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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Daversa announces the promotion of Maggie Fair to Managing Director, recognizing her impact building the engineering leadership teams behind some of the most disruptive and category-defining companies in technology. Since joining the firm in 2021, Fair has specialized in executive searches across engineering, product, and AI/ML, partnering closely with Seed through Series C founders navigating rapid growth and category creation. She has built a reputation for placing...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Coredio, a digital health company developing the first software-as-a-medical-device (SaMD) platform dedicated to heart failure (HF) hemodynamic assessment, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted its Cardiac Performance Simulation Engine (CPSE™) Breakthrough Device Designation and accepted the platform into the FDA’s Total Product Life Cycle Advisory Program (TAP). CPSE™ is a software-only platform designed to deliver catheter...

PARIS & NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Qevlar, the leading AI SOC Platform trusted by over 1,500 organizations worldwide, today announced a new set of AI agents designed to close one of enterprise security's most persistent operational gaps: the divide between Security Operations Centers (SOCs) and Vulnerability management teams. The new capabilities enable security teams to correlate CVEs with live incident data for real-time risk prioritization, automatically identify asset owners to accelerate r...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TDK Corporation (TSE:6762) announced today that TDK Ventures Inc. has invested in C2i Semiconductors, a pioneer in software-defined Voltage Regulator (VR) platforms. The investment is part of C2i’s $16.7 million Series A funding round, which includes participation from Peak XV Partners and other prominent semiconductor industry leaders. Solving the “Last-Inch” power challenge As AI workloads drive global data center electricity demand toward an estimated 1,000...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ClearNote Health announced the close of $52 million in Series D financing and appointment of Kevin Keegan as president and chief operating officer....

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LexAxiom today announced LexSuite™, the agentic revenue engine that runs a law firm’s revenue and business operations, so owners can focus on legal work instead of running the business. Customers are being onboarded today across multiple practice segments; the waitlist is open for additional firms. LexSuite is built on LexAxiom’s Privilege-Native ArchitectureTM, which enforces guardrails on every human and agent interaction inside and outside the firm....

TEL AVIV, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Google DeepMind has featured Hirundo’s security-hardened variant of Gemma 4 in its Gemmaverse – the official showcase for the Gemma open-model ecosystem. The feature validates Hirundo’s weight-level machine unlearning approach as a production-grade solution to one of the most persistent vulnerabilities in enterprise AI deployments: prompt injection attacks. The hardened model is built on Google’s Gemma 4 E4B instruction-tuned base. At 4 billion parameters, it...

MANCHESTER, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Imperagen, a Manchester-based techbio company using AI and quantum physics to engineer better enzymes faster, has closed a £5 million seed funding round led by PXN Ventures with participation from Imperagen’s existing investors IQ Capital and Northern Gritstone. The raise brings Imperagen's total funding to £8.5 million and will accelerate research and development, expand its wet lab capabilities, and build out its go-to-market function over the next 18 mon...

DURANGO, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Payman AI, a fintech building AI agents for community banks, announced its selection to the Independent Community Bankers of America’s (ICBA) ThinkTECH Accelerator Program, which kicks off at the ICBA Center for Innovation in Atlanta. “Agentic banking will redefine how customers interact with their money, turning friction into seamless execution,” said Tyllen Bicakcic, co-founder and CEO of Payman AI. “By participating in the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator, we’re cr...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Daversa has been named to Forbes’ America’s Best Executive Recruiting Firms list for the fifth consecutive year. Based on more than 18,000 survey recommendations from recruiters, HR leaders, and candidates, the list recognizes firms setting the standard across the industry. Daversa operates alongside founders and investors building the most ambitious companies of this generation across frontier AI, defense, enterprise software, digital health, and consumer. These...