HANGZHOU, China, 21. Juli 2026 — Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA, HKEX: 2391), ein weltweit führender Anbieter von KI-Cloud-Plattformdiensten, hat eine strategische Investition in die kürzlich abgeschlossene Pre-A-Finanzierungsrunde von Robopoet in Höhe von 100 Millionen RMB getätigt. An dieser Runde beteiligten sich neben den bestehenden Investoren Sequoia China und GSR Ventures auch zwei weitere neue Investoren. Die Investition von Tuya signalisiert das beschleunigte Bestreben des Unternehmens, den Kommerzialisierungskreislauf für physische KI zu schließen.

Hintergründe zur Investition: Von der KI-Entwicklung zur globalen Expansion 

Die strategische Investition von Tuya erfolgt zu einem Zeitpunkt, an dem das Debütprodukt von Robopoet, Fuzozo, bis Juni 2026 einen kumulierten Inlandsabsatz von fast 300.000 Einheiten erreicht hat. Die Partnerschaft der beiden Unternehmen reicht bis 2025 zurück, als Tuya begann, die zugrunde liegende globale KI-Cloud-Plattform bereitzustellen, die dazu beitrug, diesen kompakten, plüschigen und mit blinzelnden Augen ausgestatteten emotionalen KI-Begleiter zu einer Marktsensation zu machen.

„2026 markiert den entscheidenden Zeitpunkt für die groß angelegte Kommerzialisierung von KI-Hardware. Vom Markt validierte, KI-native Hardware tritt in eine Phase explosiven Wachstums ein”, sagte Alex Yang, Mitbegründer, COO und CFO von Tuya Smart.

Die strategische Begründung geht über eine Wette auf eine einzelne Produktkategorie hinaus. Sie spiegelt eine umfassendere Vision für die Kommerzialisierung von KI-Hardware wider. Während sich die KI von Modellen hin zu Anwendungen in der realen Welt entwickelt, etabliert sich KI-Hardware als wichtige Brücke zwischen der Technologie und den Verbrauchern. Von KI-Robotern und Spielzeug bis hin zu Smart-Home-Geräten entwickeln sich intelligente Produkte zu proaktiven KI-Begleitern. Durch sein KI+IoT-Ökosystem wird Tuya die Konvergenz von KI und der physischen Welt weiter vorantreiben.

Starke Marktakzeptanz von KI-Spielzeuglösungen

Während des „618 Shopping Festivals”, Chinas größtem Online-Shopping-Event zur Jahresmitte, bewies das Empowerment-Modell von Tuya seine Wirksamkeit in großem Maßstab: Fuzozo verkaufte 40.000 Einheiten und belegte damit den ersten Platz in der KI-Spielzeugkategorie von Tmall, während andere von Tuya unterstützte KI-Spielzeugprodukte gemeinsam eine ökosystemweite Dynamik zeigten: Walulu verkaufte 8.000 Einheiten; der AOOMII Smart AI Companion Robot, AI Scruffy Cat und Wozzi erreichten jeweils einen Absatz von rund 5.000 Einheiten; und Famue schaffte es auf die Smart Robot Gold List von JD.com.

Trotz ihrer unterschiedlichen Formen und Verwendungszwecke haben diese Produkte eine gemeinsame Grundlage: Tuya leistete entscheidende Unterstützung entweder bei der Produktinnovation oder bei der Marktexpansion. Im Bereich Forschung und Entwicklung half die Tuya-KI-Entwicklungsplattform den Produkten dabei, den Weg vom Konzept bis zur Serienproduktion zügig zu beschreiten. Auf der Marktseite stellte Tuya seine lokalisierten operativen Ressourcen und den Zugang zu Vertriebskanälen zur Verfügung und ebnete damit Marken wie Fuzozo den Weg für den Eintritt in den globalen Markt.

Der Durchbruch dieser KI-Hardwareprodukte bestätigt nicht nur, dass KI-Hardware Einzug in den Alltag der Menschen hält, sondern belegt auch die Reife und die Reproduzierbarkeit des Modells zur Förderung von KI-Hardware.

Förderung physischer KI-Innovation durch Full-Stack-KI-Fähigkeiten

Grundlage für diesen Vorstoß ist ein umfassendes Full-Stack-KI-Toolkit, das darauf ausgelegt ist, die Hürden für Hardware-Entwickler zu senken. Tuya hat eine Reihe proprietärer Technologien bereitgestellt, darunter das Modell Personal Voice Activity Detection (PVAD), die Physical AI Foundation V2.8, WukongAI 3.0, das T-RTC-Echtzeitkommunikationsnetzwerk, das Physical Action Model und das Langzeitspeichersystem OmniMem V2.0.

Mit Blick auf die Zukunft wird Tuya seine globalen KI-Cloud-Plattform-Fähigkeiten und seine Ressourcen im Ausland weiterhin öffnen, um KI-Hardware-Innovatoren und das aufkommende „One-Person-Company”-Modell zu unterstützen. Durch strategische Investitionen wie beispielsweise in Robopoet strebt Tuya den Aufbau eines neuen Wachstumsmodells an, das sich auf die Stärkung der KI-Plattform, die Zusammenarbeit im Ökosystem und die globale Vermarktung von KI-Hardware-Innovationen konzentriert.

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The Apodex Frontier Program grants free access to its latest AI model, a heavy-duty solver built to accelerate deep tech — to research, solve, and discover what matters

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., July 21, 2026 — Apodex today announced the launch of the Apodex Frontier Program, a new initiative offering selected research institutions, academic labs, and deep-tech startups up to $100,000 in monthly compute credits, full access to Apodex’s heavy-duty solver, and dedicated engineering support.

The Apodex Frontier Program is intended for teams pursuing scientific and technological discovery who can benefit from access to compute, funding, and technical support. Selected applicants will be able to use Apodex resources for projects such as scientific discovery, validating targets, testing hypotheses, comparing technical approaches, and moving complex projects forward.

Applicants should expect to provide their team’s primary scientific or business field, research question, methodology, expected outcomes, and anticipated monthly credits. The link to apply is: https://www.apodex.com/frontier-program

Selected research partners receive:

• Up to $100,000/month compute credits, tailored to their institution’s scale and research complexity, allocated through an institutional account that enables administrators to manage usage across teams.
• Full access to Discover Mode, Apodex’s most powerful reasoning agent with 10x compute intensity for complex multi-step analysis, deep literature synthesis, or target validation.
• Dedicated Engineering Support to assist on questions about workflow integration, technical troubleshooting, scaled deployment, and a 3-hour SLA response for technical inquiries across U.S. and Singapore time zones.
• Visibility and ecosystem access to present their work at Apodex events, contribute to case studies, and join Apodex’s research and innovation community.

“Apodex 1.0 now tops the deep-research benchmarks that matter, and we want that capability working alongside the people pushing science forward,” said Apodex Founder and CEO Tianqiao Chen. “Supporting researchers, scientists, and analysts is how we accelerate discovery — and their honest feedback is how we build better systems together.”

Apodex’s Latest Deep-Research Model: Apodex-1.0-H

Apodex-1.0-H (now available as Apodex Deep Discover) is Apodex’s heavy-duty solver, built for complex research problems rather than individual queries. Apodex believes deep research agents should not only be capable of finding answers, but proving why those answers are trusted.

In heavy-duty mode, Apodex-1.0-H coordinates up to 150 sub-agents over 15,000 steps, allowing specialized agents to examine a problem, cross-check findings, and audit evidence before producing a response. By separating solving from verification, Apodex-1.0-H is designed to reduce unsupported conclusions and give research teams a clearer view of the evidence behind a result. Apodex-1.0-H’s performance speaks for itself. Across prominent benchmarks, it outperformed well-known frontier lab models across deep search, browsing, and frontier science tasks, reflecting the added value of its multi-agent verification workflow.

About Apodex

Apodex is building Discoverative AI: artificial intelligence that can make new discoveries, rather than just generate outputs from existing material. At the core is the company’s Self-Evolving Solver, a system built for open-world problems: questions with no answer in any dataset, where every reasoning step can be audited, and every improvement is earned through verified discovery. Apodex is hiring across research, engineering, and open-source contributions. Learn more at https://www.apodex.com/

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HOUSTON, July 21, 2026 — TYBR Health today announced a $30 million Series A financing led by Vensana Capital and Mutual Capital Partners, with participation from Neovate Capital Partners and existing investors. The company will use the funds to expand commercial access to its FDA-cleared B3 GEL® System, broaden its product indications, and run clinical studies evaluating tissue protection during orthopedic surgery.

Orthopedic surgery is very good at what it sets out to do: restore anatomy and repair damaged structures. The operation, though, is only the start of recovery. How tissue responds over the following days and weeks shapes scarring, mobility, pain, and how much function returns, and surgeons have had few tools to influence tissue healing after the surgery.

TYBR Health builds technology for that critical healing window. The B3 GEL® System is a flowable extracellular matrix hydrogel, cleared by the FDA, designed to protect tendons, ligaments, muscles, and the surrounding soft tissue while they heal.

“Surgeons are exceptionally good at the structural repair, but the biology that follows is what determines how it heals. That part of the equation has gone largely unaddressed,” said Tim Keane, PhD, co-founder and CEO of TYBR Health. “We built TYBR Health around a simple principle: managing the healing environment should complement good surgical technique and contribute to better recovery for patients.”

“There’s a shift underway across surgical specialties, from focusing almost entirely on the mechanical repair to also weighing the biological conditions that repair needs to succeed,” Keane added. “This financing lets us reach more surgeons and generate the clinical evidence to move that shift forward.”

Since launch, the B3 GEL® System has been used in hand, wrist, shoulder, foot and ankle, and sports medicine procedures. Early adoption has come from surgeons looking for a straightforward way to manage and protect healing tissue without adding time or complexity to the case.

“B3 GEL® adheres where it’s applied, conforms to the native anatomy, and forms a protective barrier through the healing window,” said Greg Banker, Partner at Vensana Capital. “TYBR has shown real commercial traction early and built a strong team, and we’re glad to back them in this next phase.”

“TYBR Health is addressing a gap surgeons have lived with for a long time, with a product that fits the way they already work,” said Liz Todia Zambory, Principal at Mutual Capital Partners. “We’re excited to co-lead this round and support the company’s growth.”

As part of the financing, Greg Banker of Vensana Capital and Liz Todia Zambory of Mutual Capital Partners will join the TYBR Health Board of Directors, alongside independent director Aaron Smith.

About the B3 GEL® System

The B3 GEL® System is an FDA-cleared, flowable extracellular matrix hydrogel designed to protect healing tendons, ligaments, muscles, and surrounding soft tissues following orthopedic surgery. Unlike sheet-based barriers, B3 GEL® conforms to complex three-dimensional anatomy and can be rapidly applied within existing surgical workflows. By combining practical surgical handling with biologically derived extracellular matrix technology, TYBR Health is working to advance a new standard for protecting tissues during recovery from orthopedic procedures.

About TYBR Health

TYBR Health is a medical technology company developing products designed to improve healing and recovery following surgery. The company’s extracellular matrix technology platform is intended to provide surgeons with practical tools for protecting healing tissues and managing the healing environment following surgical repair. TYBR Health is headquartered in Houston, Texas.

About Vensana Capital
Vensana Capital is a venture capital and growth equity investment firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs who seek to transform healthcare with breakthrough innovations in medical technology. Founded in 2019, Vensana has approximately $1 billion in capital under management and is actively investing in development and commercial-stage companies across the medtech sector, including medical devices, data science-oriented solutions, life science tools & diagnostics, and tech-enabled services. Vensana’s investment team has a history of successfully partnering with entrepreneurs behind industry-leading companies, including Artelon, Cameron Health, CardiAQ, Cartiva, CV Ingenuity, Epix Therapeutics, Inari Medical, Intact Vascular, Lutonix, Neuwave Medical, Personal Genome Diagnostics, Relievant Medsystems, Sequent Medical, Topera, Ulthera, Veran Medical Technologies, Vertiflex, and Vesper Medical. http://www.vensanacap.com

About Mutual Capital Partners
Mutual Capital Partners is a Cleveland, Ohio-based venture capital firm dedicated to partnering with entrepreneurs who are transforming healthcare through innovative technologies. Founded in 2005, Mutual Capital Partners invests in strong, mission-driven teams commercializing medical device and healthcare IT solutions that improve patient outcomes, with a focus on companies located outside the major coastal tech hubs. Mutual Capital Partners’ investment team has a history of successfully partnering with entrepreneurs behind industry-leading companies, including recent exits SPR Therapeutics, eBlu Solutions, as well as OrthoHelix, Cleveland Heartlab, TFX Medical, RevLocal, and Cardinal Commerce. www.mutualcapitalpartners.com 

About Neovate Capital Partners
Neovate Capital Partners is a global, surgery-focused life science investment firm backing transformational medical technology and select category-defining therapeutics at their critical pre-inflection points. Neovate’s partners are seasoned operators and sub-sector experts who work alongside founders — spending real time with CEOs, boards, and leadership teams to guide and de-risk the most meaningful milestones. Through its strategic partnership with Precision Life Science Partners, Neovate extends that hands-on model with a network of more than 70 specialists drawn from the world’s leading medtech and biopharma companies, giving every portfolio company operating depth well beyond a typical early-stage investor. Neovate’s partners have a history of backing category-defining companies, including Biorez, Avisi, Nanochon, Orthotaxy, Peca Labs, Peptilogics, Restor3D, Verademics, Ocugenix, Phoenix Kinetics, and RevMedica. www.neovate.vc

Media Contact

Tim Keane
Co-founder and CEO
TYBR Health
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SILICON VALLEY, Calif., July 21, 2026 — Meshy, a company building foundation models for AI-powered 3D generation, today announced it has raised nearly $400 million in a Series B round at a $1.5 billion valuation. It is the largest funding round to date for a company built specifically for AI 3D. The round was backed by a group of leading global investors, with participation from all existing investors. It is also Meshy’s first publicly disclosed valuation.

Meshy has made 3D creation dramatically simpler. From a single line of text or one image, users can generate a usable 3D model in about a minute. Work that once took specialized skills, expensive software, and weeks now takes about a minute and a dollar. As of July 2026, the company’s annual recurring revenue is growing about 12x year over year, with more than 12 million registered users and over 100 million models created. In a field where most companies have yet to reach meaningful revenue, Meshy has built its lead on real commercial performance.

On the technology side, Meshy has advanced AI-generated 3D from “looking right on screen” to “ready for real production.” Its models are usable directly in games and, increasingly, printable as physical objects – the company’s core differentiator. Meshy is introducing several product updates:

• Meshy 3D Agent: The world’s first AI agent for 3D creation. Meshy 3D Agent turns a conversation, a line of text, a photo, or a sketch into a print-ready 3D model in formats including FBX, OBJ, GLB, and STL, with no prior 3D experience required. It brainstorms ideas, generates concepts in batches, turns a chosen concept into a 3D model in a single step, and answers 3D questions through built-in Q&A. For 3D printing, it achieves a slicer success rate of up to 97%; for game development, it exports models compatible with Unity, Unreal, and Blender. Meshy 3D Agent is now available to all registered users.

• Auto Split: One-click part-splitting for 3D printing. The hardest step in 3D printing is often breaking a model into parts that can be printed and reassembled. After a model is generated, Auto Split performs this step in a single click, automatically repairing surfaces and arranging parts on the print bed. Each part is a closed, watertight solid; seams are placed along concealed boundaries to preserve the model’s appearance; the parts reassemble precisely into the original; and the layout is print-ready for immediate download. Auto Split produces the most reliable, genuinely assemblable parts in the category—verified on physical 3D printers—whereas output from other tools is typically color-segmented for on-screen display and falls apart in the real world. Auto Split is now available to all registered users.

• Smart Topology: Meshy’s latest in-house model. Smart Topology generates a 3D model with native, cleanly structured geometry in about 10 seconds, with a controllable polygon count from 100 to 15,000. Compared with the previous generation, it delivers clear gains in generation speed, polygon control, and topology, making it well suited to game development, interactive web, and other real-time rendering projects. Smart Topology is now available to all registered users.

• 8K Texture: High-resolution texture generation. Meshy can now generate 8K-resolution textures with clean color reproduction and rich surface detail. Meshy’s 8K Texture is rolling out soon.

Meshy’s reach already extends to the very top of the global economy: five of the world’s ten largest technology companies by market capitalization or valuation have teams building with Meshy. Meshy is also widely used across gaming, 3D printing, design, and the cultural sector. Its customers and partners include leading game companies such as Nexon, NetEase Games, and 37 Interactive Entertainment; top 3D printing brands including Bambu Lab, Creality, Elegoo, FlashForge, and xTool; and globally recognized names such as Hugo Boss and Sweden’s museum of art and design.

That performance did not come from technology alone. Like many companies opening a new category, Meshy initially had to find the market its technology fit. As its models generalized and its understanding of users deepened, the company opened new use cases and revenue streams, turning a research lead into a durable commercial one.

Proceeds from the round will be used primarily for R&D and global market expansion.

Over the longer term, Meshy aims to lower the barrier to creation. The desire to create is innate to everyone: from the earliest paintings on cave walls to a video shot on a phone today, that impulse has never changed, only the difficulty of acting on it. Turning imagination into something real once demanded rare skill, costly tools, and significant time, and each advance in technology has made it easier.

Meshy is dedicated to unleashing that instinct in everyone, driving the gap between imagination and reality ever closer to zero. Today, anyone can generate a single 3D object on Meshy. In time, what people create will be an experience they can be immersed in, genuinely feel, and remember afterward. 3D is the starting point, and the domain in which Meshy has already proven its technology and built a real business. Extending that path further is the company’s objective.

About Meshy

Founded by MIT PhD Ethan Hu, Meshy is on a mission to make 3D creation accessible to everyone, serving more than 12 million registered users worldwide. Learn more at meshy.ai.

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HANGZHOU, China, 21 de julio de 2026 — Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA, HKEX: 2391), proveedor líder mundial de servicios de plataforma en la nube para IA, realizó una inversión estratégica en la reciente ronda de financiación pre-A de Robopoet, que recaudó 100 millones de RMB. En esta ronda también participaron los inversores actuales Sequoia China y GSR Ventures, junto con otros dos nuevos inversores. La inversión de Tuya refleja su creciente impulso para completar el ciclo de comercialización de la IA física.

Detrás de la inversión: del desarrollo de la IA a la expansión global

La inversión estratégica de Tuya llega en un momento en que Fuzozo, el primer producto de Robopoet, ha alcanzado unas ventas nacionales acumuladas cercanas a las 300.000 unidades a junio de 2026. La colaboración entre ambas compañías se remonta a 2025, cuando Tuya comenzó a proporcionar la plataforma global de IA en la nube que ayudó a transformar a este compacto, suave y carismático compañero emocional con IA en un fenómeno del mercado.

“El año 2026 marca el momento crucial para la comercialización a gran escala del hardware de IA. El hardware nativo de IA, validado por el mercado, está entrando en una fase de crecimiento explosivo”, afirmó Alex Yang, cofundador, director de operaciones y director financiero de Tuya Smart.

La estrategia va más allá de apostar por una única categoría de producto. Refleja una visión más amplia para la comercialización del hardware de IA. A medida que la IA avanza desde los modelos hasta las aplicaciones del mundo real, el hardware de IA se consolida como un puente clave que conecta la tecnología con los consumidores. Desde robots y juguetes con IA hasta dispositivos domésticos inteligentes, los productos inteligentes se están convirtiendo en compañeros de IA proactivos. A través de su ecosistema de IA+IoT, Tuya seguirá impulsando la convergencia de la IA y el mundo físico.

Sólida validación de mercado de las soluciones de juguetes con IA

Durante el Festival de Compras 618, el mayor evento de compras en línea de mitad de año en China, el modelo de empoderamiento de Tuya demostró su eficacia a gran escala: Fuzozo vendió 40.000 unidades, ocupando el primer puesto en la categoría de juguetes con IA de Tmall, mientras que otros productos de juguetes con IA potenciados por Tuya demostraron colectivamente un impulso en todo el ecosistema: Walulu vendió 8.000 unidades; el robot de compañía inteligente con IA AOOMII, el gato AI Scruffy y Wozzi alcanzaron aproximadamente 5.000 unidades en ventas cada uno; y Famue apareció en la Lista de Oro de Robots Inteligentes de JD.com.

A pesar de sus diversas formas y propósitos, estos productos comparten una base común: Tuya brindó un apoyo fundamental tanto para la innovación de productos como para la expansión de mercado. En el ámbito de la I+D, la plataforma de desarrollo de IA de Tuya ayudó a que los productos avanzaran rápidamente desde el concepto hasta la producción en masa. En el ámbito comercial, Tuya puso a disposición sus recursos operativos locales y su acceso a canales de distribución, allanando el camino para que marcas como Fuzozo ingresaran al mercado global.

El auge de estos productos de hardware de IA no solo confirma que el hardware de IA está entrando en la vida cotidiana del público, sino que también valida la madurez y la replicabilidad del modelo de empoderamiento del hardware de IA.

Potenciando la innovación en IA física con capacidades de IA de pila completa

Esta iniciativa se sustenta en un completo conjunto de herramientas de IA de pila completa diseñado para reducir las barreras de entrada para los desarrolladores de hardware. Tuya ha implementado un conjunto de tecnologías propias que incluyen el modelo de detección de actividad de voz personal (PVAD), Physical AI Foundation V2.8, WukongAI 3.0, la red de comunicación en tiempo real T-RTC, el modelo de acción física y el sistema de memoria a largo plazo OmniMem V2.0.

De cara al futuro, Tuya seguirá expandiendo sus capacidades de plataforma global de IA en la nube y sus recursos internacionales para apoyar a los innovadores de hardware de IA y al emergente modelo de “Empresa Unipersonal”. Mediante inversiones estratégicas como Robopoet, Tuya busca construir un nuevo modelo de crecimiento centrado en el fortalecimiento de la plataforma de IA, la colaboración del ecosistema y la comercialización global de innovaciones de hardware de IA.

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Rounds led by FinSight Ventures and Spice Expeditions, with participation from U.S. endowments, global venture firms and Latin American investors. The full USD 100 million will be invested in Venezuela.

CARACAS, Venezuela and NEW YORK, July 21, 2026 — Cashea, the company powering everyday commerce in Venezuela, has raised USD 100 million from global institutional investors, demonstrating a major vote of confidence in Venezuela’s consumer economy and in Cashea’s model for expanding interest-free financing at scale. Cashea has more than 10 million consumer accounts, a figure equivalent to more than half of Venezuela’s adult population, and a network of 40,000 stores nationwide.

The USD 100 million includes a previously undisclosed USD 40 million Series A led by Spice Expeditions, which closed in March 2026 and comprised USD 20 million in equity and USD 20 million in debt by Architect Capital, and a USD 60 million Series B, closed in June 2026 and led by FinSight Ventures, with participation from Spice Expeditions, Endeavor Catalyst and a broad group of U.S. endowments, global and Latin American investors.

The announcement comes just weeks after the earthquake that struck Venezuela. In the days that followed, Cashea waived late fees nationwide, advanced cash to merchants to improve their liquidity, and widened access to credit so that families could begin to replace what they had lost. The full USD 100 million will be invested in Venezuela to continue expanding access to credit and supporting consumers and merchants.

“Global investors are backing Cashea and a new vision of Venezuela: a resilient consumer economy, thriving merchants and millions of people with access to credit,” said Pedro Vallenilla, co-founder and CEO of Cashea. “Since we founded Cashea in 2022, we have worked to stand alongside Venezuelans and their businesses through the country’s most difficult moments. This financing sends a clear signal that Venezuela’s private sector is investable and that its consumers are responsible and creditworthy when given access to adequate financial services.”

Cashea Begins Where Credit Disappeared

Between 2013 and 2020, Venezuela’s GDP fell more than 80 percent, and consumer credit shrank from USD 15 billion to USD 1.7 billion. For most of the past decade, that left ordinary families with no simple way to finance essential purchases: credit had effectively disappeared.

Cashea was founded to rebuild access to credit by restoring trust between consumers and merchants. The company began by offering fully digital, instant, zero-interest installment financing for everyday purchases, both online and in-store. In four years, Cashea has become a nationwide platform embedded in Venezuela’s everyday commerce.

“Cashear”: Transforming Trust into Credit and Commerce

Today, “cashear” is part of everyday Venezuelan speech. It means more than paying in installments or simply buying with Cashea. It describes a purchase made possible: a new phone, an appliance, something long wanted and finally within reach.

Through the app, a shopper buys online or scans a QR code in a store, makes a first payment, and settles the rest in equal installments every two weeks, at zero interest. Backing that simple interaction is a model built to restore trust. Since its launch, Cashea has enabled more than 100 million transactions.

Investors Who Came to See for Themselves

For Cashea’s backers, this was no remote bet on a headline about recovery. They flew to Venezuela to meet the management team, walk the aisles of partner stores, and watch shoppers check out with Cashea in real time.

The round brought together an unusually broad investor base for a company operating in a single emerging market: U.S. endowments and institutions, including Washington University in St. Louis; global venture firms, including FinSight Ventures, Spice Expeditions, Endeavor Catalyst and Plug & Play; and Latin American investors, including Krealo, Amador, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello and NuMundo Ventures.

“We created Cashea because we believed in Venezuela and its people,” said Vallenilla. “This financing gives us both the ability and the responsibility to go beyond our core installment product, building new ways for Venezuelans to pay, save and buy, and new tools for the businesses that serve them. What we are building is the financial fabric of how Venezuela buys and sells.”

About Cashea

Cashea is the company powering everyday commerce in Venezuela. Founded in Caracas in 2022, Cashea rebuilt access to credit through fully digital, zero-interest installment financing for everyday purchases, both online and in stores. Today, Cashea helps consumers buy what they need and merchants transact and grow. The company has more than 10 million accounts, a network of 40,000 storefronts and has enabled more than 100 million transactions since launch. Building on its core installment product, Cashea is developing new solutions that will give consumers and merchants more ways to transact and grow across Venezuela.

For more information, visit www.cashea.app. 

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About FinSight Ventures

FinSight Ventures (“FSV”) is a global technology investment firm founded in 2004, focused on Financial Technology and Enterprise Software & Artificial Intelligence. The firm has backed category-leading companies including Lending Club (USA), Klarna (Sweden), Kraken (USA), Toss (South Korea), Razorpay (India), Rappi (Colombia), Uzum (Uzbekistan), MediBuddy (India), and Easy Home Finance (India). FSV manages over $1B in assets, with offices in San Francisco, Bengaluru, Dubai, and Cyprus.

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About Spice Expeditions

Spice Expeditions (“Spice”) is a U.S.-based investment organization that invests globally in high-growth companies at the intersection of money and technology. Founded in 2024 with offices in New York, NY, and Westport, CT, Spice focuses on bringing capital, ideas, and relationships to what it describes as the best kept secrets in fintech. In addition to Cashea, Spice has backed founders and their teams across four continents, including Kaspi (Kazakhstan), Toss (South Korea), Plata (Mexico), Imprint (U.S.), Salmon (Philippines), Midas (Turkiye), and Flex (U.S.).

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HANGZHOU, Chine, 21 juillet 2026 — Tuya Smart (NYSE : TUYA, HKEX : 2391), l’un des principaux fournisseurs mondiaux de services de plateforme d’IA en nuage, a réalisé un investissement stratégique dans Robopoet à l’occasion du tour de financement préalable à la série A, qui s’est récemment achevé sur la collecte de 100 millions de RMB. Ce tour de financement a également bénéficié de la participation des bailleurs de fonds existants, Sequoia China et GSR Ventures, ainsi que de deux nouveaux investisseurs. L’investissement de Tuya témoigne de l’accélération de ses efforts visant à boucler le cycle de commercialisation de l’IA physique.

Les coulisses de l’investissement : du développement de l’IA à l’expansion mondiale

Cet investissement stratégique de Tuya intervient alors que Fuzozo, le nouveau produit de Robopoet, a enregistré des ventes cumulées sur le marché national avoisinant les 300 000 unités en juin 2026. Le partenariat entre les deux entreprises remonte à 2025, année où Tuya a commencé à fournir la plateforme mondiale d’IA en nuage sous-jacente qui a contribué à faire un véritable phénomène commercial de ce compagnon émotionnel compact en peluche, capable de cligner des yeux.

« L’année 2026 sera décisive pour la commercialisation à grande échelle du matériel pensé pour l’IA. Le matériel conçu nativement pour l’IA, dont la valeur a été validée par le marché, entre dans une phase de croissance explosive », déclare Alex Yang, cofondateur, directeur de l’exploitation et directeur financier de Tuya Smart.

La logique stratégique va au-delà d’un simple pari sur une seule catégorie de produits. Elle reflète une vision plus large de la commercialisation du matériel optimisé pour l’IA. À mesure que l’IA passe des modèles aux applications concrètes, le matériel IA s’impose comme un maillon essentiel reliant cette technologie aux consommateurs. Des robots dotés d’IA aux jouets, en passant par les appareils de domotique, les produits intelligents se transforment peu à peu en compagnons IA proactifs. Grâce à son écosystème associant IA et Internet des objets, Tuya continuera à favoriser la convergence entre l’IA et le monde physique.

Des jouets IA plébiscités par le marché

Lors du Festival d’achat 618, le plus grand événement chinois de vente en ligne de la mi-année, le modèle de déploiement de Tuya a prouvé son efficacité à grande échelle : 40 000 unités de Fuzozo se sont vendues, ce qui place le compagnon émotionnel en tête de la catégorie des jouets IA sur Tmall, tandis que les autres jouets IA alimentés par la technologie de Tuya ont, dans leur ensemble, affiché une dynamique positive dans tout l’écosystème : Walulu s’est vendu à 8 000 exemplaires ; le robot compagnon intelligent AOOMII, le chat Scruffy et Wozzi ont chacun atteint environ les 5 000 exemplaires vendus ; et Famue a fait son entrée dans la « Smart Robot Gold List » (liste des meilleurs robots intelligents) de JD.com.

Malgré la diversité de leurs formes et de leurs finalités, ces produits ont un point commun : Tuya y a apporté un soutien essentiel tant en matière d’innovation que d’expansion commerciale. En ce qui concerne la R & D, la plateforme de développement Tuya AI a aidé les produits à passer rapidement du stade du concept à celui de la production en série. Du côté du marché, Tuya a mis à disposition ses ressources opérationnelles locales et ses capacités d’accès aux canaux de distribution pour ouvrir le marché mondial à des marques telles que Fuzozo.

Le succès de ces produits matériels conçus pour l’IA confirme non seulement que ces technologies font désormais partie du quotidien du grand public, mais atteste aussi de la maturité et de la reproductibilité du modèle de déploiement du matériel IA.

Favoriser l’innovation en matière d’IA physique grâce à des capacités d’IA complètes

Cette initiative s’appuie sur une série d’outils d’IA complets, conçus pour réduire les obstacles rencontrés par les développeurs de matériel. Tuya a déployé une suite de technologies exclusives, notamment un modèle de détection d’activité vocale personnelle, le modèle de fondation d’IA physique V2.8, WukongAI 3.0, le réseau de communication en temps réel T-RTC, un modèle d’action physique ou encore le système de mémoire à long terme OmniMem V2.0.

À l’avenir, Tuya continuera à mettre à disposition les capacités de sa plateforme mondiale d’IA en nuage ainsi que ses ressources à l’international afin de soutenir la création de matériel IA et le modèle émergent des « entreprises unipersonnelles ». Grâce à des investissements stratégiques, par exemple dans Robopoet, Tuya entend mettre en place un nouveau modèle de croissance axé sur le déploiement des plateformes d’IA, la collaboration au sein de l’écosystème et la commercialisation mondiale de matériel IA innovant.

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New multi-layer NAV and alternative asset capabilities — developed alongside the industry’s leading institutions — mark the most significant expansion of Give Interactive’s investment platform to date

OVERLAND PARK, Kan., July 21, 2026 — The donor-advised fund has often been called a charitable checking account. The name made sense at the time. DAFs were a simple vehicle, with basic investment options, and grants sent when ready. That era is ending.

DAFs are now the fastest-growing segment in American philanthropy, and the shift underway is fundamental. Donors, advisors, and institutions are no longer treating the DAF as a giving convenience; they are treating it as a charitable asset class. These funds warrant the same investment sophistication, structural complexity, and strategic thinking as any other component of a modern wealth management relationship.

Give Interactive announces the launch of its Advanced Investment Management Management, delivering one of the most comprehensive investment administration capabilities available in the sector. The centerpiece of this release is Give Interactive’s fund of funds infrastructure: a multi-layer net asset value (NAV) architecture that enables sponsors to construct sophisticated, multi-manager investment programs natively within the platform.

Give Interactive’s clients represent some of the nation’s largest and most complex charitable organizations. The company’s institutional client relationships reflect significant investment in the operational depth and compliance infrastructure required to serve philanthropic organizations at the highest level. It is through these partnerships that Give Interactive has continued to advance its platform capabilities beyond what the broader market has previously offered.

For more on Give Interactive’s institutional client partnerships, visit: https://www.giveinteractive.com/post/vanguard

Solving the Product Offering Gap

Until now, DAF sponsors & Foundations seeking to offer advanced investment options have faced a difficult tradeoff.

To access more sophisticated strategies or customized portfolios, sponsors have typically been required to go outside their core DAF platform, engaging external investment managers.

The result: sponsors absorbed the cost and operational complexity of building multi-manager programs. Layered fee arrangements, limited transparency, and the friction of managing external vehicles added cost. That cost ultimately made those sponsors less competitive on price and less differentiated on product.

Sponsors on the Give Interactive platform can now administer their own multi-layer investment products and act as their own investment manager of those products. This includes fund of funds vehicles with independent sub-pool NAV calculation, unitized accounting at each layer, and full look-through asset management.

A Multi-Year Investment in Institutional-Grade Infrastructure

The Advanced Investment Management Platform is not a single product launch. It is the result of sustained, deliberate platform investment designed to remove the operational barriers that charitable organizations have historically faced.

“Over the next decade, we believe investment flexibility will become one of the defining competitive advantages for DAF and Foundation administrators. The organizations that can offer sophisticated investment options while maintaining operational excellence will be best positioned to attract donors, advisors, and institutional relationships. We have spent years building the infrastructure to make that possible — and the fund of funds launch is our most recent and most advanced expression of that commitment.”

— Lucas Cherry, CEO, Give Interactive

Full-Spectrum Investment Architecture

Developed alongside some of the nation’s leading charitable organizations, the platform enables institutions to administer virtually every major investment model used across modern philanthropy:

• Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) — across any custodian platform, preserving existing institutional relationships
• Single-Layer Unitized Investment Pools — scalable pooled vehicles with daily NAV calculation and clean unitized accounting
• Multi-Layer Unitized Investment Pools (Fund of Funds) — the platform’s newest and most advanced capability, enabling top-level funds to allocate across underlying unitized pools with independent NAV strike at each layer, supporting multi-manager strategies, sub-advisor diversification, and layered impact programs
• Direct-Held Investment Portfolios — for donors holding securities or assets directly, with full transfer, valuation, and reporting support
• Cash Management Strategies — for liquidity-focused or transitional investment options
• Private Equity and Alternative Investment Structures — for illiquid and alternative assets requiring capital call structures, percentage based valuation, and non-unitized accounting treatment

These capabilities support both publicly traded and privately held assets, allowing organizations to administer increasingly sophisticated portfolios.

Powering the Industry’s Move Toward Impact

The launch also positions Give Interactive’s clients to lead one of philanthropy’s fastest-growing trends. DAFs have established themselves as one of the most powerful and flexible vehicles in American philanthropy. Impact investing, ESG mandates, and mission-aligned strategies are becoming defining expectations for institutions seeking to attract and retain the next generation of high-value donors.

Give Interactive’s multi-layer NAV architecture makes it possible for sponsors to construct and administer sophisticated impact programs at scale. This now includes tiered impact fund structures, blended finance vehicles, and multi-manager ESG programs.

“Our goal is to remove the operational barriers that have historically limited innovation. When technology can support sophisticated investment strategies at scale, charitable organizations are free to focus on delivering better outcomes for donors and greater impact for the causes they serve.”

— Lucas Cherry, CEO, Give Interactive

Built for the Industry’s Most Ambitious Institutions

Give Interactive serves major institutional clients at significant scale. The platform is designed for enterprise-scale organizations while remaining flexible enough to support the fastest-growing emerging sponsors. These institutions of all sizes now have access to investment capabilities that were once available only to the largest financial organizations.

By bringing multi-layer NAV administration in-house, Give Interactive clients gain an advantage with fewer fee layers, leaner operational overhead, and a more competitive total cost of ownership.

As the charitable sector continues to evolve, Give Interactive believes investment innovation will become a defining differentiator. This new shift is empowering organizations to attract new donor relationships, deepen advisor engagement, and accelerate the continued growth of philanthropic giving.

About Give Interactive

Give Interactive is a modern technology platform purpose-built for donor-advised fund and charitable asset administration, fund accounting, and charitable operations. Designed to serve foundations, financial institutions, and DAF sponsors, the Give platform delivers a cloud-native, API-first architecture that replaces legacy systems with scalable, secure, and highly configurable infrastructure.

Give Interactive has become one of the leading platforms for large and complex foundations, trusted by some of the most sophisticated philanthropic institutions in the country. The platform supports billions of dollars in charitable transactions annually and is designed to manage advanced requirements around donor portals, investment management, multi-entity structures, automated grant compliance, and audit-ready reporting. The company serves clients looking for an end-to-end platform and those who need powerful, modular tools that integrate seamlessly with other best in class tools. More information is available at giveinteractive.com.

For media inquiries or interview requests, please contact:
Jasmine Southerland
Give Interactive
[email protected] 

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Reflecting the company’s market-driven evolution in the trillion-dollar Physical AI era

AUSTIN, Texas and NEW YORK, July 21, 2026 — Voxelmaps Inc. today announced its rebranding as Robotic Data Inc., reflecting the company’s evolution from a global leader in geospatial data collection to a provider of the foundational data infrastructure powering the next generation of Physical AI.

For the past eight years, the company has collected high-quality geospatial data for some of the world’s largest technology companies, helping power autonomous systems through detailed, machine-readable representations of the physical world. As the market has evolved beyond autonomous vehicles into a new generation of intelligent robots, so too has the company’s mission.

Today’s generation of intelligent robots is driving demand for increasingly sophisticated real-world data. In addition to understanding physical environments, many Physical AI systems are trained using human behavior data that helps models learn how people move, interact, communicate, and perform everyday tasks. Together, these complementary data sources support the development and deployment of intelligent robotic systems in real-world environments.

As Physical AI expands beyond controlled environments into commercial applications, including autonomous vehicles, delivery drones, and humanoid robotics, the demand for high-quality real-world data continues to grow.

“We’re entering a decade where millions of intelligent machines will begin working alongside people,” said Peter Atalla, Chief Executive Officer of Robotic Data. “Their success won’t be determined solely by better AI models, but by the quality of the real-world data they learn from. We believe world and human data will become one of the defining infrastructure layers of the Physical AI economy, and that’s exactly what we’re building at Robotic Data.”

“It’s incredibly rewarding to see this evolution,” said Robert Nawy, Chief Strategy Officer of Robotic Data. “What began as geospatial data for autonomous systems has evolved into critical infrastructure for Physical AI. Robotic Data is helping provide the machine-readable data foundation that enables intelligent systems to understand, navigate, and operate safely.

About Robotic Data
Robotic Data provides the real-world data infrastructure for Physical AI. The company combines World Data and Human Data to create high-quality datasets that enable autonomous vehicles, drones, embodied AI, humanoid robots, and other intelligent systems to understand, navigate, and operate safely in the physical world. Learn more at www.roboticdata.com.

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