Flagship event connects Midwest tech founders, investors and corporates around the theme Built on Ambition

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 19, 2025 — Flyover Capital, a Kansas City-based venture fund building tech success stories outside coastal hubs, today announced the fourth annual MidxMidwest (MXMW), taking place Nov. 13 at Hotel Kansas City in Kansas City, Missouri. Organized with support from Iron Prairie Ventures and Polsinelli, MXMW will connect selected founders, investors, community and corporate leaders for curated one-on-one meetings, breakout sessions and networking under the theme Built on Ambition.

MXMW prioritizes meaningful connections between pre-seed to Series B founders and investors from leading venture firms nationwide. Participants are curated through an application and invitation process to ensure each year’s event expands networks with relevant and high-quality introductions. As the “Crossroads of the Venture Community,” MXMW draws investors from both coasts and major Midwest cities, including Silicon Valley, New York, Boston and Chicago, for a uniquely concentrated networking experience.

“We started MXMW because we saw incredible founders in our region who should have the same opportunities as entrepreneurs in more traditional tech hubs,” said Dan Kerr, managing partner at Flyover Capital. “This year’s theme, Built on Ambition, reflects the drive behind every breakthrough company. As AI and corporate innovation reshape the market, ambition is the foundation that will carry bold founders and corporate leaders forward — and MXMW is where those partnerships begin.”

The event comes at a critical time as corporate leaders navigate rapid changes like the AI transition, where preparedness among many Midwest businesses remains underdeveloped. MXMW offers a crucial bridge to emerging technologies and direct access to early-stage founders shaping these solutions. For corporate innovation leaders, it’s a chance to explore practical applications of AI and other transformative tools, influence how promising startups adapt to enterprise needs and build partnerships that accelerate digital transformation.

For investors actively deploying capital, MXMW has become a proven source of vetted deal flow. Last year’s event led to Flyover Capital’s first 2025 investment, and other institutional investors have also made commitments to companies discovered through MXMW. Over the past four years, the event has facilitated more than 2,000 introductions, and this year alone is expected to generate 500 in-person meetings in a single afternoon.

“I’ve been to six other conferences in the past two months, but MidxMidwest still facilitated numerous new connections,” said Cooper Winrich of Nashville-based FINTOP Capital. “The quality of attendees was excellent — ambitious founders, engaged investors and corporate leaders from across the Midwest and Southeast.”

To apply to attend MXMW or learn more about sponsorship opportunities, visit www.MidxMidwest.com.

About Flyover Capital
Founded in 2014, Flyover Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm dedicated to building the next generation of technology success stories outside the coasts. With 49 investments into companies and funds across 19+ states, Flyover backs tech founders from pre-seed through early growth. Beyond capital, the firm connects founders to customers, talent, and strategic partners through its Platform and flagship initiatives like MidxMidwest, which has become a cornerstone for driving connections across the central U.S. tech ecosystem.

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Top SBA lenders and investors back company mission to redefine lending

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2025 — Casca, the first AI-native loan origination platform, today announced it raised $29 million in its Series A, bringing its total in funding to-date to $33 million.

Only 15 months after its pre-seed raise, Casca is leapfrogging the competition with superior functionality and dramatically faster loan processing–funding commercial loans up to 10 times faster than other fintechs and 30 times faster than industry averages. Casca will use this funding to scale its operations, expand its team, and accelerate go-to-market efforts–making the platform more accessible to additional financial institutions. 

Canapi Ventures, a venture and growth equity firm backed by over 70 financial institutions, led the round. “Casca stands out in many ways,” said Neil Underwood, co-founder and general partner. “They’ve worked alongside top AI researchers and within banks themselves to simplify business lending using responsible AI and bank-grade underwriting. With Casca, local financial institutions become the lender of choice–offering more affordable rates and keeping capital within the community. It’s a big step for banking, and we’re proud to be part of it.”

Casca’s flagship customers – Live Oak Bank, the nation’s leading U.S. Small Business Administration SBA 7(a) lender by dollar volume, Huntington National Bank, the nation’s largest originator, by volume of SBA 7(a) loans, and Bankwell Bank, Casca’s first customer – all invested. Bankwell, Y Combinator, and Peterson Ventures, a renowned investor in the vertical SaaS sector, multiplied their investments from the pre-seed raise. Alliance Funding Group, one of the fastest-growing independent leasing companies in the U.S., participated as well.

Chip Mahan, CEO and chairman of Live Oak Bancshares, commented, “Businesses trust Live Oak Bank to provide a personalized, modern approach to lending, which is key to maintaining our leadership in the market. Casca simplifies and accelerates our lending processes while equipping us with the insights needed to build lasting relationships. The tangible value Casca has demonstrated gives us confidence to invest in their future.”

“At Huntington, we are committed to supporting small businesses at every stage of their journey,” shared Christian Corts, regional banking director at Huntington Bank. “Our investment in Casca modernizes the lending experience and expands our ability to deliver the guidance, tools and resources these entrepreneurs need to grow and thrive”

“We’re driven to be a force for good, using technology to make capital more accessible to small businesses and fueling the American Dream,” said Lukas Haffer, CEO and co-founder of Casca. “Partnering with the top SBA lenders and key industry players, we’ve built a platform that fully automates commercial loans in record time–setting a new industry standard. This is a game changer, and now we are ready to scale responsibly, reaching more institutions with the white-glove service our clients expect.”

About Casca
Casca accelerates the loan application and origination process using responsible AI. It is the loan origination platform used by the nation’s leading SBA lenders and FDIC-Insured banks. Founded in 2023 by banking IT experts and AI researchers from Stanford University, Casca is backed by Y Combinator, Canapi Ventures, Peterson Ventures, Clocktower Ventures, The Fintech Fund, and the Sarah Smith Fund. For more information, visit www.cascading.ai and follow us on LinkedIn.

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The company announces funding from FirstMark, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Bedrock as it hits #1 trending on GitHub

NEW YORK, Aug. 19, 2025 — TensorZero, a technology startup building an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM applications, announced today its seed funding round of $7.3M. The round is led by FirstMark, with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Bedrock, DRW, Coalition, and dozens of strategic angel investors.

TensorZero’s open-source stack unifies an LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluation, and experimentation. “Despite all the noise in the industry, companies building LLM applications still lack the right tools to meet complex cognitive and infrastructure needs, and resort to stitching together whatever early solutions are available on the market,” says lead investor Matt Turck, General Partner at FirstMark. “TensorZero provides production-grade, enterprise-ready components for building LLM applications that natively work together in a self-reinforcing loop, out of the box. The enthusiasm we hear from users makes the difference clear.”

Recently, TensorZero’s open-source repository achieved the ‘#1 trending repository of the week’ spot globally on GitHub. “The surge in adoption from both the open-source community and enterprises has been incredible. We’re fortunate to have received contributions from dozens of developers worldwide, and it’s exciting to see TensorZero already powering cutting-edge LLM products at frontier AI startups and large organizations, including one of Europe’s largest banks,” says co-founder and CEO Gabriel Bianconi.

TensorZero’s open-source stack sets the foundation for the company’s mission of helping LLMs automatically learn from real-world experience. “As AI models grow smarter and take on more complex workflows, you can’t reason about them in a vacuum; you have to do so in the context of their real-world consequences. It’s like a talented person starting a brand-new job: they may stumble on day one, but with instruction and experience, they rapidly improve,” says co-founder and CTO Viraj Mehta. “Our ultimate vision is to enable a data and learning flywheel for optimizing LLM applications — a feedback loop that turns production metrics and human feedback into smarter, faster, and cheaper models and agents.”

The team behind TensorZero brings deep expertise in AI and software infrastructure. Viraj Mehta (CTO) previously received a PhD from Carnegie Mellon focused on reinforcement learning for nuclear fusion and LLMs; he holds a BS in math and an MS in computer science from Stanford. Gabriel Bianconi (CEO) was the chief product officer at Ondo, one of the largest decentralized finance projects with over $1B in AUM; he holds BS and MS degrees in computer science from Stanford. The team also includes former maintainers of major open-source projects such as the Rust compiler, machine learning researchers (Stanford, CMU, Oxford, Columbia) with thousands of citations, and other talented technical contributors.

The capital will accelerate TensorZero’s efforts to build best-in-class open-source infrastructure for LLM engineers.

About TensorZero

TensorZero is an open-source stack for industrial-grade LLM applications. It unifies an LLM gateway, observability, optimization, evaluation, and experimentation. The company is funded by FirstMark, Bessemer, Bedrock, and dozens of other strategic investors. For more information, visit https://www.tensorzero.com.

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BOSTON, Aug. 19, 2025 — Three Space Lab (“3SL”), a pioneer in frictionless, ultra-realistic VR real estate visualization, has raised $3 million in Seed funding to transform the luxury homebuying experience.

Founded by former MIT research scientist Scott W. Greenwald, Ph.D., 3SL reimagines real estate sales by enabling sellers to showcase off-plan and remote properties with a stunning level of realism. Its proprietary, cutting-edge, immersive visualization platform disrupts the traditional sales experience by empowering buyers to make confident decisions anytime, anywhere.

3SL brings luxury real estate to life for buyers worldwide, letting them step into their dream homes from anywhere using VR, bringing joy and magic to the biggest purchase decisions of their lives. This not only helps our customers sell their properties faster and more efficiently — it also allows architects, designers, and developers to experience and emotionally connect with their projects even before they’re built. Our novel approach brings unparalleled realism and usability to VR technology, breaking down stubborn barriers to adoption in the real estate space,” said Greenwald.

“This funding bolsters our ability to scale, developing AI-based techniques to increase the sophistication of our offering while decreasing cost and accelerating execution. This will allow us to bring our ultra-realistic content offerings to developers and buyers worldwide. Furthermore, we see this as a first step to VR adoption across numerous industry verticals.” Greenwald added.

According to Pitchbook, the global proptech market, valued at $34 billion in 2024, is projected to reach $133 billion by 2032. With this funding, led by Switzerland-based Arminius Verwaltung, 3SL will develop its global sales team and leverage AI in game-changing ways. This will fuel expansion in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, focusing initially on key hotspots such as Miami, St. Tropez, and Dubai.

Discover how Three Space Lab is transforming the real estate buying experience at https://www.threespacelab.io.

About Three Space Lab

Incorporated in 2021 by former MIT research scientist Scott Greenwald, Ph.D., Three Space Lab, Inc. pioneers AI-driven VR solutions for luxury real estate, enabling immersive, on-demand property experiences worldwide. For more information, visit https://www.threespacelab.io or contact [email protected].

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SINGAPORE, Aug. 19, 2025 — T1, a proprietary trading firm, today announced a revolutionary approach that enables skilled traders to earn immediate cash rewards and secure sponsorship to trade with substantial institutional capital.

What is Proprietary Trading?

Traditional trading requires investors to risk their own capital when buying and selling stocks, crypto, currencies, or commodities. T1 offers an alternative: for assessment fees as low as $99, traders gain access to a trading account to take a trading challenge. Those who can demonstrate profitability and risk management skills get to trade through the firm’s institutional capital network while keeping up to 90% of the profits.

At the heart of T1’s innovation is its instant cash bounty system. As traders achieve predetermined profit milestones during their Futures Challenge, they receive immediate cash rewards of up to $20,000. Traders who successfully complete the Futures Challenge by achieving all milestones are then sponsored to continue trading.

Sargon Petros, CEO of T1, explains: “We’re giving talented traders recognition, professional tools and access to institutional funding. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced trader, you can choose from four different trading platforms: cTrader, MatchTrader, DXTrade & Rithmic, along with real-time global market data feeds, and instant cash rewards for hitting profit targets.
As a trader myself, I know that finding the right trading firm isn’t just about the price – it’s about having access to the specific technology that matches your trading style. Every successful trader has developed their own edge, and we provide the infrastructure to amplify that edge.”

Based in Singapore’s iconic SGX Centre, T1 operates from one of Asia’s premier financial centers. Singapore’s strategic position as a global trading hub provides access to Asian, European, and American markets across multiple time zones, while the city-state’s robust regulatory framework ensures institutional-grade operational standards.

T1 provides 6 account types designed for every trading style – from scalpers to swing traders and quantitative traders. Users can trade across diverse markets including cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, major indices such as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100, as well as commodities like Oil and Gold. Each challenge features clear rules and realistic targets.
T1 supports all trading approaches, including trading bots, automated strategies, copy trading, and algorithmic trading for quantitative traders.

T1 harnesses the combined expertise of its trading community through its proprietary AI platform, capturing insights from successful traders across the network. This system delivers valuable analysis on market patterns, risk management techniques, and profitable trading strategies.

Ready to Transform Your Trading Career? T1 is now accepting applications from skilled traders worldwide. The evaluation process begins immediately upon registration.

Those interested in joining T1’s community of funded traders can learn more about account types, challenge requirements, and begin their application at T1trader.com.

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Deep tech company redefining engineering simulation for the world’s most complex technologies – from advanced electromagnetics to quantum computing

HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Aug. 19, 2025 — Nullspace, a deep tech company developing breakthrough electromagnetic simulation software, today announced a $2.5 million seed round led by Fathom Fund, with participation from Golden Seeds LLC and other strategic angel investors.

“Nullspace will utilize this seed funding to expand the engineering team, accelerate product development, and scale go-to-market efforts as we target growing demand across aerospace, defense, quantum computing, and AI-enabled hardware markets,” said Dr. Masha Petrova, Nullspace’s CEO and co-founder.

Nullspace Offers RF and Quantum Computing Tools

In an increasingly connected world driven by 5G deployment, AI chip development, and electronic warfare – the demand for radio frequency (RF) performance is rapidly increasing. Meanwhile, as quantum computing advances toward commercialization, this emerging market holds immense growth potential as industry leaders race to bring viable systems to market.

Nullspace develops enterprise simulation software, uniquely positioned to address both high-growth, high-barrier markets: next-generation RF and quantum computing hardware.

“At Fathom, we seek out companies that combine deep technical moats with clear paths to market dominance, and Nullspace is a great example of that,” said Dr. Paul Sheng, managing partner at Fathom Fund. “The founders’ PhD-level engineering backgrounds, combined with their extensive operational track records, have enabled them to build software solutions with an extraordinary level of maturity.

Sheng continued, “Nullspace is delivering much-needed modern physics simulation tools that customers are welcoming with open arms. In rapidly evolving markets like 5G, quantum computing, and spectrum management, this head start is invaluable.”

Fathom’s Sheng will be joining the board of directors at Nullspace. In addition, Dr. Nathan Kundtz, CEO and founder of Rendered AI, and former CEO and co-founder of Kymeta Corporation, will join as an independent board director.

Why Now: RF and the Ubiquity of Connected Devices

Today, RF technology is everywhere – it underpins the innovations that power modern life, from smartphones and autonomous vehicles to 5G networks, satellite constellations, and most modern defense applications.

Yet, legacy simulation software tools used by engineers designing these connected technologies are cumbersome and outdated. Nullspace is solving this critical design bottleneck by delivering modern, fast, and accurate simulation software. Its flagship product, Nullspace EM, fundamentally unlocks the ability to simulate larger, more complex designs with full-fidelity accuracy and speed.

At the Frontier of Quantum Computing

Beyond transforming RF simulation, Nullspace also offers Nullspace ES – the world’s only commercial tool for design and analysis of extremely large ion traps for quantum computing architecture.

Dual Use: Defense-Validated Technology with Enterprise Traction

Developed on modern implementations of numerical methods, Nullspace is a U.S.-based company developing real-world enterprise RF simulation tools.. This foundation enables the dual use of Nullspace software for both military programs and commercial applications, uniquely positioning it for advanced implementations like generative design and AI-guided design automation.

Nullspace’s competitive advantage stems from more than a decade of development through IERUS Technologies, a defense contractor specializing in hardware and software development of electromagnetic, analytical computing, and weapons systems technologies.

The core technology behind Nullspace’s modern solvers has been rigorously tested on real-world antenna, microwave, scattering, and ion-trap design problems for 10+ years, including physical products delivered to the U.S. Department of Defense.

About Nullspace
Nullspace is a deep tech company developing next-generation electromagnetic simulation software for mission-critical engineering applications. Built on over a decade of technology development and DoD validation, Nullspace’s solutions deliver breakthrough performance for RF system design and quantum computing hardware. nullspaceinc.com

About Fathom Fund
Fathom Fund is a deep tech venture capital firm focused on breakthrough innovation and technical platforms at the pre-commercialization and early commercialization phases. The firm helps technical founders build category-defining companies through rigorous technical diligence and extensive networks of subject matter experts. ff.vc

About Golden Seeds
One of the nation’s largest and most active early-stage angel networks, Golden Seeds is focused on the vibrant opportunities of women-led businesses. https://goldenseeds.com/

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Funding Follows One Billion Agentic AI Actions Taken By Customers in the Functionize Platform; To Fuel Expanded Use Cases in the Move to Fully Autonomous Quality Assurance

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2025 — Functionize, an AI-powered platform used for the intelligent creation of software test cases, today announced the close of a $41 million Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to over $67 million since its inception in 2015. The round was led by Mumford Investments and LHH Investments, with follow-on participation from Canvas Ventures and Wipro Ventures. This investment furthers Functionize’s mission to empower enterprises to innovate faster by eliminating repetitive work through intelligent, self-correcting automation.

This funding will enable Functionize to accelerate its vision of fully autonomous, AI-driven quality assurance—specifically, it will be directed to:

• Advance the development of Functionize’s patented agentic automation platform, allowing organizations to generate comprehensive test cases in minutes from prompts and self-heal using agentic AI
• Scale the company’s cloud infrastructure to meet growing enterprise demand
• Scale go-to-market teams and build additional data science and engineering teams
• Support expansion into new markets and industry verticals
• Enhance integrations with leading applications and platform providers

These initiatives will help many Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations reduce testing maintenance burdens, increase automation coverage, and empower both technical and non-technical users to deliver higher quality software at greater speed and lower cost.

“We invest in people and teams at the forefront of innovation. With proprietary models and seven years of enterprise application intelligence, Functionize is a game-changer in enterprise test automation,” said JD Mumford, Partner at Mumford Investments. “While many startups are piloting agentic AI technology, Functionize is running agentic processes at scale with enterprise customers, and is the only agentic AI test automation company that delivers autonomous test creation, execution, maintenance, and documentation at a scale and speed unmatched by human labor or traditional script-based tools. We are proud to support the next chapter of their growth story.”

Functionize’s Agentic Platform 6.0 introduced intelligent AI-powered agents to generate, execute, and self-heal with minimal human input designed to revolutionize software testing. Unlike traditional tools, these agents provide immediate value without requiring extensive learning or end user input. In 2024 alone, Functionize’s customers ran over a billion agentic AI actions in the Functionize platform, which led to a 10x productivity increase and reduced test maintenance costs by as much as 90% due to modernized quality assurance practices. The majority of these actions were executing, diagnosing, and self-healing test automation tasks.

“We’ve set a new industry standard for intelligent, scalable test automation that makes measurable business impact through the reduction in manual effort and accelerated release cycles,” said Tamas Cser, CEO, Functionize. “This investment will help bring us closer to achieving fully autonomous, AI-driven quality assurance that operates seamlessly within development sprints, requires minimal human intervention and extends our value to address broader CIO workflow inefficiencies beyond functional testing.”

In conjunction with this announcement, JD Mumford, Partner at Mumford Investments, is joining the Functionize board and Matt Smith (formerly the COO) now serves as President of Functionize. In this role, Matt oversees the operations of the company and implements the company’s strategic vision to empower enterprises to innovate faster by eliminating repetitive work.

About Functionize
Functionize is an AI-powered platform used for the intelligent creation of software test cases. It empowers enterprises, including Fortune 500 and Global 2000 organizations, to achieve faster delivery of higher quality software at a lower cost by reducing testing maintenance burdens, increasing automation, and enabling both technical and non-technical users. Functionize provides support for complex flows and supports integration with leading system integrators. Learn more at https://www.functionize.com/.

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Aghanim – a fast-growing fintech organization with over 250 web-based game hubs, built using its innovative Game Hub Builder, is now unveiling the next generation of tools to power direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy for video games.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19, 2025 — Aghanim, the fintech force behind mobile gaming’s direct-to-consumer (DTC) revolution, offers the revolutionary LiveOps Builder and Game Hub Builder – marking a substantial leap from low-performing webshops. The LA-based fintech organization creates content-first community websites for mobile games in less than a minute, and with the help of Newton^™, a GenAI-powered co-pilot, now proudly announces its new offerings:

• Kinetic^™ – A proprietary development framework designed to enable unparalleled customization and control in the creation, maintenance, and continuous optimization of Aghanim-powered game hubs.
• Blueprints^™ – A set of high-performing web-based liveops campaigns, ready to use under the LiveOps Builder templates, battle-tested on the millions of players visiting Aghanim-powered game hubs.
• Aghanim Connect – Allows game studios to easily connect their Aghanim-powered entities to third-party tools and services such as PlayFab, AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, and many more.
• Aghanim Checkout 2.0 – Our latest, fastest, and most conversion-optimized checkout technology, tailored to the needs of game studios and unique diverse player habits, in full compliance with the latest developments in the video game industry.

Kinetic^™ empowers developers and publishers to build, manage, and evolve richly immersive web experiences through a uniquely modular and extensible architecture.

At the core of Kinetic^™ lies a block-based UI system optimized for game-centric interfaces, powered by an adaptive layout engine that ensures responsive rendering across devices and resolutions. The high-powered architecture supports real-time content manipulation and advanced dynamic logic embedding directly into front-end structures, delivering high-performance & data-driven interactivity.

Kinetic^™ incorporates a proprietary semantic configuration language engineered for both human readability and artificial intelligence compatibility. This enables the automated generation, deployment, maintenance, and optimization of Aghanim-powered game hubs.

Designed to maximize both creative expression and technical precision, Kinetic^™ allows for fine-grained personalization of every website element, enabling live data integration, variable management, and customization.

Kinetic^™ is the foundation for delivering visually distinctive, technologically advanced, and operationally agile web-based game hubs – empowering game creators to innovate without compromise.

Aghanim’s Checkout 2.0 isn’t just a product update – it’s the culmination of relentless innovation and data-driven refinement. Since its inception, Aghanim has pioneered app-to-web linkouts for mobile games, generating tens of millions of player sessions across its game hubs. Today, we’re unleashing the full power of that experience in the form of Checkout 2.0, as a response to the latest developments in the United States, Japan and the European Union related to Apple AppStore and Google Play apps distribution and monetization changes.

Using Aghanim’s Checkout 2.0, (built on a proprietary fintech stack), each game studio can:

• Seamlessly link out players from the game to a browser-based checkout
• Automatically authenticate players with pre-filled carts
• Incentivize players to make purchases and connect their payment details by offering white-label out-of-the-box loyalty programs and cashback reward point services
• Support credit cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, digital wallets, and many more
• Convert taps into purchases faster than any off-the-shelf payment tool – then seamlessly auto–return players directly back to the game

Aghanim’s Checkout 2.0 increases net revenue for game studios by up to 220%, while delivering mission-critical marketing insights needed to improve return on marketing investment (ROMI). It is deeply integrated with our proprietary LiveOps Builder™, which enables real-time, programmatic responses to each player’s behaviour – whether that means presenting an upsell opportunity after a successful transaction, or capitalising on a failed one (due to insufficient funds) by automatically triggering a time-limited alternative offer priced according to the player’s predicted account balance.

Whether Aghanim is integrated into an app, dropped in a Discord post, delivered via email, embedded in a social story, or scanned via QR code: Aghanim’s Checkout 2.0 – Payment Links meets players where they are, then converts them into paying users – instantly.

Aghanim Connect is the foundation of Aghanim’s commitment to being a clear open platform – one that actively collaborates with peers and leaders across every sector of the video game industry.

Seamlessly connect over 30 pre-integrated tools to your Aghanim-powered stack – simplifying your integration, syncing SKUs, news, and leaderboards, and ensuring data consistency across global marketing campaigns by linking your DTC sales with platforms like PlayFab, AppsFlyer, Adjust, Singular, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, and more.

Blueprints^™ allows studios to discover and easily implement battle-tested web-based monetization liveops campaigns triggered by players visiting Aghanim-powered entities on the individual user level. Programmatically react to players’ behaviour on game hub login. Whether they are purchasing virtual items, claiming a daily reward, redeeming coupons, visiting web stores, abandoning carts – Aghanim enables publishers and developers alike to keep full control of the player journey and maximize conversions via constant a/b testing and experimentation – no coding skills required.

About Aghanim:

Aghanim is an integrated commerce, liveops automation, community engagement, and payments platform for mobile games – founded by a team of former C-level executives from Xsolla. The organization has pioneered app-to-web linkout solutions and now delivers the most seamless app-to-web checkout experience in the market – battle-tested and optimized using tens of millions of data points generated by the millions of users that engage with Aghanim-powered game hubs built on Kinetic^™, the company’s proprietary website customization framework.

While the U.S. and Japan rulings mark a major breakthrough, developers still face a patchwork of regulations and inconsistent enforcement across international markets. Aghanim is the go-to platform offering a fully compliant, scalable solution for linking-out players to web-based game hubs on a multinational scale. Get started by building your own game hub instantly, right here: https://aghanim.com/

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SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 19, 2025 — Databricks, the Data and AI company, today announced it has signed a term sheet for its Series K round, which it expects to close soon with backing from existing investors. This funding values the company at >$100 billion.

The company expects to use the new capital to accelerate its AI strategy — expanding Agent Bricks, investing in its new database offering Lakebase, and fueling global growth. At the June Data + AI Summit, Databricks introduced a new product, Agent Bricks, which builds high-quality, production AI agents optimized on your enterprise data, and Lakebase, a new type of operational database (OLTP), built on open source Postgres, and optimized for AI Agents. The investment is also expected to support future AI acquisitions and deepen AI research.

“We’re seeing tremendous investor interest because of the momentum behind our AI products, which power the world’s largest businesses and AI services,” said Ali Ghodsi, co-founder and CEO of Databricks. “Every company can securely turn its enterprise data into AI apps and agents to grow revenue faster, operate more efficiently, and make smarter decisions with less risk. Databricks is benefiting from an unprecedented global demand for AI apps and agents, turning companies’ data into goldmines. We’re thrilled this round is already over-subscribed and to partner with strategic, long-term investors who share our vision for the future of AI.”

This new investment comes on the heels of strong momentum for Databricks. In the last two quarters, the company has launched or expanded partnerships with Microsoft, Google Cloud, Anthropic, SAP, and Palantir. More than 15,000 customers around the world use the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to democratize access to data and AI, making it easier to harness the power of their data for analytics and AI apps and agents. Built on an open source foundation, the platform enables organizations to drive innovation that increases revenue, lowers costs, and reduces risk.

About Databricks
Databricks is the Data and AI company. More than 15,000 organizations worldwide — including Block, Comcast, Condé Nast, Rivian, Shell and over 60% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to take control of their data and put it to work with AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake, MLflow, and Unity Catalog. To learn more, follow Databricks on X, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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