Digital Transformation

San Diego – September 24, 2026 -- CollegeSource CEO Kerry Cooper has been named a Best Global EdTech Leader Finalist in the 2026 Tech Edvocate Awards, recognizing more than five decades of work on transfer credit and degree-planning technology for higher education institutions.

Cooper has led CollegeSource since 2005 after joining the firm in 1973

Cooper's tenure spans the transition from printed college catalogs to cloud-based platforms and current AI-enabled tools used by registrars and academic advisors. CollegeSource serves more than 2,100 institutions and millions of students through its transfer and degree-completion products.

San Francisco – September 24, 2026 -- Juniper Square, which operates as the technology and fund administration partner for more than 2,300 private markets general partners (GPs) worldwide, has launched Capital Intelligence, a new CRM product that embeds Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens institutional data directly into GPs' existing investor relations workflows.

Product taps a database of 30,000+ institutional firms and 70,000+ mandates

Capital Intelligence is built on Nasdaq eVestment Market Lens, which covers more than 30,000 institutional firms, 70,000-plus mandates, and 100,000-plus investment professionals. The tool automatically refreshes investor and consultant records inside Juniper Square's CRM, combining structured relationship data with qualitative signals such as pacing plans, consultant sentiment, and allocation trends.

Atlanta – September 24, 2026 -- Altitude by Geotab has secured a four-year statewide contract with the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT), granting the agency full access to its commercial-vehicle data analytics suite for freight planning and infrastructure investment decisions.

TDOT gains full access to Altitude's commercial vehicle analytics portfolio

The agreement, procured through the Eastern Transportation Coalition (TETC), provides TDOT with origin-destination matrices, truck parking demand analytics, and corridor flow data specific to commercial freight movement across the state's highway network.

Quakertown, Pa. – September 24, 2026 -- DEXIS unveiled a coordinated set of upgrades spanning hardware, software, cloud and service offerings across its dental imaging ecosystem, unveiled during the company's ILLUMINATE virtual keynote.

NOMAD Pro 3 upgrades handheld X-ray hardware with improved image quality and durability

The new NOMAD Pro 3 builds on DEXIS' handheld X-ray system, adding enhanced image quality and durability while maintaining safety-first engineering standards. Separately, the ORTHOPANTOMOGRAPH OP 3D gains a Motion Correction feature that reduces the impact of patient movement on CBCT image clarity without requiring hardware changes.

Richmond Hill, ON – September 24, 2026 -- Edsby has launched Forms & Workflows, a digital approvals system designed to eliminate paper-based permission slips, medical disclosures and code of conduct sign-offs across K-12 school districts.

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board becomes first deployment partner

Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board, an Ontario district serving 34,000 students and an Edsby client since 2014, is among the first to roll out the new system, using it to digitize field trip permission processes. Owen McIntosh, the district's Information Technology Manager, said the board evaluated multiple vendors before selecting Edsby, citing the company's willingness to tailor the solution to the board's specific approval hierarchy.

Amsterdam – September 24, 2026 -- Sungrow brought its all-in-one residential energy storage system, PowerHarbor, to the Benelux market for the first time at a dealer event that drew roughly 150 installers, distribution partners and VPP integrators.

Netherlands' net-metering exit reshapes storage economics

The Dutch government will end net metering on September 24, 2026, raising the value of self-consumption for solar households across the country. Dynamic electricity pricing and grid constraints are pushing installers and homeowners to prioritize when energy is used and stored rather than simply how much is generated.

Manama – September 24, 2026 -- Mo Gawdat, former Chief Business Officer of Google X, has joined the speaker lineup for Fintech Forward 2026, set to take place 7-8 October 2026 at Exhibition World Bahrain under the theme 'Finance in the Age of Intelligent Infrastructure'.

Gawdat brings 27 years of tech leadership to the financial services debate

Gawdat's career spans IBM, NCR, Microsoft and Google, where he helped launch nearly half of Google's global operations before leading business at Google X, the lab behind self-driving cars, Project Loon and Makani. He is also founder of the One Billion Happy movement, host of the Slo Mo podcast, and author of bestsellers including Solve for Happy, Scary Smart and Unstressable.

Los Angeles – September 24, 2026 -- Brahma AI has raised $150 million through a preferred share issuance, anchored by a $100 million investment from Multiples Alternate Asset Management, with an additional $100 million in investor interest still pending allocation.

Funding will fuel R&D and a new Silicon Valley presence

The capital will accelerate research and development, expand Brahma AI's global go-to-market operations, and establish a significant presence in Silicon Valley. Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. served as sole placement agent on the financing.

Anchor customers span entertainment, sports and healthcare

Brahma AI operates across four verticals: media & entertainment, sports, healthcare and advertising. Global anchor customers include Warner Bros, the NBA and Mayo Clinic, while strategic distribution partners include Google, Hakuhodo and DNEG.

Atlanta – – September 23, 2026 -- BlueCollar Cloud has secured a platinum sponsorship of SuiteWorld 2026, Oracle NetSuite's flagship user conference set for October 25-28 at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas.

BlueCollar Cloud will staff Booth 637 to pitch construction-specific ERP add-ons to NetSuite users

The company will meet contractors, project-based businesses, and NetSuite partners at the booth to demonstrate BlueCollar Projects, its NetSuite-native construction management and accounting layer. Discussions will target job costing, AIA-style billing, retainage, WIP reporting, cost codes, change orders, subcontracts, and project budgets -- functions BlueCollar Cloud says remain spreadsheet-heavy and manual for many contractors operating on NetSuite.

Boston – September 23, 2026 -- ArcLight Capital Partners has appointed Peter Podurgiel as President and Board Director of portfolio company Advanced Power, adding a developer who has commercialized more than 11 GW of generation to a platform now advancing a 15 GW pipeline of power infrastructure for utilities, hyperscalers and data center operators.