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Buywander, the auction-based marketplace for returned and overstocked retail inventory, today announced its $21M Series A funding round, bringing the company's lifetime funding to $28M. The round was led by Madrona Venture Group and Inspired Capital. Previous investors include Triple Impact Capital, Silence Ventures, Data Tech Fund and Animal Capital, along with a group of angel investors.

The constant tug of war between health systems and health insurers over medical claims doesn’t end when insurers transmit payments, as proprietary data from the Kodiak Platform show.

Workiva Inc. (NYSE: WK), a leading, audit-ready platform for trust, transparency, and accountability, unveiled dozens of new product and platform innovations at Amplify 2026, the company’s annual conference attended by thousands of finance, accounting, sustainability, risk, and compliance leaders.

OpenArt AI, the all-in-one AI creative platform and AI video generator that is changing the way visual stories are told for over 8 million monthly active users, today announced OpenArt Arena, a new AI image and video model leaderboard and benchmark built for and by the creative communities that are increasingly using AI to supercharge their work. OpenArt Arena is designed to better serve the needs of creatives such as filmmakers, advertisers, creators, and storytellers of all kinds as the first leaderboard based on expert-led, task-specific evaluation. OpenArt Arena is available at openart.ai/arena.

Smart Care Solutions (“Smart Care®”), the nation’s leading provider of comprehensive service for hot & cold side foodservice equipment, specialty coffee and beverage, standalone refrigeration, complex rack refrigeration, cold storage, and HVAC, today announced the launch of Turbo Tech™, Smart Care’s national service brand for speed ovens and coffee equipment that brings together five businesses under one name. As part of the launch, Smart Care introduced Turbo Tech One™, its innovative speed oven flat-rate pricing model that gives customers transparent, upfront pricing and greater cost predictability before work begins.

Powerhouse, a national leader in multi-site rollout, refresh, staffing, and merchandising solutions, today announced the appointments of Sue McCarty as Chief Revenue Officer and Justin Figley as Chief Operating Officer. Both promotions recognize proven leaders whose careers have been built almost entirely within Powerhouse's operations organization.

FuzeBox AI today announced that its leadership team will take the stage at the Global Gaming Expo (G2E) 2026, September 28 through October 1 at The Venetian Expo in Las Vegas. The 60-minute moderated panel, titled "Workflows Before Bots: What Gaming Can Learn From Outside Industries About Making AI Actually Work," is featured as part of the Business Solutions & Tech track's Digital Technologies program.

Topcon Positioning Systems and Proceq, a Screening Eagle Company, are collaborating to enable Proceq advanced ground penetrating radar (GPR) systems to be used with Topcon GNSS solutions and mass data workflow software. The collaboration will support applications across infrastructure and construction projects in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).

Transient.AI (Transient), the secure AI operating system for regulated markets, today announced that Nasdaq Ventures has made a strategic investment in the company, joining lead investor NEXT Investors as part of its Series A. The investment marks a key milestone in Transient’s mission to deliver bank-grade, policy-driven AI governance across regulated global financial institutions.

Genians, a global leader in Network Access Control (NAC), will unveil the Genians Security Platform (GSP) at GISEC Global 2026, taking place September 16–18 in Dubai. Genians will exhibit with RAS Infotech, its strategic cybersecurity partner in the Middle East, at Stand H8-E130. GISEC Global brings together cybersecurity leaders across government, finance, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, critical infrastructure, and other sectors from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas.

Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment manager and partially owned subsidiary of Franklin Templeton, Vermilion Development, a full-service real estate investment and development company, and Quartz Lake Capital, a private equity real estate investor and manager, recently hosted an official ribbon-cutting event with the residents, elected officials, distinguished guests, and project team at the newly opened multifamily community The Duncan, located within a federally-designated Qualified Opportunity Zone at 1625 Lock Lane in Madison, Wisconsin.

Caddo Sustainable Timberlands, LP (“Caddo”), the largest private timberland owner in Texas, is pleased to announce the appointment of Peyton Weeks as President. Peyton brings more than 25 years of experience in timberland management, forest operations and wood products manufacturing across Texas and Louisiana.

ANV Group Holdings Ltd. ("ANV"), the global insurance intermediary platform, today announced the rebranding of Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions (SCIS) as ANV Comp, following ANV's acquisition of the business in June 2026. With approximately $250 million of gross written premium in 2025, ANV Comp provides specialized workers' compensation solutions to middle-market employers through its established wholesale distribution network.

MedZed, a field-based provider of complex care management and wraparound social supports for the highest-risk, hardest-to-reach Medicaid members, announced today three additions to its senior leadership team as the company prepares for its next phase of growth.

Databend Labs, the company behind Databend Cloud, today announced the Databend Cloud Agent Trace Solution, an end-to-end cloud data pipeline engineered to process and analyze agent trace data at production scale.

Americans want to be more engaged in their financial lives, but mounting economic pressures and uncertainty are making it harder to navigate their finances with the right level of confidence, according to new research released today by Edelman Financial Engines (EFE).

Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, today announced Rubrik MCP (Model Context Protocol), giving an organization’s AI agents a secure, programmable path to Rubrik’s data, identity, and application intelligence. Support for MCP expands Rubrik AI, which is now trusted by one-third of its global customers, and unites Anthropic’s frontier models with Rubrik’s domain expertise and security guardrails—to deliver a multi-step reasoning agent engineered for critical incident response.

Airspan Communications Limited, a subsidiary of Airspan Networks Holdings LLC (“Airspan”), today announced it had been awarded £2.3 million to research and develop “Strato-Twin” - an AI-enabled digital twin for designing, simulating and optimizing High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) communications networks. Strato-Twin is being funded under the Enduring Atmospheric Platforms (EndAP) program of ARIA, the UK’s Advanced Research + Invention Agency, at Airspan’s UK R&D center of excellence for Air-to-Ground communications solutions, including HAPS and drones.

As autonomous agents make the digital world more dangerous, Rubrik (NYSE: RBRK), the Security and AI Operations Company, unveils Rubrik Code Guardian, a custom Claude Mythos 5 harness that red-teams customers’ code based on an air-gapped copy of their repository.

The Health Collaborative (THC) announced a $150,000 investment from Covista to expand healthcare career exploration opportunities for middle and high school students across Greater Cincinnati.

Convenient Brands, Inc. (“Convenient Brands”), a provider of auto repair software and payment processing services, announced today that it has completed the sale of Convenient Payments, LLC, d/b/a IntelliPay (“IntelliPay”), a leader in omnichannel, integrated payment processing and payment management software for government agencies, educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and other merchants, to Priority Commerce.

Noibu, the platform for AI-powered ecommerce operations, today launched a set of six AI agents that close the gap between knowing what an online store could do better and actually doing it. The agents work inside the store's own behavioral, commercial, and technical data to find what's worth changing — a growth opportunity, an experiment worth running, an accessibility gap, a revenue-losing bug — then draft the change, ship it once a human approves, and measure the result against what it promised to move.

CLEAResult Québec, a subsidiary of CLEAResult Canada, the country's largest energy efficiency, energy transition, and energy sustainability services provider, announced the acquisition of Groupe Marketing International, Inc. (GMI), a Québec-based customer care and operations partner with deep experience supporting energy efficiency programs in the province.

Fortell today announced that its Fortell AI Hearing Aids achieved the highest overall and speech-in-noise scores recorded by independent hearing aid testing laboratory HearAdvisor. Fortell exceeded HearAdvisor’s five-point scoring scale, earning an overall SoundScore of 6.0 and a speech-in-noise score of 6.4, surpassing a previous record of 4.5, making it HearAdvisor’s best performing hearing aid of 2026.

The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal ranks Coherent Solutions first on its list of the Largest IT Consulting Firms in the Twin Cities. The ranking comes as the firm reshapes how it builds software, pointing to a shift toward value measured by outcomes at the top of the region's technology market.

Cooper Companies (NASDAQ: COO) shareholders took losses when the stock sold off after the Company posted quarterly revenue of approximately $1.07 billion against consensus of roughly $1.10 billion -- a shortfall of about $30 million -- and told investors that U.S. channel inventory reductions at CooperVision would continue into the following quarter. If you suffered a loss on your Cooper Companies investment, you are encouraged to click here to submit your information. You may also contact Joseph E. Levi, Esq. via email at jlevi@levikorsinsky.com or by telephone at (212) 363-7500.

Every enterprise now runs two AI workforces. Employees prompt large language models and copilots all day, sharing contracts, customer records and source code. Agents act on the company's behalf at machine speed. Both take actions regulation and company policy already govern, and neither is stopped by a policy document. Risk, compliance and security teams already own the policies that govern this. What they have lacked is a way to enforce them at machine speed, in the moment a prompt reaches a model.

Shields Health Solutions (Shields), the leading specialty pharmacy operating partner to over one-third of health systems nationwide, announced today the evolution of its integrated care model. The enhanced model introduces a new layer of AI and informed automation to its industry-leading clinical expertise to improve patient outcomes and care coordination, simplify operational complexity, and help deliver a more connected specialty care experience.

Barrett Esarey has joined Alliant Insurance Services as Vice President within its Employee Benefits Group. Based in Los Angeles, he will serve a national client base, helping employers develop strategic benefits programs that address evolving workforce needs and support long-term business objectives.

Communicating for America (CA), a nonprofit advocacy organization, today announced it will finance the cancellation of $2 million in medical debt for rural Minnesotans who are experiencing financial hardship. An estimated 1,800 families will benefit. CA has previously erased more than $8 million in medical debt for over 10,000 Minnesotans between 2022 and 2025.

Morse Micro, the world’s leading Wi-Fi HaLow silicon provider, today announced that Byte Lab has joined its Design Partner Program. Based in Zagreb, Croatia, Byte Lab designs, certifies, and manufactures electronic products under one roof, giving European customers a single route from concept to production.

Urban Standard Capital (“Urban Standard” or the “Firm”), a leading institutional real estate investment firm, today announced the launch of Urban Standard Capital Luxury Real Estate Lending Fund, LP (the “Fund”), an evergreen strategy focused on luxury residential lending in supply-constrained, high-barrier markets across the United States. Urban Standard originated loans across approximately 30 of the nation's most exclusive luxury markets spanning the Hamptons, Nantucket, Palm Beach, Bel Air, Beverly Hills, Aspen, Vail and Jackson Hole, as well as other major markets including New York City, Los Angeles and Miami.

Venn, the secure remote work company, today announced Blue Border™ for AI Governance & Security. The release extends Blue Border to let organizations with remote and distributed workforces govern and securely use AI on any laptop, whether or not the company owns or manages it.

Today, next-generation fiber producer, Everbloom, announces that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved renoa, a first-of-its-kind regenerated fiber, marking the first new apparel fiber classification approved by the agency in almost 25 years, the last being the approval of PLA in 2002. The approval establishes renoa as its own fiber category and paves the way for textile products containing renoa to be labeled and sold in the United States.

U. S. Steel announced today that it has received the air permit necessary to enter the next phase of construction of the new quench and tempering (Q&T) facility at its Fairfield Tubular Operations. The $475 million project will add in-house capacity for heat-treated product to support demand growth. It better positions U. S. Steel Tubular Operations as a supplier for major oil- and gas-producing basins, including the Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville, and Marcellus. The initial phases of construction began in July. The Q&T facility is expected to reach full production in 2029.

Zenity, the leader in security and governance for AI agents, today announced recognition in two independent analyst reports examining the evolving AI agent security market. Latio’s new AI Security report highlights Zenity for the breadth of its platform and ability to secure AI agents across diverse enterprise technology environments, while Software Analyst Cyber Research (SACR) names Zenity a vendor with broad alignment to its ARISE: Agentic Runtime Identity Security Enforcement for Agents framework.

U.S. Bank has launched its ultimate Super Bowl LXI Getaway, open to U.S. residents who are 18 years of age or older, whether you're a current customer or not. One winner takes home the full package: two game tickets, round-trip airfare, hotel accommodations and $1,000 in spending money for the big weekend in Los Angeles.

Rebellions, a global leader in AI inference infrastructure, and ai&, a vertically integrated global AI technology company, are partnering to deploy Rebellions RebelRack within ai&’s heterogeneous infrastructure as part of the ai& inference service in Japan. The collaboration will give enterprises, government institutions, and developers access to Rebellions-powered inference deployed within the country, expanding locally available compute options while supporting Japan’s sovereign AI priorities.

SPS Commerce (NASDAQ: SPSC), the leading intelligent supply chain network, today announced a new wave of product innovation that combines agentic AI with the intelligence of a network trained on more real trading partner activity than any other, giving brands and retailers the data foundation to move from reactive supply chain management to proactive operations. Spanning fulfillment, onboarding, analytics, and supply chain visibility, the new suite of capabilities helps customers scale with confidence and make better and faster decisions across trading relationships.

Celebrated comedian Taylor Tomlinson is hitting the road once again, announcing the first leg of her highly anticipated new stand-up tour, Nobody Asked You To Do That coming to 22 cities. The nationwide run will bring Tomlinson’s sharp, candid, and unmistakably hilarious comedy to stages across the U.S., including a stop at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium.

Hawk Ridge Systems — a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing technology, services and training — has announced the acquisition of the manufacturing division of TPM, a respected technology provider based in South Carolina.

APPA, the association empowering the educational facilities community across North America, concluded its 2026 Annual Conference this July. The event drew 500 plus attendees from 47 U.S. states and 6 countries, representing 179 educational institutions and 111 business partners, underscoring the scale of the community APPA serves and the growing demand for the learning and peer networking opportunity the association provides. Follow APPA on LinkedIn for ongoing coverage of the conference and the association's programs.

Wurl, a leader in the streaming TV industry, today announced the launch of its Content Intelligence Platform, a new enrichment enablement solution designed to help demand-side platforms (DSPs) scale advanced targeting across connected TV (CTV). The offering creates a direct connection between streaming content intelligence and programmatic demand, unlocking new opportunities for how CTV inventory is understood, targeted, and activated.

Bitwarden, the trusted leader in passkey, password, and secrets management, today announced its commitment to achieving Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP®) Class D (High) Certification for its cloud-hosted Password Manager and Secrets Manager.

OpenEvidence, the most widely used medical AI and clinical decision-making tool among U.S. physicians, and Penn Medicine today announced a global partnership to bring AI-powered clinical decision support to Penn Medicine's more than 10,000 clinicians across its seven-hospital U.S. health system.

AiWB, an AI-powered construction technology platform developed by Wan Bridge, today announced the start of development on Cadia Grand Court, a new 144-home build-to-rent community in Richmond, Texas.

Lumin Digital, the Compounding Growth Platform for banks and credit unions, today announced that Eclipse Bank has selected Lumin as its new digital banking provider. The Louisville, Kentucky-based community bank will use Lumin’s cloud-native platform to deliver a more customized, frictionless digital experience for its retail and commercial banking customers.

Clearwater Analytics announced today at Clearwater Connect 2026 that nearly 900 clients are now running agentic workflows in production on its platform, marking a shift to sustained, everyday use of AI across investment operations, risk, and private markets. The milestone arrives alongside Clearwater’s new global research report, GenAI and the Data Divide, unveiled at the event. The report surveyed institutional investors worldwide and found that 99% of institutional investors say that unreliable and opaque data is the biggest barrier to trusting AI outputs.

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) invites investors and the general public to listen to a webcast of a discussion with Alexandre de Germay, Chief International Commercial Officer, Executive Vice President, at the J.P. Morgan U.S. All Stars 2026 Conference on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 11:50 a.m. BST.

SentinelOne® (NYSE: S) has been named an AI Security Platform Leader by Latio in the analyst firm's 2026 AI Security Market Report. The new report maps key players in the AI security market by use case, spanning browsers, endpoint applications, cloud-hosted agent builders, third-party developer tools, and first-party AI usage.

Comcast’s Xfinity today announced that more than 1,000 new homes and businesses in Beaufort and Edisto now have access to multi-gigabit Internet from America’s smartest and most reliable, converged network. The completed network expansions extend Xfinity’s fiber-powered network across South Carolina’s Lowcountry, reaching Beaufort County and the Charleston County portion of Edisto.

HopSkipDrive, the leader in safe, fast, and simple supplemental student transportation, today debuted CareEngine™, the technology platform that powers every HopSkipDrive ride. Purpose built for the complexity of school transportation, CareEngine connects school districts, schools, families, riders, CareDrivers, and HopSkipDrive's Safe Ride Support® team before, during, and after every ride, so everyone gets the information they need at the right time.

Illumia, a leading provider of technology solutions that power payments, identity, commerce and foodservice operations across higher education, healthcare and corporate campuses, today announced the appointment of Don Smith to senior vice president & general manager, higher education. Smith will work across product, technology, commercial and customer teams to better connect Illumia’s products and experiences. The goal is to make it easier for colleges and universities to deliver a consistent experience across campus, adopt new capabilities, and build on existing technology investments as their needs evolve.

SupportNinja, a leading strategic outsourcing partner, today announced the launch of MomentumLabs, its embedded AI-powered CX transformation practice designed to help companies move beyond running day-to-day CX to continuously improving it. Working from inside the customer experience, seasoned CX practitioners combine NinjaAI, our human-in-the-loop (HITL) approach, hands-on execution, and strategic advising to uncover what’s holding CX back, develop solutions that address the underlying problems, and implement those solutions without disrupting day-to-day operations.

Rancher’s Premium Smokehouse, the nation’s fastest-growing national smoked sausage brand, has partnered with Houchens Food Group to bring its authentic Texas smokehouse flavors to shoppers across Houchens’ expansive retail network beginning in October.

Harbor Capital Advisors, Inc. (“Harbor”), an asset manager focused on delivering differentiated investment solutions, today announced the appointment of Adela Ghinet as Head of Thematic Solutions, effective immediately.

AM Best will join a panel discussion on captive insurance ratings at the South Carolina Captive Association’s (SCCIA) 2026 Annual Executive Educational Conference, which will take place Sept. 28-30, 2026, in Charleston, SC.

Dane Street, a leading national provider of Independent Medical Exams (IMEs) and Peer Reviews to the Insurance and Healthcare markets, is pleased to announce the addition of Ted Smith to the Leadership team, as Executive Vice President of IME Sales.

Columbia Threadneedle Investments and leading private markets investment firm Hamilton Lane (Nasdaq: HLNE) today announced a strategic collaboration to deliver innovative investment solutions to the wealth channel.

Since becoming available two years ago, sales of MEFA Gift of College Cards have exceeded $1.49 million, reflecting strong interest in this innovative college savings gift option.

Informa TechTarget (Nasdaq: TTGT)—an indispensable partner for B2B intelligence, media, and marketing solutions—today announced the launch of Buyer Intelligence: a holistic, AI skill-enhanced intelligence solution created to transform and accelerate how B2B organizations leverage intent data to fuel their go-to-market (GTM) systems. Built on Informa TechTarget's industry-leading person-level intent data—for which the company was recognized as both a Leader and Customer Favorite in the most recent Forrester Wave™: Intent Data Providers For B2B (Q1, 2025)—Buyer Intelligence integrates powerful AI functionality to accelerate time to insight and action to power a variety of activations for B2B marketing and sales teams.

Vistina, an investment bank specializing in strategic advisory, structured credit and asset-based financing and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hoplon Capital, today announced that Adrian Smith has joined the firm as a Managing Director focused on structured finance.

Most Americans who use AI for financial guidance do not act on it, according to the latest installment of New York Life Wealth Watch research. Among those who sought financial guidance from AI tools, 82% rated the quality of the advice as at least “good,” but only 23% accepted the advice and moved forward without first seeking additional validation.

New North America findings from Mastercard’s Dreamonomics research show small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) are redefining growth in a more demanding economy, prioritizing stability, preparedness and resilience over rapid expansion.

Phenom, the leader in applied AI built to redesign work operations for hiring faster, developing better and retaining longer, today shared that its Voice Screening Agent has been named a Top HR Product of the Year by HR Executive.

Liquid Compute, a marketplace company building regulated venues for trading AI infrastructure, today emerged from stealth with $15 million in seed funding co-led by FirstMark and Chemistry, with participation from K8 Capital, Night Capital, TrueBridge, Brainchild Holdings, UFO Holdings, and angel Dmitry Balyasny.

Small businesses are looking ahead with ambition — but they are also preparing for the pressure that comes when opportunity arrives. Mastercard today introduced Dreamonomics, a new global view of the forces reshaping small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) perceptions and approach to growth. The research shows that SMEs are redefining growth as controlled momentum: 68% prioritize stability and predictability over fast growth, 54% actively avoid unnecessary financial risk and 61% are focused on deepening customer relationships rather than reaching as many customers as possible.

Americhem, a global leader in custom polymer solutions, today announced the launch of nPure™ and nZorb™, two complementary PFAS-free functional additive technologies designed to engineer performance within the polymer matrix. Developed for fiber and nonwoven applications, the technologies help manufacturers address two critical performance requirements: durable odor control and moisture management.

Guidepost Solutions, a global leader in domestic and international investigations, compliance solutions, monitoring, and security and technology consulting, today announced that its Security & Technology Consulting practice has been named Outstanding Security Consultant at the 2026 US Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs).

Mediacom Communications today announced the appointment of Elena Kilpatrick as Senior Vice President of the Coastal Region. In this role, Kilpatrick will oversee Mediacom’s operations across the Coastal Region, with a focus on operational excellence, network performance, customer experience and continued growth throughout the company’s footprint.

Citizens today announced that it has received an Outstanding rating, the highest possible rating under the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) following its most recent CRA Performance Evaluation, marking the bank's fourth consecutive Outstanding CRA rating since becoming a public company in 2014.

Medallia, Inc., the leading AI-driven platform for experience transformation, today announced it has been named the only Leader by Forrester in The Forrester Wave™: Customer Feedback Management and Analytics Solutions, Q3 2026. Medallia also received the highest scores among the vendors evaluated in both the Current Offering and Strategy categories, while earning the highest possible score across 15 criteria. The recognition affirms Medallia’s vision for a shifting market from delivering best-in-class feedback and analytics today to defining an AI-native, agentic future for customer experience.

Peachtree Group (“Peachtree”), a vertically integrated investment and asset management firm, announced it has begun construction on a 480-room dual-branded Embassy Suites by Hilton and Tempo by Hilton in downtown Austin, marking one of the group’s most significant hotel developments to date.

Getnick Law is pleased to announce that Ari Fontecchio has joined the firm after more than a decade in public service, including senior roles at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and Main Justice in Washington, D.C.

HealthStream, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSTM) (the “Company”), a leading healthcare technology platform company for clinical workforce solutions, today announced the completion of a private placement transaction through which WJRJJ Ventures, LLC (“WJRJJ”) acquired a total of 1.5 million shares of the Company’s common stock. In this transaction, the Company issued 1,355,932 shares of common stock to WJRJJ for approximately $40 million in cash at a purchase price of $29.50 per share.