Direct private lender’s 9% loan helps fast-track 41-acre site purchase in booming Gulf Coast region
ENGLEWOOD, N.J., July 16, 2026 — Kennedy Funding, one of the nation’s leading direct private lenders, has closed a $1.5 million land loan for the acquisition of a 41.09-acre fully entitled multifamily development site along Highway 59 in Loxley, Baldwin County, Alabama.
The financing, provided to Vision of Loxley APT, LLC, was completed in just 18 days, enabling the borrower to satisfy a contractual acquisition deadline on a property approved for 420 multifamily units. The borrower is purchasing the site for $3 million.
Kennedy Funding’s financing also featured an impressive 9% first-year interest rate, an exceptionally competitive rate for a land acquisition loan.
“This was exactly the kind of opportunity Kennedy Funding is built for,” said Mark Falzone, Executive Loan Officer at Kennedy Funding. The borrower faced a firm purchase deadline, brought substantial equity to the transaction and had a development-ready property.
“We recognized the urgency immediately and moved quickly to provide the funding needed so the acquisition could move forward.”
Andrew Williams, Managing Partner at KLEI Capital, a San Diego-based broker, praised Kennedy Funding’s responsiveness. “There was another lender who could not get the deal across the finish line, so we reached out to Kennedy Funding, a lender with extensive experience in land loans and a reputation for closing fast. Kennedy said they could close by the deadline, and they did. They responded right away, quickly vetted the deal, and the entire experience was phenomenal,” Williams said.
Located along Highway 59, one of Baldwin County’s primary commercial corridors, the site offers direct access to Interstate 10 while placing future residents within convenient commuting distance of Mobile, Pensacola and Alabama’s Gulf Coast beaches. Highway 59 serves as the backbone of central Baldwin County, connecting rapidly expanding residential communities with employment centers, shopping, healthcare and transportation. Population growth, expanding healthcare, manufacturing, logistics, tourism and new business investment continue to drive demand for housing throughout the region.
Adding to the area’s momentum is the nearby Gulf Alabama (Port Alabama) Industrial Center, a more than 900-acre industrial development planned to include approximately 12 million square feet of industrial space. The project is expected to generate thousands of jobs while strengthening the Highway 59 and Interstate 10 corridor as one of the Gulf Coast’s premier logistics and industrial hubs.
The region is also benefiting from significant corporate and industrial investment. Novelis is constructing a $4.1 billion dollar aluminum rolling and recycling facility in Baldwin County that is expected to create significant job opportunities. Nearby Mobile is also home to Airbus’ U.S. Manufacturing Facility and Austal USA, a ship manufacturer headquartered in the city.
“Deals like this demonstrate where Kennedy Funding’s private lending adds the most value,” said Kevin Wolfer, CEO of Kennedy Funding. “When qualified borrowers face extremely tight deadlines, they need certainty of execution. Our team was able to provide that certainty and keep this project moving forward.”
The approved 420-unit project will help meet increasing housing demand generated by the area’s expanding population, expanding industrial base and growing workforce.
With development-ready land becoming increasingly difficult to find in high-growth markets, the loan highlights both the continued demand for multifamily housing across Baldwin County and Kennedy Funding’s ability to deliver customized financing solutions when speed, certainty and execution matter most.
About Kennedy Funding
Kennedy Funding is a global direct private lender specializing in bridge loans for commercial property and land acquisition, development, workouts, bankruptcies and foreclosures. Kennedy Funding has closed more than $4 billion in loans to date. Their creative financing expertise provides funding up to 75% loan-to-value, from $1 million ($3 million international) to more than $50 million, in as little as five days. The company has closed loans throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, Canada, and Central and South America.
The Series D, led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, comes as Fora crosses $3 billion in bookings and rolls out its embedded AI assistant for travel advisors.
NEW YORK, July 16, 2026 — Fora, the platform powering a new generation of travel entrepreneurs, today announced it has closed a $60 million Series D at a $1 billion post-money valuation. The round is led by Forerunner and Tactile Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, and Heartcore Capital. New investors PLUS Capital, alongside Amy Schumer and other members of its artist and athlete collective, BlackPines Capital Partners, and Tribeca Venture Partners, also joined the round.
The financing follows a period of accelerated growth for the company. Since its founding in 2021, Fora advisors have booked more than $3 billion in travel. It took Fora three years to reach its first $1 billion in lifetime bookings, eight months to reach the second billion, and just five months to reach the third.
Fora’s next bet is that AI will make travel advisors more valuable — not obsolete. Fora is focused on scaling Via, its embedded AI assistant, currently in beta with a group of the company’s top advisors. The new AI operating layer across Fora’s entire platform is designed to help advisors tackle tasks like destination research, supplier knowledge, client itineraries, and proposal generation, dramatically reducing time-consuming administrative work. With Via, advisors spend less time on operations and more time on the things only humans do well: building relationships, offering experience-informed judgment and personalization, and planning the kind of trip no algorithm can replicate.
“Fora’s mission has always been to give advisors the infrastructure they need to build real businesses,” said Evan Frank, co-founder of Fora. “In the age of AI, the ceiling on what’s possible for this profession is only getting higher, and the things that are hardest to replicate — human expertise, relationships, taste — matter even more. With AI increasingly handling the operational layer, we’re already seeing advisors building bigger, more meaningful businesses — faster.”
Fora’s growth has coincided with broader momentum in the travel advisory profession. LinkedIn ranked travel advisor as the fifth-fastest-growing job in the United States in 2025. 97% of Fora’s over 15,000 active advisors are new to the travel advising profession, including former physicians, attorneys, traders, full-time parents, and retirees who use Fora to run travel businesses. Fora’s model accommodates a range of advisor businesses on the platform, from those advising for supplemental income to advisors making more than $10 million in annual bookings.
“Fora has more revenue than all AI travel companies, combined,” noted Brian O’Malley, founder and managing partner of Tactile Ventures. “Fora is bigger in AI travel because their offering combines automation when you want it with human accountability when you need it to provide a seamless traveler experience.”
The new capital brings Fora’s total funding to $138.5M and will allow Fora to deepen AI capabilities through Via, expand to new markets, grow its presence in categories like cruise, flights, and enterprise investment, and continue hiring.
About Fora
Fora is the platform powering a new generation of travel entrepreneurs. Its AI-enabled platform gives advisors the technology, training, and community to build thriving businesses—and connects travelers to personalized trip planning, expert service, and VIP perks worldwide. Since the company launched in 2021, Fora advisors have booked more than $3 billion in travel for clients across 180+ countries. Fora is headquartered in New York City and backed by Forerunner, Tactile Ventures, Thrive Capital, Insight Partners, Heartcore Capital, PLUS Capital, BlackPines Capital Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners. Learn more at foratravel.com.
New Juno Bio lab infrastructure marks a major step in scaling provider-led care and advancing precision vaginal microbiome testing
OAKLAND, Calif., July 16, 2026 — Juno Bio, a women’s health company dedicated to closing the gender health gap through precision vaginal microbiome testing and multi-omics, today announced the opening of its first sequencing lab built entirely for women’s health. The new facility, in Oakland, California, marks a major step forward in expanding access to high-quality, clinically relevant microbiome testing.
Juno Bio
To fuel this stage of growth, Juno Bio has raised $3.8 million in funding. Investors include Ada Ventures, Artesian, Entrepreneur First, and Illumina Accelerator, investors known for backing early-stage startups spanning women’s health, deep tech and applied sequencing.
Using next-generation sequencing, Juno Bio’s platform delivers a detailed, clinically actionable view of vaginal health, equipping patients and healthcare providers with deeper insights into conditions that are often misunderstood or misdiagnosed.
Since its founding, Juno Bio has pioneered a new standard of care for vaginal microbiome health, building one of the largest repositories of vaginal microbiome data and helping thousands of women access more precise testing and treatment. After launching its first wellness test, the company has sold more than 20,000 tests organically and evolved into a clinical platform, expanding its scientific and clinical infrastructure through pharmaceutical R&D partnerships, its own clinical lab, telehealth and pharmacy integrations, and a growing network of medical advisors, including Anna Powell, MD, of Johns Hopkins, specializing in reproductive infectious disease and vulvovaginal disorders.
“Vaginal microbiome testing has the potential to significantly reshape how we understand and manage vaginal health, particularly for patients with recurrent or unexplained symptoms,” said Dr. Powell. “While the field is still evolving , advances in sequencing and data interpretation are moving us closer to a future where more personalized, microbiome-informed care can complement existing diagnostic approaches.”
Juno Bio’s new clinically actionable vaginal microbiome and STI test is designed to address a critical gap in women’s health, where recurrent infections, fertility concerns, and peri- and menopausal symptoms are frequently misunderstood or inadequately treated. Processed in Juno Bio’s own CLIA-certified lab, the test analyzes approximately 10,000 bacteria and fungi, along with four common STIs, to give patients and clinicians a detailed picture of the vaginal ecosystem.
“Over the past five years, Juno Bio has grown from a pioneering vaginal microbiome test into a clinical platform advancing a new standard of care for women’s health,” said Hana Janebdar, Founder and CEO of Juno Bio. “We’ve built one of the largest repositories of vaginal microbiome data, helped thousands of women access clearer answers, expanded our clinical and scientific infrastructure, and deepened our partnerships across research and care delivery. This next chapter is about scaling that work, expanding access to more actionable care, and continuing to close the gender health gap. We’re incredibly grateful to our investors and partners for their trust in our team and our vision as we move into this next stage of growth.”
Unlike traditional tests that focus on a limited set of pathogens, Juno Bio’s platform can help identify microbes associated with co-infections, subclinical conditions, and broader microbiome patterns that may influence care. When paired with symptoms and clinical review, the test can help clarify likely drivers of concerns such as bacterial vaginosis, yeast infections, aerobic vaginitis, cytolytic vaginosis, and estrogen-related changes, supporting more informed next steps across care, lifestyle, sexual health practices, and prescribed medication.
“Juno Bio is setting a new standard for how vaginal health is understood and managed,” said Check Warner, Co-founding Partner at Ada Ventures. “What they’ve built at this stage, with this level of capital efficiency, is exceptional. We’re proud to support the team as they scale their clinical infrastructure and continue leading innovation in this critically underserved category.”
Despite how common vaginal health concerns are, they remain widely misunderstood. According to Juno Bio data, prior to using its test, 67.5% of customers had been incorrectly diagnosed, whether misdiagnosed, underdiagnosed, or overdiagnosed, and only 13% had been successfully treated. Additionally, approximately half of users experience co-infections, which are often missed by conventional testing but can significantly impact treatment outcomes.
“The vaginal microbiome is still one of the least understood systems in the body at a clinical scale. With our lab, we’re starting to build a measurement standard that clinicians can actually use,” said Leighton Turner, PhD, Founder and CSO of Juno Bio. “We believe the level of detail from this kind of testing can meaningfully improve how vaginal healthcare is provided.”
Juno Bio’s original wellness test helped tens of thousands of people better understand their vaginal microbiome. Its new clinically actionable test builds on that foundation with physician ordering and review, CLIA-certified lab processing, and results designed to help inform clinical decisions. The test is currently available in 46 states, with additional expansion planned.
About Juno Bio: Juno Bio is a women’s health company advancing precision care through the vaginal microbiome. By combining cutting-edge sequencing technology with clinically actionable insights, Juno Bio helps individuals better understand and manage their vaginal health. The company is building the data infrastructure needed to transform how conditions are defined, identified and treated, closing critical gaps in women’s healthcare.
Funding will accelerate Wonder’s expansion and investments in robotics, AI and the infrastructure powering more accessible food
NEW YORK, July 16, 2026 — Wonder, a leading food technology platform, today announced its $650 million Series D round at a pre-money valuation of $9 billion.
The round has strong participation from existing investors, including Accel, GV (Google Ventures) and New Enterprise Associates (NEA). New investors include certain funds managed by AllianceBernstein, ARK Invest and funds managed by Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management.
Wonder is redefining the dining experience by bringing together chef-developed, made-to-order food, unmatched variety, fast delivery and seamless convenience at a great value. The company’s proprietary kitchen technology and delivery innovation allow it to create, acquire, host and scale restaurant brands on its platform. Alongside its marketplace — which provides food for now through delivery from hundreds of thousands of local restaurants and beloved national brands nationwide — and its at-home meal solutions that offer food for later, Wonder strives to serve all meal occasions with those same unwavering standards.
The funding will support Wonder’s continued physical expansion, marketplace growth, and investments in technology, robotics and artificial intelligence. It builds on Wonder’s momentum, with its footprint having tripled from 46 to 140 locations since its last funding announcement in May 2025.
“Wonder was founded with the mission to make great food more accessible,” said Marc Lore, Founder and CEO of Wonder. “By building the technology, robotics and infrastructure behind a new kind of food platform, we’re making high-quality food more affordable, more convenient and available to more people than ever before. This funding allows us to accelerate that mission.”
“It’s been exciting to watch the evolution of what Wonder is building — a fundamentally new way for people to access great food, at a level of quality and speed traditional players can’t match,” said Tony Florence, Co-CEO of NEA. “Our ongoing investment reflects our confidence in that model and in Marc’s ability to continue executing at scale.”
“Wonder is disrupting an industry that has been slow to change with the kind of scalable, innovative model that we look for across the ARK portfolio,” said Cathie Wood, Founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest. “We believe Wonder’s technology-forward platform is redefining the economics and experience of restaurant-quality food at scale and we’re thrilled to support Marc and his team as they continue to execute on that vision.”
One of Wonder’s core differentiators is its multi-restaurant ordering feature, which ensures that customers never have to compromise since they can select dishes from multiple Wonder restaurants in a single order. Additionally, Wonder’s Infinite Kitchen, which includes the only fully automated bowl-making system in live commercial production, deepens its robotics capabilities, transforms how food is prepared and served, and increases throughput in restaurants.
This round also builds on the momentum of several recent Wonder milestones, including a new partnership with Zipline — the world’s largest autonomous delivery service — to bring on-demand drone delivery to Texas locations starting next year, and the appointment of industry veteran Jack Hartung to its board of directors.
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Jefferies and J.P. Morgan acted as placement agents in connection with the Series D funding.
About Wonder Wonder is a vertically integrated food technology platform built to make great food more accessible. From recipe development to kitchen robotics and autonomous delivery, Wonder owns mealtime from end to end, bringing a level of consistency, quality and speed to new geographies and at price points unattainable by traditional restaurants and delivery platforms. Wonder offers in-house and chef-created concepts, iconic restaurant brands, local restaurants for delivery nationwide and at-home meal kits in one seamless customer experience, with the aim of becoming the world’s first choice for every meal. To learn more, visit the Wonder Newsroom and LinkedIn page.
TAMPA, Fla., July 16, 2026 — Verdantas, a leader in digitally enabled technical consulting for the environment, water, and energy transition markets, today announced its acquisition of EN‑POWER GROUP (EN-POWER), an engineering firm headquartered in New York, NY. The addition of EN‑POWER strengthens Verdantas’ ability to help facility owners and institutions improve energy performance, reduce operating costs, and advance sustainability goals across a wide range of facility types.
Founded in 2003, EN‑POWER applies practical engineering expertise to help facility owners make informed decisions around energy efficiency, decarbonization, sustainability, and regulatory compliance. The firm designs, develops, and delivers comprehensive solutions across the full energy lifecycle of a facility, supporting clients with strategic guidance, data‑driven analysis, and expert project management. EN‑POWER’s services include engineering design, construction oversight and management, consulting, local law compliance, sustainability and energy services for both existing and new construction.
The acquisition expands Verdantas’ engineering, energy efficiency, and sustainable performance capabilities across the built environment, adding expertise in energy engineering and analysis, decarbonization, electrification, sustainability, funding strategies, and regulatory compliance. EN-POWER brings deep experience helping clients navigate evolving building performance regulations, particularly in complex urban markets, while advancing long‑term performance, cost-effective design, sustainability, and occupant comfort.
Jesse Kropelnicki, CEO of Verdantas, said, “EN‑POWER is an exceptional cultural and strategic fit for Verdantas. Their practical, engineering‑driven approach to energy efficiency and sustainability directly complements our work in the energy transition market. They have a strong track record helping clients improve building performance while navigating funding, incentives, and compliance requirements. This partnership expands our capabilities, adds a significant New York City presence, and reinforces our commitment to delivering solutions that create lasting value for our clients and communities.”
Michael Scorrano, Managing Director and Founder of EN‑POWER, commented, “EN‑POWER was built around helping clients make smart, financially responsible decisions that improve building performance over the long term. Verdantas shares our values around technical rigor, trusted client relationships, and practical solutions. Joining Verdantas allows us to expand our geographic reach and service offerings while continuing to deliver the thoughtful, results‑driven work our clients expect.”
James Soldano, Managing Partner at Sterling Investment Partners, added, “EN‑POWER is a strong addition to the Verdantas platform. Their depth in energy efficiency and design, sustainability, electrification, and compliance aligns well with Verdantas’ strategy of building specialized, market‑leading capabilities. This acquisition further strengthens the firm’s ability to scale while maintaining the technical quality and client focus that drive long‑term value.”
Clients of both Verdantas and EN‑POWER will benefit from expanded technical expertise, deeper sustainability and energy performance capabilities, and the combined strength of a growing national platform with strong local roots.
PHG Advisory based out of New York, served as a buyside advisor to Verdantas on the transaction.
About Verdantas Verdantas is a leader in digitally enabled technical consulting solutions for the environment, water, and energy transition markets. Blending balanced strengths in environmental and engineering expertise, we partner with clients and communities to create comprehensive solutions that contribute to a sustainable future. With a team of over 2,540 professionals nationwide, we harness diverse skills and innovative technologies to address complex challenges, protect vital resources, and foster resilient communities. For more information, visit www.verdantas.com.
About Sterling Investment Partners Sterling Investment Partners is a leading private equity firm that has been building leading middle-market companies for 35 years with a highly experienced, cohesive team of senior investment professionals. Sterling focuses on control investments in value-added distribution and business services, acquiring businesses that the firm believes have strong, sustainable competitive advantages and significant opportunities for value creation. Over its history, Sterling has completed over 275 transactions, representing more than $35 billion in aggregate value. Sterling is ranked a Top 20 performing global middle market private equity firm by Dow Jones-HEC Paris, and was recognized as a Founder Friendly Investor by Inc.com. For more information, visit www.sterlinglp.com.
Due diligence on interval funds helps advisors navigate private markets with greater confidence, clarity, and risk awareness
BERWYN, Pa., July 16, 2026 — Envestnet, the leading Adaptive WealthTech company, has released its first list of research-approved interval funds, which have undergone the firm’s rigorous due diligence process by the manager research team at Envestnet PMC. This marks an important expansion of Envestnet’s alternative investment capabilities.
Not only are a growing list of interval funds available through Envestnet’s Unified Managed Account (UMA) platform, but the firm’s manager research team will cover and selectively expand an approved list of interval funds, just as it does for separately managed accounts (SMAs), mutual funds, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), and fund strategist portfolios. Advisors now have access to private market investments and independent research which can help them evaluate interval funds directly within the Envestnet ecosystem.
Envestnet first announced the accessibility of what would become a growing list of interval funds through its UMA platform in March 2026. As part of this offering, the firm provides account administration, trading, rebalancing, and tax management capabilities. Building on this milestone, Envestnet PMC has undertaken the same structured due diligence process for evaluating interval funds as it does for other investment vehicles. The resulting research helps advisors better understand manager quality, portfolio construction, liquidity constraints, valuation methodologies, expenses, and risk/return expectations before committing client capital to funds that merit PMC research coverage. Access to the approved list of interval fund names is available to advisors at no additional cost.
“Interval funds are a relatively new investment vehicle wrapper, and advisors and investors placing money into these products for private markets exposure understandably need assurances that everything looks good, and that risks or concerns are addressed,” said Todd Rais, Head of Investment Products and Services at Envestnet. “Private markets can offer attractive income and diversification benefits, but manager selection matters immensely. Unlike public markets, where performance differences between managers can be relatively narrow, private market returns can vary significantly from one manager to another. We can provide value by helping advisors identify managers with a higher potential to outperform their peers while understanding the risks – empowering them to make more informed decisions.”
Cambridge Associates data[i] shows performance between top-quartile and bottom-quartile private equity managers can differ by approximately 12.9 percentage points, nearly nine times the 1.5 percentage-point dispersion observed in public equities, highlighting why manager selection is one of the most important drivers of private market outcomes. With this in mind, the PMC due diligence process begins with an initial review of an interval fund manager’s minimum track record and asset levels, followed by more in-depth analysis and monitoring which encompasses on-site visits, annual questionnaires, and periodic research notes. The team investigates a manager’s fees, sourcing, valuation, deal flow, and other relevant factors. Team members then debate and vote on the final analysis report for each manager.
“It’s important you invest with the right manager if you’re going to invest in private markets, but most interval funds have short track records. Our deep-dive analysis examines the longer track records of managers and gives advisors the confidence to know what to expect in terms of liquidity restraints and risk/return expectations before they commit client dollars,” said Dana D’Auria, CFA, Co-Chief Investment Officer and Group President, Envestnet Solutions. “We are making private markets easier to implement operationally, but just as importantly, easier to evaluate.”
More than 80% of companies with revenues exceeding $100 million are privately held[ii]. Investor demand for access to private market exposure continues to grow, as Cerulli data[iii] shows advisor allocations to less than fully liquid private market strategies are expected to rise from roughly $1.9 trillion last year to $3.7 trillion by 2029. At the same time, the interval fund market has expanded rapidly, from roughly $75 billion in 2020 to approximately 160 funds representing more than $300 billion in assets today[iv]. The confluence of these factors underscores the crucial need for independent due diligence, manager evaluation, and ongoing monitoring.
Envestnet’s goal is to help advisors access, implement, research, trade, and monitor private market investments through a single, integrated experience that offers the same discipline and oversight they expect from traditional investments.
To learn more about Envestnet PMC manager research for the interval funds available on the Envestnet platform, please reach out to your Envestnet relationship manager. Additional clarity on the complexities of interval funds, and other alternative investments, can be accessed via Envestnet’s Alternatives Research Center: https://go.envestnet.com/Unlocking-Alts-with-Envestnet.
About Envestnet
Envestnet is the leading Adaptive WealthTech company that helps advisors meet the moment with its comprehensive technology, insights, and industry-leading support. This empowers advisors to make smart decisions throughout every step of a client’s financial life. Backed by 25 years of experience and $7.0 trillion in platform assets, Envestnet is trusted by over a third of all financial advisors across many leading banks, wealth managers, brokerages, and RIAs.
For a deeper dive into how Envestnet is shaping the future of financial advice, visit www.envestnet.com. Stay connected with us for the latest updates and insights on LinkedIn and X (Envestnet_).
Envestnet refers to the family of operating subsidiaries of the holding company, Envestnet, Inc.
Interval funds expose investors to liquidity risk. Due to their structure, an investor may only redeem shares during scheduled repurchase windows and may only be able to sell a certain percentage of the shares requested to be repurchased. As a result, this type of product may not be suitable for investors with short-term investing goals or a need for frequent or immediate liquidity. Investors should refer to the fund’s prospectus for specific information about redemptions, repurchase offers, fee structures, and the material risks associated with this type of product.
Envestnet provides administrative, technical and operation services to support the use of LTW Funds in investment models on the Envestnet platform, and receives additional compensation for these services. For more details on PMC’s research practices and/or portfolio attributes, please contact [email protected] or call 1-888-612-9300. Advisors should always conduct their own research and due diligence on investment products and the product managers prior to offering or making a recommendation to a client.
SJF Ventures invests in EdTech company that uses AI to observe real-world performance and deliver expert feedback at a scale human faculty can’t match
NEW YORK, July 16, 2026 — DeweyLearn, the multimodal AI platform that understands human learning at scale, announced the company secured $5 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, led by SJF Ventures with participation from Catalysis Capital, Morningside, and Owl Ventures, among others. DeweyLearn’s AI combines audio, video, and learning data with domain and learning science knowledge to deliver deep insights into instruction and learning in both physical and online settings across clinical and healthcare education, higher education, workforce learning, and K-12.
In a world in which what you know is less important than what you can do, skills evaluation is rapidly moving toward performance-based assessments. Trained on institutions’ specific curriculums and domain expertise, DeweyLearn watches real learning in action and delivers actionable, expert-level insights at a scale that would be impossible to achieve with human assessment alone. For its innovative multimodal AI, DeweyLearn recently won the 2026 ASU+GSV Cup, selected from more than 3,000 companies as the top education technology startup in the world.
“Human expertise has been a limited resource for our entire history,” said Luyen Chou, co-founder and CEO at DeweyLearn. “With multimodal AI, DeweyLearn can give an aspiring chef real-time feedback on her knife technique from the world’s greatest chefs. It can assess the effectiveness of clinical therapists, as well as allow nursing students to receive real-time feedback in simulated hospitals. We’re making the kind of expert feedback that once required a master watching over your shoulder available to every learner. DeweyLearn represents a paradigm shift in how we assess skills and apply human expertise at scale in areas as varied as healthcare, hospitality, and IT.”
Any use case that requires a human expert to see, hear, and understand in order to assess student performance, DeweyLearn can do as well, if not better, than a human, at scale.
At Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts, DeweyLearn has graded more than 20,000 student homework submissions, serving as a first review for instructor approval or final adjustment, saving hundreds of instructor gradings hours to date and giving aspiring chefs immediate feedback. This time saved on assignment reviews has allowed instructors more time for one-on-one student support and interaction.
DeweyLearn is being used to enhance student assessment across diverse domains. As Katy Genseke, Psy.D., Head of Clinical Product at Riverside Insights, explains, “Riverside, a provider of specialty assessments to students, is working with DeweyLearn to explore new approaches to its assessment offerings to improve efficiency and effectiveness.”
The platform is also used in clinical training. The NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) is scaling continuing education for therapists working with developmental and complex trauma.
“SJF is focused on enabling better learning outcomes and career opportunities for all,” said Arrun Kapoor, Managing Director at SJF Ventures. “We were wowed by the transformative potential of DeweyLearn’s approach to applying multi-modal AI for education and confident that the founders have both the industry experience and AI expertise to execute on that potential. We’re proud to partner with DeweyLearn to help instructors and learners master the science of education.”
DeweyLearn was founded by Luyen Chou, a longtime EdTech leader who served as Chief Learning Officer at 2U, Chief Product Officer at Pearson, and founded The School at Columbia University, and Dirk Liebich, an expert in applied AI, data analytics, and predictive analytics. The company is named after John Dewey, the philosopher and educational reformer who encouraged Chou’s grandmother to study teaching at the University of Chicago during his trip to China from 1919 to 1921.
“DeweyLearn is building a model of human learning informed by real cycles of observing, intervening, and measuring across diverse learning domains,” said Dirk Liebich, co-founder and CTO at DeweyLearn. “Our novel approach quickly builds a knowledge graph tailored to each customer, like a knife cut technique or what makes a student chef successful. But, in doing so, we’re also creating a meta knowledge graph of how people learn. Much like Google Earth, we’re building a world model of learning that empirically understands learning at an action level and can apply the insights at scale.”
Learn more about how DeweyLearn is empowering teachers to teach smarter and institutions to lead better at deweylearn.com.
About DeweyLearn
DeweyLearn combines classroom audio, video, and learning data to deliver deep insights into instruction and learning. From instructional effectiveness to student mastery, cognitive demand to emotional engagement, DeweyLearn uses multimodal AI to help experts assess real performance and improve outcomes. The platform is designed for clinical and healthcare education, higher education, workforce learning, and K-12, in both physical and online classrooms.
About SJF Ventures
Founded in 1999, SJF Ventures is an impact venture capital fund whose mission is to catalyze the development of highly successful businesses that drive lasting, positive changes. Its deep experience in education and workforce includes portfolio companies SchooLinks, Interplay Learning, Elemeno Health, Rhithm and Springboard.
NICOSIE, Chypre, 16 juillet 2026 — Xryma Plc (la « Société ») (Euronext Paris : XRY) ; (ISIN : CY0200861017), un groupe de technologies bancaires proposant des services réglementés d’open banking transfrontaliers, des services bancaires transactionnels internationaux et des services de paiement en temps réel au sein de l’UE et au Royaume-Uni, tout en fournissant de façon indépendante des logiciels et des technologies bancaires à des banques et institutions financières (IF) tierces, a le plaisir d’annoncer que son autorité compétente, la Commission chypriote des valeurs mobilières et des changes (« CySEC »), a approuvé le prospectus établi dans le cadre de l’admission des actions ordinaires de la Société à la négociation sur le marché réglementé de la Bourse Euronext Paris, la négociation devant débuter à l’ouverture du marché le 24 juillet 2026. Le prospectus va désormais faire l’objet d’un certificat d’approbation, dit « passeport », en France, via l’Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF).
Xryma Plc Announces Approval and Publication of its Prospectus for Admission to Trading on Euronext Paris
Sous réserve de l’approbation par Euronext Paris de l’admission de Xryma Plc à la cote, 110 079 450 actions ordinaires seront cotées en euros (€) sous le symbole boursier « XRY ». Si les conditions de clôture habituelles et d’obtention des autorisations définitives sont remplies, la date prévue du premier jour de cotation à la Bourse d’Euronext Paris a été fixée au 24 juillet 2026.
L’admission prendra la forme d’une cotation technique (directe). Aucune nouvelle action ne sera émise, aucune action existante n’est proposée à la vente par la Société, et aucun capital ne sera levé dans le cadre de cette admission.
Depuis sa création, Xryma Plc a mis en place une plateforme de paiement réglementée et complète, rentable depuis sept ans sans interruption, qui simplifie la manière dont les commerçants acceptent, transfèrent et règlent les paiements, via plusieurs canaux de paiement, par le biais d’une connexion unique. Cette introduction en bourse, prévue prochainement, marque une étape importante dans le développement de la Société et témoigne de l’envergure que le groupe Xryma a atteint en tant qu’entreprise de technologie bancaire réglementée et basée sur les infrastructures.
Le groupe Xryma applique un modèle économique évolutif qui a généré un chiffre d’affaires de 53,4 millions d’euros au titre de l’exercice 2025, basé sur les frais et les transactions (autres revenus compris). Au cours de la même période, le groupe Xryma a traité un volume de transactions d’environ 4,0 milliards d’euros, tandis que sa filiale de services logiciels Probanx® a traité un volume de 206,7 milliards d’euros en solutions de SaaS pour le compte de banques et d’institutions financières clientes, ce volume étant monétisé par le biais de licences logicielles plutôt que par des commissions sur les transactions de produits réglementés.
Takis Taoushanis, président non exécutif de Xryma Plc, a déclaré :
« L’approbation du prospectus de notre Société en vue de son admission à la cotation sur Euronext Paris marque une étape importante pour notre entreprise. Le Conseil d’administration a supervisé un processus de préparation rigoureux, et les principes de transparence et de gouvernance d’un marché réglementé européen de premier plan sont conformes aux normes auxquelles le groupe Xryma se conforme déjà. »
« Cette évolution devrait renforcer notre position sur le marché, soutenir l’expansion continue de notre portefeuille de produits et créer une valeur à long terme pour nos clients, nos partenaires, nos collaborateurs et nos actionnaires. Cela souligne également le rôle croissant que joue Chypre en tant que pôle d’affaires international bénéficiant d’une portée mondiale, soutenu par un écosystème de services professionnels permettant à des entreprises bien gérées d’opérer et de se développer sur les marchés internationaux. »
Nikogiannis (John) Karantzis, PDG du groupe et directeur général de Xryma Plc, a déclaré :
« Xryma Plc effectue des transferts d’argent via les banques centrales, de banque à banque, par l’intermédiaire de banques correspondantes, via le réseau ACH, par monnaie électronique, par carte, en espèces et via des rails de paiement en cryptomonnaie. La Société vient à bout d’un grand nombre de défis posés par le paysage mondial des paiements, aujourd’hui fragmenté. S’appuyant sur un écosystème propriétaire, réglementé et complet, développé au cours des 15 dernières années, Xryma Plc est bien plus qu’une simple société de paiement. Elle est devenue une entreprise spécialisée dans les infrastructures financières de pointe qui permet aux entreprises d’accepter, de transférer et de régler des paiements à l’échelle mondiale via de multiples canaux de paiement, le tout sur une plateforme unique et unifiée. »
« Je me réjouis pour la Société et ses actionnaires de cette introduction en bourse imminente sur Euronext Paris, qui figure parmi les cinq premiers groupes boursiers mondiaux et est considéré comme une « bourse de premier plan ». Cette admission devrait permettre d’ouvrir davantage notre registre des actionnaires à d’autres institutions financières, qui représentent déjà 25 % de notre registre, ainsi qu’à des investisseurs du secteur technologique partageant les mêmes valeurs, capables d’apprécier la proposition de valeur unique de Xryma. »
Motifs d’admission
L’admission des actions de Xryma Plc à la cotation sur Euronext Paris devrait :
Accroître la notoriété du groupe Xryma et de ses marques
Améliorer au fil du temps la liquidité des actions de la Société
Renforcer l’accès de la Société aux marchés financiers afin de soutenir sa croissance future
Renforcer la transparence de la Société et de ses filiales, tout en soutenant les partenariats nouveaux et existants
La direction générale de Xryma Plc souhaite remercier la CySEC, l’AMF, Euronext Paris ainsi que tous les conseillers qui l’ont soutenue lors du processus d’introduction en bourse transfrontalière, notamment Aldebaran Advisors (Paris), All Invest Securities (Paris), CDB Global Securities (Nicosie), Morgan Lewis (Paris) et Chrysses Demetriades (Limassol). Cette introduction en bourse, attendue, constitue un précédent important pour les entreprises chypriotes qui souhaitent obtenir une cotation similaire sur le marché français.
Le prospectus de Xryma Plc peut être consulté sur le site Internet dédié aux relations avec les investisseurs du groupe Xryma, sur le site https://www.xryma.com/investors.
À propos de Xryma Plc
Xryma Plc [Euronext Paris : XRY] est un groupe européen de technologie bancaire réglementé, qui développe des technologies bancaires par l’intermédiaire de sa filiale Probanx® et exploite des services de paiement numériques s’appuyant sur un règlement direct par la banque centrale. Xryma est l’un des premiers participants non bancaires autorisés à se connecter directement aux plateformes T2 RTGS et TIPS d’Eurosystem. La Société est titulaire d’agréments en tant qu’établissement de monnaie électronique (EMI) tant dans l’UE qu’au Royaume-Uni et propose des comptes d’entreprise multidevises. Son service d’open banking, PaidBy®, propose aux commerçants l’un des tout premiers services transfrontaliers au monde de virement de compte à compte avec conversion dynamique des devises, permettant des paiements locaux instantanés et un règlement le jour ouvrable suivant dans les devises courantes et exotiques. Xryma est également l’émetteur du futur jeton de monnaie électronique XrymaCoin (XREUR).
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Ci-après l’annonce officielle légale relative à la publication du prospectus ————–
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Nicosie, le 15 juillet 2026
ANNONCE Approbation et publication du prospectus de XRYMA PLC en vue de l’admission à la négociation sur Euronext Paris de toutes les actions ordinaires d’une valeur nominale de 0,07 € chacune composant le capital de XRYMA PLC
XRYMA PLC (la « Société ») annonce que le 14 juillet 2026, la Commission chypriote des valeurs mobilières et des changes (ci-après dénommée «CySEC ») a approuvé le prospectus de la Société (le « Prospectus ») concernant l’admission à la négociation des actions ordinaires de la Société (les « Actions ») sur le marché réglementé d’Euronext Paris, la négociation, sur une base inconditionnelle, devant actuellement débuter le vendredi 24 juillet 2026 [date indicative].
Le Prospectus, tel qu’approuvé par la CySEC, sera mis gratuitement à la disposition du grand public au format électronique à l’adresse suivante :
Le site Internet de la Société, https://www.xryma.com, à compter du 14 juillet 2026 ;
Le site Internet de la Société d’investissement, chargée de l’élaboration du Prospectus, Global Capital Securities and Financial Services Limited, https://www.globalcapital.com.cy, à compter du 14 juillet 2026 ;
L’admission des actions à la cotation sur Euronext Paris est subordonnée à l’obtention par la Société d’une autorisation d’Euronext Paris.
Calendrier prévisionnel des principaux événements d’admission à la cotation
Le calendrier ci-dessous est donné à titre indicatif et est susceptible d’être modifié, notamment en cas d’accélération ou de prolongation éventuelles :
Approbation et publication du prospectus : 14 juillet 2026
Date prévue pour le début de la cotation des actions sur Euronext Paris, si l’admission est approuvée : 24 juillet 2026 [à titre indicatif]
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Le Prospectus a été établi sous la forme d’un document unique au sens de l’article 6, paragraphe 3, du règlement (UE) 2017/1129 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 14 juin 2017 (« règlement Prospectus »), et établi sur la base des annexes 1 et 11 du règlement délégué (UE) 2019/980 de la Commission du 14 mars 2019 complétant le règlement Prospectus en ce qui concerne le format, le contenu, l’examen et l’approbation du prospectus à publier lors de l’offre au public de valeurs mobilières ou de leur admission à la négociation sur un marché réglementé, et abrogeant le règlement (CE) n° 2004/809, ainsi que des lois chypriotes de 2005 à 2019 relatives aux offres publiques et aux prospectus, dans la mesure où elles restent en vigueur après l’entrée en vigueur du règlement sur les prospectus.
La Société a demandé à la CySEC de transmettre le Prospectus approuvé à l’Autorité des marchés financiers, conformément au règlement sur les prospectus.
Le présent Prospectus a été approuvé par la CySEC, en sa qualité d’autorité compétente à Chypre au sens du règlement sur les prospectus. La CySEC certifie uniquement que le présent Prospectus répond aux critères d’exhaustivité, de clarté et de cohérence imposés par le règlement sur les prospectus. Cette approbation ne doit pas être considérée comme une garantie de la qualité des actions ou de la Société. Les investisseurs doivent évaluer par eux-mêmes si un investissement dans les Actions leur convient et doivent étudier attentivement le Prospectus avant de prendre toute décision d’investissement concernant les Actions, afin de bien comprendre les potentiels risques et avantages liés à cette décision.
LE PRÉSENT DOCUMENT N’EST PAS UN PROSPECTUS, MAIS UNE PUBLICITÉ AU SENS DU RÈGLEMENT SUR LES PROSPECTUS ; LES INVESTISSEURS NE DOIVENT PAS PRENDRE DE DÉCISIONS D’INVESTISSEMENT CONCERNANT LES ACTIONS MENTIONNÉES DANS LE PRÉSENT DOCUMENT EN SE BASANT SUR CETTE PUBLICITÉ.
Backed by Notable Capital, leading cybersecurity funds and a coalition of top CISOs and founders, Beacon achieves 300% ARR growth in H1 2026 as enterprises across financial services, insurance, and technology replace legacy security architectures with the agentic platform to run and build AI-native security.
NEW YORK, July 16, 2026 — Beacon Security, the platform for agentic cybersecurity work, today announced the successful closing of a $13 million seed funding round led by Notable Capital with participation from Holly Ventures, AlphaDrive Ventures, SVCI, Jefferies Family Office and over 60 founders and CISOs, including founders from Talon, Descope, Gem Security, Dig Security and Cider Security. This funding will help accelerate Beacon’s vision to give modern security teams the intelligent data layer they deserve, so that both human and AI agents can defend their organizations more effectively.
“The acceleration of AI agents in the enterprise is creating a distinct need for a legible context layer for cyber defenders, which is fueling a fundamentally new security architecture,” said Gal Tal-Hochberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Beacon. “We built Beacon to solve these challenges by providing the trusted data layer that allows organizations to deploy security agents compliantly and effectively. With this investment, we are transforming security for native AI usage to drive real-time posture, detection and response, deep hunting, and operational analysis of security estates at unprecedented efficiency, scale, and complexity.”
Beacon is a platform for AI-native security that creates an environment for AI agents and security teams to autonomously prevent, detect, and defend, and for humans to run, control, build, and analyze. Defenders can move faster than attackers with Beacon, which provides critical context, history, and real-time visibility.
Beacon’s key capabilities include:
Best-of-breed data operations: Beacon’s Data Layer fuses telemetry across vendors, routes clean data to external systems, pre-resolves entities, and automates normalization and enrichment at scale, so AI agents and human analysts always reason on a clean, complete, and cost-optimized picture. The platform’s coverage and posture monitoring continuously map sources against threats and compliance, flagging gaps before they can be exploited.
Agentic Cybersecurity Work Platform: Beacon’s platform allows defenders to leverage agents for a broad range of tasks, from detection engineering, investigation support, posture, shadow AI analysis, and more. By providing an open harness fit for cybersecurity tasks in enterprises and connected to all relevant context, defenders can execute agentic workflows or build their own.
Production-ready security agents (Beacon Agents): A growing library of specialized agents purpose-built for the work defenders do every day, tuned by offensive-security and nation-state veterans and wired into Beacon’s context layer, these agents catch what other stacks miss, from cross-source lateral movement to AI-fast attacks and novel TTPs, so teams get outcomes out of the box without building from scratch or locking into a closed stack. More agents are coming soon, including shadow-AI analysis, alert triage and investigation.
Beacon has achieved rapid adoption across dozens of enterprises since launch, spanning industries from fintech to healthcare to hospitality, with ARR growing over 300% in H1 2026. Organizations are moving quickly to deploy Beacon because their infrastructure was not built for a world where AI is both the attack surface and the adversary. This momentum spans high-growth technology companies and private equity-backed organizations alike, all confronting the same reality: AI is accelerating threats faster than human-scale security teams can respond, existing infrastructure lacks the intelligence to keep pace, and the cost of falling behind is no longer theoretical.
“We are growing fast, and Beacon lets our security data keep pace,” said Olindo Verillo, Director, Detection and Response, Cerebras. “It gives us the agility to evolve on our own terms, and it has become part of how we run security day to day, increasingly with our agents doing that data work autonomously. Beacon is a core part of how we are building security for what comes next.”
Founded in 2024 by veterans of elite intelligence, offensive security, and enterprise-scale data infrastructure, including Gal Tal-Hochberg, who previously founded HiredScore (sold to Workday for $520M), alongside co-founders Or Mattatia and Iddo Israely, who bring backgrounds in nation-state cyber defense, Beacon gives modern security teams the foundation to defend with both human judgment and autonomous agents.
This funding follows the company rapidly meeting key milestones, most notably the launch of Beacon’s agentic data layer. Positioned between telemetry sources and downstream tools, this release automates the normalization and enrichment of data, making it faster, more adaptive, and less dependent on engineering effort. Beacon is already trusted by Fortune 500 security teams across critical, highly regulated industries, helping them close coverage gaps, detect threats that other stacks miss, and defend at the speed and scale that modern threats demand.
“Every CISO knows the real bottleneck isn’t detection; it’s trust in your own data. That problem doesn’t go away when you add agents; it gets less forgiving,” said Oren Yunger, Managing Partner, Notable Capital and Beacon board member. “The data-trust gap is exactly what Beacon is bridging in the AI era, bringing context to the security teams and their agentic workforce.”
About Beacon Beacon is the agentic security platform that security teams run on and build on. Trusted by Fortune 500 teams across critical, highly regulated industries, Beacon gives defenders the clean, contextualized data, specialized security agents, and open harness they need to detect threats faster, close coverage gaps, and run security at a fraction of traditional costs.
