Humanoid Raises $152 Million at $1.35 Billion Post-Money Valuation, Becoming Europe’s First Pure-Play Humanoid Robotics Unicorn

Business Wire India   Humanoid announces its Series A investment round, reaching a $1.35 billion valuation just two years after founding. It is the largest ever Series A for a humanoid-first robotics company in Europe, positioning Humanoid as the leading humanoid-first robotics unicorn in the UK and continental Europe. The new capital will accelerate Humanoid’s next-generation robot development, commercial deployments with global industrial leaders, and…

Ant International’s Alipay+ Adds New Bank Partners Amid Cross-border Mobile Payment Boom in Asia Pacific 

Business Wire India Alipay+, Ant International’s unified wallet gateway, is adding more bank partners to its network of over 50 leading digital wallets and financial institutions. Its global bank partners range from incumbent banks to fully digital banks.   The latest banking partner to join Alipay+ is Hang Seng Bank, Alipay+’s first banking partner in Hong Kong. Hang Seng Mobile App users can now make…

U.S. Federal Court Permanently Bans 19 Online Sellers of Fake Urolithin A Supplements and Awards $5.3 Million in Damages to Timeline

Business Wire India Timeline (Amazentis SA), the Swiss life-sciences company that pioneered the postbiotic ingredient Urolithin A and its branded form Mitopure®, together with its U.S. subsidiary Timeline Longevity, Inc., announced today that the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts has granted the companies’ motion for default judgments and permanent injunctions against 19 online sellers found to have marketed and sold nutritional supplements…

Kirin and Blackmores Team Up to Release Cognitive Function Support Supplements in Australia and New Zealand Formulated with Kirin Group’s Cognizin® Citicoline

Business Wire India   Kirin Holdings and Kirin’s Australian group company Blackmores have jointly developed a product designed to enhance cognitive performance. Formulated with Cognizin® Citicoline, a citicoline ingredient from Kyowa Hakko Bio Co., Ltd., a Kirin Group company. This product is manufactured at Blackmores’ Braeside site in Australia and will be initially launched in Australia and New Zealand from late July 2026.   Kirin…

Infobell IT Solutions Announces Strategic Collaboration with AMD to Accelerate Advanced AI Innovation

Business Wire India Infobell IT Solutions, a leader in enterprise technology services, is thrilled to announce a collaboration with AMD. Joining forces to advance the next generation of artificial intelligence, this collaboration brings together AMD high-performance hardware capabilities and Infobell’s deep software expertise to deliver powerful, scalable AI solutions to the enterprise market. “Enterprise AI has moved from experimentation to production, and agentic AI will…

Godrej Enterprises Group Earns EcoVadis Gold Medal, Ranks Among The Top 5% Companies Globally

Business Wire India Godrej Enterprises Group has been awarded the EcoVadis Gold Medal with an overall score of 82, placing the company among the top 5% of companies assessed worldwide for their sustainability performance. The recognition reflects the company’s enterprise-wide approach to embedding sustainable practices across its operations, manufacturing, governance and supply chain. EcoVadis is one of the world’s leading business sustainability assessment platforms, evaluating organisations across…

Francisco Partners Closes $21 Billion Across Flagship and Agility Funds

Business Wire India   Francisco Partners (“FP”), a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology companies, today announced the closing of $21 billion in capital commitments across its Francisco Partners VIII, L.P. flagship fund and Francisco Partners Agility IV, L.P., its middle-market fund. FP exceeded its initial targets of $14.0 billion and $3.5 billion, respectively. This milestone builds on Francisco Partners’ longstanding…

Freedom Holding Corp. Works With Ant International’s Antom to Simplify Online Shopping From China for Kazakhstan Consumers

Business Wire India On July 16, 2026, during a meeting between Timur Turlov, CEO of Freedom Holding Corp., and representatives of the global fintech market, the bank signed Memoranda of Understanding with Antom, a leading merchant payment and digitisation services provider under Ant International. The primary goal of this partnership is to develop innovative solutions to facilitate cross-border payments for consumers in Kazakhstan.   This…

UST Retains Top Employer Honors from TEI, Earning Global Recognition for the Eighth Consecutive Year

Business Wire India UST, a leading AI and technology transformation solutions company, has again been awarded the Top Employers Institute‘s (TEI) prestigious Enterprise Certification in the large enterprise category, in addition to receiving the 2026 Blue Seal for North America and Asia-Pacific, as well as the Red Seal in a total of 10 countries, including the USA, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Spain, India, Malaysia, the Philippines,…

Galderma Reports Record First Half 2026 Net Sales of 3.134 Billion USD and 24.6% Year-on-Year Growth at Constant Currency, Raises Net Sales Guidance for the Full Year

Business Wire India   Galderma Group AG (SIX: GALD), the pure-play dermatology category leader, today announced its financial results for the first half of 2026.   Net sales reached 3.134 billion USD, surpassing 3 billion USD for the first time in the first six months of the year and representing net sales growth of 24.6% at constant currency1. Broad-based, double-digit growth in both International markets…