Acquisition of high-quality portfolio centered on healthcare and life sciences investments Accelerates strategy to diversify and optimize portfolio while adding significant scale Enhances financial profile and is expected to be accretive to net investment income (“NII”) MENLO PARK, Calif., Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Runway Growth Finance Corp. (Nasdaq: RWAY) (“Runway Growth” or the “Company”), a leading provider of flexible capital solutions to late- and growth-stage companies seeking an alternative to raising equity, today announced that it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire SWK Holdings Corporation (Nasdaq: SWKH) (“SWK”), a life science focused specialty finance company that provides minimally dilutive financing to small- and mid-sized commercial-stage healthcare companies. Runway Growth’s Founder...

GUELPH, Ontario, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Linamar Corporation (TSX:LNR) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire select assets of Aludyne Incorporated’s North American operations. Aludyne is a Tier 1 automotive supplier specializing in lightweight aluminum chassis and structural technologies. The transaction, valued at $300 million USD, significantly expands Linamar’s manufacturing footprint across North America, notably in the United States. This acquisition is highly complementary to Linamar’s existing Structures and Chassis business, adding advanced capabilities in aluminum casting, precision machining, and product design. Aludyne’s portfolio includes knuckles, subframes, control arms, and axle housings, which aligns with Linamar’s strategic focus on propulsion-agnostic structural...

Milestone Deal Underscores Soul Street’s Mission to Back Purpose-Driven Founders and Deliver Meaningful Outcomes for its Portfolio HOUSTON and ST. LOUIS, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Soul Street Ventures, which prioritizes founders over spreadsheets, today announced its first portfolio exit with the acquisition of Sirvatus by Carta, the leading equity management platform for startups, investors, and employees. The deal marks a significant milestone for Soul Street Ventures, reaffirming its dedication to helping early-stage founders grow impactful businesses. Financial terms were not disclosed. Founded in 2020, Sirvatus is a modern loan operations platform designed specifically for private credit. Focused on managing complex deal structures, Sirvatus offers a comprehensive end-to-end solution for controlling private credit operations....

Charleston, SC, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Advantage Media | The Authority Company, the largest global hybrid business book publisher and leading authority-builder for CEOs, Entrepreneurs, and business leaders, announces that highly-respected Performance Publishing has joined their growing list of imprints. This new partnership empowers more business leaders to share their stories through books and amplify their personal brand and thought leadership impact. Founded in 2010, Performance Publishing is a successful independent publisher specializing in helping authors share their stories, knowledge, and expertise with the world. Performance founder and CEO Michelle Prince, a bestselling author, speaker, and thought leader, pioneered an efficient, collaborative book publishing model to help aspiring authors establish credibility...

Advancing Depth in Water/Wastewater and Land Development ALBANY, N.Y. and GEORGETOWN, Texas, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CHA announced today it has acquired Steger & Bizzell Engineering, LLC (Steger Bizzell), a leading Central Texas civil engineering firm with a 53-year history of delivering water and wastewater, land development, and surveying services to public and private clients. Headquartered in Georgetown, just north of Austin, Steger Bizzell adds a team of more than 50 technical experts with deep water/wastewater and land development expertise to CHA. “2025 has been a year of growth for CHA, and with the addition of Steger Bizzell to our team, we take yet another bold step forward in achieving our vision to become a leading national provider of innovative infrastructure solutions,” said Jim Stephenson, CEO of CHA...

Featureform’s powerful framework will add rich structured context to Redis’ fast vector search to deliver the right context to agents at the right time SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Redis today announced the acquisition of Featureform, a powerful framework for managing, defining, and orchestrating structured data signals. The acquisition helps Redis solve one of the most critical challenges developers face with production AI: getting structured data into models quickly, reliably, and with full observability. AI agents need more than LLMs—they depend on real-time data, past interactions, and knowledge bases to deliver accurate results. Getting that context to models at the right time remains a persistent challenge in deploying AI apps and agents into production, and delivering an exceptional experience to users...

Acquisition of the Atlanta-based agency will enable the combined unit to deliver stronger orchestrated marketing campaigns that drive client growth Atlanta, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Alloy, the marketing and transformation partner for the age of intelligence, today announced its acquisition of Atlanta-based digital marketing agency Hot Sauce. This strategic move combines Hot Sauce’s martech capabilities with the breadth of Alloy’s solutions, strengthening the agency’s offering to deliver powerful marketing campaigns and accelerate growth for clients.  Hot Sauce, founded in 2010, is known for creating high-impact digital experiences and growth marketing programs, helping leading companies from the technology sector, financial services, public sector and more define their value propositions and engage their target audiences...

Planned uplist to OTCQB Venture Exchange, if approved will follow completion of audit and previously announced reverse split MANKATO, Minn., Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Digital Utilities Ventures, Inc. (OTC: DUTV), operating as Easy Environmental Solutions, has received notice that the processing of its corporate action by FINRA has been completed. As a result, the Company finalizes its acquisition of Lifestyle Dock Company, LLC, its name will be changed, its reverse stock split will be completed and in 20 days its trading symbol will be changed to EZES. This represents another significant milestone in the Company’s transformation into a leading developer of modular technologies that solve major world problems. Now, the Company will officially complete its name change to Easy Environmental Solutions, Inc., a name that reflects...

Acquisition unites blockchain data science, decentralized data lakes, and digital-asset payment rails into a single intelligent commerce infrastructure Key HighlightsRezolve Ai acquires Subsquid (SQD): a leading decentralized data-infrastructure platform powering Web3 and AI innovation. Data Layer: Subsquid’s decentralized data lake and query engine make blockchain data instantly searchable and usable for AI systems. Payment layer: Together with Smartpay’s digital-asset checkout rails, Rezolve now connects the data, intelligence, and payments pillars of AI-commerce. Token rebrand: The SQD utility token will be rebranded in due course (currently trades as SQD). Treasury strategy: Rezolve intends to acquire SQD tokens equivalent to at least 1% of annual revenues, aligning long-term participation with ecosystem growth.Building the AI...

Co-Founders Brendan Paulin and Andrew Millard Join UPSTACK Partner Michael Leonardi as Founders of New Advisory Services Division NEW YORK, Oct. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — UPSTACK, the leading full-service technology brokerage, today announced the acquisition of Breakwater Cloud Advisors, a fast-growing customer experience (CX) consulting firm based in Vancouver, Wash. The acquisition strengthens UPSTACK’s advisory and execution expertise in the rapidly expanding AI-driven CX solutions market and introduces the next phase of the company’s CX + AI practice. Founded in October 2021 by Brendan Paulin and Andrew Millard, Breakwater helps midmarket and enterprise organizations design and deploy next-generation CX solutions. The firm brings deep expertise across contact center as a service (CCaaS), conversational AI, workforce and quality...