$1 million strategic investment combines growth capital with Qentelli’s global engineering and enterprise AI capabilities as Squeez scales a new commerce layer connecting loyalty, access and experiences

TAMPA, Fla., Nov. 12, 2026 — Squeez, the platform where loyalty, access and experiences come together, today announced a strategic partnership and $1 million investment from Qentelli, a global digital engineering and enterprise AI company. The financing combines a corporate investment from Qentelli with a personal investment from founder and CEO Sanjay Jupudi.

The partnership brings together Squeez’s experience commerce platform and growing ecosystem of inventory and brand relationships with Qentelli’s global engineering capabilities to accelerate enterprise integrations, platform development and commercial expansion across travel, hospitality, entertainment and lifestyle.

“The loyalty industry has spent decades building extraordinary programs that reward consumers for their engagement,” said Chris Ogboke, founder and CEO of Squeez. “We believe the next opportunity is connecting that value to access and experiences consumers want most. As we move from building the platform to scaling it with enterprise brands, having the right technology partner matters enormously. Qentelli brings the engineering depth, enterprise experience and speed we need for that next chapter. Their decision to invest alongside us is strong validation of what we’re building together.”

Qentelli’s investment brings more than capital to Squeez. It represents a strategic bet on the next generation of enterprise commerce infrastructure. The company brings deep engineering experience across global QSR brands, major airlines, financial institutions and leading loyalty technology providers, along with the scale and enterprise expertise to support Squeez’s next phase of growth.

“Every industry eventually reaches an inflection point where technology enables an entirely new way of creating value and removing friction,” said Sanjay Jupudi, founder and CEO of Qentelli. “We believe loyalty has reached that moment. Squeez has built a platform that reimagines how loyalty can serve consumers while creating meaningful new opportunities for brands. We see the potential for this to become an important new commerce layer connecting brands, loyalty currencies, access and experiences. That is why Qentelli invested—and why I chose to invest personally alongside the company.”

The Opportunity Beyond Earning
Loyalty programs have become increasingly sophisticated at helping consumers earn value. The next opportunity is expanding where, when and how that value can become useful. Squeez is focused on what happens next: making that value more useful and relevant to consumers’ lives.

The platform connects loyalty currencies to bookable experiences, contextual commerce and personalized offers, allowing brands to engage customers around what they want to do—not simply what they want to buy.

“Consumers don’t think in terms of loyalty programs,” Ogboke said. “They think about what they want to do next: take a trip, play a round of golf, meet friends for dinner. Our job is to help brands become part of those moments by turning the loyalty value consumers have earned into access to more of the life they want to live.”

Building a New Layer of Loyalty Commerce
Squeez is building a new commerce, intelligence and engagement layer on top of existing loyalty infrastructure, connecting loyalty currencies with dynamic inventory, merchant ecosystems and real-time experiences. Brands can use Squeez to create engagement before, during and after traditional purchase and redemption moments without rebuilding the loyalty systems they already have.

Squeez is initially activating premium experiences in categories including golf, with a rapidly expanding pipeline spanning travel, hospitality, entertainment, dining and lifestyle.

Beyond its investment, Qentelli will serve as a strategic technology and engineering partner to Squeez, providing global engineering capabilities as the company scales its platform, accelerates enterprise integrations and expands its commercial ecosystem. The partnership positions Qentelli at the center of an emerging model connecting established loyalty infrastructure to new forms of commerce and consumer engagement.

Squeez expects to announce several significant commercial and strategic relationships with leading travel, hospitality and entertainment brands in the coming weeks.

About Squeez

Squeez is the platform where loyalty, access and experiences come together.

The Squeez Platform connects loyalty currencies, brands, experience providers and bookable inventory, enabling brands and experience providers to deepen customer engagement and unlock new revenue opportunities beyond traditional transactions without replacing their existing loyalty or technology infrastructure. For more information, visit trysqueez.com.

About Qentelli
Qentelli is a global digital engineering and enterprise AI company that helps the world’s largest organizations modernize and scale mission-critical technology platforms. Its experience spans major airlines, travel and hospitality companies, global quick-service restaurant brands, financial institutions and leading loyalty technology providers.

Led by founder and CEO Sanjay Jupudi, Qentelli brings deep expertise in quality engineering, DevOps, enterprise AI and digital transformation. www.qentelli.com.

SOURCE Squeez, Inc

Recognition comes amid a period of significant momentum for Positron, following its $875 million Series C and expanding AI inference deployments

RENO, Nev., Nov. 12, 2026 — Positron AI, the AI inference hardware company built to make generative AI dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient, today announced it has been named to the inaugural 2026 AI 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private AI companies in the world, published by Newcomer in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 recognizes leading private companies driving innovation across the AI ecosystem. Positron’s inclusion reflects its progress in bringing purpose-built inference technology to market as growing AI adoption drives demand for more cost- and energy-efficient infrastructure.

“We’re honored to be recognized among the companies shaping the future of AI,” said Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron AI. “Making AI inference profitable, scalable and accessible takes advanced technology and a business and supply chain built to serve some of the world’s largest technology companies. Positron combines deep semiconductor and systems expertise with customer-driven development and investor backing to position us for growth. I’m proud of the business we’re building as we serve customers today and develop our next generation of technology, and grateful to our team, customers, partners and investors for their support.”

Positron’s recognition follows a series of major company milestones. In September, the company announced an $875 million Series C financing at a $5 billion valuation to accelerate development of its next-generation Asimov silicon, ramp production of Titan and expand manufacturing capacity. Positron has also deployed more than 50 racks of Atlas, its first-generation inference system, at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Most recently, the company announced a partnership with General Compute, which is purchasing Atlas systems and has committed to adopting Titan to support next-generation AI workloads.

The inaugural AI 100 evaluated nominated companies and recognized category leaders across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). Only independent AI companies that have not had a majority strategic or private equity M&A transaction or a public listing were eligible. Honorees span foundation models, AI infrastructure and compute, developer tools and agents, AI apps, vertical AI, security, physical AI and robotics, and deeptech and AI for science.

“The artificial intelligence startup set plays by its own rules: there are upstarts with unprecedented revenue growth, companies profiting off of seemingly insatiable inference spending, highly valued speculative research labs, and wildly ambitious robotics companies. These AI native startups are already reshaping the global economy. With our friends at Bessemer, we rethought what matters for the AI age, bringing together the most promising startups harnessing foundation models to transform our digital and physical world,” said Eric Newcomer, founder of Newcomer.

“The AI 100 puts a spotlight on the top 100 companies driving the AI economy forward, built by a generation of founders moving at a speed and scale we’ve never seen before. We’re already seeing that exponential value creation play out across infra, AI applications, and physical AI. The remarkable part is that it’s still early: this inaugural cohort is just the starting point, a natural evolution of our decade-long Cloud 100 franchise,” said Byron Deeter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 is published at ai100.newcomer.co, and was unveiled live onstage at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco.

About Positron AI
Positron AI builds hardware and software to make AI inference dramatically cheaper and more energy efficient. The company’s shipping product, Atlas, is deployed at hyperscaler scale today, and its next-generation custom silicon, Asimov, tapes out in late 2026 with production in the second half of 2027. Asimov powers Titan, a multi-terabyte-memory inference system for long-context and next-generation AI workloads. Positron’s energy-efficient architecture allows its systems to be deployed in air-cooled or liquid-cooled data centers at varying rack densities, without dependence on constrained HBM or CoWoS supply chains. Learn more at positron.ai.

About Newcomer
Newcomer is a media company covering the business of startups and venture capital, founded by independent journalist Eric Newcomer. We write a newsletter, produce a podcast, host technology summits, and more. https://www.newcomer.co/ 

About Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build enduring companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry-defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. www.bvp.com 

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JERSEY CITY, N.J., Nov. 12, 2026 — Asset Based Lending (ABL), a national private lender and a driving force behind the next generation of real estate investment, has successfully closed its fourth unrated securitization, totaling $200 million. The transaction, ABL 2026 RTL-1, which priced on October 15 and closed on October 26, marks ABL’s largest to date, bringing its cumulative securitization volume to $723 million.

The transaction is backed by a diversified pool of business-purpose residential real estate loans, with an industry-leading concentration of ground-up infill construction loans. This reflects ABL’s 16 years of experience in ground-up construction lending and its proven ability to manage the complexities and risks of residential development.

“We are proud to lead the industry in financing ground-up construction, and to do it at a cost that keeps our pricing competitive for the builders we serve,” said Kevin Rodman, CEO of ABL. “This transaction underscores the strength of the platform our team has built and the confidence investors have in our credit. Every one of these loans puts new housing on the ground.”

The transaction also demonstrates ABL’s ability to navigate challenging market conditions. Despite heightened volatility and increased investor selectivity across the securitization market, ABL secured competitive financing terms. The deal reached the market in approximately three weeks, making it one of the company’s fastest securitization executions.

Performance Trust Capital Partners, LLC served as structuring agent, with Nomura Securities International, Inc. (“Nomura”) and Mizuho Securities USA LLC serving as joint bookrunners.

“Successfully executing this transaction amid market volatility reinforces the effectiveness of our capital markets strategy and the quality of our platform,” said Daniel Gotay, Head of Capital Markets at ABL. “We have built durable relationships with institutional investors and established a track record they can underwrite, giving us consistent access to capital. For our borrowers, that is what matters most: they can count on ABL to fund their projects from start to finish.”

The securitization also reflects ABL’s expanding national footprint, with collateral spanning the Northeast, Sun Belt, Rust Belt and South. This geographic diversification supports the company’s strategy to continue growing beyond its established Northeast presence and finance residential development in markets across the country.

To learn more about ABL, please visit www.ablfunding.com.

About Asset Based Lending

Asset Based Lending was established in 2010, providing fast bridge financing to real estate investors for the purchase, renovation, new construction, and long-term refinance of single-family, multi-family, and mixed-use properties. A trusted lender to thousands of investors, Asset Based Lending has closed over $4.4 billion in loans since its founding. Learn more at https://www.ablfunding.com/. Follow the company on LinkedIn.

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Los traspasos de gran capitalización y una amplia comunidad de emisores apuntan a la fortaleza de la Bolsa de Nueva York (NYSE); además, la tecnología de vanguardia de la NYSE procesó un nuevo pico en el volumen de mensajes el 5 de noviembre.

Puntos importantes

• Los traspasos: en lo que va de año, nueve empresas han pasado de cotizar en el Nasdaq a hacerlo en la NYSE, entre ellas tres que anteriormente formaban parte del índice Nasdaq-100 y el mayor traspaso bancario de la historia, protagonizado por Fifth Third Bank.
• El capital: según FactSet, este año se ha transferido a la NYSE casi medio billón de dólares en capitalización bursátil procedentes de nuestros competidores, en comparación con los $ 185,000 millones que se han trasladado a nuestro competidor desde la NYSE este año.
• La comunidad: 70 % del S&P 500 y 74 % de las empresas Fortune 500 que cotizan en bolsa confían en la NYSE como su lugar para cotizar.
• La infraestructura: el 5 de noviembre, la NYSE procesó 1.166 billones de mensajes, aproximadamente un 4 % por encima del pico anterior; el rendimiento del sistema estuvo en línea con el de los días pico anteriores.

NUEVA YORK, 12 de noviembre de 2026 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Nueve empresas han traspasado sus cotizaciones a la Bolsa de Valores de Nueva York (NYSE) este año, y los emisores que hicieron el cambio son sustancialmente más grandes por capitalización de mercado mediana que aquellos que cambiaron en la dirección opuesta este año. La NYSE también ha dado la bienvenida a un conjunto diverso de nuevos emisores, y sus sistemas gestionaron un nuevo pico en el volumen de negociación sin problemas.

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Traspasos de gran capitalización a la NYSE

AstraZeneca, Kraft Heinz y Skydance: Tres empresas del índice Nasdaq-100 se han trasladado a la NYSE este año. Un cuarto nombre de gran capitalización, Fifth Third Bancorp, también realizó el cambio, lo que supone el mayor traspaso bancario de la historia.

Otros emisores que han pasado del Nasdaq a la NYSE en lo que va del año incluyen a Criteo SA, Trinity Capital, Inc., Nova Minerals Corp., Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. y Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc.

Lo que revelan los datos

Los datos muestran la magnitud y el perfil de los emisores que hicieron el cambio: 

• Casi medio billón de dólares: capitalización bursátil que ha pasado a la NYSE desde la competencia en lo que va del año, en comparación con los $ 185,000 millones que han cambiado desde la NYSE este año.
• $ 15,700 millones: la capitalización bursátil mediana de los emisores que cambiaron a la NYSE, en comparación con los $ 1,400 millones de los emisores que cambiaron a la competencia.

La NYSE también analizó las 21 empresas que dejaron la NYSE para incorporarse al Nasdaq-100 en los últimos 40 años y descubrió que sus ratios P/E se contrajeron en relación con sus competidores. En promedio, las valuaciones fueron un 7.4 % inferiores a las de sus pares en el año posterior al anuncio del traspaso que en el año anterior, y un 9.6 % inferiores en el año posterior a la entrada en el Nasdaq-100.

Por qué la calidad de la ejecución es importante para los emisores

Los traspasos de una bolsa de valores a otra a esta escala rara vez se basan únicamente en el prestigio: una de las distinciones más importantes es cómo se negocian las acciones.

Una investigación reciente de la NYSE destaca por qué los emisores suelen recurrir al modelo híbrido de la bolsa: tener un creador de mercado designado (DMM) humano junto con la ejecución algorítmica amortigua las fluctuaciones de precios intradía y profundiza la liquidez durante las subastas de cierre de alto riesgo.

La fortaleza de la comunidad de la NYSE

El setenta por ciento de las empresas del S&P 500 y el 74 % de las empresas cotizadas de la lista Fortune 500 confían en la NYSE como su lugar de cotización principal. Este año, la NYSE también ha dado la bienvenida a un conjunto diverso de emisores, entre los que se incluyen Jersey Mike’s, Reformation, HawkEye 360, Madison Air, Forgent Power Solutions, Bob’s Discount Furniture y Once Upon a Farm.

Veradermics Inc. se adjudicó el mejor debut tanto por rendimiento desde el precio de oferta hasta hoy como en el primer día, y la salida a bolsa de Madison Air marcó la mayor IPO industrial de EE. UU. en casi tres décadas.

Infraestructura construida para el volumen máximo

En medio de una venta masiva en el mercado el 5 de noviembre, la NYSE procesó 1.166 billones de mensajes, aproximadamente un 4 % por encima del pico anterior alcanzado durante la volatilidad de abril de 2025. El rendimiento del sistema estuvo en línea con el de los días de mayor actividad anteriores.

• Acciones: el volumen de mensajes en las bolsas de valores superó en aproximadamente un 16 % sus máximos anteriores, liderado por NYSE Texas (con un aumento del 63 %), NYSE American Equities (con un aumento del 60 %) y NYSE National (con un aumento del 36 %).
• Opciones: el volumen de mensajes en las bolsas de opciones superó en aproximadamente un 10 % sus máximos anteriores, con un aumento del 8 % en NYSE American Options y del 12 % en NYSE Arca Options.

Los traspasos de gran capitalización, una clase diversa de nuevas cotizaciones y un mercado que respondió bien en su día de mayor actividad apuntan a lo mismo: una comunidad creciente de emisores que confían en la NYSE como su plataforma principal para cotizar.

FUENTE New York Stock Exchange

Large-cap transfers and a broad issuer community point to the strength of the NYSE. In addition NYSE’s state of the art technology processed a new peak in message volumes on November 5.

Key takeaways

• The transfers: Nine companies have moved from Nasdaq to the NYSE year to date, including three former Nasdaq-100 constituents and the largest bank transfer in history with Fifth Third Bank.
• The capital: Nearly half a trillion dollars in market cap has transferred to the NYSE from our competitors this year, compared with $185 billion that has moved to our competitor from the NYSE this year, according to FactSet.
• The community: 70% of the S&P 500 and 74% of the publicly listed Fortune 500 trust the NYSE as their home.
• The infrastructure: The NYSE processed 1.166 trillion messages on November 5, about 4% above the prior peak, with system performance in line with previous peak days.

NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2026 — Nine companies have transferred their listings to the New York Stock Exchange this year, and the issuers making that move are substantially larger by median market cap than those who moved in the opposite direction this year. The NYSE has also welcomed a diverse set of new issuers, and its systems handled a new peak in trading volume without issue.

Experience the full interactive Multichannel News Release here:  https://www.multivu.com/nyse/9383352-en-nine-listings-transfer-to-nyse  

Large-cap transfers to the NYSE

AstraZeneca, Kraft Heinz, and Skydance: three Nasdaq-100 companies have moved to the NYSE this year. A fourth large-cap name, Fifth Third Bancorp, also made the switch, marking the largest bank transfer in history.

Other issuers that have transferred from Nasdaq to the NYSE year to date include Criteo SA, Trinity Capital, Inc., Nova Minerals Corp., Dime Community Bancshares, Inc. and Pinnacle Financial Partners, Inc.

What the data reveals

Data shows the scale and profile of the issuers on the move:

• Nearly half a trillion dollars: Market cap that has transferred to the NYSE from competitors year to date, compared with $185 billion that has moved from the NYSE this year.
• $15.7 billion: The median market cap of issuers transferring to the NYSE, compared with $1.4 billion for issuers transferring to competitors.

The NYSE also looked at the 21 companies that have left to join the Nasdaq-100 over the last 40 years and found that their price-to-earnings multiples contracted relative to peers. On average, valuations were 7.4% lower relative to peers in the year following announcement of the transfer than before it, and 9.6% lower in the year following entry into the Nasdaq-100.

Why execution quality matters to issuers

Exchange transfers at this scale rarely come down to prestige alone: one of the most important distinctions is how shares trade.

Recent NYSE research highlights why issuers often look to the exchange’s hybrid model: having a human Designated Market Maker (DMM) paired with algorithmic execution dampens intraday price swings and deepens liquidity during high-stakes closing auctions.

Strength of the NYSE community

Seventy percent of the S&P 500 and 74% of publicly listed Fortune 500 companies trust the NYSE as their home. This year, the NYSE has also welcomed a diverse set of issuers, including Jersey Mike’s, Reformation, HawkEye 360, Madison Air, Forgent Power Solutions, Bob’s Discount Furniture, and Once Upon a Farm.

Veradermics Inc. claimed the top-performing debut by both offer-to-current and offer-to-day-one return, and Madison Air’s listing marked the largest U.S. industrial IPO in nearly three decades.

Infrastructure built for peak volume

Amid a market selloff on November 5, the NYSE processed 1.166 trillion messages, about 4% above the prior peak set during the April 2025 volatility. System performance was in line with previous peak days.

• Equities: Equity exchange message volumes ran roughly 16% above their prior peaks, led by NYSE Texas (up 63%), NYSE American Equities (up 60%) and NYSE National (up 36%).
• Options: Options exchange message volumes ran roughly 10% above their prior peaks, with NYSE American Options up 8% and NYSE Arca Options up 12%.

Large-cap transfers, a diverse class of new listings, and a market that performed on its busiest day all point to the same thing: a growing community of issuers that trust the NYSE as its home.

SOURCE New York Stock Exchange

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 12, 2026 — Today, we’re announcing that we’ve raised $1B in a Series A, led by Kleiner Perkins and Clearlake Capital, with participation from Battery Ventures, Doerr Capital, Gil & Co, Google, M13, Pear VC, and S32, among other new and existing investors.

We believe making AI R&D more accessible is the most direct path to AI that solves humanity’s most pressing problems across science and technology. We’re building tools to democratize frontier AI R&D and help put it within reach of every scientist and engineer.

Over the past three weeks, we’ve shared our first results, and they point to the same shift: when agents do the hands-on work, the size of your team stops limiting what you can build. One researcher, working with agents, pretrained Mirendil-Base, a competitive coding model, from scratch in 3.5 months with less than $10M in compute. We then post-trained it into Fern, which holds up to 10M tokens of context, enough for days of an agent’s work. And Lor, now in private beta, brings this way of working to everyone else: hundreds of agents writing code and running experiments for days at a time. Mirendil runs on Lor every day.

This round lets us go further, toward a world where one person can take on what used to need a team, a team what used to need an institution, and we can help accelerate science and technology in a more direct way than we’ve done before.

We’re still a small team with a singular focus. If you want to help make frontier AI R&D accessible to everyone, join us. If you’d like to build with Mirendil, we’d like to hear from you at [email protected].

SOURCE Mirendil

SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 12, 2026 — Clawlab, a technology startup developing smart tools for textile creation, has raised more than $15 million in a Pre-A3 funding round led by miHoYo. Vision Plus Capital and Shunwei Capital also increased their investments through super pro rata participation. The round brings Clawlab’s total funding to approximately $25 million across four equity rounds. Its shareholder base includes Sequoia China, Shunwei Capital, YM Capital, Vision Plus Capital, and miHoYo, bringing together leading venture capital firms and a strategic corporate investor.

Investors Back Clawlab’s Vision for a New Consumer Category

With AI software commanding much of the market’s attention, Clawlab’s more than $15 million funding round reflects investor interest in a different opportunity: the untapped consumer potential of smart knitting.

The opportunity comes from a gap between rising consumer demand and the tools available to meet it. Interest in personalized, hands-on creation is growing, yet most knitting equipment remains designed for factories and professional users. Pattern development, stitch control, and machine operation still require specialist expertise. The category lacks a desktop device capable of bringing industrial-grade knitting capabilities within reach of individual creators.

Clawlab is addressing that gap with the world’s first smart knitting machine designed for home use. It turns an image or idea into a finished knitted item, handling pattern preparation, stitchwork, and repetitive production while leaving the design, colors, and intended use to the user.

That flexibility supports a wide range of applications, from scarves and doll clothes to pet accessories and personalized gifts. A hobby project can also grow into custom work or a small business. Clawlab is set to unveil this smart knitting machine to a global audience at CES 2027.

The Engineering Foundation Behind Clawlab

Bringing professional knitting equipment into the home involves more than reducing its size. The real challenge is translating complex engineering into a product that feels intuitive to everyday users. Clawlab’s founder and CEO Wenxin Hu previously worked as a hardware engineer at DJI and Meituan, while most members of the company’s core R&D team are also former DJI employees. Together, they bring experience developing consumer-grade smart hardware and other technically complex products.

That background has shaped Clawlab’s approach to product development. Rather than simply miniaturizing existing equipment or adding digital features, the company is rethinking the knitting experience across hardware, software, and interaction design around the needs of individual creators. The technology takes on the complexity, while users retain control of the creative process.

The Long-Term Vision in Knitting

Clawlab chose knitting based on a simple premise: textiles meet one of the most basic and enduring needs of everyday life.

“Textiles meet a broad, long-standing need in everyday life. Standardized products are abundant, but consumers’ desire for personal style, customization, and emotional expression remains underserved,” said Wenxin Hu. “We want to reconnect ideas, design, and production so that people without professional training can create through knitting.”

Their longer-term ambition is to make knitting an everyday medium of expression. Smart knitting equipment, design software, and a creator community can help people turn ideas, memories, and care for others into one-of-a-kind pieces they can hold, share, and pass on.

About Clawlab

Clawlab is a technology startup founded in 2023 that develops smart tools for textile creation. It is building the future of knitting through a combination of innovative knitting technologies and a connected maker community. Its mission, “Push knitting forward. Bring more ideas to life,” is to develop the tools and technology that help more people turn what they imagine into something they can hold. Clawlab’s vision is to make knitting an everyday language for expression, much like words and pictures, through which people can tell their stories, preserve memories, and connect with others. For more information, please visit www.clawlab.com

SOURCE Clawlab

Two new production lines will expand Anchor Packaging^® manufacturing capabilities to make high-quality food containers

ATLANTA, Nov. 12, 2026 — Georgia-Pacific today announced an investment of approximately $20 million to add two new thermoforming lines at its Anchor Packaging^® facility in Paragould, Arkansas. The investment is part of ongoing efforts to grow the company’s Foodservice Solutions business.

Key facts about the investment include:

• The $20 million investment will add two new thermoforming lines to the Paragould plant’s existing manufacturing footprint. It includes related equipment and infrastructure improvements.
• The plant makes polypropylene and PET containers for the foodservice and food packaging markets.
• The new lines will increase manufacturing capacity and capability to meet customer and consumer demand.

The Paragould facility investment adds to the customer solutions that Anchor Packaging^® and the Georgia-Pacific Foodservice Solutions business offer to customers. Work has begun on this project, with startup of the new lines scheduled for some time in late-2027.

“Our customers are at the center of everything we do, and this investment reflects our commitment to them,” said Pranay Harsh, vice president and general manager of the Anchor Packaging^® business. “Adding capacity in Paragould allows us to keep innovating and delivering custom solutions that help our customers run efficient operations and protect and preserve every meal they serve.”

The Paragould facility currently employs more than 600 team members making rigid containers for the food packaging and foodservice markets, including restaurants, supermarkets and convenience stores.

“I am so proud of the work of our team members to make this plant a safe, competitive and strategic location for our Foodservice Solutions business,” said Jake Hardage, plant director of the Paragould plant. “This investment is a direct result of their dedication to our plant, our customers and consumers and our community.”

“The city of Paragould is excited about the future of Anchor Packaging and the investment Georgia Pacific is already making in Paragould,” said city of Paragould Mayor Josh Agee. “The capital investment and creation of new jobs in Paragould is exciting for our entire community. “

About the Paragould Facility
The Paragould facility began operation in 1985, producing blown film and thermoforming products. Through the years, the facility has expanded and modernized, including shifting blown film production to the Marmaduke plant so that the Paragould team could focus on thermoforming products. In 2021, the facility expanded to its current footprint of 365,000 sq. ft. In October 2025, Georgia-Pacific acquired Anchor Packaging as part of the company’s Foodservice Solutions business.

About Georgia-Pacific 
Based in Atlanta, Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, rigid food containers and cling film, cellulose and building products. Our familiar consumer brands include Angel Soft^®, Brawny^®, Dixie^®, enMotion^®, Quilted Northern^®, Sparkle^® and Vanity Fair^®. Georgia-Pacific has long been a leading supplier of building products to lumber and building materials dealers and large do-it-yourself warehouse retailers. Its Georgia-Pacific Recycling subsidiary is among the world’s largest traders of paper, metal and plastics. The company operates more than 150 facilities and employs approximately 30,000 people directly and creates more than 80,000 jobs indirectly. For more information, visit: gp.com/about-us. For news, visit: news.gp.com. Follow Georgia-Pacific on LinkedIn, Meta, Instagram, X and YouTube.

SOURCE Georgia-Pacific

• UFORCE lève 700 millions de dollars pour une valorisation de 6 milliards de dollars. Le tour de table est co-mené par Valor Equity Partners et le National Wealth Fund britannique, avec la participation du U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund.
• Cet investissement permettra d’assurer une production continue en Ukraine et dans les pays alliés pour approvisionner les troupes en première ligne, tout en développant les partenariats et en renforçant les capacités de défense à l’échelle mondiale.
• Face à l’intensification des menaces, UFORCE propose des plateformes autonomes éprouvées au combat, à coût maîtrisé et immédiatement disponibles, pour équiper les pays alliés aux États-Unis, en Europe, en Asie-Pacifique et au Moyen-Orient.
• Le général (à la retraite) Christopher G. Cavoli, ancien commandant suprême des forces alliées de l’OTAN en Europe et associé chez Valor Equity Partners, rejoint le conseil d’administration d’UFORCE.

LONDRES, KYIV et WASHINGTON, 12 novembre 2026 — UFORCE, entreprise de technologies de défense fondée en Ukraine, dont le siège est situé à Londres et disposant d’implantations majeures à Kyiv et à Washington, annonce aujourd’hui une levée de fonds de série A de 700 millions de dollars, pour une valorisation de 6 milliards de dollars.

UFORCE conçoit des plateformes autonomes sans équipage pour les domaines maritime, terrestre et aérien, ainsi que les logiciels d’IA, d’orchestration et de commandement et contrôle (C2) qui les pilotent. Son objectif est de rendre la défense cent fois moins coûteuse que les opérations offensives.

Le tour de table a été co-mené par Valor Equity Partners (Valor) et le National Wealth Fund britannique (NWF), avec la participation du U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (URIF). L’investissement de l’URIF soutiendra les activités d’UFORCE en Ukraine, notamment le recrutement, la R&D et le développement de nouveaux produits. Le tour de table a également réuni des investisseurs de premier plan de la Silicon Valley, d’Europe et d’Asie, parmi lesquels Menlo Ventures, Xantium et Hiro Capital. Plusieurs investisseurs historiques ont par ailleurs renforcé leur participation au capital d’UFORCE, dont Shield Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Lakestar et Squadra.

Oleg Rogynskyy, directeur général d’UFORCE, a déclaré : « La guerre en Ukraine a montré que, dans un monde de plus en plus instable, une défense efficace repose sur des systèmes capables de s’améliorer en permanence, au rythme de l’évolution des menaces. Les gouvernements et l’écosystème technologique doivent unir leurs forces pour développer des plateformes autonomes, interopérables et économiques, prêtes au combat dès aujourd’hui et capables d’évoluer pour répondre aux besoins futurs. C’est ce qu’ils font en investissant dans UFORCE. Cet investissement nous permettra d’accroître notre production pour l’Ukraine et de fournir aux alliés des solutions qu’ils pourront déployer, intégrer et maintenir en condition opérationnelle au rythme du combat moderne. Avec nos investisseurs, nous sommes déterminés à faire en sorte que toute agression ait un coût prohibitif. »

Du front ukrainien aux chaînes de production mondiales

Cette levée de fonds permettra à UFORCE d’étendre et de répartir ses capacités de production aux États-Unis, en Europe, en Asie-Pacifique et au Moyen-Orient. L’entreprise fabriquera ainsi ses plateformes au plus près des théâtres d’opérations, tout en aidant les pays alliés à renforcer leurs capacités industrielles souveraines.

Grâce à cette production répartie sur plusieurs sites, UFORCE pourra maintenir une fabrication continue et approvisionner les troupes en première ligne en systèmes sans équipage, malgré les attaques qui se poursuivent en Ukraine, tout en apportant des capacités avancées sur le champ de bataille. Les fonds levés serviront également à renforcer la R&D et à accroître la production des familles de drones de surface MAGURA (USV), de drones aériens NEMESIS (UAV), de robots terrestres LIUT (UGV) et de tourelles PREDATOR.

UFORCE poursuivra sa collaboration avec des partenaires dans les pays alliés, notamment pour reconvertir des capacités industrielles existantes des secteurs naval et automobile au profit de la défense. L’entreprise a récemment annoncé un partenariat avec ReconCraft visant à accroître la production de drones de surface MAGURA aux États-Unis, ouvrant aux marchés internationaux l’accès à des capacités maritimes éprouvées au combat. Ce tour de table permet également à UFORCE de renforcer son rôle de membre fondateur de l’Alliance UE-Ukraine pour les drones et de s’appuyer sur les partenariats qu’elle a noués au sein de l’OTAN et de la Force expéditionnaire conjointe (JEF).

Des investisseurs internationaux soutiennent UFORCE pour renforcer la sécurité des alliés

Le général (à la retraite) Christopher G. Cavoli, ancien commandant suprême des forces alliées de l’OTAN en Europe et associé chez Valor Equity Partners, a déclaré : « L’Ukraine a montré au monde à quelle vitesse l’innovation peut progresser sur le champ de bataille lorsque les ingénieurs travaillent aux côtés de ceux qui dépendent de leurs systèmes. UFORCE traduit cette expérience, acquise sur le front, en systèmes sans équipage, ainsi qu’en savoir-faire opérationnel pour les employer efficacement. Je suis fier de rejoindre le conseil d’administration et me réjouis d’accompagner l’équipe dans le renforcement de la défense de l’Ukraine et de ses alliés. »

Oliver Holbourn, directeur général du National Wealth Fund britannique, a déclaré : « L’investissement annoncé aujourd’hui témoigne de la relation privilégiée que le Royaume-Uni et l’Ukraine ont su bâtir. Grâce au soutien du National Wealth Fund, le développement d’UFORCE implante au Royaume-Uni la production, l’ingénierie et la mise en œuvre de systèmes autonomes éprouvés au combat. Il contribuera à créer des emplois qualifiés, à renforcer les chaînes d’approvisionnement nationales et à consolider la position du Royaume-Uni comme pôle d’innovation de premier plan dans des technologies de plus en plus déterminantes pour la sécurité nationale et la résilience économique. »

Conor Coleman, directeur des investissements de la U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), au nom du U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, a déclaré : « Cette opération est à ce jour le plus important investissement de l’URIF dans le secteur des technologies émergentes et constitue une avancée significative dans la mobilisation d’investissements qui renforcent la solidité économique de l’Ukraine, consolident sa sécurité et accélèrent son redressement à long terme. UFORCE est le type même d’entreprise ukrainienne audacieuse et innovante que l’URIF a vocation à soutenir, et contribue à transformer la résilience et l’ingéniosité de l’Ukraine en une force économique et stratégique durable pour les États-Unis, l’Ukraine et nos alliés. »

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À PROPOS D’UFORCE

UFORCE est une entreprise de technologies de défense fondée en Ukraine. Son siège est à Londres et elle dispose d’implantations majeures à Kyiv et à Washington. Elle est présente en Europe, aux États-Unis et en Asie. UFORCE conçoit des plateformes sans équipage aériennes, terrestres et maritimes, ainsi que les logiciels d’IA, d’orchestration et de commandement et contrôle (C2) qui les pilotent. Sa gamme comprend la famille MAGURA de drones de surface, la famille NEMESIS de plateformes de frappe, la famille LIUT de plateformes robotisées terrestres, la famille de tourelles PREDATOR de lutte anti-drones et C2, le logiciel qui permet de les piloter.

Les drones de surface (USV) de la famille MAGURA ont contribué à la destruction de plus d’une douzaine de navires de guerre russes en mer Noire et ont abattu plusieurs hélicoptères et avions de chasse. Les forces armées ukrainiennes les ont utilisés comme base maritime mobile pour des opérations multi-domaines, notamment pour lancer des UAV NEMESIS lors de frappes à longue portée contre des cibles telles que des systèmes de défense aérienne. Les plateformes de frappe lourde NEMESIS de classe 1 existent en version réutilisable et en version à usage unique. Elles comptent parmi les drones bombardiers et drones de frappe les plus déployés sur le champ de bataille ukrainien, avec plus de 300 000 vols de combat, et équipent plus de 100 unités.

Plus d’informations : uforce.com

À PROPOS DE VALOR EQUITY PARTNERS

Valor Equity Partners est une société d’investissement spécialisée dans la croissance opérationnelle. Elle investit dans des entreprises à forte croissance, à différents stades de développement. Depuis des décennies, Valor met son expertise unique au service des entreprises de son portefeuille pour les aider à relever les défis de la croissance et du changement d’échelle. Valor s’associe à des entreprises et à des entrepreneurs de premier plan qui visent l’excellence et ont le courage de transformer leur secteur.

Plus d’informations : valorep.com

À PROPOS DU NATIONAL WEALTH FUND

Le National Wealth Fund est une institution financière publique soutenue par l’État britannique. Sa mission est de déployer des capitaux à grande échelle pour stimuler l’investissement au service des ambitions du gouvernement en matière de croissance et d’énergie propre, tout en contribuant à renforcer la sécurité et la résilience du Royaume-Uni. Ses investissements visent à générer un rendement pour le contribuable et à attirer des capitaux privés au service de ces missions. Basé à Leeds, le fonds dispose de 43,2 milliards de livres sterling à investir. Son équipe de professionnels de l’investissement peut intervenir sur l’ensemble de la structure du capital, notamment par des prêts, des prises de participation et des garanties. Le fonds propose également des services de conseil commercial et financier, ainsi que des prêts à des conditions parmi les plus compétitives du marché aux collectivités locales de tout le Royaume-Uni. Il est entièrement détenu par le Trésor britannique (HM Treasury), mais reste indépendant du gouvernement sur le plan opérationnel.

Plus d’informations : nationalwealthfund.org.uk

À PROPOS DE L’URIF

Le U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund est un fonds d’investissement conjoint américano-ukrainien. Il a été créé pour mobiliser des capitaux et attirer des investissements dans la reconstruction de l’Ukraine, son développement économique et ses secteurs stratégiques. Le fonds cible notamment des projets qui contribuent au redressement de l’Ukraine et renforcent les chaînes d’approvisionnement. Il soutient également la sécurité économique et la prospérité communes de l’Ukraine et des États-Unis.

Plus d’informations : urifinvest.com