Nixxy Reports Strong Q1 2026 Results with Q1 Revenue of $29.1 Million up 2,138% from Q1 2025
HUGE congratulations to the Nixxy team and CEO Mike Schmidt on an incredible transformation of the company, its growth trajectory, and profitability. We cant wait to see what comes next after building a meaningful foundation to expand off.
Nixxy, NASDAQ: NIXX an AI-enabled telecommunications and data infrastructure company, today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, as reported in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Financial and operational highlights for the first quarter of 2026 include:
• Revenue increased to approximately $29.1 million for the first quarter of 2026, compared to approximately $1.3 million in the prior-year quarter, reflecting the continued expansion of the Company’s global telecommunications platform.
• Loss from continuing operations improved to approximately ($1.2) million, compared to approximately ($3.8) million in the prior-year period.
• Cash increased to approximately $1.0 million as of March 31, 2026, compared to approximately $0.2 million on December 31, 2025.
• Total stockholders’ equity increased to approximately $10.1 million as of March 31, 2026, compared to approximately $8.0 million on December 31, 2025.
• The Company continued expanding its telecommunications infrastructure platform through wholesale voice and messaging traffic growth, routing optimization, telecommunications billing technologies, and strategic software initiatives related to embedded transaction and payment workflow capabilities.
During the quarter, Nixxy continued executing its strategic transition from a legacy recruiting marketplace business into a telecommunications and AI infrastructure platform. The Company also continued integrating telecommunications billing systems, AI technologies, and EDGE infrastructure assets acquired during 2025 as part of its broader infrastructure strategy.
“Our first quarter results reflect the continued execution of Nixxy’s strategic transformation and the rapid scaling of our telecommunications platform,” said Mike Schmidt, CEO of Nixxy. “We are building a scalable communications infrastructure platform supported by AI-enabled routing, automation, and strategic software assets. As part of this evolution, we continue expanding our strategic collaboration with PayToMe.co across software development, embedded financial infrastructure, and AI-driven transaction technologies intended to support communications-enabled payment workflows, cross-border transaction capabilities, and next-generation digital infrastructure initiatives.”
“The convergence of telecommunications, AI, and financial transaction technologies represents a significant long-term opportunity, and we believe Nixxy is continuing to position its platform at the intersection of these rapidly evolving markets.”
The Company noted that it remains focused on operational efficiency, disciplined growth, and improving its long-term margin profile as it continues expanding global telecommunications operations and infrastructure capabilities.
The financial results discussed in this release are derived from the Company’s unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, filed with the SEC.
About Nixxy
Nixxy, Inc. (NASDAQ: NIXX) is an AI-enabled communications and data infrastructure company building a global platform for telecommunications services and communications-driven transaction workflows. The Company operates a carrier-scale telecommunications network delivering wholesale voice and messaging services enhanced by automation, analytics, and optimized logic enabled routing technologies. Nixxy is expanding its platform to support communications-enabled financial workflows, integrating messaging, identity, and transaction capabilities across global digital commerce systems.
For more information, visit www.nixxy .com
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding anticipated growth, revenue scale, operating leverage, and the Company's development of communications-enabled financial workflows. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. Investors should review the risk factors described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 15, 2026, and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nixxy undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by law.
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AI cloud Lambda expands leadership team to scale AI infrastructure for the super intelligence era
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Co-founder Stephen Balaban to lead technology vision full-time as CTO; global infrastructure operator Michel Combes named CEO; former AT&T CEO John Donovan appointed Chairman of the Board
Superintelligence Cloud provider Lambda, is expanding its leadership to match the scale of the opportunity in front of the company. As demand for AI compute accelerates globally, Lambda has built the strongest leadership team in its history, bringing in new executives with large-scale capital formation and infrastructure deployment experience.
Co-founder Stephen Balaban will lead Lambda's technology strategy and product vision full-time as CTO, with global infrastructure operator Michel Combes appointed CEO, effective May 2026. Lambda also named John Donovan, former CEO of AT&T Communications, as Chairman of the Board. Co-founder Michael Balaban will take on a new Chief Product Officer role, leading product execution to connect Lambda's infrastructure to the developers and enterprises that rely on it.
"Building an iconic business takes many decades and it’s all about the people who join you along the way," said Stephen Balaban. "Michel and John have raised and deployed many billions across some of the most infrastructure-intensive businesses in history. It’s an honor to have them bring their experience to the Lambda team and I’m excited to work alongside them and continue to lead our product vision, technology development, and strategy."
These appointments come as part of a planned leadership build following Lambda's $1.5B+ Series E fundraise in November 2025, which includes the recent additions of Jerry Hunter, former COO of Snap and early AWS infrastructure leader, as Vice Chairman of Compute Delivery, Charles Fisher, former CFO of Turo and senior finance executive at Charter Communications, as CFO, and David Connolly, former General Counsel at Altice, as CLO. Together, this leadership team is built to reach 3GW of AI compute under management by 2030.
Building the Capital and Operating Muscle to Meet Surging AI Compute Demand
Combes presently serves as Chairman and CEO of Brightspeed and previously served as CEO of Softbank International, Sprint, and Alcatel-Lucent over the last two decades, running companies that built the physical foundation the internet runs on. As CEO, he will help Lambda lay the AI infrastructure foundation for the next century - with a focus on capital formation, expanding the company's AI factory footprint, and building operating systems that keep pace with the business's growth trajectory.
"When I met Stephen and his team, and saw what they have built, I knew this was the opportunity I have been looking for," said Combes. "With Lambda’s technology, partnerships, and customer demand, its future is limited only by its ambition. I’m excited to contribute my experience leading capital-intensive businesses to continue scaling Lambda’s operational architecture and deploying capital to realize the incredible opportunities Lambda has earned."
Lambda's customers are building generational technology on the compute Lambda provides. AI infrastructure has become critical infrastructure, as essential and as unforgiving as the telecom networks the world already depends on. Combes has spent his entire career building and operating at precisely that level.
Stephen and Michael Balaban co-founded Lambda in 2012 and have spent more than a decade building the company into an AI infrastructure leader that serves frontier labs, enterprises, and hyperscalers. As co-founder and CTO, Stephen will lead Lambda's technology strategy and architecture. Stephen began training neural networks in 2012 and has published research in NeurIPS and SPIE. Michael, who scaled the company's technology foundation from its earliest days, will lead the product layer as CPO.
A Board Chairman with a Track Record of Scaled Infrastructure Buildouts
Donovan brings decades of experience in large-scale infrastructure deployments to Lambda. As CTO of AT&T and later Group President of AT&T Technology and Operations, he led the company through one of the most significant network transformations in telecom history, overseeing the transition to software-defined infrastructure at global scale. He went on to serve as CEO of AT&T Communications, running multibillion-dollar network operations. His experience with the scale and complexity of capital-intensive businesses will inform his role on Lambda's board, where he will provide governance, oversight, and strategic direction.
"I have spent my career building and leading infrastructure at global scale. When I looked at Lambda, I saw a team and a technology that are defining what comes next," said Donovan. "I do not take on roles lightly. I am here because this is one of the most compelling opportunities I have seen."
About Lambda
Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.
Founded in 2012 by published machine learning engineers. Lambda builds supercomputers for AI training and inference. Our customers range from AI researchers to enterprises and hyperscalers.
Lambda's mission is to make compute as ubiquitous as electricity and give everyone the power of superintelligence. One person, one GPU.
The leader in signal intelligence HawkEye 360 officially launched their IPO roadshow
HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, today announced that it has launched the roadshow for its proposed initial public offering of its common stock. The proposed offering consists of 16,000,000 shares of common stock offered by HawkEye 360. The initial public offering price is expected to be between $24.00 and $26.00 per share. HawkEye 360 expects to grant the underwriters a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 2,400,000 shares of common stock at the initial public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
HawkEye 360 intends to list its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "HAWK."
Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and Morgan Stanley (in alphabetical order) are acting as lead book-running managers for the offering. RBC Capital Markets, Jefferies and BofA Securities are acting as additional book-running managers for the offering. Baird, Raymond James and William Blair are acting as bookrunners for the offering. Drexel Hamilton is acting as co-manager for the offering.
The proposed offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. Copies of the preliminary prospectus related to the proposed offering, when available, may be obtained from: Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 200 West Street, New York, New York 10282, by telephone at 1-866-471-2526, by facsimile at 212-902-9316 or by email at prospectus-ny@ny.email.gs.com; or Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attention: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, New York 10014.
A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such an offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
About HawkEye 360
HawkEye 360 is equipping defense, intelligence, and national security leaders with mission-critical signals intelligence to enable faster, better decision-making. By detecting, geolocating, and characterizing radio-frequency emissions worldwide, HawkEye 360 delivers trusted domain awareness and early-warning indicators to the US Government and allied partners. Our space-based collection, proprietary signal processing, and AI-powered analytics transform knowledge of RF spectrum into a strategic advantage. Proven by operational mission success, HawkEye 360 is redefining how signals intelligence strengthens national and global security.
Humanoid robotics innovator Apptronik accelerates commercialization with key executive hires from top Tech Giants
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Apptronik Accelerates Commercialization of Humanoid Robots with Key Executive Hires from Top Tech Giants
Former Waymo, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon Leaders Join Apptronik; Daniel Chu appointed as Chief Product Officer, alongside senior leaders across software, services, marketing, and people operations
AI-powered robotics company Apptronik announced a series of strategic executive hires to accelerate its next phase of growth and commercialization. The new leadership team brings together talent from some of the world’s most advanced technology organizations, including Waymo, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon. This expansion follows Apptronik’s landmark $935M Series A funding round and comes as the company prepares to unveil its highly anticipated new humanoid robot.
Daniel Chu Joins as Chief Product Officer
Daniel Chu joins Apptronik as Chief Product Officer, bringing more than two decades of experience building and scaling transformative technology products, at the intersection of human need and machine intelligence.
Chu’s career has uniquely prepared him to lead Apptronik’s long-term product trajectory as the company prepares to bring general-purpose robots first into commercial applications, and eventually into healthcare and the home. At Waymo, Chu served as Chief Product Officer and played a foundational role in building the company’s product organization, helping lead the launch of the world’s first fully autonomous ride-hailing service. This experience in navigating the safety and reliability of autonomous machines is critical as Apptronik scales its humanoid robot platform. Most recently, as Chief Product Officer at 23andMe, Chu focused on the frontiers of personalized healthcare, overseeing the integration of complex data into life-changing consumer health insights. This healthcare background is pivotal to Apptronik’s North Star vision: assistive care and eldercare, where robots will eventually provide the support necessary to help an aging population live with dignity and independence.
"Throughout my career I've been drawn to the 'impossible' problems — the ones that, when solved, fundamentally change how we live for the better,” said Chu. “What brought me to Apptronik is a team with deep robotics expertise, real-world progress, and an unwavering commitment to building robots that serve humanity. I'm here to help take that mission to the world."
Building a World-Class Leadership Team
In addition to Chu, Apptronik has added several key executives to its leadership bench:
- Kevin Garell, SVP of Services & Support – Garell previously led Global Services & Support at Boston Dynamics, and is an expert in scaling the infrastructure required to support robots in the field. He played a critical role in transitioning Boston Dynamics from an R&D focus to a full-scale commercial operation.
- Chirag Shah, VP of Software – In his previous role as a software executive at Amazon for Kindle and Alexa+, Shah led global teams in developing multimodal AI-powered experiences for Kindle, Scribe, and Echo devices. He brings deep expertise in embedded systems and AI-driven software platforms that bridge the gap between digital intelligence and physical interaction.
- Dave Perry, VP of Marketing – An Emmy award-winning digital leader and former Paramount+ and Amazon executive, Perry is known for building globally recognized brands. He has a proven track record of developing innovative world-building consumer campaigns for massive franchises, including Star Trek and Halo.
- Justin Birtz, VP of People Operations – A seasoned people and culture leader who has led people operations at Cellino, a pioneer in personalized regenerative medicine, and iconic robotics company iRobot, Birtz brings specialized experience in scaling high-performance teams within the world’s leading robotics and healthcare tech organizations.
Accelerating the Future of Humanoid Robotics
These appointments signal Apptronik’s shift toward mass-market commercialization. By combining experts in autonomy, consumer AI, and global service infrastructure, Apptronik is positioned to deliver reliable, production-ready robotic systems that can operate seamlessly alongside humans.
“We are at a defining moment in robotics where the technology has finally met the magnitude of the mission,” said Jeff Cardenas, CEO and Co-Founder of Apptronik. “Bringing Daniel Chu on board is an essential step in that journey. His unique experience scaling both world-class autonomy and human-centric health platforms is exactly what we need to build the next generations of AI-powered robots and work towards our ‘North Star’ of assistive care and eldercare. Our expanded leadership team represents the best minds from the companies that defined the last decade of technology, and they’ve joined Apptronik to define the next one. We have the talent, the technology, and the momentum to bring AI-powered humanoid robots to the world at scale.”
About Apptronik
Apptronik is a human-centered robotics company developing AI-powered robots to support humanity in every facet of life. Our humanoid robot, Apollo, is designed to collaborate thoughtfully with humans—initially in critical industries such as manufacturing and logistics, with future applications in healthcare, the home, and beyond. Apollo is the culmination of nearly a decade of development, drawing on Apptronik’s extensive work on 15 previous robots, including NASA’s Valkyrie robot. Apptronik started out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin and has 350 employees. Learn more at apptronik.com.
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AlphaSense AI named a leader in Inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive and Market Intelligence
Magic Quadrant has AlphaSense at the top on both axes, including Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision, reflecting AlphaSense’s market leading position
Launch: AlphaSense recognized as a Leader in the inaugural Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive and Market Intelligence Platforms. This Magic Quadrant assesses and ranks companies that provide mature, comprehensive, competitive and market intelligence platforms.
Why It Matters: AlphaSense delivers trusted, domain-specific intelligence that powers real business decisions at scale. Its AI technology serves as the foundation of the platform’s core automated workflow, search & AI, and content capabilities. AlphaSense is trusted by more than 7,000 enterprises to transform trusted information into decision-ready conviction at speed.
AlphaSense Capabilities: This recognition follows the launch of significant enhancements of AI capabilities and AI agents in the AlphaSense platform with offerings like Generative Search, Generative Grid, Deep Research, Financial Data, and AI Agent Interviewer. Together, these advancements and new custom workflows reflect the company’s evolution from AI search to autonomous, end-to-end workflow automation that generates decision-ready outputs for financial and corporate clients.
AlphaSense, the AI platform redefining market intelligence for the business and financial world, today announced it has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Competitive & Market Intelligence Platforms1, a new report published by Gartner. AlphaSense is positioned highest on both Magic Quadrant dimensions, including Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision.
According to Gartner, “Leaders demonstrate broad support for all critical capabilities across multiple Competitive & Market Intelligence (C&MI) use cases (corporate strategy, product strategy, GTM strategy and revenue enablement). They have high market awareness, high market penetration, good market momentum and a clear, long-term strategic vision and roadmap for growing their C&MI platform business. They are distinguished by their ability to innovate rapidly and consistently invest in expanding both content coverage and workflow automation to support enterprises with diverse intelligence needs.”
AlphaSense believes this recognition validates its AI platform strategy for applying purpose-built AI to continuously analyze trusted financial, market, and expert intelligence and transform it into fully cited, decision-ready insight and deliverables. Built for large, complex enterprises in the largest global industries such as finance, healthcare, technology, and energy, the AlphaSense platform is evolving to meet the needs of finance and business professionals in the AI era with automated workflows, premium content, and search & AI that combine to provide a personalized intelligence system.
“We believe this recognition reflects a broader evolution in market intelligence – from fragmented information to automating full workflows,” said Jack Kokko, Founder and CEO of AlphaSense. “At AlphaSense, we’re building a continuously learning intelligence system that combines best-in-class search, trusted content, and AI-driven workflows to help organizations move from insight to action in real time. We believe being named as Leader and positioned highest and furthest on both axes reinforces both the progress we’ve made and the opportunity ahead.”
New platform enhancements and research & development investments
AlphaSense operates as the intelligence layer between information and decision, allowing users to understand market insights, competitive intelligence, and market signals before their competition. The platform provides intuitive workflows like Generative Search, Deep Research, and Generative Grid to draw insights from its unparalleled content library of Financial Data and more than 500 million proprietary and premium business documents.
AlphaSense also includes the Tegus Expert Transcript Library, the world’s most comprehensive expert library with more than 250,000 interview transcripts with experts, including 75% of all private transcripts in the market. In 2026, AlphaSense plans to more than double its Tegus Expert Transcript Library across APAC and EMEA, driven by AlphaSense's AI Interviewer and Channel Checks agents.
In high-stakes environments in which businesses must shift strategies and move capital as the market evolves, every insight must be defensible, traceable, and grounded in credible, authoritative sources. AlphaSense is designed around verifiability, with its AI allowing users to see how conclusions are derived, surface the underlying evidence, and connect signals across hundreds of thousands of trusted sources. Its platform enables professionals to move from insight to conviction for better business outcomes.
AlphaSense continues to enhance its product and invest resources in research and development to help customers meet demand for AI-driven market intelligence.
Recent product enhancements and company highlights include:
- Custom and Scheduled Agents: AlphaSense offers custom and scheduled agents to shift from manual processes to one-click, fully automated flows that understand the complexity of a user’s priorities – delivering exactly what they need, in the exact format they need it in, when they need it. Unlike with search alerts, custom agents allow users to describe in natural language the information they want to receive and their preferred format. Common use cases include watchlists on specific topics, companies, industries, and markets; news roundups; company due diligence; and company leadership changes. Results are shared with users in a presentable format at set intervals. This feature builds on the AlphaSense library of pre-built workflow agents.
- Next-generation Generative Search: AlphaSense’s most-used search capability, Generative Search is now an orchestrated, multi-tool agent architecture capable of automating discovery through deliverables. Further user functionality like always-on autonomous execution and deeper integration with third-party tools are in development.
- AI-Led Expert Calls: informed by the unmatched depth of the Tegus Expert Transcript Library and the broader universe of premium and proprietary content within AlphaSense, AI-Led Expert Calls introduce a fundamentally new way to conduct primary research with unmatched speed, scale, and built-in compliance safeguards. It leverages an AI Interview Agent, designed as a trusted partner for investors and corporate teams, operating under rigorous compliance protocols and customers’ predefined objectives. Users define their research goals, select from a list of custom-sourced experts, and the AI Interview agent conducts the call, generates a transcript, and delivers a concise summary of key takeaways in a fraction of the traditional turnaround time.
- Channel Checks: AlphaSense Channel Checks is a living channel intelligence system scanning thousands of consistent conversations every month to surface clean, comparable signals on demand and pricing from ground-level channel sources weeks before the market catches on. By moving from point-in-time reports to dynamic, continuously refreshed intelligence, the solution delivers a level of validation and depth that even top-tier funds have struggled to achieve. AlphaSense is setting a new standard for how investors access, evaluate, and act on channel intelligence and pre-earnings insights.
- Executive hires: AlphaSense recently named Nilka Thomas as Chief People Officer and Samantha Greenberg as Chief Financial Officer, strengthening its executive leadership team. In addition, AlphaSense named Julia Lecocq as SVP of International Corporate Sales and UK Country Manager to lead EMEA strategy, and named June Boo VP of Corporate Sales and Singapore Country Manager.
- Enhanced language offerings: in addition to existing multi-language sources and global company coverage, including over 10 million private companies across EMEA and Japan, users can now use Generative Search to translate and analyze multi-language documents, bridging the gap in markets where English-language coverage is limited.
- R&D investment: AlphaSense is investing heavily across its full-stack platform, including advancing customized workflows, search and AI capabilities, and content. Priority investment areas in 2026 include enterprise intelligence, workspaces, and customized workflow outputs with native plug-ins for Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. In addition, the company is adding to its product and content workforce.
Business momentum through powering modern AI market intelligence at global scale
AlphaSense surpassed more than $500 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2025, reflecting growing demand for domain-specific AI workflows and Applied AI that is trusted, compliant, and designed to help decision-makers act with conviction.
More than 7,000 customers use AlphaSense for their corporate strategy and development, competitive intelligence, and investing needs, including 90% of the S&P 100, more than half of the Fortune 500, 92% of the world’s 50 largest pharmaceutical companies, 90% of the top asset management firms, and all of the world’s top investment banks. These companies are leading the shift from reactive information retrieval to proactive AI intelligence amid constant market fluctuation and disruption.
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About AlphaSense
AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance. The platform combines domain specific AI with a vast content universe of over 500 million premium business documents — including equity research, earnings calls, expert interviews, filings, news, and internal proprietary content. Purpose-built for speed, accuracy, and enterprise-grade security, AlphaSense helps teams extract critical insights, uncover market-moving trends, and automate complex workflows with high quality outputs. With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly. For more information, visit www.alpha-sense.com.
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ConverseNow and Deliverect partnership to bring Voice AI ordering into restaurant order & menu management
The partnership integration enables restaurants to seamlessly implement and manage AI-powered voice orders across all digital channels.
The leading provider of Voice AI technology for restaurants, ConverseNow, and Deliverect, a global leader in order management solutions, today announced a strategic partnership and integration designed to streamline restaurant operations and accelerate adoption of Voice AI ordering.
Through this integration, restaurants can connect ConverseNow's fully automated Voice AI ordering platform directly into Deliverect's unified order management ecosystem. This allows phone and drive-thru voice orders to flow seamlessly alongside third-party delivery and first-party digital orders—improving operational efficiency, order accuracy, and overall guest experience.
By combining Deliverect's enterprise grade ordering and delivery management infrastructure with ConverseNow's enterprise-grade Voice AI technology, restaurants can automate high-volume voice channels, drive consistent upselling, and reduce operational friction without disrupting existing workflows.
"Voice remains one of the highest-volume ordering channels in restaurants, yet it's often the most operationally complex," said Vinay Shukla, CEO of ConverseNow. "Our partnership with Deliverect enables restaurants to bring Voice AI ordering into a unified order management environment. Together, we're helping brands increase revenue, optimize labor, and adopt AI in a practical, scalable way."
The integration supports restaurants looking to modernize operations by:
- Automating phone and drive-thru ordering with enterprise-grade Voice AI
- Seamlessly injecting AI-generated orders into Deliverect's order management platform
- Improving order accuracy and reducing missed calls
- Delivering measurable ROI through labor efficiency and consistent upsell performance
"As restaurants continue to digitize every aspect of their operations, integrating voice into the broader order management ecosystem is a natural next step," said Justin Falciola, President, Americas at Deliverect. "By partnering with ConverseNow, we're expanding the ways restaurants can capture and manage orders, helping operators simplify complexity and focus on delivering great guest experiences."
This partnership reflects growing industry demand for AI-powered automation that integrates cleanly with existing restaurant technology stacks. By aligning Voice AI ordering with centralized order management, ConverseNow and Deliverect are setting a new standard for operational integration across channels.
For more information about ConverseNow and its Voice AI solutions, visit www.conversenow.ai.
About ConverseNow
ConverseNow provides Gen-AI powered Voice AI solutions for restaurants, automating order-taking across high-volume voice channels such as phone and drive-thru. Deployed across thousands of locations, ConverseNow helps brands increase revenue, improve guest experience, and optimize labor while delivering strong unit-level economics and scalable enterprise rollouts.
About Deliverect
Deliverect is a global restaurant technology company that connects digital ordering channels directly to in-store operations, serving more than 95,000 restaurant locations worldwide. With an API-first platform and over 1,000 certified integrations, Deliverect streamlines digital ordering across carryout, delivery, catering, and in-store fulfillment. By leveraging AI-driven innovation, Deliverect empowers restaurants to anticipate demand, recover lost revenue, and grow smarter at scale. The company processes 30 million API calls daily, has powered 1+ billion orders to date, and is trusted by many of the world's largest and most innovative restaurant brands. To learn more, visit deliverect.com.
Media Contact: OIer Fano Dadebat. oier.fano@deliverect.com
Photonics AI infrastructure innovator Neurophos enters hyper growth after $110M Series A
Photonics AI chip startup Neurophos has tripled its headcount after securing a $110 million Series A funding round. Expanding its leadership team and advisory board, with new hires from major tech companies like NVIDIA, Groq, Meta, and Intel. CEO Patrick Bowen said they are bringing in talent across all levels to commercialize photonic AI at scale.
The leader in photonic AI chip technology, Neurophos, has nearly tripled in headcount since closing its $110M Series A round in January 2026. In less than six months, the company has grown by nearly 3x — a trajectory that reflects both the importance and the opportunity for next-generation AI compute infrastructure.
The latest wave of hires brings deep industry experience to Neurophos across multiple engineering disciplines, with leaders joining from companies including NVIDIA, Meta, Qualcomm, Intel, Infinera, Luminar, and Magic Leap.
Co-Founder of Groq Joins As Strategic Advisor
Neurophos is adding Doug Wightman to its Strategic Advisory Board. Doug is the co-founder and former CEO of Groq, the AI hardware company recently acquired by NVIDIA in a landmark $20 billion transaction. With a deep background in chip architecture, high-performance computing, and company building, Doug brings invaluable expertise in scaling AI hardware businesses from early innovation to global deployment.
Key Hires
Fu-Tai An - VP of VLSI
Fu-Tai brings senior leadership experience from Infinera and Nokia, where he drove VLSI and photonics programs as VP of Engineering. He has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of analog/mixed-signal ICs.
Suohai Mei - VP of Product Engineering
Suohai most recently led teams developing photonics products at NVIDIA as Director of CPO Engineering. He previously led teams at Intel and Finisar. He has 30 years of experience leading product engineering to bring new hardware to volume production.
Anshul Jain - Director of Technical Program Management
Anshul has spent over 20 years bringing complex hardware to market. Over the last 8 years, he has built the TPM team at Magic Leap for next-gen optics, photonics, and integrations as the Sr. Director of Technical Program Management.
Yuchun Zhou - Director of Silicon Photonics
Yuchun brings over a decade of cutting-edge photonic IC development experience to Neurophos from Lumentum, Infinera, and Intel, where he led PIC development for 1.6T pluggable optics as the Technical Lead for Silicon Photonics and PIC development.
Tsachy Holovinger - Director of Quality, Reliability, and Failure Analysis.
Tsachy joins from Intel, where he was a Lead Foundry Quality and Reliability Engineer and spent over a decade leading reliability, yield, and process integration for Xeon processors. He brings over 20 years of experience in scaling IC production.
Kelvin Goveas - Sr. Principal Processor Architect
Kelvin has spent over 30 years working on core architecture for high-performance processors. Most recently, he spent 6 years at Ventana Micro, which was recently acquired by Qualcomm, as a Principal Engineer working on RISC-V architectures.
Expanding Footprint
In step with its headcount growth, Neurophos is expanding its physical presence. The company is establishing a new engineering site in Redwood City, CA, to build co-located teams that will accelerate chip development timelines. Neurophos is also moving into a new headquarters in Austin, Texas, to accommodate its rapid growth. Both locations will serve as hubs for continued hiring across the organization.
Looking Ahead
"We have the leadership, the space, and the momentum to build something extraordinary. We're bringing in talent at every level — from technical leads to VPs — and across the full spectrum of engineering disciplines required to commercialize photonic AI at scale. This is a rare opportunity to build the future of compute from the inside," said Patrick Bowen, CEO of Neurophos.
With headcount expected to double again by the end of 2026, Neurophos offers a rare chance to help build the future of photonic AI. Explore open roles at https://www.neurophos.com/careers.
About Neurophos
Neurophos Inc. is an Austin-based semiconductor company developing high-performance, energy-efficient photonic AI inference chips. Founded by Dr. Patrick Bowen and Dr. Andrew Traverso, the team includes industry veterans from NVIDIA, Apple, Samsung, Intel, AMD, Meta, ARM, Micron, Mellanox, Lightmatter, and more. For details, visit www.neurophos.com.
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neurophos@nextpr.com
AI marketing leader Bluefish raises $43 million series B to power agentic marketing for the Fortune 500
NEA, and Threshold Ventures lead the Series B, financing, which accelerates the rollout of the Bluefish Agentic Marketing platform across Fortune 500 brands and marketers, bringing total funding to $68 million in just two years.
Bluefish, the Agentic Marketing Platform (AMP) for Fortune 500 brands, announced the close of $43 million Series B growth financing co-led by Threshold Ventures and NEA with participation from multiple enterprise investors, including Amex Ventures, TIAA Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and continued participation from Bloomberg Beta. Existing investors Crane Venture Partners, Laconia, and Swift Ventures also participated in the round. The raise brings total Bluefish funding to $68 million, bolstering the company's leadership position in the enterprise segment of the rapidly growing estimated $500 billion Agentic Marketing opportunity.
Since its launch in 2024, Bluefish has quickly become the go-to platform for large brands building enterprise-grade Agentic Marketing capabilities to gain visibility and influence over how their products are portrayed to consumers by AI tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. The platform is already used by about 10% of the Fortune 500, with hundreds of accounts across 12+ verticals including financial services, pharmaceuticals, beauty, luxury and consumer packaged goods. Bluefish customers already include many of the world's largest brands, including Adidas, American Express, Hearst, LVMH, and Ulta Beauty. The platform currently processes millions of AI prompts and responses per day across all major AI providers including ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Perplexity, and Amazon Rufus, covering billions of monthly active users (MAU).
"Having reached over 1 billion MAU within 12-months of launch, AI is clearly the next major marketing channel on the internet, just like search, social or mobile before it," said Alex Sherman, co-founder and CEO of Bluefish. "To manage this critical new channel properly, enterprise brands are looking for agentic marketing technology partners with the same enterprise-grade sophistication that they expect across their existing marketing stack. From day one, Bluefish has focused exclusively on building the most comprehensive agentic marketing suite in the category, and it is becoming the enterprise tool in Fortune 500 marketers' arsenal."
Because AI models train and learn from many different pieces of content and data, optimizing AI performance often requires collaboration across multiple marketing functions, including first-party content, third-party content, and data teams. The Bluefish AMP was purpose-built to enable this integrated strategy, and combines AI Monitoring, Activation and Measurement into a single end-to-end marketing suite that can be used across Search, Content, PR/Comms, Commerce, and Paid Media teams to manage AI channel performance.
"Some believe success in AI comes from gaming the system, but that approach won't last. Marketers can't out-compute LLMs, and while shortcuts may deliver momentary lifts, they don't create durable advantage," said Jing Feng, co-founder and COO of Bluefish. "Bluefish is built to help enterprises earn their position in AI. You can keep chasing the algorithm—or you can become what it consistently chooses. Bluefish makes the latter possible at enterprise scale. And we're just getting started."
Using Bluefish, enterprise brands are able to gain deep insight into the specific sources, narratives, and competitor signals driving LLM behavior, translate that intelligence into targeted optimization campaigns to directly influence AI outcomes; and attribute these optimization campaigns to tangible lift in visibility, favorability, and revenue from this critical new channel. Fortune 500 brands regularly see double and triple-digit performance gains across AI performance metrics within months of deploying Bluefish.
The company was founded by Alex Sherman (CEO), Jing Feng (COO), and Andrei Dunca (CTO) — a team of industry insiders that previously founded, scaled and sold category-defining marketing platforms that are now owned by Microsoft and Meta. The extended Bluefish executive team also includes experienced marketers and AI engineers from major technology and marketing players including Microsoft, The Trade Desk, AppNexus, Publicis, and multiple CPG brands.
"Bluefish is scaling fast, with 10% of the Fortune 500 engaged, triple-digit performance gains for the world's most demanding brands and a platform built for the agent-driven commerce era," said Ann Bordetsky, Board Member who led NEA's investment in Bluefish. "We believe when you see an inevitable market, insatiable customer demand, defensible platform and proven team all converge — you double down."
"When the world's largest brands converge on a single platform, that's a category being defined. Bluefish has built what no one else has: an end-to-end system that tells enterprise marketing teams not just what AI is saying about their brand, but why and what to do about it," said Lisa Xu, Partner at Threshold Ventures. "That combination of depth, scale, and measurable results is why the Fortune 500 are building their AI advantage on Bluefish."
"Bluefish understands the needs of enterprise marketing teams and built its platform with this sophistication in mind," said Kevin Tsang, Managing Director at Amex Ventures. "That's why we're excited to partner with them in this important emerging category and utilize their platform to better understand and improve how American Express is showing up in AI channels. AI is reshaping how customers engage with brands, and Bluefish is building the platform for this next generation of marketing."
About Bluefish
Bluefish is the leading Agentic Marketing Platform (AMP) built for today's AI-driven internet. Since launching in 2024, 10% of the Fortune 500 across 12+ verticals have tapped Bluefish to control how they show up where it matters most — ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Perplexity, and Amazon Rufus. A true end-to-end system, Bluefish gives enterprise marketing leaders from the world's most valuable brands clear visibility into how AI systems understand, influence, and measure brand performance across the agentic internet – turning AI-powered discovery into measurable competitive advantage. To learn more, visit www.bluefishai.com
About NEA
New Enterprise Associates, Inc. (NEA) is a global venture capital firm focused on helping entrepreneurs build transformational businesses across multiple stages, sectors and geographies. Founded in 1977, NEA has more than $35 billion in assets under management as of December 31, 2025, and invests in technology and healthcare companies at all stages in a company's lifecycle, from seed stage through IPO. The firm's long track record of investing includes more than 285 portfolio company public listings and more than 510 mergers and acquisitions. For more information, please visit www.nea.com.
About Threshold
Threshold Ventures partners with founder-led companies at defining moments of growth, helping them build enduring businesses. Based in Palo Alto, Threshold invests primarily at the Seed, Series A, and Series B stages across enterprise software, healthcare, and frontier technology. With a concentrated, high-conviction strategy, Threshold has backed category-defining companies including Box, Doximity, Livongo, Redfin, Remitly, Rippling, and Twilio. Learn more at www.threshold.vc
Synctera Acquires Cable to Automate Compliance Verification Across the Financial Ecosystem
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- Synctera has acquired Cable
- Cable will remain available as a standalone offering
- Cable automates control testing, so banks know if their FinTechs are complying with regulations and agreed procedures
- Synctera will continue to invest in and grow the Cable product
- Improving the quality and observability of compliance execution is a shared mission
The leader in embedded finance and banking-as-a-service (BaaS), Synctera, has acquired Cable, which automates control testing so banks know if their fintechs are complying with regulations and agreed procedures. The Cable team will join Synctera and continue to operate and build the product. Cable will continue to be available as a standalone offering.
As embedded finance and BaaS adoption has accelerated, so has regulatory scrutiny. Sponsor banks are expected to demonstrate continuous, end-to-end oversight of their fintech programs, a standard that traditional, sampling-based compliance reviews can no longer meet.
Cable addresses this shift by giving banks an independent, automated way to verify that compliance controls are actually working, not just that they exist. Its platform continuously tests systems, data, and outputs across fintech partners and service providers, replacing manual audits and spot checks with real-time assurance. The acquisition reflects Synctera's continued investment in the compliance infrastructure banks and fintechs need to operate responsibly.
"Synctera has always focused on helping banks and fintechs build and scale responsibly," said Peter Hazlehurst, Co-founder and CEO of Synctera. "But execution alone isn't enough. Banks need visibility into how those systems are performing in real time. Cable provides that missing observability layer, giving our partners confidence that controls are working as intended across their entire fintech ecosystem. Most solutions in this space are theater. Cable isn't."
Cable’s platform sits alongside existing compliance infrastructure, independently testing whether controls are functioning as designed. This includes validating KYC processes, transaction monitoring rules, AML policies, and other critical compliance workflows.
"Banks are being asked to stand behind the performance of increasingly complex fintech ecosystems," said Natasha Vernier, co-founder of Cable. "That requires a fundamentally different approach: one that is continuous, data-driven, and verifiable. We built Cable to meet that need, and joining Synctera allows us to bring that capability to a much broader market."
Companies like Midland States Bank, Grasshopper, and Mercury already trust Cable to help manage their compliance. Synctera provides the orchestration layer for all of the components banks and fintechs need to offer embedded finance, including all of the compliance technology. Cable sits on the other side of that equation: instead of executing compliance controls, it independently verifies that those controls are working as intended. There's no reason to be satisfied by sampling every 100th KYC to check if policy was followed.
About Synctera
Launched in 2020, Synctera is the banking and payments platform powering financial innovation. Synctera provides companies with everything they need to build and scale innovative banking products and equips sponsor banks with the tools they need to manage compliant partnerships.
About Cable
Cable is the only automated control testing platform designed to help banks and fintechs continuously verify the effectiveness of their regulatory compliance programs.
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Signal intelligence HawkEye 360 selected to aid NASA in developing resilient space communications
HawkEye 360 has been selected to support NASA’s research into resilient space‑to‑space communications. Using our RFIQ™ data, we’ll help NASA better understand the RF environment in low Earth orbit and inform future secure communication pathways for commercial missions.
HawkEye 360, the global leader in signals intelligence data and analytics, today announced that the Commercial Crew and Commercial Low Earth Orbit Development Programs at NASA have awarded the company a contract to supply its RFIQ™ data product to support critical research on future space‑to‑space communications.
Leveraging its constellation of satellites, HawkEye 360 provides radio frequency (RF) data that NASA will use to study the global RF environment in low Earth orbit. This work will help NASA evaluate spectrum usage and inform the development of a secure and reliable space-to-space communications channel for future commercial spacecraft missions.
“Our RFIQ data provides NASA with the ability to map and characterize interference across low Earth orbit, bringing clarity to an increasingly congested electromagnetic spectrum,” said Todd Probert, Chief Operating Officer, HawkEye 360. “By supporting NASA’s research, we are contributing to safer, more resilient communications for the next generation of space missions.”
The collaboration highlights how HawkEye 360’s signals intelligence and Space Domain Awareness capabilities extend beyond defense and intelligence, providing critical insights to civil and scientific organizations as well.
“This award underscores the adaptability of HawkEye 360’s constellation and analytics,” said John Serafini, CEO, HawkEye 360. “While our core mission is to equip allied defense and intelligence partners, these same capabilities enable civilian agencies to advance new space communication pathways that will benefit both government and commercial operators. Supporting NASA’s pioneering efforts demonstrates how HawkEye 360 insights contribute across domains, from global security to space exploration.”
HawkEye 360 is equipping defense, intelligence, and national security leaders with mission-critical electronic warfare to enable faster, better decision-making. By detecting, geolocating, and characterizing radio-frequency emissions worldwide, HawkEye 360 delivers trusted domain awareness and early-warning indicators to the US Government and allied partners. Our space-based collection, proprietary signal processing, and AI-powered analytics transform knowledge of RF spectrum into a strategic advantage. Proven by operational mission success, HawkEye 360 is redefining how signals intelligence strengthens national and global security.
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