The Corgi SK Hynix 2x Daily ETF (Cboe BZX: SK) has the lowest expense ratio of any 2x long SK Hynix ETF, at 0.50%, compared with 0.75% to 1.50% for other 2x long SK Hynix ETFs now trading.*

NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 — Corgi, an AI fintech startup, announced that the Corgi SK Hynix 2x Daily ETF (Cboe BZX: SK) is now trading on Cboe BZX Exchange. The Fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, corresponding to 2x the daily performance of the American Depositary Receipt (ADR) of SK hynix Inc. (Nasdaq: SKHY).

At a 0.50% net expense ratio, the Corgi SK Hynix 2x Daily ETF is the lowest-cost of the U.S.-listed 2x long ETFs on the ADR of SK hynix Inc. now trading.*

The Lowest-Cost Way to Trade 2x SK Hynix

For investors searching for the lowest-cost 2x SK Hynix ETF, the Corgi SK Hynix 2x Daily ETF (SK) offers the lowest expense ratio in the category at 0.50%.* Competing 2x long SK Hynix ETFs carry net expense ratios of 0.75% (Leverage Shares SKHX), 0.95% (ProShares SKHU), 1.25% (T-REX HYNX), and 1.50% (GraniteShares SKUU), as of July 14, 2026 and subject to change.* In daily leveraged products, where positions are actively rebalanced and trading costs can affect fund expenses over time, the expense ratio is an important consideration for investors.

Why SK Hynix

SK hynix Inc. is currently one of the world’s largest memory semiconductor suppliers and a leading producer of the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that AI accelerators depend on. The Corgi SK Hynix 2x Daily ETF seeks to give investors 2x daily exposure to this single name in a listed, transparent, exchange-traded structure, and is intended for sophisticated investors who monitor their positions daily.

“Costs are an important consideration for investors using daily leveraged ETFs, and our goal is to give investors access to leverage at a competitive cost,” said Anthony Crinieri, Portfolio Manager at Corgi Funds. “SK joins a broad lineup of more than 175 leveraged ETFs, as of July 14, 2026, designed to give investors access to leveraged investment strategies at competitive expense ratios.”

The Fund is listed on Cboe BZX Exchange and can be bought and sold throughout the trading day through broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries. Investors may pay brokerage commissions and may also incur platform, custodial, advisory, and other fees or expenses charged by their financial intermediary. Leveraged ETFs involve significant risk and are designed primarily for sophisticated investors managing positions daily. Expense ratios are only one factor to consider when evaluating an investment.

About Corgi

Founded in 2025, Corgi is an AI Financial Infrastructure Company seeking to create innovative products in insurance and finance. We are seeking to build the foundation for a new generation of financial services, with AI and technology at the core from day one. To learn more about Corgi, follow us on LinkedIn, on X, or at www.corgifunds.com.

Important Information

Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses carefully before investing. The prospectus contains this and other information about the Fund and should be read carefully before investing. A copy of the prospectus is available at www.corgifunds.com.

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve its investment objective. The Fund does not invest directly in the securities of SK hynix Inc.

Leveraged ETFs seek to provide a multiple of the daily performance of an underlying security or index, before fees and expenses. Due to daily compounding, returns over periods longer than one day may differ significantly from the stated multiple.

The Fund seeks daily investment results, before fees and expenses, that correspond to two times (2x) the daily performance of its underlying security for a single day. This is measured from one net asset value calculation to the next. The Fund does not seek to achieve its stated investment objective over periods longer than one trading day. Due to the effects of compounding, the Fund’s performance over periods longer than one day may differ significantly from two times (2x) the performance of the underlying security over the same period, particularly during periods of increased market volatility.

The use of leverage magnifies both gains and losses and may result in significant losses. A relatively small movement in the underlying security can result in a substantially larger movement in the value of the Fund’s shares. The underlying ADR may experience heightened volatility, particularly in the initial period following its U.S. listing. The Fund uses derivatives, including swap agreements, to obtain leveraged exposure, which may expose the Fund to additional risks, including counterparty risk, liquidity risk, valuation risk, and tracking error. The Fund is non-diversified and concentrates its exposure in a single issuer, so the Fund’s performance depends heavily on the performance of that one security and will be more volatile than a diversified fund. The Fund is intended for sophisticated investors who understand the risks associated with leveraged investment strategies and who intend to monitor and manage their investments actively. The Fund is not intended for buy-and-hold investors.

Depositary Receipts Risk. The Fund obtains exposure through instruments referencing sponsored depositary receipts. A depositary receipt’s market value may diverge from the underlying common stock because the two trade in different markets, hours, and currencies. Depositary receipts carry the credit, custody, and operational risk of the depositary bank, and currency fluctuations between the U.S. dollar and the South Korean won will affect their value.

SK hynix Inc. is not affiliated with Corgi Strategies, LLC, Corgi, or Paralel Distributors, LLC, and has not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted the Fund and makes no representation regarding the advisability of investing in the Fund.

The Fund is newly organized and has limited or no operating history. ETF shares trade at market price (not NAV), are not individually redeemable, and may trade at a premium or discount to NAV. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

This release is informational only and not an offer or solicitation; offers are made only by prospectus.

*Expense ratio comparison among U.S.-listed 2x long ETFs on the ADR of SK hynix Inc., based on net expense ratios obtained from each fund’s prospectus, fact sheet, and fund page as of July 14, 2026: Corgi SK Hynix 2x Daily ETF (SK) 0.50%; Leverage Shares 2x Long SK Hynix Daily ETF (SKHX) 0.75%; ProShares Ultra SK Hynix ETF (SKHU) 0.95%; GraniteShares 2x Long SK Hynix Daily ETF (SKUU) 1.50%; T-REX 2X Long SK Hynix Daily Target ETF (HYNX) 1.25%. Expense ratios are subject to change and new funds may launch, which could affect these comparisons.

Paralel Distributors, LLC (Member FINRA/SIPC) is the distributor. Corgi Strategies, LLC is the adviser. Paralel is unaffiliated with Corgi Strategies, LLC and Corgi. Control No.: COR122

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Corgi Funds
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Corgi Funds
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Investment will Fuel Expansion and Accelerate Development of the Company’s Comprehensive Security Platform

PHILADELPHIA, July 14, 2026 — ZeroEyes, creators of the leading multi-analytics weapons detection and threat intelligence platform, today announced a planned $10 million U.S. investment in AI/ML research and development. This includes a commitment to hiring over 100 veterans in Southeastern Pennsylvania over the next 24 months to fill the roles of Technical Program Managers (AI), MLOps Engineers, and AI Solutions Specialists. The company made the announcement at Senator Dave McCormick’s 2026 Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, being held today and tomorrow at Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

The investment will fund additional expansion, including:

• The company’s state-of-the-art, 3,000 sq. ft. experimental AI technology lab that gives ZeroEyes the ability to generate unparalleled data, perform live demos, and test its AI weapons detection models and hardware in any environment
• The Conshohocken-based ZeroEyes Operations Center (ZOC), the industry’s only in-house operations hub staffed primarily by military and law enforcement veterans, including former special forces personnel
• Small drone technology capabilities, including 3D environment mapping, threat detection (ZeroEyes Aerial Detection [ZAD] Kit), and active shooter disorientation (Drones/Robots for Active Shooter Deterrence [DRASD])

Over the past few months, ZeroEyes has expanded its platform beyond firearm detection to deliver a broader, more intelligent approach to safety. New analytics capabilities including knife detection and real-time threat geolocation, as well as additional security offerings, mark a significant step toward unifying acute threat detection with everyday safety operations. The new capabilities reflect ZeroEyes’ goal to become a single, trusted platform organizations will use to secure, detect, and respond to a wide range of critical security events. These continued investments showcase the company’s commitment to further developing a comprehensive security platform that integrates preparedness, operational awareness, and investigative insights.

“This investment marks a critical milestone in our evolution into a unified threat intelligence platform that provides organizations with a single, trusted ecosystem for threat response,” said Mike Lahiff, CEO and co-founder of ZeroEyes. “We are excited to accelerate our technology roadmap while deepening our commitment to the veteran community within our home of Southeastern Pennsylvania.”

About ZeroEyes
ZeroEyes delivers an integrated suite of analytics and security tools, including capabilities such as weapons detection, real-time threat geolocation and more, designed to enhance preparedness, accelerate threat identification, and enable effective response. It provides real-time detection and actionable information for visibly brandished weapons, such as guns and knives, and alerts local staff and law enforcement with images and precise location often in a matter of seconds from the moment a gun is detected.

Founded in 2018 by Navy SEALs and elite technologists, the company pioneered human-verified gun detection to help organizations mitigate and respond to gun-related incidents. Its patented technology has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as an effective anti-terrorism solution and was the first AI-based gun detection platform to achieve full SAFETY Act Designation. Building on its proven success in firearm detection, having verified over thousands of accurate firearm detections, ZeroEyes expanded its platform to address the full spectrum of modern security challenges, from defending to detecting and responding to threats.

ZeroEyes’ platform is deployed in thousands of locations across SLED, federal and defense, and commercial enterprise customers in the US, Mexico, the Caribbean, Latin America (LATAM), and India. The company also provides security assessments, system integration support, and active shooter preparedness training. Headquartered in the Greater Philadelphia area, the company continues to advance its platform using a proprietary dataset of millions of images and videos, delivering high accuracy and reliability as security needs evolve. Learn more at ZeroEyes.com.

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• First production-ready chiplet portfolio spanning connectivity, power, and memory for XPUs
• Reduces custom AI silicon development time and cost by up to 50% from architecture to high-volume manufacturing
• Tier-1 customer engagements validate technology readiness and market opportunity

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Today, TYLsemi^TM emerged from stealth and announced the closing of an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round to accelerate the development of AI infrastructure. TYLsemi is the first chiplet platform company to deliver a full portfolio across IO, power delivery, and memory paired with a chiplet-based custom silicon design, integration and supply-chain ownership. This standards-based, production-ready portfolio will provide AI infrastructure customers with a faster, lower-risk path for developing AI silicon from architecture to deployment.

The funding round was led by Matter Venture Partners with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology, and strategic investment from leading companies across the global semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem. The company was co-founded by industry leaders Mohit Gupta and Sunil Bhardwaj, who have led and scaled businesses and worldwide engineering and operations teams at Alphawave (acquired by Qualcomm), SiFive, Cadence Design Systems, Rambus, and other leading semiconductor companies.

“The AI accelerator market is on track to reach $604 billion by 2033 and custom silicon XPUs built for specific hyperscaler workloads are the fastest-growing segment,” said Mohit Gupta, Founder and CEO of TYLsemi. “At that scale, chiplet-based design is no longer optional, yet there is no pure-play chiplet company serving this market with a full portfolio. TYLsemi closes that gap with standards-based chiplets combined with UCIe-based die-to-die connectivity, XPU-aware design, packaging, and integration — giving customers a fast, proven path to AI-era silicon.”

Chiplets are the New Standard for AI Silicon

AI systems are shifting from monolithic chips to distributed, multi-die architectures as chip size approaches physical limits and connectivity and power become bottlenecks. At the same time, advances in packaging technologies are making it possible to integrate multiple dies into a single system. With the emergence of standardized interconnects such as UCIe, chiplet-based design is now practical and scalable. 

“AI infrastructure is undergoing a fundamental shift toward modular, chiplet-based design, but the ecosystem has not kept pace,” said Jim Handy, General Director at Objective Analysis. “This represents a significant opportunity for a company such as TYLsemi that can deliver pre-validated, standards-based silicon to accelerate AI infrastructure silicon deployment.”

TYLsemi Makes Chiplet-Based AI Systems Practical at Scale

TYLsemi delivers a reusable production-ready chiplet portfolio that simplifies the design of multi-die AI systems. Customers can use these chiplets as standalone components or as the foundation for full custom silicon solutions based on leading industry foundry and packaging technologies. Below are the first chiplets that TYLsemi will bring to market, with more planned in the future to meet the evolving needs of AI infrastructure customers.

• TYL.IO^TM: Versatile connectivity chiplet product family for AI systems
  Comprehensive family of IO chiplets designed to enable high-bandwidth, standards-based connectivity across high-performance systems supporting PCIe, ESUN, and UALink connectivity today, with a co-packaged optics (CPO) roadmap for next-generation rack-scale fabrics.
• TYL.Power^TM: Intelligent in-package power delivery solution for XPUs
  An integrated voltage regulator (IVR) chiplet that provides efficient and intelligent control and optimized system-level power efficiency
• TYL.Mem^TM: Versatile memory connectivity product family for AI systems
  A planned product family focused on memory connectivity for advanced AI systems, with additional details to be announced as the roadmap progresses.
• TYL.Forge^SM: End-to-end chiplet-enabled custom silicon platform
  A full-stack platform for customer-defined XPU, compute, and fabric designs, which TYLsemi implements using its connectivity and power delivery portfolio, plus IP, foundry, packaging, and production readiness.

TYL.IO and TYL.Power chiplet samples will be available to qualified customers in 2027 in partnership with TSMC; TYLsemi is now engaging lead customers for its TYL.Forge platform.

Supporting Quotes

“AI infrastructure is entering an era of rapid scaling, so the ability to develop advanced silicon quickly and efficiently will be a defining advantage,” said Wen Hsieh, Founding Managing Partner at Matter Venture Partners. “TYLsemi is building foundational chiplet technologies for custom silicon that will make the design process faster, less risky, and more accessible, unlocking significant value and velocity across the AI ecosystem.”

“TYLsemi has built the chiplet platform the entire AI silicon industry needs — one that can serve the scale of a hyperscaler and the speed requirements of an emerging AI company in the same breath,” said Zvika Orron, Managing Partner at Viola Ventures. “For the first time, advanced custom silicon development isn’t a competitive moat reserved for the largest players; it’s a platform.”

“TYLsemi’s standards-based chiplets democratize chip development for startups and large silicon and system developers at a much lower cost,” said Shri Dodani, Founder and Managing Partner at GHOVC. “This enables them to develop multiple chip generations in parallel to deliver custom silicon at a much faster pace.”

“As Egis advances Mobius100, our datacenter-grade compute CPU based on a leading compute architecture and 3nm class process technologies, we see chiplet-based IO, memory, and intelligent power delivery as essential building blocks for next-generation AI infrastructure,” said Steve Lo, Chairman at Egis Technology. “TYLsemi’s standards-based chiplet platform, including IO and IVR chiplets, is highly complementary to our roadmap, and we look forward to exploring opportunities to integrate these technologies into future modular, power-efficient AI infrastructure platforms.”

About TYLsemi

TYLsemi is redefining how AI infrastructure silicon is built by delivering standards-based, production-ready chiplets purpose-built for modern multi-die systems. By combining chiplet design, packaging, integration and production expertise, TYLsemi provides a scalable, low-risk path to deploying advanced AI infrastructure. Customers can use TYLsemi chiplets as standalone components or as the foundation for full custom silicon. TYLsemi is expanding teams across silicon design, packaging, and systems engineering.

For more information, visit tylsemi.ai. To explore current opportunities across silicon design, packaging, and systems engineering, visit tylsemi.ai/careers.

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– Investment secures runway to reach cash flow positivity – 

NEEDHAM, Mass., July 14, 2026 — Mighty Therapeutics Holdings Inc. (the “Company” or “Mighty”), a commercial-stage biotechnology company pioneering a new class of medicines that directly target mitochondrial dysfunction in rare and age-related diseases, today announced the closing of transactions securing up to $150 million in non-dilutive growth and equity capital. The Company has entered into an agreement with K2 HealthVentures (K2HV), an alternative investment firm that provides flexible, long-term financing solutions in life sciences and healthcare, to provide a credit facility of up to $125 million, including an initial $30 million tranche. The Company has also held an initial closing of its Series B financing, in which founding investor Morningside has invested $25 million.

Mighty’s current cash and cash equivalents, together with revenues from sales of its lead commercial product, are expected to support further acceleration of its launch activities and ongoing late-stage development initiatives in dry age-related macular degeneration and polymerase gamma-related mitochondrial disease, expedite pipeline initiatives in Parkinson’s disease and long-chain fatty acid disorders, and extend cash runway into 2028. Subsequent drawdowns available under the K2HV facility are expected to secure runway to projected cash flow positivity in early 2029. 

“We are deeply gratified by Morningside’s ongoing support, and very excited to partner with K2 HealthVentures to accelerate and broaden our efforts to address the unmet medical needs of the many individuals living with diseases of mitochondrial dysfunction,” said Reenie McCarthy, Chief Executive Officer of Mighty Therapeutics. “These financings secure our access to the additional capital necessary to reach cash flow positivity, supporting our continued leadership of the burgeoning field of mitochondrial medicine across a broad range of therapeutic areas. With our strong commercial momentum and promising pipeline, we are poised for long-term growth and continued patient impact.” 

Under the K2HV credit facility, the first $30 million term loan was funded upon signing of the agreement. The second $25 million term loan is expected to be available for drawdown through early 2028, subject to the Company’s achievement of specified commercial, clinical and regulatory milestones. The third $20 million term loan is expected to be available for drawdown through early 2029, subject to the Company’s achievement of specified commercial, clinical, regulatory and financing milestones. An additional $50 million tranche is available for draw at Mighty’s option, subject to K2HV’s discretion. 

About Mighty Therapeutics 

Mighty Therapeutics, together with its wholly owned operating subsidiary, Stealth BioTherapeutics Inc., is advancing novel therapies for people living with diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction. Grounded in rigorous science and inspired by meaningful patient partnerships, the company is building a proprietary pipeline to directly address bioenergetic deficits at the source. 

In September 2025, Mighty marked a historic milestone with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its first commercial therapy, establishing both the first FDA-approved treatment for Barth syndrome and the first FDA-approved therapy to directly target mitochondria. 

Today, Mighty’s development portfolio encompasses rare and age-related diseases. Mighty continues to develop elamipretide in Barth syndrome, polymerase gamma related mitochondrial disease and dry age-related macular degeneration. Mighty is also progressing its next-generation clinical candidate, bevemipretide, for ophthalmic and neurological pathologies, and continues to develop preclinical assets SBT-255 and SBT-589 for rare mitochondrial disorders. For more information, visit www.mightytx.com. 

Investor Contact 
Precision AQ
Austin Murtagh
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Existing investors double down as 22nd State Banking Company joins the round, validating Linker’s role as The Growth Engine for Community Banks and helping community banks grow deposits, streamline onboarding and launch modern retail and business banking experiences.

PASADENA, Calif., July 14, 2026 — Linker Finance, a modular platform purpose-built for community banks, today announced it has secured an additional $5 million in Seed funding, bringing its total Seed funding to $8.7 million following its previously announced $3.7 million round. The financing will accelerate Linker Finance’s next stage of growth and includes continued participation from existing investors, including Chingona Ventures, Ten One Ten Ventures,  Audaz Capital and Angeles Investors, alongside new strategic investment from 22nd State Banking Company.

The investment reflects Linker Finance’s continued growth, with the company now Live with more than 10 customers across multiple cores, including Fiserv Premier, CSI, FIS and soon DCI. Linker’s turnkey and best-of-breed approach has enabled community banks to launch faster, expand capabilities and go live with customers in as little as eight weeks, transforming implementations that once took years into a faster, more scalable path to market. The momentum also reflects growing demand from community banks for modern digital infrastructure that helps them compete, grow and serve customers without requiring a core conversion. Linker Finance is the growth engine for community banks, providing a unified platform that helps institutions grow deposits, launch digital account opening and digital banking experiences, streamline business onboarding, expand business banking capabilities and deliver fully branded mobile and online experiences for retail and commercial customers.

“Community banks’ growth has historically been limited by fragmentation, legacy infrastructure and access to specialized digital growth know-how, resulting in subpar customer experiences, complex operations and multi-year timelines,” said Jorge Garcia, CEO and Co-Founder of Linker Finance. “Over the last two years, we have proven that with the right product, technology and playbooks, community banks can consistently and predictably grow their balance sheet using Linker. This round gives us additional fuel to keep building the growth engine community banks need. We are grateful for the continued support of our existing investors and especially excited to welcome 22nd State Banking Company as a strategic bank investor. Their participation validates the value we are bringing to the community banking ecosystem.”

“Community banks carry an outsized share of the country’s most important lending, built through real relationships. Linker Finance gives them technology that matches that trust. Jorge and his team have continued to impress us with their execution since we originally invested. In addition, having a bank like 22nd State Banking Company join this round is the clearest validation there is. The people closest to the problem are betting on the solution” said Samara Mejia Hernandez, Founding Partner at Chingona Ventures.

The new funding will support Linker Finance’s continued product development across retail banking, business onboarding and business banking, while accelerating investment in its proprietary Agentic AI Customer Intelligence layer and expanding its multi-rail payments infrastructure, including cross-border and stablecoin-enabled capabilities.

Linker Finance is also introducing Grandir, an emerging Agentic AI layer built for the workflows and guardrails that community banks require. Grandir is designed to help banks better understand customer needs, identify growth opportunities, reduce manual work, and support relationship-driven banking at scale. The company is currently piloting Grandir with existing customers and expects to share more details in the coming months.

“Delivering modern digital experiences while preserving trust and relationship-driven service is one of the biggest challenges we face as community bankers,” said Steve Smith, Vice Chairman, President and CEO of 22nd State Banking Company. “Always.bank, a division of 22^nd State Banking Company, was built on the belief that customers should not have to choose between digital access and real human support. Linker Finance gives community banks the growth engine they need to compete at scale, expand beyond geography, and deliver modern relationship banking without losing what makes them trusted.” 

Since announcing its initial seed round, Linker Finance has expanded its product footprint and strategic partnerships across the community banking ecosystem. The company is focused on powering the 20x relationship-based community bank by bringing fintech-grade capabilities to community institutions without the cost, complexity or vendor fragmentation that has historically made those tools difficult to access. Linker’s platform supports deposit account opening, commercial onboarding, treasury and payments functionality, Customer Intelligence tools for bankers and back-office teams, and white-label digital banking experiences, while integrating with leading core providers and a broad ecosystem of third-party services for automated KYC/KYB, fraud detection, payments, analytics, and customer engagement.

“This is not just about adding digital tools,” Garcia added. “It is about giving community banks the infrastructure to grow deposits, deepen customer relationships, and launch new products with speed and confidence. Our mission is to help community banks compete in a digital-first world while preserving the trust and relationship-driven service that makes them essential. Our vision is powering the 20x Relationship-based Community Bank using the right combination of Technology, Playbooks, and Human touch.”

About Linker Finance

Linker Finance is the Growth Engine for Community Banks, a modular platform that helps community banks grow deposits, deepen relationships, streamline onboarding, and deliver modern retail and business banking experiences. The Unified Platform includes deposit account opening, business onboarding workflows, Agentic AI, CRM tools, payments and treasury capabilities, fraud and identity integrations, and white-label mobile and online customer experiences. For more information, visit https://www.linkerfinance.com.

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AI Wealth Platform Now Enables Top Venture and Y Combinator-Backed Startups to Maximize After-Tax Returns For Their Founders, Shareholders and Investors

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, 2026 — Goodfin, the agentic wealth platform expanding access to private market investing, today announced the launch of the Goodfin QSBS Venture Fund, designed to help accredited investors access high-growth startups while optimizing for Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) tax benefits. The fund provides exposure to top venture and Y Combinator-backed companies that have been vetted for IRC Section 1202 / QSBS eligibility, potentially enabling investors to realize significant federal capital gains tax savings, including up to 0% federal tax on qualifying gains. State tax benefits may also apply depending on state of residence.

QSBS is one of the most powerful tax benefits available to startup founders, early employees, and investors. Every company in the fund is analyzed and vetted for Section 1202 eligibility by CapGains Inc., a tax optimization platform, before investing and during the fund’s holding period, covering the applicable corporate and security level QSBS requirements. Eligibility is documented at the time of investment, not retrofitted after the fact. 

“QSBS is one of the most under-used advantages in venture investing, but also one of the most complex to get right,” said Anna Joo Fee, Founder & CEO, Goodfin. “Goodfin built this fund to remove that friction.”

Every company is rigorously vetted for Section 1202 eligibility before investors come in. This allows them to access investments in high-quality venture and Y Combinator-backed startups with confidence that the tax treatment at exit has been targeted from the start of the investment and monitored throughout.

The fund is also well positioned for rollover-eligible investors looking to reinvest QSBS gains under Section 1045, putting their proceeds back to work in the next generation of startups, squarely in line with the legislative intent of keeping the US startup ecosystem thriving.

Highlights of the Goodfin QSBS Venture Fund include: 

• Access to top VC & YC-backed startups – a curated portfolio of the most promising early-stage startups, typically at Seed through Series C, backed by tier-one venture investors and Y Combinator. Companies are selected for both investment merit and QSBS qualification, so investors are not trading returns for tax efficiency.
• Certified & monitored eligibility – every company is evaluated and verified for Section 1202 eligibility before investment and monitored throughout the hold. 
• Exclusion of up to $15M+ in gains per investment or 10X the cost basis- QSBS lets eligible startup equity holders and investors exclude up to $15M (or more) in capital gains from federal taxes. Investors may invest directly through the Goodfin QSBS Fund or roll over existing gains from a prior investment, with built-in tax optimization from day one. 
• Benefits for participating startups – investors increasingly seek QSBS-eligible companies. Getting certified also makes a startup more attractive to sophisticated capital and talent and may be required for fundraising. 

Goodfin unlocks high-quality private market investing and accelerates wealth for a new generation of investors. The platform leverages agentic AI to deliver personalized portfolios, intelligent analysis, and institutional-grade guidance to a community of sophisticated investors who invest at the cutting edge of innovation shaping the future.

For more information about Goodfin visit www.goodfin.com.   

About Goodfin
Founded in 2022, Goodfin is the world’s first agentic private wealth platform, using purpose-built AI to unlock access to private market investing for a new generation of investors. Backed by Y Combinator, Goodfin combines hyper-personalized portfolio construction, intelligent market analysis, and institutional-grade guidance to help investors identify and access the right private market opportunities with greater confidence. By making sophisticated wealth management more accessible, Goodfin is redefining how individuals discover, evaluate, and invest in the companies shaping the future.

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Tracy Rubin 
JCUTLER media group 
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Investors include: Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, Tru Arrow Partners, Alumni Ventures, Marcus Brauchli (former Executive Editor, The Washington Post & Managing Editor, The Wall Street Journal) and Alex Mather & Adam Hansmann (Founders of The Athletic), Richard Sarnoff (Chairman of Media, Education and Entertainment at KKR).

The Policy Economy Has Been Flying Blind
The systems used to understand policy remain fragmented and slow. State Affairs is building the real-time intelligence infrastructure to change that.

“Policy and regulatory markets are often more impactful to organizations than financial markets, yet everybody from voters to companies are often the last to know what’s happening,” said Evan Burns, co-founder and CEO of State Affairs. “State Affairs helps organizations proactively understand and engage with policy markets at scale across the U.S.”

State legislative volume has surged. In 2025, state legislatures introduced more than 135,500 bills — up roughly 55% from 87,500 in 2024. It would take one person, reading nonstop, 8 hours a day, six years to read every bill introduced in statehouses last year.

AI-Driven Intelligence Built on Original Reporting and Government Data
Most AI systems are limited by the information already available to them. In policy, that creates a major gap. State government is where many of the country’s most consequential decisions are being made, but state capitols remain undercovered, fragmented and difficult to track in real time.

State Affairs’ newsroom produces more than 2,000 originally reported, nonpartisan articles each month, while its data teams gather and structure policy information from statehouses and agencies across the country. The platform turns that reporting, public government data and customer-specific context into real-time analysis, alerts, collaboration and action.

State Affairs has built an AI intelligence layer powered by the combination of:

• Exclusive daily reporting from journalists embedded in state capitols
• On-the-ground legislative and regulatory data gathering
• Structured government data across all 50 states and the federal government

“We need more nonpartisan journalism to build a better democracy and future,” said Jamie Roberts Seltzer, co-founder of State Affairs. “Because nearly all state capitols are underreported on, the exclusive reporting and original data gathering that powers our platform not only provides more comprehensive information, it also mandates that we further invest into objective journalism to widen the moat of the intelligence you get on State Affairs versus anywhere else. We intend to hire many more full-time reporters over the next few years.”

Built for the Institutions Shaping Policy
State Affairs is already in active use by one-third of state and federal elected officials, as well as major enterprises including Walmart, Mastercard and McDonald’s.

Lawmakers, legislative staff, agencies and enterprise teams use the platform to:

• Understand legislation, regulation, hearings and political developments in real time across all 50 states and the federal government
• Analyze and compare bills and policy trends across states
• Collaborate internally and externally around the policy developments that matter most to their organizations
• Coordinate outreach and advocacy efforts

Founded at the Intersection of Media, Technology and Policy
State Affairs was founded by Evan Burns (co-founder and former CEO of the Finnish Long Drink (acquired)) and Jamie Roberts Seltzer (co-founder and General Partner at LightShed Ventures). Veteran journalist Alison Bethel serves as Founding Editor-in-Chief and Chief Content Officer.

About State Affairs
State Affairs is the AI-powered intelligence platform built for the institutions navigating the modern policy economy. Operating at the intersection of technology, nonpartisan journalism, and government, State Affairs deploys one of the nation’s largest networks of embedded statehouse reporters to build a proprietary, human-driven data moat. This exclusive daily reporting feeds an advanced AI knowledge graph that tracks every bill, regulation, and hearing across all 50 states and the federal government. With $70 million in funding, State Affairs provides the personalized, real-time intelligence that elected officials and major global enterprises rely on to seamlessly track relevant legislation, collaborate, and act on policy.

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• Funding supports commercialization and sales growth expansion, targeting hundreds of new farms in the next 12 months
• Autonomy technology is designed to lower capital expenditures and unlock the ability to scale operations more efficiently
• Sabanto’s physical AI makes swarm operations possible so that growers can replace horsepower with time

AMES, Iowa, July 14, 2026 — Sabanto, a leader in autonomous retrofit technology for agriculture, today announced an oversubscribed Series B funding led by Leaps by Bayer with participation by Sustainable Forward Capital, InnoVenture Iowa, Fulcrum Global Capital, DCVC, and Yara. The round will accelerate broad adoption of autonomous technology, expand customer base, and further develop autonomy retrofit kits across North America and beyond.

Sabanto’s ambition for scale comes at a critical time for agriculture, as growers face historic tighter margins via rising equipment and input costs, labor shortages, and increasing pressure to maximize productivity. While well-known equipment manufacturers or OEMs are focusing on bigger and more expensive machines, Sabanto’s retrofit autonomy platform offers farmers a lower-capital pathway to profitability by utilizing existing, less-expensive, and smaller horsepower equipment.

By enabling tractors to operate autonomously during planting and other field operations, Sabanto helps growers extend operating hours to virtually any time of day while reducing dependency on seasonal labor constraints. Autonomous retrofit technology will increasingly allow farm operators to reallocate skilled labor toward logistics, agronomic decision-making, and operational expansion.

“This investment represents a major step forward in bringing practical autonomy to more farms,” said Craig Rupp, CEO and founder of Sabanto. “We believe the workhorse of the future is smaller equipment. Our retrofit approach allows farmers to shift labor toward higher-value tasks, increase operating hours, and ultimately focus on growing their business and their bottom line. We’re seeing too many farms fold under economic pressure and our solution levels the playing field.” 

The investment will support:

• Expanded commercialization and dealer network growth
• Increased retrofit kit production and deployment
• Continued software and autonomy platform development
• Expanded customer support and field operations
• Accelerated adoption within the row crop market

Sabanto recently expanded autonomous functionality into planting operations, allowing growers to maximize critical planting windows by operating equipment around the clock. New integrations with Precision Planting^® and DICKEY-john^® monitoring systems further enhance compatibility with widely used precision agriculture technologies, enabling seamless operation for growers already invested in modern planting systems.

Sabanto’s funding round also aligns closely with Bayer’s long-term sustainability and environmental objectives of better use of land and resources, more regenerative practices, and win-win solutions for the diverse needs of people and our planet. Sabanto’s retrofit model enables growers to utilize smaller, lighter equipment platforms that can help reduce soil compaction compared to larger traditional machinery, supporting improved soil health and long-term field productivity. Autonomous operations can also optimize machine efficiency by reducing inefficiencies such as overlaps, minimizing idle time, and improving route consistency, contributing to lower fuel consumption during field operations.

Sabanto’s autonomy platform is designed to work in concert with increasingly “smart” implements and precision agriculture systems, helping growers better manage fertilizer applications, seed placement, spraying, and other critical inputs. By combining autonomy with precision technologies, growers can reduce input waste, improve operational accuracy, and lower overall cost per acre, while still being mindful of the environment.

“Farmers today need solutions that improve efficiency without requiring massive capital expenditures,” said Paimun Amini, VP of Agriculture Venture Investments at Leaps by Bayer. “Sabanto’s retrofit model offers a scalable and practical pathway to autonomy, especially in today’s challenging farm economy. We believe this technology offers options that can reshape how labor and equipment are utilized in row crop farming and beyond while also supporting more sustainable farming practices.”

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About Sabanto 

Sabanto is a midwest-based agricultural technology firm focused on delivering physical AI-enabled, retrofit autonomous solutions for farming operations across multiple industry segments. Sabanto’s Retrofit Autonomy Kit transforms off-the-shelf tractors into fully autonomous machines. The kit includes a cloud-connected communications system, multiple GNSS receivers, and an onboard AI processing unit, and can be installed in a single day. By upfitting existing equipment to operate autonomously, Sabanto helps growers reduce time & labor constraints, maximize machine output, and ultimately improve operational efficiency across a range of agricultural applications. https://sabantoag.com/

About Leaps by Bayer

Leaps by Bayer aims to solve ten huge challenges or ‘Leaps’ through scientific breakthroughs. As the strategic investment unit of Bayer, Leaps has invested over $2.1 billion in more than 65 companies innovating emerging platforms and technologies in health and agriculture. www.leaps.bayer.com

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Expansion gives banks, payment providers and corporate treasury teams a faster, licensed route for cross-border settlement across four East African markets.

ZURICH, July 14, 2026 — SCRYPT, the operating system for digital assets, today announced the expansion of its licensed stablecoin settlement infrastructure across four East African markets, enabling banks, payment providers and corporate treasury teams to move value into and out of the continent in real time.

In most African markets, accessing US dollars remains the biggest friction in cross-border payments. Local currencies can be volatile, bank dollar liquidity is often constrained and correspondent banking remains slow and expensive. Businesses paying international suppliers frequently have to convert local currency into USD before purchasing stablecoins for settlement, incurring FX conversions and spreads before any payment is made.

SCRYPT eliminates this intermediate conversion. By enabling direct settlement corridors for local African currencies into stablecoins, businesses can move from local currency to stablecoin settlement in a single licensed transaction, without first sourcing rationed bank dollars. Local currency in, stablecoin out.             

“Across Africa, stablecoin adoption is driven by economic need, not speculation,” said Norman Wooding, Founder and CEO of SCRYPT. “Businesses here are not chasing yield, they are trying to pay suppliers and manage treasury without losing margin to a banking system that rations dollars. Licensed, fair-rate dollar access is the clearest proof of what this infrastructure is for.“

The expansion adds settlement support across four African currencies: the Kenyan shilling (KES), Tanzanian shilling (TZS), Rwandan franc (RWF) and Ugandan shilling (UGX). Each corridor is delivered through the same full-stack infrastructure our clients already use for trading, custody and treasury operations.

“Until now, reaching stablecoins from local African currencies meant buying scarce dollars and incurring several layers of conversion costs,” said Gabriel Titopoulos, Managing Director, Markets & Trading at SCRYPT. “SCRYPT removes this friction. Firms and payment providers can now settle straight from local currencies through live corridors, with local partners.“

Stablecoins are increasingly becoming settlement infrastructure rather than an investment product. By extending licensed access across African payment corridors, SCRYPT is helping banks, payment providers and corporate treasury teams  move capital more efficiently where it is needed most.

About SCRYPT 

The Operating System for Digital Assets.

SCRYPT is what institutions run on to trade, settle, store, and manage digital assets.

Since 2019, SCRYPT has operated as the trusted crypto partner for firms launching or scaling their digital asset strategy.

By combining deep market access, crypto-native expertise, and proprietary infrastructure, SCRYPT provides the liquidity, full-stack infrastructure, and FINMA-licensed framework that banks, asset managers, fintechs, and payment providers need to trade, store, and manage digital assets, all through a single point of access.

To learn more about SCRYPT, visit: www.scrypt.swiss

Contact: [email protected]

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