Die Gesamtfinanzierung beläuft sich unter neuer Führung auf 232 Mio. US-Dollar, wobei die Investorengruppe aus Electronic Arts, der Sony Music Group, der Universal Music Group, der Warner Music Group und weiteren besteht

LOS ANGELES, 26. August 2026 — Stability AI, der Marktführer für speziell entwickelte KI-Produkte für professionelle Kreative in den Bereichen Musik, Gaming und Unterhaltung, gab heute eine Serie-B-Finanzierungsrunde in Höhe von 76 Mio. US-Dollar bekannt. Damit beläuft sich das Gesamtfinanzierungsvolumen unter CEO Prem Akkaraju seit seiner Ernennung im Juni 2024 auf 232 Mio. US-Dollar, einschließlich zweier Eigenkapitalrunden und Wandelanleihen. Das Kapital wird in die Weiterentwicklung der Produktpalette für die kreative Produktion, den Ausbau der angewandten Forschung sowie die Erweiterung des Bereichs für professionelle Dienstleistungen fließen.

In dieser Finanzierungsrunde stößt eine neue Gruppe von Investoren aus den Bereichen Unterhaltung und Technologie hinzu, darunter der Innovator im Bereich interaktiver Unterhaltung Electronic Arts, die weltweit führenden Unternehmen der Musikbranche Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group und Warner Music Group sowie die Investmentfirmen AMD Ventures und Pacific Alliance Ventures.

Sie ergänzen eine bereits hochkarätige Liste von Größen aus der Unterhaltungs- und Technologiebranche, die Stability AI unterstützen: Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis Capital, Sound Ventures und WPP sowie die Einzelinvestoren Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt, James Cameron, Kevin Mayer, Mark Burnett, Patrick Whitesell, Prem Akkaraju und Robert Nelsen.

Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker und Eric Schmidt beteiligen sich ebenfalls an der Serie-B-Finanzierungsrunde und investieren damit zum zweiten Mal in Folge unter neuer Führung.

„Diese einzigartige Gruppe von Investoren ist eine Bestätigung unserer Vision, dass generative KI jeden Produzenten, Musiker und Geschichtenerzähler befähigt”, sagte Prem Akkaraju, CEO von Stability AI. „Stability ist im KI-Bereich einzigartig, weil wir kreative Menschen sind, die Werkzeuge für Kreative entwickeln. Die Entwicklung branchenprägender Technologie erfordert den Aufbau eines Teams aus branchenprägenden Größen – und genau das haben wir hier erreicht.” Akkaraju fügte hinzu: „Unsere Investoren schaffen die Voraussetzungen für unseren langfristigen Erfolg, da sie uns nicht nur Kapital, sondern auch Fachwissen, Glaubwürdigkeit und direkte Verbindungen zu Künstlern zur Verfügung stellen.”

Zu dieser Finanzierungsrunde gehören auch Investitionen von bestehenden strategischen Partnern wie Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group sowie Warner Music Group. WPP, ein weltweit führender Anbieter von Marketingdienstleistungen, ist seit Beginn des Wachstums von Stability AI unter neuer Führung ein strategischer Partner und Investor.

Die Ankündigung folgt unmittelbar auf die Einführung von Stable Audio 3.0, einer Familie von Open-Weight-Musikmodellen, die auf vollständig lizenzierten Daten trainiert wurden. Künstler können Stable Audio 3.0 nun über ein neues DAW-Plugin (Digital Audio Workstation) oder direkt auf StableAudio.com in ihren Workflow integrieren.

Darüber hinaus hat Stability AI bekannt gegeben, dass Thomas Laffont, Mitbegründer von Coatue, dem Vorstand beigetreten ist.

„Während andere an allgemeiner KI arbeiten, entwickelt Stability AI kreative Tools – und zwar gemeinsam mit den Künstlern, Studios und Rechteinhabern, deren Arbeit die Branche prägt”, sagte Thomas Laffont, Mitbegründer von Coatue. „Ich freue mich, nun mit Prem und dem Team zusammenzuarbeiten.”

Laffont vervollständigt einen Vorstand, dem der Oscar-prämierte Filmemacher James Cameron, der Unternehmer, Philanthrop und ehemalige Facebook-Präsident Sean Parker, die Mitbegründerin und geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin von Greycroft, Dana Settle, sowie der CEO von Stability AI und ehemalige CEO von Weta Digital, Prem Akkaraju, angehören. Mit dieser neuen Finanzierung wird Stability AI weiterhin kreative Werkzeuge entwickeln, die auf den Schaffensprozess der Künstler zugeschnitten sind – in den Bereichen Musik, Gaming und Unterhaltung.

Informationen zu Stability AI

Stability AI ist der Marktführer bei speziell entwickelten KI-Produkten für professionelle Kreative in den Bereichen Musik, Gaming und Unterhaltung.

Stability AI löste mit der Veröffentlichung von „Stable Diffusion” im August 2022 die Revolution der generativen KI aus, machte generative Technologie für Millionen von Kreativen weltweit zugänglich und festigte damit seine Position als Marktführer auf diesem Gebiet. Die Stable-Diffusion-Modelle wurden seitdem mehr als 350 Millionen Mal heruntergeladen und dienen als technische Grundlage für ein ganzes Ökosystem kreativer Arbeit.

Wir entwickeln in erster Linie für Kreative. Unsere Arbeit geht über die Modelle selbst hinaus und umfasst Produkte und Lösungen, die für spezifische Produktionsabläufe konzipiert sind. Dieser auf Künstler ausgerichtete Ansatz ist der Grund, warum Electronic Arts, die Universal Music Group, die Warner Music Group, WPP und andere uns als ihren strategischen Partner gewählt haben.

Stability AI zählt zu den „50 AI Innovators” des Fortune-Magazins und zu den „Most Influential Companies” des TIME-Magazins; „Stable Audio” wurde in die Liste der „Best Inventions” des TIME-Magazins aufgenommen. Im Juni 2024 trat Stability AI mit einem Führungsteam, zu dem CEO Prem Akkaraju, der Vorstandsvorsitzende Sean Parker und Vorstandsmitglied James Cameron sowie die Vorstandsmitglieder Dana Settle und Thomas Laffont gehörten, in eine neue Wachstumsphase ein.

Das Unternehmen wird von erstklassigen Investoren unterstützt, darunter der Innovator im Bereich interaktiver Unterhaltung Electronic Arts; die weltweit führenden Unternehmen der Musikbranche Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group und Warner Music Group; die Investmentfirmen Greycroft, Coatue, WPP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, AMD Ventures und Mantis Capital; sowie die Privatinvestoren Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt und James Cameron.

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SHANGHAI and CHENGDU, China, Aug. 26, 2026 — Gestala officially launched on January 1, 2026. Six months later, the company had completed two financing rounds totaling RMB 570 million, or approximately US$84 million.

The financing reflects growing investor interest in alternatives to implantable electrode-based BCIs—particularly approaches that aim to cover larger areas of the brain, reach deep neural circuits and reduce invasiveness.

Six Months at Startup Speed

Gestala was co-founded by Phoenix Peng and Tianqiao Chen, founder of Shanda Group and the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute.

Peng holds a doctorate from Fudan University’s Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and is a Principal Investigator (PI) at Tianfu Jincheng Laboratory. Gestala is his sixth startup.

The company has moved at an unusually fast pace since its launch. In March, Gestala completed a RMB 150 million angel round. Between April and May, a former Neuralink clinical lead and senior R&D and regulatory leaders from Nano Retina, a leading visual BCI company, joined the team.

In June, Gestala’s global headquarters and the first phase of its ultrasound BCI superfactory began operations in Chengdu. In July, the company opened its Shanghai headquarters and completed a RMB 420 million Angel+ round.

The latest round included participation from HSG, Lens Technology, Sinovation Ventures and C Capital. Existing shareholders including Dalton Venture, Seas Capital, Tsing Song Capital and Gobi Partners made follow-on investments.

Gestala has done more than raise capital. Within six months, the company has simultaneously developed capabilities in fundamental research, ultrasound engineering, medical-device manufacturing, clinical trials and AI.

It has also assembled an interdisciplinary team of 29 scientists and engineers and plans to expand the team to approximately 45 by the end of the year.

That pace raises a question: Why does a company whose first product is still in development and clinical preparation need to build research, manufacturing, clinical and AI capabilities at such an early stage?

The answer lies in how Peng defines the company. In his view, Gestala is not simply developing a medical device. It aims to become a bridge between neuroscience and AI — and a “Neolab” for the life sciences.

From Electrical BCIs to Ultrasound

Peng previously co-founded NeuroXess, a BCI company pursuing an invasive approach. His move to ultrasound does not mean he dismisses the value of electrodes.

Invasive electrodes can record localized neural activity at high temporal resolution and have already demonstrated clinical potential in motor and speech decoding.

But if the goal expands from controlling a cursor or an external device to understanding higher-order functions such as memory, emotion, language and movement planning, is it enough to observe only a small number of neurons or isolated brain regions?

Higher-order brain functions generally emerge from interactions across multiple brain regions and neural circuits. Electrodes are well suited to capturing localized electrical signals. Functional magnetic resonance imaging can observe activity across broader areas of the brain, but the equipment is large and its temporal response is relatively slow.

Ultrasound offers another possibility. Functional ultrasound imaging can observe brain function through changes in cerebral blood flow associated with neural activity. Focused ultrasound, meanwhile, has the potential to act on specific brain regions, including deep neural circuits.

This also explains the name Gestala, which is derived from Gestalt psychology, a school of thought that originated in Germany and holds that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

The company’s long-term goal is to build a platform with the potential for whole-brain “read and write” capabilities: decoding activity across large areas of the brain while precisely modulating selected neural circuits.

That goal, however, remains some distance from clinical reality.

Ultrasound-based readout measures hemodynamic changes associated with neural activity rather than recording neuronal firing directly. Differences in skull thickness and anatomy can also attenuate, scatter and distort acoustic waves.

AI is therefore central to whether an ultrasound-based BCI can decode and modulate the brain. Gestala plans to develop a multimodal brain foundation model that identifies relationships among neural activity, cerebral blood flow, medical imaging and observable behavior.

As foundation models continue to evolve, a growing number of researchers are recognizing that the human brain remains the only known general-intelligence system validated through natural evolution.

Understanding the brain could not only lead to new treatments for neurological disorders, but also provide new theoretical foundations and technical paradigms for the next generation of artificial intelligence.

In Peng’s view, neuroscience and artificial intelligence are two sides of the same coin. One helps us understand intelligence; the other helps us create it. Gestala aims to connect the two.

“Brain-computer interfaces, ultrasound, artificial intelligence and life sciences are all different paths toward understanding human intelligence,” Peng said. “Our true subject of study is human intelligence itself.”

The Tests That Follow the Funding

A broad technological vision still needs to begin with specific clinical problems.

Gestala has selected chronic pain as its first target indication and plans to explore other neurological and psychiatric conditions, including depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and stroke rehabilitation.

According to the company’s current plan, its first-generation ultrasound BCI product and brain foundation model will be unveiled by the end of 2026. The product will subsequently need to progress through clinical trials and medical-device registration.

Completing the financing therefore does not mean the technology has been proven. The real tests are only beginning.

The first is an engineering test: Can the system consistently target specific brain regions across individuals with different skull anatomies and produce reproducible readout and neuromodulation results?

The second is a clinical test: Can ultrasound neuromodulation deliver meaningful and durable benefits to patients while remaining safe over time?

The third is an AI test: Can Gestala’s brain foundation model bring electrical signals, cerebral blood flow, medical imaging and behavioral data into a unified representation? Can it establish verifiable relationships among neural activity, cognition, intention and behavior, while generalizing across individuals, tasks and diseases?

Gestala’s Chengdu headquarters is responsible for product development, engineering, manufacturing and industrial translation. Its Shanghai headquarters connects fundamental research, brain foundation model development, clinical resources and scientific collaboration.

Building on its existing dual-headquarters structure, Gestala also plans to establish an overseas headquarters in either Singapore or Hong Kong. The new location will connect the company with international research, talent and industry resources while supporting global collaboration and overseas development.

Through this structure, Gestala is building an integrated operation spanning technology development, engineering, manufacturing, clinical validation, AI models and international collaboration.

But regardless of how much capital it raises or how far its global footprint expands, Gestala’s ability to join the front ranks of the global BCI industry will depend on more than reproducible clinical data. It will also depend on whether the company can turn complex, multimodal brain data into a verifiable and generalizable brain foundation model.

The former will determine whether the technology can deliver meaningful benefits to patients. The latter will determine whether Gestala can establish a shared language through which neuroscience and artificial intelligence can explain one another.

About Gestala

Gestala is China’s first life sciences company dedicated to ultrasound-based brain-computer interface technology. Guided by the vision of “Better Brain for Better Humanity,” Gestala is committed to building an ultrasound-based BCI platform with whole-brain read and write capabilities. Beyond developing innovative therapies for a wide range of neurological disorders, the company is dedicated to decoding the brain and exploring a future in which neuroscience and artificial intelligence evolve in deep convergence. For more information, please visit

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La financiación total asciende a 232 millones de dólares con la nueva gerencia y un grupo de inversores formado por Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group y otras empresas.

LOS ÁNGELES, 26 de agosto de 2026 — Stability AI, líder en productos de IA diseñados específicamente para los profesionales creativos de los sectores de la música, los videojuegos y el entretenimiento, ha anunciado hoy una ronda de financiación de la serie B por valor de 76 millones de dólares en capital nuevo. Con esta noticia, la financiación total asciende a 232 millones de dólares, con dos rondas de financiación mediante ampliación de capital y bonos convertibles, bajo la conducción del director general Prem Akkaraju desde su nombramiento en junio de 2024. Este capital impulsará el desarrollo de su gama de productos para la producción creativa, reforzará su disciplina de investigación aplicada y ampliará su división de servicios profesionales.

En esta ronda de financiación se incorporan un nuevo grupo de inversores de los sectores del entretenimiento y la tecnología, entre ellos, Electronic Arts, empresa pionera en entretenimiento interactivo; Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group y Warner Music Group, líderes mundiales en el sector del entretenimiento musical; y las sociedades de inversión AMD Ventures y Pacific Alliance Ventures.

Se suman a una lista ya de por sí impresionante de figuras destacadas de los sectores del entretenimiento y la tecnología que respaldan a Stability AI: Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis Capital, Sound Ventures y WPP, junto con los inversores particulares Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt, James Cameron, Kevin Mayer, Mark Burnett, Patrick Whitesell, Prem Akkaraju y Robert Nelsen.

Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker y Eric Schmidt también participan en la ronda de financiación de la Serie B, invirtiendo por segunda ronda consecutiva bajo una nueva dirección.

«Este grupo de inversores sin igual es una confirmación de nuestra visión, según la cual la IA generativa potencia el trabajo de todos los productores, músicos y narradores», afirmó Prem Akkaraju, director general de Stability AI. «Stability es única en el ámbito de la inteligencia artificial porque somos personas creativas que creamos herramientas para personas creativas. Desarrollar una tecnología que marque un hito en el sector implica reunir a un equipo de titanes del sector, y eso es precisamente lo que hemos hecho aquí». Akkaraju añadió: «Nuestros inversores han sentado las bases para que nosotros podamos tener éxito a largo plazo, ya que no solo nos aportan el capital, sino también la experiencia, la credibilidad y una conexión directa con los artistas».

En esta ronda participan los socios estratégicos consolidados Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, y Warner Music Group. WPP, líder mundial en servicios de marketing, ha sido socio estratégico e inversor a lo largo de todo el proceso de crecimiento de Stability AI bajo su nueva dirección.

El anuncio se produce inmediatamente después del lanzamiento de Stable Audio 3.0, una familia de modelos musicales de peso abierto entrenados con datos con licencia completa. Los artistas ya pueden integrar Stable Audio 3.0 en su flujo de trabajo mediante un nuevo complemento para DAW (estación de trabajo de audio digital) o directamente en StableAudio.com.

Además, Stability AI ha anunciado que Thomas Laffont, cofundador de Coatue, se ha incorporado a su Directorio.

«Mientras otros desarrollan una IA generalizada, Stability AI crea herramientas creativas y lo hace en colaboración con los artistas, los estudios y los titulares de derechos, cuyo trabajo define este ámbito», afirmó Thomas Laffont, cofundador de Coatue. «Me alegro de unirme a Prem y al equipo».

Laffont completa un consejo de administración del que forman parte el cineasta ganador de un Óscar James Cameron, el empresario, filántropo y expresidente de Facebook Sean Parker, la cofundadora y socia directora de Greycroft, Dana Settle, y el director general de Stability AI y exdirector general de Weta Digital, Prem Akkaraju. Con esta nueva ronda de financiación, Stability AI seguirá desarrollando herramientas creativas diseñadas en torno al proceso creativo de los artistas, en los ámbitos de la música, los videojuegos y el entretenimiento.

Acerca de Stability AI

Stability AI es líder en productos de IA diseñados específicamente para profesionales creativos de los sectores de la música, los videojuegos y el entretenimiento.

Stability AI desencadenó la revolución de la IA generativa con el lanzamiento de Stable Diffusion en agosto de 2022, poniendo la tecnología generativa al alcance de millones de creadores de todo el mundo y consolidando su posición como líder en este campo. Desde entonces, los modelos de Stable Diffusion se han descargado más de 350 millones de veces, lo que los ha convertido en la base técnica de todo un ecosistema de trabajo.

Desarrollamos pensando primero en los creativos. Nuestro trabajo va más allá de los propios modelos y abarca productos y soluciones diseñados para los flujos de trabajo de producción específicos. Este enfoque centrado en los artistas es la razón por la que Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, WPP y otras empresas nos han elegido como socio estratégico.

Stability AI figura entre los 50 innovadores en IA de la revista Fortune y entre las empresas más influyentes de la revista TIME y su producto Stable Audio ha sido incluido en la lista de los mejores inventos de TIME. En junio de 2024, Stability AI entró en una nueva fase de crecimiento con un equipo directivo formado por el director general, Prem Akkaraju; el presidente ejecutivo, Sean Parker; y el miembro del consejo de administración, James Cameron, además de los miembros del consejo Dana Settle y Thomas Laffont.

La empresa cuenta con el respaldo de inversores de talla mundial, entre los que se incluyen Electronic Arts, empresa innovadora en el sector del entretenimiento interactivo, los líderes mundiales en el sector del entretenimiento musical Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group y Warner Music Group, las firmas de inversión Greycroft, Coatue, WPP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, AMD Ventures y Mantis Capital y los inversores particulares Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt y James Cameron.

Para saber más al respecto, visite stability.ai.

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-F4GE connects Korea’s manufacturing network with global demand from defense and advanced manufacturing companies, building a programmable manufacturing network

-Standardizes data from Korea’s core manufacturing factories and converts it to meet global buyer requirements, supporting supply chain compliance for the U.S. Department of Defense

-NAVER D2SF expands investments in defense and manufacturing technology startups, aligning with TEAM NAVER’s industrial AX initiatives

SEONGNAM-SI, South Korea, Aug. 25, 2026 — NAVER D2SF, the corporate venture capital arm of NAVER, has made a new investment in F4GE (CEO, Hyukhyun Kwon), a defense and manufacturing infrastructure startup. F4GE is building infrastructure that integrates Korea’s fragmented core manufacturing factories into a unified manufacturing network and connects them with global defense and advanced hardware companies. NAVER D2SF decided to invest in the team based on its ability to identify new business opportunities for Korea’s manufacturing capabilities amid supply shortages in the global defense and manufacturing industries.

Global demand across the defense and manufacturing sectors is growing rapidly, while the manufacturing infrastructure capable of reliably meeting that demand remains limited. In defense, large-scale procurement demand is surging, yet major defense companies cannot fulfill all of it through their own production infrastructure alone. Korea, meanwhile, is home to approximately 60,000 core manufacturing factories across areas such as casting, forging, machining, and molding, with high levels of manufacturing quality and productivity. However, many of these factories have been unable to secure global sales channels due to challenges in meeting the compliance, documentation, and traceability requirements demanded by global companies.

F4GE addresses this gap by integrating Korean manufacturing factories into a “programmable manufacturing network” that can be utilized by global defense and manufacturing companies. The company deploys its proprietary software into existing factory environments to collect real-time data on equipment, processes, inspections, and workflows, then converts that data into standardized documentation and compliance systems required by global buyers. This enables Korean manufacturers to meet the requirements for entering global supply chains without large-scale system replacements, while allowing global buyers to secure verifiable manufacturing partners.

F4GE’s infrastructure consists of three key layers. First, it automatically standardizes and integrates equipment data formats and languages that vary by manufacturing site. Second, it directly learns from skilled workers’ accumulated know-how and tacit knowledge, turning it into a new database. Third, F4GE manages the full process from factory allocation and process standardization to logistics, customs, and documentation. Through this approach, the company helps maintain a consistent level of manufacturing quality while supporting compliance with supply chain management certifications such as CoC(Chain of Custody), required by the U.S. Department of Defense and other global buyers.

F4GE is currently expanding partnerships with core manufacturing factories across Korea’s southeastern manufacturing hubs, including Sacheon, Changwon, and Busan. The company is also broadening its network with demand-side companies in North America and Europe across defense, aerospace, shipbuilding, and robotics. By connecting Korea’s manufacturing infrastructure with global demand, F4GE aims to increase factory utilization in Korea while strengthening the competitiveness of domestic manufacturers across global core industry value chains. Manufacturing sites are also showing strong expectations for F4GE’s ability to create new global sales channels.

Founded in January 2026, F4GE has secured its first institutional funding through this investment round. Investors participating in the round include NAVER D2SF, KNET Investment Partners, Sazze Partners, DCAMP, 500 Global. CEO Hyukhyun Kwon brings experience serving in the Republic of Korea Navy Special Warfare Flotilla, founding a defense startup, and working as an investor in AI and manufacturing startups in the United States. Based on his understanding of and network across the defense and manufacturing industries in Korea and abroad, F4GE brings strong execution capabilities in connecting global demand with Korea’s manufacturing sites. With this investment, the company plans to expand hiring across manufacturing engineering, AI development, and other areas, while broadening new manufacturing partnerships.

“Defense and manufacturing are sectors where global supply chain restructuring and technological advancement are creating new opportunities at the same time,” said Sanghwan Yang, Head of NAVER D2SF. “F4GE is building a structure that connects Korea’s on-the-ground manufacturing capabilities with global demand from defense and manufacturing industries. This is meaningful because it can help Korea’s manufacturing infrastructure play a greater role in global value chains.” He added, “As TEAM NAVER is also advancing industrial AX across areas such as defense-specialized AI models, defense and manufacturing LLMs, and physical AI, NAVER D2SF will continue to discover startups that solve structural problems in defense and manufacturing through technology and create opportunities in global markets.”

NAVER D2SF has also launched an open call for startups in the defense and manufacturing sectors. It plans to discover and invest in a broad range of startups across areas including data analysis and integration, simulation and verification, physical AI, strategic and tactical AI, command-and-control and battlefield management, manufacturing and maintenance automation, cybersecurity, and dual-use infrastructure. Applications for investment review will be accepted through the NAVER D2SF website until October 25.

NAVER D2SF is NAVER’s in-house corporate venture arm, supporting sustainable growth by collaborating with startups. Founded in 1999, NAVER has maintained its position as Korea’s leading search engine for over 20 years and operates across commerce, content, fintech, and cloud services. Under the technological vision of D2SF, NAVER is actively developing new technologies and global partnerships to grow as a leading tech company. To learn more, visit https://d2sf.naver.com

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Founded by computer scientist and former AI entrepreneur Adrian Rosebrock, WheelMetrics helps traders evaluate the stocks behind their options trades before chasing premiums

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25, 2026 — WheelMetrics, an educational and stock-screening platform for retail investors using the Wheel Strategy, is introducing a more systematic approach to one of the strategy’s most important decisions: choosing which stocks are worth owning before evaluating the available options premium.

Founded by Adrian Rosebrock, PhD, WheelMetrics grew out of a problem he encountered repeatedly while trading the Wheel Strategy. Learning how to sell a cash-secured put or covered call is relatively straightforward, but determining which companies are suitable for the strategy requires considerably more work and is often neglected or ignored by retail traders.

The Wheel Strategy typically begins when an investor sells a cash-secured put on a stock they would be willing to own. If the shares are assigned, the investor can then sell covered calls against the position. Rosebrock found that many traders reverse that logic by choosing stocks because the available premium looks attractive, only to confront the poor quality of the underlying company after assignment, often leading extensive losses

WheelMetrics is designed to move the stock selection decision earlier in the process.

The platform uses a two-stage, “quantamental” approach that combines quantitative screening with fundamental analysis before moving into options evaluation. Traders can first narrow the universe of potential companies based on business quality and other defined criteria, then evaluate cash-secured put and covered-call opportunities once a stock has passed that initial screen.

The methodology reflects Rosebrock’s background in computer science and his transition into investing.

Rosebrock earned his PhD in computer science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where his work focused on artificial intelligence, computer vision, and deep learning. During graduate school, he built PyImageSearch into a major computer vision and deep learning education platform, eventually authoring nine books and more than 500 tutorials before selling the company in 2021.

Following the sale, Rosebrock spent five years studying quantitative trading, swing trading and fundamental investing while developing the screening process that would later become the foundation for WheelMetrics. He also serves as portfolio manager at AltFnd Capital, a small friends-and-family quantamental investment fund.

WheelMetrics began after friends and colleagues repeatedly asked Rosebrock how he selected stocks for his own options trades. What started as informal explanations of his screening process eventually developed into a platform built for traders who wanted to replace gut decisions with a repeatable framework.

Today, WheelMetrics provides free educational material alongside a paid screening product focused on stock selection and position management. The platform is intended for self-directed investors who already understand the mechanics of options trading but want a more disciplined process for deciding where to deploy the Wheel Strategy.

Transparency is also central to the company’s positioning. Rosebrock has his trading results independently verified every six months rather than relying on selective screenshots or isolated winning trades.

WheelMetrics does not frame the Wheel Strategy as passive income and does not promise specific returns.

Instead, the platform emphasizes that the quality of the underlying stock matters more than the attractiveness of a single premium and that avoiding a weak setup can be as important as finding a strong one.

WheelMetrics is available at https://wheelmetrics.io.

About WheelMetrics

WheelMetrics is an educational and stock-screening resource founded by Adrian Rosebrock, PhD, to help retail investors apply a systematic process to the Wheel Strategy. WheelMetrics focuses on stock selection, options analysis, and position management through free educational content and its premium screening product. WheelMetrics provides educational and informational resources only and does not provide individualized investment advice. Options trading involves risk, including the potential loss of capital.

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The firm’s first vice-president-level operator will build the practice that stops private-equity-backed distributors from giving coverage gains back at the counter, where industry research puts 3 to 5 points of recoverable margin at many mid-market distributors

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 25, 2026 — Revenue Optics, the commercial growth firm for private-equity-backed B2B distributors and industrial companies, today announced the launch of its Pricing and Revenue Growth Management practice and the appointment of Shafohi Alamgir as Vice President, Pricing and Revenue Growth Management. Alamgir began in the role on August 24 and reports to Founder and Chief Executive Officer Ali Hasham.

The appointment is the firm’s first vice-president-level operator hire and establishes pricing as the fourth line of the Revenue Optics commercial growth platform, alongside sales transformation, talent solutions, and AI and automation.

The practice was built in response to client demand. Revenue Optics builds inside sales engines that put proactive ownership around profitable accounts an outside-sales-centered model cannot economically reach, what the firm calls the distribution coverage gap. Those programs reactivate dormant accounts, increase share of wallet, and grow gross profit.

They also create thousands of new pricing decisions, often exposing a second problem: limited governance around how prices are set, exceptions are handled, and margin is protected.

“Many of our clients asked us a version of the same question this year: you fixed how we cover our accounts, can you do the same for how we price them,” said Ali Hasham, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Revenue Optics. “They were not asking us for another model. They wanted a system that could be installed and sustained. Shafohi and I came up inside WESCO at the same time, in the same office, on opposite sides of the same problem. Coverage decides whether you get the order. Pricing decides whether it was worth winning. Now we are putting the two together inside one firm.”

Pricing carries significant leverage in distribution. For a distributor operating at high-teens to low-twenties gross margin and mid-single-digit EBITDA, a 1 percent realized price improvement can translate into roughly a 22 percent increase in EBITDA because little incremental cost is required to capture it.

Alamgir brings more than 20 years of pricing and revenue growth management leadership across distribution and industrial manufacturing, supporting businesses ranging from $1.5 billion to more than $6 billion in revenue. Her work has generated more than $100 million in gross margin and EBITDA improvement, including repeated margin expansion of 200 to 300 basis points.

Her experience spans pricing architecture, customer segmentation, deal and discount governance, trade and promotional effectiveness, and commercial operating model redesign.

Alamgir has held enterprise pricing leadership roles at AG Growth International and Molex and previously worked in pricing roles at WESCO Distribution and GEXPRO, part of Rexel, after beginning her career at General Electric. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Distribution Management from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, is a Certified Pricing Professional through the Professional Pricing Society, and is Prosci certified in change management.

“Most distributors are not under-earning. They are leaking,” said Alamgir. “The margin is already in the business. It goes out through pricing by gut feel, slow cost pass-through, discount drift, and exception chaos. Those are governance problems before they are math problems. What convinced me about Revenue Optics is that they already understand the hard part: getting a sales organization to adopt something new and making it hold.”

The practice serves private-equity-backed distributors and industrial manufacturers. It begins with a fixed-scope pricing diagnostic designed to quantify recoverable margin across price variance, cost pass-through latency, discount leakage, and governance gaps.

Revenue Optics then builds the operating system required to capture that value, including key value item and price sensitivity analysis, pricing guardrails and floors, price-change governance, and seller enablement.

Revenue Optics is headquartered in Memphis, Tennessee.

About Revenue Optics

Revenue Optics is a commercial growth firm for private-equity-backed B2B distributors and industrial companies. The firm helps clients close the distribution coverage gap by designing and building inside sales coverage models, recruiting and assessing talent, implementing CRM and AI automation, and strengthening pricing governance.

Learn more at https://revenueoptics.com/

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Seed funding from Redesign Health fuels U.S. expansion and broadens access to clinical and multi-omics data from Asia, bringing greater diversity to drug development and healthcare AI.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 25, 2026 — OmicsBank, a clinical data infrastructure company connecting fragmented hospital data for drug development and healthcare AI, today announced $2.25 million in seed funding from global venture capital and technology firm Redesign Health. The investment will support U.S. expansion across health systems, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, CROs, and AI developers, while growing its clinical data network across Asia and the Middle East.

Global drug development and healthcare AI rely heavily on clinical and genomic datasets from the U.S. and Europe, leaving some of the world’s largest populations significantly underrepresented in the evidence used to develop drugs, identify biomarkers, and train medical AI. India alone accounts for nearly 20% of the world’s population, and South Asian countries represent nearly 25% of the world’s population, yet they account for approximately 2% or less of participants in large-scale global genomic research.

OmicsBank is building the infrastructure to close that gap. Founded in 2025 by Sumit Sinha and Vijay Goel, the company’s technology now sits inside more than 90 hospitals and diagnostic labs in Asia, standardizing and de-identifying multimodal data at the source. Its ecosystem currently includes longitudinal EHR data from 12.5 million patients, more than 30 million DICOM images, 6 million pathology slides, and 500,000 genome sequences.

OmicsBank is already working with pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on drug development and real-world evidence studies across oncology, neurology, cardiology, nephrology, endocrinology, immunology, and dermatology. The company is also working with frontier AI organizations on pre-training, post-training, and reinforcement learning (RL) for clinical and multimodal models.

“Drug development and healthcare AI are becoming increasingly sophisticated, but the data powering them still represents a relatively narrow slice of the world,” said Sumit Sinha, Co-Founder and CEO of OmicsBank. “We’ve built the infrastructure to make rich clinical and biological data from Asia and other underrepresented populations available for research, ethically and at scale, while remaining compliant with local and international laws. As we expand beyond Asia, including the U.S., we see an opportunity to connect that global data foundation with leading health systems, drug developers, and AI companies to build a much richer picture of human health.”

Representation is only part of the challenge. Hospital data remains fragmented across EHRs, labs, imaging, pathology, and other systems, making it difficult to build longitudinal patient records linking diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes. That fragmentation has also limited researchers’ ability to tap the scale and diversity of clinical data across Asia, the US, and the EU.

OmicsBank standardizes and de-identifies that information within the hospital environment, linking clinical events with imaging and multi-omics data. For pharma, biotech, and frontier AI teams, that means diverse, research-ready multimodal data to study disease, biomarkers, and treatment response, and to train and evaluate models. For participating hospitals, it means tools to query their own clinical archives, identify research cohorts, and support prospective studies.

In the U.S., OmicsBank is pursuing a two-sided expansion strategy: providing pharmaceutical, biotechnology, CRO, and frontier AI organizations with access to research-ready data from Asia, while partnering with U.S. health systems to build research-ready data infrastructure and bring additional populations into its standardized, longitudinal data network. Together, this creates opportunities for research across populations and geographies using multimodal, multi-omics data.

“Healthcare innovation has become global, and we believe some of the companies with the greatest potential to impact U.S. healthcare will come from exceptional founders solving problems at global scale,” said Neil Patel, Head of Ventures at Redesign Health. “With OmicsBank, we underwrote Sumit and Vijay first, and the market second. They saw early that the lack of well-structured, representative clinical data was becoming a constraint on drug development and research, and they moved quickly to do something about it. Between them, they have built five companies and know how to operate in exactly the conditions OmicsBank demands, where progress depends on earning the trust of hospitals one institution at a time. That combination of speed and operating judgment is rare, and it’s what gave us the conviction to invest.”

“Making medical and pharmaceutical research more representative of emerging-market populations is not only a matter of inclusion. People underrepresented in medical research make up the majority of the world’s population. OmicsBank is building the infrastructure to make this data accessible and improve healthcare globally,” said Oscar Ramos Moreno, Managing General Partner at Orbit Ventures, who led OmicsBank’s pre-seed round in 2025.

With the new funding, OmicsBank will expand its hospital network across the U.S., the Middle East, and Southeast Asia while growing relationships with pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and AI companies. The company is also developing GPU-enabled research environments for AI model training, reinforcement learning environments, biomarker discovery, real-world evidence, and other computational biology research.

About OmicsBank
OmicsBank is a clinical data infrastructure company. Its platform is deployed within hospital and diagnostic networks across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East, turning fragmented, unstructured clinical records into standardized, de-identified, patient-level datasets that research and AI systems can query directly. Its offering spans FHIR, OMOP CDM-structured EHR data, imaging, and genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, phenomic, and metabolomic datasets and biospecimens — all made available under IRB and ethics committee approval, through an ISO 27001-certified, HIPAA- and GDPR-compliant process. OmicsBank works with pharma companies and frontier AI labs on drug discovery, drug development, and clinical AI. Backed by Redesign Health and Orbit Ventures, OmicsBank is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Learn more at omicsbank.com.

About Redesign Health
Redesign Health is a global venture and applied technology firm focused on building next-generation healthcare companies. We manage venture capital and venture buyout strategies, each powered by an AI operating system and team of leading technologists, entrepreneurs, and investors. Our venture capital strategy backs exceptional founders at the earliest stage—often before an idea is fully formed—and provides first institutional capital and an unmatched degree of strategic leverage and domain expertise through exit. Our venture buyout strategy partners with proven management teams through control investments and delivers outsized value by rewiring core products and workflows with AI. Since inception in 2018, Redesign and our portfolio companies have touched the lives of more than 15 million patients, raised over $1.5 billion from premier institutional, sovereign, and strategic investors, and built distinctive partnerships with marquee healthcare organizations and senior leaders around the world. Redesign is based in New York and has offices in Bengaluru, Los Angeles, and Riyadh. For more information, visit www.redesignhealth.com 

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Total funding reaches $232M under new leadership with investor group comprised of Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and more

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 25, 2026 — Stability AI, the leader in purpose-built AI products for professional creatives across music, gaming, and entertainment, today announced a Series B fundraise of $76M in new capital. The news brings total funding to $232M, inclusive of two equity rounds and convertible notes, under CEO Prem Akkaraju since his appointment in June 2024. The capital will fuel the development of its product suite for creative production, deepen its applied research discipline, and expand its professional services arm.

The round welcomes a new group of investors across entertainment and technology, including interactive entertainment innovator Electronic Arts, global leaders in music entertainment Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group and Warner Music Group, and investment firms AMD Ventures and Pacific Alliance Ventures.

They join an already stacked roster of the who’s who across the entertainment and technology industries backing Stability AI: Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mantis Capital, Sound Ventures, and WPP, alongside individual investors Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt, James Cameron, Kevin Mayer, Mark Burnett, Patrick Whitesell, Prem Akkaraju, and Robert Nelsen.

Coatue, Greycroft, Kadmos Capital, Sean Parker, and Eric Schmidt are also participating in the Series B, investing for a second consecutive round under new leadership.

“This unmatched group of investors is an affirmation of our vision where generative AI empowers every producer, musician, and storyteller,” said Prem Akkaraju, CEO of Stability AI. “Stability is unique in the AI field because we are creative people making tools for creatives. Developing industry-defining technology means assembling a team of industry-defining titans, and that’s what we have done here.” Akkaraju added, “Our investors set us up for long-term success because they provide not only capital, but expertise, credibility, and direct connection to artists.”

This round includes investments from existing strategic partners Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group. WPP, a global leader in marketing services, has been a strategic partner and investor throughout Stability AI’s growth under new leadership.

The announcement comes on the heels of the launch of Stable Audio 3.0, a family of open-weight music models trained on fully licensed data. Artists can now bring Stable Audio 3.0 into their workflow through a new DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) plugin or directly on StableAudio.com.

Additionally, Stability AI has announced that Coatue Co-Founder Thomas Laffont has joined its Board of Directors.

“While others are building generalized AI, Stability AI is building creative tools and doing it alongside the artists, studios, and rights holders whose work defines the field,” said Thomas Laffont, Co-Founder of Coatue. “I’m glad to be joining Prem and the team.”

Laffont rounds out a board that includes Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron, entrepreneur, philanthropist, and former President of Facebook Sean Parker, Greycroft Co-Founder and Managing Partner Dana Settle, and Stability AI CEO and former CEO of Weta Digital Prem Akkaraju. With this new funding, Stability AI will continue to build creative tools designed around the artist’s process, across music, gaming, and entertainment.

About Stability AI

Stability AI is the leader in purpose-built AI products for professional creatives across music, gaming, and entertainment.

Stability AI sparked the generative AI revolution with the release of Stable Diffusion in August 2022, putting generative technology in the hands of millions of creators globally and cementing its position as a leader in the field. Stable Diffusion models have since been downloaded more than 350 million times, serving as the technical foundation for an entire ecosystem of work.

We build for creatives first. Our work expands beyond the models themselves into products and solutions designed for specific production workflows. This artist-centric approach is why Electronic Arts, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, WPP, and others have chosen us as their strategic partner.

Stability AI is recognized among Fortune’s 50 AI Innovators and TIME’s Most Influential Companies, with Stable Audio named to TIME’s Best Inventions list. In June 2024, Stability AI entered a new phase of growth with a leadership team that included CEO Prem Akkaraju, Executive Chairman Sean Parker, and Board Member James Cameron, as well as board members Dana Settle and Thomas Laffont.

The company is backed by world-class investors including interactive entertainment innovator Electronic Arts; global leaders in music entertainment Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group; investment firms Greycroft, Coatue, WPP, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sound Ventures, AMD Ventures, and Mantis Capital; and individual investors Sean Parker, Eric Schmidt, and James Cameron.

You can learn more at stability.ai.

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DUBAI, UAE, Aug. 25, 2026 — Mantle, the open financial network connecting global market participants to institutional-grade capital market assets on-chain, today announced the expansion of Mantle Vault into decentralised finance, built with Grove infrastructure, CIAN, and accessible through Fluxion. The launch extends Mantle Vault beyond its existing centralised finance footprint on Bybit, where it has already crossed $200 million in assets under management, into a new deposit-and-earn product open to any stablecoin holder.

From CeFi to DeFi: Mantle Vault Opens to All

The expansion follows Mantle’s continued momentum in real-world assets, with RWA TVL growing from $22 million to $257 million in a year and DeFi TVL exceeding $755 million. This marks the next stage of Mantle’s thesis that institutional-grade assets should be reachable by any market participant, not only the institutions and exchanges that first brought them on-chain.

The expanded Mantle Vault allows users to deposit $USDC and $USDT0 on Mantle to access variable yield generated by the underlying strategy. The strategy includes exposure to sUSDS, Sky Protocol’s yield-bearing token, alongside Fluxion Points. Built by CIAN in coordination with Grove, the vault follows a conservative, non-leveraged structure with transparency into the underlying strategy.

Mantle is also introducing a dedicated incentive programme of 5.14 million GROVE tokens, targeting up to 6.5% APY. Programme terms, duration and rates may vary based on market conditions, and incentives are not guaranteed.

“Mantle Vault started as a product built for Bybit’s user base. Its expansion into DeFi through Grove, CIAN, and Fluxion shows what an open financial network is meant to do: connect global market participants to institutional-grade capital market assets, wherever they are,” said Emily Bao, Key Advisor at Mantle and Spot Executive at Bybit.

Grove: Bringing Institutional Grade Economy onto Mantle

Within Mantle Vault, Grove provides the capital foundation through Grove Savings, the on-chain interface to the Sky Savings Rate. The Sky Savings Rate is set by Sky governance and delivered by the Sky Agent Network, an independent network of capital allocators competing across diversified, governance-approved yield strategies through Sky Protocol.

“We’re happy to bring Grove to Mantle. Grove supports the ecosystem by bringing Grove Savings, the on-chain interface to the Sky Savings Rate, a rate set by Sky governance. Partners like Mantle, CIAN, and Fluxion help make institutional-grade on-chain strategies accessible to more users.” said Kevin Chan, Co-Founder of Grove. 

CIAN: Translating Institutional Portfolio Construction into a Non-Custodial Product

CIAN built the original Mantle Vault on Bybit. That track record now extends into DeFi, with CIAN translating institutional-grade portfolio construction into a single, non-custodial product on top of the sUSDS exposure provided by Grove.

“At CIAN, we translate institutional-grade portfolio construction into transparent, non-custodial yield infrastructure. Together with Grove, Mantle, and Fluxion, we are making capital-preservation-first strategies easier for stablecoin holders to access,” said Luffy, Founder of CIAN.

Fluxion: The Liquidity Layer for Stablecoin Holders on Mantle

Fluxion provides the liquidity layer for the expanded Mantle Vault, giving stablecoin holders on Mantle access to the product and connecting deposits to Fluxion Points as an added benefit.

As the Mantle-native DEX for RWA distribution, Fluxion combines hybrid AMM/RFQ trading with xStocks’ xChange, giving users direct access to tokenized equity trading and supporting liquidity across Mantle’s RWA ecosystem.

Fluxion previously expanded its Earn offering with RWAIpha and now adds Mantle Vault to the lineup, giving users access not only to RWA token trading but also to the underlying infrastructure supporting these assets.

“Partnering with Grove and CIAN to introduce a stablecoin vault on Mantle marks a strong start for our Earn product. Together, we look forward to making Mantle the leading hub for real-world assets,” said Sham, CMO at Fluxion.

Borderless Access to Institutional-Grade Yield

The expansion of Mantle Vault from CeFi into DeFi  brings together four organisations around a single objective: making institutional-grade yield accessible to any stablecoin holder, without geographic restrictions or intermediary gatekeeping. Grove provides the capital foundation, CIAN the yield infrastructure, and Fluxion the liquidity layer, each composable within Mantle’s open financial network. As Mantle continues to expand the range of institutional-grade assets and strategies accessible on-chain, Mantle Vault represents the clearest demonstration yet of what an open financial network is built to deliver.

About Mantle

Mantle is the open financial network powering borderless access to global capital markets, connecting global market participants to institutional-grade capital market assets on-chain. Mantle brings the full lifecycle of real-world assets on-chain, from issuance and liquidity to distribution and settlement, spanning tokenized equities, treasury yield, private credit, commodities, and money markets. Anchored by one of the largest community-owned treasuries in the industry, Mantle combines credibility, deep liquidity, and institutional-grade infrastructure to support real-world finance on-chain.

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About Grove

Grove is capitalizing the stablecoin economy. Through institutional-grade allocation, financing, and liquidity, Grove brings real-world assets and real-world use cases onchain to help build the next generation of global financial markets. Grove’s flagship product, Basin, is programmable credit infrastructure designed to provide eligible investors with real-time stablecoin liquidity in connection with approved sale, redemption, transfer, or other liquidity transactions for tokenized real-world assets. Grove is issuer-agnostic, product-conflict-free, and designed to serve as a neutral infrastructure layer for the tokenized asset ecosystem.

To learn more, visit grove.finance, X, and LinkedIn.

About Cian

CIAN Yield Layer is a leading on-chain yield strategy platform, offering users one-click access to advanced strategies while driving sustainable growth for emerging assets—both crypto-native and real-world —by generating extra on-chain yield for holders.

Standing at $1.4B in TVL, CIAN collaborates with top-tier protocols—including Mantle, Lido, Binance, Maple, USD1, Superstate, Renzo, Kernel, Horizon, pyUSD, cbBTC, fBTC, solvBTC, and Bedrock, etc. — to fuel asset growth. Beyond crypto-native assets, CIAN is expanding access to institutional-grade, interest-bearing RWAs issued by leading Wall Street and London institutions, partnering with RWA pioneers like Chainlink, Midas etc., which effectively bridges the gap between DeFi and TradFi.

For more information about CIAN, please visit: Cian.app
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About Fluxion

Fluxion is a native DEX which is also a RWA distribution hub on Mantle. Fluxion adopts a hybrid trading model- AMM/RFQ. Now you can buy all xStock assets on Fluxion via RFQ. And for the Fluxion AMM model, users can trade and manage liquidity with a borderless access experience. Until now, accumulated trading volume across 1B+ USD, weekly high is 100M+USD.

Now, trade xStock assets on Fluxion can both earn Fluxion Points and xStock’s xPoints.

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