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OPay Files for US IPO with 50 Million Active Users and Expansion Plan

October 09, 2026
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Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos
Investments // October 09, 2026

Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health systems manage labor and capacity, the company said in a Tuesday (Oct. 6) press release. The Vitalize platform is designed for the...

OpenAI Projects $20 Billion Jump in Annualized Revenue Before Year End
Artificial Intelligence // October 09, 2026

OpenAI expects its annualized revenue to reach at least $70 billion by the end of the year, up from $50 billion at the end of September, Bloomberg reported Friday (Oct. 9), citing unnamed sources. The expected gains are being driven by growth in OpenAI’s enterprise...

Manus Raises $500 Million After China Blocks Meta’s Acquisition
Investments // October 08, 2026

The parent company of artificial intelligence agent startup Manus, Butterfly Effect, has raised $500 million in a funding round, months after the Chinese government blocked Meta’s acquisition of the company, according to multiple media reports. Butterfly Effect announced the round in a post on Chinese...

Peppermint Secures $4.7 Million to Fix Clinical Trial Billing
Artificial Intelligence // October 08, 2026

Peppermint raised $4.7 million in seed funding for its artificial intelligence-powered financial operations platform designed for teams that run clinical research, the company said in a Thursday (Oct. 8) press release Peppermint’s platform is designed to provide a continuous, audited record of every visit, invoice...

Interviews & Exclusives
Kaon Uses AI to Build a Different Video Story for Every Viewer

July 30, 2026
Most consumer apps run on the same logic. An algorithm scans what already exists and serves the user the closest match. Kaon AI CEO and Co-Founder Jay Dang said the model has a ceiling built into it. In a conversation with PYMNTS, Dang said Kaon skips algorithmic recommendation altogether. Rather than surface the best existing […]

Neon Raised $13 Million to Help Game Publishers Take Back the Player

July 22, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift | Neon | Chris Faught For game publishers, breaking free of Apple’s and Google’s app-store commissions was supposed to be the hard part. It turned...

Paymentology CEO Says Payments Has a New Legacy Problem

May 18, 2026
Watch more: The Digital Shift With Paymentology’s Jeff Parker Here’s a thought no one in payments likes to say out loud. A lot of the infrastructure that was supposed to...

How Regional Banks Can Win the Emerging Middle Market Moment

April 29, 2026
Watch more: Live Roundtable With Seth Perlman of i2c and Julie Schmitz of Scale Solutions U.S. companies in the $1 million to $50 million revenue band are in motion. Fifty-three...

Quick Reads
OPay Files for US IPO with 50 Million Active Users and Expansion Plan

October 09, 2026
OPay, a digital financial platform built for emerging markets, has 50.1 million monthly active users and sees an addressable opportunity across billions of users and millions of merchants, the company said in a registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering. OPay’s platform offers consumer services ranging from digital payments through […]

Vitalize Secures $31 Million to Address Healthcare’s Staffing Chaos

October 09, 2026
Vitalize raised $31 million in a Series A funding round to accelerate the growth of its artificial intelligence (AI)-native platform that helps health systems manage labor and capacity, the company...

OpenAI Projects $20 Billion Jump in Annualized Revenue Before Year End

October 09, 2026
OpenAI expects its annualized revenue to reach at least $70 billion by the end of the year, up from $50 billion at the end of September, Bloomberg reported Friday (Oct....

Manus Raises $500 Million After China Blocks Meta’s Acquisition

October 08, 2026
The parent company of artificial intelligence agent startup Manus, Butterfly Effect, has raised $500 million in a funding round, months after the Chinese government blocked Meta’s acquisition of the company,...