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March 24, 2026

Scott Keane, Former Databricks, Google, and Salesforce Leader, Joins Invictus Growth Partners as Operating Partner

Invictus Growth Partners today announced that Scott Keane has joined the firm as an Operating Partner. Keane will work directly with Invictus portfolio companies to design and scale AI-powered Revenue Operations across Sales and Marketing, leveraging his deep experience in this area from his time at Salesforce, Google, and most recently at Databricks.
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Firm
October 27, 2025

Invictus Growth Partners: Harnessing AI and Values to Build an ‘Unconquerable’ Firm

Invictus Growth Partners uses its proprietary AI platform DIANE to source over 80% of its deals and turbocharge sales for B2B tech firms in fintech, cybersecurity, and cloud software. The firm combines data-driven scaling with core values like integrity, humility, teamwork and diversity — aiming to take bootstrapped firms from $10M to $50-100M ARR while delivering institutional-grade returns
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Portfolio
September 16, 2026

LinkLive Appoints Mike Bourke as CEO to Accelerate Agentic AI-Powered Customer Engagement for Regulated Industries

LinkLive appointed Mike Bourke as CEO to accelerate its agentic AI customer engagement platform for regulated industries. Bourke was SVP of Product at Five9, where he grew the workforce optimization business from roughly $20 million to $150 million in three years, and previously held CPO roles at Aspect Software plus product leadership at Verint and Witness Systems. LinkLive serves more than 1,100 customer organizations, and co-founders Perry Price and John DeLoche remain in board and leadership roles.
Portfolio
September 16, 2026

ThreatModeler Nexus Achieves FedRAMP Moderate

ThreatModeler Nexus achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization in partnership with Knox Systems, a federal managed cloud provider. The authorization clears federal agencies to run ThreatModeler's automated threat modeling in environments handling controlled unclassified information and other moderate-impact data.
Portfolio
September 15, 2026

Bringing Structure to Partner Marketing: How Structured CEO Stacey Epstein Is Bringing Her CMO Pedigree to Bear

Diginomica interviewed Structured CEO Stacey Epstein about partner marketing. Epstein argues that AI and a volatile global economy have sharpened the mandate to drive pipeline and revenue while reducing cost, leading more companies to grow their partner ecosystems. She contends that conventional PRM systems track deals and measure how much a partner sells but do nothing to help partners actually market a vendor's products, which is the gap Structured's Partner Marketing Execution Platform is built to close.
Portfolio
September 9, 2026

Bright MLS Launches AI Academy Powered By Cypher Learning to Help Real Estate Professionals Navigate the AI Era

Bright MLS announced the launch of Bright AI Academy, an AI education and training platform built on CYPHER Learning. The academy consolidates product education, on-demand training, webinars and certification into one environment, with CYPHER personalizing content by subscriber role and converting existing documents and videos into structured courses. Rollout is slated to reach all Bright MLS subscribers, more than 100,000 real estate professionals, by the end of 2026.
Portfolio
September 4, 2026

How Will Autonomous Vehicles Impact Automotive Suppliers?

Campfire released a Supplier Signal podcast episode in which SVP of Program Management Joe McCarthy argues that structural vehicle components will standardize while competition shifts toward interior experience and infotainment. He places broad autonomous adoption five to 25 years out, beginning in dense cities, and attributes the current EV pullback largely to insufficient US charging infrastructure.
Portfolio
August 31, 2026

Informed Names Daniel Sogorka as CEO to Accelerate AI-Powered Fraud Protection and Faster Funding for Lenders

Informed named Daniel Sogorka chief executive officer. Sogorka joins after two decades in lending technology, including senior roles at Black Knight/ICE, ServiceLink/FNF, Sagent and Rocket Pro, and comes to Informed from the CEO seat at Origna8. Informed processes more than 5 million applications annually, has supported over $350 billion in automated originations, and counts eight of the top ten US auto lenders as customers.
Portfolio
August 19, 2026

Binary Defense Launches NightBeacon, An AI-Driven SOC Platform Built For The Speed Of Modern Cyberattacks

Cybercrime Magazine featured NightBeacon, Binary Defense's AI-driven SOC platform, in a Black Hat USA 2026 segment, including comments from founder and CEO Dave Kennedy on alert volume in security operations.
Portfolio
August 18, 2026

Does USMCA Still Protect Automotive Suppliers from the New 50% US Tariff on Canada?

Campfire published analysis stating that a valid USMCA certificate of origin does not exempt covered Canadian goods from the additional 50% duty effective August 19, 2026. The duty stems from three proclamations signed July 20, 2026 under Section 338 of the Tariff Act, covering roughly 554 tariff lines and about $20 billion in US imports from Canada. Campfire advises suppliers to screen part numbers against the annexes, pull shipments forward ahead of the clearance cutoff, and reprice quotes.
Portfolio
August 13, 2026

Channelscaler Launches Scaler Index: A New Benchmark for Partner Performance

Channelscaler launched Scaler Index, a recurring industry benchmark for partner program performance and maturity. The inaugural report analyzes anonymized deal registration data from more than 30,000 partners on the platform between 2016 and 2025. Across the first three years after deal registration rollout, median programs showed registered opportunities up 614 percent, registered pipeline up 238 percent, partner participation up 191 percent, closed registered deal value up 736 percent and closure rates up 176 percent versus year one.
Portfolio
August 12, 2026

Desert Financial Credit Union Partners with Informed.IQ and MeridianLink to Transform Indirect Auto Lending

Desert Financial Credit Union, Informed.IQ and MeridianLink announced results from their integrated lending stack, reporting a 66 percent improvement in funder efficiency in indirect auto lending. Informed.IQ's AI document automation runs inside MeridianLink's loan origination platform, replacing a manual funding workflow.
Portfolio
August 5, 2026

Channelscaler Brings AI-Powered Partner Relationship Management to Microsoft Marketplace

Channelscaler announced that its AI-driven PRM and channel automation platform is available in Microsoft Marketplace, with native Azure integration, Teams connectivity and Dynamics 365 integration. Enterprises can fund purchases with Microsoft Azure Consumption Commitment dollars, and the company is participating in Microsoft's Frontier Accelerate for Marketplace program. The platform holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022, SOC 1 and SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, and Channelscaler was named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide PRM Software 2025.
Portfolio
August 3, 2026

Boost CEO Says Transaction Data Is B2B Payments' AI Superpower

Boost Payment Solutions founder and CEO Dean M. Leavitt spoke with PYMNTS CEO Karen Webster about AI in B2B payments, arguing that transaction history and buyer-supplier relationship data, rather than faster money movement, are the durable asset. He described the near-term opportunity as organizing invoice data, enforcing commercial rules and automating reconciliation and exception handling, with multiple agents operating under human review.
Portfolio
July 30, 2026

AI Makes Strong Payments Enterprises Stronger

Boost Chief Operating Officer Illya Shell contributed a bylined piece to PYMNTS arguing that AI agents in enterprise payments deliver value only when tied to trusted data, established workflows and governance rather than generic automation.
Portfolio
July 29, 2026

What Causes Forecasting and Quoting Disconnects in the Automotive Supply Industry?

VP of Customer Experience Franco D'Alimonte argues that forecasting and quoting disconnects at automotive suppliers are behavioral and cross-functional rather than a software gap, citing a case where a plan says 100,000 units, operations builds 95,000 and finance books 87,500 with no reconciliation. He points to Gartner data putting the cost of poor data quality and forecast error at roughly $12.9 million per year for manufacturers.
Portfolio
July 15, 2026

Binary Defense Launches NightBeacon CMD

Binary Defense announced NightBeacon CMD, a standalone AI-driven SOC workbench that enterprise security teams can deploy in their own environments. Built inside the company's 24/7 SOC, it correlates activity across endpoint, identity, network and cloud into decision-ready situations carrying a timeline, evidence, confidence score and recommended response. It ships with more than 116 connectors, 80 threat intelligence sources and 8,700 malware rules, and is available in paid Early Access.
Portfolio
June 26, 2026

ThreatModeler Introduces Nexus to Automate Threat Modeling with AI Governance

ThreatModeler launched ThreatModeler Nexus, a multi-agent, AI-powered threat modeling platform with a deterministic governance framework spanning a System Mapping Agent, Graph Agent and Reporting Agent. Its Secure Design Graph system of record draws on more than 3,500 security requirements, 1,500 threats and 180 compliance frameworks. ThreatModeler reports a 50 percent reduction in threat modeling effort at a global financial services firm.
Portfolio
June 9, 2026

PeerSpot Collaborates with Google Cloud to Bring Verified Customer Reviews to Google Cloud Marketplace

PeerSpot announced a collaboration with Google Cloud to bring verified customer reviews and practitioner insights to Google Cloud Marketplace. Marketplace users can access structured, verified customer feedback while researching software, drawn from PeerSpot's long-form review methodology covering deployment experience, operational considerations, integrations, support and real-world use cases. Review summaries within the marketplace are enabled by Google's Gemini models to help buyers identify relevant insights more quickly.
Portfolio
June 4, 2026

Optiv Unveils Cutting-Edge, AI-Driven Partner Portal Powered by Channelscaler

Optiv, a cyber advisory and solutions firm serving nearly 6,000 companies, unveiled a new AI-driven partner portal built on Channelscaler. The portal delivers automated partner onboarding, partner-journey automation with reporting and metrics, and agentic AI for incentives that informs Optiv sellers about partner programs.
Portfolio
May 28, 2026

Novi Labs Acquires RBN Energy

Novi Labs acquired RBN Energy, a Houston-based energy market intelligence, analytics, consulting and education firm reaching more than 120,000 monthly users. The deal pairs Novi's AI well-level forecasting and upstream datasets with RBN's fundamentals research across natural gas, crude, NGLs and refined products, giving operators and investors a unified view of upstream and midstream asset economics. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Portfolio
May 27, 2026

Boost CEO Says Payments' Real Legacy Problem Is Mindset

Dean Leavitt was featured in a PYMNTS "What's Next in Payments" piece arguing that the industry's real constraint is mindset rather than legacy infrastructure. He described Boost's layered oversight model, with AI agents monitoring other AI agents alongside human supervision.
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