By Market & Region

Lake Oswego, Ore. – – September 15, 2026 -- LeadVenture, the digital technology partner serving roughly 40,000 dealerships and service centers, has appointed Nasi Jazayeri as Chief Executive Officer, effective September 8, 2026.

Jazayeri succeeds Tim MacDonald, who moves to an advisory board role

Tim MacDonald transitions out of the CEO seat but will remain on LeadVenture's Board of Directors in an advisory capacity. MacDonald described Jazayeri as "one of the most impressive technology executives you will meet, a builder who connects product and go-to-market."

Moriarty, New Mexico – September 15, 2026 -- Sceye's ST1 high-altitude platform has completed a nearly 30,000-km round-trip mission between New Mexico and Japan, landing back near the company's Moriarty headquarters after re-entering continental U.S. airspace on September 4, 2026. The uncrewed stratospheric aircraft reached New Mexico airspace on September 5, 2026, where engineers ran final platform tests before executing a planned flight-termination and descent procedure.

Pittsburgh – September 14, 2026 -- MSA Safety has launched the A1X, a next-generation WinGrip vacuum anchor that weighs 7 kg, 35% lighter than its predecessor, and cuts the base diameter to 350 mm from 480 mm to speed up aircraft maintenance operations.

Redesigned pneumatic system doubles anchor repositioning per cylinder

The A1X uses rechargeable air or gas cylinders to generate suction force, creating a non-invasive anchor point on wing surfaces without damaging the aircraft. MSA redesigned the pneumatic system to double the number of anchor repositions available from a single cylinder, reducing the need for technicians to carry spare cylinders during time-sensitive line maintenance.

Providence, R.I. and Dallas, Texas – September 15, 2026 -- Procaccianti Companies and joint venture partner Rugger Capital have acquired the 217-key Charleston Harbor Resort in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, while Suntex Marinas has separately acquired the adjacent Charleston Harbor Marina, one of the state's largest in-water marinas with more than 450 slips.

Two buyers split ownership of a single waterfront destination

The resort and marina, though physically adjacent and jointly anchoring access to historic downtown Charleston, will be owned and operated independently. Procaccianti's hospitality affiliate, TPG Hotels & Resorts, will manage the resort, while Suntex will own and operate the marina, which accommodates vessels from recreational cruisers to superyachts.

Paramus, N.J. – – September 15, 2026 -- A prespecified secondary analysis of the landmark FIBRES trial found that Octapharma's fibryga (fibrinogen [human]) cut 24-hour allogeneic blood-product transfusion requirements by 19% versus cryoprecipitate in two overlapping patient subgroups, according to findings published in the Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia.

Non-critical and elective surgery patients showed the sharpest transfusion reductions

Among 634 patients classified as non-critical before surgery -- 86% of the primary trial population -- those receiving fibryga required 13.6 blood-product units on average versus 16.2 units for cryoprecipitate recipients, a 19% relative reduction. In the 466-patient elective-surgery subgroup, representing 63% of the primary population, fibryga patients received 11.7 units compared with 14.4 units for cryoprecipitate, matching the 19% relative reduction.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- Ormsby Park LLC has named Glenn Zweig as Partner, adding a specialist in CFO and senior executive placements for growth-stage and middle-market technology companies to its retained search practice.

Zweig brings a track record spanning private equity, venture capital and Fortune-level advisory work

Zweig joins from Artico, a boutique technology executive search firm, where he served as Senior Partner leading CFO and other C-suite searches. Before Artico, he was a leadership advisor at Egon Zehnder, where he was a core member of the firm's Financial Officers, Technology, and Private Equity Practice Groups and helped expand its CFO placement work across private equity- and venture-backed software and fintech companies.

Birmingham, Ala. – September 15, 2026 -- SJE Inc. has appointed Andrew Baines as Senior Vice President of Sales & Commercial Operations for its Engineered Control Solutions (ECS) Division, tasking him with accelerating growth across water and wastewater, OEM, and industrial markets.

Baines takes charge of a multichannel commercial organization spanning direct sales, manufacturers' representatives, and channel partners

He will work with Operations, Engineering, Marketing, and Product teams to strengthen pipeline management and forecasting, advance strategic pricing and quoting practices, and improve quote-to-order velocity.

Miami – September 15, 2026 -- Sawgrass LNG & Power has begun supplying liquefied natural gas to Walker's Cay in the northern Bahamas, replacing diesel as the fuel source for the island's power generation.

Sawgrass extends near decade-long Bahamas LNG footprint to iconic sportfishing island

The deal expands Sawgrass' presence across The Bahamas, where the company has supplied LNG to resorts, utilities and industrial customers for more than eight years. Sawgrass produces LNG at its Miami liquefaction facility and delivers it via ISO containers, a model that avoids the capital costs of fixed pipeline or terminal infrastructure. The company describes itself as the largest exporter of U.S. LNG via ISO container.

Albuquerque – September 15, 2026 -- The City of Albuquerque is deploying approximately 6 MW of solar energy generation across eight municipal facilities, closing the remaining gap toward its goal of 100% renewable energy for city operations. Sustainability Partners (SP), a Public Benefit Company, is financing and delivering the infrastructure alongside contractor Energy Systems Group (ESG) under a zero-upfront-cost model.

Construction begins at first two sites under phased rollout through 2027

A groundbreaking ceremony held last week marked the start of construction at the Eastside Animal Shelter and Highland Pool, the first two of eight planned locations. Additional installations are slated for the West Mesa Aquatic Center, Duke City BMX Park, Isotopes Park, the Ken Sanchez Transit Facility, the City's 911 Call Center, and the Albuquerque International Sunport, with the remaining sites phasing in through 2027.

Los Angeles – September 15, 2026 -- Partillion Bioscience has secured a two-year, $2.1 million NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) award to scale its Cell-Cell-seq technology toward datasets of up to one million cell pairs. The grant, awarded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under Award Number R44GM165220, is Partillion's 10th SBIR grant and brings the company's total non-dilutive federal funding past $8 million, roughly matching its private investment to date without additional equity dilution.

San Francisco – September 15, 2026 -- Fast Company has named Corgi Insurance to its Best Workplaces for Innovators in North America 2026 list, citing the AI-native insurance carrier's embedded culture of technology and rapid experimentation.

Corgi operates as a full-stack, AI-native insurance carrier across the underwriting lifecycle

The company uses automation throughout claims, underwriting, trucking and other emerging lines of business, while expanding into new product categories built for modern commercial clients.

Corgi built custom AI tooling and hundreds of internal automation skills for employees

The company has developed proprietary agent clusters and custom tools that let staff automate workflows across departments, reducing manual steps in core insurance operations.

Tokyo – September 15, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan will convene more than 300 senior executives, technology specialists and innovation professionals in Tokyo on 21 October 2026 for the Growth, Innovation & Leadership Summit (GIL Global: Japan 2026), held at Bellesalle Shibuya First under the theme "Strategy and Innovation to Turn Uncertainty into Competitive Advantage."

Summit targets geopolitical risk, resource constraints and market fragmentation as growth barriers

The one-day programme is designed to give corporate strategy, R&D, investment and venture capital leaders a forum to convert operating uncertainty into competitive advantage. Sessions will cover generative AI's impact on brand strategy, diversity as a business driver, and the shift toward energy and materials infrastructure beyond electric vehicles.

Palo Alto, Calif. – September 15, 2026 -- UpDoc has been selected by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) as lead performer in the Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, securing an award of up to $9.2 million. Microsoft, OpenAI and NVIDIA are joining the UpDoc-led team as supporting partners.

Houston – September 15, 2026 -- Fiber broadband has added an estimated $1.6 billion in aggregate home value to single-family homes sold across Houston since 2020, according to an independent study commissioned by Ezee Fiber titled "Fueling Houston's Growth with Fiber."

Fiber coverage jumped from 75% to 94% of Harris County in three years

Access to fiber broadband providers in Harris County rose from 75% in 2022 to 94% by late 2025, reflecting sustained infrastructure investment across the region. Median download speeds nearly tripled over the same period, climbing from roughly 80 Mbps in December 2022 to more than 280 Mbps by December 2025, approaching the national average of 308.11 Mbps.

United States – September 15, 2026 -- Hyundai Motor America has committed more than $300 million to pediatric cancer research since 1998 through its Hope on Wheels program, a figure the automaker is now amplifying with a new national campaign, The Mark of a Warrior, timed to National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September.

Hyundai ties campaign launch to a diagnosis every 36 minutes

One child is diagnosed with cancer every 36 minutes in the United States, according to Hyundai, underscoring the urgency behind a 28-year fundraising effort that has supported research benefiting more than 40,000 children. The company, its dealer network and buyers of every new Hyundai fund the program.

Omaha – September 15, 2026 -- SecureSky has acquired Soveren, a London-based Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) provider, adding real-time sensitive-data discovery and classification to its Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) platform.

Soveren claims 98% accuracy detecting sensitive data in encrypted traffic

Soveren's architecture pairs eBPF-powered network analysis with ML-driven classification, enabling it to inspect and classify encrypted TLS traffic at scale without impacting application speed. The company positions this against legacy DSPM tools that rely on regex detection and static snapshots, which it says produce high false-positive rates.

Hannover – September 15, 2026 -- Proxima Fusion and the German state of Lower Saxony have signed a memorandum of understanding to build Europe's first large-scale industrial production site for high-temperature superconductor (HTS) tape used in fusion reactors, with investments of roughly €140 million planned for the first two project phases through the end of 2029.

State and private capital split the €140 million bill

Proxima aims for a 50-50 split between private and public financing. Lower Saxony intends to contribute €21 million, covering nearly 30% of the planned public funding share.

Berlin – September 15, 2026 -- Steffen Krach, the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) top candidate for Berlin's upcoming Abgeordnetenhaus election, has proposed increasing annual funding for the Berlin city cleaning utility BSR (Berliner Stadtreinigungsbetriebe) by €20 million to €30 million.

Krach says a €45 billion city budget can absorb the increase

Krach told rbb that a growing city requires greater investment in sanitation infrastructure and that the additional sum is feasible within Berlin's overall €45 billion budget.

Candidate ties revenue growth to new business formation and job creation

To fund the initiative without new taxes, Krach said Berlin needs new companies and more jobs, arguing that higher employment would simultaneously reduce fiscal pressure on the city budget.

United States – September 15, 2026 -- Paslode has launched a new Universal Heavy-Duty Stapling program at Lowe's, adding five manual fastening tools and a line of universal 20-gauge staples to its jobsite portfolio.

Five new tools target jobsite fastening tasks

The lineup includes three compression staplers -- the Heavy-Duty Pro Stapler, 5-in-1 Pro Stapler and 2-in-1 Pro Stapler -- alongside two hammer tackers, the Pro Hammer Tacker and Compact Hammer Tacker. The tools are built for fastening house wrap, roof paper, underlayment, insulation, carpet pad, upholstery, trim components and temporary jobsite materials.

New staples fit Paslode and competitor tools

The tools work with Paslode's new Heavy-Duty Universal 3/8-inch Crown Staples as well as most heavy-duty competitor staples. The 20-gauge, galvanized chisel-point fasteners come in 1/4-inch, 5/16-inch, 3/8-inch and 1/2-inch lengths across multiple pack configurations.

New York – September 15, 2026 -- AXA XL has appointed Rana Gillmon to a newly created role, Head of Private Equity Client Relations, Americas, tasked with deepening the insurer's ties to private equity firms and their portfolio companies.

AXA XL creates dedicated role to serve private equity sector

The position is designed to align AXA XL's risk management offerings with the operational and portfolio-level needs of private equity clients across the Americas. Gillmon will act as the primary point of contact for these clients, working alongside regional and global underwriting teams to structure tailored insurance solutions.