Industries

Cleveland – September 30, 2026 -- Brown Gibbons Lang & Company (BGL) has closed a sale-leaseback transaction covering the five-property, approximately 480,000-square-foot industrial portfolio of Forms+Surfaces, Inc. (F+S), with an institutional net lease buyer acquiring the properties located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Phoenix, Arizona. Financial terms were not disclosed.

Portfolio spans two manufacturing hubs supporting F+S's core product lines

The five properties back F+S's two primary business units: architectural products manufactured in Phoenix and site products produced in Pittsburgh. The combined facilities support a product range that includes elevator interiors, wall and column systems, security bollards, pedestrian lighting, and outdoor site furniture designed for airports, healthcare facilities, universities, and commercial developments.

Washington – September 30, 2026 -- TrustEngine has named Brandon Durham as its first Vice President of Adoption and Partnerships, tasking the 20-year mortgage technology veteran with driving daily use of its MortgageCoach platform among loan officers.

Durham will manage integrations across ICE Encompass, Cotality SmartFees, Lodestar and Optimal Blue

The newly created role puts Durham in charge of TrustEngine's partnerships across the mortgage technology stack. These integrations pull pricing, fees, borrower data and loan details directly into MortgageCoach, aiming to reduce friction for loan officers during borrower conversations.

San Francisco – September 30, 2026 -- Gong has launched Mission Callisto, a product suite anchored by Gong Enrich, a new capability that pulls third-party account and contact data directly into its Revenue Graph platform used by more than 5,000 organizations.

Gong Enrich connects to ten data partners to fix fragmented CRM records

The tool lets customers pull data from providers including Apollo, Findymail, Firmable, Kernel, LeadIQ, Lusha, RocketReach, Wiza, ZeroBounce, and ZoomInfo, searched in a customer-defined priority order. Remaining gaps are filled using Gong Credits. Sales reps can complete missing contact details with a single click, or automate enrichment at scale through Custom Agents triggered by specific conditions.

Dallas – September 30, 2026 -- LateralCare has made its flagship revenue cycle management platform, revenue alai, available on Microsoft Marketplace, giving healthcare organizations worldwide direct access to deploy the Agentic AI solution within existing Azure environments.

Microsoft Marketplace listing enables direct deployment within Azure ecosystems

Customers can now discover and deploy revenue alai through Microsoft Marketplace, the unified platform for cloud solutions, AI apps, and agents. The listing allows streamlined management and integration across Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft products, reducing procurement friction for healthcare systems already operating on Microsoft infrastructure.

NEW YORK – September 30, 2026 -- Eighty-six percent of advertisers say slow audience fulfillment could cause them to cut spending or abandon a retail media network partner, according to GrowthLoop's 2026 Commerce Media Investment Index. The study, conducted with Ascend2, surveyed nearly 300 U.S. and Canadian marketing professionals involved in retail media network (RMN) or commerce media network (CMN) advertising decisions.

Advertisers will pay more for faster data delivery

Eighty-five percent of respondents say they would pay a premium for same-day audience fulfillment, while 92% would increase spend with faster activation. Ninety-four percent said they would likely spend more with partners offering self-service audience-building tools. Advertisers reporting the strongest ROI are five times more likely than others to receive custom audiences the same day.

UNITED STATES – September 30, 2026 -- ProgenyHealth has appointed Melanie Bella to its Board of Managers and named Alec DiDonato as Chief Operating Officer, moves the maternity and NICU care management company says will support its national expansion.

Bella brings 25 years of Medicaid policy experience to the board

Bella, an Executive Advisor with Cressey & Company, previously chaired the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access Commission (MACPAC). She served as Executive Vice President of Policy and Duals Strategy at Cityblock Health, a value-based provider focused on Medicaid and dual-eligible populations, and was the first Director of the Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. She also served as Medicaid Director for the state of Indiana and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor's degree from DePauw University.

Chicago – – September 30, 2026 -- Kin Insurance said it will allow consumers using Meta's Muse AI agent and other AI shopping agents to obtain home insurance quotes directly through its digital platform, breaking from insurers and marketplaces that are moving to block AI agent access.

Kin opens its platform while rivals erect barriers

Kin Founder and CEO Sean Harper said the company will not block Muse, arguing that AI agents represent a shopping channel poised to grow as significantly as the web itself. Harper said many home insurers still lack online quoting capabilities, a gap that limits their ability to capture traffic from AI-driven shopping tools.

Englewood, Colo. – September 30, 2026 -- WideOpenWest (WOW!) has appointed Christopher Sikora as chief commercial officer, consolidating brand, marketing, sales, product, pricing and call center operations under a single newly expanded role reporting directly to CEO Frank van der Post.

WOW! Centralizes Commercial Functions Under New Executive Hire

The restructured position places digital, sales and customer experience operations under one leader as the fiber-broadband provider pursues what van der Post described as an ambitious transformation plan targeting market and revenue growth.

Singapore – – September 30, 2026 -- Querit has launched a dedicated Code Search capability for its Querit Search API, letting developers switch from general web search to programming-focused retrieval by setting a single parameter, Vertical=Code.

Internal tests show 81% of returned results are directly adoptable by coding agents

In internal, programming-focused evaluations covering tasks such as function generation, autocomplete, and debugging, 81% of results returned by the Querit Search API were directly adoptable by coding agents, as scored by an LLM-as-a-judge under identical token budgets for intent and constraint satisfaction.

Belmont Park, N.Y. – September 30, 2026 -- Long Island University, the New York Islanders and UBS Arena will launch the Empire State Holiday Invitational, a four-team NCAA Division I men's ice hockey tournament set for December 28-29, 2026, at the Islanders' home arena in Belmont Park. Tickets go on sale Friday, October 2 at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster.

Four Division I programs will compete over two days at UBS Arena

The inaugural tournament features LIU, Army West Point, Ferris State University and St. Lawrence University. Play opens December 28 with St. Lawrence facing Ferris State at 3 p.m., followed by LIU against Army West Point at 7 p.m. All four teams return to the ice on December 29 for a second day of competition.

Lisle, Ill. – – September 30, 2026 -- Forum Health, LLC has appointed Elizabeth Campbell as Chief Financial and Development Officer, a newly created role tasked with leading fundraising and acquisitions as the functional medicine network pursues rapid expansion.

Campbell joins after building and selling a 88-clinic orthodontic platform

Campbell co-founded myOrthos, LLC in 2019 and served as CEO, completing 37 acquisitions to build a platform of 88 clinics across 14 states before its 2025 sale to Smile Doctors, a portfolio company of TH Lee. She brings more than 20 years of experience spanning The Boston Consulting Group, private equity roles at SV Life Sciences Advisors and LLR Partners, and healthcare operating leadership.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- The producer price index for new nonresidential construction inputs climbed 8.4% year over year through May 2026, the steepest annual increase since the pandemic period, according to DPR Construction's latest Market Conditions Report.

Cross-sector demand strains shared labor and supply pools

DPR Construction, a self-performing contractor, finds that investment across digital infrastructure, healthcare, advanced manufacturing, transportation and energy is pulling from the same pools of electricians, mechanical trades, commissioning specialists and field leaders. Projects that appear unrelated on paper are increasingly tied together through overlapping resource demands, the report states.

Foshan – September 30, 2026 -- Transmart Industrial Limited is expanding its push into North America, betting that ultra-thin nanocrystalline ribbon technology will capture demand from AI data centers and power grid upgrades as U.S. electricity consumption enters its strongest four-year growth streak since 2000.

Transmart manufactures nanocrystalline ribbon at 12 to 14 micrometers, a thickness achieved by only a small number of manufacturers worldwide

The thinner ribbon reduces eddy-current losses at high switching frequencies, letting engineers design transformers, inductors and filters that run cooler while shrinking in size and weight for a given power rating. Transmart's self-developed, patented production lines cover precision slitting, automatic winding, vacuum annealing and multi-wire cutting, giving the company direct control over ribbon dimensions, magnetic properties and core geometry.

Shenzhen, China – September 30, 2026 -- MemoMind, the AI hardware brand incubated by projector maker XGIMI, has rolled out a software update for its MemoMind One smart glasses that expands live two-way translation to 53 languages and opens the second phase of developer access.

Translation Coverage Expands to 53 Languages Including Urdu, Tamil and Arabic

MemoMind One now supports live, two-way translation across 53 languages, adding Urdu, Tamil, Gujarati, Nepali and Arabic through firmware-side support, extending real-time communication to hundreds of millions of additional speakers.

Los Angeles – September 30, 2026 -- Britive has launched the Frictionless PAM Transformation Program, a new initiative aimed at helping enterprises replace fragmented, credential-centric privileged access management (PAM) systems with a unified, runtime authorization model built for AI agents and non-human identities.

Program targets fragmented PAM architectures across cloud and legacy systems

Britive says enterprise privileged access environments have become siloed, with traditional infrastructure, cloud systems, and non-human identities each governed by separate controls. Mohit Vaish, CEO of CyberSolve, said organizations have historically responded by "bolting another module onto the same architecture," which adds tools without resolving the underlying fragmentation.

Silicon Valley – – September 30, 2026 -- Meshy has surpassed $100 million in annual recurring revenue, a 100x increase from $1 million in under two years, making it the first AI 3D company to reach the milestone. The platform now counts more than 15 million registered users and over 3,000 companies and educational institutions, who have collectively generated more than 100 million 3D models. Half of the world's ten most valuable companies by market capitalization or private valuation are Meshy customers, and teams at 200 Fortune Global 500 firms build with the platform.

Burbank, Calif. – September 30, 2026 -- CJ 4DPLEX and Cinemark Holdings will add 20 new SCREENX auditoriums across the Americas, with 17 installations in the U.S. and three in South and Central America, the companies announced.

Six U.S. sites open in 2026, lifting Cinemark's domestic SCREENX count to 30

The rollout expands a partnership that began in 2022, with six of the new U.S. auditoriums scheduled to open in 2026. That timing brings Cinemark's total domestic SCREENX footprint to 30 locations ahead of the release of Avengers: Doomsday, and introduces the panoramic format to new U.S. states for the first time.

Miami – September 30, 2026 -- Analysis of more than 2.5 million boats across Florida, Ohio, Texas, and Virginia found that just 6% to 13% of repeat buyers stay with the same manufacturer on their next purchase, according to new data from Boats Group.

Repeat owners make up a quarter of the market but rarely return to the same brand

Boats Group identified approximately 637,000 repeat owners—those associated with two or more boats—among the records studied. Repeat owners represented 25.6% of owners in Florida, 31.3% in Ohio, 20.6% in Virginia, and 18.0% in Texas. Despite this scale, brand loyalty on the next purchase ranged from just 6% to 13% across all four states.

Atlanta – September 30, 2026 -- Firestone Partners and Matterhorn Venture Partners ('MVP') have acquired a 14,400-square-foot, six-suite small-bay industrial building at 4710 Ecton Drive in Marietta, GA, delivering 100% occupancy at closing after executing a new lease for the property's two vacant suites.

Partnership expands Atlanta footprint with second joint acquisition

The deal marks the partnership's second Atlanta-area purchase, following 1717 Koppers Road in Conley, GA. The Marietta property sits in the Woodstock/Canton submarket of North Atlanta, an infill industrial corridor the firms describe as supply-constrained, with direct access to the I-75/I-575 corridor.

Washington, D.C. – September 30, 2026 -- GE Aerospace has donated $1 million to the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum to reopen two dedicated classrooms for aerospace education, timed to coincide with the museum's 50th anniversary.

New classrooms expect to serve hundreds of students annually

The GE Aerospace Classrooms will function as hands-on learning spaces where K-12 students experiment with aerospace concepts using the museum's collection. The funding also covers staffing for a museum educator who will run reservable, object-based field trips called "Museum Labs" at the Washington location.