Winery owner, winemaker and filmmaker enters a new chapter of entrepreneurship spanning consumer brands, socially driven filmmaking and artificial intelligence

NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2026 — Entrepreneur, winery owner, winemaker and filmmaker Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein, today announced the expansion of her entrepreneurial portfolio, bringing together ventures across wine, film and emerging technology as she enters the next phase of her career.

Chiweshe Goldstein, whose work has crossed entrepreneurship and storytelling, is developing a broader portfolio built around three areas: the continued growth of her wine business, the advancement of film, television and documentary projects, and the development of a new artificial intelligence venture addressing emerging challenges surrounding it.

Rather than viewing the three industries as separate careers, Chiweshe Goldstein sees them as interconnected parts of a larger strategy centered on ownership, intellectual property and the creation of enduring brands.

“A person does not have to remain inside the category where the world first discovers them,” said Chiweshe Goldstein. “Film taught me the extraordinary power of storytelling. Wine taught me how to build a physical product and a brand. Technology creates an opportunity to build at tremendous scale. I see all three as different expressions of the same entrepreneurial instinct.”

Building a Brand Through Wine

Chiweshe Goldstein’s entrepreneurial journey includes building the Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Winery, an independent wine business through which she has combined winemaking, entrepreneurship and storytelling.

Her Zimbabwean heritage has informed her perspective as an entrepreneur building within the American wine industry.

For Chiweshe Goldstein, developing a winery has required far more than producing wine. It has meant navigating the realities of building an independent consumer business, including production, compliance, distribution, marketing, branding and customer acquisition.

Those experiences helped shape a broader philosophy that Chiweshe Goldstein is now applying across other industries.

“Building a company teaches you that an idea is the beginning,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “You have to create the product, survive the journey and keep executing when nobody else can see the entire picture.”

Film With a Purpose

Alongside her entrepreneurial work, Chiweshe Goldstein has continued developing projects as a filmmaker and producer.

Her film interests include narrative and documentary projects examining consequential social issues through deeply personal stories.

Among her projects in development is documentary work examining lead exposure in America’s water systems and its impact on families and children.

Chiweshe Goldstein’s approach emphasizes human storytelling rather than treating large social issues simply as statistics or policy discussions.

“The issues that affect millions of people ultimately happen to individuals,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “Film gives us the ability to take something enormous and allow an audience to experience it through another person’s life.”

Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Studios is building a robust slate of original television and feature film projects as it expands its development and production activities. The studio is advancing several projects through development, including an original television sitcom now entering the casting process as it moves toward production.

Entering Artificial Intelligence

Chiweshe Goldstein is now extending that entrepreneurial philosophy into technology.

She is developing an artificial intelligence venture focused on challenges surrounding AI adoption through Chiweshe Artificial Intelligence / Chiweshe Group.

The venture is exploring opportunities to help organizations navigate an environment in which artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded in business operations and decision making.

Chiweshe Goldstein believes the rapid advancement of AI will create significant opportunities not merely for companies developing increasingly capable artificial intelligence, but also for businesses developing the infrastructure necessary to support its responsible use.

“As AI becomes more powerful, trust becomes increasingly important,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “The next generation of technology will not merely be about what artificial intelligence can do. It will also be about creating confidence around how businesses use it.”

Specific details regarding the venture’s technology, methodology and product development remain confidential during development.

A Portfolio Built Around Ownership

The expansion reflects Chiweshe Goldstein’s larger vision of becoming a portfolio entrepreneur rather than being defined by a single industry.

The strategy places particular emphasis on intellectual property and ownership.

Wine provides a consumer product and brand.

Film creates stories and intellectual property capable of reaching audiences globally.

Technology creates opportunities for significant scale.

Together, Chiweshe Goldstein sees the three areas as the foundation of a long-term entrepreneurial portfolio.

“The common denominator for me is growth and ownership,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “Ownership of ideas, ownership of intellectual property and ownership of the businesses we create. I want to build things that can keep growing long after the original idea.”

Chiweshe Goldstein plans to keep developing her wine and film businesses while advancing the artificial intelligence venture during the next phase of her entrepreneurial career.

The expansion represents an evolution.

Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein said, “I want to keep building, keep creating and keep entering spaces where I believe something meaningful can be made.”

About Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein

Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein is an entrepreneur, winery owner, winemaker, filmmaker and producer whose work spans wine, entertainment and emerging technology. Through her entrepreneurial and creative ventures, Chiweshe Goldstein focuses on building independent brands, developing original intellectual property and pursuing projects at the intersection of business, culture and social impact.

Her current work includes the continued development of the Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Winery, film, television and documentary projects, and an emerging artificial intelligence venture.

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The buildout of energy and compute infrastructure demands a scale and certainty of execution that legacy capital markets cannot support. Plural was built for this moment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3, 2026 — Plural, the financial services and technology firm serving the builders meeting unprecedented demand for energy and compute infrastructure, today announced a year of significant growth. Over the past 12 months, the company brought more than $1 billion in infrastructure assets to market¹, ran competitive processes engaging more than 130 institutional investors and lenders², grew to 25 active mandates³, and nearly tripled its headcount.⁴ The growth Plural is seeing reflects a new reality: much of today’s highest-demand infrastructure is being built by small teams taking on the biggest projects of their company’s history.

Traditional project finance was built for large developers with deep benches of in-house finance and capital markets teams, and even for them, manual processes take months to execute. Plural exists to make that scale of execution possible for teams that don’t have those benches.

The company works with clients to structure capital stacks and match them with institutional investors,⁵ then continues to run the deal as software for the life of the asset, with covenants, distributions, compliance, and reporting executed automatically. Rather than assembling a chain of intermediaries, clients get one accountable team running the whole capital stack—and the financing back office they never had to hire.

“Our clients are small teams about to do the biggest thing their business has ever done—a research lab becoming a manufacturer, a developer ready to own and operate assets, real estate developers financing powered land for data centers. Plural exists to remove process and money as impediments to that,” said Adam Silver, CEO and Co-Founder of Plural. “The companies creating the infrastructure this economy depends on should be the ones who own it, and we’re building the financial tool kit that lets them.”

A Year of Momentum Across the Infrastructure Economy

Plural’s recent growth has touched nearly every corner of the infrastructure economy, from the assets it financed to the investors and partners it brought to the table. In the last year, Plural:

• Brought over $1 billion of infrastructure assets to market across 25 active mandates¹, running competitive processes that engaged more than 130 institutional investors and lenders² across a widening range of asset types.⁴
• Served developers ranging from first-time institutional issuers to programmatic sponsors, in several cases taking a team from a single self-funded asset to an institutionally backed, multi-tranche capital program within a year.
• Took on mandates spanning distributed and community solar, battery storage, compute and data-center infrastructure, EV charging, and natural gas, structured as project equity, tax equity, debt, and preferred equity, and ranging from single-asset raises to programmatic, multi-tranche portfolios.⁵
• Began a partnership with a U.S. public infrastructure authority to bring a multi-sector pipeline of state assets, spanning energy, transportation, defense, and critical minerals, to a national pool of investors.

Expanding Capital Markets and Engineering Expertise

The surge in headcount spans both sides of Plural’s business, matching the demands of a new kind of financial services firm focused on the next wave of infrastructure:

• On the capital markets side, the company brought on experienced dealmakers to structure and place capital.
• On the engineering side, Plural added senior infrastructure and backend engineers to build out Plural Intelligence and AssetOS, the technology that lets a small team operate like a much larger one.

What the Momentum Signals for Infrastructure Finance

Plural’s focus for the remainder of 2026 rests on three priorities:

• Deepening execution capacity so client mandates move from structuring to close on a shorter timeline.
• Continuing to build out Plural Intelligence and AssetOS so more of the deal lifecycle, including structuring, investor matching, and ongoing administration, runs through software.⁵
• Deepening coverage of the infrastructure economy, from distributed energy to data centers and compute, alongside selective public-sector and transportation mandates.

For more information about Plural, please visit www.pluralfinance.com.

ABOUT PLURAL

Plural is the financial services firm for the builders of energy and compute infrastructure. Purpose-built so developers building energy, compute, transportation, and adjacent assets can create a financial program once and deploy it at any scale, Plural combines investment banking and advisory services with proprietary software to structure, execute, and permanently run the capital programs that fund next-generation infrastructure. Securities-related services are offered through Plural Brokerage LLC, a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of FINRA and SIPC, which also operates an SEC-registered alternative trading system. Transfer agency services are provided by Plural Transfer Services LLC, a transfer agent registered with the SEC. Since launching in 2024, Plural has received investor term sheets representing more than $600 million of proposed capital for its clients⁴ while managing the full asset lifecycle, from investor onboarding and compliance to distribution processing, secondary trading, and ongoing administration. The company’s team brings experience from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered, EDF Renewables, and other leading institutions, having collectively raised or managed over $35B.

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NOTES
All figures are drawn from Plural’s transaction records as of September 2, 2026 and are stated on the bases described below.

1. Capital brought to market. $1.008 billion, being the sum of the target or expected raise recorded for each of Plural’s mandates (see note 3). “Brought to market” means capital sought under mandates Plural has been engaged to raise and begun introducing to allocators; it does not imply that every mandate has capital raised, committed, or closed.
2. Institutional investors and lenders engaged. 132 distinct counterparties that advanced into deal exploration across Plural’s offerings between October 2025 and September 2026.
3. Active mandates. 25 offerings at Structuring, Compliance Approved, Live/Open, or Term Sheet stage as of September 2, 2026, excluding Plural’s public-private partnership infrastructure program. A single client may account for several mandates.
4. In some cases, these figures represent securities business that was conducted through Plural Brokerage, a FINRA Member Broker Dealer.
5. In cases where securities are involved, Plural’s structuring work is done through Plural Brokerage LLC, a FINRA Member Broker Dealer.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES
Plural is a trade name for Plural Everything, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Securities-related products and services are offered through Plural Brokerage LLC, a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of FINRA and SIPC. Transfer agency services are provided by Plural Transfer Services LLC, a transfer agent registered with the SEC. Plural Everything, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer or transfer agent. Plural is not a bank, and does not accept deposits or extend credit as a bank.

This announcement is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. Any securities referenced were offered and sold in private placements exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, were not registered under that Act or under any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration. Prior transactions are not indicative of future results.

Statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that reflect Plural’s current expectations. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed. Plural undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

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Platform to accelerate investment in next generation ag-tech innovation 

JOHNSTON, Iowa, Sept. 3, 2026 — Vylor, the advanced seed and genetics company that will spin-off from Corteva on October 1, 2026, today announced the launch of Vylor Edge, a new investment platform dedicated to accelerating the development of advanced technologies in global agriculture. Vylor Edge will collaborate with start-ups, entrepreneurs, universities and the wider innovation ecosystem through equity investments and strategic partnerships. 

“Vylor Edge will partner with the global scientific community to deliver breakthrough innovations that advance global agriculture and mitigate key production challenges,” said Sam Eathington, chief technology officer of the future Vylor. “Pairing Vylor’s world class expertise with other technology leaders from around the world will help drive innovation and equip farmers with the tools they need to be successful.”

Vylor Edge will initially focus on identifying opportunities across strategic verticals aligned with Vylor’s priorities, including gene editing and advanced breeding; protein engineering; as well as artificial intelligence and digital technology platforms. It will also explore opportunities in other areas and sectors to harness technologies applicable to Vylor’s business and mission to help farmers feed and fuel the world.

“We are excited to collaborate with entrepreneurs who can benefit from the deep expertise of our dedicated team, as well as Vylor’s leading R&D capabilities, global footprint, and go-to-market infrastructure,” said Mat Muller,  head of Vylor Edge. “We look forward to supporting the development and commercialization of promising technologies and delivering new innovations to growers.”

The Vylor Edge portfolio will be launched with a strong foundation of investments and collaborations that were previously part of Corteva Catalyst and are now transitioning to Vylor as part of the company’s spin-off from Corteva. Through Vylor Edge, Vylor will continue to support and expand these partnerships while identifying new opportunities to accelerate innovation across global agriculture.

About Corteva

Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) is a global pure-play agriculture company that combines industry-leading innovation, high-touch customer engagement and operational execution to profitably deliver solutions for the world’s most pressing agriculture challenges. Corteva generates advantaged market preference through its unique distribution strategy, together with its balanced and globally diverse mix of seed and crop protection products. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and a technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to maximizing productivity for farmers, while working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. More information can be found at www.corteva.com.

Cautionary statement 

This release contains certain estimates and forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and may be identified by their use of words like “may,” “expects,” “will,” “aims,” “believes,” “intends,” or other words of similar meaning. All statements that address expectations or projections about the future, including statements about the parties’ expectations related to regulatory matters, product development and commercialization, product offerings and product, financial or sustainability performance are forward-looking statements. No obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except as required by applicable law, is hereby undertaken and any such obligation is specifically disclaimed. A detailed discussion of some of the significant risks and uncertainties which may cause results and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements or other estimates is included in the “Risk Factors” section of Corteva’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and as modified by subsequent reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K and Vylor’s Registration Statement on Form 10.

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SEATTLE, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Resect Artificial Intelligence (Resect™ AI), the company building the accountability layer for AI, today launched out of stealth with $25 million in funding from private equity investors. The funding will fuel research and development, go-to-market initiatives, and local talent acquisition in the greater Seattle and Portland markets.

The AI Trust and Compliance Problem

The rapid adoption and evolution of AI is creating excessive enterprise risk and unprecedented problems in governance and compliance. Specifically, AI hallucinations cost businesses tens of billions of dollars globally, with that figure continuing to grow as adoption accelerates. While experimentation is booming, enterprises do not trust taking AI into production and customer-facing environments. This trust gap threatens everything from fast-food chains to aerospace giants, risking massive economic loss, compromised brand reputations, and wasted capital across the global economy. With regulations continuing to evolve at lightning speed, enterprises are under pressure to meet uncompromising compliance standards or face massive financial risk.

“AI has prematurely been put in a position of trust. Adding labels such as ‘use at your own risk’ flies in the face of proper governance or compliance,” said Kevin Owens, CEO of Resect AI. “AI must be anchored in truth to be widely adopted across the enterprise. We are building the next large enterprise AI company to bring transparency and accountability to AI for industries such as publishing, finance, healthcare, research, and education where factual accuracy is absolutely critical.”

Bringing Accountability to AI

Until now, AI has been a black box that offers no clear picture of how it creates answers, or why it is so confident providing wrong answers. Resect AI’s forthcoming open source offering and enterprise product suite provide the ability to look deep inside LLMs and observe, detect, interpret, audit, and modify the behaviors of AI models to bring an accountability layer to AI.

“Many argue that understanding the black box internals of LLMs is out of reach, but we fundamentally disagree,” said Tim Walton, Chief AI Officer at Resect AI. “We’ve spent an extensive amount of time and resources researching how models think, and what causes them to choose the answers that they do. Through this process, we’ve developed technology that observes exactly when and how models fail, and surgically fixes them.”

FAQs

Why do enterprises lack trust in AI?
Enterprises are hesitant to trust AI due to persistent model inaccuracies and unpredictable hallucinations. Until AI output can meet stringent governance and compliance standards, widespread enterprise adoption will remain limited.

What can be done to accelerate adoption of AI in the enterprise?
LLM providers need to eliminate hallucinations and optimize their models for factual accuracy and consistency to make AI measurable, scalable and dependable for the enterprise.

Is Resect hiring?
Yes, Resect is hiring engineering and research roles in the greater Seattle and Portland markets.

About Resect Artificial Intelligence
Resect™ AI was established by a team of serial entrepreneurs with deep roots in AI and data science. The company’s mission is to build the accountability layer for artificial intelligence by removing or ‘resecting‘ hallucinations and improving the factual accuracy of large language models. Resect AI is led by a highly passionate and experienced business and research team in the Pacific Northwest with an office in the greater Portland area. For more information, please visit https://resect.ai/.

SOURCE Resect AI

Guardio surpasses one million customers and $150 million ARR after four consecutive years of triple-digit growth 

TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 3, 2026 — Guardio, a leader in consumer cybersecurity, today announced it has reached a valuation of $1.1bn. This, following a funding round of $40 million, which included investment from Co-Founder and CEO of Wiz, Assaf Rappaport, along with existing investors ION Crossover Partners, Union Tech Ventures, Vintage Investment Partners, Cerca Partners and Emerge Ventures, brings Guardio’s total funding to $167 million to date.

The same AI that empowers consumers has armed cybercriminals, unleashing a wave of attacks that traditional security was never built to stop. Amid this shift, Guardio has grown its revenue more than 100% year-over-year for four consecutive years, reaching one million paying customers and $150 million in ARR. The company will use the new funding to enhance and strengthen its suite of protection for consumers’ total digital presence.

AI has effectively democratized cybercrime, collapsing the cost and skill once required to run attacks that were the exclusive domain of sophisticated hacking teams. Mass-scale personalized phishing campaigns, pixel-perfect brand impersonations and deepfake voice calls have become incredibly efficient and have left consumers outgunned.

Nearly three out of four U.S. adults experienced some kind of scam or attack last year, the FBI logged 22,000 AI-related complaints, and losses from cybercrime in the U.S. hit a record $20.9 billion.

Guardio protects the person rather than the device, monitoring messages, email, calls and web activity, and shutting down the scam before the victim ever opens the link. Guardio safeguards digital accounts and assets with actionable protection applied where needed to strengthen digital hygiene and lower the probability of an attack. Guardio also detects attack and scam scenarios that combine multiple devices and channels – like a phone call leading to a malware download on a PC. Combined, this gives individuals the caliber of protection a Fortune 500 security team takes for granted.

“Scammers stopped hacking computers years ago – they hack people, and with AI, it’s cheap and easy. Cybercrime is essentially democratized,” said Amos Peled, CEO and Co-Founder of Guardio. “Nobody is losing their savings to a virus. People are losing savings to a scam that AI wrote, voiced and dialed – while their antivirus reports that their laptop is perfectly clean. Consumer security has to be rebuilt around the person, not the device. That’s what one million people are already paying us for, and this round is a stepping stone to bring it to the tens of millions who are still protected by software built for a decade ago.”

“Guardio has proven once again, and now at scale, that its DNA brings together three core elements that rarely coexist in one company: deep cybersecurity expertise, a consumer-first product mindset, and a best-in-class distribution machine,” said Gilad Shany, Managing Partner at ION Crossover Partners. “The results speak for themselves: four consecutive years of triple-digit growth, and >$150 million in ARR. Very few businesses in security run this well at this speed, and we are proud to double down on our investment in Guardio.”

“Security wins when it deeply understands context. In the AI era, scams are more sophisticated and personal than ever and Guardio is bringing that depth of protection to the billions of people left to fend for themselves online.” said Assaf Rappaport, Co-Founder and CEO of Wiz. “I’m thrilled to back this team as they make the world a bit safer.”

About Guardio

Guardio is redefining consumer cybersecurity in the age of AI. By moving beyond outdated, device-based tools, Guardio delivers real-time, person-centric protection that neutralizes modern AI-driven threats like phishing and complex scams. Our mission is to bring the caliber of security found in global corporations to your daily digital life, safeguarding millions of users wherever they interact online. Discover a safer digital life at guard.io.

Media contact
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SOURCE Guardio

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Sept. 2, 2026 — Qapture Investments, a Bermuda-based investment manager led by Frederick Pye, founder of 3iQ Corp, today announced the completion of two strategic transactions: the acquisition of Flammarion Partners Ltd., a British Virgin Islands Approved Manager, now renamed Qapture Investments (BVI) Ltd.; and the integration of Hermetik Trading Technologies Inc.’s on-chain yield strategies and operational infrastructure, including the appointment of Founder Brendan MacNeil as Head of DeFi.

Together, the acquisitions position Qapture to be a regulated investment manager and a leading on-chain strategy provider, expanding both its regulatory footprint and product capabilities.

Hermetik and Brendan MacNeil

Qapture recently purchased the on-chain yield strategies and operational infrastructure of Hermetik Trading Technologies Inc., a Canadian DeFi technology company, and appointed its founder, Brendan MacNeil, as Head of DeFi.

Mr. MacNeil brings a decade of experience working in the digital asset sector. He founded and operated Hermetik Trading Technologies Inc. as a Decentralized Finance (DeFi) technology company for three years with backing from East Valley Ventures, an angel investor group based in Atlantic Canada. His strategies are designed for investors seeking consistent returns, in contrast to the frequent volatility and drawdowns often experienced throughout the sector.

The acquisition adds a three-year track record in on-chain yield strategies, complementing Qapture’s existing eight-year track record in directional digital asset strategies. Brendan’s addition to the team strengthens Qapture’s position as a data-driven active manager building the new standard of investing for a digital future.

“Brendan’s track record of designing reliable on-chain strategies aligns perfectly with our vision of offering next-generation products as on-chain asset managers,” said Daniel Pye, President and COO at Qapture. “Together, Qapture is now equipped to service clients across the full spectrum of risk tolerance with strategies flexible to help achieve our client’s goals.”

As Head of DeFi, MacNeil will join Qapture’s Research and Investment Committees, leading the development of all on-chain strategies and product initiatives. The integration brings Hermetik’s proprietary systems and operational infrastructure into Qapture’s platform, enhancing the firm’s capabilities in yield optimization, risk management, and automated execution.

“Digital assets are going through a generational inflection point – evolving from speculation to sophisticated asset management strategies. Qapture brings a depth of expertise and success in bridging these two worlds. Combined with Hermetik’s on-chain yield strategies, there is a real opportunity here to capture the institutional transition from traditional to on-chain markets,” said Brendan MacNeil, Head of DeFi at Qapture.

BVI Approved Manager

Concurrently, Qapture completed the acquisition of Flammarion Partners Ltd., a British Virgin Islands company registered as an Approved Manager by the BVI Financial Services Commission. The entity has been renamed Qapture Investments (BVI) Ltd. and will serve as the investment manager for Qapture’s Bermuda-domiciled funds and separately managed accounts (SMAs).

The BVI Approved Manager regime authorizes Qapture to manage professional funds and discretionary managed accounts up to US$400 million in aggregate assets, providing an efficient regulatory framework that complements Qapture’s existing Bermuda private fund while the firm builds toward obtaining an investment-business licence from the Bermuda Monetary Authority and establishing a Bermuda-domiciled Segregated Accounts Company.

“The path is clear,” said Frederick Pye, Director at Qapture. “We went through the front door to bring digital assets to public markets at 3iQ. We intend to lead with the same institutional quality as we position Qapture for the opportunity ahead.”

“We are building Qapture for the new age of investment management,” says Daniel Pye. “Once all value moves on-chain, managers will need to be modular, ready to offer emergent strategies with high liquidity while preserving institutional quality. Our regulatory status is a major milestone as we prepare for this Imminent Upgrade.”

About Qapture Investments

Qapture Investments Ltd. is the Bermuda-based digital asset management arm of the Pye family office. Founded by Frederick Pye — the Canadian pioneer behind 3iQ Corp, who bridged BTC and ETH into public markets through early exchange-listed products — Qapture Investments Ltd operates as a proprietary trading firm, and investment management is conducted through Qapture Investments (BVI) Ltd., a BVI company registered as an Approved Manager by the Financial Services Commission, operating under exemption pending formal approval of the application filed on September 12th, 2025. The firm manages Qapture Digital Asset Fund Ltd. (QDAF), a BMA-regulated private fund, as well as separately managed accounts. For more information, visit www.qapture.io.

Media Contact:
Christopher Siedentopf
Head of Business Development
Qapture Investments Ltd.
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Important Notice / Disclaimer

This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment, legal, or tax advice, nor an offer to sell or a solicitation to buy any security, fund interest, or digital asset. Any offering will be made only to eligible investors by means of the relevant fund’s confidential offering documents. Nothing in this release creates any advisory, fiduciary, or client relationship. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Digital assets are volatile and involve risk of loss, including the potential loss of the entire amount invested.

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Funding from Sequoia Capital, S32, Canapi and Alumni Ventures will expand empirik.ai’s Autonomous Infrastructure Engineer

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2, 2026 — Today, empirik.ai  launched from stealth and announced $21 million in funding from Sequoia Capital, S32, Canapi Ventures and Alumni Ventures. The company is introducing the industry’s first AI agent for infrastructure change, enabling enterprises to proactively understand engineer’s intent, deterministically compute its impact and safely execute complex infrastructure at machine speed.

The rise of AI coding agents has dramatically accelerated the velocity of software creation. However, the underlying infrastructure operating model remains manual, reactive, and reliant on human-speed change review boards and ticket queues. As machines produce code at unprecedented speed, manual infrastructure governance creates a critical operational bottleneck and elevates the risk of severe production failures.

empirik.ai addresses this risk by understanding infrastructure changes and their impact before execution. Using empirik.ai, customers can answer the question, “What will happen if I make this change?” When an engineer or AI agent initiates an action from a pull request, ticket, or pipeline, empirik.ai captures the intent at the source, projects the mutation across the live environment, and computes the exact impact before anything is deployed. With a continuously updated infrastructure graph with governed execution workflows, teams can assess risk, prevent/block unsafe changes and safely move at machine speed. empirik.ai thus flips how infrastructure is managed, moving teams from reactive firefighting to proactive execution.

“Running infrastructure at Salesforce taught me that teams were always forced to choose between moving fast or staying reliable,” said Kartik Chandrayana, CEO of empirik.ai. “Now, AI coding agents are shipping software at machine speed, but infrastructure is still managed by hand. You cannot put autonomous software upstream of manual infrastructure and expect the system to hold. empirik.ai builds the living memory and operational layer for infrastructure – giving teams the ground-truth context to understand intent, evaluate risk, and safely automate operations before changes cause downtime.”

“Managing infrastructure complexity is a problem that founders Avon Puri and Sudheer Dhurjati have faced throughout their careers, and one that I am intimately familiar with from my many years at VMware,” said Bogomil Balkansky, Partner at Sequoia Capital. “That shared conviction is why Sequoia incubated empirik.ai. As AI takes over the software development process, and dramatically speeds it up, the old way of change management with service tickets and human approvals becomes obsolete. empirik.ai is the new foundation for change management at machine speed: it understands change intent and computes its potential impact before it’s executed. We couldn’t be more excited to partner with Kartik, Avon, Sudheer, and the entire team as they make proactive, autonomous infrastructure a reality.”

empirik.ai is already actively powering complex production environments across leading enterprises, including Guardant Health, Avahi Systems, TCBPay, a Fortune 50 CPG enterprise, and a Fortune 500 financial data services leader.

To learn more or request a demo, visit https://empirik.ai

About empirik.ai

empirik.ai is the AI agent for infrastructure change. By continuously modeling the complete application environment, across cloud, on-prem, Kubernetes, VMs, IAM, CI/CD, and SaaS, empirik.ai enables engineering teams to understand intent behind a change, compute its blast radius, and execute changes safely within governed workflows. This helps enterprises prevent incidents, and resolve incidents faster. Headquartered in San Francisco, empirik.ai is backed by Sequoia Capital, S32, Canapi Ventures, and Alumni Ventures. For more information, visit https://empirik.ai.

SOURCE empirik.ai

With support from Hi Ventures, NYC-based Harvard team expands definitive platform for AI in clinics across Latin America, already managing 2 million+ patient interactions in 90 healthcare institutions

NEW YORK and SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, Sept. 2, 2026 — Konko AI, LatAm’s leading AI platform to manage patient journeys for healthcare clinics and hospitals, today announced $6 million in funding led by Hi Ventures, with participation from LifeX Ventures, SquareOne Capital, GroundUp Ventures, Phoenix Fund and angels from Harvard, MIT, Google and Tesla.

The funding fuels product development and growth expansion in LatAm to advance its mission of delivering personalized healthcare to the 5.6 billion people in the Global South.

Co-founder and CEO Jean-Marc Goguikian witnessed his wife, Dr. Juliana Vallejo, spend years training to save lives, only to be consumed by paperwork instead of patient care. He partnered with Harvard classmate and AI expert Michael Haddad to create Konko AI and give doctors more time.

Konko AI launched in Costa Rica to help overwhelmed clinics with their workloads. Its first deployment was at the clinic Goguikian founded with his wife. From there it expanded to Mexico and Colombia. In one year, Konko AI has become the most widely used platform in its category, with 2M+ patient interactions managed across 90 healthcare institutions and 60 specialties in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica – 75% are handled end-to-end by AI.

“Applying AI to healthcare is more complex than most companies realize. Every clinic has unique workflows across dozens of systems, that’s why we’ve spent years working with providers to build AI that understands how healthcare operates,” said Goguikian.

Providers implement Konko AI when operational complexity outgrows their tools. What began as an AI for appointment scheduling evolved into a medical-grade AI platform automating patient journeys from first contact through follow-ups. Clients experience up to 30% revenue growth, +50% productivity and +30% patient NPS. As it automates, Konko AI unifies patient context into a continuous and interoperable record for each patient.

Konko AI’s platform includes:

• Front Office: autonomously handles patient messages, triage and scheduling in any language.
• Reactivate: reaches patients proactively to close referral loops and recover no-shows.
• Unify: consolidates each patient’s context into a continuous and interoperable record.
• Analyze: equips teams with real-time analytics plus agentic evaluation that assesses patient needs.

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• The network processed 478 million transactions in the half, taking its lifetime total to 2.7 billion, with ecosystem GDP of $206 million for the period and $1.7 billion cumulative since launch
• Average monthly stablecoin transfer volume exceeded $70 billion and Arbitrum ranked first by tokenised real-world asset deployments
• Income of $6.19 million accrued to the ArbitrumDAO across four lines in the half and the collective gross margin on protocol revenue rose to more 97%
• Arbitrum Expansion Program licence fees were 35% of ArbitrumDAO income in July, the first month with Robinhood Chain on mainnet

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands, Sept. 2, 2026 — The Arbitrum Foundation today published its Bi-Annual Progress Update for the first half of 2026, covering the six months to 30 June. The report sets out activity across Arbitrum One and the Arbitrum Chains built on its technology, together with the Foundation’s own operational and financial details. It also carries the headline figures for ArbitrumDAO’s income and treasury. The ecosystem’s income accrued across four lines in this period and in July the Arbitrum Expansion Program became a material line as Robinhood Chain came onto mainnet.

“The first half of 2026 shows the Arbitrum ecosystem’s financial profile broadening. It now looks like a diversified economic enterprise, with four income lines at a blended gross margin above 97% and an expansion programme that accounted for 35% of the ArbitrumDAO’s July income, the first month Robinhood Chain was on mainnet,” said Brendan Ma, Head of Investment Strategy, the Arbitrum Foundation.

“The demand behind those numbers comes from the convergence of traditional finance and onchain finance that is happening today on the Arbitrum platform. Against subdued market conditions across the industry, the ecosystem’s growth has accelerated since the half ended. On July’s figures, total income for the third quarter is already on track to exceed the second quarter by more than 40%.”

Ecosystem income and margins

Income of $6.19 million accrued to the ArbitrumDAO from four lines during the half: Arbitrum One transaction fees, Timeboost, Arbitrum Expansion Program (AEP) licence fees and treasury income. The collective gross margin on protocol revenue exceeded 97%, up from more than 90% for full-year 2025.

Under the Arbitrum Expansion Program, Arbitrum chains that settle outside Arbitrum One and Arbitrum Nova return 10% of net protocol revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem. Robinhood Chain went live on mainnet on 1 July 2026 and contributes under the programme. In July, AEP licence fees of $360,000 were 35% of ArbitrumDAO income.

Enterprise adoption and the Arbitrum barbell strategy

Arbitrum’s barbell strategy places a liquid public chain, Arbitrum One, at one end and purpose-built Arbitrum chains for enterprises at the other, both on the same technology stack. Each Arbitrum chain contributes to the ecosystem: chains settling to Arbitrum One through the fees they pay and chains settling elsewhere under the AEP. Robinhood Chain, a dedicated Arbitrum chain built by Robinhood and settling to Ethereum, launched its public testnet in February 2026 and processed more than 200 million transactions before its mainnet launch on 1 July. The chain follows Robinhood’s issuance of tokenised stocks and ETFs on Arbitrum One in June 2025.

Arbitrum ended the half ranked first by tokenised real-world asset deployments, according to RWA.xyz, with more than 2,000 assets deployed. Ecosystem GDP was $206 million for the half, taking the cumulative figure since launch to $1.7 billion. LG Electronics announced a pilot onchain advertising network on Arbitrum, Mastercard expanded stablecoin settlement support to assets on the network and PayPal’s PYUSD peaked at $475 million on Arbitrum in the first quarter.

The Arbitrum Foundation took part in more than 15 capital markets events and engaged with more than 150 institutional investors in the half. Independent research coverage also grew. FalconX, a digital asset prime brokerage with $11 billion in assets under management, published a report to its institutional client base that described Arbitrum as “the AWS of blockchains” and modelled Robinhood Chain’s effect on long-term protocol economics. Canary Capital, which manages approximately $400 million, initiated coverage with a report covering Robinhood Chain, the adoption trajectory and the long-term investment case for the platform.

ARB supply and capital discipline

As of 17 August 2026, approximately 9.23 billion ARB, or 92.3% of total supply, was unlocked or held in the ArbitrumDAO treasury. The remaining 0.77 billion ARB, 7.7% of total supply, is the balance of the original vesting schedule, with the final vest arriving in March 2027.

ARB holders govern the ArbitrumDAO and direct its assets and income. In addition to the income described above, the DAO held $125 million in non-native treasury assets, excluding ARB, at 30 June 2026, which supports the capital flexibility to pursue opportunities to grow the Arbitrum ecosystem and the DAO‘s income.

The Foundation, which holds ARB in its own treasury, allocates capital predominantly through milestone-based funding, releasing funds against delivery to limit the market impact of ecosystem spending and aligning major capital deployments with performance milestones. In the six months to 30 June, less than $200,000 of the Foundation’s ecosystem grants was issued upfront without milestone conditions.

Report availability

The Bi-Annual Progress Update H1 2026 is available at The Arbitrum Foundation Documents.

The Annual Transparency Report 2025 is available here.

Contact

Alex Speirs, PR & Communications – Arbitrum Foundation – [email protected]

About the Arbitrum Foundation

The Arbitrum Foundation is a Cayman Islands foundation company that is tasked with developing and nurturing the Arbitrum ecosystem. The Foundation operates as a neutral steward in order to support the ArbitrumDAO, the continuous innovation of the Arbitrum technology and the development and education of the Arbitrum community. ArbitrumDAO’s token holders direct protocol upgrades and treasury allocation. The Foundation executes on those priorities through grants, partnerships, research, education and developer programmes. It publishes regular transparency reports covering ecosystem growth, technical development, governance and its own finances. More information is available at arbitrum.foundation.

About Arbitrum

Arbitrum is the finance-native blockchain platform providing infrastructure for applications, tokenisation and dedicated blockchain environments. Arbitrum hosts one of the largest financial ecosystems on Ethereum, with deep liquidity and predictable execution at scale. It powers the programmable economy, where markets, transactions and business processes run automatically in software. For businesses launching dedicated environments, Arbitrum provides configurable execution, fee models, compliance and governance, so organisations can define how their systems operate while remaining connected to shared liquidity and a global settlement layer.

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