NEW YORK, July 11, 2025 — Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, the high-growth culinary-driven concept providing distinct takes on classic menu items and Asian-inspired cuisine, today announced the launch of a new investment round led by RSE Ventures.

This strategic funding round will drive the company’s rapid omni-channel expansion, including supporting growth in its corporate and franchised stores and line of high-quality consumer packaged goods (CPG).

Building on momentum in the business, including Brooklyn Dumpling Shop’s recent partnership with the New York Yankees and Legends Hospitality, retail expansion, and additional shop openings in both the US & Canada, this funding round will position the company for sustained growth and help accelerate Brooklyn Dumpling Shop’s mission to deliver delicious, high-quality dumplings and bites to an even wider audience of fans.

“People love our food. This investment is testament to that and to ensuring we are able to continue growing the awareness of, and access to, our products through our shops, CPG, and foodservice,” said Jeff Galletly, Chairman & CEO of Brooklyn Dumpling Shop. “This investment marks an exciting next chapter for our dedicated team, franchisees, and partners as we further execute our mission to revolutionize the fast-casual dining space, the frozen aisle, and venues across North America and beyond. We’re incredibly appreciative of Matt and the RSE Ventures team’s support, which will aid our vision to build an enduring brand, scale globally, and make our products available to even more fans.”

“Brooklyn Dumpling Shop has tapped into what modern consumers want—quality, convenience, and flavor—and does so in a way that reaches consumers however they want to enjoy the food,” said Matt Higgins, CEO & Co-founder of RSE Ventures. “We’re excited to continue working with Jeff and the Brooklyn Dumpling Shop team as they innovate, differentiate, and further establish their position as an industry leader in craveable, convenient food.”

Further, John Berberich, RSE Ventures’ Managing Director, F&B Concepts, shared, “At RSE Ventures, we’re constantly seeking out the next wave of bold, category-defining concepts. We believe the ‘portable Asian’ category is an underserved and high-potential segment. With our internal growth accelerator and strategic capital, we’re excited to support the brand’s expansion across restaurants, consumer products, and foodservice—not just in the U.S., but in key international markets, as well.”

With its first shop opened in May 2021, Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is continuously innovating and re-imagining fan favorite fusion flavors into exciting dumpling creations with chef-curated bites. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop utilizes technology to ensure a frictionless guest experience that maximizes both guest and team member efficiency while promoting a strong spirit of hospitality and community. The company is rapidly expanding with 18 and counting corporate and franchise locations across the U.S. and Canada, along with a fast-growing CPG presence in retail stores and online, along with a quickly emerging foodservice line, perfect for any venue or event.

For more information about Brooklyn Dumpling Shop, please visit www.brooklyndumplingshop.com. For more information about RSE Ventures, please visit www.rseventures.com.

About Brooklyn Dumpling Shop

Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is a pioneering Asian-inspired fast-casual food brand offering distinct menu items in its shops, in the frozen aisle, at home, and at venues of any kind. Having opened its first shop in 2021, the brand reimagines favorite global fusion flavors into exciting dumpling creations, alongside chef-curated bowls, bites, and boba. Brooklyn Dumpling Shop delivers a frictionless guest experience that maximizes both guest and team member efficiency, with a commitment to community and ensuring a strong spirit of hospitality. With 18 locations and counting across the US & Canada, the brand is rapidly expanding through corporate and franchised shops, while establishing a growing presence in retail stores, event venues, and online sales through its line of frozen dumplings. Believing “Everything is better in a dumpling!,”^TM Brooklyn Dumpling Shop is backed by notable investors, including Kevin O’Leary, Matt Higgins, and Patti Labelle. To learn more, visit www.brooklyndumplingshop.com or follow the company on TikTok, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

About RSE Ventures

RSE Ventures is a private investment firm, co-founded by Stephen Ross and Matt Higgins, made up of builders, innovators, partners and founders who focus on companies across sports and entertainment, media and marketing, food and lifestyle, and technology. Its family includes Bluestone Lane, Magnolia Bakery, Relevent Sports, VaynerMedia, Momofuku, Milk Bar and Performance Drone Works.

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NEW YORK and ASHBURN, Va., July 10, 2025 — Sumitomo Corporation, through its U.S. subsidiary Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (collectively “Sumitomo Corporation Group”), announced a strategic investment in Independence Hydrogen to develop additional decentralized hydrogen production and distribution projects in the United States.

Independence Hydrogen, Inc. is a veteran-founded and operated, privately held company that manufactures and distributes gaseous hydrogen in a decentralized hydrogen (DeHy®) business model. The company operates a hydrogen production facility in Petersburg, Virginia that recycles hydrogen, otherwise vented into the atmosphere as a waste product, into fuel cell grade hydrogen for customers in the material handling, mobility, remote critical infrastructure, and industrial gas sectors.

Independence Hydrogen’s initial focus on smaller scale and decentralized hydrogen supply and transportation solves reliability and cost concerns, while offering speed to market. Hydrogen as a fuel has advantages in many applications, allowing for longer range, quick refueling, and no low-charge or environmental performance degradation.

“Sumitomo Corporation Group has a long-term favorable view of hydrogen development,” said Tsutomu Sakamoto, General Manager of Energy Innovation Initiative Americas. “We strongly believe that Independence Hydrogen’s distributed business model approach will unlock growth in an underserved segment. We are confident that our robust collaboration with Suburban Propane and Hivers & Strivers will serve as a cornerstone for further expansion.” 

“Sumitomo has a storied history of sustainable business success, and brings deep and broad experience in the energy, and specifically, hydrogen sector,” said Dat Tran, CEO of Independence Hydrogen. “We are extremely excited to work with Sumitomo, along with the expertise and support of our foundation investors, Suburban Propane and Hivers & Strivers, to accelerate the growth of our business.” 

About Sumitomo Corporation
Sumitomo Corporation (TYO: 8053) is an integrated trading company with a global network of 127 offices in 63 countries and regions. The Sumitomo Corporation Group consists of approximately 900 companies and 80,000 employees on a consolidated basis. The Group’s business activities span nine sectors: Steel, Automotive, Transportation & Construction Systems, Diverse Urban Development, Media & Digital, Lifestyle Business, Mineral Resources, Chemicals Solutions, and Energy Transformation Business. Sumitomo Corporation is dedicated to creating value for society under the corporate message of “Enriching lives and the world,” based on Sumitomo’s business philosophy passed down for over 400 years.

About Sumitomo Corporation of Americas
Established in 1952 and headquartered in New York City, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas has 9 offices in major U.S. cities, 4 in Canada, and 2 in Mexico. As the largest subsidiary of Sumitomo Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation of Americas is a key player in multinational projects, international investments, and global product distribution. Its core businesses include Energy, Automotive, Social Infrastructure, Agri-food and Life Science, Construction and Transportation Systems, Real Estate, Mineral Resources, and Energy Innovation.

About Independence Hydrogen
Independence Hydrogen regionally produces and distributes clean gaseous hydrogen in the United States. Independence Hydrogen’s mission is to make communities cleaner, safer, and more energy resilient by providing a reliable supply of affordable hydrogen with an end-to-end carbon intensity score. Our unique business model advances a standardized and scalable approach that offers speed to market, while lowering execution complexity and costs. More information about Independence Hydrogen can be found at www.independencehydrogen.com or https://ih2.us/. 

About Suburban Propane Partners, L.P.
Suburban Propane Partners, L.P. (“Suburban Propane”) is a publicly traded master limited partnership listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Headquartered in Whippany, New Jersey, Suburban Propane has been in the customer service business since 1928 and is a nationwide distributor of propane, renewable propane, renewable natural gas (“RNG”), fuel oil and related products and services, as well as a marketer of natural gas and electricity and producer of and investor in low carbon fuel alternatives, servicing the energy needs of approximately 1 million residential, commercial, governmental, industrial and agricultural customers through approximately 700 locations across 42 states. For additional information on Suburban Propane, please visit www.suburbanpropane.com.

About Hivers & Strivers

Hivers & Strivers invests in early-stage ventures led by U.S. military veterans. Since 2009 we have invested over $80 million in over 20 veteran-led ventures. Military veterans are an exceptional talent pool of leaders with grit, determination, and fierce execution skills. Hivers & Strivers believes that companies founded by military veterans will outperform peers.

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Funding led by Javelin Venture Partners will accelerate development of LGND’s geospatial AI tools.

NEW YORK, July 10, 2025 — LGND AI, Inc., a company building new ways for people and AI to interact with Earth data, today announced it has raised $9 million in financing. The round was led by Javelin Venture Partners, with participation from AENU, Space Capital, Overture, Ridgeline, MCJ, Coalition Operators, Clocktower Ventures, and more. Notable angel investors include John Hanke, founder of Keyhole (acquired by Google and the foundation for Google Maps and Niantic), Karim Atiyeh, cofounder and CTO of Ramp, and Suzanne DiBianca, EVP & Chief Impact Officer of Salesforce. Javelin’s Noah Doyle, a long-time investor in geospatial infrastructure who previously led the enterprise product line for Google Earth and Google Maps, will join LGND’s board.

Making Earth data useful to people and AI
Earth data is essential for everything from climate adaptation to defense logistics, but it remains too expensive and complex for most teams to use. LGND is changing that. Built on geographic embeddings, LGND’s platform enables developers and analysts to create, refine, and deploy geospatial data in intuitive, adaptive ways.

Despite its growing relevance, Earth data is largely absent from modern AI workflows. By significantly lowering cost and complexity, LGND aims to make Earth intelligence more accessible to industries ranging from insurance and finance to public agencies and AI developers.

“Our mission is to make Earth data universally accessible and actionable through AI,” said Nathaniel Manning, CEO and cofounder of LGND. “We’re making Earth understandable to people—and to AI.”

From static maps to living systems
Today’s digital maps are limited in scope and stripped of context. LGND turns maps into living systems: dynamic, adaptable, and rich with real-world meaning.

Over the past year, LGND has built a “geo-embeddings factory” capable of producing scalable Earth datasets faster and more affordably than traditional computer vision approaches, which rely on one-off models and pixel-level analysis. These datasets can be queried, tuned, and deployed in real time. The more users interact with the system, the smarter and more useful it becomes.

“We believe geographic embeddings are the new first order data object for geospatial information, much like map tiles were two decades ago,” said Dan Hammer, cofounder and Chief Product Officer. “LGND is building the infrastructure to create, tune, store, and serve these embeddings at scale.”

Early use cases include wildfire risk modeling for insurers, illegal mining detection, infrastructure monitoring, and the integration of Earth data into AI agents. Initial traction includes pilot projects with professional service firms and logistics companies.

A new foundation for Earth intelligence
With the new funding, LGND will launch a no-code geospatial app and an enterprise-facing solution. It will also expand developer access through SDKs and APIs for building custom workflows and applications, including support for AI agents and MCP integrations that allow models to directly interact with live Earth data.

“This shift is not incremental, but revolutionary. It requires rebuilding the entire ecosystem of Earth observation,” said Bruno Sánchez–Andrade Nuño, LGND’s Chief Science Officer and cofounder. “By front-loading the undifferentiated heavy compute, embeddings change the way we interact with Earth data and force us to rethink previous limitations.”

LGND’s tools are designed for teams that need to move fast and adapt quickly. Whether modeling environmental risk or analyzing supply chain disruptions, users can expand datasets on the fly and with no coding required. LGND enhances productivity, streamlines workflows, and brings powerful geospatial analysis to a wider range of users, from policy teams to field analysts. 

About LGND
LGND makes Earth data intuitive and actionable. Built on transformer-based geographic embeddings, LGND’s platform enables teams to create, adapt, and scale geospatial datasets across time and geography. From interactive apps to developer SDKs, LGND provides the building blocks to unlock insights from satellite imagery and unstructured spatial data. LGND AI, Inc. is a remote-first company with team hubs in the Bay Area, New York, and Copenhagen. Learn more at lgnd.io.

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IDC Network’s Private Equity arm advances its regional consolidation strategy with anchor platforms in food and distribution across Latin America and the U.S.

MIAMI, July 10, 2025 — Valante Capital, the Private Equity division of IDC Network – an asset manager with $2.7 billion in assets under management – is pleased to announce the first close of Ascend Fund II, a $250 million-targeted private equity fund focused on scaling consumer and retail platforms across Latin America and select U.S.-based companies with a Latin American footprint.

The fund held a first close at $115 million in capital commitments, supported by a strong base of returning LPs and new institutional investors, along with a significant GP commitment representing over 15% of total fund capital.

Continuing a Proven Investment Strategy

Ascend Fund II builds on the success of its predecessor, extending the thesis of capturing emerging middle-class consumption by transforming under-optimized businesses into regional champions. The fund will focus on family-owned and corporate-divested assets across Northern Latin America, while opportunistically pursuing high-growth, cross-border opportunities in the U.S. that are closely tied to the Latin American consumer.

Concurrent with its first close, Ascend Fund II has completed three cornerstone investments:

• Vitali Alimentos – A fast-growing protein platform originally backed in Fund I. Since 2020, Vitali has achieved 38% revenue growth and a 50% EBITDA improvement, with continued transformation underway in Fund II to unlock further operational and geographic scale.
• American Foods – A U.S.-based food distribution platform reaching over 25 countries in Latin America. As the anchor asset in a roll-up strategy, American Foods provides Ascend with a foothold in the imported product segment and the ability to drive cross-border synergies across markets.
• Nutrica – A purpose-driven food company focused on combating child malnutrition in the region through essential, affordable, and highly nutritious food solutions. The investment aligns with Ascend’s impact goals while addressing a critical public health challenge in Latin America.

Deploying Capital with Conviction

Ascend Fund II is targeting net returns above 25% by acquiring high-potential companies and executing deep operational upgrades, market expansion, and strategic consolidation.

Héctor Valero, Managing Partner of Valante Capital, commented:

“We’re entering Fund II with momentum, strong alignment from our LPs, and conviction in the companies we’re backing. Our strategy has always been about transforming overlooked but high-potential assets, and with Vitali, American Foods and Nutrica, we’re putting that playbook into motion from day one.”

Fueling the Next Chapter of Growth

With its strong initial close and three strategic platforms already in motion, Ascend Fund II is well-positioned to continue building scalable, competitive businesses that meet the evolving needs of Latin America’s expanding consumer base.

About Valante Capital

Valante Capital is a Private Equity firm focused on the acquisition and transformation of companies in the consumer goods and retail industries across Latin America. Part of the IDC Network, a global investment platform founded in 1995, Valante Capital is one of six verticals managing investment funds across various sectors.

For more information or interview requests, please contact Paula Medrano ([email protected]).

About IDC Network
Established in 1995, IDC Network (IDC) is a diversified multi-fund platform. IDC focuses on partnering with strategic investors, managing and co-managing funds across multiple sectors including Private Equity, Energy & Infrastructure, Ventures, Capital Markets, Real Estate, and Impact. Active across Latin America, the US, and Europe, IDC is proud to be the Partner of Choice for more than 200+ of the world’s most influential families from 30+ countries. Learn more at IDCNetwork.com.

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With AI purpose-built for engineering, Foundation EGI is empowering teams to design faster, solve harder problems, and rethink what’s possible.

LOS ALTOS, Calif., July 10, 2025 — Foundation EGI, creator of the world’s first Engineering General Intelligence (EGI) platform, today announced $23M in oversubscribed Series A funding, raising over $30M total. The company is accelerating its vision of turning manufacturing’s biggest bottlenecks into breakthroughs using domain-specific AI. The latest round was led by Translink Capital with participation from RRE Ventures, McRock Capital, Escape Investment Management (Jim Scapa), Fifth Growth Fund, and returning backers including E14 Fund, UNION, GRIDS Capital, and Henry Ford III.

Engineering That Doesn’t Just Optimize. It Reimagines
“We’re not just using AI to automate tasks. We’re building AI that knows when to break the rules,” said Wojciech Matusik, Ph.D., Co-founder & CSO of Foundation EGI and Professor of EECS and MechE at MIT. “The biggest leaps in engineering haven’t come from following best practices. They came from challenging assumptions. Foundation EGI is designed to do exactly that.”

EGI combines purpose-built large language models with physics-based context and engineering best practices to tackle the complex nature of engineering, from design to manufacturing to documentation.  It transforms disorganized specifications, siloed tribal knowledge, and outdated instructions into succinct, structured, auditable, and human-/machine-executable workflows.

“The next industrial revolution will be AI-native,” said Mok Oh, Ph.D., Co-founder and CEO of Foundation EGI. “It begins by empowering engineers with AI tools that speak their language. From there, we move toward a future where humans and machines co-design with shared context and creativity.”

Born from Research. Built for the Real World.
Foundation EGI was born from MIT’s cross-disciplinary research in AI for design and manufacturing, led by co-founders Matusik and Michael Foshey. Their seminal paper, Large Language Models for Design and Manufacturing, was published in 2024 and has influenced a new wave of intelligent engineering tools. Foundation EGI was founded to commercialize and power real-world AI applications for all manufacturing domains, including automotive, heavy industry, appliances, power tools, advanced manufacturing, and much more.

“We are thrilled to invest in Foundation EGI to support their next phase of growth,” said Toshi Otani, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Translink Capital, who led the Series A. “We backed Foundation EGI because this is one of the rare teams that combines deep technical mastery in AI with firsthand knowledge of how design and manufacturing actually work. In addition, we believe that there is a great market opportunity that exists in Japan, Korea and Taiwan where we have a strong track record of supporting our portfolio companies.”

“The best founders don’t just see around corners. They reshape the cornerstones of entire industries,” said Vic Singh, General Partner at RRE Ventures. “When we met Mok, Wojciech and Mike we were immediately impressed with their market depth and technical acumen. Foundation EGI is building core infrastructure for the next generation of industrial AI  — transforming manual processes that traditionally cost millions of dollars and countless hours of skilled labor into Engineering Intelligence — upending the space while giving engineers leverage to focus on the higher order work.

Why Top Investors Are Betting on Foundation EGI’s Vision.
Foundation EGI’s breakthrough approach to industrial AI is earning the confidence of some of the most respected voices in engineering and venture capital. As the company redefines what’s possible, its backers see more than potential. They see a turning point:

“The tools engineers have relied on for decades weren’t designed for the scale, speed, and complexity of the AI future,” said Jim Scapa, General Partner of Escape Investment Management and Founder & the former CEO of Altair Engineering. “Foundation EGI is creating something fundamentally new — an intelligence layer that understands engineering itself. This isn’t just automation — it’s the beginning of a new way engineers think, create, and solve.” 

“What excites me most about Foundation EGI is how human the technology feels,” said Whitney Rockley, Co-founder and Managing Partner of McRock Capital. “They’re not just chasing AI trends. They’re building tools that empower engineers to dream bigger, move faster, and stay in control of the creative process.”

The Next Frontier: Creative AI for Engineering
In a TEDx talk earlier this year, Professor Matusik posed a provocative question: What if AI could help us ask better engineering questions, not just find better answers? That spirit runs through the company’s product philosophy. Rather than just refining past patterns, Foundation EGI’s platform can challenge assumptions, explore novel design spaces, and guide engineers toward ideas that traditional tools would never surface. “Invention begins where convention ends,” said Oh. “This is the kind of AI that helps you discover what the old tools told you wasn’t possible.”

About Foundation EGI
Foundation EGI is the manufacturing industry’s first engineering general intelligence (EGI) platform that empowers design and manufacturing engineers to build better products faster, driving healthier revenues for the world’s leading industrial brands. EGI transforms manual, vague and disorganized engineering instructions into an accurate, structured programming system to optimize accuracy, automation and efficiency at every stage of the design to production lifecycle. Foundation EGI is backed by visionary MIT and Silicon Valley investors and is used at leading Fortune 500 industrial brands. More at foundationegi.com.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 10, 2025 — Colorado ONE Fund, the venture capital arm of ONE Funds dedicated to accelerating critical technologies, is proud to announce its latest investment in CisLunar Industries, a pioneering company transforming in-space advanced power processing and resource utilization for the next era of space exploration and national security.

CisLunar Industries is at the forefront of developing critical power infrastructure for space and making their products adaptable to leverage mass manufacturing on Earth. Nearly everything in space runs on electricity, but power processing is a supply bottleneck, a common source of mission failure, and a limiting factor on spacecraft mission capability. With scalable and differentiated hardware and software for power and material processing, CisLunar Industries cuts customer wait times and non-recurring engineering costs, increases resiliency and efficiency, and leaves more room on the spacecraft for expanded mission capability.

CisLunar Industries’ Electronic Power Intelligent Conversion (EPIC) technologies process power to drive many aspects of a space industrial economy. For in-space mobility, the company leads the development of power processing units (PPUs) for high power electric propulsion and nuclear electric propulsion systems. For dual use beaming for Golden Dome and industrial applications, such as laser, x-ray, electron, and neutral particle, they have pioneered and flown products that successfully generated one of the highest voltages ever produced in space. For in-space manufacturing and resource utilization, the company not only converts power but also processes materials using their modular Space Foundry™ and Lunar Wire Extruder, state-of-the-art technologies at the center of the value chain that connects resources with markets.

“CisLunar Industries is addressing one of the most pressing challenges and opportunities in the emerging cislunar economy,” said Kevin O’Neil, CEO of ONE Funds. “Their innovative approach to in-space power infrastructure and resource utilization not only reduces the costs and risks associated with space missions but also strengthens U.S. leadership in space sustainability and security. We are excited to support their vision of a thriving economy in space, where energy and matter are harnessed and shaped to build a free and resilient future.”  

Headquartered in Loveland, Colorado, CisLunar Industries is leveraging technical excellence and scalable manufacturing on Earth to achieve the benefits it delivers to customers. The investment from Colorado ONE Fund will accelerate the company’s technology development, expand its engineering team, and support key demonstration missions with government and commercial partners.

“Partnering with Colorado ONE Fund is a major milestone for CisLunar Industries,” said Gary Calnan, CEO and Co-Founder of CisLunar Industries. “Their commitment to impact-driven investment and their deep expertise in aerospace and defense make them the ideal partner as we scale our operations and bring our breakthrough technology to market. Together, we are building the infrastructure that will power the next generation of space exploration and economic growth.”

About CisLunar Industries
CisLunar Industries designs and builds scalable advanced products for power conversion and material processing, enabling in-space mobility, national security, and manufacturing for government and commercial customers.

For more information, visit: www.cislunarindustries.com.
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About ONE Funds
Founded in 2023, ONE Funds focuses on impact investing in the defense sector. With a unique ecosystem, ONE Funds connects defense technology innovators with government leadership, applying a strategic consortium model to grow small businesses. Boasting 250 years of cumulative defense experience, ONE Funds invests in aerospace and national defense technologies to deliver strong returns while advancing critical security innovations. As part of ONE Funds, Colorado ONE Fund partners with the Colorado Venture Capital Authority (VCA) to back early-stage, high-impact technologies supporting national defense. Learn more at www.onefunds.com.

Media contacts:

CisLunar Industries:
Ubaldo Ciminieri
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303.725.9417

ONE Funds:
German Nunez
Managing Director
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MIAMI, July 10, 2025 — Lorient Capital, an investment firm focused exclusively on healthcare, today announced the final close of Lorient Healthcare Fund III, with $500 million in total commitments. The fund, which closed on June 30^th, was oversubscribed, surpassing its original $350 million target.

Lorient partners with founder-led healthcare companies in the middle market, bringing sector expertise, hands-on operational capabilities, and a repeatable approach to scaling mission-driven businesses. The firm has built a track record of supporting improvements in clinical outcomes, workforce efficiency, and access to care across the U.S. healthcare system.

“Fund III represents a major step forward in our mission to support companies working to improve the healthcare system and create long-term, sustainable value,” said David Berman and Jordan Broome, Co-Managing Partners at Lorient Capital. “We’re deeply grateful to our existing partners for their continued support and to our new investors who share our conviction that healthcare investing can drive both strong returns and meaningful impact.”

A Disciplined Strategy in Healthcare

Lorient targets control-oriented investments in healthcare providers, services, and technology companies. The firm focuses on sectors experiencing transformation and growth, such as consumer-directed healthcare, post-acute care, behavioral health, provider enablement, and tech-enabled services, where its operational model can help drive performance.

Lorient-backed companies aim to advance quality of care, expand access in underserved and rural markets, address workforce shortages, integrate care for vulnerable populations, and support the transition to value-based models. One of Lorient’s five core operational domains is quality, which is actively managed and measured in partnership with clinical leaders using the firm’s proprietary tools and operating approach.

Since inception, Lorient has completed 20 platform investments and over 75 add-on acquisitions. The firm’s nine realized exits reflect a consistent ability to build, scale, and create value across its portfolio.

Morpheus: Lorient’s Operational Advantage

At the center of Lorient’s model is Morpheus, the firm’s proprietary technology platform. Morpheus consolidates fragmented clinical, operational, and financial data into real-time, actionable insights that support growth and performance.

“Morpheus is our engine for accelerating transformation,” said Jordan Broome. “It enables us to go beyond capital, embedding the tools, insights, and capabilities our portfolio companies need to scale effectively and deliver better care.”

More than a reporting system, Morpheus integrates directly into a company’s workflows and infrastructure, benchmarking performance, identifying operational gaps, and supporting leadership teams. This drives faster decision-making, higher-quality care, and closer alignment between day-to-day operations and long-term strategy.

Looking Ahead

With Fund III, Lorient will continue to support high-quality management teams in scaling healthcare businesses that blend operational rigor with clinical focus. The close of Fund III reinforces Lorient’s position as a strategic partner to founders and investors and provides added momentum to execute on its disciplined, operations-led investment strategy.

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1Pitch™ Persuasion System Officially Launches After Helping Startup Founders Generate Millions in Under 100 Days

SINGAPORE, July 10, 2025 — After watching his family lose everything to a financial scam and spending years trying to rebuild from scratch, Jason Lim turned his painful past into purpose. Today, he announces the official launch of 1Pitch™ Persuasion System, a step-by-step method designed to help founders close high-stake deals, raise capital, and hit revenue targets faster than ever.

The launch follows a successful beta phase where a select group of entrepreneurs used the system to generate exponential results—often in less than 100 days. Among them:

• A father of five turned a $2,000 website pitch into a $2 million opportunity
• A second-generation laundry business owner added $3 million in ARR
• A wellness founder recruited 34 distributors in 29 days
• A fund manager secured $29,693 in his first 16 days and opened a new 8-figure greenfield market

The 1Pitch system stands out by doing what most programs don’t: simplifying communication at the root level. Instead of overwhelming users with complexity, the system teaches a neuroscience-backed, 5-step framework designed to create instant rapport, shift buyer psychology, and command attention in high-pressure boardrooms.

But for Jason, 1Pitch is more than just a business—it’s redemption.

“I didn’t build this to get rich. I built it because I failed. I let my family down. I yelled at my brother when I should’ve been there for him. No success is worth that. I made a vow: if I could rise again, I’d teach others how to win without losing everything that matters,” says Jason Lim, founder of 1Pitch.

Jason began teaching as a basketball coach at age 16, and later went on to close over $7 million in deals by the age of 24. But after falling victim to investment fraud and losing it all, he spent years couch-surfing and rebuilding not just his finances—but his identity. It was during that period that he discovered his obsession with teaching and the deep impact of mentorship done right.

The result is 1Pitch—a “copy-paste” persuasion blueprint that compresses over 20 years of real-world experience into a fast-track system that can be completed in under 20 hours. Graduates have called it “the F1 of persuasion”—not just for closing deals, but for influencing decisions, building trust quickly, and standing out as a category of one in any industry.

Program Highlights:

• Learn to predict buying behavior using neuromarketing and decision science
• Follow a repeatable 5-step system to close UHNWI clients and raise capital
• Build instant trust with stakeholders in any pitch, presentation, or negotiation
• Shrink sales cycles and eliminate time-wasting objections
• Use behavioral science to move conversations from “maybe” to “yes” with ease

Unlike most programs that rely on charisma or talent, 1Pitch is designed for anyone—regardless of background—to learn and deploy. It offers founders a proven path to close powerfully, fast, and with integrity.

For Jason, the ultimate goal is simple: to help others win without regret.

“No amount of money can buy back lost time with family. This system is my way of giving others the chance to build wealth without losing what truly matters.”

About 1Pitch™ Persuasion System
1Pitch is a neuroscience-based persuasion framework built for founders, dealmakers, and leaders who want to close more effectively. It was created by Jason Lim, Singapore’s top pitch mentor, after decades of experience in sales, negotiation, and behavioral psychology. The system is now available to the public for the first time.

Enrollment is now open at AuthorJason.com/1pitch.

Media Contact:
Jason Lim
[email protected]
+65 8973 9139
1Pitch™ Persuasion System, Singapore

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Cloud Storage Management Platform Simplifies Storage Optimization, Cutting Costs by 50%

NEW YORK, July 10, 2025 — Autonomous storage optimization startup Datafy has secured new funding, bringing total investment to $20 million. The round was led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Insight Partners, with the primary goal of accelerating the company’s growth in the U.S.

With cloud storage costs soaring, Datafy’s rapid customer adoption highlights an urgent demand for cloud storage efficiency. “At Via, efficiency and stability aren’t just internal goals; they’re promises we make to cities and passengers every day. That means our infrastructure has to be just as dependable,” said Lior Gernenstein, CTO, Via. “Datafy has the system to automatically scale storage as demands shift, without downtime or wasted spend. With clear visibility into utilization, we can make smarter infrastructure decisions and stay focused on delivering reliable, resilient transportation to the communities we serve.”

H2O.ai, the world’s leading agentic AI company, serves industry giants such as AT&T, Workday, and many more. The company has seen immediate results. “With Datafy, we reduced EBS costs by 40% where possible, while maintaining the flexibility to automatically scale cloud storage as needed. The performance improvements were immediate, and the solution’s simplicity and reliability truly stood out”, said Ophir Zahavi, Senior Manager, Cloud Engineering, H2O.ai.

Datafy’s approach is practical and non-disruptive; instead of relying on recommendations, its solution is 100% autonomous, reducing the burden on users to perpetually right-size their storage demands. This empowers FinOps and DevOps teams to reduce costs while maintaining complete control over their storage operations.

The Datafy solution includes a zero-downtime auto-scaling engine, paired with a free sensor that monitors storage usage in real-time, requiring no code changes or engineering lift.

The new investment accelerates Datafy’s expansion, including growing its U.S. presence and introducing new storage optimization solutions. Its partner program is also gaining traction, with several AWS Premier Partners already part of Datafy’s ecosystem.

“Storage demands are at an all-time high, and businesses need efficiency without complexity,” said Zivan Ori, CEO of Datafy. “This latest funding validates the strong customer traction we’ve seen and allows us to scale quickly to meet growing demand.”

“Unlike so many others trying to help customers save cloud costs on the operational level, Datafy has taken a deep tech approach and developed a product for the most demanding and sophisticated users of cloud storage,” concluded Adam Fisher, Bessemer Venture Partners. 

Founded by industry veterans CEO Zivan Ori, COO Ziv Serlin, and CPO Yoav Ilovich – former storage leaders with decades of expertise – Datafy is redefining how enterprises manage cloud storage. Ori and Serlin previously co-founded E8 Storage, which AWS acquired in 2019.

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About Datafy

Datafy is setting a new standard in cloud storage management with its pioneering technology and expert leadership team, including industry veterans Zivan Ori, Yoav Ilovich, and  Ziv Serlin. The company’s mission is to help enterprises control cloud storage costs, offering a solution that promises up to 50% savings on storage expenses. With Datafy, businesses can achieve self-optimizing, developer-independent cloud storage management.

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