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LOS ANGELES & REYKJAVIK, Iceland--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, the world’s leading destination for the Blue Economy, today announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iceland Ocean Cluster (IOC), a leading ocean-based business accelerator and innovation hub. The agreement creates a collective framework between AltaSea’s 35-acre ocean technology campus in Los Angeles and IOC’s internationally recognized innovation ecosystem in Reykjavik. The orga...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Avantos, an artificial intelligence (AI)-native financial technology company providing an operating system designed to reimagine how financial institutions onboard and service clients, was named by CB Insights to its ninth annual Fintech 100 ranking, showcasing the 100 most promising fintech startups in the world. “The 2026 Fintech 100 identifies the startups reshaping how financial services work behind the scenes,” said Aisha Chandraker, Fintech Analyst at CB Insight...

BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SuperMatics is building AI to find superconductors that can be made into commercial wire for AI data centers and fusion energy....

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sofinnova Partners ("Sofinnova"), a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, based in Paris, London, and Milan, today announced the promotion of Javier Nunez-Vicandi to Partner. He joins Edward Kliphuis and Simon Turner in the firm’s Digital Medicine strategy, which invests in startups working at the intersection of biology, data, and AI. Since joining Sofinnova in 2022, Nunez-Vicandi has played a key role in the development of the firm's Digital Medicine...

SILICON VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The countdown is on. With just one week until the Startup World Cup 2026 Grand Finale, entrepreneurs, investors, corporate executives and technology leaders have a final opportunity to secure their place at one of the startup ecosystem’s major global gatherings, taking place November 4–6 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square. Organized by Pegasus Tech Ventures, Startup World Cup brings together startup founders, venture capitalists, corporate decision...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Caffrey extends its AI platform for financial regulation to regulators in the U.K., Hong Kong, Singapore, Canada and the Cayman Islands....

AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nebius Group N.V. (“Nebius Group” or the “Company”; Nasdaq: NBIS), will release its third quarter 2026 financial results on Thursday, November 12, 2026, before market open. Nebius Group will also hold a conference call to discuss its results at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (5:00 a.m. Pacific Time / 2:00 p.m. Central European Time) on the same day. The registration link to access the webcast and its replay will be available on Nebius Group’s Investor Relations website at ht...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DataTribe, a global cyber foundry that invests in and co-builds next-generation cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI) companies, announced Sondera as the winner of its ninth annual DataTribe Challenge. Sondera competed against four other finalists and presented to an expert panel of judges and a live audience of investors, enterprise security leaders and industry partners. Based in Philadelphia, PA, Sondera gives organizations assurance that AI agents act w...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rocker, the AI assistant for busiest people at the world’s most ambitious companies, today announced $12.85M in funding led by Greycroft, with participation from Anthropic and Menlo Ventures' Anthology Fund, Matchstick, Stripe, and operators Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (COO, Vercel), Fran Ryan (CBO, Stripe), and David Singleton (Meta SuperIntelligence Labs leadership). For the last few years, AI innovation has focused on optimizing the individual, arming them with agen...

AUSTIN, Texas & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Serent Capital named to Inc.’s Founder-Friendly Investors list for the eighth consecutive year, honoring its support of founder-led businesses....