Events

Shanghai – September 23, 2026 -- Shanghai Chengwei Semiconductor Equipment Co., Ltd. has launched a laboratory central gas supply system capable of delivering gas purity up to 99.9999 percent, targeting semiconductor R&D facilities, university labs, and precision testing centers.

System consolidates scattered cylinders into a single external distribution station

The design removes individual gas cylinders from active research areas, cutting associated safety hazards while freeing floor space and streamlining lab workflows.

Sacramento, Calif. – September 23, 2026 -- HealthSherpa is expanding its multi-year partnership with AmeriHealth Caritas to include Marketplace Operations, its enrollment, premium billing and reconciliation platform for individual and family health plans sold on and off the Health Insurance Marketplace.

AmeriHealth Caritas will use the platform to reconcile enrollments and collect premiums

Under the expanded deal, AmeriHealth Caritas will process and reconcile enrollments directly with the Health Insurance Marketplace, collect subsidy and member premiums, and resolve data discrepancies before they affect member bills or coverage status.

Sacramento – – September 23, 2026 -- Ten California home insurers have requested $571 million in combined rate increases under Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara's climate-model rules while committing to sell only 12,000 new home insurance policies, according to an analysis of Department of Insurance filings by Consumer Watchdog.

Tokyo – September 23, 2026 -- Notta has launched two new integration tools, Notta MCP and Notta CLI, allowing AI agents to pull meeting transcripts and summaries directly into their workflows without manual export steps. The tools became available to all users on all plans starting September 23, 2026.

Notta MCP connects AI agents to meeting data via a standard protocol

Notta MCP uses the Model Context Protocol, a standard for linking AI applications to external tools, to let compatible agents such as those built on Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor retrieve Notta transcripts, read completed summaries, and locate specific meeting records on request. Previously, users had to manually find a recording, export or copy its transcript, and feed it into their agent separately.

Melbourne – September 23, 2026 -- Australian performance brand 2XU has appointed Aaron Brown as Head of Wholesale & Business Development, North America, tasking a two-decade sporting goods veteran with expanding the company's commercial footprint across the United States and Canada.

Brown exits HydraPak's global sales leadership to join 2XU's North American buildout

Brown most recently served as Vice President of Global Sales at HydraPak, overseeing global revenue strategy, sporting goods, run specialty and outdoor retail channels, OEM partnerships and international distribution. Before that, he spent more than ten years at Under Armour, rising to Director of Sales with responsibility for North American commercial strategy across key and specialty accounts, spanning merchandising, go-to-market execution, ecommerce and inventory planning.

Louisville, Colo. – September 23, 2026 -- Sierra Space has appointed Warren Jenson to its board of directors, naming him chair of the audit committee as the defense-tech space company tightens financial governance ahead of what executives describe as a pivotal growth stage.

Jenson brings three decades of CFO experience across Amazon, Delta and NBC

Jenson has held senior financial leadership roles at Amazon, Electronic Arts, Delta Air Lines and NBC. He most recently served as president and CFO of Nielsen and previously held the same titles, plus executive managing director of international, at LiveRamp. He is currently chief financial officer of Polymarket.

Boca Raton, Fla. – September 23, 2026 -- BPD Health has launched a new brand identity, "It's Good to Grow," repositioning the two-decade-old healthcare marketing firm as a strategic growth partner for hospitals, life sciences firms and health innovators.

BPD traces its evolution from an advertising agency to a growth strategy firm

The company has operated under three names over more than 20 years: BPD Advertising, BPD Healthcare, and now BPD Health. Each iteration marked an expansion of scope, moving from healthcare marketing services toward broader strategic growth advisory work for health systems, life sciences companies, healthcare associations and consumer health brands.

Burlingame – September 23, 2026 -- Horizon Treatment Services will proceed with a 69-bed Recovery Center at 826 Mahler Road in Burlingame after the California Department of Health Care Services approved relocating the project's state funding and the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors approved a $2.5 million local match.

State grant of $25.5 million anchors integrated treatment facility

The project is backed by a $25.5 million grant from California's Behavioral Health Continuum Infrastructure Program (BHCIP). The facility will consolidate sobering, withdrawal management, and residential treatment services into a single site, expanding medically supervised substance use disorder care for San Mateo County residents.

Hamilton, Bermuda – September 23, 2026 -- Paratus Energy Services Ltd. (PLSV) has appointed Lars Pedersen to its Board of Directors effective September 23, 2026, replacing Dag Skindlo, who stepped down the same day to focus on his executive role and other commitments.

Pedersen brings 35 years of shipping and offshore leadership to the board

Pedersen has spent the past eight years at Frontline Management AS as Chief Technical Officer, overseeing global fleet operations, digital transformation, ESG initiatives and strategic growth, while also serving as Managing Director of Flex LNG Fleet Management. He previously held senior leadership positions at BW Group, A.P. Moller–Maersk and Höegh.

Navi Mumbai – September 23, 2026 -- Fuel Cycle, a US-based AI-powered consumer insights and market research platform, has opened a Global Capability Center (GCC) in Vashi, Navi Mumbai, with an initial planned capacity of 50 employees and room to scale over coming quarters.

New hub targets engineering, AI and product development functions

The Navi Mumbai center will serve as a strategic hub for Engineering, AI and Product Development, working closely with teams across the US and other global markets. Fuel Cycle said it plans to invest in scaling the center, positioning it as a key part of its global product and technology organization.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Robot.com and Grubhub have signed a three-year extension expanding autonomous delivery to 10 additional college campuses, pushing total active deployments across the Grubhub Campus platform past 20 nationwide as the 2026-2027 school year begins.

Four-year partnership now includes robot-powered advertising

The extension deepens a relationship dating to 2022, when Grubhub first signed Robot.com as a delivery partner across its higher-education network. The renewed agreement adds Robot.com's R-ads advertising platform, converting delivery robots already on campus into interactive brand-experience units for students.

New York – September 23, 2026 -- XPRIZE awarded $4.55 million to innovators across two tracks of its $11 million XPRIZE Wildfire competition, recognizing breakthroughs in space-based detection and autonomous suppression technologies during a ceremony at the New York City Fire Museum.

Space-based detection track distributes $1.05 million across five teams

SIRIUS Wildfire Alliance took first place with $500,000 for integrating SAR and optical satellite data to characterize fires and model spread. Team Snuffed earned $250,000 for a probabilistic data-fusion framework built for firefighter usability. MyRadar, DeepFire and Mayday.AI each received $100,000 special recognition awards for commercial viability, operational fire-spread alerts, and repurposed volcanic-ash detection algorithms applied to smoke plumes, respectively.

Oakland – September 23, 2026 -- The Kapor Center unveiled its PRIME Alliance at the Clinton Global Initiative, selecting El Paso, Texas; Little Rock, Arkansas; and Oakland, California as the inaugural cohort for a multiyear program designed to fast-track partnerships between local governments and startups tackling housing, child care, health care, education, workforce development, and financial stability gaps.

San Francisco – September 23, 2026 -- Corgi Insurance has expanded its trucking insurance program to cover towing and tow-truck businesses, bundling three previously separate coverages into a single policy.

Corgi combines Auto Liability, On-Hook Coverage and Garage Keepers into one policy

The new towing program merges Auto Liability, On-Hook Coverage and Garage Keepers coverage under one carrier, eliminating the need for towing operators to source multiple policies across separate insurers.

Towing operators face liability for vehicles they transport and store, not just road risk

Unlike traditional freight haulers, tow trucks carry core exposure from handling, transporting and storing other people's vehicles rather than from road mileage alone. Josh Shih, Head of Underwriting at Corgi, said tow truck operators remain responsible for a customer's vehicle both while towing it and, in some cases, while it sits in their care.

United States – – September 23, 2026 -- JPMA and Umoja Health have launched a pilot program enabling WIC participants to shop online and receive home delivery through WICShopper Online, targeting families facing transportation and mobility barriers to in-person redemption.

Pilot removes in-person PIN redemption requirement for WIC benefits

Traditional WIC redemption requires participants to shop at an authorized retailer and enter a Personal Identification Number in front of a cashier, a process participants have cited as a source of embarrassment and logistical difficulty. WICShopper Online allows users to identify eligible foods, build an order, redeem benefits digitally, and schedule delivery without visiting a store.

Miami – September 23, 2026 -- PRIMA VIP INC has appointed Gil Antolin, founder of Luxury World Traveler, as a strategic partner to expand its hospitality booking network on both the supply and distribution sides.

Antolin brings a 5-million-follower media platform and 2,000-hotel network to PRIMA

Antolin founded Luxury World Traveler in 2013, building it into a global luxury travel media and marketing brand with more than 5 million followers across social platforms. He has worked with over 2,000 hotels and organized more than 30 influencer marketing events worldwide. He is also co-founder of two AI-powered hospitality software companies, Worldie AI and M2Lux.

New York and Amsterdam – September 23, 2026 -- AI communications infrastructure company Bird.com has closed a $450 million debt financing led by J.P. Morgan, Capital One and Citi, pairing the raise with the launch of a revamped platform that lets AI agents send messages, place calls and manage email without human intervention.

Bird structures $450 million facility as dividend recapitalization

The financing comprises a $400 million term loan and a $50 million revolving credit facility, arranged across a syndicate of seven banks. J.P. Morgan served as joint lead arranger, joint bookrunner and administrative agent, with Capital One and Citi as joint lead arrangers and bookrunners; Silicon Valley Bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Flagstar and Huntington round out the lender group. The deal is structured as a dividend recapitalization, providing liquidity to existing shareholders, including current and former employees holding equity.

Philadelphia – September 23, 2026 -- Love & Honey Fried Chicken is seeking franchise operators to enter Massachusetts for the first time, expanding a Northeast footprint that recently added a Cranston, Rhode Island location.

Brand targets Greater Boston, Worcester and five other Massachusetts markets

The fast-casual chicken concept has identified Greater Boston and its suburbs, Cambridge and Somerville, Worcester, Springfield, and the South Shore and North Shore regions as priority growth markets. The company is recruiting experienced, multi-unit operators to develop the territory.

Centennial, Colo. – September 23, 2026 -- AlloSource has named three physicians recipients of its 2026 Dr. Steven Gitelis Inspiration Award, recognizing clinical use of donated human tissue in reconstructive, burn and orthopedic care.

Three physicians recognized for advancing tissue-based medicine

Dr. Victor Stams, a plastic surgeon at Carle Foundation Hospital in Champaign, Illinois, was cited for reconstructive surgery leadership using AlloSource's AlloMend® tissue product. Dr. Sigrid Blome-Eberwein, Associate Director of the Regional Burn Center at Lehigh Valley Hospital Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was recognized for treating severe burns with split-thickness skin allografts. Dr. Robert Meislin, a hip specialist at NYU Langone Health, was honored for using AlloSource's pre-sutured fascia product, AceConnex®, in orthopedic mobility restoration.

Chicago – September 23, 2026 -- Fishman Public Relations has been named the No. 1 franchise PR firm in Entrepreneur magazine's Top Franchise Suppliers ranking for the ninth consecutive year, based on a survey of more than 1,000 franchise brands.

Entrepreneur's survey scores suppliers on quality, cost and value across the franchise industry

The annual ranking draws on responses from franchisors and franchisees who rate the suppliers they work with, covering both emerging brands and long-established chains. Each supplier receives a composite score, with top performers ranked within their category.