Insait IO rebrands as Encore AI and raises $30M Series A to deploy AI agents powered by the company’s patented Interaction Mining technology across every channel

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 — Encore AI, the first agentic customer interaction platform built to automatically drive more revenue, announced today a $30 million Series A led by Team8,  Planven and The Garage, to expand global deployment of its enterprise AI platform. While most AI agents are designed to deflect calls and reduce the number of customers who ever reach a human agent, Encore AI was built to increase revenue from every customer interaction.

Top sales performers generate disproportionate revenue. They convert more customers, recover more opportunities, and close more deals, but they are scarce. No company can scale its best people across every call, every channel, and every hour. Encore AI removes this ceiling by capturing and replicating the behaviors of top performers. The company partners with leading organizations in the most demanding and regulated industries, including financial services.

Encore AI’s patented Interaction Mining technology studies an organization’s top performers, extracts specific actions that drive results, and deploys them as AI agents. Those agents operate autonomously or alongside live teams, across every channel, in any language, while meeting demanding compliance requirements of the most stringent regulated environments.

“Today’s enterprise AI industry is optimized for cost reduction. Encore was built for the other side of the equation. Every organization already has data showing what its best people do differently. Encore trains AI agents on this data, enabling them to deliver quality and effective customer interactions at scale, resulting in uplift in revenue and satisfaction,” said Dr. Dvir Ginzburg, Encore AI Founder and CEO.

The Series A round was led by Team8, Planven and The Garage, alongside Lukatz and several large commercial banks and insurers that first came on as Encore AI customers and chose to invest after seeing the platform’s impact on their own operations. The Garage, which led the company’s earlier seed round, has backed Encore since its founding.

“Every enterprise is sitting on years of customer interaction data that it is not fully using,” said Hadar Siterman Norris, Partner at Team8. “Encore AI turns that data into revenue by learning what top performers do differently and deploying those behaviors at scale. Just as important, it has built the compliance architecture needed to operate in the most demanding regulated industries. That combination gives Encore the potential to define a new category.”

“The next generation of AI leaders will be defined by the enterprise value they create. We believe vertical AI companies with proprietary data advantages and deep domain expertise will build the enduring platforms of this decade. Encore AI is a compelling example of this vision, transforming years of data into AI that can consistently drive revenue at enterprise scale. We are proud to partner with Dvir and the team as they build what we believe can become a category-defining company,” Eran Westman, Managing Partner at Planven.

“We backed this team from the very beginning, leading both their pre-seed and seed rounds,” said Omer Nagar, Managing Partner, The Garage. “Beyond capital, we worked hand in hand with the founders to validate the product in live banking environments and open doors across our ecosystem. Watching that vision become reality has been rewarding, and we’re as confident today as we were on day one.”

Encore AI can go live in weeks. It does not require months of configuration, testing, and tuning. It builds from a company’s actual operating reality, ingesting calls, chats, emails, and CRM data to rapidly deploy across enterprises. Results are produced rapidly, too: one of Encore AI’s largest lending clients saw a 10x return on investment within months of implementation.

Dr. Ginzburg founded Encore AI in 2022, bringing a background precisely suited to the problem the company solves. His Ph.D. in Geometric Deep Learning and years as a recommendation-systems researcher at Microsoft are the technical lineage behind Encore AI’s patented Interaction Mining technology. His work centered on finding signals in large, complex behavioral datasets, the same challenge Encore now solves at scale.

About Encore AI
Encore AI is the only enterprise agentic AI platform built to generate revenue from complex customer interactions, not deflect them. Using patented Interaction Mining technology, Encore AI deploys AI agents that convert leads, close applications, recover balances, and drive upsell and cross-sell at scale, across voice, chat, IVR, and live form-fill, in even the most regulated environments, including financial services. Encore AI is headquartered in New York with a global presence in APAC and EMEA. Learn more at www.gainencore.ai.

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Expands Enterprise Partnerships with Leading Health Systems

LOS ANGELES, July 29, 2026 — Precise Behavioral, a physician-led behavioral health services and technology company, today announced $14.2 million in venture funding. The round was led by A1 Health Ventures, with participation from Ziegler Link-Age Fund, Converge Capital Partners and Granite Financial Holdings, an affiliate of Blue Cross of Idaho. Already profitable, the investment will help scale the company’s operations, digital SaaS capabilities, and AI roadmap. One of the few companies that can deliver behavioral healthcare both virtually and in-person across multiple care settings and manage the full revenue cycle, this investment follows significant customer growth including expanded partnerships with nationally recognized health systems and academic medical centers.

“As a serial entrepreneur and long-time practicing geriatric psychiatrist who has worked inside of hospitals, emergency rooms and skilled nursing facilities, I have seen firsthand how rising patient demand, workforce shortages and fragmented care are impacting health systems today,” said Nitin Nanda, MD, founder and CEO of Precise Behavioral. “Behavioral health continues to be one of the greatest operational challenges facing hospitals. Service line owners are managing numerous vendors and fragmented workflows when they need a singular enterprise solution that improves access, outcomes, and operational performance. This investment allows us to continue to scale our operating system for the next wave of behavioral health.”

Founded by clinicians and deep healthcare operators, Precise Behavioral partners with hospitals, health systems, ACOs, skilled nursing facilities and correctional facilities to modernize behavioral healthcare delivery through its integrated technology, operational services and clinical programs. One of the few companies that delivers care across Inpatient, Emergency and Ambulatory settings, Precise offers a singular unified platform that replaces the need for multiple, disconnected vendors by offering a modular and fully customizable solution set.

“No one has holistically addressed the behavioral health needs of health systems and hospitals comprehensively. Precise Behavioral targeted this niche early on and has scaled rapidly, reaching profitability in under three years, delivering more than 100,000 patient encounters, and building a national clinical footprint,” said Karim Botros, Managing Partner at A1 Health Ventures. “We believe Precise is uniquely positioned to define this enterprise behavioral health category.”

Leading Health Systems Choose Precise Behavioral
Over the past year, Precise Behavioral has continued to expand its footprint with health systems seeking support across consultation-liaison psychiatry, outpatient behavioral health, collaborative care, digital patient engagement, referral management, and care navigation. The company partners with several leading health systems, including: CommonSpirit and Prime Healthcare. These partnerships reflect growing demand for integrated psychiatric and therapy care models that reduce operational complexity and expand access.

“As patient demand for mental health services continues to increase, there’s never been a more important time for us to expand our offerings to reach more people,” said June Collison, former President of Community Hospital San Bernadino, CommonSpirit. “Precise is one of the few companies that offers a hybrid of in-person and virtual on-demand psychiatric services across inpatient and outpatient settings. They seamlessly integrate high-quality behavioral healthcare services into our healthcare system across the continuum and drive quality measure improvements while increasing patient access to essential services.”

“We invested in Precise Behavioral because its product is uniquely flexible and its leadership is extremely qualified,” said Jenny Poth, SVP at the Ziegler Link-Age Fund. “The company has a plug-and-play platform that supports patients across the continuum of care – from hospital entry, through post-acute care and even into the home. Every module can be combined, expanded or reconfigured, creating a tailored behavioral healthcare solution that integrates seamlessly into any ecosystem. The CEO and founder is a highly experienced physician who has cultivated a team with deep clinical and operational backgrounds. We are confident they will deliver exceptional experiences to their partners and patients.”

Delivering Comprehensive Behavioral Health Care Across All Settings
The company has built the Precise Behavioral Operating System (BOS) which unifies clinical delivery, operational workflows, and revenue cycle management into a single, scalable system. The platform is configurable across care settings and provides on-demand clinical consults, a virtual psychiatry and ambulatory clinic, a post-discharge emergency room follow-up solution and collaborative care to help integrate behavioral health into primary care settings. These four solutions all come with specialized revenue cycle management and billing services that help clients streamline reimbursement and maintain regulatory compliance.

The current round of financing will support the company’s continued enterprise platform growth, including enhancements to AI-powered patient engagement tools, referral management capabilities, virtual care operations and analytics.

About Precise Behavioral
Precise Behavioral is a technology-enabled behavioral health company founded in 2022 by Dr. Nitin Nanda, a geriatric psychiatrist and healthcare entrepreneur who exited his last company (Aligned Telehealth) to Amwell, Inc, a publicly traded telehealth company. Building on that success, Precise Behavioral aligns clinical delivery, operational workflows and reimbursement into a single unified system supported by a nationwide clinical network and AI-enabled technology. It provides behavioral healthcare services and technology solutions to health systems, skilled nursing facilities, ACOs, medical groups and correctional facilities by offering four core out-of-the-box configurable solutions, including: Precise Clinical, a national network of psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, therapists, and care managers providing on-demand and embedded behavioral health coverage in the ED, inpatient, and outpatient settings; Precise Digital Outpatient OS, a virtual psychiatry and ambulatory clinic that supports measurement-based care, patient monitoring, risk scoring, and virtual visits; Precise ConnectED, a post-discharge follow-up application for ED patients that offers virtual care and engagement to reduce repeat visits and support HEDIS measures; and Precise Collaborative Care psychiatric consults, care management, and population tracking for primary and specialty care practices.

For more information or to inquire about partnership opportunities, visit https://precisebehavioral.com.

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NEW YORK, SINGAPORE and ABU DHABI, UAE, July 29, 2026 — AIBNKO today announced the official launch of its AI-based, multi-agentic sell-side research platform – the first system of its kind capable of initiating, producing, and distributing institutional-grade equity research entirely without human intervention. The platform can track and cover an unlimited number of global equities in real time – a scale no traditional sell-side desk, constrained by analyst headcount, can match.

Traditional sell-side research has long struggled with three structural bottlenecks: limited coverage capacity, inherent conflicts of interest, and single-analyst subjectivity. AIBNKO’s fully autonomous, multi-agentic workflow removes all three constraints without compromising research quality.

Purpose-built for institutional workflows, AIBNKO is an AI-based, multi-agentic platform that generates comprehensive, deep-dive investment research reports on global equities – on demand. Rather than relying on generic LLM summaries, portfolio managers can now produce institutional-grade analysis in a few minutes – for any stock in any market. The era of digging through static research libraries in search of coverage is over. AIBNKO seamlessly replicates the rigorous methodology of a top-tier analyst team, serving as the investment committee of the new era: faster, smarter, and inherently unbiased.

“For decades, sell-side research has been bottlenecked by headcount and, too often, quietly shaped by incentives that have nothing to do with getting the call right,” said Zvika Fine, Founder of AIBNKO. “We built AIBNKO to remove both problems at once. It doesn’t get tired, it doesn’t play favorites, and it doesn’t skew bullish. When only one in five of your ratings is a Buy, that’s not a platform trying to please anyone – that’s a platform doing its job. This is our moat, and it’s not one anyone can replicate by hiring more analysts. We built this from the ground up to be unbiased, and the industry is going to have to catch up to that standard.”

About AIBNKO

AIBNKO redefines institutional equity research by replacing static models with a dynamic, multi-agentic AI framework that operates with the precision of a high-performance investment committee. By orchestrating specialized AI agents, the platform ensures every recommendation is stress-tested against diverse strategies and rigorous governance standards. This fully independent framework doesn’t just monitor global markets and summarize earnings – it actively learns from its own hits and misses through a closed-loop auditor agent, continuously refining its methodology to deliver unbiased, alpha-generating insights that evolve in real time with the market.

AIBNKO research reports are accessible to qualified investors via leading financial terminals and through its subscription-based platform at aibnko.com.

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Funding round led by Vibe Credit Union, with participation from BankTech Ventures and other leading credit unions and fintech investors, underscores rapid growth from 4 to 60+ signed institutions in less than 18 months

DOVER, Del., July 29, 2026 — InvestiFi, a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO) and the award-winning InvestTech platform enabling credit unions and community banks to offer digital investing directly within online banking, today announced it has raised $20 million in funding. The round was led by Vibe Credit Union, with participation from BankTech Ventures, ICCU (Idaho Central Credit Union), Navari (formerly CUSG), United Financial Credit Union, Coastal Credit Union, Mid Minnesota Credit Union, Truity Credit Union, and Southpoint Credit Union.

This funding is the largest investment to date into a fintech whose sole focus is supporting American Credit Unions and Banks with digital investing capabilities.

Recent research from Cornerstone Advisors shares that nearly half of Zillenials (Gen Z and Millenials) are investing, with 43% having had to move money to third-party platforms to do so. Digital investing has become a table stakes category for consumer-focused banks and credit unions in the United States, as major FIs, neobanks and fintechs launch investing capabilities alongside traditional digital banking.

“This funding round is a powerful validation of what we’ve built and where we’re headed,” said Kian Sarreshteh, CEO and Founder of InvestiFi. “What makes this raise especially meaningful is that so much of it comes directly from the consumer-focused financial institutions and strategic partners who use our platform every day. They aren’t just customers — they’re believers in our mission to democratize investing and to make sure community financial institutions can compete and win in this space. We’re incredibly proud to be the go-to partner for these FIs that recognize the importance of this category, who opted to invest directly, alongside institutional investors in BankTech Ventures and Navari.

This capital raise will allow us to scale our platform and maximize adoption with the end users of these financial institutions, to pull their account holders and deposits back from 3^rd party investment platforms.”

Rapid Growth and Market Momentum

InvestiFi has scaled from just 4 clients in 2024 to more than 60 signed financial institutions as of July, 2026, reflecting surging demand from credit unions and community banks looking to retain assets and deepen account holder relationships through embedded investing. The company’s multi-award-winning platform gives financial institutions a turnkey way to compete with large brokerages and neobanks without asking account holders to leave their trusted banking relationship.

InvestiFi’s platform currently offers:

• Fractional investing in Stocks and ETFs
• Guided Investing
• IRAs
• Cryptocurrency trading
• Stablecoins

with additional product offerings planned as the company continues to expand its platform.

Central to InvestiFi’s differentiation is its unique, patent-pending flow of funds, which supports investing directly from checking or savings accounts. Simply branded as Investing from Checking, it is quickly becoming one of the most popular forms of digital investing for American financial institutions. This capability allows financial institutions to deliver a seamless digital investing experience for account holders — entirely from within their existing online banking experience, without the friction, delays, security concerns and costs of transferring funds to and from external brokerages or crypto platforms.

“Vibe Credit Union believes the future of financial services belongs to credit unions that can serve every stage of a member’s financial journey,” said Jeff Pascoe, Chief Operations and Strategy Officer at Vibe Credit Union. “For generations, credit unions have earned trust by helping members save, borrow, and achieve their financial goals. The next chapter is helping them build wealth through that same trusted partnership. As a credit union, we believe we have a responsibility to invest in innovations that strengthen not only our own members’ experience, but the future of the credit union movement itself. InvestiFi helps make that future possible.”

“BankTech Ventures backs companies that are solving real problems for community financial institutions, and InvestiFi is a great example of that,” said Carey Ransom, Managing Director at BankTech Ventures. “The growth trajectory InvestiFi has shown — going from a handful of clients to more than 60 signed institutions in just two years — how badly this solution was needed in the market. We’re excited to support their next phase of growth.”

About InvestiFi

InvestiFi, Inc., a Credit Union Service Organization (CUSO), is the award-winning InvestTech Platform designed to allow for trading to and from deposit accounts, enabling credit unions and community banks to retain more assets and attract new account holders. Through its exclusive funds flow and user-friendly interface, InvestiFi empowers every credit union and community bank to provide their account holders with the ability to navigate the complexities of financial markets with ease from within their current online banking experience. At the heart of InvestiFi’s mission is the goal of democratizing investing and supporting community financial institutions, ensuring that wealth-building opportunities are accessible to everyone. To learn more visit investifi.com. 

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Massive spending on AI, cloud computing, and hyperscale infrastructure is creating powerful long-term growth opportunities across the digital infrastructure sector

NEW YORK, July 29, 2026 — Market News Updates News Commentary – The race to build the next generation of AI infrastructure is turning into one of the biggest investment stories in tech. Behind every ChatGPT prompt, cloud app, streaming service, online payment, and AI business tool sits a sprawling network of data centers. As demand for artificial intelligence keeps climbing, the companies that build, own, and equip these facilities are moving to the center of a multi-trillion-dollar growth story.  JLL projects global data-center capacity could roughly double—from about 103 gigawatts today to around 200 gigawatts by 2030—and that expansion may require as much as $3 trillion in new infrastructure spending. McKinsey’s numbers run even higher, suggesting total worldwide outlays on data-center build-out could approach $7 trillion by the end of the decade.  This may be creating opportunities for active tech companies that include:  CleanCore Solutions, Inc. (NYSE American: ZONE), Cipher Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR), TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF), Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ: HUT), Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS).

The opportunity isn’t limited to the owners of the buildings. It stretches across the whole supply chain: makers of AI servers, networking gear, advanced cooling systems, power-management technology, semiconductors, and the rest of the digital plumbing. Every new hyperscale facility needs a mountain of hardware and supporting tech before the first workload ever runs. That’s why a growing number of investors are looking past the usual tech names and toward the companies that actually supply the backbone of the AI boom.  The hyperscale data-center market alone is expected to grow from roughly $31.4 billion in 2026 to more than $52.5 billion by 2030. The broader global AI-infrastructure market is forecast to climb from about $75.9 billion to roughly $223.5 billion over the same period.

Key Growth Drivers Fueling the Data Center / Infrastructure Industries:

• Up to $3 trillion in new data center investment is projected by 2030 to support AI and cloud infrastructure.
• Global data center capacity is expected to nearly double to approximately 200 GW by 2030.
• McKinsey estimates the total global data center buildout could reach $7 trillion by 2030.
• Hyperscale data center market projected to grow from $31.4 billion in 2026 to $52.5 billion by 2030.
• AI infrastructure market forecast to expand from $75.9 billion in 2026 to $223.5 billion by 2030, creating significant opportunities across servers, networking, semiconductors, cooling, and power infrastructure.

CleanCore Solutions, Inc. (NYSE American: ZONE) Signs AI Colocation Services Agreement with Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) for a Data Center Campus in Minnesota

• AI data center campus designed to Tier 3 standards, which will deliver approximately 55 MW of utility power capacity and 40 MW of critical IT load
• 10-year Colocation Services Agreement with an initial contract value of approximately $800 million and two 10-year renewal options representing more than $3 billion of total potential contract value
• Company expects initial revenue in the first quarter of 2027
• Second announced AI infrastructure campus expands upon ZONE’s development pipeline, which is up to over 500 MW across strategic U.S. markets

CleanCore Solutions, Inc. ($ZONE) (“CleanCore” or the “Company”) today announced that it has entered into a 10-year Colocation Services Agreement with Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) for its data center campus in Minnesota. Cerebras is a leading AI compute company that describes itself as building the world’s fastest AI infrastructure with its team of pioneering researchers. Building on the Company’s recently announced West Texas data center campus, this agreement accelerates ZONE’s strategy of developing critical AI infrastructure across the United States.

The AI data center campus, designed to Tier 3 standards, will represent 100% pre-leased occupancy under a long-term agreement with Cerebras, providing revenue visibility from commencement of operations. The project is expected to generate approximately $800 million of contract value over the initial 10-year term, with the potential to exceed $3 billion, including renewal terms.

The campus will deliver approximately 55 MW of utility power capacity and 40 MW of critical IT load upon full buildout. Approximately 20 MW of utility power is already energized today, which the Company believes reduces certain development risks associated with the project and supports the initial 15 MW of critical IT load. The remaining capacity is expected to come online by Q1 of 2027.

“This second development marks an important milestone in advancing our portfolio of critical digital infrastructure to secure compute capacity for Cerebras and other premier AI companies,” said Tyler Hassen, CEO of ZONE. “Building on our previously announced project in West Texas, this Minnesota campus expands ZONE’s infrastructure footprint to meet the urgent power needs of customers.”

The facility will be developed in partnership with an experienced data center development partner, whose integrated data center ecosystem platform combines colocation services, energy optimization, and infrastructure advisory. This partnership advances the Company’s strategy of working with experienced developers and industry leaders to accelerate the delivery of next-generation AI infrastructure. Through the partnership, ZONE expects to own nearly 80% of the project, which is expected to start generating revenue in Q1 of 2027.

“In an economy driven by AI, ZONE will help provide the fuel to drive it further,” said Alex Spiro, Chairman of the Board. ”  Continued…  Read this full release and additional news for ZONE by Clicking Here 

In other industry news of note:

Cipher Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: CIFR) recently announced it will provide a business update and release its second quarter 2026 financial results before U.S. markets open on Tuesday, August 4th, 2026. Cipher will host a conference call and webcast that day at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

The live webcast and a webcast replay of the conference call can be accessed from the investor relations section of Cipher’s website at https://investors.cipherdigital.com.

TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: WULF), a leading owner, developer, and operator of vertically integrated digital infrastructure, recently announced two significant transactions that further advance its strategy of developing, owning, and operating large-scale AI infrastructure campuses.

The Company has executed a 20-year lease agreement with Anthropic at its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky. The lease is expected to generate approximately $19 billion of contracted revenue over the initial lease term.

Separately, TeraWulf has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its 50.1% ownership interest in the Abernathy Joint Venture to an investor group led by its joint venture partner, Fluidstack. The transaction monetizes TeraWulf’s approximately $450 million investment at a premium to invested capital, unlocking significant capital for redeployment into wholly owned AI infrastructure opportunities.

Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ: HUT), an energy infrastructure platform integrating power, digital infrastructure, and compute at scale to fuel next-generation, energy-intensive technologies, recently announced the commercialization of the second phase of its one-gigawatt Beacon Point data center campus in Nueces County, Texas through a second 15-year, $9.8 billion lease (the “Agreement”) for 352 megawatts (MW) of IT capacity (the “Transaction”). The tenant, the high-investment-grade company that executed the Phase 1 lease, has doubled its contracted IT capacity at the campus to 704 MW. The Transaction fully commercializes the Beacon Point campus against its 1,000 MW of utility capacity, secured under an interconnection agreement with AEP Texas for electric delivery service.

With the Transaction, Beacon Point becomes Hut 8’s first fully commercialized AI data center campus. The Company secured the site, contracted the campus in full with investment-grade cash flows, financed Phase 1 with investment-grade debt, and commenced construction.

AMD (AMD) and Cerebras Systems (NASDAQ: CBRS) recently announced a technical partnership to deliver a new disaggregated AI inference solution that combines AMD Helios™ rackscale solutions with the Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine. Unveiled at Advancing AI 2026, the solution is designed to deliver the ultra-low latency required for the most advanced AI applications while dramatically increasing the throughput and efficiency.

The joint AMD and Cerebras solution will deploy AMD Helios alongside Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine technology integrated in a single inference workflow for maximum performance and efficiency. AMD Helios will provide a high-performance, scalable throughput engine. Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine technology will provide ultra-fast, ultra-low latency decode and token generation.

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Led by Elephant, with a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies, the round will support AI security, platform development, and continued international growth

ORLANDO, Fla., July 29, 2026 — ThreatLocker, a global leader in Zero Trust cybersecurity, today announced that it has secured $190 million in Series F funding led by Elephant, with continued support from D. E. Shaw Ventures and Arthur Ventures, and a significant new investment from Koch Disruptive Technologies. As Zero Trust adoption accelerates, ThreatLocker continues to experience rapid growth by making its platform straightforward to deploy, manage, and scale. The capital will support continued development of the company’s existing controls for AI-related security risks, further improvements to its Zero Trust Platform, and international expansion, beginning with the opening of a Reading, U.K. office.

“Most cybersecurity tools are still built around identifying malicious activity after it has already entered an environment, when the damage may already be done,” said Danny Jenkins, CEO and co-founder of ThreatLocker. “We believe the better model is to define what is allowed and deny everything else by default. We are living in a world where new agents are constantly being introduced and granted access to sensitive resources, which makes our mission more urgent. Our investors share our vision for changing the cybersecurity paradigm, and their partnership will help us strengthen our platform and protect more organizations around the world.”

The funding comes as organizations face an evolving threat landscape shaped by the need to secure AI agents and defend against AI-accelerated software exploits. ThreatLocker has continued to expand its platform to help secure organizations from both traditional and AI-driven activity. ThreatLocker Allowlisting prevents unauthorized AI tools and AI-generated code from executing, while Ringfencing™ controls what approved applications and AI agents can access, modify, and interact with. Additional controls help organizations govern the use of AI websites and protect sensitive information from unauthorized exposure. These innovations build on the recent introduction of ThreatLocker Zero Trust Network Access and Zero Trust Cloud Access, extending the company’s comprehensive Zero Trust Platform across endpoints, networks, and cloud resources from a single dashboard.

“Since our initial investment, ThreatLocker has demonstrated strong execution, established itself as a product leader, and consistently anticipated where the cybersecurity market is headed,” said Jeremiah Daly, partner at Elephant. “As more organizations seek prevention-based security and practical approaches to Zero Trust, ThreatLocker is uniquely positioned to capture that demand. Our continued investment reflects our confidence in both the team and the significant opportunity ahead.”

Rapid growth at ThreatLocker has been driven by its ability to make Zero Trust security practical to deploy and manage across complex environments. While Zero Trust has historically been viewed as difficult to implement, the ThreatLocker Zero Trust Platform delivers robust protection and is straightforward to deploy, manage, and scale. This approach has enabled more than 70,000 organizations worldwide to strengthen security without creating added operational burden.

To support growing global demand, ThreatLocker has significantly expanded its international presence over the past 18 months, adding offices in Brisbane and Dubai alongside its established operations in Orlando and Dublin. The opening of a U.K. office will further strengthen the company’s ability to serve customers across the United Kingdom and Europe.

Reflecting this momentum, ThreatLocker has ranked among the fastest-growing private companies in America on the Inc. 5000 for two consecutive years. With this latest investment, the company is positioned to accelerate product innovation, expand its global footprint, and advance its mission of transforming cybersecurity from an “allow-by-default” model to a “deny-by-default” model. This approach gives organizations control over the software, users, and devices operating within their environments.

As part of the investment, Koch Disruptive Technologies will leverage its partner community, industry knowledge, and Koch Labs® capabilities to partner with the ThreatLocker team as the company continues to grow. “At a time when organizations are facing new and complex cybersecurity challenges, the differentiated ThreatLocker Zero Trust Platform is delivering real value to its customers,” said Emerson James, Director at Koch Disruptive Technologies. “We are impressed with the team’s commitment to their vision and look forward to supporting them as they continue to innovate and scale globally.”

BofA Securities served as exclusive placement agent to ThreatLocker.

Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to ThreatLocker.

About ThreatLocker:

ThreatLocker is a global cybersecurity leader that stops cyberattacks before they happen. The company’s Zero Trust Platform prevents breaches from both known and unknown threats by allowing only explicitly trusted software and activity across endpoints, networks, and cloud systems. Built to deploy quickly and scale across complex environments, the platform reduces operational overhead while keeping business running uninterrupted. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with offices in Dublin, Dubai, and Brisbane, ThreatLocker protects over 70,000 organizations worldwide. 

About Elephant:

Elephant is a venture capital firm focused on high-growth software, internet, and technology companies. Elephant partners with visionary entrepreneurs to help them scale and build market-leading solutions.

About Koch Disruptive Technologies:

Koch Disruptive Technologies is a venture capital firm partnering with principled entrepreneurs who are building high-growth companies that have the potential to transform industries. KDT has a flexible mandate to make investments at any stage of a company’s life cycle, from seed to late-stage growth. KDT is a Koch company, one of the largest privately held companies in the world, with annual revenues that have exceeded $125 billion and operations in more than 50 countries. KDT helps its partners unlock their full potential by bringing Koch’s capabilities and network to them, structuring unique capital solutions, and embracing a long-term mutual benefit mindset.

Contact: [email protected]; 1 321-515-3813

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LONDON, July 29, 2026 — Vertice, the AI procurement platform built for the modern enterprise, today announced that it has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Spend Orchestration 2026 Vendor Assessment (doc #US54663526, July 2026).

The IDC MarketScape assessed 10 providers in the worldwide AI-enabled spend orchestration market, evaluating each vendor’s current capabilities and the alignment of its strategy with what customers will require over the next three to five years. The report noted, “As the market has matured, distinct positioning strategies have emerged: some providers are competing on breadth and full life-cycle coverage, certain providers are differentiating on data intelligence (proprietary pricing benchmarks, spend analytics, and SaaS optimization), other providers are competing on platform architecture (native iPaaS, agentic customizability, and no-code workflow building), and still others are targeting specific market segments (SAP-centric organizations, midmarket companies that need managed services alongside software, and finance-led organizations looking for procurement capabilities embedded in a broader financial operations platform).” According to the report, “Providers that do not develop a defensible data strategy risk commoditization of their workflow capabilities.”

Vertice was named to the Leaders Category, with the report stating: “Vertice’s primary differentiator is the integration of proprietary SaaS pricing benchmark data directly into the procurement workflow that enables real-time purchasing guidance grounded in actual market pricing rather than estimated benchmarks or vendor-provided list prices. This intelligence layer is derived from Vertice’s direct involvement in thousands of procurement negotiations and distinguishes the platform from workflow-only competitors.”

The report also highlighted Vertice’s commercial model and scale, noting: “Vertice’s model of pairing the company’s intake-to-procure platform with managed indirect spend purchasing services that include a savings guarantee addresses the gap between workflow automation and procurement outcomes, appealing to buyers that are accountable for cost reduction results rather than just process efficiency.” The report also noted, “With over 1,000 clients, Vertice has a substantial reference base and demonstrated enterprise deployment track record at scale.”

Vertice believes the market is converging on a conclusion its platform was built around: workflow automation alone does not deliver procurement outcomes. In response, Vertice pairs AI-driven intake-to-procure orchestration with the world’s largest dataset of proprietary pricing benchmarks and vendor intelligence, plus negotiation expertise. This combination leads to 50%+ reductions in procurement cycle times, 70%+ reductions in manual steps, plus typical savings of 20%+ on indirect spend – backed by contractual guarantees.

“In a market where every provider claims AI leadership, the durable question is what that AI is grounded in,” said Patrick Reymann, Research Director, Procurement and Enterprise Applications at IDC. “Vertice’s pricing intelligence is derived from direct participation in thousands of real negotiations – a data asset that is difficult for others to replicate. Paired with a guaranteed savings commitment, Vertice’s proposition speaks directly and powerfully to buyers who are accountable for cost reduction, not just process efficiency.”

“Being named a Leader in this IDC MarketScape reflects the extraordinary momentum behind Vertice,” said Eldar Tuvey, CEO and co-founder of Vertice. ” With our acquisition of Vendr earlier this year, we now hold the world’s largest procurement intelligence dataset: 250,000+ negotiations across 32,000 vendors and $75bn+ of indirect spend. This data helps our teams deliver better outcomes and hard cost savings, and it’s the real-world procurement training behind the AI agents our 1,000+ customers use every day.”

The IDC MarketScape recognition continues a strong year of analyst and customer momentum for Vertice. In March, Vertice was named the leader in both Customer Impact and Market Velocity in Lionfish Tech Advisors’ Report on intake-to-procure platforms. Vertice was also recognised by Forrester in The Supplier Value Management Platforms Landscape, Q1 2026, and named the No. 1 provider in the Procurement Orchestration category of G2’s Summer 2026 Grid Report, based on the quality and volume of verified customer reviews.

An excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide AI-Enabled Spend Orchestration 2026 Vendor Assessment, featuring the full evaluation of Vertice, is available here: https://www.vertice.one/l/idc-marketscape-worldwide-ai-enabled-spend-orchestration-2026

About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About Vertice

Vertice is the intelligent procurement platform built for the modern enterprise. By uniting agentic workflows, AI-powered insights, and expert buying talent, we enable finance and procurement teams in 100+ countries to operate with greater precision, speed, and impact.

Customers including ARM, Brex, Duolingo, Twilio and Santander use Vertice’s platform to review, analyze and negotiate purchases with greater confidence. Vertice processes over $75 billion in spend, with a proven track record of delivering 20%+ savings and accelerating procurement cycles by 2x.

Headquartered in London and recognised by the Financial Times as the UK’s fastest-growing scale-up, Vertice also operates in New York, Boston, Sydney, Brno, Linz and Johannesburg. Learn more at www.vertice.one.

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Fund focused on structured minority investment opportunities

CHICAGO, July 29, 2026 — GTCR, a leading private equity firm, today announced the final close of its inaugural Capital Solutions Fund (the “Fund“) and affiliated vehicles, with approximately $1.25 billion in aggregate commitments. Limited Partners commitments almost exclusively came from existing, long-term Limited Partners in other GTCR Funds. Limited Partners in the fund include public and corporate pension plans, endowments and foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and financial institutions. The Fund has already made several investments.

Through the fund, GTCR seeks to provide constructive capital to support management teams, combining its growth-oriented approach, deep industry expertise and focus on transformation to serve as a partner in building better businesses. The Fund will invest in minority structured equity and debt opportunities, primarily in the middle market, often providing funding for M&A and other forms of growth and value enhancement. The Fund will target companies within GTCR’s core industry domains, prioritizing businesses characterized by recurring revenues, strong free cash flow generation and defensible franchise value.

Consistent with GTCR’s overall investment approach, the Fund will focus on the quality of management teams and partnering with exceptional leaders to drive value creation. Most investments are expected to be privately negotiated, though the Fund is also able to invest in traded equity and credit where appropriate. The Fund may also co-invest alongside GTCR’s Flagship Funds in select larger structured opportunities.

The Capital Solutions team works closely and collaboratively with GTCR’s industry investment teams as well as with the firm’s Capital Markets team, led by Managing Director Jim Bonetti. This integrated approach combines the structured investing experience of the Capital Solutions team with GTCR’s deep industry knowledge, sourcing capabilities and value creation resources to identify and underwrite differentiated investment opportunities. Senior professionals on the Capital Solutions team include Managing Director Jason Prager and Principal Alisha Chaudhary. Prior to joining GTCR in 2024, Jason was a senior investment professional at Silver Point Capital where he spent over 13 years focused on public and private market credit opportunities and special situation investments. Prior to joining GTCR in 2025, Alisha was an investment professional at Goldman Sachs Asset Management in the Hybrid Capital group. 

On behalf of the firm, Dean Mihas and Collin Roche, Co-CEOs of GTCR, commented:

“The close of our first Capital Solutions Fund represents an important extension of GTCR’s strategy, allowing us to pursue a broader set of non-control opportunities where we can partner with excellent management teams in high-quality companies in our core industry domains. This strategy is highly complementary to our Flagship and Strategic Growth Funds and enables us to invest in minority structured opportunities across the middle market, offering creative, tailored solutions to management teams and company owners that desire minority capital to support growth and M&A.”

“We are grateful for the strong support from our limited partners, the vast majority of whom are longstanding GTCR investors,” said Jodi Rubenstein, Managing Director and Head of Investor Relations. “We believe this Fund is well-positioned to address a growing need in the market for structured minority capital solutions with attractive risk-adjusted return profiles. Through the Fund, we aim to deliver attractive, consistent returns for our investors.”

Kirkland & Ellis served as legal advisor to GTCR.

About GTCR

Founded in 1980, GTCR is a leading private equity firm that invests behind The Leaders Strategy™ – finding and partnering with management leaders in core domains to identify, acquire and build market-leading companies through organic growth and strategic acquisitions. GTCR is focused on investing in transformative growth in companies in the Business & Consumer Services, Financial Services & Technology, Healthcare and Technology, Media & Telecommunications sectors. Since its inception, GTCR has invested more than $35 billion in over 300 companies, and the firm currently manages approximately $45 billion in equity capital. GTCR is based in Chicago with offices in New York and West Palm Beach. For more information, please visit www.gtcr.com. Follow us on LinkedIn.

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Series A funding led by Battery Ventures accelerates the Y Combinator alum’s expansion, strengthening its position as the data infrastructure layer for commercial transportation

TORONTO, July 29, 2026 — Terminal, a provider of unified telematics integration technology transforming operations across insurance, fleet management and logistics companies, today announced it closed $20 million in Series A financing led by Battery Ventures, with participation from new strategic investors Intact Private Capital and Penske, and return investors Y Combinator and Wayfinder Ventures. The round brings the company’s total funding to $26 million since its founding. Terminal will use the capital to expand its enterprise footprint across its core markets, building on momentum with major industry partners.

Terminal acts as an integrator of critical data generated by commercial vehicles, including location, speed, fuel consumption and maintenance information. These and other data are growing in strategic importance across insurance, fleet management and logistics, and are used by companies to improve safety, meet new regulations and underwrite tens of billions of dollars in annual vehicular risk. Sitting at the intersection of transportation and telematics data infrastructure, Terminal has become the integration layer of choice for Fortune 500 enterprises and major insurers.

“Telematics data is three times more predictive of future risk than any other underwriting variable, yet fragmentation has kept that value out of reach for fleet managers and insurance companies until now,” said Marcus Ryu, a Battery Ventures general partner and the former CEO of Guidewire Software, who is joining Terminal’s board. “It is a rare and compelling signal of product strength and team execution that major insurers and fleet operators are adopting and investing in Terminal at this early stage of its journey.”

Terminal Solves Telematics Fragmentation at Scale

Every vehicle generates a steady stream of telematics data captured by devices such as electronic logging devices (ELDs), dashboard cameras, OBD-II readers and GPS trackers. That data comes from hundreds of different telematics service providers (TSPs), each one formatting and transmitting it differently. Fleet service providers and insurers that depend on this data have had to build and maintain the infrastructure to connect to every telematics provider one by one, then store it, secure it, ensure its compliance and normalize the data before any of it is usable. That work is slow and expensive, and prevents the data from reaching the companies that depend on it, even as demand for telematics-enabled services continues to grow. Auto insurers are moving toward real-time, behavior-based pricing that leverages telematics, and software companies are building tools to help fleet managers rein in fuel, safety and maintenance costs.

“Telematics data is one of the transportation industry’s most valuable assets, but it has lived across hundreds of distinct providers, which has made it hard to access and use at scale,” said Raghav Midha, CEO and co-founder of Terminal. “Terminal exists to accelerate innovation across this industry. We are the neutral infrastructure layer that connects those providers and normalizes their data into a single, consistent format, so insurance, fleet management, logistics, and financial services companies can each bring valuable products to market faster. This funding lets us deepen our provider partnerships and meet growing demand across each of these segments.”

Terminal puts all of this behind a single data platform. One connection reaches more than 325 telematics service providers, and Terminal then validates the incoming data with AI-powered data quality checks, manages consent and authorization, and normalizes hundreds of different formats into one consistent shape, covering GPS location, safety events, fault codes, vehicle statistics and more. That clean foundation is what customers build on. Insurance companies sharpen underwriting and pricing, fleet management companies improve driver safety and maintenance, logistics companies gain visibility into their operations, and financial services firms strengthen underwriting and fraud prevention for products like fuel cards and equipment leasing.

Early Adoption Validates Terminal as the New Standard

In just three years since its founding, Terminal has secured multi-year deals with major insurers, which use the telematics solution to provide up to 20% savings on insurance premiums for safe driving behavior. It is also being adopted by Fortune 500 fleet management, logistics and financial services companies that build on the same data to improve maintenance, operations and risk decisions.

“Intact Private Capital is excited to continue supporting Terminal and we’re confident they’re on their way to becoming a leading data infrastructure provider for the physical world,” said Justin Smith-Lorenzetti, managing director, Intact Private Capital. “Since partnering with Terminal, we’ve witnessed firsthand the improvements they’ve brought to commercial telematics sophistication, helping solve complex and fragmented data challenges for the world’s largest insurance companies. Terminal has assembled an incredible team and we’re looking forward to seeing them tackle the telematics opportunity ahead.”

Terminal participated in the Y Combinator Summer 2023 cohort. The company was founded by Midha and Chief Technology Officer Connor Giles, who led product and engineering at a fintech company focused on integrating middleware APIs, such as Plaid and Stripe. The co-founders also have experience in fleet operations, with Giles building software for his family-owned logistics company and Midha gaining exposure to fleet operations through his family’s HVAC business.

About Terminal

Terminal is the telematics data infrastructure layer for the commercial fleet industry. Commercial auto insurers, software companies and financial services providers use Terminal’s unified API to access GPS data, safety events, fault codes and dash camera media from more than 325 telematics service providers. Headquartered in Toronto and founded in 2023, Terminal enables its customers to access normalized, real‑time and historical telematics data without building and maintaining hundreds of one‑off integrations. Terminal is backed by leading investors, including Battery Ventures, Y Combinator, Golden Ventures, Intact Private Capital, Penske, McVestCo (Trimac Transportation), Wayfinder Ventures, and Northside Ventures. Learn more at www.withterminal.com.

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