Disco Cow earns $20,000 in funding to scale dairy innovation.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn., Sept. 17, 2026 — Illinois startup Disco Cow has been crowned grand prize winner of the second annual Midwest Dairy Accelerator, following a live pitch competition yesterday at the Green Acres Event Center, a historic barn event venue near Minneapolis in Eden Prairie, Minn. Founder Kate Colehour earned $20,000 in prize funding to help scale dairy-based innovation for her growing brand.

The competition marked the finale of the Midwest Dairy Accelerator, an intensive 10-week virtual program designed by Midwest Dairy in partnership with innovation advisory firm VentureFuel, to help emerging food and beverage brands scale innovative products that use Midwest dairy as a key ingredient.

Throughout the program, founders gained access to workshops, one on one mentorship and direct collaboration with leaders across the dairy ecosystem, including ingredient experts, processors, manufacturers, retailers, academics and food industry executives. Programming covered consumer insights, ingredients and innovation, manufacturing, distribution, retail strategy, marketing and business pitching.

“The Midwest Dairy Accelerator has connected Disco Cow with an incredible network of experts, resources, and people who are genuinely excited about the future of dairy, said Disco Cow founder Kate Colehour. The $20,000 grand prize is going to help us move from founder-led production to scaled manufacturing, which supports our growing retail presence and gets whipped cottage cheese into the hands of more consumers!”

“Dairy farmers have a long-standing legacy of innovation, and that commitment continues to shape the future of our industry,” said Corey Scott, CEO of Midwest Dairy. “It has been a pleasure to equip emerging dairy brands with the expertise, connections and resources to strengthen the dairy category and create new opportunities for consumers.”

“The vision and execution demonstrated by Disco Cow represents the kind of innovation that drives meaningful commercial impact,” said Fred Schonenberg, CEO of VentureFuel. “We’re proud to have partnered with Midwest Dairy for a second year to accelerate breakthrough ideas and support entrepreneurs innovating with real dairy.”

For more information on the program and this year’s winner, visit MidwestDairyAccelerator.com.

About Midwest Dairy

Midwest Dairy represents 3,600 dairy farm families and works on their behalf to build dairy demand by inspiring consumer confidence in dairy products and production practices. Midwest Dairy is committed to Bringing Dairy to Life! by giving consumers an excellent dairy experience and is funded by farmers across a 10-state region, including Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma. For more information, visit MidwestDairy.com and follow Midwest Dairy on Facebook and YouTube.

About VentureFuel

VentureFuel helps established organizations accelerate growth through strategic startup partnerships. Powered by its repeatable Innovation Engine™, VentureFuel identifies, validates and commercializes emerging technologies, transforming innovation into measurable business outcomes in months instead of years. The company has facilitated more than 100 corporate-startup partnerships, unlocking more than $1 billion in enterprise value creation for clients. Learn more at venturefuel.net and listen to The VentureFuel Visionaries podcast wherever podcasts are available.

Media Contact:
Anna Walsh
917-969-7081
[email protected]

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NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 — CyboPal today announced that its first product, CyboPal ONE, will launch on Kickstarter on Sept. 22, 2026. The campaign will be open to backers worldwide and has already attracted more than 6,000 followers. Until Sept. 22, early supporters can lock in their launch offer with a $30 deposit at cybopal.com.

From a Static Desktop to a Responsive Robotic Terminal

Computers have become dramatically more capable with the rise of AI, but the physical desktop has remained largely unchanged. Screens remain fixed, while users continue to adjust their posture and position around them.

CyboPal ONE is a Desktop Robotic Terminal (DRT) that combines a display with robotic movement, voice and gesture interaction, allowing the computer to respond more naturally to how and where people work.

Users can call the screen closer when leaning back, adjust it for different working positions, and switch between landscape and portrait orientations using voice and gestures. They can also use voice commands to interact with AI agents and perform computer tasks without relying entirely on a keyboard and mouse.

“AI is changing what computers can do. We believe it should also change what a computer is,” said Frederic Peng, Founder and CEO of CyboPal. “With CyboPal ONE, we want to make the computer come alive — able to move, respond, and adapt to the way people work.”

Built for a More Adaptive Workflow

• Professionals: change working positions without repeatedly readjusting the screen.
• Creators and developers: switch between viewing positions, screen orientations and tasks.
• AI power users: interact with AI agents and perform computer tasks by voice.

Since its debut at CES 2026, CyboPal ONE has been demonstrated at industry events including IFA 2026, where creators, media and technology professionals experienced its robotic movement, gesture control and voice interaction firsthand.

Follow CyboPal ONE on Kickstarter ahead of its Sept. 22 launch: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cybopal/cybopal-worlds-first-active-tracking-ai-robotic-monitor

About CyboPal

CyboPal is a Hong Kong-based robotics and AI company rethinking how people interact with computers. Built on the belief that the physical interface should evolve with the AI era, CyboPal develops adaptive computing experiences that combine intelligence, movement, and natural interaction. Its first product is CyboPal ONE, a Desktop Robotic Terminal. Learn more at cybopal.com.

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CodeTogether will showcase to investors and industry leaders how its proprietary approach helps software organizations scale AI without losing control.

ATLANTA, Sept. 17, 2026 — CodeTogether is selected as one of the Southeast’s most promising tech companies to be showcased at Venture Atlanta 2026, the Southeast’s premier technology innovation event and one of the nation’s leading venture capital conferences. Venture Atlanta brings together the region’s fastest-growing technology companies with top-tier investors, corporate innovation leaders, and potential strategic partners from across the country.

Chosen through a highly competitive application process, CodeTogether joins a select group of emerging companies recognized for their innovation, market opportunity, leadership team, customer traction, and growth potential. This year’s showcase companies span sectors including AI, enterprise software, fintech, healthcare, cybersecurity, climate technology, robotics, manufacturing, defense technology, and other emerging markets.

“AI is fundamentally changing the economics of software development. Companies can create more software, faster than ever before, but that also means more spend, more output and more risk moving through engineering organizations at a pace traditional management systems weren’t built to handle,” said Alison Silverstein, CEO of CodeTogether. “Being selected for the Venture Atlanta Showcase gives us an opportunity to introduce CodeTogether to investors and industry leaders at exactly the moment this problem is becoming impossible for companies to ignore. We’ve spent four years building the visibility and intelligence layer engineering organizations need, and AI has made that foundation more important than ever.”

CodeTogether helps software organizations scale AI without losing control. Its platform gives leaders visibility into how AI is being used, what it costs, what it produces, and whether it is actually creating value. By connecting AI investment to delivered software value, CodeTogether helps leaders see what’s working, what isn’t, and where to redirect investment while it still matters.

As in previous years, Venture Atlanta 2026 is anticipated to be a sold-out event.

“Venture Atlanta is where promising companies get discovered and where the right connections can change what comes next,” said Allyson Eman, CEO of Venture Atlanta. “This year’s companies represent some of the Southeast’s strongest and most ambitious founders and technologies. Being selected in such a competitive field is a significant achievement, and we’re excited to give these companies a platform to connect with hundreds of investors and influential leaders who can help turn visibility into capital, partnerships, and growth.”

Each year, Venture Atlanta brings together hundreds of venture capital firms, corporate venture groups, private equity investors, and Fortune 500 innovation leaders seeking the next generation of high-growth technology companies. Venture Atlanta alumni include some of the Southeast’s most successful technology companies, including Bark, CallRail, Car360, Flock Safety, Florence Healthcare, ParkMobile, Salesloft, Kabbage, Bitcoin Depot, PrizePicks, Stax, SingleOps, Pindrop, and Terminus.

To learn more about CodeTogether, visit www.codetogether.com. For more information about Venture Atlanta, visit www.ventureatlanta.org.

About CodeTogether
CodeTogether is the control layer for AI-powered software development, helping software organizations scale AI without losing control. Its platform gives leaders visibility into how AI is being used, what it costs, what it produces, and whether it is actually creating value. By connecting AI investment to delivered software value, CodeTogether helps leaders see what’s working, what isn’t, and where to redirect investment while it still matters. Built on four years of production technology, CodeTogether helps organizations take control of AI and compound the return.

About Venture Atlanta
Venture Atlanta, the Southeast’s technology innovation event, is where the region’s most promising tech companies meet the country’s top-tier investors. As the Southeast’s largest investor showcase helping launch more than 1,000 companies and raise over $8.8 billion in funding to date, the event connects the region’s top entrepreneurs with local and national investors and others in the technology ecosystem who can help them raise the capital they need to grow their businesses. The annual nonprofit event is a collaboration of the Atlanta CEO Council, Metro Atlanta Chamber, and the Technology Association of Georgia (TAG).

Contact:
Alison Silverstein
CEO & Founder
[email protected]
202-355-4141

SOURCE CodeTogether

Six-time entrepreneur Frank Addante’s new company gives each user their own digital twin, not just an assistant, and private memory graph across phone, text, email, voice, web, and app.

PARK CITY, Utah, Sept. 17, 2026 — Hello Haven, a personal AI company founded by serial entrepreneur Frank Addante and Duc Chau, emerged from stealth today with Haven, your digital twin, powered by its personal AI operating system, designed as your own private, persistent AI. A user’s Haven builds a memory graph of that individual user, learns how they make decisions, remembers everything and completes tasks on the user’s behalf across phone, text, email, voice, web, and the app. Haven also announced a $15 million pre-seed funding round led by Mayfield.

Large language models are trained on data drawn from many sources and many people. Users often have to repeat their history, preferences, and constraints before the model can provide a useful response. Haven gives each user a private memory graph that grows with every interaction, learning that person’s preferences, relationships, history, and decisions, then drawing on it to interpret a request, make a choice, select the right model(s) or tool(s), and act the way that individual would. Two Havens can respond differently to the same request because each reflects its individual user.

There are no two Havens alike.

“Haven is your true digital twin. While a personal assistant knows what you asked it to do, Haven knows what you would do and proactively does it for you,” said Frank Addante, founder and CEO at Haven. “Your Haven remembers the choices you have made and the boundaries you have set, so it can act without asking you to start over each time.”

Haven can prepare a daily briefing, triage your inbox, send follow-ups, process returns, place orders, and make calls. Users can also create recurring autonomous tasks in plain language, such as asking Haven to send a reminder text or call before appointments and meetings.

Since opening its private beta last month, people have interacted with their Havens more than 2 million times.

An Operating System for Your Life

Haven is designed as an operating system for a person’s life. Each user’s private memory graph feeds into a hyper-personalized orchestration layer that holds their identity, memory, judgment, permissions, and intent. As an operating system, Haven chooses the model or combination of models best suited to the task and connects it to the necessary tools and applications. Because a person’s context lives in that layer rather than inside any one model, Haven becomes the layer everything else connects into.

Users can reach Haven by phone, voice, text, email, web or the Haven app. Memory and context carry across every channel, so a task can begin in one place and continue in another.

“The first wave of AI gave us chatbots that could answer almost any question. The next wave will know you, remember what matters, and do the work. Personal AI that works persistently for you is the ultimate AI product,” said Navin Chaddha, managing partner at Mayfield. “Decades after backing Frank at Rubicon Project, we’re excited to partner with him again at the inception stage of building this next wave of Personal AI.”

A Digital Twin, Everywhere You Go

Haven plans to open a developer platform allowing creators and developers to build code and “no code” apps that connect to an individual’s Haven. The company will also make a user’s digital twin portable across products and devices, extending into applications, televisions, automobiles, connected devices, and robotics.

“The interface will keep changing. A person’s context should not have to,” said Duc Chau, co-founder of Haven. “You’ll be able to sign in with Haven, and your memory, your permissions, and your judgment come with you.”

Haven is now available today at my.hellohaven.ai, on the Apple App Store, and on Google Play.

See a “Day in a Life” with Haven: https://my.hellohaven.ai/meethaven

About Hello Haven

Hello Haven is the creator of the world’s first personal AI digital twin. Hello Haven’s vision is to empower every person on the planet with a digital twin, so they can be human beings, not human doings.  Drawing on more than 500 AI models and more than 100 app integrations, a user’s Haven learns about them over time, remembers everything and does things for them. All data is stored in a user’s private personal memory graph, owned and controlled solely by the individual. Haven is available on iPhone via the Apple App Store, on Android via the Google Play store, and at my.hellohaven.ai. 

Media Contact
Haven Media Team
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Total funding of $112M accelerates MIND’s ambition to lead the multibillion-dollar DLP market as AI transforms both the scale of the data security problem and what is possible in solving it

SEATTLE, Sept. 17, 2026 — MIND^®, the AI-native data loss prevention (DLP) platform, today announced $72M in Series B funding, just a year after its $30M Series A round, led by Crosspoint Capital Partners with participation from existing investors YL Ventures and Paladin Capital Group. The round brings MIND’s total funding to $112M and will fuel the company’s strategic growth as enterprises rebuild data security for a world where AI moves faster than their controls. The investment comes at a defining moment for the multibillion-dollar DLP market, as AI both accelerates the risks surrounding sensitive data and creates an opportunity for MIND to fundamentally reinvent how organizations protect it.

In the past year, MIND has achieved over 17x revenue and 8x customer growth, analyzed billions of data events in real time across GenAI, Agentic AI and IT environments, and stopped sensitive data loss across hundreds of thousands of endpoints. It launched the MIND AI DLP Agents, which autonomously take on the day-to-day work of running a DLP program. MIND was also the first data security company accepted into Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program and the first to earn ISO/IEC 42001 certification for responsible AI.

“Security leaders are being asked to protect data that moves at AI speed with complex, manual and incomplete tools designed for a slower world,” said Eran Barak, Co-Founder and CEO of MIND. “DLP is a massive, established market, but it was not built with AI in mind. AI is accelerating the problem, giving people and autonomous systems new ways to access and move sensitive data at unparalleled speed. It also gives us the technology to reinvent how that data is protected. We believe this is the moment to redefine DLP and build MIND as the leader in data security for the AI era. In less than two years since emerging from stealth, we’ve built an eight-figure revenue business trusted by dozens of customers. Our results, and this funding, put MIND among a select group of cybersecurity companies scaling at this pace, but what matters most is how this will accelerate our growth and bring Stress Free DLP to every enterprise working to achieve AI governance and security.”

“As we expand our staff’s use of AI, protecting patient information without slowing innovation is essential,” said Conrad Band, CIO of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “MIND lets us discover and block protected health information from entering AI tools across our endpoints without any performance impact. It’s given our team the confidence to keep moving forward with AI adoption while keeping patient data protected.”

“MIND delivers on ‘Stress Free DLP’,” said Mark DeCarlo, Sr. Manager Security Engineering and Technology of National Geographic Society. “We use MIND to identify and label sensitive documents and restrict public sharing. It’s giving us something we didn’t have before, which is visibility into where and when our data interacts with AI agents. It’s become a key part of how we protect data across our organization.”

AI has moved beyond experimentation. It’s now embedded in how organizations operate, making the question not whether they’ll adopt AI, but whether they can trust the data that powers it. While 90% of enterprises have deployed GenAI tools and over two-thirds are using AI agents, 65% lack confidence in their AI data security controls and 1 in 5 initiatives fail due to weak data foundations.

MIND raised its Series B to accelerate the development of its simple, autonomous and complete Stress Free DLP platform and meet the exponential demand for more effective data security to address today’s unprecedented challenges. The investment will help MIND expand its presence across key enterprise markets, deepen strategic technology and channel partnerships and scale its team to serve a rapidly growing customer base. Ultimately, it gives the resources to move faster and help organizations protect their sensitive data, whether at rest and in motion. The ambition is to do more than just modernize an established category. It is to define the next era of DLP and establish MIND as its leader.

MIND delivers complete data protection, helping organizations understand what sensitive data they have, recognize risk and take action before data is lost:

• Discover sensitive data across SaaS, GenAI, Agentic AI, endpoints, on-premise file shares and emails
• Classify using both the content and context of sensitive data for every file with the MIND multi-layer AI classification engine
• Detect risky data activity with context-aware intelligence that separates meaningful risk from noise and dramatically reduces false positives
• Remediate data exposure and security issues autonomously, reducing manual investigation and response
• Prevent sensitive data loss with policy-driven controls that can automatically block risky activity in real time or work with users to fix risks and educate them on policies

“AI is fundamentally changing data security, increasing the importance of a unified approach to DLP that can help protect sensitive data wherever it lives or moves,” said Zach Sivertson, Managing Director at Crosspoint Capital Partners. “Since our Series A investment and MIND’s selection as an RSAC Innovation Sandbox finalist, MIND has demonstrated strong momentum. That progress has further strengthened our conviction in the company. We’re proud to lead this Series B and deepen our partnership with MIND as it helps enterprises reimagine how they protect sensitive data in the AI era.”

For more information, visit www.mind.io.

About MIND

MIND is on a mission to help organizations thrive in a digital world in the AI era by protecting their most sensitive data, mitigating risks and preserving brand reputation. MIND is the first-ever data security platform that puts DLP and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot to deliver both data security posture and data loss prevention. We enable businesses to mind what really matters—their most sensitive data. Founded and led by cybersecurity leaders and industry veterans, MIND is based out of Seattle, WA. For more information, contact us at [email protected].

Media Contact for MIND:

Michelle Kearney
Hi-Touch PR
443-857-9468
[email protected]

SOURCE MIND

Adaptive’s agents get the facts the ledger doesn’t have, from the schedule, the daily logs, and the field, then do the accounting work that was waiting on them

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 — Adaptive, the agentic accounting platform for construction, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series B funding led by Tidemark, with participation from existing investors Emergence Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Pathlight, Definition, and 3KVC. The round brings Adaptive’s total capital raised to $57 million and will accelerate the company’s expansion of Project Accounting Agents across job costing, AP, billing, WIP, payments, and compliance.

Construction accounting runs on facts that don’t make it into the accounting system: whether a job is 40 or 60 percent complete right now, how a delayed material package will impact the schedule, and therefore the cost to complete, which cost code a charge belongs to, and what’s actually owed a subcontractor this month. That information sits in the schedule, the daily logs, an email approving extra work, and the head of the superintendent running the job, not in the ledger. Closing that gap has always meant someone in the office calling, texting, and emailing to pull the facts across, then typing them in by hand.

“The hardest part of construction accounting isn’t the accounting. It’s finding out what’s actually happening on the job, and what that means for the numbers,” said Matt Calvano, co-founder and CEO of Adaptive. “What’s the true cost to complete? Which cost code does this belong to? What do we actually owe this subcontractor? Finance teams are blocked on all of it, and the only way they get answers today is calling, texting, and emailing people who are busy building. Our agents go get those answers, and then they do the accounting that was waiting on it.”

Adaptive is the first accounting system built to understand what’s actually happening on a job, pulling data directly from schedules, daily logs, and the field itself. That project data then feeds agents that handle the full project accounting workflow. They code invoices to the right job, phase, and cost code and match them against purchase orders, draft change orders and chase signatures, prepare billings, assemble monthly WIP, and keep lien waivers and vendor insurance current. The agents handle the coordination and information gathering, but they never post to the general ledger on their own: a person reviews every action and provides the judgment and approval before it touches the books.

“Every contractor we work with wants the same thing: a close they can trust, delivered on time,” said Jared Westergard, Founder, Blackline Financial. “Adaptive’s Project Accounting Agents handle the invoice coding and change order tracking, so our team can focus on the question clients are actually asking: ‘What does this number mean for my business?'”

More than 750 construction companies now run on Adaptive, ranging from $5 million to $1 billion in annual revenue, including general contractors, specialty trades, and real estate developers working across more than 10 accounting systems, from QuickBooks to Sage Intacct, Foundation, and Acumatica. Adaptive also partners with over 40 accounting firms.

“Adaptive is one of the clearest examples we’ve found of a System of Action: it doesn’t just help construction finance teams do the work, it increasingly does the work itself,” said Dave Yuan, Founder & Managing Partner at Tidemark. “By bridging the back office and the field, Adaptive eliminates much of the manual coordination required to understand job-level costs. Customers already see it as one of the most important tools in their stack, and we’re excited to partner with Matt, Henry, and the team on their journey to build the defining application layer for construction finance.”

“What stood out to us was how customers talked about Adaptive, consistently describing it as one of the most important systems in their business,” said Andrew Walsh, Partner at Tidemark. “That kind of enthusiasm is rare in construction software. We believe Adaptive will become synonymous with construction accounting, and Matt, Henry, and the team are the ones to get it there.”

The Series B will fund continued development of Adaptive’s Project Accounting Agents and the expansion of the company’s Boston- and New York-based teams.

To learn more, request a demo, or visit www.adaptive.build.

About Adaptive

Adaptive is the agentic accounting platform for construction. Its agents pull in the project context, including schedules, daily logs, and answers gathered straight from the field, and use it to do job costing, AP, billing, WIP, payments, and compliance work on behalf of finance teams, allowing them to shift from catching up to getting ahead. The company has raised $57m of venture capital and 750+ construction companies run on Adaptive across 10+ ERP systems. For more information, visit www.adaptive.build. 

About Tidemark

Tidemark is a growth equity firm purpose-built to help companies win and scale. Tidemark is powered by a community of investors, entrepreneurs, and operators who are energized by ideas, a love of competition, and the drive to give back. The firm gives 10% of its profits to its foundation, Tidemark10, to support the communities it serves. For more information, visit www.tidemarkcap.com. 

SOURCE Adaptive

LONDON, Sept. 17, 2026 — UK startup Eterna Regeneratives has closed a seed investment round led by Hoxton Ventures and The Venture Collective (TVC) to build its regenerative biomaterial platform spanning enamel repair and bone regeneration, starting with the $43bn global oral care market. Co-founded by Khaled Eissa and Dr Sherif Elsharkawy in 2024, the King’s College London spin-out attracted international attention last year when studies found the team’s revolutionary patented material could successfully regrow damaged tooth enamel using keratin – a protein found in human hair, skin and wool. The research developed by Dr Elsharkawy and Dr Sara Gamea, his PhD student, was picked up widely by national and international media, including from the BBC, Washington Post and Newsweek, putting keratin-based regeneration on the map well before a commercial product existed.

Now working to develop a pipeline of material technologies, Eterna aims to tackle a problem that affects nearly everyone: the slow, irreversible loss of tooth enamel. The team at Eterna Regeneratives believes that symptom management cannot be the only solution. “The only way to truly heal the human body is to help it heal itself,” said Khaled Eissa, co-founder and CEO. “We wanted to create a product that is readily available, scalable and has the potential to deliver long-term results.” “This investment lets us move from lab-based proof of concept to real-world products at pace,” said Dr Sherif Elsharkawy, Chief Scientific Officer and co-founder. “It is a validation of years of research, and a step change in how quickly we can bring this technology to patients.”

Unlike many other tissues in the human body, tooth enamel cannot naturally regenerate once it has been lost. This can lead to hypersensitivity, cavities, tooth pain and the gradual deterioration of teeth. Fluoride, the best option currently available on the market, only superficially addresses the problem – offering minor strengthening of existing enamel but failing to rebuild what has already been lost. Resin, the go-to for professional repair, merely fills a tooth rather than rebuilding it, and has a finite lifespan, often resulting in necessary replacements and high costs for patients. It is against this backdrop that Eterna has created a keratin-based material that can be added to toothpaste, enabling cost-effective and lasting enamel regeneration.

Eterna’s patented keratin-based product has delivered striking results. In vitro experiments carried out on extracted tooth samples revealed a new, enamel-like layer forming directly on the tooth surface, as the material stimulates a mineralisation process. Treated samples showed hardness and mechanical strength restored to levels close to that of native, healthy enamel. Moreover, the technology has shown the capacity to reduce abrasion and even treat decay. This provides a first glimpse into what it might look like to help a tooth heal itself, instead of simply patching over damage. It is also significantly cheaper than alternatives, delivering meaningful treatment at a fraction of the cost.

Hussein Kanji, Partner at Hoxton Ventures

“Eterna is the kind of company we like to back early: powerful, defensible science with a capital-efficient route to market. Its technology has the potential to transform oral care from managing enamel loss to actually repairing it, while opening the door to broader applications in tissue and bone regeneration. Khaled and Sherif are the right scientific team to bring this from the lab and to global scale.”

Gina Kirch, Founding Partner at The Venture Collective:

“Eterna is looking beyond basic healing to achieve complete tissue restoration. For too long, patients have had to settle for treatments that manage damage rather than repair it. Eterna is revolutionizing this standard of care, harnessing its patented keratin technology to help the body regenerate itself more fully than existing options allow.“

Eterna’s second application will build on the same patented knowledge, this time targeting bone regeneration. Today, when someone breaks a bone, soft tissue grows back into the site without resolving the underlying fragility. Medical solutions typically involve inserting a collagen membrane and hoping the bone regrows. But preliminary tests suggest Eterna’s keratin-based technology could be harnessed to regenerate strong, healthy bone.

Oral health is Eterna’s first commercial beachhead, with further IP in the pipeline beyond bone regeneration. The company is expanding its research and commercial teams and building relationships with oral-care companies, professional partners and consumer-health groups, with a clear focus on delivering its first commercial product in the near term. By embedding its material into products already on the market, Eterna aims to bring its sophisticated but accessible science directly to consumers.

About Eterna

Eterna Regeneratives is a UK biotechnology spin-out from King’s College London, founded in 2024 by Khaled Eissa and Sherif Elsharkawy. Backed by Hoxton Ventures and The Venture Collective, Eterna is building a biomaterials platform for mineralisation and tissue regeneration, with initial applications in enamel repair and bone. Their patented platform uses keratin, derived from sheep’s wool, to guide new mineral growth at the site of damage, working with the body’s own chemistry beyond just protection. The company has now grown into a new lab space in Canary Wharf, where they are focused on commercialising their product, building their IP pipeline, and partnering with healthcare companies to bring their product to the mass market.

SOURCE Eterna Regeneratives Ltd

LONDON, Sept. 16, 2026 — Ayan Capital, which offers halal car finance, has secured a senior Shariah-compliant facility of up to £75 million ($100 million), originated by investment manager Triple Point. The facility will fund Ayan’s next phase of growth as it prepares its UK banking licence application.

Since launching in early 2024, more than 150,000 people have started an application with Ayan. The company holds a 4.9 Trustpilot rating, sees more than 60% of website visitors begin an application, and maintains a loss rate below the industry average. Two-thirds of its team are engineers, with technology built in-house.

Nearly 50 million Muslims live in the West, its fastest-growing demographic. Ayan estimates Muslims in the UK hold around $90 billion in bank deposits and take $40 billion in financing a year. Most still rely on conventional banking, though 85% say they would use halal products if priced the same. Ayan’s founders have done this before with Alif, a fintech and banking group serving more than 10 million customers across Central Asia. Ayan applies the same playbook in the UK: halal car finance first, then cards, savings, and a full-service digital bank.

The facility will fund new originations, lowering Ayan’s cost of funding and supporting more competitive pricing. Ayan intends to raise a Series A round in the coming months to fund its banking licence application. Backers include Cur8 Capital, Empakt Ventures, IT Park Ventures and Caucasus VC.

Under Ayan’s Ijara wa Iqtina structure, the company buys and owns each vehicle throughout the term, carrying ownership risk, while customers pay fixed monthly rentals and take ownership at the end. Contracts are reviewed annually by independent Shariah advisers, and through AyanCare, Ayan also takes enhanced responsibility for unexpected mechanical and electrical repairs.

Ellis Diamanti, Head of Specialty Finance at Triple Point, said: “Ayan pairs an impressive management team with a technology-first platform, providing an excellent customer experience while meeting the growing appetite for Shariah-compliant financial products.”

Abdullo Kurbanov, CEO and co-founder, said: “There is a lot to do, but this facility lets us serve more customers, more competitively. Over time we want to build a challenger bank that is open to everyone, whether they are looking for halal finance or not, and that raises the bar for what customers should expect.”

Contact: Nabihah Nabil, [email protected] 

SOURCE Ayan Capital

HONG KONG, 17 septembre 2026 — D-Robotics, l’un des principaux fournisseurs d’infrastructures de développement en robotique, a annoncé aujourd’hui la clôture d’un tour de table de série C de 400 millions de dollars américains. Ce tour de financement a permis d’obtenir un investissement stratégique de la part d’une entreprise mondiale de premier plan du secteur de l’internet ainsi que des plus grandes institutions d’investissement, tout en conservant la participation des actionnaires existants.

Ce financement vise à renforcer la gamme de puces Sunrise™ à tous les niveaux de calcul et à mettre au point une plateforme logicielle couvrant l’intégralité de la chaîne de développement robotique. L’ensemble constitue une infrastructure matérielle-logicielle intégrée destinée aux robots IA qui prend en charge tous les scénarios de développement, des catégories de robots arrivés à maturité aux robots humanoïdes polyvalents.

Au cours du premier semestre de 2026, le chiffre d’affaires de D-Robotics a enregistré une augmentation exponentielle en glissement annuel, les livraisons cumulées de puces de la série Sunrise™ ont dépassé les 8 millions d’unités, son activité d’IA incarnée est entrée en phase de production de masse, et son infrastructure d’IA intégrant matériel et logiciel a été validée à grande échelle.

La puce informatique Sunrise™ S600 dédiée à l’IA incarnée, lancée par l’entreprise en novembre 2025, a été adoptée en l’espace de six mois par plus de 20 clients de premier plan dans le domaine de l’IA incarnée (entre autres TARS, Spirit AI, X Square Robot, UBTECH, PaXini Tech, Astribot, FOURIER et Booster Robotics). Ces partenaires couvrent les domaines suivants : robots humanoïdes, robots industriels sur roues, fabrication flexible de produits électroniques grand public, modèles de fondation incarnés et perception omnimodale, la plupart de ces technologies faisant déjà l’objet d’une production en série.

Le programme D-Robotics Gravity, qui vient d’être mis à jour, propose aux innovateurs du secteur de la robotique un accompagnement de bout en bout, allant du développement de produits et du choix de la chaîne d’approvisionnement à la stratégie de mise sur le marché et aux tournées de présentation en vue des levées de fonds. Le programme a déjà épaulé plus de 500 innovateurs en robotique dans 10 domaines de pointe (notamment les robots humanoïdes en source ouverte, l’entraînement sportif par IA, les modèles d’IA incarnée, l’imagerie par IA et les robots d’assistance à domicile), plusieurs de ces produits étant aujourd’hui commercialisés à grande échelle à la suite de leur succès retentissant.

Plus de 500 universités et plus de 100 000 développeurs issus de plus de 20 pays ont désormais créé, sur la base de la plateforme de D-Robotics, des centaines de types de robots intelligents au service de millions d’utilisateurs à travers le monde.

À propos de D-Robotics

D-Robotics est l’un des principaux fournisseurs d’infrastructures de développement en robotique, qui propose par exemple des plateformes de calcul à haute performance, des systèmes d’exploitation et des applications. Ses plateformes alimentées par ses puces Sunrise™ et ses kits de développement robotique RDK™ sont à l’origine d’une large gamme de robots IA, allant des robots humanoïdes et quadrupèdes aux robots destinés aux services à domicile et aux robots de compagnie, en passant par les robots mobiles autonomes utilisés en logistique. À ce jour, plus de 500 universités et plus de 100 000 développeurs répartis dans plus de 20 pays ont créé sur la plateforme de D-Robotics des centaines de robots IA au service de millions d’utilisateurs à travers le monde. Pour en savoir plus, rendez-vous sur en.d-robotics.cc

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