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Koch Equity Development Signs Agreement to Acquire Telecommunications Solutions Leader iconectiv

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Demonstrates KED’s strategic focus on telecommunications software and data services

WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Koch Equity Development LLC (“KED”), the principal investment and acquisition arm of Koch, Inc., today announced an agreement to acquire iconectiv, LLC, a telecommunications solutions leader, from Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC), the global supplier of mobile communication and connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises, and affiliates of Francisco Partners, a leading technology investment firm.  

Under the agreement, iconectiv will become a wholly-owned independent subsidiary of KED and will continue to be managed by iconectiv’s leadership team based in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The agreement to acquire iconectiv underscores KED’s continued investment focus on telecommunications software and data services, building on the successful 2021 acquisition of Transaction Network Services, Inc. (“TNS”). With KED’s resources and capital, iconectiv will be well-positioned to unlock both organic and inorganic growth opportunities.

iconectiv is the authoritative partner to many of the largest communications service providers in the United States and international markets. Its core network and operations management, numbering and data exchange services span trusted communications, digital identity management and fraud prevention. The world leader in providing number portability solutions, iconectiv is the number portability administrator in 10 countries, including the United States. The company is also the trusted technology partner to CTIA, the wireless trade association in the United States, serving as the administrator of the nation’s Short Code Registry. Working with the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), iconectiv serves as the Secure Telephone Identity Policy Administrator (STI-PA) for the United States, a critical role in industry efforts to mitigate illegal robocalling.

“iconectiv is excited to join KED along with the resources and capabilities they have to support our next chapter of growth. This acquisition marks a significant milestone in our journey, aligning us with a shareholder focused on long-term value creation that extends our track record as a trusted partner to service providers and regulators in the communications sector,” said Richard Jacowleff, CEO of iconectiv. “On behalf of iconectiv, we want to thank Ericsson and Francisco Partners for their many years of support. We believe KED is the right partner for our employees and the company to continue executing our long-term vision by providing reliable and trusted communications solutions to our customers globally.”

“We have been impressed with the solutions iconectiv continues to deliver, and we are thrilled to welcome Rich and team to the KED platform,” said Matt Hewitt, Managing Director at KED. “iconectiv’s innovative culture, technical expertise, and customer focus align with KED’s vision for expanding our capabilities in telecommunications and technology. We look forward to supporting their continued growth and helping them deliver even greater value to their customers.”

The transaction is subject to certain regulatory approvals and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2025. Rothschild & Co and Citi served as financial advisors to KED, and Jones Day served as legal advisor to KED. Jefferies LLC and Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC served as financial advisors to iconectiv, and Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal advisor to iconectiv.

About iconectiv 
Headquartered in the United States, iconectiv market-leading solutions in information services, digital identity and numbering intelligence are used by more than 5,000 service providers, regulators, enterprises, and content providers worldwide each day to keep their networks, devices and applications connected. With an unparalleled depth of experience, iconectiv manages programs on behalf of partners including serving as the U.S. Short Code Registry Administrator, U.S. Secure Telephone Identity Policy Administrator (STI-PA) and administrator of the country’s telecommunications Relay Service for those requiring auditory or speech communication assistance to communicate. Globally, iconectiv is the Number Portability Administrator in 10 countries, including the United States.

About Koch Equity Development LLC (KED)
Koch Equity Development is the principal investment and acquisition arm of Koch, Inc. (“Koch”), one of the largest privately held businesses in America. Since 2012, KED has deployed more than $35 billion in equity investments and acquisitions. With revenue as high as $125 billion, Koch companies employ about 120,000 people worldwide, with nearly half of those in the United States.

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Wiz Khalifa to Headline MJBizCon 2026 with Keynote and Live Concert

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Grammy-Nominated Artist and Khalifa Kush Co-Founder to Take the Stage December 2 as MJBizCon Debuts New Live Music and Food Experiences

LAS VEGAS, Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MJBizCon, the world’s largest and most influential B2B cannabis Conference and Expo, has announced Grammy-nominated artist and Khalifa Kush Co-Founder, Wiz Khalifa, as keynote speaker and concert headliner on Wednesday, December 2, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Long before legalization went mainstream, Wiz Khalifa made cannabis part of his identity, his music, and his message. Since the 2010s, he’s turned that passion into a premium cannabis business, Khalifa Kush, built on the culture he helped shape.

Khalifa will share his journey from artist to cannabis entrepreneur during From Mixtapes to Market Share: Wiz Khalifa’s Cannabis Playbook, a 30-minute fireside chat taking place Wednesday, December 2, at 1:00 p.m. on the General Session Stage (N109). The keynote is open to all MJBizCon attendees, regardless of badge type.

The conversation will explore how Khalifa transformed a personal strain into a recognized consumer brand while maintaining the cultural authenticity that helped establish it. He’ll discuss the importance of choosing the right partners across cultivation, distribution, and retail, the challenges of scaling a cannabis business, and his perspective on where the global cannabis market is headed.

Later that day, Khalifa will trade the keynote stage for the music stage, delivering a live performance at 5:00 p.m. at The Gas Station, MJBizCon’s all-new live music stage powered by Weedmaps.

Debuting at MJBizCon 2026, The Gas Station brings live music and entertainment directly to the Expo Floor, giving attendees a new way to close out the show day before heading into the Las Vegas nightlife. Khalifa will headline Wednesday’s performances alongside an opening act to be announced. Live music will continue Thursday, December 3, with additional artists and performances to be revealed.

Also making its debut this year is The Pit Stop, MJBizCon’s new outdoor food truck destination located just outside the Expo Hall near The Gas Station. Featuring a variety of food trucks and local flavors, The Pit Stop will give attendees a place to grab a bite, recharge between sessions and meetings, and enjoy the atmosphere throughout the day and into the evening.

Together, The Gas Station and The Pit Stop introduce new entertainment and dining experiences to MJBizCon 2026, complementing the event’s conference programming, expansive Expo Floor, and business-building opportunities.

Both activations are accessible to all attendees with any MJBizCon badge. Attendees planning to catch performances at The Gas Station must be on the Expo Floor by 5:00 p.m., as re-entry will not be permitted after that time.

MJBizCon 2026 takes place December 1–4 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, beginning with Pre-Conference Certifications and special programming on Tuesday, December 1. For more information or to register, visit mjbizconference.com.

For more information, please contact Tess Woods at tess@tesswoodspr.com. 

ABOUT MJBiz
MJBiz is the leading B2B resource for the cannabis industry. Founded in 2011, it is the most trusted publisher and event producer serving cannabis industry entrepreneurs and investors from around the globe. MJBiz produces MJBizCon, the longest-running and largest cannabis trade show in the world. The 2015-2019 events were each named to Trade Show Executive’s Fastest 50 list and ranks on the Gold 100 list of largest tradeshows in the U.S. The 2026 event will return to Las Vegas December 1-4, 2026 (Pre-Show Certifications are December 1). The MJBiz team also produces news and analysis of the marijuana and hemp industries via MJBizDaily, MJBiz Factbook. For more information about MJBizCon or MJBiz, please visit www.MJBizCon.com and www.MJBizDaily.com.

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Dyania Health Brings Clinical Reasoning AI Inside the Hospital Firewall to Advance Patient Care with NVIDIA

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Dyania’s Synapsis AI, which reasons through a patient’s complete medical history, uses NVIDIA accelerated computing, so health systems can learn from their own records while keeping patient records within their walls.

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Dyania Health today announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to put AI clinical reasoning to work inside health systems, on their own infrastructure, at the scale of their entire patient population. Dyania’s Synapsis AI reads a patient’s full medical record, across years of notes, operative reports, imaging reports and lab results, and answers clinical questions with evidence from the chart. NVIDIA accelerated computing makes it possible to do that across large patient populations behind the hospital firewall, without transferring patient records outside the health system. Together, the companies aim to give health systems the ability to learn from the full histories of the patients they have treated and turn that experience into earlier identification of care needs, more informed treatment decisions and better care for the next patient, while keeping those records within their own systems.

Turning clinical experience into better care

Health systems hold decades of clinical experience in their medical records, but much of it is difficult to analyze at scale. Much of the information that matters is in narrative text rather than structured fields, and interpreting it often requires manual review. Registries, outcomes studies and predictive models can be limited by how many charts a team can read by hand. Extracting and interpreting the clinical information needed to build them remains a major bottleneck.

Synapsis AI performs that reasoning. It is built to work the way a specialist works through a chart: longitudinally, across every document, resolving what a patient actually had, when, and with what evidence. Doing this for one patient is a reasoning problem. Doing it for an entire health system, continuously, inside the hospital’s own environment, requires substantial computing capacity. Dyania brings the clinical reasoning engine and implementation experience; NVIDIA brings the accelerated computing platform and the software that lets it run securely and efficiently on premises.

Synapsis AI is built on the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software stack end to end. Dyania trains its proprietary clinical models with the NVIDIA NeMo framework for model training and reinforcement learning. Inside the health system, Synapsis AI runs on NVIDIA TensorRT and TensorRT-LLM on the hospital’s own NVIDIA accelerated computing infrastructure, so inference stays inside the hospital’s private network.

Under the collaboration, the companies will work to bring Synapsis AI on NVIDIA infrastructure to health systems in the U.S. and internationally, publish joint case studies, and integrate Synapsis AI with NVIDIA’s healthcare software stack. Areas the companies are evaluating include NVIDIA Confidential Computing for training and inference, NVIDIA Dynamo for distributed inference serving, Multi-Instance GPU for partitioning GPUs across concurrent clinical workloads, and scaling to many NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs as deployments move from batch processing toward near-real-time clinical insight at the point of care.

“The opportunity for AI in healthcare is to give care teams more time and insight to focus on patients,” said Chelsea Sumner, Healthcare AI Startups Ecosystem Lead at NVIDIA. “Dyania Health brings deep clinical expertise to that opportunity, using NVIDIA’s AI platform to support research, help identify gaps in care and build a more complete understanding of patients’ needs.”

“This is a watershed moment for patient care. Every patient’s story is spread across years of notes, reports and results, and for the first time we can reason across all of it at once, the way a specialist does, for every patient in a health system rather than one chart at a time,” said Eirini Schlosser, founder and CEO of Dyania Health. “Synapsis AI reads the full record, draws the clinical conclusions and shows the evidence behind them, and NVIDIA gives us the computing power to do that inside the hospital, with every record staying where it belongs. What we have shown with Cleveland Clinic is that a health system can learn from the patients it has already treated to give the next patient the right care sooner.”

Predicting how long replacement heart valves will last

The first work from the collaboration is a Cleveland Clinic study of 7,812 patients who received an aortic valve replacement between 2005 and 2021. The study addressed a central concern for patients: How long will the replacement valve last, and will another procedure be needed? To answer this, researchers reviewed up to 16 years of patient care, most of it in narrative notes and echocardiogram reports that can be challenging to capture in registries.

Running on NVIDIA accelerated computing inside Cleveland Clinic’s environment, Synapsis AI identified the patient population and answered 88 clinical questions for each patient, covering the valve and its characteristics, co-existing conditions, laboratory trends, medications, follow-up ultrasound measurements and later clinical events. The study produced a detailed clinical dataset in far less time than a manual review would take. Additionally, a predictive machine-learning model was trained that is capable of predicting valve failure and reintervention risk timelines for every patient.

The model found that the type of valve implanted was the strongest determinant of how quickly it deteriorated, while age and other medical conditions shaped whether and when a second procedure was performed. The analysis also examined how follow-up information, such as heart ultrasounds following surgery, can substantially raise predictive accuracy around future interventions. The model estimates an individual patient’s risk at three, five and 10 years and revises the outlook with each new ultrasound. The tool is used to help inform care but requires external validation from clinicians. 

“Using technology to bring together and analyze information that can help us predict the duration of implanted heart valves is a promising step towards enhanced outcomes and more personalized care for patients,” said Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD, Chief, Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic.

The heart valve study illustrates the broader potential of the collaboration. The same technology could help health systems learn from their own experience to understand which patients would benefit from certain therapies, which treatments hold up over time, and why outcomes differ between patients who look alike on paper. Looking ahead, Synapsis AI agents will continuously train predictive models of this kind, so that recommendations for the next recommended action in a patient’s care keeps improving in accuracy as precision medicine advances.

About Dyania Health
Dyania Health exists so that no patient is missed because the answer was buried in their chart. Its clinical reasoning engine, Synapsis AI, reads a patient’s entire medical history, across years of notes, reports and results, and answers clinical questions with the evidence to back them, so care teams can see which patients need attention, which treatments are working and what should happen next. It does this for every patient in a health system, inside the hospital firewall, with no record ever leaving. Health systems use Synapsis AI to find patients who need care they have not yet received, strengthen registries and quality programs, and turn their own clinical experience into better outcomes for the next patient. Dyania Health is headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

For more details, please visit Dyania Health’s website at https://dyaniahealth.com/

For Media Quiries: contact Sam@dyaniahealth.com 

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InventHelp Inventor Develops Self Operating Confined Space Attendant (SGM-765)

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PITTSBURGH, Nov. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — “I have been in the agriculture field for 5 years. This time has allowed me to witness many violations to OSHA rules. I thought there should be an autonomous confined space attendant,” said an inventor from Newtown, Indiana. As a result, he developed the patent-pending SOCSA SELF OPERATING CONFINED SPACE ATTENDANT, designed specifically to replace the human factors such as lack of attention, poor decision making, inaction or lack of training, and failure to recognize hazards.

InventHelp Invention Spotlight: SOCSA SELF OPERATING CONFINED SPACE ATTENDANT Solves Safety Issues

Provides a partially autonomous confined space attendant.Would require minimal human intervention.Helps promote OSHA mandated attended services such as atmospheric readings, eyes on entrants, lighting, emergency procedures, etc.

InventHelp Client’s Invention for All Industries

With more industries embracing added safety measures, there may be a demand for a partially autonomous confined space attendant. The SOCSA SELF OPERATING CONFINED SPACE ATTENDANT offers an innovative design that is easy to employ.

InventHelp’s Invention Submission Process & Potential Licensing Opportunities

The design has been submitted to the Indianapolis sales office of InventHelp.The invention is available for licensing or sale to manufacturers or marketers who may wish to bring it to market.For more information, write Dept. 25-SGM-765, InventHelp, 100 Beecham Drive, Suite 110, Pittsburgh, PA 15205-9801, or call (412) 288-1300 ext. 1368.Visit InventHelp.com to learn more about InventHelp’s Invention Services.

About InventHelp: Empowering Inventors with Assistance, Guidance, and Potential Visibility

InventHelp is one of America’s largest and longest-running invention-service companies, helping inventors and entrepreneurs submit invention ideas to industry. Since 1984, the company has assisted clients with invention submission, prototype modeling services, invention websites, patent referral services, and more. InventHelp’s team attempts to connect inventors with companies looking for new product ideas and provides services on how to present, promote and protect inventions.

InventHelp has a network of regional sales offices across the U.S. and Canada.  InventHelp attempts to connect inventions with companies interested in reviewing new product concepts. Through its Invention Services, InventHelp provides confidentiality, step-by-step support, and help to innovators who wish to submit their inventions to industry.  To learn more about InventHelp, visit InventHelp.com.

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