Co-founder and CEO Henrik Esbensen transitions from CEO role effective August 25, 2026; Adrian Merryman to serve as Interim CEO
SAN DIEGO, Aug. 27, 2026 — DreamStart Labs a social impact fintech building digital solutions that strengthen financial resilience by digitizing Savings Groups and connecting them to the broader financial ecosystem, today announced that co-founder and CEO Henrik Esbensen will no longer serve as CEO of DreamStart Lab, effective August 25, 2026.
Henrik co-founded DreamStart Labs in 2016 alongside Wes Wasson, with a vision of using technology to help people in underserved communities pursue a better financial future.
Over the past decade, that vision has grown into a global technology platform serving 48,000 Savings Groups and working with more than 80 institutions. Henrik has played a central role in the development of DreamStart Labs’ product ecosystem, including DreamSave, DreamInsights and DreamLink, as well as in building the partnerships and team that have supported the company’s growth.
“Henrik’s vision and leadership have been foundational to DreamStart Labs and to the work we do today,” said Adrian Merryman, Chairman of DreamStart Labs. “We are deeply grateful for his contribution to building a technology platform that helps Savings Groups become more visible, strengthen their financial histories and connect to new opportunities within the financial ecosystem.”
Following Henrik’s departure as CEO, Adrian Merryman will serve as Interim CEO, providing leadership and continuity during the transition. Henrik will remain with DreamStart Labs as CEO Advisor through September 30 to support the transition.
For customers, partners and Savings Groups using DSL’s products, day-to-day operations will continue as usual. DreamSave, DreamInsights and DreamLink will continue to support the organizations and communities they serve.
About DreamStart Labs
DreamStart Labs is a social impact fintech building digital solutions that strengthen financial resilience for underserved communities around the world. The company’s award-winning product ecosystem — DreamSave, DreamInsights, and DreamLink — helps informal savings groups digitize their operations, build credit histories, and access financial opportunities previously out of reach. DreamStart Labs is recognized among the top innovators advancing financial inclusion for more than 3 billion underserved people worldwide. Learn more at dreamstartlabs.com
The funding brings the platform’s total capital raised to $65M and will deliver new fraud prevention, continuous monitoring and credential management capabilities
MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. 27, 2026 — Yardstik, the Human Trust Platform for employers, today announced $30 million in new funding, led by Harbert Growth Partners, bringing its total capital raised to $65 million. Yardstik’s existing investors, Rally Ventures, MissionOG, Crosslink Capital, Grotech Ventures, and Great North Ventures all participated in this round. Yardstik will use the capital to accelerate the development of new fraud prevention defenses and monitoring technology, including motor vehicle reports and OIG exclusion monitoring, and automated alerts that notify employers when a worker’s license, insurance or certification expires.
The typical occupational fraud scheme lasts 12 months before detection, with 43% of cases uncovered through a tip, according to a 2026 report from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Traditional background screening typically happens only at the time of hire, leaving organizations with limited visibility into risks that emerge throughout a worker’s tenure. Yardstik is closing that gap by combining fraud detection, background screening and ongoing monitoring across the entire workforce lifecycle. Its platform helps organizations surface risk signals earlier and identify relevant changes after someone has been hired.
“The legacy background check industry was built around a single moment in time, even though workforce risk changes every day,” said Andrew Johnson, CEO of Yardstik. “This investment allows us to move faster toward our goal of equalizing access to modern workforce protection. Fraud signals before a check runs, monitoring after someone is hired and real-time credential visibility should not be premium add-ons. They should be the foundation of every trust program.”
The company recently released new Fraud Insights and Continuous Monitoring features, making it the standard for every customer at no additional cost. Fraud Insights provides a live view of aggregate fraud risk signals across a workforce, while Continuous Monitoring automatically enrolls screened workers in post-hire monitoring, reducing manual rechecks and missed windows. Together, the capabilities provide layered protection before hiring and throughout a worker’s employment.
“If a motor vehicle report comes back with something disqualifying, we don’t wait for the next renewal cycle to find out,” Johnson said. “If a license lapses the day after someone’s hired, an employer should know that day, not at the next annual review. That’s the difference between a photograph and a live feed.”
“Yardstik’s growth shows employers want a way to manage risk that doesn’t stop the day someone’s hired,” said Brian Carney, General Partner of Harbert Growth Partners. “Its 98% account retention rate over the past three years shows that customers continue to see value in the layered protection they provide beyond the background checks at hire. We are excited to support Andrew and the team as they continue to expand the platform.”
The funding follows the company’s 149% YoY revenue growth and a 99.4% customer satisfaction rating. Yardstik partners with organizations across gig marketplaces, staffing, healthcare, transportation and logistics, childcare and other industries, with customers including, Gopuff, Liveops, Sharetown, Task Rabbit, and HUNGRY. The company was also recently named No. 861 (top 17%) on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies.
“Background screening remains a crucial part of our hiring process, but the risks employers face evolved significantly over the past decade,” said Nic DeHaan, SR Director of Agent Experience at Liveops. “Yardstik has helped us take a more proactive approach to identifying fake identities and credentials. It has helped us recognize and prevent a significant number of bad actors trying to exploit our hiring process. Their technology gives us greater confidence that the people joining our platform are who they claim to be.”
Yardstik can be used directly or through pre-built integrations with ATS and HR platforms including Greenhouse, Lever, Workable, Fountain, Bullhorn, Avionte and Paylocity, allowing screening and ongoing monitoring to operate within employers’ existing workflows. Its API-first infrastructure also enables gig marketplaces and technology platforms to embed and white-label Yardstik’s fraud prevention, identity verification, screening and monitoring capabilities within their own products and brands.
To learn more about Yardstik or request a demo, visit yardstik.com.
About Yardstik Yardstik is a Human Trust Platform built to help organizations move beyond one-time background checks toward a continuous and transparent workforce lifecycle. Founded in 2020 and headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, Yardstik combines fraud prevention and background verification into a single, cost-efficient platform used by customers including HR Block and Gopuff. Yardstik operates in compliance with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), providing full transparency to the individuals it monitors.
Investment supports fileAI’s expansion in Japan and the launch of fileScout, fileAI’s proprietary unstructured data mapping & harnessing solution.
SINGAPORE, Aug. 27, 2026 — As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into the core workflows of major enterprises, Asia is producing its own generation of enterprise AI companies built to address the region’s most complex operational challenges.
fileAI, the enterprise intelligence company behind fileForge, has today announced investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund, the corporate venture capital fund of SMBC, and Singtel Innov8, the corporate venture capital arm of Singtel Group.
(from left) Alex Neo, Director (Investments), Singtel Innov8; Christian Schneider, CEO, fileAI; Mayoran Rajendra, Managing Director — AI Transformation Department, SMBC
More than a financing milestone, the investment underscores the inevitable advance of AI into the systems and processes that run large organisations, from finance and compliance to operations, procurement, and customer onboarding. It also strengthens fileAI’s position as a homegrown Asian contender in the emerging global enterprise AI market.
The capital will support fileAI’s expansion in Japan and deepen its investment in financial services capabilities as it scales its AI-native platform for enterprises managing complex, high-volume file and data workflows—while further connecting fileAI with some of Asia’s most influential corporate ecosystems.
The announcement coincides with the debut of fileScout, fileAI’s AI-native unstructured data mapping solution, which sharply cuts token costs when wrangling unstructured enterprise data. Combined with agentified data capture, validation, matching, and reconciliation, it publishes clean, verified, audit-ready records directly into the systems that run modern organisations.
Building Momentum in Japan and Financial Services
The investment from SMBC Asia Rising Fund follows fileAI’s June 2026 partnership with JRE Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm supporting the JR East Group. That partnership established the foundation for fileAI’s presence in Japan and its work applying governed AI agents to the digitisation and structuring of legacy contracts and operational documents.
The new investment extends that momentum, supporting fileAI’s plans to build a local Japan team across sales, engineering, and customer success, while deepening relationships with enterprises navigating the transition from AI pilots to AI-powered production workflows.
With SMBC Asia Rising Fund contributing a deep network across banking and large regulated enterprises, the investment reflects growing confidence in fileAI’s ability to bring governed AI into complex, high-stakes business environments.
In banking and financial services, these applications extend from statement and covenant extraction to KYC and onboarding checks, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting across large, multi-entity organisations.
As AI increasingly becomes embedded within enterprise infrastructure, fileAI is building the intelligence layer required to transform fragmented documents and unstructured data into governed, dependable workflows, designed in Asia for enterprises across the region and globally.
Leadership Perspectives
“AI will become an operating layer for every major enterprise, but that future cannot be built on fragmented data, unreliable outputs or endlessly expanding computing costs. Our third-generation processing pipeline and fileScout address that foundation, enabling organisations to transform their most complex unstructured data into trusted intelligence and production-grade workflows. Backed by some of Asia’s most influential corporate ecosystems, fileAI’s ambition is to build a global enterprise AI leader from Asia and to help the region’s businesses become the most AI-enabled organisations in the world.” — Christian Schneider, CEO, fileAI
“Singtel Innov8 is excited to invest in fileAI as it builds a purpose-built AI platform to address one of the most persistent challenges in enterprise data. We believe there is a significant and growing need to turn complex, unstructured information into clean, structured data that enterprises can trust and use at scale. We see strong potential for fileAI as enterprises increasingly seek reliable data foundations to support AI adoption and unlock greater value from their data.” — Boon Ping Chua, Managing Director, Singtel Innov8
“At SMBC Group, we continue to drive digitalization and AI transformation across the Group to enhance both operational efficiency and customer experience. At the same time, we see strong demand for solutions that enable enterprises to unlock value from vast amounts of unstructured data and documents. We believe fileAI’s capabilities in improving data accessibility, operational efficiency, and decision-making will become increasingly important in the AI era. We look forward to collaborating with fileAI and leading organisations to explore practical AI use cases and drive innovation across industries.” — Mayoran Rajendra, Managing Director – AI Transformation Department, SMBC
About fileAI
fileAI is the enterprise intelligence company behind fileForge, the leading platform for complex business process automation. Where most AI falls short in production, fileForge provides the structure, validation, and traceability that makes agentic AI reliable by design. It unifies data capture, preparation, governance, and orchestration into auditable, SOP-driven workflows that transform unstructured and semi-structured data into trusted, reusable process intelligence.
Trusted by global enterprises including MS&AD, Toshiba, PwC, KPMG, Nippon Paint, and Keppel, fileAI has processed over 1 billion files across finance, insurance, supply chain, healthcare, and core business operations — delivering governed automation and contextual reuse for the world’s most complex workflows.
SMBC Asia Rising Fund is a corporate venture capital fund co-established by SMBC, one of the leading banks in Japan, and Incubate Fund, one of Japan’s leading seed and early-stage venture capital firms. The fund accelerates business development and strategic partnerships by investing in high-potential startups across India, Southeast Asia, and global markets, contributing to sustainable regional growth.
Established in 2010, Singtel Innov8 is the corporate venture capital fund of Singtel Group, a leading connectivity, digital infrastructure and services group based in Asia, operating next-generation connectivity, digital infrastructure and digital businesses. Innov8 invests in and partners start-ups with promising innovations and possible applications for the Group’s diverse business needs.
Innov8 manages a general purpose evergreen fund of US$250 million and an AI Growth investment fund of US$250 million which focuses on growth-stage AI companies in areas critical to Singtel Group’s future, including customer engagement, network operations, cyber security, IT automation, horizontal enterprise AI platforms and vertical-specific AI solutions.
By leveraging Singtel Group’s presence across 20 countries in Asia, Australia and Africa with a total combined reach of over 839 million mobile customers and partnerships with local and global stakeholders, Innov8 helps start-ups grow and go beyond their home markets.
Non-notification factoring facility replaced a departing bank lender, steadied supplier relationships, and supported a new national retail account.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 27, 2026 — Porter Capital Corporation, a leading provider of working capital solutions, announced the closing of a $10 million non-notification factoring facility for a family-owned seafood importer and processor with more than two decades in business. The facility advances 90 percent against eligible receivables and 85 percent of the net orderly liquidation value of inventory. An initial advance of $6.5 million funded at close, replacing the company’s prior bank facility and providing additional working capital.
The company had financed operations through a $20 million bank facility split evenly between real estate debt and accounts receivable lending. After a stretch of losses, and during a period when ownership was weighing a possible sale, its long-time bank became unwilling to continue the relationship. The timing raised the stakes. A major national retail chain was ready to bring the company on as a supplier, an opportunity the company could not support without dependable working capital to purchase inventory at the volume the account required.
Porter Capital underwrote the company’s receivables and inventory rather than its recent results, then coordinated with the lender holding the real estate portion of the debt. Working through an intercreditor agreement, Porter unwound the prior facility and funded the new one without interrupting operations. Because the facility is non-notification, the company’s customers, including the new retail account, continued paying as usual with no visibility into the financing arrangement behind it.
With capital restored, the company steadied its supplier and vendor relationships and returned its attention to running the business. It onboarded the national retail account and supplied inventory at the volume and pace the relationship required, added new product lines, and grew its use of the facility from the initial $6.5 million advance to $8 million outstanding today. In June 2026, the company returned to profitability, a meaningful milestone after the losses that had strained its prior banking relationship.
The company evaluated five other financing companies before selecting Porter. Porter’s team traveled to the company’s headquarters and spent a full day there, learning the business firsthand rather than underwriting it from a distance. That approach reflects how Porter works across its portfolio. Porter offers invoice factoring and receivables financing that deliver quick decisions, next-day advances after onboarding, and direct access to decision-makers who understand how timing and trust shape growing businesses.
CFO and Independent Board Appointments Add Deep Expertise Across Emerging Data Center Energy Infrastructure Sector
HOUSTON, Aug. 27, 2026 — GPC Infrastructure (GPC), an owner and operator of modular onsite power systems that help data center developers overcome grid interconnection delays, today announced key additions to its leadership team with the appointment of Steve Jones as Chief Financial Officer and Fran Federman and John Jensen as independent members of its Board of Managers. The appointments are effective immediately and strengthen GPC’s commitment to scaling its operations in the data center sector.
Jones brings extensive executive financial leadership, while Federman and Jensen join an established board that currently includes representatives from EIV Capital, adding further operational, financial and infrastructure expertise to GPC’s governance. The additions come as GPC continues to expand its platform to meet growing demand for scalable onsite power solutions that can help data center developers address grid constraints and accelerate project timelines.
“We are thrilled to welcome Steve, Fran, and John to the GPC Infrastructure team. Their collective experience across corporate finance, digital infrastructure, and energy infrastructure is exactly what GPC needs as we accelerate our growth trajectory,” said Jim Summers, GPC Infrastructure CEO. “Steve’s deep financial leadership, paired with Fran’s background in capital markets and John’s proven operational expertise, will be invaluable as we continue to build out critical infrastructure for our partners.”
Steve Jones joins GPC Infrastructure as Chief Financial Officer. Steve brings extensive experience building and scaling energy infrastructure companies. Throughout his career, he has raised more than $4 billion in growth capital, supported two successful IPOs and helped lead several private equity exits.
“I am honored to join GPC Infrastructure during this exciting growth phase,” said Jones. “My focus will be on leveraging my financial experience to support our operational scaling and ensuring we have the capital strength to lead in the dynamic energy infrastructure market.”
Fran Federman is a digital infrastructure leader with deep expertise in capital allocation and strategic growth. She most recently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at CyrusOne, a premier global data center developer and operator. She has also held senior roles including CFO at IQHQ, Managing Director of Life Sciences and Healthcare Fund and VP of Capital Markets at Ventas, and finance leadership at Prologis, building a career defined by deploying capital across the real estate and digital infrastructure spectrum.
“GPC has established a unique position in the market,” said Federman. “I am excited to help guide the company as it builds its footprint in the data center sector, ensuring it has the capital and strategic vision necessary to lead in this rapidly evolving industry.”
John Jensen is a seasoned executive with more than 35 years of leadership experience across the energy and nonprofit sectors. Having led large organizations at both ConocoPhillips and EP Energy, John is an expert in capital stewardship, corporate governance, and enterprise execution, specializing in guiding leadership teams through high-stakes transitions and operational scaling.
“The synergy between energy reliability and digital infrastructure has never been more critical,” said Jensen. “I look forward to working with the GPC team to support their ambitious infrastructure goals.”
About GPC Infrastructure GPC Infrastructure (Gas Powered Compute) partners with data centers to develop, own and operate onsite natural gas and battery power solutions for facilities facing grid delays. The company provides Energy-as-a-Service and Development-as-a-Service solutions that enable operators to deploy scalable onsite generation and accelerate energization timelines. With deep expertise across natural gas markets, power generation and infrastructure finance, GPC helps data center developers secure reliable, AI-ready power while maintaining flexibility for long-term integration with the grid.
The fintech nobody funded just outperformed the ones everybody did.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 27, 2026 — SoLo Funds, the financial intelligence ecosystem for every class, today announced that it has surpassed $100 million in total revenue after raising just $53 million in equity funding throughout its history. The milestone means SoLo has generated nearly twice as much revenue as the total equity capital it has raised, making it the most capital efficient global fintech company ever at this stage.
SoLo Funds co-founders Travis Holoway (CEO) and Rodney Williams (President) have led the company past $100 million in revenue on just $53 million raised – the most capital-efficient milestone in fintech history. (Photo: Business Wire)
By comparison, other fintech leaders Revolut (~$340M), Chime (~$300M) and Robinhood (~$540M) each raised approximately six to 10 times more capital before generating their first $100 million in revenue. SoLo Funds reached the same revenue threshold without the backing of the traditional Silicon Valley investors, celebrity endorsements, or a paid growth engine. Based on these comparisons, no fintech company in the world has demonstrated greater capital efficiency and market demand at this stage of growth.
Reaching $100 million in revenue validates the strength and uniqueness of its business model built on innovation, responsible growth and the belief that financial services can create value for consumers while also building a scalable and sustainable company. At a time when the majority of fintech startups have relied on hundreds of millions of dollars in venture funding to acquire customers and pursue growth, SoLo has built a platform used by millions of members primarily through organic adoption as its solution’s demand and product market fit has delivered uncanny results.
“Crossing $100 million in revenue on $53 million raised says something very special about SoLo’s innovation,” said Rodney Williams, Co-Founder and President of SoLo Funds. “It’s being demanded and differentiated. We’ve outperformed because of the innovation we introduced in 2018 allowing us to derisk lending and borrowing to each other. We’ve created a product that is both affordable to borrowers and creates yield and returns for lenders that they can’t get offered elsewhere.”
Since its founding in 2018, SoLo Funds has facilitated nearly $2 billion in transactions, empowered nearly 3 million members and enabled its members to provide more than $760 million in capital to one another. The company’s advanced product and risk intelligence models have reduced risk, helped enable more efficient lending decisions, stronger repayment performance and broader access to capital for consumers for all economic classes.
SoLo’s growth has been driven by a better financial model that allows members to access capital when they need it while providing lending members with opportunities to earn competitive returns.
As AI adoption accelerates, the workforce evolves and investor expectations shift, SoLo’s position only strengthens. Fintech‘s most valuable companies, Revolut, Chime and Robinhood among them, all weathered regulatory scrutiny on their way to category-defining multiples, sustained by the capital to fight through it. SoLo has weathered the same scrutiny sustained by something more durable: market demand. That demand does not disappear in an AI-driven economy. It intensifies. As automation reshapes work and income becomes more variable, everyday Americans will need affordable ways to borrow and smarter ways to grow the capital they have. No algorithm eliminates that need. SoLo is the platform built to meet it, and the market has already proven it at scale.
About SoLo Funds SoLo Funds is the financial intelligence ecosystem for every class. Superior returns. Precision capital. Predictive intelligence. Founded in 2018 by Travis Holoway and Rodney Williams, SoLo has turned nearly $2 billion in member transactions into a proprietary intelligence layer that powers lending, banking, and institutional data products and is the only certified B Corp lending company in the country, proof that a financial system built to include everyone can outperform one built to exclude them. Yield. Capital. Intelligence. For Everyone. Learn more at solofunds.com.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 27, 2026 — Jetstream Venture Fund (Jetstream) announced its latest portfolio investments in healthtech pioneers ImageAiD and Moonrise Medical. Both companies are developing next-generation, AI-enabled vascular diagnostic platforms to transform the early detection and management of Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), a condition affecting over 200 million people globally and 12 million in the U.S.
The transactions highlight Jetstream’s ability to originate high-conviction, early-stage deal flow directly through its leadership team’s lifelong operational, clinical, and healthcare founder network. While traditional retail platforms struggle to access specialized medical startups, Jetstream leverages these deep industry roots to back innovations that shift advanced diagnostic tools directly to the point of care:
ImageAiD: Combines Mayo Clinic-validated research, a handheld Doppler device, and predictive AI software to detect PAD years before physical symptoms appear in primary care settings.
Moonrise Medical: Automates complex Doppler ultrasound assessments and Pedal Acceleration Time (PAT) calculations, empowering front-line clinicians to evaluate vascular health accurately without requiring specialized sonographers.
“Vascular care today is far too reactive; patients are routinely diagnosed only after irreversible tissue damage has occurred,” said Mike Shufeldt, Portfolio Manager at Jetstream. “Our leadership team has spent decades on the front lines of clinical medicine, healthtech commercialization, and venture investing. That hands-on background allows us to evaluate complex medical platforms early and secure potentially high-value deal flow that standard venture networks miss. Both ImageAiD and Moonrise Medical exemplify our core thesis: leveraging automation and software to move sophisticated diagnostics upstream into everyday clinical workflows.”
By maintaining a $5,000 minimum initial investment and no carried interest, Jetstream democratizes access to institutional-quality opportunities alongside positions like SpaceX, Shield AI, and Hill Research.
About Jetstream Venture Fund Jetstream Venture Fund is an interval fund managed by Xcellerant Ventures and Sweater Industries LLC that provides access to early-stage, potentially high-growth private companies with lower minimums ($5,000) and no carried interest. For more information, visit www.jvf.vc.
Disclosure: Investors should carefully consider the investment objectives, risks, charges, and expenses of the Fund before investing. The prospectus contains this and other information and can be obtained by visiting https://www.jvf.vc. Please read the prospectus carefully before investing.
On Disruption Interruption, DealSync Founder Shalom Ben Or explains why companies with complex revenue models can struggle to convert signed business-to-business deals into usable cash.
TAMPA BAY, Fla., Aug. 27, 2026 — Secured finance is a massive market, with outstandings reaching approximately $12.2 trillion as of the fourth quarter of 2024 and annual transaction volume totaling $6.5 trillion, according to the Secured Finance Network. But that scale does not mean every business-to-business (B2B) deal can be turned into usable capital when companies need it. Atradius reported that 43% of credit-based B2B sales in the U.S. were overdue in 2025, primarily because of customer cash-flow pressure, underscoring the gap between financing capacity in the market and liquidity inside individual companies.
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That gap is sharper for companies with complex or non-standard revenue models, where signed deals may not fit conventional revenue-based financing. On this episode of Disruption Interruption, host Karla Jo Helms (KJ) speaks with Shalom Ben Or, Founder of DealSync, about why Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) are often left reacting to sales-to-cash problems, why conventional revenue-based financing can break down for AI companies with outcome-based models, and how complex revenue can be structured as a financeable asset. “Currently, cash flow is managed,” Ben Or says. “It’s about time that software will make it programmable.”
Why B2B Revenue Still Gets Stuck
For Ben Or, the problem begins with the gap between closing a sale and turning that agreement into cash the business can use. Sales teams close deals, but finance teams still have to determine how payment terms, discounts, financing options, and working-capital needs affect liquidity.
As companies grow, they may add people and processes to manage deal desks, debt, treasury, and working capital. But many of the decisions still depend on context, judgment, meetings, and manual coordination.
When a company is not selling a straightforward subscription product, the problem becomes more pronounced. Ben Or estimates that B2B companies outside pure software-as-a-service models can have 20% to 30% of revenue tied up somewhere because of long payment terms, financing friction, discounts, or revenue that does not fit a lender’s standard underwriting model.
The conventional response is often to seek outside debt, but that can introduce another source of delay. “CFOs go to the places they know, which usually are not necessarily the right ones,” Ben Or says. “It’s a trap, because it takes too long to get what they want.”
Making Complex Revenue Financeable
DealSync was built around Ben Or’s argument that cash-flow decisions should become programmable rather than remain dependent on disconnected manual processes. He divides the CFO technology stack into three layers:
Systems of Record: Hold financial information.
Workflow Tools: Move tasks and approvals through finance processes.
Judgment Layer: Support CFOs, treasurers, and controllers make higher-stakes decisions about debt, deal structure, and liquidity.
DealSync operates in the third layer, where CFOs make higher-stakes financial decisions. The platform helps companies identify revenue that is stuck between the sale and the cash, package it in a way lenders can evaluate, and connect with lenders who understand how to finance it. Ben Or says the company starts with debt because that is often the most urgent problem, but the larger opportunity is helping finance teams shape deals earlier, before sales terms create cash-flow problems.
That matters for companies that do not fit traditional lending models. Outcome-based AI businesses may get paid only after they deliver a defined result. Hardware companies may need capital to grow before revenue arrives. In both cases, standard revenue-based financing may not know how to value the opportunity.
“We are able to create an asset out of their revenue,” Ben Or says. That structure can give lenders a clearer basis for evaluating deals that might otherwise fall outside conventional financing models.
The goal is not to give finance teams another workflow tool, but to move financial judgment earlier in the process, so CFOs can understand the deal’s implications before a liquidity problem develops. “We want to make sure the CFO can control the cash flow at the onset,” Ben Or says, “not react to problems.”
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Disrupting the Cash Flow Trap: Turning Hard-to-Finance Deals into Usable Capital with Shalom Ben Or
Disruption Interruption is the podcast where you will hear from today’s biggest Industry Disruptors. Learn what motivated them to bring about innovation and how they overcame opposition to adoption.
About Disruption Interruption™ Disruption is happening on an unprecedented scale, impacting all manner of industries — MedTech, Finance, IT, eCommerce, shipping, logistics, and more — and COVID has moved their timelines up a full decade or more. But WHO are these disruptors and when did they say, “THAT’S IT! I’VE HAD IT!”? Time to Disrupt and Interrupt with host Karla Jo “KJ” Helms, veteran communications disruptor. KJ interviews bad asses who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have become antiquated with an establishment resistant to progress. She delves into uncovering secrets from industry rebels and quiet revolutionaries that uncover common traits — and not-so-common — that are changing our economic markets… and lives. Visit the world’s key pioneers that persist to success, despite arrows in their backs at www.disruption-interruption.com.
About Shalom Ben Or Shalom Ben Or is the Founder of DealSync, a fintech company focused on making cash flow programmable for B2B companies with complex revenue models. His work centers on helping CFOs turn non-standard revenue into financeable assets by bringing AI-driven context into the judgment layer of the sales-to-cash process. Before DealSync, Ben Or built fintech experience financing commodities in Africa, where he saw how easily capital can move when an asset fits a lender structure, and how difficult financing becomes when revenue falls outside the traditional box.
About Karla Jo Helms Karla Jo Helms is the Chief Evangelist and Anti-PR® Strategist for JOTO PR Disruptors™. Karla Jo learned firsthand how unforgiving business can be when millions of dollars are on the line — and how the control of public opinion often determines whether one company is happily chosen, or another is brutally rejected. Being an alumnus of crisis management, Karla Jo has worked with litigation attorneys, private investigators, and the media to help restore companies of goodwill into the good graces of public opinion — Karla Jo operates on the ethic of getting it right the first time, not relying on second chances and doing what it takes to excel. Helms speaks globally on public relations, how the PR industry itself has lost its way, and how, in the right hands, corporations can harness the power of Anti-PR to drive markets and impact market perception.
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Atradius. (2025). B2B payment practices trends in North America 2025. atradius.us/knowledge-and-research/reports/b2b-payment-practices-trends-usmca2025
Secured Finance Network. (2026, February 10). SFNet study: Secured finance surges past $12 trillion, powering the middle market as a critical engine of the U.S. economy. sfnet.com/home/industry-data-publications/the-secured-lender/tsl-express-daily-articles-news/tsl-express-daily-articles-news/2026/02/10/sfnet-study-secured-finance-surges-past-%2412-trillion-powering-the-middle-market-as-a-critical-engine-of-the-u.s.-economy
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CLEVELAND, Aug. 27, 2026 — TRG, a portfolio company of Gemspring Capital and a global managed services provider focused on the full lifecycle of enterprise endpoints, announced today that it has acquired Reverse IT B.V. (“Reverse IT”), a Netherlands-based provider of mobile device management and enterprise mobility. The acquisition deepens TRG’s presence in the Benelux region and expands its managed mobility capabilities across Europe. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Reverse IT provides a comprehensive range of services designed to keep mission-critical mobile devices secure, current and operational. Its capabilities span device advisory and sourcing, configuration and deployment, centralized mobile device management, and repair services.
“Reverse IT is a high-quality, service-driven business with deep technical expertise, strong partner relationships, and long-standing customer relationships,” said Sean Kennedy, Founder and CEO of TRG. “The acquisition gives us an established presence in the Benelux region and adds a proven managed mobility platform that we can support and grow with TRG’s broader capabilities and global resources.”
“Reverse IT is an important addition to our European business,” said Kevan Mutton, Managing Director of TRG Europe. “The team brings deep knowledge of the local market, trusted customer relationships and strong managed mobility capabilities that complement and expand what we deliver across Europe.”
“TRG is the right partner for Reverse IT and a strong fit for our customers, employees and culture,” said Edgar Beck, Chief Executive Officer of Reverse IT. “We will continue delivering the responsive, hands-on service and technical expertise our customers expect, while benefiting from TRG’s broader capabilities, resources and global partner network. We are excited about the opportunities this combination creates for our customers and our team.”
About Reverse IT
Reverse IT is a managed services provider headquartered in Emmen, Netherlands, specializing in mobile device management and enterprise mobility. The company delivers device advisory and sourcing, configuration, centralized mobile device management, repair, and support services that keep mobile fleets secure and operational for organizations across logistics, retail, and manufacturing. For more information, visit www.reverse-it.net.
About TRG
TRG is a global managed services provider that manages and secures the full lifecycle of enterprise endpoints. The company delivers a comprehensive suite of services spanning the entire device lifecycle, including procurement, configuration, deployment, depot repair, asset management and integrated cybersecurity solutions. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, TRG maintains facilities in North America, Europe and Latin America. For more information, visit www.trgsolutions.com.
About Gemspring Capital
Gemspring Capital, a Westport, Connecticut-based private equity firm with $5.1 billion of capital under management, provides flexible capital solutions to middle market companies. Gemspring partners with talented management teams and takes a partnership approach to helping drive revenue growth, value creation and sustainable competitive advantages. Target companies have up to $2.0 billion in revenue and are in the aerospace & defense, business services, consumer services, financial and insurance services, healthcare, industrial, software, and tech-enabled services sectors. For more information, visit www.gemspring.com.
