cooling systems, power-management technology, semiconductors, and the rest of the digital plumbing. Every new hyperscale facility needs a mountain of hardware and supporting tech before the first workload ever runs. That’s why a growing number of investors are looking past the usual tech names and toward the companies that actually supply the backbone of the AI boom.  The hyperscale data-center market alone is expected to grow from roughly $31.4 billion in 2026 to more than $52.5 billion by 2030. The broader global AI-infrastructure market is forecast to climb from about $75.9 billion to roughly $223.5 billion over the same period.

Key Growth Drivers Fueling the Data Center / Infrastructure Industries:

• Up to $3 trillion in new data center investment is projected by 2030 to support AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Global data center capacity is expected to nearly double to approximately 200 GW by 2030.
• McKinsey estimates the total global data center buildout could reach $7 trillion by 2030.
• Hyperscale data center market projected to grow from $31.4 billion in 2026 to $52.5 billion by 2030.
• AI infrastructure market forecast to expand from $75.9 billion in 2026 to $223.5 billion by 2030, creating significant opportunities across servers, networking, semiconductors, cooling, and power infrastructure.

CleanCore Solutions, Inc. (NYSE American: ZONE) Signs AI Colocation Services Agreement with Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) for a Data Center Campus in Minnesota

• AI data center campus designed to Tier 3 standards, which will deliver approximately 55 MW of utility power capacity and 40 MW of critical IT load
• 10-year Colocation Services Agreement with an initial contract value of approximately $800 million and two 10-year renewal options representing more than $3 billion of total potential contract value
• Company expects initial revenue in the first quarter of 2027
• Second announced AI infrastructure campus expands upon ZONE’s development pipeline, which is up to over 500 MW across strategic U.S. markets

CleanCore Solutions, Inc. ($ZONE) (“CleanCore” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a 10-year Colocation Services Agreement with Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) for its data center campus in Minnesota. Cerebras is a leading AI compute company that describes itself as building the world’s fastest AI infrastructure with its team of pioneering researchers. Building on the Company’s recently announced West Texas data center campus, this agreement accelerates ZONE’s strategy of developing critical AI infrastructure across the United States.

The AI data center campus, designed to Tier 3 standards, will represent 100% pre-leased occupancy under a long-term agreement with Cerebras, providing revenue visibility from commencement of operations. The project is expected to generate approximately $800 million of contract value over the initial 10-year term, with the potential to exceed $3 billion, including renewal terms.

The campus will deliver approximately 55 MW of utility power capacity and 40 MW of critical IT load upon full buildout. Approximately 20 MW of utility power is already energized today, which the Company believes reduces certain development risks associated with the project and supports the initial 15 MW of critical IT load. The remaining capacity is expected to come online by Q1 of 2027.

“This second development marks an important milestone in advancing our portfolio of critical digital infrastructure to secure compute capacity for Cerebras and other premier AI companies,” said Tyler Hassen, CEO of ZONE. “Building on our previously announced project in West Texas, this Minnesota campus expands ZONE’s infrastructure footprint to meet the urgent power needs of customers.”

The facility will be developed in partnership with an experienced data center development partner, whose integrated data center ecosystem platform combines colocation services, energy optimization, and infrastructure advisory. This partnership advances the Company’s strategy of working with experienced developers and industry leaders to accelerate the delivery of next-generation AI infrastructure. Through the partnership, ZONE expects to own nearly 80% of the project, which is expected to start generating revenue in Q1 of 2027.

“In an economy driven by AI, ZONE will help provide the fuel to drive it further,” said Alex Spiro, Chairman of the Board. ”  Continued…  Read this full release and additional news for ZONE by Clicking Here 

In other industry news of note:

Cipher Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) recently announced it will provide a business update and release its second quarter 2026 financial results before U.S. markets open on Tuesday, August 4th, 2026. Cipher will host a conference call and webcast that day at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

The live webcast and a webcast replay of the conference call can be accessed from the investor relations section of Cipher’s website at https://investors.cipherdigital.com.

TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF), a leading owner, developer, and operator of vertically integrated digital infrastructure, recently announced two significant transactions that further advance its strategy of developing, owning, and operating large-scale AI infrastructure campuses.

The Company has executed a 20-year lease agreement with Anthropic at its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The lease is expected to generate approximately $19 billion of contracted revenue over the initial lease term.

Separately, TeraWulf has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its 50.1% ownership interest in the Abernathy Joint Venture to an investor group led by its joint venture partner, Fluidstack. The transaction monetizes TeraWulf’s approximately $450 million investment at a premium to invested capital, unlocking significant capital for redeployment into wholly owned AI infrastructure opportunities.

Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ: HUT), an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive technologies, recently announced the commercialization of the second phase of its one-gigawatt Beacon Point data center campus in Nueces County, Texas through a second 15-year, $9.8 billion lease (the “Agreement”) for 352 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity (the “Transaction”). The tenant, the high-investment-grade company that executed the Phase 1 lease, has doubled its contracted IT capacity at the campus to 704 MW. The Transaction fully commercializes the Beacon Point campus against its 1,000 MW of utility capacity, secured under an interconnection agreement with AEP Texas for electric delivery service.

With the Transaction, Beacon Point becomes Hut 8’s first fully commercialized AI data center campus. The Company secured the site, contracted the campus in full with investment-grade cash flows, financed Phase 1 with investment-grade debt, and commenced construction.

AMD (AMD) and Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) recently announced a technical partnership to deliver a new disaggregated AI inference solution that combines AMD Helios™ rackscale solutions with the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine. Unveiled at Advancing AI 2026, the solution is designed to deliver the ultra-low latency required for the most advanced AI applications while dramatically increasing the throughput and efficiency.

The joint AMD and Cerebras solution will deploy AMD Helios alongside Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine technology integrated in a single inference workflow for maximum performance and efficiency. AMD Helios will provide a high-performance, scalable throughput engine. Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine technology will provide ultra-fast, ultra-low latency decode and token generation.

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Funding round led by Vibe Credit Union, with participation from BankTech Ventures and other leading credit unions and fintech investors, underscores rapid growth from 4 to 60+ signed institutions in less than 18 months

DOVER, Del., July 29, 2026 — InvestiFi, a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) and the award-winning InvestTech platform enabling credit unions and community banks to offer digital investing directly within online banking, today announced it has raised $20 million in funding. The round was led by Vibe Credit Union, with participation from BankTech Ventures, ICCU (Idaho Central Credit Union), Navari (formerly CUSG), United Financial Credit Union, Coastal Credit Union, Mid Minnesota Credit Union, Truity Credit Union, and Southpoint Credit Union.

This funding is the largest investment to date into a fintech whose sole focus is supporting American Credit Unions and Banks with digital investing capabilities.

Recent research from Cornerstone Advisors shares that nearly half of Zillenials (Gen Z and Millenials) are investing, with 43% having had to move money to third-party platforms to do so. Digital investing has become a table stakes category for consumer-focused banks and credit unions in the United States, as major FIs, neobanks and fintechs launch investing capabilities alongside traditional digital banking.

“This funding round is a powerful validation of what we’ve built and where we’re headed,” said Kian Sarreshteh, CEO and Founder of InvestiFi. “What makes this raise especially meaningful is that so much of it comes directly from the consumer-focused financial institutions and strategic partners who use our platform every day. They aren’t just customers — they’re believers in our mission to democratize investing and to make sure community financial institutions can compete and win in this space. We’re incredibly proud to be the go-to partner for these FIs that recognize the importance of this category, who opted to invest directly, alongside institutional investors in BankTech Ventures and Navari.

This capital raise will allow us to scale our platform and maximize adoption with the end users of these financial institutions, to pull their account holders and deposits back from 3^rd party investment platforms.”

Rapid Growth and Market Momentum

InvestiFi has scaled from just 4 clients in 2024 to more than 60 signed financial institutions as of July, 2026, reflecting surging demand from credit unions and community banks looking to retain assets and deepen account holder relationships through embedded investing. The company’s multi-award-winning platform gives financial institutions a turnkey way to compete with large brokerages and neobanks without asking account holders to leave their trusted banking relationship.

InvestiFi’s platform currently offers:

• Fractional investing in Stocks and ETFs
• Guided Investing
• IRAs
• Cryptocurrency trading
• Stablecoins

with additional product offerings planned as the company continues to expand its platform.

Central to InvestiFi’s differentiation is its unique, patent-pending flow of funds, which supports investing directly from checking or savings accounts. Simply branded as Investing from Checking, it is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of digital investing for American financial institutions. This capability allows financial institutions to deliver a seamless digital investing experience for account holders — entirely from within their existing online banking experience, without the friction, delays, security concerns and costs of transferring funds to and from external brokerages or crypto platforms.

“Vibe Credit Union believes the future of financial services belongs to credit unions that can serve every stage of a member’s financial journey,” said Jeff Pascoe, Chief Operations and Strategy Officer at Vibe Credit Union. “For generations, credit unions have earned trust by helping members save, borrow, and achieve their financial goals. The next chapter is helping them build wealth through that same trusted partnership. As a credit union, we believe we have a responsibility to invest in innovations that strengthen not only our own members’ experience, but the future of the credit union movement itself. InvestiFi helps make that future possible.”

“BankTech Ventures backs companies that are solving real problems for community financial institutions, and InvestiFi is a great example of that,” said Carey Ransom, Managing Director at BankTech Ventures. “The growth trajectory InvestiFi has shown — going from a handful of clients to more than 60 signed institutions in just two years — how badly this solution was needed in the market. We’re excited to support their next phase of growth.”

About InvestiFi

InvestiFi, Inc., a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), is the award-winning InvestTech Platform designed to allow for trading to and from deposit accounts, enabling credit unions and community banks to retain more assets and attract new account holders. Through its exclusive funds flow and user-friendly interface, InvestiFi empowers every credit union and community bank to provide their account holders with the ability to navigate the complexities of financial markets with ease from within their current online banking experience. At the heart of InvestiFi’s mission is the goal of democratizing investing and supporting community financial institutions, ensuring that wealth-building opportunities are accessible to everyone. To learn more visit investifi.com. 

SOURCE InvestiFi

Led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the round will support AI security, platform development, and continued international growth

ORLANDO, Fla., July 29, 2026 — ThreatLocker, a global leader in Zero Trust cybersecurity, today announced that it has secured $190 million in Series F funding led by Elephant, with continued support from D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures, and a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies. As Zero Trust adoption accelerates, ThreatLocker continues to experience rapid growth by making its platform straightforward to deploy, manage, and scale. The capital will support continued development of the company’s existing controls for AI-related security risks, further improvements to its Zero Trust Platform, and international expansion, beginning with the opening of a Reading, U.K. office.

“Most cybersecurity tools are still built around identifying malicious activity after it has already entered an environment, when the damage may already be done,” said Danny Jenkins, CEO and co-founder of ThreatLocker. “We believe the better model is to define what is allowed and deny everything else by default. We are living in a world where new agents are constantly being introduced and granted access to sensitive resources, which makes our mission more urgent. Our investors share our vision for changing the cybersecurity paradigm, and their partnership will help us strengthen our platform and protect more organizations around the world.”

The funding comes as organizations face an evolving threat landscape shaped by the need to secure AI agents and defend against AI-accelerated software exploits. ThreatLocker has continued to expand its platform to help secure organizations from both traditional and AI-driven activity. ThreatLocker Allowlisting prevents unauthorized AI tools and AI-generated code from executing, while Ringfencing™ controls what approved applications and AI agents can access, modify, and interact with. Additional controls help organizations govern the use of AI websites and protect sensitive information from unauthorized exposure. These innovations build on the recent introduction of ThreatLocker Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access, extending the company’s comprehensive Zero Trust Platform across endpoints, networks, and cloud resources from a single dashboard.

“Since our initial investment, ThreatLocker has demonstrated strong execution, established itself as a product leader, and consistently anticipated where the cybersecurity market is headed,” said Jeremiah Daly, partner at Elephant. “As more organizations seek prevention-based security and practical approaches to Zero Trust, ThreatLocker is uniquely positioned to capture that demand. Our continued investment reflects our confidence in both the team and the significant opportunity ahead.”

Rapid growth at ThreatLocker has been driven by its ability to make Zero Trust security practical to deploy and manage across complex environments. While Zero Trust has historically been viewed as difficult to implement, the ThreatLocker Zero Trust Platform delivers robust protection and is straightforward to deploy, manage, and scale. This approach has enabled more than 70,000 organizations worldwide to strengthen security without creating added operational burden.

To support growing global demand, ThreatLocker has significantly expanded its international presence over the past 18 months, adding offices in Brisbane and Dubai alongside its established operations in Orlando and Dublin. The opening of a U.K. office will further strengthen the company’s ability to serve customers across the United Kingdom and Europe.

Reflecting this momentum, ThreatLocker has ranked among the fastest-growing private companies in America on the Inc. 5000 for two consecutive years. With this latest investment, the company is positioned to accelerate product innovation, expand its global footprint, and advance its mission of transforming cybersecurity from an “allow-by-default” model to a “deny-by-default” model. This approach gives organizations control over the software, users, and devices operating within their environments.

As part of the investment, Koch Disruptive Technologies will leverage its partner community, industry knowledge, and Koch Labs® capabilities to partner with the ThreatLocker team as the company continues to grow. “At a time when organizations are facing new and complex cybersecurity challenges, the differentiated ThreatLocker Zero Trust Platform is delivering real value to its customers,” said Emerson James, Director at Koch Disruptive Technologies. “We are impressed with the team’s commitment to their vision and look forward to supporting them as they continue to innovate and scale globally.”

BofA Securities served as exclusive placement agent to ThreatLocker.

Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to ThreatLocker.

About ThreatLocker:

ThreatLocker is a global cybersecurity leader that stops cyberattacks before they happen. The company’s Zero Trust Platform prevents breaches from both known and unknown threats by allowing only explicitly trusted software and activity across endpoints, networks, and cloud systems. Built to deploy quickly and scale across complex environments, the platform reduces operational overhead while keeping business running uninterrupted. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with offices in Dublin, Dubai, and Brisbane, ThreatLocker protects over 70,000 organizations worldwide. 

About Elephant:

Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on high-growth software, internet, and technology companies. Elephant partners with visionary entrepreneurs to help them scale and build market-leading solutions.

About Koch Disruptive Technologies:

Koch Disruptive Technologies is a venture capital firm partnering with principled entrepreneurs who are building high-growth companies that have the potential to transform industries. KDT has a flexible mandate to make investments at any stage of a company’s life cycle, from seed to late-stage growth. KDT is a Koch company, one of the largest privately held companies in the world, with annual revenues that have exceeded $125 billion and operations in more than 50 countries. KDT helps its partners unlock their full potential by bringing Koch’s capabilities and network to them, structuring unique capital solutions, and embracing a long-term mutual benefit mindset.

Contact: [email protected]; 1 321-515-3813

SOURCE ThreatLocker, Inc.

SEC-registered broker-dealer running the Aurora Alternative Trading System for securities finance now backed by two of the largest institutions at the center of U.S. markets, Charles Schwab and DTCC.

Key points

• Provable Markets is modernizing securities finance infrastructure through end to end pre-trade, execution, and post-trade solutions for securities finance.
• Series B funding round led by Charles Schwab, with participation by DTCC, existing investors Dialectic Capital Management, Inkef and others.
• The round supports team growth across all facets, further core market infrastructure connectivity, product and geographical expansion.

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 — Provable Markets, operator of the securities finance platform Aurora, today announced the completion of its Series B investment round led by Charles Schwab (NYSE: SCHW), with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) joining as a new investor, and participation from existing investors Dialectic Capital Management, Inkef and others. 

The investment comes at a pivotal time in the Provable Markets growth story. The platform has posted new records for four consecutive quarters on its ATS processing over $30 trillion in monthly order volume.

“At Schwab, we value supporting innovative firms and technology that strengthen the financial services ecosystem and enable Schwab to meet the needs of our clients,” said Howie Kennedy, Managing Director, Securities Lending, Charles Schwab Corporation. “Provable Markets supports that objective by helping modernize securities finance workflows through automation, connectivity, and scalable solutions, improving capital market efficiency and execution quality.”

Provable Markets facilitates end- to- end securities finance workflows through a fully cloud-native offering that boasts deep connectivity into the heart of the US capital markets infrastructure with connectivity to DTCC’s clearing agency subsidiaries, National Securities Clearing Corporation (NSCC) and The Depository Trust Company (DTC), the OCC, and Tri-party Agents. The platform leverages a novel matching engine within its SEC-registered Alternative Trading System (ATS) that provides clients with increased trade automation on a neutral playing field. With a seamless hand off to its Aurora post-trade solution, Provable eliminates historical bottlenecks that cannot be fixed through front-end workflow solutions alone in this highly complex ecosystem. Coupled with access to NSCC’s SFT Clearing Service, clients can simultaneously realize significant capital relief under Basel regulatory frameworks to generate further ROI for their businesses and expand their trading opportunities.

— Brian Steele, Managing Director, President, Clearing & Securities Services at DTCC, stated, “As demand for securities financing transactions continues to grow, market participants are increasingly seeking solutions that improve capital efficiency while reducing operational complexity. Provable Markets’ integration with DTCC’s SFT Clearing Service helps participants streamline post-trade processing and unlock the balance sheet benefits of central clearing. By supporting and connecting to innovative platforms like Provable, we are helping create a more efficient and scalable securities finance ecosystem that can support continued growth across the market.”

The Series B round will help Provable grow its commercial, product and engineering headcount to support the rapid growth of its client base and related services, while maintaining its level of market leading client service and scalable technology design and architecture. The funds will also drive additional product and geographical expansion.

“We started Provable Markets with the belief that modernizing securities finance is a market structure story that requires a foundational pipes and plumbing approach to rebuild core infrastructure from the bottom up. By maintaining that focus, we have been able to solve real problems for our clients that not only drive scaled automation, but also alleviate the increasingly acute pressures of operational and regulatory capital constraints. Charles Schwab and DTCC’s investment validate and fuels our next stage of growth to execute on our vision of becoming core market infrastructure for the rapidly expanding securities finance landscape and beyond.”— Matt Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO, Provable Markets

ABOUT PROVABLE MARKETS

Provable Markets is driving market structure change, offering front-to-back trade, lifecycle management, and post-trade solutions for cleared and uncleared SFTs — delivering execution optimization, operational efficiency, cost reduction, and risk mitigation across the value chain. Provable Markets is a FINRA member broker-dealer and SIPC member, and market operator of Aurora, a cloud-native alternative trading system (ATS) regulated by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. For more information, visit provablemarkets.com or contact [email protected]. 

SOURCE Provable Markets LLC