The proceeds will support the development of standardized nanoparticle production lines, continued advancement of core technologies, recruitment of key talent, and commercial expansion across priority global markets.

Financing Overview

SHENZHEN, China, Sept. 8, 2026 — i2Cool Shenzhen Limited (“i2Cool”), a platform company specializing in electricity-free passive radiative cooling materials, has completed a Series B financing round worth tens of millions of yuan, equivalent to several million US dollars. The round was backed by Shenzhen TopoScend Capital Co., Ltd. (“TopoScend Capital”), with Linglu Capital serving as the exclusive financial adviser.

The proceeds will primarily be used to build standardized nanoparticle production lines, advance core technology development, recruit key talent, and accelerate commercialization in priority markets worldwide.

Research Foundations and a Scalable Product Platform

Founded in 2022, i2Cool focuses on the research, manufacturing, and commercialization of electricity-free passive radiative cooling materials. The company has established scalable production and delivery capabilities for radiative cooling nanoparticles. Its founding team has strong roots in Hong Kong academia and is led by two scholars recognized among the world’s top 2% most-cited scientists. Together, the team brings more than 15 years of research experience in radiative cooling and related fields, as well as extensive expertise in translating materials science into commercial applications.

Co-founder Professor Edwin Chi-Yan Tso is Associate Dean (Internationalisation and Outreach) and Chair Professor of Energy and Sustainability at the School of Energy and Environment, City University of Hong Kong. He is also a member of the Hong Kong Young Academy of Sciences and a recipient of support under the National Science Fund for Excellent Young Scholars. Co-founder and CEO Prof. Martin Y. Zhu is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Management at City University of Hong Kong’s College of Business and was named to the Forbes China 30 Under 30 list in 2024.

At the heart of i2Cool’s business is its “Particle+” platform, built around standardized functional nanoparticles. The platform extends the company’s core radiative cooling materials into coatings, films, powder coatings, textiles, automotive coatings, exterior wall tiles, and other end products—creating an integrated portfolio from enabling materials to finished applications.

Full-Spectrum Thermal Management, Accelerated by AI

i2Cool’s core technology is built on full-spectrum thermal management and optical control. By engineering material performance across the ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and mid-infrared bands, its solutions reflect solar radiation to reduce heat gain while emitting thermal energy through the 8–13 μm atmospheric window. This enables passive cooling without additional electricity or refrigerants.

i2Cool’s core products can achieve solar reflectivity and mid-infrared emissivity of more than 95%. To move beyond the predominantly white appearance of conventional radiative cooling materials, the company also integrates technologies such as photoluminescence and thermochromism, enabling color customization and adaptive thermal control while preserving cooling performance.

Related research involving members of the team was published in Science. The reported hierarchically structured passive radiative cooling ceramic achieved 99.6% solar reflectivity and 96.5% mid-infrared emissivity. These figures relate specifically to the research material reported in the paper and should not be interpreted as uniform specifications across all of i2Cool’s commercial products.

Building on this foundation, i2Cool combines AI-powered optical simulation with polymer materials science to model and optimize light-scattering and reflection pathways within nanoparticle systems. According to the company’s internal development benchmarks, this approach has improved R&D efficiency by a factor of 12 compared with conventional methods.

Commercial Momentum and Global Expansion

i2Cool’s commercialization has continued to accelerate. The company currently reports an order backlog of CNY 120 million (approximately US$17.9 million) and a three-year compound annual growth rate of 377% in operating revenue. Its solutions have reached more than 30 countries and regions, including markets across the Middle East and Southeast Asia. To date, i2Cool has completed more than 500 projects covering over 1,100,000 square metres, with overseas markets accounting for 50% of revenue.

Alongside established applications in buildings and power infrastructure, i2Cool is expanding into high-growth areas such as AI data centres, robotics, and new energy vehicles. The company has worked with industry players including Sunwoda Electronic Co., Ltd., The Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas), and Toyota Tsusho Corporation.

Leadership and Investor Perspectives

“Our ambition extends beyond any single radiative cooling product. We aim to build a platform company for the sector,” said Prof. Martin Y. Zhu, Co-founder and CEO of i2Cool. “By continuously strengthening our capabilities in functional nanoparticles, materials design, and AI-enabled R&D, we can bring this advanced thermal-management technology into a wider range of industries and address real heat-management challenges in both industrial applications and everyday life. This financing will directly support the build-out of standardized nanoparticle production lines and capacity expansion, while accelerating large-scale deployment in high-value applications such as new energy vehicles and AI data centres.”

“The 15th Five-Year Plan period will be critical to advancing China’s dual-carbon goals. Tighter carbon-intensity requirements are accelerating green transformation across industries, making energy efficiency and carbon reduction increasingly important to high-quality development,” said Yanping Shi, Vice President of TopoScend Capital and General Manager of the Duliang Advanced Industries Investment Fund. “i2Cool has taken passive radiative cooling from a City University of Hong Kong laboratory to scaled production and commercial deployment across more than 30 countries and regions. It is a strong example of industry–university–research collaboration between Shenzhen and Hong Kong, and of green technology progressing from policy support to market adoption. This investment represents an important step in TopoScend Capital’s green technology strategy. We will continue to focus on low-carbon value chains and use capital to support technological innovation and the broader green transition.”

“i2Cool has established clear technological strengths in microscopic materials design and spectral-control modelling, while successfully developing standardized nanoparticles that underpin a scalable product platform,” said Xiaorui Xi, Investment Director at Linglu Capital. “The company has also built strong international momentum, with operations spanning more than 30 countries and regions and overseas markets contributing more than half of its revenue. We see significant potential for i2Cool to grow into a global platform company for radiative cooling materials and look forward to its continued technological and commercial progress.”

About i2Cool

Founded in 2022, i2Cool Shenzhen Limited is a green technology company specializing in electricity-free passive radiative cooling. Built around standardized functional nanoparticles, its portfolio spans coatings, films, powder coatings, textiles, automotive coatings, ceramics, and other applications. Through passive cooling solutions that require no additional electricity or refrigerants, i2Cool helps customers across industries reduce heat loads, energy consumption, and carbon emissions.

Contact:

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SparkLabs’ global competition names Tyrese Gibson and Kevin Chou co-chairs and brings together 34 leaders across climate, AI, energy, finance and government as judges ahead of COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye

PALO ALTO, Calif. and ANKARA, Türkiye, Sept. 7, 2026 — SparkLabs Group and SparkLabs True Zero today announced that applications are open for the True Zero Global Prize, a new worldwide startup competition awarding $75,000 to innovators advancing sustainability, regenerative technologies and planetary health. The first-place winner will receive $50,000 and the second-place winner will receive $25,000 as a grant.

More importantly, the contest will connect startup founders and innovators operators, policymakers, venture capitalists and various industry leaders to help these promising companies move faster from innovation to global impact.

“We are excited that this will be our first step towards the launch of SparkLabs True Zero in Türkiye. It is fortunate our country is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference, COP31, and the launch of our global sustainability startup accelerator will be soon after the conference. So we welcome all entrepreneurs across the world to apply and we will be your gracious hosts at COP31 in Antalya,” stated Taha Saran, Founding Partner at SparkLabs True Zero.

The winners will be announced November 15, during the UN Climate Change Conference COP31, which takes place November 9-20 in Antalya, Türkiye.

Actor, recording artist, author and entrepreneur Tyrese Gibson will serve as Co-chair of the True Zero Global Prize, bringing global visibility to startup founders solving some of the most consequential challenges today. Tyrese has sold over 4 million singles and albums and has been nominated for six Grammy Awards. As an actor, he has had recurring roles in two of the highest-grossing film series in movie history: Fast & Furious and Transformers.

“I’ve always believed in using my platform for work that truly matters. Teaming up with SparkLabs as Co-Chair of the True Zero Global Prize is all about empowering visionaries who are reshaping our global future through sustainability. I’m looking forward to celebrating these game-changing leaders,” Tyrese Gibson explained.

Tyrese is joined by serial entrepreneur, Kevin Chou, as Co-Chair. Kevin was previously Co-founder and CEO of Kabam, which was initially acquired by Netmarble for $800 million. He turned his efforts to found a nonprofit working to put plug-in solar within reach of ordinary American households.

WHO SHOULD APPLY
The Prize is open to startups and organizations, including nonprofits, worldwide developing solutions across sustainability, regenerative technology and planetary health. Priority sectors include carbon reduction, renewable energy, energy efficiency, energy storage, and transportation.

The key dates for the contest are:

Applications opened: September 1, 2026

Application deadline: September 28, 2026

Finalists present to judges: October 5, 2026

Winners announced: November 15, 2026

Apply at: https://www.f6s.com/true-zero-global-prize/apply

A 34-member global judging panel will select the finalists. This will be a multidisciplinary panel spanning climate and energy, artificial intelligence, agriculture, finance, policy, law, media and venture capital.

ABOUT SPARKLABS TRUE ZERO
SparkLabs True Zero is where sustainability, AI and entrepreneurship come together to create global impact. Based in Ankara, Türkiye, it is a joint initiative of Net Zero TEKMER, an innovation hub focused on sustainability, and SparkLabs Group, a global network of startup accelerators and venture capital funds. This global program accelerates sustainable and regenerative technologies by helping world-class founders build and scale high-impact companies.

ABOUT SPARKLABS GROUP
Founded in 2013, SparkLabs Group is a global network of startup accelerators, venture capital funds and innovation programs supporting entrepreneurs across major technology and industry sectors. The group has invested in more than 600 startups around the world.

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The platform’s development and MVP environment now runs on NexQloud NanoServers™. Savings came from idle resources, overprovisioned capacity and less expensive compute.

BOSTON, Sept. 4, 2026 — Solomon e3, the energy infrastructure company, today announced that it has moved the platform’s development and MVP environment to NexQloud One, and that total monthly cloud spend has fallen by more than half after a Qlarity FinOps review.

Solomon e3 is an AI-powered geospatial platform cities, utilities and healthcare systems use to turn energy funding into completed upgrades. Deployments channel contracts to local, minority-owned businesses.

Moving Solomon e3 to NexQloud

The environment runs the portal, gateway and API as containers on managed Kubernetes, with a self-hosted OpenSearch cluster and PostGIS. Application code was not rewritten. NexQloud monitoring has recorded no unplanned downtime.

A NanoServer is an ISV-certified Lenovo device built on the Intel Core i9-14900T, which Intel rates at 35 watts across 32 hardware threads. It needs no cooling plant or power distribution, so it can sit in a building already lit and conditioned.

“Solomon e3 was not stuck on AWS. It was surrounded by AWS,” said Raju Vegesna, Chief Technology Officer of NexQloud. “Once search and geospatial were running on our infrastructure, the rest got simpler.”

DynamoDB, S3 and AWS Glue remain as bridge components while Postgres with PostGIS is built out as the production data layer.

A Bill That No Longer Matched the Product

Solomon e3 cloud bill had climbed for a year. “Our bill grew to a size that did not match our product, and I couldn’t tell you why,” said Aaron Wright, CEO of Solomon e3. “NexQloud went line by line and showed us what each one was doing.”

Solomon e3 provided its bill, codebase and infrastructure definitions. NexQloud’s engineers read the three against each other to establish which services were running, which were billing, and which were doing neither, a Qlarity FinOps review: the principles NexQloud’s Qlarity product automates, applied by hand.

The savings came from three areas. Idle resources: services billing while doing no work were retired. Overprovisioned capacity: workloads resized to the measured load. Less expensive compute: for identical shapes, NexQloud costs about a third less than AWS at published list prices.

The Question

“We spend our days telling people how to use less energy, while running our platform on infrastructure that strains the grid was a contradiction we thought we had to accept,” said Wright. “The cost results raised a second question. If this architecture uses infrastructure differently, does it change the energy required for the same workload? That is what we want measured independently.”

Solomon e3 and NexQloud will commission an independent academic review of cost, compute, energy efficiency, and publish the findings.

The Figures

The “about a third” figure compares identical configurations at published list prices in us-east-2, on-demand, no Savings Plan applied. The “more than half” figure is Solomon e3 own, measured across total cloud spend including AWS services still in use.

The service-by-service teardown, the price comparison and the availability record are published at nexqloud.io/proof/solomon-e3, which also publishes commands any reader can run to confirm the platform runs on NexQloud infrastructure.

About Solomon e3

Solomon e3 is an energy infrastructure company. Solomon e3 is used by utilities, municipalities and healthcare systems to close the energy access gap. www.solomongroupllc.com.

About NexQloud

NexQloud Technologies, Inc., headquartered in Palo Alto, California, builds secure, verifiable cloud infrastructure for regulated workloads. NexQloud One manages workloads across NexQloud and an existing cloud from one place. Qlarity is its cloud cost intelligence layer. NexQloud is a Lenovo hardware partner and holds an unqualified SOC 2^® Type 2 attestation.  www.nexqloud.io.

Solomon Group: Aaron Wright, CEO, [email protected] 

NexQloud: Robert Barbieri, CEO, [email protected], +1 669 241 0916

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Series A Round Co-Led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital and BitRock Capital

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 3, 2026 — Diameter Pay, a fintech platform building the infrastructure for global U.S. dollar payments and virtual accounts, today announced a $10 million Series A financing round co-led by CMT Digital and Lightspeed Faction, with participation from SixThirty Ventures, Stellar Development Foundation, Tech Council Ventures, Onigiri Capital and BitRock Capital.

Diameter Pay gives banks, fintechs, digital asset exchanges and their customers around the world access to U.S. dollar accounts and payment rails through a single API. The platform supports virtual accounts, domestic and international payments, stablecoin on- and off-ramps, and embedded compliance controls across multiple U.S. banking partners. Diameter Pay has processed more than $10 billion year-to-date in 2026.

The U.S. dollar remains the foundation of global trade and payments, but accessing it has become increasingly difficult in many parts of the world. Correspondent banks have pulled back from entire markets amid rising sanctions and anti-money laundering risk. The result is a global financial system in which legitimate businesses can be excluded alongside the bad actors those safeguards are designed to stop.

“The world is becoming more global, but the financial system is becoming more fragmented,” said David Lighton, founder and CEO of Diameter Pay. “Diameter Pay takes a different approach: rather than asking banks to accept more risk, we provide the technology, data, and compliance infrastructure to understand and manage that risk with greater precision. That’s the bridge we’re building, between traditional finance and digital finance, so money can move at the speed people and businesses actually need in a world that now runs 24/7.”

Stablecoins are amplifying the need for solutions. They enable dollar value to move globally, around the clock, but institutions still need regulated, reliable connectivity between digital dollars and the U.S. banking system, especially to fight financial crimes. Diameter Pay provides that connective tissue, giving banks the technology, data, and compliance infrastructure to manage digital risk with more precision.

The financing will accelerate Diameter Pay’s mission to expand access to the U.S. dollar for financial institutions around the world. The company will use the capital to expand its banking and payment capabilities, deepen its stablecoin and FX infrastructure, and continue investing in the technology and compliance capabilities required to safely move dollars across borders.

“Stablecoins are transforming how dollars move globally, but they don’t replace the need for trusted access to the U.S. banking system,” said Charlie Sandor, Partner at CMT Digital. “Diameter provides that connective layer, combining traditional payment rails, stablecoin infrastructure, and compliance in a platform built for regulated financial institutions.”

“The challenging part of modernizing global payments with stablecoins isn’t just technology. It’s building reliable and trustworthy compliance and banking infrastructure,” said Tim Khoury, Partner at Lightspeed Faction. “Diameter started with a relentless focus here, and has won the trust of a growing number of clients as a result. We’re thrilled to be backing the company for its next leg of growth.”

“The modern payments stack is no longer just about speed-to-market; it’s about speed-to-trust. The components: verified counterparties, transactions screened before they move, and licensed settlement behind them,” said Evan Thorpe, Principal at SixThirty Ventures.  “Diameter is the settlement layer that ties each of those critical parts together, turning a trusted counterparty and a clean transaction into dollars that actually arrive, compliantly, across borders. It reflects a conviction we hold about this market: trust, not transport, is the product in modern money movement. Diameter delivers it.”

About Diameter Pay
Diameter Pay’s mission is to expand global financial institutions’ and fintechs’ access to the U.S. dollar through compliance-first infrastructure trusted by banks and regulators. The platform provides U.S. virtual accounts, domestic and international payment rails, stablecoin on- and off-ramps, and embedded compliance controls across multiple banking partners. Diameter Pay is led by a team of banking, payments, technology, and regulatory veterans with decades of experience building and operating financial systems, including former senior executives and founders from Deutsche Bank, Fidelity Investments, Segovia Technology, Reserve Trust, and the World Bank.

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On Disruption Interruption, Joe Helfrich explains why AI’s surging power demand is exposing the limits of the energy grid and how innovation could turn data centers from energy drains into accelerators of cleaner energy. Through NosTerra Venture Capital, Helfrich is backing technologies to make that shift possible.

TAMPA BAY, Fla., Sept. 3, 2026 — U.S. data center energy use is expected to double or triple by 2028, with these facilities projected to consume up to 12% of total U.S. electricity, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. As artificial intelligence (AI) adoption grows, the constraint is no longer models, chips, or software. It is whether power generation, transmission, storage, and cooling infrastructure can keep up. On this episode of Disruption Interruption, host Karla Jo Helms (KJ) speaks with Joe Helfrich, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of NosTerra Venture Capital, an AI infrastructure investment firm, about why AI compute is forcing an energy reckoning, why data centers may accelerate innovation rather than block it, and how investors can separate real physical-layer solutions from AI hype. “The demand is still outstripping capacity,” Helfrich says, “and the current existing energy grid can’t meet that need.”

Why AI’s Power Problem Is Bigger Than Data Centers

For Helfrich, the AI infrastructure problem starts with physical limits of the energy system. Data centers consume a great deal of electricity, cooling, and grid capacity to turn energy into compute. As AI workloads grow, the pressure moves beyond the technology sector and into the systems that generate, move, store, and use power.

That pressure is why server facilities are often cast as energy villains. They can strain local grids, increase electricity demand, require heavy cooling, and raise concerns about water use and local resource competition. Helfrich argues that this framing captures only part of the picture. “Data centers really could be a challenge to energy innovation,” Helfrich says. “We take a contrary view and think this is a unique opportunity.”

The issue will become more complicated as AI moves from centralized model training to real-time use by people, devices, and machines. That will require compute to happen closer to the end user because delays of even milliseconds can matter in applications such as autonomous vehicles, industrial systems, and machine-to-machine communication. “They’re not going to wait for that inference to go across the country,” Helfrich says.

Investing in the Physical Layer of AI

Helfrich sees AI’s power crunch as an opening for companies solving real problems across the energy chain: generation, transmission, storage, and the way data centers use power. “It’s going to be an all-of-the-above solution,” he says. “Data centers are really just factories that take energy and convert that into compute.”

That view shapes how NosTerra evaluates companies. Helfrich says the fund looks for technologies solving urgent infrastructure problems, not incremental improvements that get lost in the noise. A solution that delivers a small efficiency gain may be useful, but the strongest opportunities are the ones that can materially change capacity, cost, or speed to market. “We look for these mind-blowing, out-of-the-box opportunities,” he says.

One example is a Boston-area company out of MIT that uses carbon-capture technology inside modular edge data centers. Helfrich says the system improves cooling efficiency while producing beverage-grade CO2 as a byproduct, which can then be sold to bars and restaurants. That revenue can help support the economics of the facilities powering AI workloads. “It’s that crazy out-of-the-box thinking,” he says, “solving two problems at one time.”

For Helfrich, the same pressure that makes data centers controversial could also make them useful. The demand for compute creates customers, urgency, and capital for energy technologies that might otherwise move slowly. “This is not about AI,” Helfrich says. “These innovations can make energy more abundant, resilient, and available across the economy.”

Links

Disrupting the AI Power Bottleneck: Turning Data Centers into Energy Transition Heroes with Joe Helfrich

Disruption Interruption is the podcast where you will hear from today’s biggest Industry Disruptors. Learn what motivated them to bring about innovation and how they overcame opposition to adoption.

https://omny.fm/shows/disruption-interruption/disrupting-the-ai-power-bottleneck-turning-data-centers-into-energy-transition-heroes-with-joe-helfrich

Company LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joehelfrich/
Company Website: https://nosterracapital.com

About Disruption Interruption^™
Disruption is happening on an unprecedented scale, impacting all manner of industries — MedTech, Finance, IT, eCommerce, shipping, logistics, and more — and COVID has moved their timelines up a full decade or more. But WHO are these disruptors and when did they say, “THAT’S IT! I’VE HAD IT!”? Time to Disrupt and Interrupt with host Karla Jo “KJ” Helms, veteran communications disruptor. KJ interviews bad asses who are disrupting their industries and altering economic networks that have become antiquated with an establishment resistant to progress. She delves into uncovering secrets from industry rebels and quiet revolutionaries that uncover common traits — and not-so-common — that are changing our economic markets… and lives. Visit the world’s key pioneers that persist to success, despite arrows in their backs at www.disruption-interruption.com.

About Joe Helfrich
Joe Helfrich is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of NosTerra Venture Capital, an investment firm focused on AI infrastructure, energy optimization, and the technologies needed to support large-scale compute. A former commercial litigation attorney and technology founder, Helfrich has co-founded software, legal tech, and fintech companies with exits to strategic and private equity acquirers. At NosTerra, he focuses on infrastructure technologies that can help AI scale while advancing cleaner, more resilient, and more affordable energy systems.

About Karla Jo Helms
Karla Jo Helms is the Chief Evangelist and Anti-PR^® Strategist for JOTO PR Disruptors™. Karla Jo learned firsthand how unforgiving business can be when millions of dollars are on the line — and how the control of public opinion often determines whether one company is happily chosen, or another is brutally rejected. Being an alumnus of crisis management, Karla Jo has worked with litigation attorneys, private investigators, and the media to help restore companies of goodwill into the good graces of public opinion — Karla Jo operates on the ethic of getting it right the first time, not relying on second chances and doing what it takes to excel. Helms speaks globally on public relations, how the PR industry itself has lost its way, and how, in the right hands, corporations can harness the power of Anti-PR to drive markets and impact market perception.

References

• U.S. Department of Energy. (2024, December 20). DOE releases new report evaluating increase in electricity demand from data centers [Press release]. energy.gov/articles/doe-releases-new-report-evaluating-increase-electricity-demand-data-centers

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Winery owner, winemaker and filmmaker enters a new chapter of entrepreneurship spanning consumer brands, socially driven filmmaking and artificial intelligence

NEW YORK, Sept. 3, 2026 — Entrepreneur, winery owner, winemaker and filmmaker Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein, today announced the expansion of her entrepreneurial portfolio, bringing together ventures across wine, film and emerging technology as she enters the next phase of her career.

Chiweshe Goldstein, whose work has crossed entrepreneurship and storytelling, is developing a broader portfolio built around three areas: the continued growth of her wine business, the advancement of film, television and documentary projects, and the development of a new artificial intelligence venture addressing emerging challenges surrounding it.

Rather than viewing the three industries as separate careers, Chiweshe Goldstein sees them as interconnected parts of a larger strategy centered on ownership, intellectual property and the creation of enduring brands.

“A person does not have to remain inside the category where the world first discovers them,” said Chiweshe Goldstein. “Film taught me the extraordinary power of storytelling. Wine taught me how to build a physical product and a brand. Technology creates an opportunity to build at tremendous scale. I see all three as different expressions of the same entrepreneurial instinct.”

Building a Brand Through Wine

Chiweshe Goldstein’s entrepreneurial journey includes building the Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Winery, an independent wine business through which she has combined winemaking, entrepreneurship and storytelling.

Her Zimbabwean heritage has informed her perspective as an entrepreneur building within the American wine industry.

For Chiweshe Goldstein, developing a winery has required far more than producing wine. It has meant navigating the realities of building an independent consumer business, including production, compliance, distribution, marketing, branding and customer acquisition.

Those experiences helped shape a broader philosophy that Chiweshe Goldstein is now applying across other industries.

“Building a company teaches you that an idea is the beginning,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “You have to create the product, survive the journey and keep executing when nobody else can see the entire picture.”

Film With a Purpose

Alongside her entrepreneurial work, Chiweshe Goldstein has continued developing projects as a filmmaker and producer.

Her film interests include narrative and documentary projects examining consequential social issues through deeply personal stories.

Among her projects in development is documentary work examining lead exposure in America’s water systems and its impact on families and children.

Chiweshe Goldstein’s approach emphasizes human storytelling rather than treating large social issues simply as statistics or policy discussions.

“The issues that affect millions of people ultimately happen to individuals,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “Film gives us the ability to take something enormous and allow an audience to experience it through another person’s life.”

Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Studios is building a robust slate of original television and feature film projects as it expands its development and production activities. The studio is advancing several projects through development, including an original television sitcom now entering the casting process as it moves toward production.

Entering Artificial Intelligence

Chiweshe Goldstein is now extending that entrepreneurial philosophy into technology.

She is developing an artificial intelligence venture focused on challenges surrounding AI adoption through Chiweshe Artificial Intelligence / Chiweshe Group.

The venture is exploring opportunities to help organizations navigate an environment in which artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly embedded in business operations and decision making.

Chiweshe Goldstein believes the rapid advancement of AI will create significant opportunities not merely for companies developing increasingly capable artificial intelligence, but also for businesses developing the infrastructure necessary to support its responsible use.

“As AI becomes more powerful, trust becomes increasingly important,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “The next generation of technology will not merely be about what artificial intelligence can do. It will also be about creating confidence around how businesses use it.”

Specific details regarding the venture’s technology, methodology and product development remain confidential during development.

A Portfolio Built Around Ownership

The expansion reflects Chiweshe Goldstein’s larger vision of becoming a portfolio entrepreneur rather than being defined by a single industry.

The strategy places particular emphasis on intellectual property and ownership.

Wine provides a consumer product and brand.

Film creates stories and intellectual property capable of reaching audiences globally.

Technology creates opportunities for significant scale.

Together, Chiweshe Goldstein sees the three areas as the foundation of a long-term entrepreneurial portfolio.

“The common denominator for me is growth and ownership,” Chiweshe Goldstein said. “Ownership of ideas, ownership of intellectual property and ownership of the businesses we create. I want to build things that can keep growing long after the original idea.”

Chiweshe Goldstein plans to keep developing her wine and film businesses while advancing the artificial intelligence venture during the next phase of her entrepreneurial career.

The expansion represents an evolution.

Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein said, “I want to keep building, keep creating and keep entering spaces where I believe something meaningful can be made.”

About Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein

Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein is an entrepreneur, winery owner, winemaker, filmmaker and producer whose work spans wine, entertainment and emerging technology. Through her entrepreneurial and creative ventures, Chiweshe Goldstein focuses on building independent brands, developing original intellectual property and pursuing projects at the intersection of business, culture and social impact.

Her current work includes the continued development of the Eunice Chiweshe Goldstein Winery, film, television and documentary projects, and an emerging artificial intelligence venture.

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The buildout of energy and compute infrastructure demands a scale and certainty of execution that legacy capital markets cannot support. Plural was built for this moment.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3, 2026 — Plural, the financial services and technology firm serving the builders meeting unprecedented demand for energy and compute infrastructure, today announced a year of significant growth. Over the past 12 months, the company brought more than $1 billion in infrastructure assets to market¹, ran competitive processes engaging more than 130 institutional investors and lenders², grew to 25 active mandates³, and nearly tripled its headcount.⁴ The growth Plural is seeing reflects a new reality: much of today’s highest-demand infrastructure is being built by small teams taking on the biggest projects of their company’s history.

Traditional project finance was built for large developers with deep benches of in-house finance and capital markets teams, and even for them, manual processes take months to execute. Plural exists to make that scale of execution possible for teams that don’t have those benches.

The company works with clients to structure capital stacks and match them with institutional investors,⁵ then continues to run the deal as software for the life of the asset, with covenants, distributions, compliance, and reporting executed automatically. Rather than assembling a chain of intermediaries, clients get one accountable team running the whole capital stack—and the financing back office they never had to hire.

“Our clients are small teams about to do the biggest thing their business has ever done—a research lab becoming a manufacturer, a developer ready to own and operate assets, real estate developers financing powered land for data centers. Plural exists to remove process and money as impediments to that,” said Adam Silver, CEO and Co-Founder of Plural. “The companies creating the infrastructure this economy depends on should be the ones who own it, and we’re building the financial tool kit that lets them.”

A Year of Momentum Across the Infrastructure Economy

Plural’s recent growth has touched nearly every corner of the infrastructure economy, from the assets it financed to the investors and partners it brought to the table. In the last year, Plural:

• Brought over $1 billion of infrastructure assets to market across 25 active mandates¹, running competitive processes that engaged more than 130 institutional investors and lenders² across a widening range of asset types.⁴
• Served developers ranging from first-time institutional issuers to programmatic sponsors, in several cases taking a team from a single self-funded asset to an institutionally backed, multi-tranche capital program within a year.
• Took on mandates spanning distributed and community solar, battery storage, compute and data-center infrastructure, EV charging, and natural gas, structured as project equity, tax equity, debt, and preferred equity, and ranging from single-asset raises to programmatic, multi-tranche portfolios.⁵
• Began a partnership with a U.S. public infrastructure authority to bring a multi-sector pipeline of state assets, spanning energy, transportation, defense, and critical minerals, to a national pool of investors.

Expanding Capital Markets and Engineering Expertise

The surge in headcount spans both sides of Plural’s business, matching the demands of a new kind of financial services firm focused on the next wave of infrastructure:

• On the capital markets side, the company brought on experienced dealmakers to structure and place capital.
• On the engineering side, Plural added senior infrastructure and backend engineers to build out Plural Intelligence and AssetOS, the technology that lets a small team operate like a much larger one.

What the Momentum Signals for Infrastructure Finance

Plural’s focus for the remainder of 2026 rests on three priorities:

• Deepening execution capacity so client mandates move from structuring to close on a shorter timeline.
• Continuing to build out Plural Intelligence and AssetOS so more of the deal lifecycle, including structuring, investor matching, and ongoing administration, runs through software.⁵
• Deepening coverage of the infrastructure economy, from distributed energy to data centers and compute, alongside selective public-sector and transportation mandates.

For more information about Plural, please visit www.pluralfinance.com.

ABOUT PLURAL

Plural is the financial services firm for the builders of energy and compute infrastructure. Purpose-built so developers building energy, compute, transportation, and adjacent assets can create a financial program once and deploy it at any scale, Plural combines investment banking and advisory services with proprietary software to structure, execute, and permanently run the capital programs that fund next-generation infrastructure. Securities-related services are offered through Plural Brokerage LLC, a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of FINRA and SIPC, which also operates an SEC-registered alternative trading system. Transfer agency services are provided by Plural Transfer Services LLC, a transfer agent registered with the SEC. Since launching in 2024, Plural has received investor term sheets representing more than $600 million of proposed capital for its clients⁴ while managing the full asset lifecycle, from investor onboarding and compliance to distribution processing, secondary trading, and ongoing administration. The company’s team brings experience from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Standard Chartered, EDF Renewables, and other leading institutions, having collectively raised or managed over $35B.

MEDIA CONTACT
Tess Pawlisch
608-333-9788
[email protected]

NOTES
All figures are drawn from Plural’s transaction records as of September 2, 2026 and are stated on the bases described below.

1. Capital brought to market. $1.008 billion, being the sum of the target or expected raise recorded for each of Plural’s mandates (see note 3). “Brought to market” means capital sought under mandates Plural has been engaged to raise and begun introducing to allocators; it does not imply that every mandate has capital raised, committed, or closed.
2. Institutional investors and lenders engaged. 132 distinct counterparties that advanced into deal exploration across Plural’s offerings between October 2025 and September 2026.
3. Active mandates. 25 offerings at Structuring, Compliance Approved, Live/Open, or Term Sheet stage as of September 2, 2026, excluding Plural’s public-private partnership infrastructure program. A single client may account for several mandates.
4. In some cases, these figures represent securities business that was conducted through Plural Brokerage, a FINRA Member Broker Dealer.
5. In cases where securities are involved, Plural’s structuring work is done through Plural Brokerage LLC, a FINRA Member Broker Dealer.

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURES
Plural is a trade name for Plural Everything, Inc. and its subsidiaries. Securities-related products and services are offered through Plural Brokerage LLC, a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and a member of FINRA and SIPC. Transfer agency services are provided by Plural Transfer Services LLC, a transfer agent registered with the SEC. Plural Everything, Inc. is not a registered broker-dealer or transfer agent. Plural is not a bank, and does not accept deposits or extend credit as a bank.

This announcement is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy any security, nor shall it constitute an offer, solicitation, or sale in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful. Any securities referenced were offered and sold in private placements exempt from registration under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, were not registered under that Act or under any state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration. Prior transactions are not indicative of future results.

Statements in this release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that reflect Plural’s current expectations. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially from those expressed. Plural undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.

SOURCE Plural

Platform to accelerate investment in next generation ag-tech innovation 

JOHNSTON, Iowa, Sept. 3, 2026 — Vylor, the advanced seed and genetics company that will spin-off from Corteva on October 1, 2026, today announced the launch of Vylor Edge, a new investment platform dedicated to accelerating the development of advanced technologies in global agriculture. Vylor Edge will collaborate with start-ups, entrepreneurs, universities and the wider innovation ecosystem through equity investments and strategic partnerships. 

“Vylor Edge will partner with the global scientific community to deliver breakthrough innovations that advance global agriculture and mitigate key production challenges,” said Sam Eathington, chief technology officer of the future Vylor. “Pairing Vylor’s world class expertise with other technology leaders from around the world will help drive innovation and equip farmers with the tools they need to be successful.”

Vylor Edge will initially focus on identifying opportunities across strategic verticals aligned with Vylor’s priorities, including gene editing and advanced breeding; protein engineering; as well as artificial intelligence and digital technology platforms. It will also explore opportunities in other areas and sectors to harness technologies applicable to Vylor’s business and mission to help farmers feed and fuel the world.

“We are excited to collaborate with entrepreneurs who can benefit from the deep expertise of our dedicated team, as well as Vylor’s leading R&D capabilities, global footprint, and go-to-market infrastructure,” said Mat Muller,  head of Vylor Edge. “We look forward to supporting the development and commercialization of promising technologies and delivering new innovations to growers.”

The Vylor Edge portfolio will be launched with a strong foundation of investments and collaborations that were previously part of Corteva Catalyst and are now transitioning to Vylor as part of the company’s spin-off from Corteva. Through Vylor Edge, Vylor will continue to support and expand these partnerships while identifying new opportunities to accelerate innovation across global agriculture.

About Corteva

Corteva, Inc. (NYSE: CTVA) is a global pure-play agriculture company that combines industry-leading innovation, high-touch customer engagement and operational execution to profitably deliver solutions for the world’s most pressing agriculture challenges. Corteva generates advantaged market preference through its unique distribution strategy, together with its balanced and globally diverse mix of seed and crop protection products. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and a technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to maximizing productivity for farmers, while working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. More information can be found at www.corteva.com.

Cautionary statement 

This release contains certain estimates and forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, which are intended to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, and may be identified by their use of words like “may,” “expects,” “will,” “aims,” “believes,” “intends,” or other words of similar meaning. All statements that address expectations or projections about the future, including statements about the parties’ expectations related to regulatory matters, product development and commercialization, product offerings and product, financial or sustainability performance are forward-looking statements. No obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statement, except as required by applicable law, is hereby undertaken and any such obligation is specifically disclaimed. A detailed discussion of some of the significant risks and uncertainties which may cause results and events to differ materially from such forward-looking statements or other estimates is included in the “Risk Factors” section of Corteva’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and as modified by subsequent reports on Form 10-Q and Current Reports on Form 8-K and Vylor’s Registration Statement on Form 10.

SOURCE Corteva Agriscience

SEATTLE, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Resect Artificial Intelligence (Resect™ AI), the company building the accountability layer for AI, today launched out of stealth with $25 million in funding from private equity investors. The funding will fuel research and development, go-to-market initiatives, and local talent acquisition in the greater Seattle and Portland markets.

The AI Trust and Compliance Problem

The rapid adoption and evolution of AI is creating excessive enterprise risk and unprecedented problems in governance and compliance. Specifically, AI hallucinations cost businesses tens of billions of dollars globally, with that figure continuing to grow as adoption accelerates. While experimentation is booming, enterprises do not trust taking AI into production and customer-facing environments. This trust gap threatens everything from fast-food chains to aerospace giants, risking massive economic loss, compromised brand reputations, and wasted capital across the global economy. With regulations continuing to evolve at lightning speed, enterprises are under pressure to meet uncompromising compliance standards or face massive financial risk.

“AI has prematurely been put in a position of trust. Adding labels such as ‘use at your own risk’ flies in the face of proper governance or compliance,” said Kevin Owens, CEO of Resect AI. “AI must be anchored in truth to be widely adopted across the enterprise. We are building the next large enterprise AI company to bring transparency and accountability to AI for industries such as publishing, finance, healthcare, research, and education where factual accuracy is absolutely critical.”

Bringing Accountability to AI

Until now, AI has been a black box that offers no clear picture of how it creates answers, or why it is so confident providing wrong answers. Resect AI’s forthcoming open source offering and enterprise product suite provide the ability to look deep inside LLMs and observe, detect, interpret, audit, and modify the behaviors of AI models to bring an accountability layer to AI.

“Many argue that understanding the black box internals of LLMs is out of reach, but we fundamentally disagree,” said Tim Walton, Chief AI Officer at Resect AI. “We’ve spent an extensive amount of time and resources researching how models think, and what causes them to choose the answers that they do. Through this process, we’ve developed technology that observes exactly when and how models fail, and surgically fixes them.”

FAQs

Why do enterprises lack trust in AI?
Enterprises are hesitant to trust AI due to persistent model inaccuracies and unpredictable hallucinations. Until AI output can meet stringent governance and compliance standards, widespread enterprise adoption will remain limited.

What can be done to accelerate adoption of AI in the enterprise?
LLM providers need to eliminate hallucinations and optimize their models for factual accuracy and consistency to make AI measurable, scalable and dependable for the enterprise.

Is Resect hiring?
Yes, Resect is hiring engineering and research roles in the greater Seattle and Portland markets.

About Resect Artificial Intelligence
Resect™ AI was established by a team of serial entrepreneurs with deep roots in AI and data science. The company’s mission is to build the accountability layer for artificial intelligence by removing or ‘resecting‘ hallucinations and improving the factual accuracy of large language models. Resect AI is led by a highly passionate and experienced business and research team in the Pacific Northwest with an office in the greater Portland area. For more information, please visit https://resect.ai/.

SOURCE Resect AI