Aligned Modern Health Positioned for Accelerated Growth with Focus on National Telehealth Expansion and Launch of Peptide Therapy

CHICAGO, Sept. 24, 2026 — Aligned Modern Health (AMH), a recognized national leader in Functional Medicine and Hormone Health, announced a majority growth investment from Arcventis Health Partners (Arcventis) with Harbour Point Capital (HPC) remaining as a meaningful investor. The partnership marks a major milestone in Aligned Modern Health’s growth story.

Founded in Chicago, Aligned Modern Health is redefining personalized healthcare through an evidence-based, root-cause-focused approach, addressing demand from patients seeking better management of chronic conditions, relief from unresolved symptoms and a clear path to long-term wellness. Aligned Modern Health has built patient trust through a physician-led care model, combining expert clinical oversight and data-driven diagnostics, with personalized, whole-person treatment plans. Accepting most major insurances for visits and bloodwork, Aligned Modern Health makes care more accessible for thousands of patients who don’t have the means to afford self-pay or concierge rates.

“Arcventis partners with exceptional teams at critical inflection points where the combination of capital and strategic support can meaningfully accelerate growth. Aligned Modern Health is exactly that kind of opportunity. The team has built a differentiated, patient-centered platform at the intersection of preventive care and longevity medicine, women’s health, and chronic disease management. Working alongside HPC, we are excited to support the team at Aligned Modern Health to expand its reach and deepen its impact,” said Fazeela Abdul Rashid, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Arcventis Health Partners.

“Harbour Point Capital has been an extraordinary partner, and we’ve been so fortunate for their guidance in building Aligned Modern Health into the organization it is today. At this important moment, we’re thrilled to usher in our next phase of growth with the deep expertise and resources of the Arcventis team. At Aligned Modern Health, we believe healthcare is personal and should be tailored to each patient’s needs. This partnership enables us to make our personalized approach to care more accessible to patients across the country as we expand our presence nationally, broaden our clinical offerings, invest in our digital patient experience, and grow our provider and clinical teams,” said Virginia Materese, CEO of Aligned Modern Health.

“It’s been a privilege to watch Virginia and her team transform Aligned Modern Health into a national platform with a rapidly scaling virtual care practice,” said Bret Bowerman, Co-Founder and Partner at Harbour Point Capital. “This growth investment reflects the strength of the business, the exceptional management team and a differentiated model that positions the company for significant growth. We’re looking forward to working closely with Fazeela and the Arcventis team to fuel future expansion.”

Expanding Clinical Services into Peptide Therapy

Aligned Modern Health’s launch of Peptide Therapy represents the latest expansion of its clinical offerings, following the successful 2025 launch of Hormone Replacement Therapy for men and women.

“Whether focusing on weight management through GLP-1s, addressing age-related hormone changes for patients in perimenopause, menopause or andropause, or supporting performance and recovery goals through other clinically supervised peptide protocols, it’s critical that patients receiving these treatments have comprehensive care that includes access to the full range of lifestyle, nutritional, and supplement guidance central to functional medicine’s whole-body approach,” said Materese. “It’s not about treating patients in isolation. It’s about providing the right clinical oversight as patients gain access to more treatment options than ever before.”

About Aligned Modern Health

Aligned Modern Health is creating a new standard of healthcare, empowering people to live their healthiest lives through a clear, trustworthy and compassionate path to better health. Using advanced diagnostics and a physician-led, root-cause focused model of care, Aligned Modern Health’s collaborative team of 100+ doctors, nurse practitioners, and clinicians provide personalized care across Functional Medicine, Hormone Replacement Therapy, newly launched Peptide Therapy, Chiropractic Care, and Acupuncture. As the largest evidence-based holistic healthcare practice in the Midwest, Aligned Modern Health operates 15 clinics across Chicago, with a rapidly growing telehealth practice serving patients in 20+ states. Major insurances accepted. For more information, visit www.alignedmodernhealth.com.

About Arcventis Health Partners

Arcventis Health Partners is a U.S. focused healthcare investment firm with a growth equity and growth buyout strategy. The firm partners with exceptional founders and management teams at critical inflection points, providing capital, strategic expertise and active partnership to help companies accelerate their next arc of growth. Arcventis focuses on differentiated, growth-stage healthcare businesses where it can help build enduring, category-defining companies and create long-term value for their stakeholders and the broader healthcare ecosystem. For more information, visit www.arcventis.com.

About Harbour Point Capital

Harbour Point Capital is a private equity investment firm that partners with the founders and executives of innovative, high-growth healthcare services companies. Harbour Point Capital invests in companies that deliver value to the healthcare system by improving access and enabling the provision of higher-quality care at lower cost. For more information, please visit www.harbourpointcapital.com.

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Foundation Capital mène ce tour de table de série A, auquel participent Citi et HSBC

NEW YORK et SINGAPOUR, 24 septembre 2026 — IPID, société spécialisée dans l’intelligence des paiements qui aide les institutions à identifier les bénéficiaires de leurs paiements, a annoncé une levée de fonds de série A de 16 millions de dollars menée par Foundation Capital, avec la participation des investisseurs stratégiques Citi et HSBC. Cette levée de fonds compte également parmi ses participants les investisseurs existants QED Investors, Monk’s Hill Ventures et Quona Capital.

Les paiements numériques sont désormais plus rapides et plus fluides, mais les informations nécessaires à leur évaluation n’ont pas toujours suivi le rythme. Les établissements ne savent pas toujours à qui est destiné un paiement ni ne disposent pas toujours d’informations suffisantes pour évaluer le risque avant de l’effectuer. C’est souvent à l’expéditeur qu’il incombe de vérifier l’identité du destinataire, même lorsque cet expéditeur est lui-même la cible d’une arnaque. Selon LSEG, la fraude liée aux paiements par virement autorisés devrait, à elle seule, entraîner 331 milliards de dollars de pertes à l’échelle mondiale d’ici 2027.

IPID est l’un des principaux prestataires mondiaux de services de vérification de comptes bancaires, au service de grandes institutions financières dans plus de 50 pays. Elle va bientôt étendre sa plateforme en mettant à profit son expertise des marchés fragmentés des paiements pour s’attaquer aux paiements et aux actifs numériques aux États-Unis, offrant ainsi aux institutions les informations nécessaires pour prendre la bonne décision avant le transfert des fonds.

« Chaque paiement commence par une décision, mais les établissements prennent souvent cette décision sur la base d’informations incomplètes », a déclaré Damien Dugauquier, cofondateur et PDG d’IPID. « Nous avons commencé par mettre en place un système de vérification des comptes bancaires à l’échelle mondiale. Nous développons actuellement les outils d’intelligence décisionnelle plus complets dont les institutions ont besoin avant tout transfert de fonds, quel que soit le pays, le canal de paiement ou la forme de valeur concerné. L’avenir des paiements ne se résumera pas à une simple accélération des transferts d’argent. Cela se traduira par la prise de meilleures décisions avant le transfert de l’argent. »

« IPID s’est rapidement imposée comme la référence mondiale en matière de vérification et d’analyse des comptes bancaires. C’est un véritable exploit qu’un projet de ce type puisse voir le jour en dehors d’un consortium bancaire, ce qui confère à IPID une position unique pour aider les institutions financières et les payeurs du monde entier à lutter contre la fraude et à rationaliser leurs opérations de paiement », a déclaré Zach Noorani, associé chez Foundation Capital.

Les paiements gagnent en rapidité et en automatisation à mesure que les paiements en temps réel se généralisent, que de nouvelles infrastructures voient le jour et que des agents basés sur l’IA commencent à initier des transactions. Mais les informations dont les établissements ont besoin avant d’effectuer un paiement restent dispersées entre les différents marchés, prestataires et canaux de paiement. IPID tente de remédier à cette lacune en aidant les établissements à identifier le titulaire du compte bénéficiaire avant que le paiement ne soit définitif.

« Dans un environnement financier de plus en plus numérique et interconnecté, il est essentiel de disposer d’un système de validation des paiements instantané et hautement sécurisé. Notre alliance stratégique avec IPID s’est encore renforcée grâce à notre participation à leur levée de fonds de série A. Nous sommes ravis qu’IPID soit en mesure d’offrir une expérience homogène à l’échelle mondiale et hautement performante, qui aide nos clients à continuer d’optimiser leurs opérations internationales en toute confiance », a déclaré Bis Chatterjee, responsable mondial des partenariats et de l’innovation pour la division Services de Citi.

Tom Simpson, responsable mondial de la compensation des opérations de change et responsable régional pour l’Amérique du Nord des paiements transfrontaliers au sein de la division Global Payment Solutions de HSBC, a déclaré : « L’accord conclu entre HSBC et IPID nous permet d’étendre la validation des bénéficiaires au-delà des exigences des systèmes locaux et de fournir davantage d’informations à nos clients lors de l’exécution de leurs paiements. Cela peut contribuer à améliorer l’efficacité et la fiabilité dans un écosystème de paiement de plus en plus dynamique. »

IPID utilisera ces fonds pour renforcer son réseau mondial d’informations sur les paiements, accélérer sa croissance aux États-Unis et en Europe, et développer de nouvelles fonctionnalités permettant aux institutions de prendre des décisions plus éclairées et de rationaliser leurs opérations de paiement avant que les fonds ne transitent par les réseaux de paiement américains, les stablecoins et les actifs numériques.

À propos d’IPID

IPID fournit des informations décisionnelles aux banques, aux prestataires de services de paiement (PSP), aux plateformes et aux entreprises qui effectuent des transferts d’argent. Tout au long du cycle de vie des paiements, IPID les aide à vérifier l’identité des bénéficiaires et à évaluer les risques de fraude, à respecter leurs obligations réglementaires, à évaluer les risques, à monétiser les paiements et à enrichir les données relatives aux paiements. Cela leur apporte sécurité, maîtrise et tranquillité d’esprit, tout en réduisant la fraude et les coûts opérationnels, ce qui se traduit par une meilleure expérience client.  www.ipid.tech  

Senior appointments bring experience across institutional finance, asset management, investment products, and decentralized markets.

SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 24, 2026 — Dinari, a financial infrastructure company enabling the issuance, distribution and trading of tokenized equities, today announced the appointment of Umair Dandia, Vera Wang, and Isha Varshney to its business development team. The appointments strengthen Dinari’s team across the institutions and markets driving adoption of tokenized equities, from broker-dealers and asset managers to digital asset platforms and protocols.

The appointments expand Dinari’s business development organization across three areas central to the company’s institutional strategy: integrating tokenized equities into existing financial institutions, enabling new investment products built with tokenized securities, and extending their utility across decentralized markets. Each appointment brings experience directly aligned with these areas of growth:

Umair Dandia, VP of Institutional Solutions, brings more than two decades of experience across investment products and asset management, including a combined 18 years with Goldman Sachs and State Street. At Goldman, he launched active fixed income and equity ETFs representing more than $13 billion in assets under management; at State Street, he managed strategic sub-advisory and index relationships. He joins Dinari to work with asset managers and financial institutions developing and distributing investment products using tokenized securities infrastructure.

Vera Wang, VP of Institutional Business, will lead the expansion of Dinari’s relationships with broker-dealers, financial institutions and other institutional market participants. Wang previously advised global financial institutions on digital asset strategy and product implementation at McKinsey. Prior, she worked at JPMorgan, supporting Asian family offices investing in U.S. markets, and led US digital assets initiatives in-house at a large Hong Kong-based family office.

Isha Varshney, VP of Partnerships, will lead Dinari’s partnerships across decentralized financial markets and international fintechs, expanding the integration and utility of dShares™ across new markets, platforms and trading venues. Varshney most recently served as Head of Revenue Operations at Artemis and previously led ecosystem strategy and partnerships at the Celo Foundation, focused on expanding the network’s institutional and developer ecosystem. Earlier in her career, she co-founded Wealth Boost Investments, where she served as COO, and held roles in banking at M Holdings and private equity at Westmont.

The appointments come as financial institutions increasingly evaluate tokenization across brokerage, asset management and digital asset markets. With the market for tokenized real-world assets projected to reach $14 trillion by 2030, institutions are building the products and distribution channels to participate in this growing market.

Following its U.S. launch in August, Dinari now provides more than 700 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, including the entire S&P 500, to eligible investors in the United States and more than 85 jurisdictions globally. Its infrastructure enables broker-dealers, fintechs, wallets, exchanges and other financial institutions to integrate tokenized equities directly into their products and platforms.

Dinari has built its tokenization infrastructure to carry the rights and economic characteristics of traditional securities, including dividends, voting and corporate actions, into new models for distribution, trading and investment products. The expanded business development team will focus on bringing that infrastructure to a broader range of broker-dealers, asset managers and financial platforms.

About Dinari
Dinari is a financial infrastructure company enabling the issuance, distribution and trading of tokenized equities. Through dShares™, Dinari provides investors and financial institutions access to more than 700 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs through a custodial model designed to preserve the rights and protections of traditional securities. dShares™ are available to eligible investors in the United States and 85+ international jurisdictions. Dinari is an SEC-registered transfer agent, and Dinari Securities LLC is a FINRA member broker-dealer.

Media Contact
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AWS Marketplace engagement and propensity signals so sellers close faster with AWS behind the deal and alliance leaders capture funding before it expires.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 — Aithon, the only AI-native Go-to-Market (GTM) platform purpose-built for regulated Financial Services, today announced Aithon Co-Sell. Aithon connects to AWS Partner Central to bring the Amazon Web Services (AWS) co-sell motion into the seller’s workflow: AWS propensity signals and funding eligibility on every opportunity.

“Our customers’ best deals are the ones AWS is leaning into — buyers with committed cloud spend to burn down, accounts AWS has flagged as in-market,” said Nitin Gupta, CEO of Aithon. “Aithon Co-Sell puts those AWS signals next to every seller’s account and funding eligibility next to every deal, and files both into AWS Partner Central. Sellers work the right accounts with AWS behind them; alliance leaders stop leaving funding on the table.”

Today, co-sell runs outside the seller’s day. Which accounts AWS considers in-market, which buyers show a strong propensity in AWS Marketplace, and which programs a deal qualifies for all live in AWS Partner Central. As a result, sales pipeline is built without AWS behind it and funding goes unclaimed. Aithon enriches every account with AWS propensity signals, with more than 4,000 leads across roughly 900 accounts already enriched since launch. Every opportunity shows AWS’s own eligibility verdict across more than 25 funding programs, what is needed to unlock each, and submission into AWS Partner Central.

“Putting more AWS investment behind the right deals accelerates outcomes for our customers and deepens our relationship with AWS,” said Michelle Eatherton, Chief Business Officer at Liminal.ai.

“Our sellers see which accounts AWS views as in-market and how much AWS budget a deal can draw, in the screen they work every day. Deals move faster,” said Steve Herlocher, SVP Sales and Marketing at USAN.

“Co-sell has always been one of our strongest channels, and Aithon lets us scale it without adding headcount,” said Praveen Jayakumar, Co-Founder at Aivar. “Aithon surfaces the programs our deals qualify for, so our sellers can actually use the funding available to them and close faster.”

Aithon Co-Sell is available now for ACE-eligible AWS Partners selling into regulated industries. It is accessible inside the Aithon platform, in Slack and Microsoft Teams, and through MCP in Claude and ChatGPT; and is transactable in AWS Marketplace.

About Aithon

Aithon is a revenue generation platform for AWS partners. Aithon brings a full stack of GTM agents indicating propensity to buy, stakeholder insights, cloud commit, and workflows to help you generate and close new business. Learn more at aithon.ai.

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Booking begins today at Neko’s first U.S. clinic in SoHo, where breakthrough technology and prevention-focused clinicians give members the bigger picture of their health in a single hour 

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 — Today marks the opening day for Neko Health in the United States, after more than 25,000 New Yorkers joined the waitlist ahead of launch. Their clinic at 300 Lafayette Street in SoHo – the first of many planned across NYC and across the country – brings Neko’s Scandinavian high-tech and high-touch experience to life. 

Across Sweden and the UK, more than 100,000 members have already experienced the Neko Health Scan. At the end of their first appointment, 75% of members book and prepay for their next scan, and after their second appointment, 80% of members book their third scan. 

The Neko Health Scan is the most valuable hour you can spend on your health. Hjalmar Nilsonne and Daniel Ek (Spotify) founded Neko Health to deliver preventive healthcare at scale, shifting the focus from treating disease after it develops to helping people understand and act on their health earlier. 

Neko engineered its technology and clinical experience entirely from the ground up. In one hour, you’ll have a connected view of your skin, heart, blood, and metabolic health, all explained by a clinician before you leave. All of this for $499. 

The stakes are real: six in ten American adults live with a chronic disease, and four in ten live with two or more,¹ and roughly 90% of national health spending goes toward people managing chronic and mental health conditions.¹ And yet, up to 80% of premature heart disease and stroke is preventable.² 

“Hjalmar and I have talked about bringing Neko to America since the earliest days of the company because if you want to change healthcare at scale, the U.S. has to be part of that ambition,” said Daniel Ek, Co-Founder of Neko Health. “New York is the starting point. New Yorkers place an incredible value on their time and have exceptionally high expectations for how they spend it. This city doesn’t settle for good enough, and neither do we.” 

The 60-minute, radiation-free visit combines the best of human, hardware, and health intelligence: a 360-degree skin exam with 6,000 images captured via a combination of cameras in the visual spectrum as well as thermal cameras, a cardiovascular assessment, detailed body composition analysis, on-site blood testing focused on 50+ essential biomarkers, and unrushed time with a clinician to walk through results and build a plan of action. The Neko Health Scan takes roughly 30 minutes, followed by a further 30 minutes with a clinician. Together, this creates a detailed baseline that can be tracked over time and helps surface early signals before symptoms appear, often while there’s still time to act. After the appointment, members can access their results anytime through the Neko Health app on iOS and Android, which stores scan history, tracks changes over time, and syncs daily data from wearables like Oura or Whoop via Apple Health. 

The company designed and developed its own medical devices, hardware, software and systems to capture, analyze and present health data within a single experience. This allows Neko to ensure high quality, all while rapidly improving the technology, experience, and outcomes for members. 

“There’s no better time than now to bring Neko Health to America,” said Hjalmar Nilsonne, CEO and Co-Founder of Neko Health. “We’ve scanned more than 100,000 people across Sweden and the UK, and what we’ve seen is unmistakable: when people can see their health clearly and know what to do about it, they get healthier.”

In New York, Neko refers members who need additional care to vetted physicians and healthcare systems, including General Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), Schweiger Dermatology, and Mount Sinai Health System. This allows members to be connected quickly with high-quality, trusted clinicians when follow-up is needed, so they can move forward with confidence in the continuity of their care. Members can also be referred to their own clinicians, if they prefer.

Neko also accepts HSA and FSA payment, making the experience more accessible to New Yorkers already setting aside pre-tax dollars for their health. 

The New York opening follows Neko Health’s $700 million Series C, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and co-led by O.G. Venture Partners, with participation from Maria Sharapova, Zoe Saldaña, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, Danny Meyer, Claudia Schiffer and Sir Matthew Vaughn, Thierry Henry, Tim Ferriss and will.i.am. New York marks the first step in Neko Health’s U.S. expansion. Additional New York locations and a Miami clinic are expected to follow, with Washington, D.C. and San Francisco also planned. 

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To learn more or book an appointment, visit NekoHealth.com and follow Neko Health on social @neko. 

About Neko Health
Neko Health is a health technology company that opened its first clinic in Stockholm in 2023, founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne. Neko designs and engineers its own hardware, software, and clinical protocols in-house, powering a next-generation health scan delivered across clinics in Sweden, the UK, and now the United States. 

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Luxor extends the energy, hardware, software, compute trading, and data stack it built for Bitcoin mining into the AI infrastructure market, and opens an office in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2026 — Luxor Technology, the company behind the leading Bitcoin mining software and services platform, today announced Luxor AI, a new business segment serving the AI and high-performance computing market.

Luxor AI spans the full lifecycle of an AI data center: supplying the energy to power the data center, sourcing GPUs and AI hardware, monetizing spot compute, trading compute offtake contracts, agentic cloud through Tenki Cloud, and a data and research division.

Luxor AI Full-Stack Platform:

1. Agentic Cloud. Tenki Cloud was purpose-built for the agentic era. Its usage has reached 1.8M workloads year to date. Tenki Cloud is three developer products, built inside Luxor on bare metal Luxor owns: drop-in GitHub Actions runners, an AI code reviewer that comments on every pull request, and sandbox sessions for agentic software development.
2. AI Hardware. Luxor’s hardware brokerage desk has traded $1bn of ASIC hardware for Bitcoin mining, and now sources GPUs and AI servers through a tiered network of partners. Luxor is a Value-Added Reseller (VAR) to the major OEMs. Luxor is also a licensed freight forwarder and Non-Vessel Operating Common Carrier, helping clients move hardware domestically and globally.
3. AI Energy. Luxor Energy, through its Retail Electric Provider (REP) license, supplies power to data centers. Through the Qualified Scheduling Entity (QSE), Luxor sends signals to data centers to respond to grid programs and participate in demand response and ancillary services programs. Luxor Energy operates in ERCOT and SPP.
4. AI Compute. Luxor AI orchestrates physical compute contracts between operators with installed GPU capacity and enterprise buyers. Luxor also operates its own internal compute trading fund.
5. AI Derivatives. Luxor offers an over-the-counter (OTC) platform to trade cash-settled instruments that settle on various compute-rental indexes, including options, forwards, and backstops.
6. AI Data & Research. A suite of AI data sets, including hardware and compute price tracking, and a dedicated AI research division.

“We have been at the forefront of innovation in the compute commodities space for almost a decade. Creating novel financial instruments, helping data centers respond to energy signals, operating in application-specific and general-purpose hardware markets, and more. We are bringing our expertise and systems to the next form of compute: AI,” says Nick Hansen, CEO of Luxor.

Energy is one of the most important inputs for AI factories. The US and global market is seeing an unprecedented amount of electricity demand. To service the next wave of 100 GW+ of data center demand, operators and grids must be creative in structuring contracts. Luxor has successfully proven AI workload flexibility through ERCOT’s 4CP and soon ERS programs. Luxor Energy currently services over 75 MW of load. Luxor also helps its partners source unique power opportunities globally.

Global supply chains for GPUs and chips are becoming increasingly hard to navigate. Luxor has expertise in helping its clients locate the best supply for their needs. Having access to abandoned orders with OEMs, special allocation, and used markets, Luxor provides a unique angle to sourcing hardware. Luxor’s team of solutions architects has dozens of years of combined experience with leading OEMs, and helps clients through scoping their AI factory deployments.

Compute markets are developing at a rapid rate. Luxor facilitates the trade of bare-metal compute offtake contracts, and also operates its own internal compute fund, to trade both short and long-term physical compute contracts. In addition, Luxor offers over-the-counter (OTC) cash-settled compute derivative contracts, including both options and forwards.

Tenki Cloud takes Luxor AI’s abilities and puts them to work as digital infrastructure for software engineering and DevOps teams. From runners and sandboxes to an AI code review tool, Tenki Cloud products are built so teams can take advantage of AI agents quickly and safely.

“We built the go-to platform for Bitcoin data centers and understand that operators value using a full-stack solution to service all of their infrastructure needs. By offering a unified platform, we can execute for our clients at a much higher level. Our Luxor AI stack is following this same principle,” says Ethan Vera, COO of Luxor.

About Luxor Technology Corporation

From Bitcoin mining to AI, Luxor delivers the hardware, software, finance and energy tools that power the world’s compute. Its Bitcoin product suite spans Mining Pool, ASIC Firmware, Hardware Trading, Hashrate Derivatives, Energy Services, and Miner Management Software. Its AI product suite spans Hardware, Compute, Energy, Derivatives and Tenki Cloud: digital infrastructure for code and agents. Across both, Hashrate Index is Luxor’s data and research platform.

Media contact

Luxor Technology — [email protected] — www.luxor.tech 

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New funding will accelerate development of Axya’s AI-powered procurement platform, expand its geographic reach, and scale its engineering and go-to-market teams

MONTREAL, Sept. 24, 2026 — Axya, the AI-powered procurement platform that automates sourcing and purchasing for manufacturers, announced a $17 million CAD Series A funding round to enhance its platform and AI capabilities as it expands into new markets and scales its team to meet increasing demand. The financing was led by McRock Capital, with participation from Yamaha Motor Ventures. The round was supported by existing shareholders, including the Business Development Bank of Canada’s (BDC) Industrial Innovation Venture Fund, and Real Ventures, reaffirming their confidence in Axya’s growth trajectory. The company also established a new banking relationship with CIBC, which provides financing to support its next phase of expansion.

Axya helps complex manufacturers make their supply chains more predictable, cost-effective, and resilient by combining deep ERP integrations with AI-powered workflows that complement existing procurement teams. The company specializes in three customer sectors: aerospace and defense, custom machinery and vehicles, and natural resources and processing. It helps leading manufacturers such as MDA Space and GE Aerospace modernize their procurement operations across mid-market to enterprise segments.

Axya combines deep expertise in engineering-to-order and procurement operations with robust ERP integrations, working with Infor, Epicor, Oracle, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, and Sage to connect supplier networks and ERP data. Its platform takes a human-in-the-loop approach that keeps procurement teams in control while AI automates the most time-consuming work, including normalizing data, flagging risks early, and identifying savings opportunities, so teams can focus on the most strategic decisions and actions. Axya connects manufacturers with all of their suppliers and integrates deeply with leading ERP systems, enabling buyers and suppliers to collaborate using multiple file formats and channels.

Founder and CEO Félix Bélisle-Dockrill, with a background in mechanical engineering, worked in supplier quality for two of the largest manufacturers in the aerospace industry earlier in his career, where he experienced firsthand the challenges of evaluating and managing suppliers. That experience inspired him to find a better way to share knowledge and information across the supply chain and led him to found Axya. 

“Despite major investments in digital transformation, procurement remains one of the most fragmented functions within manufacturing organizations,” said Bélisle-Dockrill. “Axya’s platform connects the data, suppliers, and workflows that drive purchasing decisions, enabling manufacturers to reduce manual effort, improve supplier responsiveness, and build more resilient supply chains.”

With the new funding, Axya will invest in deepening its AI capabilities for risk detection, optimization, and automated workflows, as well as growing its sales, customer success, and engineering teams to drive faster deployments and better outcomes. In addition, the funding will help the company strengthen its North American presence and expand internationally, while broadening its ERP partnerships and partner programs to accelerate enterprise adoption.

“We see an enormous market opportunity for industrial AI in the everyday work that keeps factories running. Manufacturing procurement is a prime example, where critical decisions still depend on scattered information,” said Udit Bhatnagar, Partner at McRock Capital. “Axya brings AI directly into that workflow, helping manufacturers make better decisions and keep production moving. We led Axya’s Series A because the team understands both the technology and the industrial problem it needs to solve.”

About Axya

Axya is an AI-powered procurement platform that helps manufacturers modernize procurement operations by eliminating manual workflows, reducing late orders, and cutting inventory costs, expedited fees, and late penalties. Unlike procurement tools that require suppliers to adopt a new portal or workflow, Axya integrates with manufacturers’ existing ERP environments and allows suppliers to participate through their current formats and channels. By combining engineering-to-order expertise with AI-powered analysis and streamlined workflows, Axya delivers a 100% supplier adoption rate and gives manufacturers real-time visibility and control over their procurement operations. To learn more, visit www.axya.co.

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Foundation Capital leads the Series A, with participation from Citi and HSBC

NEW YORK and SINGAPORE, Sept. 24, 2026 — IPID, the payment intelligence company helping institutions know who they are paying, announced a $16 million Series A led by Foundation Capital, with participation from strategic investors Citi and HSBC. The round also includes existing investors QED Investors, Monk’s Hill Ventures and Quona Capital.

Digital payments have become faster and more seamless, but the information needed to evaluate them has not always kept pace. Institutions still do not always know who is receiving a payment or have enough information to assess risk before it is sent. The burden often falls on the sender to confirm the recipient, even when that sender may be the target of a scam. According to LSEG, Authorized Push Payment fraud alone is projected to cause $331 billion in global losses by 2027.

IPID is a leading global provider of bank account verification, supporting major financial institutions across more than 50 countries. It will soon expand its platform by applying its expertise in fragmented payment markets to U.S. payments and digital assets, giving institutions the intelligence to make the right decision before funds move.

“Every payment starts with a decision, but institutions are often making that decision with incomplete information,” said Damien Dugauquier, co-founder and CEO of IPID. “We started by solving bank account verification globally. We are now building the broader decision intelligence that institutions need before funds move – across countries, payment rails and forms of value. The future of payments will not be defined simply by moving money faster. It will be defined by making better decisions before money moves.”

“IPID has rapidly become the global standard for bank account verification and intelligence. It’s quite a feat for something like this to develop outside of a bank consortium and makes IPID uniquely well-positioned to help financial institutions and payors globally fight fraud and streamline payment operations,” said Zach Noorani, Partner at Foundation Capital.

Payments are becoming faster and more automated as real-time payments scale, new rails emerge and AI agents begin to initiate transactions. But the information institutions need before executing a payment remains fragmented across markets, providers and rails. IPID is tackling that blind spot by helping institutions know who is behind the receiving account before a payment becomes final.

“In an increasingly digital and interconnected financial landscape, it is critical to have payment validation that is instantaneous and highly secure. Our strategic alignment with IPID  is further deepened through our participation in their Series A raise. We are excited at IPID’s ability to deliver a globally consistent, high-performance experience that helps our clients continue to optimize their international operations with confidence,” said Bis Chatterjee, Global Head, Partnerships and Innovation for Citi‘s Services.

Tom Simpson, Global Head of Currency Clearing & North America Regional Head of Cross Border Payments, Global Payment Solutions, HSBC, said: “HSBC’s arrangement with IPID helps us extend beneficiary validation beyond local scheme requirements and provide clients with more information when making payments. This can help improve efficiency and certainty in an increasingly dynamic payments ecosystem.”

IPID will use the funding to deepen its global payment intelligence network, accelerate growth in the United States and Europe, and develop new capabilities that help institutions make more informed decisions and streamline payment operations before funds move across U.S. payment rails, stablecoins and digital assets.

About IPID

IPID provides decision intelligence for banks, PSPs, platforms and corporates moving money. Across the payment lifecycle, IPID helps them verify payees and assess fraud risk, meet regulatory obligations, assess risk, monetise payments and enrich payment data. This gives them certainty, control and safety with reduced fraud, lower operational costs and a better customer experience follows. www.ipid.tech  

SOURCE INTERNATIONAL PAYMENTS IDENTITY (IPID) PTE. LTD.

Models provide curated crypto access for the hundreds of wealth firms on Vise’s autonomous investing platform, which currently holds more than $140 billion in platform assets.  

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24, 2026 — Bitwise Asset Management, the global crypto asset manager with more than $9 billion in client assets, and Vise, the technology platform designed to build and manage personalized portfolios for all investors, announced today the rollout of diversified crypto model portfolios to the hundreds of wealth firms and 135,000+ accounts on the Vise platform. For Vise’s deep network of RIAs and wealth management firms, with $140B+ in platform assets, the new offering provides a curated framework for accessing the $2.5 trillion digital asset class.

“Crypto only works in a portfolio if it’s treated like a real allocation—sized to the client’s risk, monitored, and brought back to target when it drifts,” said Runik Mehrotra, Co-Founder and Co-Head of Vise. “Bitwise brings the research to decide what belongs in the allocation, and Vise handles everything after that. Advisors shouldn’t have to run crypto as a separate book.”

Crypto has largely reached advisor portfolios as a standalone allocation, managed apart from everything else a client owns. On Vise, the Bitwise models sit inside the same portfolio as the client’s equities, fixed income, and alternatives, allocated according to the household’s goals and risk profile, rebalanced on the same schedule, and subject to the same tax-management discipline Vise applies across the rest of the account.

The rollout marks the latest milestone in Bitwise’s entrance into the model portfolio space. Model portfolios have become an increasingly important tool for financial advisors looking to capitalize on third-party expertise in developing client allocations, providing a seamless and scalable way to invest in emerging themes. From 2023 to 2026, assets tracking third-party model portfolios grew from $400 billion to more than $930 billion, a 135% increase.¹ 

Bitwise’s model portfolios leverage the firm’s research and specialist expertise to select crypto-themed ETPs for different investor profiles and risk preferences. “Core” models offer broad exposure to the crypto ecosystem, while “Thematic” portfolios give investors the ability to fine-tune their positioning by emphasizing specific themes, such as risk-managed exposure or crypto assets beyond bitcoin. The models are monitored and rebalanced systematically to mitigate target portfolio asset-allocation drift.

“Any great new technology, whether autonomous cars or blockchains or AI, should ultimately be about broadening access and opportunity,” said Bitwise Senior Investment Strategist Juan Leon. “It’s been a central principle in crypto from the beginning, and it’s also why Vise’s mission really resonated with us. Bringing cutting-edge personalized investing tools to every investor is what meaningful financial innovation is all about. With the full force of Bitwise’s team of over 150 professionals devoted to the opportunities in crypto, we’re excited to help Vise and their clients gain exposure to one of the most compelling asset classes in a smart, thoughtful way.”

To learn about Bitwise Model Portfolios, visit https://bitwiseinvestments.com/models or contact Jim Machuga, Bitwise’s Head of National Accounts, at [email protected].

About Vise
Vise Technologies, Inc. is a registered investment advisor and technology platform that delivers personalized portfolios at scale across nearly every asset class and strategy. The firm’s mission is to enable financial advisors to deliver better investment outcomes to their clients while scaling their firms to their maximum potential. Leveraged by leading wealth firms, Vise empowers advisors to provide better investment outcomes while saving advisors’ time, reducing costs, and enabling better client relationships. Vise is headquartered in New York. To learn more about how Vise aims to revolutionize the future of wealth management visit www.vise.com.

About Bitwise
Bitwise Asset Management is a global crypto-focused asset manager with $9 billion in client assets and a suite of over 70 investment products spanning ETFs, separately managed accounts, private funds, hedge fund strategies, and staking. The firm has a nine-year track record and today serves more than 5,500 private wealth teams, RIAs, family offices, and institutional investors, as well as 21 banks and broker-dealers. The Bitwise team of technology and investment professionals is backed by leading institutional investors and has offices in San Francisco, New York, and London.

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Certain of the Bitwise investment products may be subject to the risks associated with investing in crypto assets, including cryptocurrencies and crypto tokens. Because crypto assets are a new technological innovation with a limited history, they are a highly speculative asset. Future regulatory actions or policies may limit the ability to sell, exchange or use a crypto asset. The price of a crypto asset may be impacted by the transactions of a small number of holders of such crypto asset. Crypto assets may decline in popularity, acceptance or use, which may impact their price. The technology relating to crypto assets and blockchain is new and developing. Currently there are a limited number of publicly listed or quoted companies for which crypto assets and blockchain technology represent an attributable and significant revenue stream.

¹ Source: Morningstar, “2026 U.S. Model Portfolio Landscape.”

SOURCE Bitwise Asset Management