Option exercise triggers $25M payment to Pinetree.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., April 29, 2026 — Pinetree Therapeutics, Inc. (“Pinetree”), a biotechnology company pioneering next-generation targeted protein degradation approaches for cancer and other serious diseases, today announced that AstraZeneca (LSE/STO/NYSE: AZN) has exercised its option under the companies’ previously announced agreement to obtain an exclusive global license to develop and commercialize PTX-299, a first-in-class bispecific antibody degrader targeting EGFR.

The option exercise follows encouraging preclinical progress and represents an important milestone in the collaboration between the two companies. Under the terms of the agreement, AstraZeneca will assume responsibility for global development and commercialization of the therapeutic candidate.

“This milestone marks an important validation of our AbReptor™ platform,” said Hojuhn Song, Ph.D., Founder and CEO of Pinetree Therapeutics. “We are pleased that AstraZeneca has exercised its option to advance PTX-299, and we look forward to seeing them continue the development of this promising therapeutic candidate. By combining Pinetree’s breakthrough protein degradation platform with AstraZeneca’s global expertise in cancer drug development, we believe that PTX-299 has the potential to bring a meaningful new treatment option to patients with EGFR-driven cancers.”

EGFR plays a critical role in the growth and survival of cells in multiple tumor types. While EGFR-targeted therapies have transformed patient outcomes, resistance can develop, highlighting the need for new therapeutic strategies. By leveraging Pinetree’s antibody-based protein degradation technology, PTX-299 is designed to selectively eliminate disease-driving EGFR proteins rather than simply inhibiting their activity, potentially overcoming key resistance mechanisms.

The therapeutic candidate was developed using AbReptor™, Pinetree’s proprietary multispecific antibody-based targeted protein degradation platform. In contrast to conventional monoclonal antibodies that rely on functional inhibition, AbReptor™ drives the active removal of disease-associated proteins through targeted degradation. By enabling the elimination of membrane-bound and extracellular targets, this platform extends beyond the limitations of traditional inhibition-based antibody therapies.

Under the terms of the agreement, AstraZeneca’s exercise of the option triggers a $25 million option closing payment to Pinetree. Pinetree is also eligible to receive potential future development, regulatory, and commercial milestone payments and tiered royalties on global net sales if the product is successfully developed and commercialized. The total potential value of the agreement exceeds $500 million.

About Pinetree Therapeutics
Pinetree Therapeutics, based in Cambridge, MA, is a preclinical-stage biotech company developing next-generation targeted protein degraders (TPDs) to overcome drug resistance and tumor recurrence in oncology, with applications in inflammation and immunology. Its proprietary AbReptor™ platform enables selective degradation of membrane-bound and extracellular proteins, offering a differentiated mechanism of action and durable therapeutic benefit. Pinetree is also advancing trispecific degraders and ADC-integrated platforms.

For more information, visit https://www.pinetreetx.com/.

Contact:
Zachary Park
[email protected]

SOURCE PineTree Therapeutics

– Reforzando su estrategia de finanzas sostenibles, PT Vale obtiene una línea de crédito sindicada vinculada a criterios ESG por valor de 750 millones de dólares

YAKARTA, Indonesia, 29 de abril de 2026 — PT Vale Indonesia Tbk (“PT Vale” o la “Compañía”) ha obtenido un préstamo vinculado a la sostenibilidad (SLL) de 750 millones de dólares, que incluye una opción de sobreasignación de 250 millones de dólares, lo que marca su debut en el mercado de préstamos sindicados y refuerza su estrategia de financiación sostenible. Respaldado por 14 bancos internacionales y con una sobredemanda de 1,7 veces, este préstamo refleja la gran confianza de los prestamistas en el perfil crediticio de PT Vale, su cartera de proyectos estratégicos y su trayectoria de crecimiento vinculada a criterios ESG.

Estructurado bajo el Marco de Financiamiento Vinculado a la Sostenibilidad de PT Vale, el financiamiento está vinculado a dos indicadores clave de rendimiento: la reducción de la intensidad de las emisiones de carbono y el aumento del consumo de energía renovable. Ambos indicadores recibieron una calificación de “sólida” por parte de un proveedor independiente de Opinión de Segunda Parte, en consonancia con la trayectoria de 1,5 °C del Acuerdo de París y las Contribuciones Determinadas a Nivel Nacional de Indonesia.

A medida que crece la demanda de níquel producido de manera responsable, impulsada por la electrificación, el almacenamiento de energía y la descarbonización global, PT Vale se posiciona como un productor con emisiones de carbono relativamente bajas, respaldado por operaciones basadas en energía hidroeléctrica.

Bernardus Irmanto, presidente director y consejero delegado de PT Vale, declaró: “Esta operación representa un paso importante en nuestro camino para alinear nuestra estrategia financiera con nuestra agenda de descarbonización y nuestras ambiciones de crecimiento a largo plazo. Mantenemos nuestro compromiso de ofrecer níquel de alta calidad con una menor huella de carbono, al tiempo que apoyamos la agenda de transformación de Indonesia y contribuimos significativamente a la transición energética global”.

Harapman Kasan, director de Banca Mayorista de UOB Indonesia, afirmó: “A medida que el sector del níquel en el sudeste asiático continúa evolucionando, el papel de una financiación de transición bien estructurada se vuelve cada vez más crucial. Esta transacción refleja nuestro compromiso de alinear las estructuras financieras con objetivos de sostenibilidad medibles, al tiempo que apoyamos las prioridades más amplias de Indonesia en materia de transición industrial y energética”.

Mike Zhang, director global de Metales y Minería de Banca Institucional en DBS Bank, añadió que el sector de metales y minería desempeña un papel fundamental en la transición energética y debe demostrar un progreso creíble y medible en materia de sostenibilidad.

Ken Matsuo, presidente director de PT Bank Mizuho Indonesia, comentó: “El sector energético es un pilar de la economía indonesia, y nos complace apoyar el primer préstamo sindicado de PT Vale. A pesar de la volatilidad del mercado, la fuerte participación y la sobredemanda demuestran la confianza en el modelo de negocio de PT Vale. Consideramos que la integración de criterios ESG en estructuras de financiación como esta es un factor clave para una transición energética sostenible”.

PT Vale también destinará los beneficios financieros derivados de los ajustes de margen vinculados a la sostenibilidad a programas de desarrollo comunitario, extendiendo así el impacto ESG más allá de las operaciones.

Contacto para medios:
Vanda Kusumaningrum 
Responsable de Comunicaciones Corporativas
PT Vale Indonesia Tbk.
[email protected]

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• New Rocsys M1 enables hands-free, multi-bay charging for robotaxi fleets, the first solution in a broader platform built for real-world deployment, validated by a major robotaxi deal and set for rollout across North America and Europe in 2027
• The overhead rail-mounted system works across mixed EV fleets and any charger type, maximizing parking space and enabling uninterrupted, safe operation with up to 75% productivity increase from existing staff
• In conjunction with the release of the M1, Rocsys has also raised a $13M Series A extension, backed by leading investors including Capricorn Partners and Scania Invest

RIJSWIJK, Netherlands and PORTLAND, Ore., April 29, 2026 — Rocsys, the global leader in hands-free depot solutions for autonomous electric vehicles, today announced the Rocsys M1—the world’s first hands-free charging solution capable of serving multiple bays in robotaxi operations. Part of a broader depot service platform that enables full depot autonomy, the M1 is currently in pilot deployment, with large-scale rollout set to begin in 2027. Rocsys plans to support thousands of charging bays across North America and Europe over the next five years.

To support this expansion, Rocsys also announced a $13M Series A extension led by Capricorn Partners, with participation from Scania Invest, Forward.One, SEB Greentech Venture Capital and Graduate Ventures, bringing total funding raised to date to $56M.

The global robotaxi market is projected to reach $45.7B by 2030, driving rapid fleet expansion and increasing the intensity of depot operations. As utilization rises, existing infrastructure is pushed to its limits, with manual charging emerging as a critical barrier to operational continuity. Repeated thousands of times each day, charging processes introduce cost, operational friction and safety risks, becoming a structural constraint on fleet growth and profitability.

Rocsys addresses this gap by enabling fleet readiness, transforming charging into an automated process that maximizes uptime and boosts productivity.

The M1’s modular, multi-bay architecture allows a single system to seamlessly serve multiple vehicles across up to 10 bays, increasing throughput while reducing operational costs. Flexible overhead mounting options, including ground- and roof-mounted configurations, integrate with virtually any depot layout, preserve full depot space and allow parallel activities such as cleaning and inspection during charging. At scale, in a depot with 50 parking bays, the Rocsys M1 can deliver up to 75% higher operational efficiency from existing staff and bring up to $1.7 million in annual savings.

Built on a platform proven in active port operations and other high-duty environments and trained on more than six years of real-world data and edge cases, the Rocsys M1 adapts to variations in lighting, weather and vehicle positioning, achieving consistent, predictable performance and delivering 99.9%+ plug-in success rate in live environments. At its core, the Rocsys M1 combines AI-enhanced computer vision for precise, continuously improving plug-in performance and motion intelligence for safe, context-aware operation. This is underpinned by Rocsys’ broader technology, backed by 130+ granted patents and pending applications.

Rocsys M1 is fully interoperable across EVs, chargers and connector types. An overhead rail-mounted design with a flexible, long-reach robotic arm enables reliable connection and disconnection across mixed fleets, regardless of charging inlets position, allowing immediate deployment without costly retrofitting or lock-in.

You can see the M1 in action here, while a visualization will be showcased at Rocsys’ booth 3401 at ACT Expo (4–6 May) in Las Vegas.

As part of the Rocsys Platform, the M1 integrates hardware, software and services to support autonomous fleet operations. It operates within a connected service ecosystem that combines the Rocsys Portal for operational visibility, APIs for integration with customer IT systems and remote monitoring with expert field support. Working quietly in the background, these services ensure vehicles remain charged and ready when needed.

Crijn Bouman, CEO and Co-Founder of Rocsys, said: “Autonomous vehicles are growing rapidly, and infrastructure must keep pace. Without hands-free operations, autonomy stops at the depot. Based on a platform designed to extend beyond charging to automated interior cleaning and inspection, the Rocsys M1 introduces smart charging infrastructure for continuous, real-world use at scale, validated by signing a major robotaxi deal. It enables operators to run mixed fleets autonomously, reliably and without interruption. This is the missing link for robotaxi operators to move from pilots to global deployment.”

Steven Lambert from Capricorn Partners added: “Robotaxis are entering an acceleration phase, where operational scaling becomes the defining challenge. Infrastructure will determine how quickly and efficiently this transition happens. Rocsys is building the system layer required to support that shift, with proven, purpose-built technology already operating in demanding environments. At Capricorn Partners, we are keen to enable Rocsys’ growth to bring the foundation for the future of autonomous mobility.”

Johannes Fors Källström from Scania Invest, said: “At Scania Invest, our mission is to support companies driving the transition to a more sustainable transport system. Rocsys technology addresses a key infrastructure bottleneck for the broader deployment of autonomous vehicles. With several years of operational experience, Rocsys has demonstrated a strong focus on reliability, a critical factor for maximizing uptime in real-world operations. Their technical depth and growing operational track record position them well within this emerging segment of autonomous vehicle servicing.”

About Rocsys

Rocsys is the global leader in hands-free charging and fleet service solutions for electric and autonomous vehicles. The company’s cutting-edge technology, including next-generation soft robotics, AI-driven computer vision, and data-driven proactive services, unlocks greater efficiency, safety, and scalability for the world’s leading ports operators, distribution companies and robotaxis. With operations in Europe and the United States, Rocsys plays a leading role in shaping standards that will unify a powerful EV ecosystem through industry consortiums and strategic partnerships with multinational corporations and OEMs. For more information, visit www.rocsys.com.

About Capricorn Partners

Capricorn Partners is an independent European manager of venture capital funds investing in innovative European companies with technology as competitive advantage in the areas of digital, health and cleantech. Through our experienced team of engineers, scientists, financial experts and former entrepreneurs, we actively support and guide promising founders in their growth journey. Capricorn Partners is also the management company of the public privak Quest for Growth, quoted on Euronext Brussels. See www.capricorn.be for more information.

About Scania Invest

Scania Invest is Scania’s in-house, global venture capital arm, investing across all stages. We invest across four focus sectors; energy & infrastructure, autonomous & supply chain, asset management & circularity, and deep tech. We provide more than just capital to our portfolio companies – by leveraging Scania’s core capabilities, we drive value and serve as long-term partners to our portfolio companies.

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NEW YORK, April 29, 2026 — Squads today announced an $18 million strategic round led by Solana Ventures, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, L1D, Collab+Currency, Electric Capital, Placeholder, Jump Crypto, and Robot Ventures, bringing total funding to $42.9M. This raise accelerates Altitude, a financial operating system built on stablecoin infrastructure.

Stablecoins are changing the infrastructure of business finance. For the last decade, building financial products for businesses meant building on top of banks – bank partnerships were required to hold customer funds and access payment rails. Every new market meant a new bank and a new compliance cycle. Blockchains changed the underlying infrastructure. Stablecoins turned money into software, allowing treasury and payments to be separated from the fractional reserve system for the first time.

This separation has produced a new category of licensed Payment Service Providers (PSPs) that move money across both stablecoin and traditional banking rails. The market has moved quickly: Stripe acquired Bridge for $1.1 billion, Mastercard acquired BVNK for $1.8 billion. These PSPs were the missing piece to build a full-stack financial operations platform on stablecoin rails.

Altitude is built on this shift. It does not hold customer funds. Treasury is held in stablecoins. When funds need to move, they settle on stablecoin rails instantly, 24/7, at low cost. When they need to reach traditional banking rails, they do so through a network of licensed stablecoin PSPs.

Since publicly launching in December 2025, Altitude has processed over $200 million in payments for exporters, global agencies, crypto-native companies, and cross-border remote teams. Customers choose Altitude for what stablecoin infrastructure unlocks: global-by-default coverage, multi-currency support, instant settlement, and programmable controls. With $18M in new funding, Altitude is growing its team, expanding its payment network, and accelerating product development.

“This raise backs a simple idea: businesses are better off running on stablecoins than on legacy banking infrastructure. Solana is now mature enough to carry global business finance, regulators have built the frameworks to support it, and for the first time you can build a full financial platform on a genuinely new system,” said Stepan Simkin, CEO of Squads.

“The Squads team spent the last four years building the security infrastructure that most of the Solana ecosystem runs on. Stablecoins and programmable blockchains are changing how global finance works. This is the team with the technical depth and the vision to build the financial platform that sits on top of that shift. We believe Altitude will be how the next generation of global businesses runs their financial operations,” said Matthew Beck, Head of Solana Ventures.

Two criticisms have historically limited stablecoin adoption in mainstream business finance: compliance gaps and security concerns. Altitude addresses both directly.

On compliance, Altitude has built a proprietary engine that imposes the same checks expected from any regulated fintech: continuous sanctions screening, AML checks, transaction monitoring, and KYB verification. This engine enables every Altitude account to plug into licensed PSPs including Bridge, MoonPay, Infinite, Due, and others for global coverage.

On security, Altitude enforces controls at each layer of the stack. At the product layer, every business account comes with programmable controls, granular permissions, and configurable multifactor authentication. At the infrastructure layer, Squads Protocol handles asset custody and money movement, securing over $10 billion in value. At the settlement layer, every transaction is recorded and settled on Solana.

“As we scaled, treasury and payments turned into an operational headache. Complexity and fees kept compounding. Altitude removed both,” said Kash Dhanda, COO, Jupiter.

About Squads

Squads is a financial infrastructure company building on Solana. The company operates two products: Squads Multisig, the smart account standard securing over $10 billion in assets across the Solana ecosystem, and Altitude, a financial operating system that gives businesses multi-currency accounts, corporate cards, global payments, APY on balances, and a CFO stack to run it all. Learn more at altitude.xyz or squads.xyz.

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CUPERTINO, Kalifornien, 29. April 2026 — MagicCube, der Pionier im Bereich softwarebasierter Sicherheitslösungen für Zahlungen, Identitätsmanagement und digitale Vermögenswerte, gab heute bekannt, dass e& capital, der Investmentarm des globalen Technologiekonzerns e&, sich an der 10-Millionen-Dollar-Finanzierungsrunde beteiligt hat, womit die zweite Finanzierungsrunde abgeschlossen ist. Die Partnerschaft unterstreicht das gemeinsame Ziel, hardwareunabhängige Sicherheit auf staatlichem Niveau zu bieten, die das digitale Vertrauen über Geräte, Clouds und Rechtsräume hinweg weltweit stärkt.

e& capital schließt sich dem strategischen Investor der ersten Finanzierungsrunde, Verifone – einem weltweit führenden Anbieter von Zahlungstechnologie –, sowie bestehenden Finanz- und Einzelinvestoren an, darunter unter anderem Bold Capital Partners und Mosaik Partners.

Diese Zusammenarbeit erfolgt zu einer Zeit, in der Staaten und Unternehmen ihre Bemühungen zur Sicherung von KI-Modellen, digitalen Identitäten und grenzüberschreitenden Datenströmen verstärken, wobei sich die Golfregion zu einem wichtigen Knotenpunkt für KI-Infrastruktur und digitale Innovation entwickelt.

„MagicCube adressiert einen schnell wachsenden Bedarf an der Schnittstelle von digitaler Identität, Zahlungsverkehr und KI-Sicherheit”, sagte Eddy Farhat, Executive Director, Corporate Ventures bei e&. „Da immer mehr sensible Workloads zwischen Cloud- und Edge-Umgebungen verschoben werden, benötigen Unternehmen flexible, softwarebasierte Sicherheit, die Ausfallsicherheit, Compliance und Skalierbarkeit gewährleistet. Unsere Investition spiegelt den Fokus von e& capital wider, Technologien zu unterstützen, die eine vertrauenswürdige digitale Infrastruktur stärken und neue Möglichkeiten in wachstumsstarken Märkten eröffnen.”

Da Staatsfonds, Telekommunikationsunternehmen und Hyperscaler massiv in Rechen- und Datenkapazitäten der nächsten Generation investieren, bietet MagicCube eine neutrale, softwareorientierte Vertrauensstruktur, die kritische Workloads über Regionen, Geräte und Cloud-Anbieter hinweg sichert. Die Plattform verbessert Kontinuität und Ausfallsicherheit und sorgt dafür, dass Zahlungs-, Identitäts- und KI-Dienste sicher und verfügbar bleiben, während sich Infrastrukturrouten und regulatorische Rahmenbedingungen weiterentwickeln.

„Nach der Unterstützung durch Verifone – und zu einer Zeit, in der die Golfstaaten die Zukunft von KI und digitaler Infrastruktur gestalten – ist die Unterstützung durch e& sowohl eine starke Bestätigung als auch ein strategisches Signal”, sagte Sam Shawki, CEO und Mitbegründer von MagicCube. „Gemeinsam mit e& bauen wir sichere Identitäts- und KI-Infrastrukturen auf, die nicht an einen einzelnen Hyperscaler, Hardwareanbieter oder Rechtsraum gebunden sind – und geben unseren Partnern das Vertrauen, global zu skalieren.”

Die Investition markiert einen wichtigen Meilenstein für die wachsende Rolle regionaler Technologieführer bei der Festlegung globaler Standards für KI, Cloud und digitale Finanzen. Durch die Unterstützung der Software-Defined -Trust (SDT)-Plattform von MagicCube fördert e& eine souveränitätsfähige, hardwareunabhängige Sicherheitsschicht, die sich über mehrere Umgebungen erstreckt, sich an sich wandelnde regulatorische Anforderungen anpasst und Regierungen, Banken und Unternehmen mehr Kontrolle darüber gibt, wie und wo ihre kritischen Daten und KI-Modelle geschützt werden.

Die SDT-Plattform von MagicCube sichert Zahlungen, digitale Identitäten und KI-gesteuerte Dienste auf Smartphones, Tablets, Fahrzeugen, Selbstbedienungskassen und IoT-Geräten. Diese universelle Vertrauensschicht ermöglicht es Partnern:

„Da Rechenleistung und Daten zu strategischen nationalen Vermögenswerten werden, ist es unsere Mission, Partnern eine neutrale Vertrauensinfrastruktur zu bieten, die mit jeder Cloud, jedem Gerät und überall auf der Welt funktioniert”, fügte Shawki hinzu. „Mit e& an der Spitze dieser Finanzierungsrunde können wir diese Vision gemeinsam mit den Regionen vorantreiben, die am ehrgeizigsten in das nächste Kapitel der KI und der digitalen Souveränität investieren.”

Weitere Informationen finden Sie unter www.magiccube.co oder wenden Sie sich an [email protected].

Informationen zu MagicCube
MagicCube bietet softwarebasierte Sicherheit, die sensible Daten und Workloads auf Geräten und in der Cloud schützt – wodurch spezielle Hardware-Sicherheitsmodule überflüssig werden. Die Plattform sichert Zahlungsvorgänge, digitale Identitäten und KI-Dienste für Banken, Telekommunikationsunternehmen und andere Unternehmen und gewährleistet dabei Ausfallsicherheit und Compliance über verschiedene Rechtsräume hinweg.

Informationen zu e&

e& (ADX: EAND) ist ein globaler Technologiekonzern, der sich in 38 Ländern im Nahen Osten, in Asien, Afrika und Europa für die Förderung der digitalen Zukunft einsetzt. e& wurde 1976 in Abu Dhabi gegründet und nutzt seine fünf Jahrzehnte lange Tradition im Bereich fortschrittlicher Konnektivität, um leistungsstarke digitale Lösungen bereitzustellen, die Werte erschließen und den Fortschritt vorantreiben.

Für Unternehmen und Regierungen stellt e& geschäftskritische Infrastruktur bereit, darunter souveräne Cloud-Plattformen, Rechenzentren und KI-gestützte Lösungen, um komplexe Herausforderungen zu bewältigen und das Wachstum zu beschleunigen. Für Millionen von Kunden vereint die Gruppe weltweit führende Konnektivität mit digitalen Diensten in den Bereichen Unterhaltung, Fintech und Super-App-Erlebnisse, die das tägliche Leben bereichern.

Angetrieben von Innovation und gestärkt durch globale Partnerschaften liefert e& sichere, leistungsstarke Technologie, die Volkswirtschaften stärkt und Chancen weltweit erweitert.

Um mehr über e& zu erfahren, besuchen Sie www.eand.com

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CUPERTINO, Californie, 29 avril 2026 — MagicCube, le pionnier de la sécurité logicielle pour les paiements, l’identité et les actifs numériques, a annoncé aujourd’hui qu’e& capital, la branche d’investissement du groupe technologique mondial e&, avait rejoint son cycle de financement de 10 millions de dollars, marquant la deuxième clôture de l’opération d’investissement. Ce partenariat souligne la mission commune qui consiste à fournir une sécurité de niveau souverain, sans matériel, qui renforce la confiance numérique entre les appareils, les clouds et les juridictions du monde entier.

e& capital rejoint l’investisseur stratégique Verifone, leader mondial des technologies de paiement, ainsi que des investisseurs financiers et individuels existants, dont Bold Capital Partners et Mosaik Partners, entre autres.

Cette collaboration intervient alors que les nations et les entreprises accélèrent leurs efforts pour sécuriser les modèles d’IA, les identités numériques et les flux de données transfrontaliers, la région du Golfe apparaissant comme un pôle majeur pour l’infrastructure de l’IA et l’innovation numérique.

« MagicCube répond à un besoin en forte croissance à l’intersection de l’identité numérique, des paiements et de la sécurité de l’IA », déclare Eddy Farhat, directeur exécutif de Corporate Ventures chez e&. « Alors que de plus en plus de charges de travail sensibles migrent vers les environnements cloud et en périphérie, les entreprises ont besoin d’une sécurité flexible, basée sur des logiciels, capable de prendre en charge la résilience, la conformité et l’évolutivité. Notre investissement reflète la volonté d’e& capital de soutenir les technologies qui renforcent l’infrastructure numérique fiable et ouvrent de nouvelles perspectives sur les marchés à forte croissance. »

Alors que les fonds souverains, les opérateurs télécoms et les hyperscalers investissent massivement dans les capacités de calcul et de gestion des données de nouvelle génération, MagicCube propose une structure de confiance neutre et logicielle qui sécurise les charges de travail stratégiques entre les régions, les appareils et les fournisseurs de services cloud. Sa plateforme améliore la continuité et la résilience, permettant aux paiements, à l’identité et aux services d’IA de rester sécurisés et disponibles à mesure que les réseaux d’infrastructure et les cadres réglementaires évoluent.

« Après l’appui de Verifone, et à un moment où le Golfe façonne l’avenir de l’IA et de l’infrastructure numérique, le fait d’avoir e& à nos côtés constitue à la fois un soutien de poids et un signal stratégique », avance Sam Shawki, PDG et cofondateur de MagicCube. « Avec e&, nous mettons en place des infrastructures sécurisées pour l’identité et l’IA qui ne sont pas liées à un seul hyperscaler, à un seul fournisseur de matériel ou à une seule juridiction, offrant ainsi à nos partenaires la confiance nécessaire pour se développer à l’échelle mondiale. »

Cet investissement marque une étape clé dans le rôle croissant des champions technologiques régionaux dans la définition des normes mondiales en matière d’IA, de cloud et de finance numérique. En soutenant la plateforme Software Defined Trust (SDT) de MagicCube, e& soutient une couche de sécurité indépendante du matériel, adaptée aux exigences de souveraineté, qui couvre plusieurs environnements, s’aligne sur les demandes réglementaires en constante évolution et permet aux gouvernements, aux banques et aux entreprises de mieux contrôler la manière dont leurs données stratégiques et leurs modèles d’IA sont protégés, ainsi que les lieux où cette protection est assurée.

La plateforme SDT de MagicCube sécurise les paiements, les identifiants numériques et les services pilotés par l’IA sur les smartphones, les tablettes, les véhicules, les caisses automatiques et les appareils IoT. Cette couche de confiance universelle permet aux partenaires de :

« À mesure que l’informatique et les données deviennent des actifs stratégiques nationaux, notre mission est de fournir à nos partenaires une structure de confiance neutre qui fonctionne avec n’importe quel cloud, n’importe quel appareil, partout dans le monde », ajoute M. Shawki. « Avec e& au premier plan de ce cycle, nous pouvons accélérer cette vision aux côtés des régions qui investissent le plus ambitieusement dans le prochain chapitre de l’IA et de la souveraineté numérique. »

Pour plus d’informations, visitez le site www.magiccube.co ou contactez [email protected].

À propos de MagicCube
MagicCube offre une sécurité logicielle qui protège les données sensibles et les charges de travail sur les appareils et dans le cloud, éliminant ainsi le besoin de modules de sécurité matériels dédiés. Sa plateforme sécurise les paiements, l’identité numérique et les services d’IA pour les banques, les opérateurs télécoms et les entreprises, en garantissant la résilience et la conformité dans toutes les juridictions.

À propos d’e&

e& (ADX : EAND) est un groupe technologique mondial qui s’engage à faire progresser l’avenir numérique dans 38 pays du Moyen-Orient, d’Asie, d’Afrique et d’Europe. Fondé à Abu Dhabi en 1976, e& tire parti de son héritage de cinq décennies dans le domaine de la connectivité avancée pour fournir des solutions numériques puissantes qui libèrent de la valeur et stimulent le progrès.

Pour les entreprises et les gouvernements, e& fournit une infrastructure essentielle, notamment des plateformes cloud souveraines, des centres de données et des solutions alimentées par l’IA pour résoudre des défis complexes et accélérer la croissance. Pour des millions de clients, le groupe offre une connectivité de premier plan ainsi que des services numériques dans les domaines du divertissement, de la fintech et des superapplications qui enrichissent la vie quotidienne.

Stimulé par l’innovation et renforcé par des partenariats mondiaux, e& propose des technologies sûres et performantes qui renforcent les économies et élargissent les perspectives à l’échelle mondiale.

Pour en savoir plus sur e&, consultez le site www.eand.com.

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The company also announced a seed round co-led by Cubit Capital and Construct Capital bringing total funding to $14 million

WASHINGTON, April 29, 2026 — Kibu, the human network and app-based platform that enables individuals and organizations to know exactly who they’re interacting with when it matters most, today announced a $10.5 million seed round to scale its platform. Leveraged by the world’s most discerning users, the platform is in use today across financial services, security consulting, family offices, and government agencies. The round was co-led by Cubit Capital and Construct Capital with major participation from Slow Ventures and Helena, and joined by angels like Nicole Perlroth, Judy Estrin, and David Carrico. This brings Kibu’s total funding to $14 million.

“The first era of digital and social networks was about reach as the platforms made it easy to find people, follow them, and share content at scale, but identity has been assumed, not verified,” said Ari Andersen, co-founder and CEO of Kibu. “In today’s world of deepfakes, bots, and AI-fraud, the critical question has shifted from ‘Who can I reach?’ to ‘Who can I trust?’ In a world where AI can fool any single verification moment, the only durable proof of identity is the network of real relationships around you.”

The Problem: Trust Can No Longer Be Assumed

It has never been harder to know who and what to trust. For decades, organizations have relied on identity-by-assumption: if the email address looks right, if the phone number matches, it’s trusted. That assumption is breaking down.

Credentials themselves have become the primary attack vector. Email accounts get compromised, phone numbers get spoofed through SIM swaps, and AI can now fake anyone in seconds.

Traditional security tools encrypt the channel, but they can’t verify the person. End-to-end encryption doesn’t prevent talking to an imposter. When the most consequential decisions happen across informal channels (Signal threads, WhatsApp groups, personal phones), there’s no way to establish trust before communication occurs. Kibu solves this by turning real-world trust into secure digital connections, establishing verification before communication occurs.

Kibu’s Approach: Building Trust Before It Matters

Whereas most security tools look for threats in real-time, Kibu fills an important gap in the market by launching a platform that establishes trust before it matters. By verifying human identity upfront, Kibu builds trust into the system rather than bolting it on afterward.

The Kibu app verifies its users through a simple, one-time process that binds identity to biometric-protected devices using liveness testing and cryptographic proof. This lets users build a network of confirmed contacts called Connections. Non-discoverable by design, Connections ensure that if someone is not invited, they cannot find you, contact you, or observe your network. Within this verified network, users can securely communicate, share sensitive information, and make group decisions knowing exactly who they’re talking to.

“We took military-grade cryptography and wrapped it in a consumer-focused product,” said Eftychis Gregos-Mourginakis, co-founder and COO of Kibu. “We anchor identity in real human relationships, verified cryptographically, and put control in the hands of users.”

Why Investors Are Backing Kibu

“The industry’s answer to AI threats has been more AI — an arms race with no finish line,” said Philip Carson, Partner at Cubit Capital. “Kibu reframes the problem around people and the relationships they actually trust. As work moves into informal channels, that’s the network that matters.”

“The identity verification market is growing rapidly and will exceed $150 billion by the 2030s as AI-driven impersonation accelerates,” said Rachel Holt, Cofounder and Managing Partner at Construct Capital. “As deception scales, demand for human-verified trust grows with it, and Kibu is uniquely positioned to serve the people and organizations at the center of these networks.”

With the new funding, Kibu will scale adoption and focus on building out its infrastructure to bring its trust fabric to other tools and workflows.

About Kibu

Kibu is a human network and app-based platform that enables individuals and organizations to know exactly who they’re interacting with when it matters most. Leveraged by the world’s most discerning users, it turns real-world trust into secure digital connections for high-stakes work in the AI era. Kibu cryptographically binds real human identity to verified interactions, enabling trusted communication, authorization, and decisions where trust must be established before action occurs.

Founded by experts in cybersecurity policy and privacy stewardship, Kibu is trusted by financial institutions, defense contractors, and security consultants coordinating sensitive work across organizational boundaries. Kibu is backed by Cubit Capital, Construct Capital, Slow Ventures, and Silver Buckshot Ventures.

For more information, download the Kibu app, visit the website, and follow Kibu on LinkedIn.

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The category leader in AI for 250+ global investment banks and investment firms raises new capital to deepen institutional partnerships, scale its agentic platform, and accelerate global expansion

NEW YORK, April 29, 2026 — Rogo, the AI platform purpose-built for finance, today announced it has raised $160 million in Series D funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with participation from Sequoia, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, BoxGroup, Mantis VC, Jack Altman, Evantic and Positive Sum. The Series D brings Rogo’s total funding to more than $300 million and positions Rogo to accelerate the company’s global expansion, deepen its partnerships with the world’s leading financial institutions, and scale its AI agent, Felix.

This investment comes at a time when AI in financial services is at an inflection point. The world’s leading financial firms are now moving to rebuild their operating models around AI: restructuring workflows, rethinking staffing pyramids, and deploying autonomous agents that work asynchronously across every transaction, every portfolio, and every relationship.

Rogo is the long-term AI transformation partner for the institutions navigating this shift, delivering state of the art agents, forward-deployed bankers and engineers, and deep domain expertise at the nexus of finance; security, legal, and regulatory issues; and applied AI.

More than 35,000 financial professionals at over 250 institutions, including Rothschild & Co, Jefferies, Lazard, Moelis, Nomura, and others, leverage Rogo in their daily workflows across origination, execution, advisory, and portfolio intelligence.

“The world’s most sophisticated financial institutions are fundamentally reshaping how they operate using AI, and they’re choosing to do it with Rogo,” said Gabriel Stengel, CEO and Co-Founder of Rogo. “The institutions at the forefront are rapidly moving beyond automating tasks to becoming AI-native firms, with agentic systems that work across the firm and get smarter with every deal.”

Rogo’s platform operates in concert with how financial institutions think, work, and make decisions. The company recently introduced Felix, its agentic AI that executes complex, multi-step financial processes autonomously, from deal screening and CIM generation to buyer outreach and data room diligence.

“Rogo has built an AI platform that the most demanding institutions in finance trust with their most critical workflows,” said Mamoon Hamid, Partner at Kleiner Perkins. “Their combination of technical depth, proprietary data integrations, and genuine domain expertise is why Rogo is pulling away from the field. When a platform becomes the operating system for an entire industry, the opportunity is generational.”

About Rogo
Rogo is the leading generative AI platform built for financial services. Trusted by more than 35,000 professionals at the world’s top investment banks, private equity firms, and asset managers, Rogo combines purpose-built financial reasoning models with deep integrations across internal and external data sources to automate research, accelerate workflows, and deliver analyst-grade insights in seconds. For more information, visit rogo.ai.

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The funding accelerates expansion of Aidoc’s clinical foundation model and enterprise AI platform to combat diagnostic harm and improve efficiency across health systems.

NEW YORK, April 29, 2026 — Aidoc, a global leader in clinical AI, has raised $150 million in Series E funding led by Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The round had participation from General Catalyst, SoftBank Investment Advisors and NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm). The round brings total funding to over $500 million, less than a year after a growth round led by General Catalyst and Square Peg. This underscores the pace of Aidoc’s momentum and the accelerating demand for enterprise-scale clinical AI.

Diagnostic errors and delays contribute to at least 400,000 deaths each year in the United States, driven by rising imaging volumes, workforce shortages and growing clinical complexity. While AI has long promised to reduce that burden, most tools have tackled one use case at a time, limiting their impact at scale.

As hospitals seek broader, system-wide solutions, the market is shifting toward clinical AI deployed across entire health systems. Foundation models have made that shift technically possible by enabling expanded coverage across conditions and imaging modalities from a single architecture. Translating that capability into regulated, real-world care, however, has proven far more complex. Aidoc developed its own clinical foundation model, CARE™, and deployed it through its enterprise platform, aiOS™. Earlier this year, CARE received a landmark first FDA clearance for a comprehensive double-digit foundation model-based triage system in clinical imaging. Today, the company analyzes more than 60 million patient cases annually and is deployed across nearly 2,000 hospitals, signaling a new phase in the adoption of clinical AI.

“By 2030, every complex diagnostic decision should be supported by AI that enables earlier detection and reduces preventable error,” said Elad Walach, co-founder and CEO of Aidoc. “We feel a deep responsibility to deploy CARE safely and at scale across health systems. This funding accelerates comprehensive disease coverage and advances end-to-end AI across CT and X-ray, spanning the full workflow including pixel to draft report within two years.”

As clinical AI moves to enterprise deployment, a determining factor is governance and regulatory discipline. In large, complex health systems, scale requires not only advanced technology but the oversight and accountability needed to operate safely in real-world care.

“Aidoc pairs advanced technology with regulatory rigor in a way that few companies have achieved,” said Christian Resch, Partner at Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. “Health systems consistently describe tangible results, including improved radiology efficiency, shorter lengths of stay, and measurable financial returns. We believe this combination of innovation, safety, technical rigor, and operational discipline positions Aidoc as a long-term leader in clinical AI.”

The new capital will support further development of Aidoc’s CARE foundation model, expansion into additional clinical indications, and new capabilities such as automated imaging draft report creation to power end-to-end clinical AI workflows. It will also drive broader global deployment of its aiOS enterprise AI platform as hospitals consolidate standalone tools under centralized operating frameworks designed to manage and govern AI at scale.

About Aidoc
Aidoc is a global leader in clinical AI focused on helping physicians make earlier, safer diagnoses by turning raw patient signals into actionable insight. The company is powered by its breakthrough CARE™ foundation model and an enterprise AI platform, Aidoc aiOS™, embedding AI directly into clinical workflows, enabling health systems to deploy, manage and scale multiple FDA-cleared solutions through a centralized operating layer. Aidoc’s technology has analyzed more than 110 million patient cases and is deployed in nearly 2,000 hospitals worldwide, supporting clinical decision-making for approximately 60 million patients each year.

About Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives
Goldman Sachs is one of the leading investors in alternatives globally, with over $625 billion in assets and more than 30 years of experience. The business invests in the full spectrum of alternatives, including private equity, growth equity, private credit, real estate, infrastructure, sustainability, and hedge funds. Clients access these solutions through direct strategies, customized partnerships, and open-architecture programs.

The business is driven by a focus on partnership and shared success with its clients, seeking to deliver long-term investment performance drawing on its global network and deep expertise across industries and markets.

The alternative investments platform is part of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, which delivers investment and advisory services across public and private markets for the world’s leading institutions, financial advisors, and individuals. Goldman Sachs has approximately $3.6 trillion in assets under supervision globally as of December 31, 2025.

Since 2003, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives has invested over $13 billion in companies led by visionary founders and CEOs. The team focuses on investments in growth-stage and technology-driven companies spanning multiple industries, including enterprise technology, financial technology, consumer and healthcare.

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