Partnership will support new branch openings, sales-team expansion and strategic acquisitions, with founder and CEO Drake Gordon continuing to lead the company

DALLAS, Aug. 5, 2026 — Corbel Capital Partners (“Corbel”) and Sea Pine Equity Partners (“Sea Pine”) announced their investment in Executive Exteriors (“Executive Exteriors” or the “Company”), a Texas-based provider of specialty roofing and exterior restoration services.

Founded in 2018 by Drake Gordon, Executive Exteriors provides specialty roofing, insurance-claim support and exterior restoration services to residential and commercial customers. The Company has built a differentiated reputation through its technical expertise, commitment to quality and ability to manage complex projects.

As part of the transaction, Gordon will retain a significant ownership stake and continue to serve as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The partnership combines Executive Exteriors’ established operating platform and industry expertise with the financial, strategic and operational resources of Corbel and Sea Pine.

The partnership will support continued investment in Executive Exteriors’ people, technology and infrastructure to support new branch openings, sales-team expansion and acquisitions of complementary roofing and exterior-services businesses.

“Executive Exteriors has reached an exciting milestone in its evolution, and finding the right partners was every bit as important as finding the right capital,” said Drake Gordon, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Executive Exteriors. “From the beginning, our priority was building a true partnership that allows Executive Exteriors to remain founder-led while accelerating our long-term vision. Corbel and Sea Pine share our commitment to our people, our customers and our culture, and together we’re investing in the next phase of growth while continuing to build on the foundation that got us here.”

“Drake and his team have built a standout business with a strong reputation and meaningful runway to grow both organically and through acquisition,” said Bill Hobbs, Managing Partner of Sea Pine Equity Partners. “We are proud to partner with Drake and Corbel to support the Company’s next phase of growth and help build a leading platform in specialty roofing and exterior services.”

“Executive Exteriors is an excellent example of the founder-led businesses Corbel seeks to support alongside experienced independent sponsors,” said Sean McKelvey, Managing Director at Corbel Capital Partners. “Drake and his team have built an impressive business with a compelling service offering and a strong foundation for growth. We look forward to supporting the Company as it executes its growth strategy.”

Aviara Partners served as exclusive placement agent for Sea Pine.

About Executive Exteriors

Founded in 2018 and headquartered in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, Executive Exteriors provides specialty roofing, insurance-claim support and exterior restoration services to residential and commercial customers.

For more information, visit www.exeext.com.

About Corbel Capital Partners

Corbel Capital Partners is a Los Angeles-based independent investment firm that provides flexible debt and equity capital to lower-middle-market businesses. Corbel partners with management teams, business owners and financial sponsors to create tailored capital solutions and support long-term value creation. Corbel manages more than $1 billion of institutional capital.

For more information, visit www.corbelcap.com.

About Sea Pine Equity Partners

Sea Pine Equity Partners is a Florida-based private equity firm focused on lower-middle-market service companies. Sea Pine partners with founders and management teams, providing capital and other resources to accelerate growth while preserving the existing culture. The firm invests across business, consumer, industrial, healthcare, and technology-enabled services.

For more information, visit www.seapineequity.com.

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STOCKHOLM, Aug. 5, 2026 —

• ICEYE, headquartered in Finland since 2014, owns and operates the world’s largest synthetic aperture radar satellite constellation
• The funding round – which was co-led by the Scaleup Europe Fund – included €450 million of primary proceeds from Series F at a valuation exceeding €10 billion
• The investment demonstrates strong early momentum for the Scaleup Europe Fund – which has a €5 billion target size – as it begins backing Europe’s most promising technology companies and works to bridge the continent’s scaleup funding gap

EQT today announced that the Scaleup Europe Fund, has completed its first investment by co-leading ICEYE’s Series F funding. The investment forms part of ICEYE’s recently announced €1 billion financing round, which includes a €450 million primary investment at a valuation exceeding €10 billion. 

ICEYE is Europe’s leading provider of sovereign intelligence from space, founded in Finland in 2014. The company has built a strong European footprint, with significant operations in Finland, Poland, Spain and Greece, and has recently expanded further with the establishment of new European entities in Germany and Portugal.

ICEYE owns and operates one of the world’s largest and most advanced synthetic aperture radar satellite constellations and currently delivers end-to-end sovereign systems for seven European governments. ICEYE recently delivered a fully operational sovereign satellite capability to Poland less than twelve months after contract signing, setting a new benchmark for deployment speed.

“Our first investment reflects exactly what the Scaleup Europe Fund was created to support: ambitious European founders building globally competitive companies in strategically important technologies. ICEYE has already established itself as a category leader, and we’re excited to partner with Rafał and the team as they continue scaling from Europe to the world,” commented Victor Englesson, Partner at EQT and Co-Head of the Scaleup Europe Fund. 

“Europe has the talent, technology and ambition to build globally leading companies in strategically important industries. Our own journey reflects that. My co-founder Pekka Laurila and I met as students on an Erasmus exchange, received our first funding through Horizon 2020, and we are grateful for the European Commission’s role in initiating the Scaleup Europe Fund. We are pleased to welcome EQT as a long-term partner through the fund, as we continue to expand our sovereign intelligence capabilities from Europe for customers across Europe and globally,” said Rafał Modrzewski, Co-founder & CEO, ICEYE. 

The ICEYE investment is a clear illustration of the Scaleup Europe Fund’s strategy: partnering with Europe’s most promising technology companies in sectors spanning artificial intelligence, quantum computing, dual use technologies, clean energy, space technology, biotech and medical innovation. The Scaleup Europe Fund was established to help address Europe’s long-standing growth capital gap by supporting companies developing strategically important technologies and enabling them to scale globally while remaining anchored in Europe.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, added: “When Europe invests in its innovators, Europe invests in its future. This is the goal of our Scaleup Europe Fund: it will ensure our scale-ups can find what they need right here in Europe to grow into world-leading companies. To turn European innovation into our competitive edge.” 

The transaction is subject to customary regulatory approvals and other closing conditions.

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The new location will support the company’s expansion of satellite-enabled telehealth and emergency medical technology solutions

FAIRFAX CITY, Va., Aug. 4, 2026 — Fairfax City Economic Development (FCED) announced that MedVoyage Global Inc, a Taiwan-headquartered global leader in satellite-enabled healthcare technology, has selected the Mason Enterprise Center (MEC) Fairfax for its first United States headquarters. The new location marks MedVoyage’s expansion into the North American market and further strengthens Fairfax City’s role within Northern Virginia’s innovation economy.

MedVoyage develops low-latency, satellite-enabled healthcare platforms connecting medical providers with remote patients, maritime vessels, and emergency response units worldwide. Powered by dual 24/7 global command centers in North America and Asia, the company’s platform processes over 150,000 emergency and remote telehealth cases annually across 80+ medical centers in 40 countries. With real-time streaming, high-reliability, low-Earth-orbit satellite integration, and AI-driven clinical support, MedVoyage ensures uninterrupted digital care and automated pharmacy management in extreme or off-grid environments.

The Fairfax City office will drive MedVoyage’s U.S. sales, system engineering, and regulatory compliance operations. Over the next two years, the company plans to scale its local workforce with systems engineers, clinical compliance specialists, and commercial sales executives.

This business attraction effort originated through the Virginia Economic Development Partnership and the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance, of which Fairfax City Economic Development is a member. Following an evaluation of regional technology hubs, MedVoyage selected the MEC Fairfax for its business incubation, growth resources, and soft-landing services designed to help international companies establish and grow their presence in the U.S. market.

“Selecting Fairfax City for our U.S. headquarters is a foundational step in our global scaling strategy,” said Nemo Teng, CEO of MedVoyage Global Inc. “MEC Fairfax offers the ideal soft-landing environment and unparalleled access to the Northern Virginia tech ecosystem, placing us minutes away from critical federal and defense stakeholders such as the U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Defense. This facility allows us to rapidly build strategic U.S. partnerships, access premier regional engineering talent, and deploy our emergency and maritime telehealth solutions across North America.”

Located in the center of Northern Virginia, the MEC provides business incubation, growth resources, and soft-landing services that help startups and international companies establish and grow their operations. MedVoyage’s investment further strengthens Fairfax City’s reputation as a destination for companies advancing healthcare, artificial intelligence, aerospace, and emerging technologies.

“MedVoyage’s decision to establish its first U.S. headquarters in Fairfax City reflects the strength of our innovation economy and the collaborative business environment we’ve built,” said Colleen Kardasz, CEO and Director of Fairfax City Economic Development. “From connecting international companies with regional resources to supporting their long-term growth, our goal is to provide a strong foundation for business investment. We look forward to working alongside MedVoyage as it builds its U.S. presence from Fairfax City.”

MedVoyage’s lease at the MEC took effect on August 1. The office is located at 10300 Eaton Place, Suite 474. For more information about the MEC, please visit mec-fairfax.org.

About Fairfax City Economic Development
Fairfax City Economic Development is a collaboration between the Fairfax City Economic Development Department and the Fairfax City Economic Development Authority, an independent agency administered by a commission appointed by the City Council to promote economic development activity within Fairfax. Fairfax City Economic Development helps attract businesses to the city, encourages and develops programs that foster connections between businesses, residents, and visitors of Fairfax City, and spearheads innovative programs and strategies devoted to positioning Fairfax City as an ideal location to start, grow, and scale a business. It is a founding member of the Northern Virginia Economic Development Alliance. Learn more at gofairfaxcity.com. 

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New capabilities securely extend Threat-Led Defense into AI assistants and agentic workflows, enabling security teams to access trusted defensive intelligence where they already work.

RESTON, Va., Aug. 4, 2026 — Tidal Cyber, the creator and global leader of the Threat-Led Defense category, today announced new capabilities that securely extend its industry-first Threat-Led Defense platform into the AI assistants and workflows security teams already trust and use every day.

As organizations increasingly rely on AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, and custom agentic workflows to accelerate security operations, the threat, coverage, and defensive context needed to answer critical security questions often remains isolated within individual security platforms. Teams are forced to switch between applications, manually gather information, or build custom integrations before they can take action.

Tidal Cyber changes that.

Rather than introducing another AI assistant, Tidal Cyber enables organizations to securely bring Threat-Led Defense into the AI environments they have already adopted. Security teams can access Threat Profiles, Coverage Maps, ATT&CK coverage, recommendations, and defensive context through natural-language interactions with approved AI assistants. This accelerates threat analysis and prioritization while reducing manual effort and streamlining executive reporting. The announcement represents an industry-first approach to making Threat-Led Defense available wherever security teams are located.

“Security teams have already chosen the AI assistants they want to use,” said Rick Gordon, Co-founder and CEO of Tidal Cyber. “The challenge is that those assistants don’t understand an organization’s actual defensive posture. They don’t know your Threat Profiles, Coverage Maps, or where adversaries are most likely to succeed. We believe organizations shouldn’t have to leave the AI tools they rely on every day to access Threat-Led Defense. This innovation extends trusted defensive intelligence into those workflows, making Threat-Led Defense more accessible, more actionable, and more valuable across the security organization.”

The new capabilities allow organizations to securely explore defensive coverage, assess organizational readiness, prioritize engineering work, evaluate threat exposure, and generate leadership-ready summaries using trusted Threat-Led Defense intelligence. Customer data remains under customer control through authenticated, tenant-scoped access that preserves governance while securely connecting approved AI assistants to the Tidal Cyber platform.

Unlike traditional approaches that require organizations to build and maintain custom AI integrations, Tidal Cyber provides a secure, governed connection between their Threat-Led Defense platform and the AI ecosystems customers have already standardized on. The platform extends, not replaces, existing AI investments, allowing organizations to incorporate trusted Threat-Led Defense intelligence into established workflows without changing how security teams conduct work.

“Threat-Led Defense has always been about helping organizations understand how adversaries execute attacks and whether they can stop them,” said Frank Duff, Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Tidal Cyber. “This extends that intelligence beyond our platform itself. Wherever security teams use AI to analyze threats, prioritize work, or communicate risk, they can now securely bring Threat-Led Defense with them. It’s another major step toward making procedure-level intelligence available wherever defensive decisions are made.”

The new capabilities are powered by the Tidal Cyber Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, which provides a secure, governed connectivity layer between the Threat-Led Defense platform and approved AI assistants and agentic workflows. Rather than creating another destination for security teams, the MCP Server enables organizations to bring trusted Threat-Led Defense insights directly into the AI tools they already use while maintaining authentication, governance, and customer control.

Availability

The new AI connectivity capabilities are available as part of the Tidal Cyber Threat-Led Defense platform.

About Tidal Cyber

Tidal Cyber is the creator and global leader of the Threat-Led Defense category. Purpose-built around adversary procedures and real-world attack execution, the Tidal Cyber platform enables organizations to operationalize procedure-level intelligence across defensive security operations. By correlating threats, vulnerabilities, assets, and defenses through the lens of adversary execution, Tidal Cyber helps organizations prioritize defensive action, measure defensive effectiveness, and reduce attacker success.

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L’Africa Business Investment Summit (ABIS) 2026 se tiendra les 27 et 28 août 2026 au MGM National Harbor, dans la région métropolitaine de Washington DC, sous le haut patronage de Sa Majesté Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, roi du royaume d’Ashanti, en partenariat avec Millennium Excellence.

WASHINGTON  , 4 août 2026 — Le rendez-vous des investisseurs, dirigeants d’entreprise et responsables gouvernementaux africains présentera environ quatre milliards de dollars d’opportunités d’investissement aux capitaux institutionnels mondiaux, reflétant un intérêt croissant pour le continent, alors que les investisseurs se tournent vers des marchés autres que les marchés développés traditionnels à la recherche de rendements plus élevés, de diversification et de croissance à long terme.

Le sommet s’ouvrira par un discours solennel prononcé par le roi du royaume Ashanti, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II. Il réunira des investisseurs institutionnels, des sociétés de capital-investissement et de crédit privé, des institutions multilatérales de développement, des organismes de financement mixte, des institutions de financement du développement, des représentants d’États, des décideurs politiques, des family offices et des chefs d’entreprise, afin d’explorer les opportunités d’investissement dans les domaines des infrastructures, de l’exploitation minière, des ressources naturelles, de l’agriculture, de l’industrie manufacturière, de la technologie, de l’énergie et d’autres secteurs stratégiques.

Parmi les invités de marque figure la vice-présidente du Ghana, S.E. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, des ministres, des gouverneurs et d’autres hauts représentants gouvernementaux de nombreux pays africains, ainsi que des chefs d’entreprise tels qu’Arian Simone, cofondatrice de Fearless Fund et Fred Swaniker, fondateur de Sand Technologies.

« Les fondamentaux ont changé », déclare Nana Agyeman Prempeh, président de la Millennium Excellence Foundation. « Les projets ayant vu leurs risques réduits grâce à des institutions plus solides, à des financements mixtes et à des réformes politiques, les opportunités d’investissement en Afrique offrent aujourd’hui des rendements ajustés au risque de plus en plus attractifs. Le marché commence tout juste à prendre conscience de cette évolution. »

Ce sommet reflète une transition plus large de l’allocation mondiale des capitaux, les investisseurs institutionnels cherchant à s’exposer aux secteurs africains en pleine expansion que sont les infrastructures, l’industrialisation, la transition énergétique, les technologies et l’industrie manufacturière. Plusieurs projets devraient bénéficier de mesures d’incitation à l’investissement mises en place par les pouvoirs publics afin d’améliorer leur rentabilité, parallèlement à des profils de rendement commercial destinés à attirer des capitaux institutionnels à long terme.

Outre les débats en séance plénière, le programme propose des espaces de négociation dédiés, des sessions d’investissement axées sur des secteurs spécifiques, des tables rondes avec des représentants des pouvoirs publics, ainsi que des réunions privées destinées à faciliter les échanges directs entre investisseurs, décideurs politiques, parrains de projets, promoteurs et chefs d’entreprise. L’Africa Business Investment Summit constitue le point d’orgue de la Millennium Excellence Week, une série d’événements visant à reconnaître le leadership tout en renforçant les liens commerciaux et d’investissement entre l’Afrique et la communauté internationale des investisseurs.

Le public peut s’inscrire pour participer au sommet et à la Millennium Excellence Week sur www.abis-africa.com. Les représentants des médias doivent s’inscrire pour obtenir leur accréditation afin d’assister au sommet et à la Millennium Excellence Week en cliquant ICI.

Investment builds on Wellinks’ strategic partnership with UMass Memorial Health and other commercial partners to accelerate growth and expand patient access to its predictive care model

NEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 4, 2026 — Wellinks, a leader in cardiopulmonary care, today announced the first close of its Series B Funding, securing $10 million to fund commercial growth with participation from UMass Memorial Health and inside investors. The investment builds on Wellinks’ multiyear relationship with UMass Memorial Health and other partners to accelerate the expansion of Wellinks’ predictive care solution.

Wellinks’ FDA-cleared Spire Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) System helps identify early physiologic changes associated with clinical deterioration, supporting earlier intervention and proactive management of chronic respiratory disease beyond traditional care settings.

Wellinks and UMass Chan Medical School first collaboratively approached reducing acute care utilization in COPD patients through the Healthy at Home program. The study found that Healthy at Home participants had more than 60% lower odds of 30-day hospital readmission, with trends toward fewer emergency department visits and shorter hospital stays than similar patients who did not participate. For more information, read “Healthy at Home study demonstrates feasibility, effectiveness of mobile care for COPD.”

“Our continued collaboration with Wellinks reflects a shared commitment to advancing proactive, data-driven care,” said Dr. Eric Dickson, CEO at UMass Memorial Health. “Together, we’re generating real-world clinical evidence that supports better outcomes for patients and informs the future of cardiopulmonary care.”

Wellinks will use the funding to:

• Expand its commercial footprint and extend cardiopulmonary care to broader and more diverse patient populations, including rural and underserved communities.
• Advance its predictive capabilities by leveraging a growing body of real-world clinical data to strengthen decision support and enhance the Wellinks care solution.
• Expand into additional cardiopulmonary conditions, including congestive heart failure (CHF), by applying its technology and care model across a broader range of high-risk patient populations.

“This investment represents validation of the solution we’ve built and the outcomes it delivers,” said Jennifer Barretta, Chief Operating Officer and Interim CEO of Wellinks. “Our approach aims to close care gaps for patients, including those at risk for poor adherence, leading to lower healthcare utilization and a reduced cost of care.”

About Wellinks

Wellinks is redefining how respiratory care is delivered. Our solution combines the benefits of virtual chronic care disease management with the power of remote patient monitoring through our proprietary, FDA-cleared technology. Our Health Tags offer passive, continuous monitoring that predicts clinical deterioration up to one week before a patient feels the onset of symptoms. By pairing predictive insights with proactive clinical intervention, Wellinks demonstrates results in reducing acute care utilization, readmission rates, and total cost of care. We are closing care gaps and changing the paradigm in how this traditionally underserved population receives care.

For more information, visit www.wellinks.com and follow us on LinkedIn.

SOURCE Wellinks

NEW YORK, Aug. 4, 2026 — Blue Owl Capital Inc. (“Blue Owl”) (NYSE: OWL), a leading alternative asset manager, announced today the final close of its inaugural European net lease fund, Blue Owl Real Estate European Net Lease Fund (“OREF Europe”) with €1.6 billion of total capital commitments. OREF Europe exceeded the original target of €1.0 billion and its previous hard cap of €1.5 billion.

OREF Europe is focused on acquiring and owning single-tenant net leased real estate and infrastructure assets, mission-critical to the operations of blue-chip, investment-grade tenants. The fund launches into a European net lease market that Blue Owl believes remains structurally underserved, leaving significant room to deploy capital, particularly for single-tenant, mission-critical industrial, data center, and essential retail assets.

Marc Zahr, Co-President and Global Head of Real Assets at Blue Owl said, “We believe Europe represents the next frontier for institutional sale-leasebacks. Having successfully executed this strategy targeting investment grade corporations across the U.S., we are applying the same disciplined approach to a European market which represents an estimated €13.4 trillion opportunity, where we believe many of these companies can unlock substantial value by monetizing owned real estate and reinvesting that capital into more accretive uses across their business.”

OREF Europe extends Blue Owl’s market-leading net lease franchise to Europe. The strategy seeks to apply the same disciplined playbook in Europe to deliver predictable, long-term income for investors and operational efficiency for tenants. The strategy has already assembled a deep, near-term pipeline diversified across geography and sector, spanning the United Kingdom and continental Europe across industrial and logistics, essential retail, healthcare, life sciences, cold storage, and corporate headquarters.

Commitments to OREF Europe were secured from a broad mix of existing and leading institutional investors, including public and private pensions, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, endowments and foundations, and family offices in the United States and across Europe, APAC, and the Middle East.

Blue Owl is one of the world’s leading alternative asset managers, with $319 billion in assets under management across Credit, Real Assets, and GP Strategic Capital. Blue Owl’s net lease strategy is part of Blue Owl’s Real Assets platform and focuses on investing in free-standing single-tenant net-leased real estate and infrastructure assets. As of June 30, 2026, the Real Assets platform has raised $8.48 billion of capital this year, investing across North America and Europe.

In the 2025 Private Equity Real Estate (PERE) Awards, Blue Owl was named PERE’s Global Net Lease Investor of the Year, Global Data Center Investor of the Year, and Global Retail Investor of the Year and has been ranked #2 on the 2026 PERE 100 for real estate fundraisers globally. The Real Assets platform, launched in 2021, has raised more money over the past five years than nearly every other real estate manager globally.

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These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, conditions or results, and involve a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other important factors, many of which are outside Blue Owl’s control, that could cause actual results or outcomes to differ materially from those discussed in the forward-looking statements.

Important factors, among others, that may affect actual results or outcomes include the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of strategic acquisitions; costs related to acquisitions; the inability to maintain the listing of Blue Owl’s shares on the New York Stock Exchange; Blue Owl’s ability to manage growth; Blue Owl’s ability to execute its business plan and meet its projections; potential litigation involving Blue Owl; changes in applicable laws or regulations; and the possibility that Blue Owl may be adversely affected by other economic, business, geo-political and competitive factors.

Accolades & Awards Disclosure

Accolades are independently determined and awarded by their respective publications. Accolades can be based on a variety of criteria including recognition by peers, strategy innovation, growth of assets under management, length of service, client satisfaction, type of clientele and more. Neither Blue Owl nor its employees pay a fee in exchange for these ratings. Specific award selection methodology is available upon request.

SOURCE Blue Owl Capital

Falcon Fund investment and Falcon platform integration builds on the companies‘ growing partnership

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 4, 2026 — At Black Hat USA today, Above Security (Above), the AI-native managed insider threat platform, announced a strategic investment from the CrowdStrike Falcon® Fund and integration with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. The investment and integration advance the companies’ existing partnership and Above’s mission to democratize elite insider risk management.

Above’s fleet of always-on, continuously reasoning AI agents analyzes behavior across identities, applications, data movement, and workflow context. The resulting intelligence delivers a comprehensive investigation narrative, including behavioral timelines, contextual analysis, reasoning behind risk classifications, and recommended actions.

Through the partnership, CrowdStrike customers will be able to extend their Falcon deployment, powering ready-made insider risk investigations with Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM telemetry. Above correlates Next-Gen SIEM endpoint, identity, and third-party data into investigation-ready cases and streams completed investigations back into Falcon, making insider risk a native outcome of the platform the world’s leading organizations trust to stop breaches.

“The Falcon Fund invests in companies developing innovative technologies that solve meaningful cybersecurity challenges,” said Michael Sentonas, President of CrowdStrike. “Above has built a compelling agentic approach to insider risk management. We’re excited to open another path to legacy SIEM transformation and support the team as they continue to innovate and bring new capabilities to organizations around the world.”

“CrowdStrike’s investment validates the principle Above was built on: the next generation of insider risk won’t be built on policies – it will be built on investigation,” said Aviv Nahum, Co-founder and CEO, Above Security. “By combining Above’s AI investigative agents with CrowdStrike’s platform and go-to-market reach, we’re helping organizations operationalize insider risk management at scale.”

The investment builds on the companies’ growing relationship. Earlier this year, Above was selected from nearly 1,000 applicants to participate in the CrowdStrike Cybersecurity Startup Accelerator, presented in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NVIDIA. The company advanced to the live finals at RSAC 2026, where it was named the program’s runner-up. The Falcon Fund investment also follows Above’s recent $50 million funding round led by Ballistic Ventures, Merlin Ventures, and Norwest.

To learn more, visit: www.above.security/blog-posts/the-next-step-for-above-crowdstrikes-falcon-fund

Meet Above Security at Black Hat USA
To talk with the people building the future of insider risk detection, visit the Above team at Black Hat USA, Booth #5332. See behavioral intelligence live to understand how security teams investigate intent, not just activity.

About Above Security
Above Security is a managed insider risk protection service powered by a fleet of autonomous AI investigators. Instead of alerting on isolated events or anomalies, Above continuously investigates user behavior across SaaS, internal, and custom applications to understand intent, build behavioral narratives, and surface insider risk before incidents occur. Above’s AI agents operate like a 24/7 insider risk team: they monitor activity in real time, reason over sequences of actions, and proactively assemble investigation-ready timelines that explain who did what, why it matters, and what to do next. When risk emerges, the platform delivers in-flow nudges to steer behavior, flags emerging incidents early, and produces complete, defensible reports with recommended action plans for security, HR, and legal. The result is proactive insider risk management at scale—continuous investigations, clear reasoning, and actionable outcomes—without relying on static rules, manual triage, or post-incident forensics.

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This press release may include discussion of unreleased services or features. Any unreleased services or features referenced here are still in development and subject to change. Customers should make their purchase decisions based upon features that are currently available.

SOURCE Above Security

Relu currently handles more than 1 million cases each year from dental laboratories across 82 countries. The financing provided by DIA will further strengthen Relu’s position in the US market.

“A lab’s growth used to be capped by how many technicians it could hire and train. AI removes that ceiling: technicians who adopt Relu become far more productive, designing multiples of the cases they could before,” said Holger Willems, CEO and Co-Founder of Relu. “This investment lets us bring that to more American labs.”

“We backed Relu at the seed stage, and we’re investing again because the results speak for themselves,” said Thomas Sharpe, Managing Partner at Dental Innovation Alliance. “The lab operators among our investors have seen Relu deliver: real design and workflow automation, and a growing adoption by leading American labs. We’re proud to help them scale.”

About Relu

Relu has built Relu^® Automate, an AI platform that automates the design and administrative work for dental lab cases, like night guards, crowns, and dental models. Relu^® Automate is a pay-per-case platform that automates design and workflow processes, giving labs room to grow. Relu was founded in 2019 by Holger Willems (CEO), Adriaan Van Gerven (CTO), Antoine Coppens (COO), and Thomas Beznik (CPO), and has offices in Leuven, Belgium, and Boston, MA. Learn more at relu.ai.

About Dental Innovation Alliance

DIA is a venture capital fund investing in innovative technologies and solutions in the dental and multi-site healthcare industry, backing companies that develop transformative solutions for dental practices, DSOs, and the broader multi-site healthcare ecosystem.

SOURCE Relu BV