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Valtech Shares Its Views and Experience in Startups’ Valuation and Their Attributes in Successful Fundraising

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HONG KONG, March 7, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The true value of proper valuation comes from independence. Through independent research conducted by professional valuers, startups and venture capital firms gain access to objective analysis performed using appropriate valuation approaches. Valtech has actively helped numerous aspiring startups and fund managers by performing comprehensive business valuations, analysing business models and projected growth prospects, and in-depth benchmarking analysis. This support greatly facilitates and accelerates price discovery and deal negotiation processes.

Today, Max Tsang, a director of Valtech Valuation, — a CPA, CFA, FRM, Chartered Valuation Surveyor, and a business appraiser Accredited in Business Valuation (ABV) by AICPA — is pleased to share the firm’s insights and experience. The aim is to help more startups understand the true value of professional valuation and rethink how they should prepare for it.

Valuing a Business: More Art than Science

Valuation is not an exact science. The use of more data, research, and databases does not automatically lead to a more accurate result. Valuation is inherently dependent on the basis of value. Market value and investment value defined by International Valuation Standards (IVS) are possible basis of value for startup valuation. The selection of basis of value will depend on the purpose of valuation and the actual context. In addition, the judgment will also include underlying key assumptions and the details in application of valuation methods. Depending on knowledge and skills in finance and investment banking, valuation specialist can supplement the analysis using a great variety of skills such as monte carlo simulation, regression, waterfall charts etc. All these will affect the influence and impact of the valuation.

Valuation Methods Explained

There are three general approaches in valuation:

Cost Approach
This method is rarely applied in startup valuations, as most founders believe their innovative ideas are worth far more than the initial costs incurred.Income Approach
This method can be applied, but it is often challenging for pre-revenue startups. However, a reasonable and well-supported financial projection and capital budgeting analysis can clearly communicate your financial goals and illustrate the expected growth trajectory over the next 3-5 years. With Valtech’s guidance, this becomes a logical and systematic process — identifying the value creation potential from each unit of product or service sold. By making reference to relevant sources, Valtech define realistic market size and growth assumptions, ensuring the financial model is logical and persuasive.Market Approach (They call it Comprehensive Benchmarking) 
This approach uses comparative analysis, collecting valuation metrics from public companies and private transactions. Think of it like valuing your apartment based on recent sales of similar apartments nearby. However, startup founders often fall victim to survivorship bias — they focus only on announced valuations of successful startups, often ignoring adjustment factors like funding round stage, geography, and business model differences. In reality, systematic, logical, and persuasive adjustments are necessary to align benchmark data with the unique circumstances of the subject startup. Valtech ensures these adjustments are applied appropriately.

In application, there are further variations of method for better analysis. For example, risk net present value method (a variety of income approach) is considered to be a better method in valuing biotechnology and healthcare startups.

Budget Concerns — Finding the Right Balance

Valtech fully recognizes that early-stage startups often have tight budgets when appointing valuation specialists. However, the quality of your valuation report directly impacts investors’ first impressions of your company. A well-prepared valuation not only demonstrates professionalism, but also shows how well your team can communicate and support your claims with solid evidence and sensible forecasts.

Engaging a reputable and professional valuation team gives investors confidence that your valuation is grounded in independent analysis, rather than soley internal projections.

Avoid Over-Reliance on Generative AI for Business Plans

A lengthy business plan does not guarantee a good business plan. For valuation purposes, the focus should be on:

Your team’s profiles and experienceYour business model and its unique value propositionThe innovative and competitive aspects of your products or servicesClear and realistic expansion plansA well-defined budget for utilizing the funds raised

Generative AI can assist in drafting, but blindly relying on AI-generated content often results in generic, unfocused plans that fail to address the unique qualities of your business. Investors expect tailored narratives with authentic insights — something no AI can fully capture.

Your Startup is Unique — Focus on Your Uniqueness

As a startup, you have a unique business idea — one that either solves a critical pain point in the market or disrupts existing players through innovation. While AI can assist in brainstorming, your competitive edge lies in your team’s creativity, execution capability, and market understanding.

Ask yourself: Can AI generate innovative business ideas? Yes — but the real question is: How unique, feasible, and defensible are those ideas?

Plenty of Successful Fundraising Stories from Valtech Clients

Valuation is not just about calculating numbers — it’s about explaining your venture through numbers. Valtech provides multi-dimensional analysis, considering both the founder’s perspective and the investor’s perspective. This balance helps create valuation reports that are credible and persuasive.

At the same time, investors rely on more than just valuation reports. Many uses proprietary scorecards to evaluate:

Team quality and experienceProduct-market fitCompetitive advantage and IPBusiness scalability and operational resilienceExit potential and projected returns

Valtech has witnessed countless successful fundraising journeys among its clients — all at reasonable and defensible valuations. These startups come from diverse sectors, but they all share a common trait: they provide solid proof to justify their value. This proof can take various forms:

Well-articulated ideas with clear commercial potentialWorking prototypesA strong, experienced founding teamEstablished strategic partnershipsDemonstrated viability in reaching the next growth stage

Final Thoughts — Valtech’s Value Proposition

Startup valuation is not a one-size-fits-all exercise. Every startup has a unique story, growth trajectory, risk profile, and value proposition. At Valtech, they go beyond just crunching numbers. They help startups shape their valuation report, and navigate the challenging price discovery process with confidence.

If you want to secure investment at a reasonable and defensible valuation, you need more than just financial modeling skills — you need a trusted valuation partner who understands investor needs, market dynamics, and trends. This is exactly what Valtech Valuation delivers. Simply visit https://valtech-valuation.com

Max Tsang / Marvin Wong / Jimmy Wong T: +852 23889262
Email: admin@valtech-valuation.com
Singapore: Ritika Gupta | +65 84949455 | admin-sg@valtech-valuation.sg

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Yiren Digital Accelerates Operating Efficiency Through AI Agent Deployment

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Broader AI adoption improves productivity across asset recovery and enterprise operations

BEIJING, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Yiren Digital Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) (“Yiren Digital” or the “Company”), a leading company specializing in financial technology and artificial intelligence innovation across multiple industries in China and global markets, today announced measurable operating efficiency improvements as it continues to deploy AI agents across core enterprise workflows. Broader AI adoption is reducing manual intervention, increasing workforce productivity and creating greater operating leverage by automating high-volume processes across multiple business functions.

These deployments are a key component of Yiren Digital’s “All-in-AI” strategy and its broader transition from AI-assisted productivity toward agent-driven execution. By embedding AI agents into core workflows, the Company is creating reusable operating capabilities that can be deployed across its businesses, supporting greater efficiency and reducing the cost of extending automation into new functions.

“Our objective is not simply to automate individual tasks, but to fundamentally improve how work is performed across the enterprise,” said Mr. Ning Tang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yiren Digital. “As AI agents take on more of our high-volume, demanding workflows, the productivity gains are becoming a structural part of how we run the business, not a one-time efficiency project. We will continue to deepen AI integration across our existing businesses while extending reusable capabilities into additional verticals.”

The AI deployments are supported by the Company’s proprietary enterprise AI architecture, including MagiCube 2.0, its upgraded multi-agent platform. The platform provides common infrastructure for agents deployed across marketing, customer service, capital operations, risk management, compliance and research and development, with more than 10 reusable foundational capabilities, supporting enterprise-wide execution.

Measurable Operating Impact

Lower manual intervention: The human handling rate in asset-recovery operations decreased from 45.0% to 24.9%, representing a 20.1-percentage-point decline, an approximately 44.6% relative reduction in manual intervention.

Higher staff productivity: The number of service tickets handled per asset-recovery staff member within the applicable Month 1 workflow increased from 358 to 525, an improvement of approximately 47%.

Expanded agent adoption: AI agents accounted for 81% of service tickets within eligible Day 1 asset-recovery workflows in 2025, up from 50% in 2024. The Company also deployed AI agents selectively in later-stage workflows, accounting for 20% of eligible service tickets at Day 4, 14% at Day 16 and 20% at Month 2. Each percentage is calculated separately for the relevant stage and should not be interpreted as a sequential adoption trend.

Enterprise-wide reuse: MagiCube 2.0 supports agent deployment across six enterprise functions, allowing the Company to apply common AI capabilities to a broader range of regulated and high-volume workflows.

Enterprise-scale AI execution: The Fengchao AI voice agent processes approximately 1,500 hours of real-time speech-to-text activity each day. The LingShu intelligent marketing platform executes more than 1,700 tasks daily and generates individualized communication content in an average of 0.6 seconds.

Building Enterprise Operating Leverage Through AI

As AI deployment expands across the enterprise, Yiren Digital is increasingly shifting repetitive, high-volume tasks from human-assisted processes toward agent-driven execution. By combining AI agents with centralized orchestration and governance, the Company is improving operating consistency, strengthening workforce productivity and creating reusable capabilities that increase operating leverage as AI is deployed across additional business functions.

Yiren Digital plans to continue expanding agent-driven workflows across its credit and insurance operations, as part of its ongoing All-in-AI strategy, while strengthening the shared architecture and governance that support enterprise-wide AI deployment. These capabilities are designed to scale across multiple use cases and provide a foundation for the Company’s broader expansion into AI application-layer opportunities, including AI entertainment and AI-assisted language learning.

About Yiren Digital

Yiren Digital Ltd. is a leading company specializing in financial technology and artificial intelligence innovation across multiple industries in China and global markets. The Company leverages advanced artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to enhance customer experience, optimize capital efficiency, and expand financial inclusion. Following the regulatory filing of its in-house developed Large Language Model Zhiyu, and the significant enhancement of its MagiCube Agent platform, Yiren Digital is establishing a new growth engine to accelerate its evolution into an AI-native, multi-industry operating platform extending beyond traditional financial services. For more information, please visit https://ir.yiren.com.

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Infinium Edge Launches EdgeSites™, a New Infrastructure Model for Deploying AI Compute at Existing Commercial and Industrial Facilities

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EdgeSites delivers operational AI infrastructure in existing powered buildings — factory-built data center modules, waterless cooling, and ready in months without new construction or grid interconnection required.

SACRAMENTO, Calif., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Infinium Edge™ today announced Infinium EdgeSites™, a development program that utilizes existing commercial and industrial facilities to deploy operational AI compute infrastructure. Built around Infinium Edge’s proprietary Edge Thermal Vectoring™ immersion cooling platform, EdgeSites enables high-density GPU deployments in existing buildings that were never designed as data centers — without new construction, without cooling water infrastructure, and without the multi-year grid interconnection timelines that constrain conventional large-scale data center development.

More than 20 million commercial and industrial electricity customers in the US are served by electrical infrastructure sized to peak demand – which industry research shows are utilized at only 40-60% on average. That unused headroom, capacity already contracted, energized, and sitting behind the meter, can support high-density AI compute without adding new load to the grid or waiting on a new interconnection.

At the center of the program is the Vector ONE™ — Edge’s factory-built, self-contained immersion cooling system designed to house 1 MW of AI compute capacity. Vector ONE units are engineered for deployment in standard commercial and industrial buildings, either indoors or outdoors, arriving pre-integrated, fully commissioned and require no municipal water connection. Installations are modular and scalable: additional units can be commissioned as site power and demand allow, without rebuilding the underlying infrastructure and occupy up to 70% less floor space than air-cooled equivalents.

Built for the Shift to Inference

As inference moves to displace training as the dominant AI workload, the growth opportunity is shifting towards small, distributed data centers that can be deployed quickly and sited where demand originates. Conventional data center developments are under compounding pressure from long utility interconnection queues, sometimes lasting years, pressure around water use, and general community and regulatory opposition enacting restrictions. Community opposition and regulatory friction delayed or blocked an estimated $156 billion in planned U.S. data center capacity in 2025 alone.

EdgeSites is purpose-built for the structural shift to inference and addresses key issues stalling conventional data center developments today. Each Vector ONE unit delivers 1 MW of inference-ready capacity inside an existing building, in a market that already has established electrical infrastructure, in a timeline measured in months rather than years. Multiple units can be used in tandem to deploy up to 10 MW of capacity at a single site.  The program converts the distributed inventory of underutilized industrial or commercial electrical capacity in the United States into a nationally scaled inference network. Vector ONE’s dry-cooler loop consumes no municipal water, making EdgeSites viable in markets where evaporative cooling has been restricted or banned.

“The data center industry has been answering an infrastructure shortage with a construction playbook — build new facilities, secure new grid connections, wait years for capacity to come online,” said Robert Schuetzle, CEO of Infinium. “That model cannot keep pace with AI deployment timelines. Infinium EdgeSites operate around different premises: the power already exists, the buildings already exist, and the technology now exists to put them to work. We are making operational what the industry has been treating as stranded.”

Deploying EdgeSites

As demand for AI compute continues to outpace available infrastructure and focuses on distributed inference needs, Infinium Edge is expanding the EdgeSites network with qualified host locations and compute partners.

Commercial and industrial property owners of industrial sites, distribution centers, warehouses, or large commercial properties with available electrical capacity benefit from receiving lease income from infrastructure they already own or control. Infinium Edge manages all aspects of site development and operations for installing and deploying the Vector ONE system. No capital investment or operational responsibility is required from the host.

AI companies, enterprises, and compute operators requiring infrastructure on compressed deployment timelines can access high-density, edge-proximate GPU capacity through a straightforward capacity agreement, priced by the kilowatt-month, with backup power included in the capacity fee. There is no construction to manage, no permitting process to navigate, and no cooling infrastructure to operate or maintain.

Infinium Edge manages the full program from development and installation to operation and monitoring— simplifying development and data center management for AI companies and enterprises.

Reach out to learn more and partner in EdgeSites deployments.

Inquiries: www.infinium.ai/edgesites

About Infinium Edge™
Infinium Edge™ is the advanced AI data center infrastructure platform from Infinium, delivering high-density, sustainable compute through proprietary single-phase immersion cooling technology. Infinium Edge is the only North American producer of Fischer-Tropsch immersion fluids and offers a full-stack platform — including Edge Thermal Vectoring™ platform, Vector ONE™ modular AI Factory units, ETV100 immersion fluids, and integrated monitoring systems — engineered for the thermal and operational demands of AI and high-performance computing at scale. For more information, visit www.infinium.ai.

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ChipMOS SCHEDULES SECOND QUARTER 2026 FINANCIAL RESULTS SEMIANNUAL CONFERENCE CALL

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HSINCHU, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“ChipMOS” or the “Company”) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and Nasdaq: IMOS), an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services (“OSAT”), today announced that it will report second quarter 2026 results and host a semiannual conference call after the close of trading on the Taiwan Stock Exchange on Tuesday, August 11, 2026.

Investors and analysts are encouraged to participate in the semiannual conference call using the dial-in phone number noted below. A webcast and replay will be available on the Company’s website.

Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Time: 3:00PM Taiwan (3:00AM New York)
Dial-In: +886-2-3396 1191
Password: 1637011 #

Semiannual Conference Call Webcast and Replay: https://www.chipmos.com/chinese/ir/info2.aspx
Replay: Starts Approximately 2 hours after the live call ends

Language: Mandarin

Note: A transcript will be provided on the Company’s website in English following the semiannual conference call to help ensure transparency, and to facilitate a better understanding of the Company’s financial results and operating environment.

About ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.:
ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC. (“ChipMOS” or the “Company”) (Taiwan Stock Exchange: 8150 and Nasdaq: IMOS) (www.chipmos.com) is an industry leading provider of outsourced semiconductor assembly and test services. With advanced facilities in Hsinchu Science Park, Hsinchu Industrial Park and Southern Taiwan Science Park in Taiwan, ChipMOS is known for its track record of excellence and history of innovation. The Company provides end-to-end assembly and test services to leading fabless semiconductor companies, integrated device manufacturers and independent semiconductor foundries serving virtually all end markets worldwide.

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This press release may contain certain forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as ‘believes,’ ‘expects,’ ‘anticipates,’ ‘projects,’ ‘intends,’ ‘should,’ ‘seeks,’ ‘estimates,’ ‘future’ or similar expressions or by discussion of, among other things, strategies, goals, plans or intentions. These statements may include financial projections and estimates and their underlying assumptions, statements regarding current macroeconomic conditions, including the impacts of high inflation, foreign exchange rates and risk of recession, on demand for our products, consumer confidence and financial markets generally; changes in trade regulations, policies, and agreements and the imposition of tariffs that affect our products or operations, including potential new tariffs that may be imposed and our ability to mitigate with respect to future operations, products and services, and statements regarding future performance. Actual results may differ materially in the future from those reflected in forward-looking statements contained in this document, based on a number of important factors and risks, which are more specifically identified in the Company’s most recent U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) filings. Further information regarding these risks, uncertainties and other factors are included in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 20-F filed with the SEC and in its other filings with the SEC.

Contacts:

In Taiwan

Jesse Huang

ChipMOS TECHNOLOGIES INC.

+886-6-5052388 ext. 7715

IR@chipmos.com

In the U.S.

David Pasquale

Global IR Partners

+1-914-337-8801

dpasquale@globalirpartners.com

 

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