Digital Transformation

Cary, N.C. – October 13, 2026 -- Subeca has raised approximately $3M in a Series A-2 round to expand its smart water metering hardware and software for utilities, adding to the $6M Series A it closed in 2024.

Burnt Island Ventures, described in the release as the most active venture investor in the global water industry, led the round. Cycle H2O, a water technology venture fund, joined as a new investor. SUEZ, which led the 2024 Series A, also participated, along with several additional investors.

Subeca is live in 23 communities with a bundled meter-and-software package

Burnt Island General Partner Christine Boyle said the firm sees a billion-dollar opportunity in unmet demand for affordable smart meter infrastructure and AI-native software. Subeca currently offers its bundled smart meter plus software package in 23 communities.

Cleveland – October 13, 2026 -- Encore Funding, a family-owned funding partner for staffing entrepreneurs, has launched a refreshed brand and website as U.S. staffing industry revenue grew 3.3% year over year in the second quarter of 2026, according to the American Staffing Association.

The association also reported gains in staffing employment. Growth, however, sharpens a cash-flow squeeze for agencies: employees are paid weekly or biweekly, while customers may take 30, 60 or 90 days to settle invoices.

Encore bundles payroll funding with back-office support and guidance

Encore says its offering combines payroll funding, back-office support and strategic guidance, and that it acts as an extension of client businesses. The company describes its approach as built on personal relationships, reduced operational complexity and decades of staffing experience across three generations.

Boston – October 13, 2026 -- Fortress will present a full-scale prototype of its NextGen SMART ILA modular optical infrastructure platform, designed for a 600 kW day-one load that scales to 1.2 MW, at an invitation-only event in Denver, Colorado, on October 20–22, 2026.

Platform targets 400 to 800 kW of ICT capacity across low-, high-density and mixed configurations

Fortress positions the NextGen SMART ILA as a standardized, modular alternative to traditional precast infrastructure. The platform supports low-density, high-density and mixed configurations, allowing consistent deployment across multiple sites as network requirements change.

Seoul – October 13, 2026 -- Lunit (KRX: 328130) has partnered with Discovery Life Sciences, a lab that supports more than 350 active clinical trial programs, to roll out the Lunit SCOPE suite across biopharmaceutical research.

The AI-powered pathology platform will run inside Discovery's biomarker and tissue analysis workflows. Both companies will tailor it to each client program's design, working directly with pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers.

Discovery brings 25 years of assay experience and 2,000 trial programs to the deal

Discovery has delivered biomarker services for more than 2,000 clinical trial programs. Its specialty laboratory services cover the drug development lifecycle end to end. The partners expect the combination of Discovery's global biospecimen network and Lunit's AI image analysis to broaden worldwide access to the SCOPE platform.

Las Vegas – October 13, 2026 -- ShopView has launched AccountingHub, a native accounting add-on that lets independent truck, trailer, diesel, and equipment repair shops keep their books in the same system that holds their work orders, invoices, and payments.

Most repair shops run separate shop management and accounting systems. Office teams must transfer transactions, reconcile records, and maintain parallel account structures. AccountingHub links invoices, payments, purchases, deposits, fees, and refunds directly to a general ledger through configurable account mappings.

AccountingHub automates statements, aging reports, and vendor bills

Shops can schedule customer statements and review aging reports with invoice-level detail. They can also manage bills, vendor credits, and payments, with visibility into upcoming due dates.

New York – October 13, 2026 -- Canyon Partners, a $30 billion global alternative investment manager, has appointed Chris Hansen as Partner and Chief Information Officer, tasking him with integrating artificial intelligence and alternative data across its investment platform.

Hansen takes charge of technology strategy and infrastructure from New York

Hansen oversees the firm's technology strategy and infrastructure. His remit covers information technology, business technology, engineering, data architecture, and the integration of AI and alternative data.

He will work with Canyon's investment and operating teams to embed technology and data in investment research, underwriting, portfolio management, and firmwide operations.

Falls Church – October 13, 2026 -- General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has won the $1.3 billion Enterprise Network Operations and Cybersecurity Support (ENOCS) contract to run enterprise IT and cybersecurity services for the Army National Guard and other federal partners.

GSA awards contract with one base year and six option years

The General Services Administration (GSA) Assisted Acquisition Services issued the award. It has a one-year base period followed by six one-year option periods. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD).

GDIT to operate and defend classified and unclassified Guard networks

Under the contract, GDIT will help the Guard and its federal partners upgrade and build enterprise IT environments. The scope covers:

Global – October 13, 2026 -- SaaS providers moving to consumption-based pricing have a direct financial incentive to speed up onboarding, but ChurnZero's VP of Customer Experience Delivery warns that automating the whole process risks losing the context that makes an implementation deliver value.

Consumption pricing pushes vendors to onboard faster

Under consumption-based models, vendors invoice clients by platform usage, so faster onboarding brings revenue sooner. Customers still expect service tailored to their needs. The executive names three automation risks: generic AI tools miss business context, B2B implementations rarely repeat outside a few standard steps, and time spent onboarding is only one measure of success.

Global – October 13, 2026 -- Customer success (CS) teams with a dedicated customer success platform (CSP) reported 100% net revenue retention (NRR), versus 94% for organizations without one, according to ChurnZero's Customer Revenue Leadership Study. The figure was cited during a webinar in which three CS executives each backed a dedicated CSP over a CRM module as leaders plan for 2027.

Gartner survey finds 91% of service leaders feel more pressure to adopt AI

Ravi Pimplaskar, Senior Director of Revenue Marketing at ChurnZero, cited a Gartner survey in which 91% of customer service and support leaders reported increased pressure to adopt AI. The pressure runs in both directions. Boardrooms are issuing mandates, while CSMs want AI to cut heavy administrative workloads, said Lukas Alexander, VP of Customer Success at ChurnZero.

San Jose – October 13, 2026 -- Cablenet Communication Systems plc, the second largest fixed network operator in Cyprus, is modernizing its DOCSIS broadband access network with Harmonic's cOS virtualized broadband platform, Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) announced. The deployment is designed to strengthen gigabit service capability, simplify operations and lower operating expenses.

Distributed access architecture with Oyster nodes underpins higher speed tiers

Cablenet is deploying cOS in a distributed access architecture (DAA) with low-power Oyster nodes. The operator can introduce significantly higher speeds across its footprint and scale services as subscriber demand grows. The software-based platform also preserves flexibility for Cablenet's longer-term multi-technology network strategy.