MCLEAN, Va., Oct. 28, 2026 — TempusDirect, a technology-enabled provider of third-party claims cost containment solutions serving the property and casualty (“P&C”) insurance industry, today announced a strategic investment from Aldrich Capital Partners (“ACP”), a private equity firm focused on investing in technology-driven business services companies with strong leadership teams and significant growth potential.

The investment will support TempusDirect’s next phase of growth as the Company continues to scale its technology platform, expand its market presence, and enhance its service capabilities. TempusDirect plans to invest in product development, client services, and business development, while advancing automation and technology-driven efficiencies across its suite of solutions. These initiatives will further strengthen the Company’s ability to deliver faster, drive meaningful cost savings, and offer exceptional service to its insurance carrier partners.

“We founded TempusDirect ten years ago believing there was a better way to help insurance carriers manage the complexity and rising costs of third-party claims. Our success has been built on delivering measurable value to our clients, developing innovative solutions, and assembling an exceptional team. Our partnership with Aldrich marks an exciting next chapter, providing the resources and strategic support to accelerate innovation, expand our capabilities, and deliver even greater value to our carrier partners,” said Greg Gaughan, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of TempusDirect.

TempusDirect offers a comprehensive suite of three complementary solutions designed to address critical cost containment needs across the third-party claims lifecycle. Its bill validation and benchmarking solution leverages proprietary claims data to evaluate medical charges and establish defensible benchmarks for attorney-represented claims. Its direct provider negotiation solution facilitates the resolution of medical bills for unrepresented claimants through direct engagement with healthcare providers. Additionally, its demand package review solution provides carriers with a data-driven assessment of medical expenses presented in attorney-represented claims at the demand stage. Together, these integrated capabilities enable insurers to make more informed claims decisions, manage growing claims costs, and accelerate resolution while maintaining consistency and efficiency throughout the claims process.

“Operational excellence and responsive service have been at the core of TempusDirect from day one. As carrier demand for our solutions continues to grow, this investment allows us to expand our capacity, continue innovating across our platform, and keep delivering the speed and accuracy our partners rely on,” said Josh Dickerson, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder of TempusDirect.

“We’re excited to back Greg, Josh, and the talented team they’ve built at TempusDirect,” said Raz Zia, Managing Partner at Aldrich Capital Partners. “We are active investors in industry specific business services companies and TempusDirect’s tech-enabled solution for the insurance market really stood out. Customers and industry experts consistently pointed to the clear, demonstrable return TempusDirect delivers. We see a significant opportunity to build on that foundation by expanding the platform’s capabilities, having the ACP AI team deploy more advanced capabilities for clients and serving an even broader set of customers in the years ahead.”

About TempusDirect

TempusDirect is a technology-enabled provider of third-party claims cost containment solutions serving the U.S. property and casualty insurance industry. Powered by a proprietary database of historical claims data across multiple insurance carriers, the Company helps insurers validate and benchmark medical bills, negotiate provider settlements, and evaluate demand packages to reduce claims costs and improve resolution efficiency. Founded in 2016, TempusDirect is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona. For more information, visit www.tempusdirect.com.

About Aldrich Capital Partners

Aldrich Capital Partners is a private equity firm that partners with technology-driven businesses led by exceptional management teams. The firm combines growth capital with strategic and operational support to help companies accelerate innovation, scale their operations, and realize their long-term growth potential. For more information, visit www.aldrichcap.com.

SOURCE Aldrich Capital Partners

LONDEN, 28 oktober 2026 — Jacobi Strategies heeft vandaag de lancering aangekondigd van het Jacobi Investment Management Harness (het “Harness”), waarmee institutionele beleggingsteams een geregeld traject krijgen van een eigen AI-prototype naar een productieworkflow.

Dankzij AI is de tijd die nodig is om een prototype van een nieuw investeringsidee te ontwikkelen, teruggebracht van maanden naar dagen. Wat echter niet gelijke tred heeft gehouden, is het traject naar productie. Modellen worden nog steeds in spreadsheets uitgevoerd en AI-prototypes staan nog steeds op persoonlijke laptops. Wanneer een raad van bestuur, auditor of toezichthouder vraagt welke versie in gebruik is, welke gegevens worden gebruikt en wie de goedkeuring heeft gegeven, kunnen de meeste investeringstechnologieën daar geen antwoord op geven. Het idee is niet langer de beperking. Maar de infrastructuur die het draagt.

Het Jacobi Investment Management Harness is de verbindende schakel die de beleggingslogica van een bedrijf over het gehele Jacobi-platform schaalbaar maakt, waardoor het intellectuele eigendom niet in de prototypefase blijft, maar de basis vormt voor portfolioresultaten. Het bundelt de resultaten die Jacobi al meer dan tien jaar levert, nu versneld door AI, in vier lagen op één klantspecifiek entiteitsdatamodel:

• Foundation Multi-Asset Platform: portfolioconstructie, risicoanalyse, rapportage en geïntegreerde AI-agenten, gestructureerd rond de eigen processen van elk bedrijf.
• AI Workbench: een beheerde ontwikkelomgeving die is verbonden met live portefeuillegegevens en productie-infrastructuur.
• Productie-infrastructuur: private implementaties, API-governance en volledige audit trails, waardoor workflows naar productie kunnen worden verplaatst met deterministische, auditklare resultaten.
• Forward Deployed Engineering: technische investeringsexperts die samenwerken met investeringsteams, bouwen op de AI Workbench, implementeren in productie en een systeem teruggeven dat eigendom is van de klant en dat deze zelfstandig beheert en exploiteert.

Tony Mackenzie, medeoprichter en CEO van Jacobi Strategies, zei:

“De afstand tussen een briljant investeringsidee en een live klantenportefeuille wordt vaak gemeten in maanden van technische schulden, governancehindernissen en infrastructuurcomplexiteit. Bij Jacobi helpen we bedrijven die kloof te overbruggen door eigen beleggingsinzichten om te zetten in schaalbare, auditklare oplossingen die meetbare waarde creëren voor klanten.”

Over Jacobi

Jacobi is een wereldwijde aanbieder van investeringstechnologie voor beleggingsteams in meerdere activa, van de kernactiviteiten rondom portfolio-opbouw en klantbetrokkenheid tot AI-productie-infrastructuur, AI Workbench en Forward Deployed Engineering.

Het open architectuurplatform biedt bedrijven veilige, private implementaties die ze kunnen uitbreiden met hun eigen code, modellen, data, analyses en applicaties, waardoor beleggingsteams volledig eigenaar blijven van hun intellectuele eigendom.

Jacobi is opgericht in 2014 en levert zijn technologie aan vooraanstaande beleggingsorganisaties op de hele wereld, waaronder enkele van ‘s werelds grootste activa- en vermogensbeheerders, pensioenfondsen, vermogensbezitters en beleggingsadviseurs. Bezoek www.jacobistrategies.com.

LONDON, Oct. 28, 2026 — Jacobi Strategies today announced the launch of the Jacobi Investment Management Harness (the “Harness”), giving institutional investment teams a governed route from proprietary AI prototype to production workflow.

AI has cut the time it takes to prototype a new investment idea from months to days. What has not kept pace is the path to production. Models still run in spreadsheets, and AI prototypes still sit on personal laptops. When a board, auditor or regulator asks which version is live, what data it used and who approved it, most investment technology stacks cannot answer. The idea is no longer the constraint. The infrastructure that carries it is.

The Jacobi Investment Management Harness is the connective tissue that scales a firm’s investment logic across the Jacobi platform, so its intellectual property does not stay in prototype but powers portfolio outcomes. It packages what Jacobi has delivered for over a decade, accelerated now by AI, into four layers on one client-specific entity data model:

• Foundation Multi-Asset Platform: portfolio construction, risk analytics, reporting and embedded AI agents, structured around each firm’s own processes.
• AI Workbench: a governed development environment connected to live portfolio data and production infrastructure.
• Production Infrastructure: private deployments, API governance and full audit trails, moving workflows to production with deterministic, audit-ready results.
• Forward Deployed Engineering: technical investment experts who partner with investment teams, build on the AI Workbench, deploy to production, and hand back a system the client owns and operates independently.

Tony Mackenzie, Co-Founder and CEO, Jacobi Strategies, said:

“The distance between a brilliant investment idea and a live client portfolio is often measured in months of technical debt, governance hurdles and infrastructure complexity. At Jacobi, we help firms bridge that gap, turning proprietary investment thinking into scalable, audit-ready solutions that create measurable value for clients.”

About Jacobi

Jacobi is a global investment technology provider for multi-asset investment teams, from core portfolio construction and client engagement to AI Production Infrastructure, AI Workbench and Forward Deployed Engineering.

Its open architecture platform provides firms with secure, private deployments that they can extend with their own code, models, data, analytics and applications, giving investment teams full ownership of their intellectual property.

Founded in 2014, Jacobi provides its technology to top-tier investors across the globe, including some of the world’s leading asset and wealth managers, pension funds, asset owners and investment consultants. Visit www.jacobistrategies.com.

LONDON, 28. Oktober 2026 — Jacobi Strategies gab heute die Einführung des Jacobi Investment Management Harness (das “Harness”) bekannt, das institutionellen Investmentteams einen geregelten Weg vom proprietären KI-Prototyp zum Produktionsworkflow bietet.

Durch künstliche Intelligenz konnte die Entwicklungszeit für neue Investitionsideen von Monaten auf Tage verkürzt werden. Was nicht Schritt gehalten hat, ist der Weg zur Produktion. Modelle laufen immer noch in Tabellenkalkulationen, und KI-Prototypen befinden sich immer noch auf persönlichen Laptops. Wenn ein Vorstand, ein Wirtschaftsprüfer oder eine Aufsichtsbehörde fragt, welche Version aktiv ist, welche Daten verwendet wurden und wer sie genehmigt hat, können die meisten Investment-Technologie-Stacks diese Frage nicht beantworten. Die Idee ist nicht länger die Einschränkung. Die Infrastruktur, die sie trägt, ist folgende:

Der Jacobi Investment Management Harness ist das Bindeglied, das die Investitionslogik eines Unternehmens auf der gesamten Jacobi-Plattform skaliert, sodass sein geistiges Eigentum nicht im Prototypenstadium verbleibt, sondern Portfolioergebnisse ermöglicht. Es bündelt das, was Jacobi seit über einem Jahrzehnt leistet, nun durch KI beschleunigt, in vier Schichten auf einem kundenspezifischen Entitätsdatenmodell:

• Foundation Multi-Asset Platform: Portfolioaufbau, Risikoanalyse, Reporting und integrierte KI-Agenten, strukturiert um die jeweiligen Prozesse der einzelnen Unternehmen.
• KI-Workbench: Eine kontrollierte Entwicklungsumgebung, die mit Live-Portfoliodaten und der Produktionsinfrastruktur verbunden ist.
• Produktionsinfrastruktur: Private Deployments, API-Governance und vollständige Audit-Trails, Workflows in die Produktion überführen mit deterministischen, auditfähigen Ergebnissen.
• Vorwärts bereitgestellte Technik: Technische Investmentexperten, die mit Investmentteams zusammenarbeiten, auf der KI-Workbench aufbauen, diese in der Produktion einsetzen und dem Kunden ein System zurückgeben, das er selbstständig besitzt und betreibt.

Tony Mackenzie, Mitbegründer und CEO von Jacobi Strategies, sagte:

„Der Weg von einer genialen Investitionsidee zu einem realen Kundenportfolio wird oft in Monaten technischer Schulden, Governance-Hürden und Infrastrukturkomplexität gemessen. Bei Jacobi helfen wir Unternehmen, diese Lücke zu schließen, indem wir unser firmeneigenes Anlagekonzept in skalierbare, revisionssichere Lösungen umsetzen, die messbaren Mehrwert für unsere Kunden schaffen.”

Über Jacobi

Jacobi ist ein globaler Anbieter von Investmenttechnologie für Multi-Asset-Investmentteams, von der Kernportfoliokonstruktion und Kundenbetreuung bis hin zu KI-Produktionsinfrastruktur, KI-Workbench und Forward Deployed Engineering.

Die Plattform mit offener Architektur bietet Unternehmen sichere, private Bereitstellungen, die sie mit eigenem Code, Modellen, Daten, Analysen und Anwendungen erweitern können, wodurch Investmentteams die volle Kontrolle über ihr geistiges Eigentum erhalten.

Jacobi wurde 2014 gegründet und bietet seine Technologie Top-Investoren weltweit an, darunter einige der weltweit führenden Vermögensverwalter, Pensionsfonds, Vermögensinhaber und Anlageberater. Besuchen Sie www.jacobistrategies.com.

LONDRES, 28 octobre 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jacobi Strategies a annoncé aujourd’hui le lancement de Jacobi Investment Management Harness (le « Harness »), offrant aux équipes d’investissement institutionnelles une voie réglementée depuis le prototype d’IA propriétaire jusqu’au flux de travail de production.

L’IA a permis de réduire de plusieurs mois à quelques jours le temps nécessaire pour élaborer un prototype d’une nouvelle idée d’investissement. Ce qui n’a pas suivi le même rythme, c’est le processus de production. Les modèles fonctionnent encore sur des tableurs, et les prototypes d’IA restent installés sur des ordinateurs portables personnels. Lorsqu’un conseil d’administration, un auditeur ou un organisme de réglementation demande quelle version est en ligne, quelles données elle a utilisées et qui l’a approuvée, la plupart des plateformes technologiques d’investissement sont incapables de répondre. L’idée n’est plus la contrainte. L’infrastructure qui la transporte l’est.

Le Jacobi Investment Management Harness est le tissu conjonctif qui permet d’étendre la logique d’investissement d’une entreprise sur la plateforme Jacobi, afin que sa propriété intellectuelle ne reste pas à l’état de prototype mais alimente les résultats du portefeuille. Elle regroupe ce que Jacobi propose depuis plus d’une décennie, désormais accéléré par l’IA, en quatre couches sur un modèle de données d’entités spécifique au client :

• Plateforme multi-actifs de la fondation : Construction de portefeuille, analyse des risques, reporting et agents d’IA intégrés, structurés autour des processus propres à chaque entreprise.
• Atelier d’IA : un environnement de développement gouverné, connecté aux données de portefeuille en temps réel et à l’infrastructure de production.
• Infrastructure de production : Déploiements privés, gouvernance des API et pistes d’audit complètes, migration des flux de travail en production avec des résultats déterministes et prêts pour l’audit.
• Ingénierie de terrain : Des experts techniques en investissement qui collaborent avec les équipes d’investissement, développent des solutions sur la plateforme d’IA, les déploient en production et restituent au client un système dont il est propriétaire et qu’il exploite de manière indépendante.

Tony Mackenzie, cofondateur et PDG de Jacobi Strategies, a déclaré :

« La distance entre une idée d’investissement brillante et un portefeuille client opérationnel se mesure souvent en mois de dette technique, d’obstacles de gouvernance et de complexité d’infrastructure. Chez Jacobi, nous aidons les entreprises à combler cet écart, en transformant leur réflexion exclusive en matière d’investissement en solutions évolutives et prêtes à être auditées, qui créent une valeur mesurable pour leurs clients.

À propos de Jacobi

Jacobi est un fournisseur mondial de technologies d’investissement pour les équipes d’investissement multi-actifs, allant de la construction de portefeuilles de base et de l’engagement client à l’infrastructure de production d’IA, à l’atelier d’IA et à l’ingénierie déployée en amont.

Sa plateforme à architecture ouverte offre aux entreprises des déploiements sécurisés et privés qu’elles peuvent étendre avec leur propre code, leurs modèles, leurs données, leurs analyses et leurs applications, donnant ainsi aux équipes d’investissement la pleine propriété de leur propriété intellectuelle.

Fondée en 2014, Jacobi fournit sa technologie à des investisseurs de premier plan dans le monde entier, notamment à certains des plus grands gestionnaires d’actifs et de patrimoine, fonds de pension, propriétaires d’actifs et consultants en investissement au monde. Visitez www.jacobistrategies.com.

Growth investment will accelerate AI-powered testing, scale global operations, and extend AMLA’s proprietary data to tier-one banks and regulators worldwide

LONDON and MIAMI, Oct. 28, 2026 — AML Analytics (“AMLA” or the “Company”), the global authority in independent testing, validation, and risk analytics for financial crime defenses, today announced a significant growth investment from Covalent Equity Partners (“Covalent”), a private equity firm purpose-built to accelerate market-leading technology platforms in the AI era.

Founded in 2010, AML Analytics is trusted by more than 50 supervisory authorities and over 1,450 financial institutions across nearly 60 countries. Having independently evaluated thousands of financial crime systems and architectures, AMLA’s platform provides regulators and global institutions with empirical ground truth to measure, tune, and verify AML systems. Autonomous agentic finance and generative technologies are rapidly widening the attack surface for illicit finance, and AMLA’s authoritative reference datasets and independent benchmarks are essential to the integrity of the global market.

Covalent’s capital and operational partnership will accelerate AMLA’s engineering roadmap, introduce next-generation testing engines, and expand the Company’s global footprint. Justin Holder will continue to lead the business as Founder and Group CEO alongside the existing leadership team.

“From day one, our mission has been to give the defenders of the financial system the empirical tools to stay ahead of increasingly sophisticated threats. Covalent shares our conviction and brings deep sector and operational expertise, which will help us scale that mission to more institutions and regulators worldwide,” said Justin Holder, Founder and Group CEO of AML Analytics.

“Justin and his entrepreneurial team have built an essential institution trusted by central banks and global tier-one institutions alike. We look forward to supporting AMLA in scaling their platform and safeguarding the financial system in the age of agentic finance,” said John Woyton, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Covalent Equity Partners. “AMLA represents exactly what Covalent was created to back: a mission-critical platform with a strong data moat, made even stronger by AI.”

“AI is supercharging the growth of financial crime‘s surface area, outpacing the defenses built to contain it,” said Quinlan Fang, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Covalent Equity Partners. “AMLA’s 15+ years of independent fieldwork have produced a proprietary dataset and earned the trust of regulators and financial institutions worldwide. That combination is rare, and it is the foundation for the solutions AMLA is building to define the next era of defending the global financial system.”

FT Partners acted as financial advisor and Mills & Reeve served as legal counsel to AMLA. McGuireWoods served as legal counsel and Code & Co served as technology and AI advisor to Covalent.

About AML Analytics

AML Analytics is a global RegTech company and market leader in independent testing, validation, and risk analytics for sanctions and AML/CFT controls. Regulators, central banks and many of the world’s largest financial institutions rely on its platform to measure and improve the efficacy of their financial crime defenses. Learn more at aml-analytics.com.

About Covalent Equity Partners

Covalent Equity Partners is a next generation private equity firm purpose-built for the AI era. Covalent invests in data-rich and mission-critical technology companies that turn AI into compounding competitive advantages, and partners with entrepreneurial leaders to accelerate innovation, inflect growth, and build category leaders. Covalent’s team brings more than 45 years of combined investing and operating experience and more than $8 billion in cumulative transaction value. Covalent is headquartered in Miami and has a hub in San Francisco. Learn more at covalent-equity.com or on LinkedIn.

SOURCE Financial Technology Partners

The round will help Archera expand its guaranteed cloud commitments, bringing insurance-backed financial protection to companies navigating unpredictable AI and cloud spending. The company has delivered more than $700 million in customer savings and now manages approximately $5.6 billion in annual cloud and AI spend.

BELLEVUE, Wash., Oct. 27, 2026 — As artificial intelligence makes cloud spending harder to predict, companies face an increasingly expensive choice: commit to long-term cloud and AI contracts to unlock significant discounts or preserve flexibility and leave savings on the table. Archera has raised a $15 million Series C to expand its Guaranteed Commitments and change that equation.

The cloud economics company today announced it closed its Series C funding round, led by Pivot Investment Partners, with participation from existing investors including HighSage Ventures. The financing brings Archera’s total funding to $38.3 million. It will support the expansion of Archera’s Guaranteed Commitments and its suite of free cloud cost tools, including its FinOps Agent and MCP.

Insurance-backed financial protection is central to Archera’s next phase of growth. Archera purchased a policy on a surplus lines basis from Crum & Forster Specialty Insurance Company to back its guarantee. This model helps businesses pursue cloud commitment savings while managing the financial risk of usage changes.

The company has delivered more than $700 million in savings to over 2,200 organizations, including PubNub, Art.com, and Astronomer. The thesis behind Archera is simple: companies shouldn’t have to predict AI’s future to commit and save money on today’s infrastructure.

Why Cloud and AI Commitments Need to Change

Cloud providers reward customers who commit to spending over one- to three-year periods with substantial discounts and access to capacity. Historically, those commitments have helped businesses reduce infrastructure costs. But AI is changing the risk and economics of that decision.

A new model launch can multiply GPU spending in months. A more efficient model, a shift in architecture, or a move to a different service can reduce it just as quickly. Long-term commitments that once looked financially sound can become expensive liabilities.

Companies are left choosing between overcommitting and risking unused spend, or undercommitting and missing out on available discounts. Many choose the latter, sacrificing potential savings to preserve flexibility.

Archera believes that the trade-off is unnecessary. Its Guaranteed Commitments provide resource-level cloud and AI discounts with terms as short as 30 days. If usage declines and a covered commitment goes unused, Archera covers the cost under the terms of its guarantee.

The result is a different way to approach cloud purchasing. Businesses can pursue deeper discounts and unlock capacity otherwise gated behind a commitment, without bearing the entire financial consequence when actual usage diverges from forecasts.

Turning Cloud Optimization Into a Financial Product

Traditional cloud cost management tools provide visibility, recommendations, automation, and forecasting, but they can’t eliminate the financial risk of unused commitments. Archera combines its free FinOps platform and Agent with a financial guarantee that addresses inaccurate forecasts.

“Every tool in this market is trying to forecast your cloud usage a little better. We think that’s the wrong bet,” said Aran Khanna, co-founder and CEO of Archera. “Nobody can forecast AI demand, not the customer, not the cloud provider. So instead of predicting it, we guarantee it, and we have purchased an insurance policy to back that guarantee. If covered usage drops, we address the unused commitment cost under the terms of our guarantee. That’s a new way to purchase cloud, not another dashboard, and it’s why we’ve been able to return $700 million to our customers.”

The approach positions cloud commitments as a financial risk decision, helping finance and engineering leaders manage budgets while adapting to changing technology.

Built for CFOs, CTOs, and the Teams Managing AI Costs

The approach addresses a growing challenge across finance and engineering: how to control infrastructure costs without constraining the business.

• For CFOs: Capture commitment-level discounts while reducing exposure to eligible unused spend under the guarantee.
• For CTOs and engineering leaders: Preserve flexibility to adopt new AI models, change architectures, and scale workloads without letting past commitments dictate future decisions.
• For FinOps teams: Increase commitment coverage with a financial backstop when usage changes, without more back-and-forth with engineering teams to get perfect forecasts.
• For cloud partners and resellers: Give customers a differentiated way to pursue cloud savings that can be reinvested in new cloud services while managing commitment risk.

Archera’s platform connects to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud billing data in read-only mode and analyzes actual usage. It then recommends and automates the purchasing of both native commitments and Archera Guaranteed Commitments.

Customers can evaluate their potential savings before making any purchasing decision. Commitments remain in the customer’s own cloud account, preserving end-to-end control over cloud purchasing strategy.

Archera earns when customers save through its guaranteed commitments, aligning its commercial model with the outcomes customers seek.

Customers Are Rethinking the Commitment Model

For organizations accustomed to treating cloud commitments as a single, high-stakes decision, Archera offers a more flexible approach.

“Working with Archera meant rethinking commitments as a spectrum rather than a single, high-stakes decision,” said James Hamilton, VP of Operations and Controller at PubNub. “This was a big mind shift for us. We needed to think about how our commitments could be broken up into a spectrum of purchases versus a single one-time buy.”

That flexibility is particularly valuable as companies adopt AI workloads, where technology choices and resource requirements can shift faster than traditional budgeting cycles.

Instead of making one large bet on future usage, businesses can take a more measured approach while still securing meaningful discounts.

A Series C to Expand Insurance-Backed Cloud Purchasing

Archera has been operating profitably at scale. It raised a Series C to support larger guarantees, expand its reach, serve more customers, and upgrade the insurance policies backing its guarantee to serve larger global clients.

The company plans to use the capital in three ways:

• Accelerate go-to-market efforts.
• Expand its global partner network across North America, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, and Latin America.
• Serve more teams focused on AI-driven workloads.

“Archera has built a capital-efficient and differentiated business at the intersection of cloud infrastructure and risk management,” said Dinkar Jetley, co-founder and managing partner at Pivot Investment Partners. “The team pairs a deep understanding of the cloud ecosystem with a rigorous approach to underwriting, and the result is a compelling value proposition that a fast-growing roster of customers relies on as their cloud spend scales. We are privileged to have led this Series C round and look forward to working closely with Aran and the management team in the years ahead.”

Built by People Who Understand Cloud Infrastructure

Aran and Nikhil Khanna founded Archera in 2019. Aran previously planned capacity for Azure’s core compute and database services at Microsoft and was a founding member of AWS’s deep learning team leading launches, including SageMaker, DeepLens, and the Neuron SDK, behind Amazon’s Trainium and Inferentia AI chips.

His research on deep learning model efficiency has been cited more than 1,900 times, and he serves on the FinOps Foundation governing board.

As AI transforms infrastructure economics, Archera aims to make cloud savings more accessible without forcing businesses to assume unnecessary financial risk.

To explore potential savings, request a free assessment at Archera.ai.

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The recognition reflects Runway’s longstanding commitment to providing flexible, minimally dilutive capital and supporting founders as long-term partners.

MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 27, 2026 — Runway Growth Capital LLC (“Runway” or “Runway Growth Capital”), a leading provider of growth loans to both venture and non-venture-backed companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, today announced its inclusion in Inc. Magazine’s 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors list. This marks the fourth consecutive year Runway has earned a place on the annual list, underscoring the firm’s commitment to helping entrepreneurs access the capital they need to grow while preserving more ownership and strategic flexibility.

“With the current funding environment and rapid changes facing growing companies, founders are looking for more than just capital from their investors. They want true partners who believe in their business, but who are also able to provide the critical advisement and strategic support they need to reach their potential,” says Bonny Ghosh, editorial director at Inc. “The 2026 Founder-Friendly Investor awards celebrate those firms –– the ones committed to partnership, excellence, and helping founder-led companies grow.”

The prestigious Founder-Friendly Investors list celebrates the investors and firms that work closely with entrepreneurs and remain engaged with the businesses they back. Honorees are recognized for their approach to partnering with founders and supporting their companies through growth and beyond.

“Being founder-friendly ultimately comes down to how a capital partner behaves, not just when a transaction closes, but throughout the relationship,” said David Spreng, Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Runway Growth Capital. “The right financing should create options for entrepreneurs, not take them away. We’re proud to be recognized again for an approach that has been central to Runway from the beginning.”

“Having been a founder myself, I know how much it matters to work with capital partners who understand your challenges, are there to add value, and are rooting for your success,” said Michael Rovner, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Runway Growth Capital. “That is the experience Runway has built its reputation on, and a fourth consecutive year on this list tells me founders agree. As we grow the platform, our priority is to make sure the next generation of entrepreneurs has that same experience with Runway.”

Since its founding in 2015, Runway Growth Capital has funded 115 companies, with $4.0 billion in total originations. The firm provides flexible, minimally dilutive debt financing to late- and growth-stage businesses, working alongside passionate entrepreneurs and experienced management teams to support their next phase of growth, from expanding teams and entering new markets to bridging to a larger equity round. With more than a decade of experience, Runway combines tailored financing solutions with a collaborative approach grounded in trust, transparency, and long-term alignment.

To compile the Founder-Friendly Investors list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders completed questionnaires about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their companies have performed during these partnerships. The resulting list highlights investors that founders identified as strong partners throughout the investment process.

For more information or to view the complete list of honorees, visit https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors.

Legal Disclosure
The award for Runway’s advisory services has been given by a non-advisory client. A cash compensation entry fee was given in association with the award. Any compensation may create a conflict of interest. For more information on Inc.’s award selection process, click here.

About Runway Growth Capital LLC
Runway Growth Capital LLC is the investment adviser to investment funds, including Runway Growth Finance Corp. (Nasdaq: RWAY), a business development company, and other private funds, which are lenders of growth capital to companies seeking an alternative to raising equity. Led by industry veterans David Spreng and Michael Rovner, these funds provide senior term loans of a target of $10 million to $150 million to fast-growing companies largely based in the United States and Canada.

For more information on Runway Growth Capital LLC and its platform, please visit runwaygrowth.com.

About Inc.
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WASHINGTON and SAN FRANCISCO and MIAMI, Oct. 27, 2026 — Martis Capital, a private equity firm exclusively focused on the middle market healthcare sector, has been named to Inc.’s 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors list, which recognizes the private equity firms, venture capital firms, and lenders with a demonstrated record of backing founder-led companies. Of the 294 firms recognized this year, Martis earned the honor for the sixth consecutive year and was one of 14 healthcare-exclusive private equity firms.

The prestigious Founder-Friendly Investors list celebrates the investors and firms that work closely with entrepreneurs and remain engaged with the businesses they back. Honorees are recognized for their approach to partnering with founders and supporting their companies through growth and beyond.

“Founders don’t get to choose their investors twice, so it means a great deal when the people who’ve actually worked with us say we were the right choice,” said Mario Moreno, Managing Partner of Martis Capital. “Healthcare is a demanding place to build a company. The regulatory, clinical, and operational complexity is real, and founders need a partner who understands it and shows up when it matters. That’s the role we’ve tried to play since 2011, and earning this recognition for six years running reflects the relationships we’ve built with our founders.”

“When we partnered with Martis, we were looking for more than capital. We wanted a team that respected the foundation of what we’d built and were eager to help accelerate our growth,” said Frank Burrell, CEO of Deerfield Group, a marketing and communications firm for the healthcare and life sciences sectors and a portfolio company of funds advised by Martis. “Martis earned Inc.’s Founder-Friendly recognition through its consistent commitment to the businesses it backs. For Deerfield, this means supporting our vision, providing meaningful strategic guidance, making key connections, and trusting our leadership. As specialists in healthcare investing, Martis deeply understands our industry, and together we are building what’s next for healthcare marketing, media, and communications.”

To compile the Founder-Friendly Investors list, Inc. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. Founders completed questionnaires about their experiences partnering with private equity, venture capital, and debt firms and shared data on how their companies have performed during these partnerships. The resulting list highlights investors that founders identified as strong partners throughout the investment process.

For more information or to view the complete list of honorees, visit https://www.inc.com/founder-friendly-investors.

About Martis Capital
Based in Washington, DC, San Francisco, and Miami, Martis Capital is a founder-friendly capital partner for growth-oriented healthcare companies. Since 2011, Martis Capital has raised more than $2.2 billion from a global base of institutional clients to invest in the middle-market North American healthcare sector. More information is available at www.martiscapital.com.

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Disclosures
Inc. granted Martis Capital the 2026 Founder-Friendly Investors recognition on August 13, 2026, based on an evaluation covering the preceding 12-month period. Martis Capital did not exercise any influence or control over the criteria used or the results generated by Inc. This recognition should not be construed as an endorsement or recommendation of Martis Capital by Inc., the ranking entity, or any regulatory authority. Martis Capital paid a fee to be considered for this award and in connection with the use and distribution of this recognition.

Frank Burrell is CEO of Deerfield Group, a portfolio company of funds advised by Martis Capital. He is not a client of Martis Capital or an investor in any fund advised by Martis Capital and received no compensation for his statement. His comments reflect his experience working with Martis Capital and may not be representative of the experiences of other portfolio companies, clients, or investors.

This press release is for informational purposes only and does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any security. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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SOURCE Martis Capital