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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Daniel Ek's Neko Health Raises $700M to Bring Body Scans to the US
Neko Health, the Stockholm-founded preventive health scanning company co-founded by Spotify's Daniel Ek, closed a $700 million Series C round on July 15, pushing its valuation to roughly $7 billion less than two years after its previous raise, as it prepares to open its first US clinics.
Bhavika J
Amplix Acquires OneConnect in Its 15th Deal Since 2022
Private equity-backed Amplix bought technology procurement advisory firm OneConnect on July 15, 2026, its fifteenth acquisition since 2022, continuing a roll-up of independent brokers that help enterprises source and manage IT vendor contracts.
Bhavika J
Cresta Launches Training Simulator, Uses AI to Coach Human Agents
Cresta launched Training Simulator on July 9, 2026, a product that replaces scripted call-center role-play with live simulations run by AI personas built from a company's own customer conversations.
Bhavika J
Skello Raises €200M From Bridgepoint, Founders Keep Bigger Stake
French frontline workforce management platform Skello raised €200 million from Bridgepoint on July 6, 2026, with its founders ending up owning more of the company, not less.
Bhavika J
Fivetran and dbt Labs Are Now One Company
Fivetran and dbt Labs completed their merger on June 1, 2026, and relicensed dbt's new engine under Apache 2.0 the same day. Here is what the deal actually combines, why it happened, and what to check before choosing sides in the ingestion-and-transformation layer of the data stack.
Bhavika J
Fintech Capital Piles Into Agentic Infrastructure as Rules Lag
Two large funding rounds in July show investors betting on AI agents running bank and brokerage decisions, while the CFPB's own agenda shows the data-access rules those agents depend on are still being rewritten.
Bhavika J
Google Cloud Outage Hits VMware Engine, Bare Metal in Netherlands
A power fault at a Google Cloud data center in the Netherlands knocked out VMware Engine, Bare Metal Solution and NetApp Volumes for nearly 15 hours on July 15, 2026.
Bhavika J
HubSpot Renames Commerce Hub to Revenue Hub, Adds Live Tax Calc
HubSpot has rebuilt its Commerce Hub into Revenue Hub, adding automated multi-country tax calculation and buy-now-pay-later checkout through Klarna and Affirm.
Bhavika J
Microsoft Discloses Critical Unauthenticated RDP Flaw, CVE-2026-56190
Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday includes a maximum-severity flaw in the Windows RDP server that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code on any exposed system with Network Level Authentication turned off.
Bhavika J
Dovetail and The Trade Desk Both Ship Data-to-Action Tools on July 14
A look at two same-day product launches, from Dovetail and The Trade Desk, that both turn stored customer and purchase data into something a system acts on without a person in the loop.
Bhavika J
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Theft of Hardware Trade Secrets
Apple filed suit against OpenAI, its hardware unit io Products, and two former Apple employees, alleging a coordinated campaign to steal confidential product designs ahead of OpenAI's push into consumer hardware.
Bhavika J
Perfect Corp Goes Private in Founder-Led $2-a-Share Buyout
Perfect Corp, the SaaS provider behind AI and AR try-on tools used by more than 800 beauty and fashion brands, agreed to go private in a deal led by founder Alice Chang at a 48% premium.
Bhavika J