Insight Partners backs Passionfroot's $15M Series A to bring B2B creator marketing to the US

Berlin-based Passionfroot closes a $15M Series A led by Insight Partners to open US and Brazil offices as B2B brands turn to creators for AI-era brand building.

Financial services firms are betting on AI for personalization and compliance, not ad copy

Finance's biggest AI opportunity isn't content generation, it's personalization, compliance, and customer analytics, as capital investment in AI infrastructure s

Warehouse construction is up 18% and robot imports are banned: the supply chain signals operators can't ignore this quarter

From a US robot-import ban to a warehouse construction rebound and a major materials-handling merger, supply chain leaders face a dense set of operational decis

Howl Louder Marketing launches GEO service as AI chat tools reshape how B2B buyers build vendor shortlists

B2B agency Howl Louder Marketing launches a Generative Engine Optimization service to help tech and SaaS firms earn citations in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity

Verndale joins Sitecore's Velocity Program to accelerate enterprise AI adoption across marketing stacks

Verndale, a Sitecore Platinum Partner with 350+ projects and 12 MVPs, joins the Velocity Program to help brands migrate to SitecoreAI faster.

Passionfroot raises $15M Series A to bring its B2B creator marketplace to the US

Insight Partners leads Passionfroot's $15M Series A as the Berlin startup opens a New York office and bets on B2B creator marketing's US expansion.

Forbes bets on creator-led distribution as off-platform reach becomes table stakes for media brands

Forbes launched a "Forbes Creator" network with six creators on bespoke revenue-share deals, signaling that creator-led distribution is no longer a differentiat

ABM platforms are closing the last-mile gap between account signals and sales-ready contacts

Demandbase integrates with DemandWorks while 6sense rolls out AI-Recommended Leads, both targeting the same enterprise pain point: account intelligence that nev

B2B marketers with full-funnel attribution are nearly twice as likely to exceed their goals

Three 2026 reports show the gaps widening between B2B marketing leaders and the rest on attribution, budget discipline, and buying-group strategy.

The Early Scale: Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation to predict human behavior before AI gets it wrong

Simile doubles to a $2B valuation in five months. Industrial AI moves from pilot to production hardware at Emerson, FOBA, and Mitsubishi. And B2B ecommerce is already reshaping how industrial buyers b…

Data center load is reshaping how U.S. utilities plan, price, and build generation

Exelon cut speculative data center load by 40%, FirstEnergy's contracts surged 50% in Q2, and Texas just approved its first AI co-location site next to a wind f

B2B ecommerce is eating industrial sales faster than most distributors are ready for

B2B ecommerce is accelerating across distribution and manufacturing, with real deployments at Bero, Nissin Foods, and Fastenal signaling a structural shift in h

B2B tech PR firms are racing to build GEO practices as AI search reshapes how buyers discover vendors

As enterprise buyers increasingly query ChatGPT and Perplexity before shortlisting vendors, B2B tech PR agencies that can demonstrate LLM citation share are pul

FAT vs SAT, worker well-being, and EV supply chains: five operational shifts shaping supply chain leadership in mid-2026

From equipment acceptance testing to passive candidate hiring, supply chain leaders face five converging operational challenges in mid-2026.

ComEd's 60-site rooftop solar deal and a new Colorado River framework signal a pivotal week for utility operators

Three major utility developments landed July 31: a 44 MW community solar buildout in Illinois, a final EIS for post-2026 Colorado River operations, and a prefer

Warehouse construction is rebounding, robot imports are restricted, and freight costs keep climbing: the operational signals shaping mid-2026

Three converging pressures, rising truck costs, tighter robot sourcing rules, and a nascent warehouse building recovery, are forcing supply chain leaders to recal

CMOs are shrinking marketing's role to survive short-term pressure, the 2026 data shows

The 2026 CMO Survey finds AI adoption rising faster than team readiness, while Forbes' influential CMOs list shows the function absorbing broader commercial man

Nvidia's China AI chip share is forecast to collapse from 40% to 8% as Huawei scales

Bernstein projects Nvidia's China AI chip share will fall from 40% to 8% in 2026, even as Siemens taps NVIDIA for agentic AI in supply chains.

Emerson, FOBA, and Mitsubishi Electric signal a new wave of purpose-built industrial AI deployments

Three major manufacturers are embedding AI directly into automation hardware, from fault-detecting software agents to laser workstations and US-made IT cooling

Dominion's 53.8 GW data center backlog and a $66.8B merger make it the utility to watch in 2026

Dominion Energy beat Q2 estimates on surging data center demand, while its pending $66.8B merger with NextEra advances toward a 2027 close.

Eliyan hits $1B valuation and Simile raises $200M as AI infrastructure funding surges in late July 2026

Four deals closed in the final days of July 2026 signal where enterprise AI capital is flowing: chip interconnects, behavioral prediction, spare parts, and prev

The Early Scale: Tesla and SpaceX commit $16.8B to build Terafab, their own Texas chip factory

Tesla and SpaceX commit $16.8B to Terafab. UPS says its restructuring is done after cutting half its Amazon volume. Siemens Healthineers and Cleveland Clinic ink a 10-year alliance. Plus: AI is now th…

Siemens Healthineers and Cleveland Clinic sign a 10-year alliance as ambient AI reshapes the EHR debate

A decade-long Siemens Healthineers–Cleveland Clinic deal and competing visions for ambient AI in the EHR signal a new era of enterprise health system transforma

UPS's restructuring is complete, and the network it built is designed to grow without adding proportional cost

UPS raised its full-year outlook after Q2 revenue rose, marking the close of a multi-year restructuring that cut billions in costs and shed roughly half its Ama

UPS's restructured network raises the bar for enterprise shippers evaluating carrier contracts

UPS raised its full-year outlook after Q2 revenue rose, capping a restructuring that shed billions in costs by cutting roughly half its Amazon volume.

AI and same-day delivery are now the two forcing functions reshaping U.S. ecommerce operations

From Lululemon's AI rollout to DoorDash's Shopify tie-up, enterprise retailers are betting on automation and speed to close the gap with digital-native rivals.

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