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Interplay Learning Named One of America’s Top EdTech Companies by TIME

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The leader in immersive training for the industrial and skilled trades has been recognized for its financial
strength and its industry impact

AUSTIN, Texas, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Interplay Learning, the leading provider of immersive training for the skilled trades and industrial crafts, has been recognized by TIME, in partnership with Statista, as one of America’s Top EdTech Companies. The prestigious list highlights 250 organizations shaping the future of education technology, selected from a pool of more than 2,500 companies evaluated.

The rankings were determined through a comprehensive assessment of each company’s financial performance, including revenue, funding and overall market position, as well as its broader influence on the education sector. Additional criteria included:

Digital presence and overall visibilityIntellectual property strengthOther key indicators of innovation and industry reach

“This recognition reflects the real impact we’re seeing as more organizations invest in better ways to develop their workforce,” said Doug Donovan, CEO of Interplay Learning. “The skilled trades are facing a critical labor shortage, and solving it starts with giving people access to training that actually builds capability on the job. That’s what we’ve been focused on from the beginning, and it’s where we’re continuing to innovate and push the industry forward.”

Interplay Learning’s inclusion reflects its continued momentum in helping organizations and educational institutions modernize workforce training across industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, crane and rigging, industrial and facilities maintenance. Its platform blends online learning, immersive 3D simulations, AI, and virtual reality to deliver hands-on, job-relevant training that accelerates skill development and improves workforce readiness at scale.

The TIME listing follows a series of recent acknowledgments for Interplay Learning’s standing in the edtech industry. Most notably, Interplay was a finalist for the EdTech Awards 2026, presented by EdTech Digest.

In addition, the company has earned multiple industry honors within the past year, including the 2025 IACET Instructional Impact Award, a spot on the 2025 Inc. 5000 list and recognition among the fastest-growing private companies in the Austin area by the Austin Business Journal. Interplay Learning was also named to Forbes’ list of America’s Best Startup Employers for 2026, further emphasizing its growth and culture.

To view the full list of America’s Top EdTech Companies, visit https://time.com/article/2026/04/22/america-top-edtech-companies-2026.

To learn more about Interplay Learning, visit www.interplaylearning.com.

About Interplay Learning

Interplay Learning, the leader in immersive learning for the skilled trades and industrial crafts, now includes Industrial Training International (ITI), the global leader in specialized industrial learning solutions. Leveraging instructor-led training, online simulations, AI, and VR, Interplay helps organizations and educational institutions upskill faster, reduce risk, and increase operational readiness. With over 500,000 people trained, Interplay is shaping the future of workforce development, building better careers and better lives.

Recent accolades include the 2025 IACET Instructional Impact Award, the 2025 Inc 5000 list, Deloitte’s 2025 Technology Fast 500 list, Forbes 2025 America’s Best Startup Employers, Fast Company’s Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024, AHR’s 2024 Innovation Award, IACET 2024 Innovation of the Year Award and NFMT 2024 Vision Awards.

Visit www.interplaylearning.com to learn more.

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Traysar Raises $25M Seed, Emerges from Stealth at Reindustrialize as the World’s First Subterranean Defense Tech Company

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The U.S. Army estimates more than 10,000 known military facilities are hidden underground worldwide.* Today, Traysar declares an end to the subterranean blindspot for the free world

DETROIT, June 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — With $25M in funding led by Silent Ventures, Traysar publicly launched today at the 2026 Reindustrialize Summit, introducing a new class of autonomous “subterra” platforms engineered to penetrate and secure the domain beneath the Earth’s surface.

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(Left to right: Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz, Gilad Adin)

The underground threat is accelerating on every front. In its 2023 report to Congress, the DoW acknowledged Chinese investment in underground facilities to conceal and protect all aspects of its military forces. Allied forces struggle to reach Iran’s deep nuclear bunkers. Hamas built an entire terror state underground, and penetration tunnels are breaching borders worldwide – including America’s own.

Meanwhile, the global defense industry has a vertical bias: hundreds of billions flow skyward into missiles, missile defense, drones, and counter-drone systems, while adversaries dig in building deeply buried facilities the U.S. cannot reliably strike, and cannot affordably keep disabled. The earth’s crust is the new strategic chokepoint.

“For decades, we have allowed a massive capability gap to widen beneath our feet,” said Yadin Soffer, Co-Founder and CEO of Traysar. “Our message to adversaries is clear: there is no place to hide. Traysar’s mission is to expose every subterranean threat and equip the armies of the free world to fight in this new-yet-ancient dimension.”

“Traysar is pioneering the doctrine and developing the technology required for U.S. military supremacy across the subterranean domain, a war-fighting realm steeped in history dating back to WWI, through the Vietnam Conflict, and is now quickly emerging as the defining 21st century battlefield.” said Jackson Moses, GP at Silent Ventures, whose seed investments include Saronic and Castelion.

Traysar’s engineering team, including early engineers from SpaceX and The Boring Company, is fielding autonomous platforms built for subterranean maneuver and infrastructure survivability starting with:

An excavator-class autonomous tunnel breaching and tactical exploration platform that rapidly navigates, maps, and clears contested underground networks.

A high-speed, rapid-burrowing autonomous platform that creates precision subterranean access points and delivers critical payloads beneath the surface.

The same underground domain adversaries use to shield missiles, leadership, and command infrastructure can be used by allied forces to harden bases, secure manufacturing, and preserve logistical continuity under attack. Traysar builds for both sides of that equation.

The seed round was joined by Lux Capital, Ora Global, and strategic angel investors including Steve Blank, and founders from Anduril and Erebor among others. Additional investors include NeverLift VC, Mana, Impatient Ventures, New Vista and Entree Capital, among others. Traysar was co-founded by Yadin Soffer, Asher Katz, and Gilad Adin.

About Traysar
Headquartered in Austin, Texas, Traysar is the world’s first subterra defense tech company. Through breakthroughs in military boring and subterranean autonomous systems, Traysar transforms the Earth’s crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space – enabling a new class of strike capabilities against previously unreachable targets and rapid underground protection of critical infrastructure for the United States and its allies. Traysar is backed by Silent Ventures, Lux Capital, Ora Global, and notable angel investors including Steve Blank, founders from Anduril and Erebor, and early SpaceX engineers. For more information visit www.traysar.com / x.com/traysartech

* (According to the U.S. Army’s doctrinal manual Subterranean Operations ATP 3-21.51, 2019)

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949-443-9300
rachel@kcomm.com   

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Trading Technologies to Enter Prediction Markets with Support for Trade Execution on Kalshi

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CHICAGO and LONDON, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT), a global capital markets technology platform services provider, announced that it will support clients’ ability to execute trades on a range of U.S.-regulated prediction markets, beginning with trading connectivity to Kalshi. Trading on Kalshi, the world’s largest federally regulated prediction market, is expected to go live on the TT® platform in the third quarter.

Andy Ross, Head of Institutional at Kalshi said, “TT is a powerful brand in the derivatives market and will accelerate the integration of Kalshi with many of the world’s leading institutions. It’s another big step forward for Kalshi as it puts in place the essential infrastructure for being the next-generation derivatives exchange.”

Alun Green, TT’s EVP, Managing Director, Futures and Options, said: “Over the past several months, we’ve seen increased institutional demand among our clients for these growing markets, with a clear desire to ensure that they can employ the same advanced trading functionality they leverage in other asset classes. Soon, clients will be able to enjoy the full breadth of trade execution and algorithmic trading tools available on the TT platform through access to Kalshi as the first of many regulated prediction markets to come.”

This announcement comes on the heels of TT’s exclusive TT Exchange Spotlight events for sell-side and buy-side leaders featuring representatives from Cboe, ElectronX, GFO-X, Kalshi, MIAX and Rothera. The sessions in Chicago and New York explored developments shaping the event contract landscape – from institutional adoption and regulatory outlook to emerging trading strategies and the role of prediction markets in risk management.

About Trading Technologies

Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) is a global capital markets platform services company providing market-leading technology for the end-to-end trading operations of Tier 1 banks, brokerages, money managers, hedge funds, proprietary traders, Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs), commercial hedgers and risk managers. With its roots in listed derivatives, the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company delivers “multi-X” solutions, with “X” representing asset classes, functions, workflows and geographies. This multi-X approach features trade execution services across futures and options, fixed income, foreign exchange (FX) and cryptocurrencies augmented by solutions for data and analytics, including transaction cost analysis (TCA); quantitative trading; compliance and trade surveillance; clearing and post-trade allocation; and infrastructure services. The award-winning TT platform ecosystem also helps exchanges deliver innovative solutions to their market participants, and technology companies to distribute their complementary offerings to Trading Technologies’ clients.

 

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easypaisa and Binance Sign MoU to Explore Emerging Financial Technology Growth in Pakistan

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The two parties came together in Pakistan’s capital, signaling increased focus on building a robust and compliant digital financial ecosystem

ISLAMABAD, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — easypaisa digital bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Binance, the world’s leading blockchain ecosystem and cryptocurrency exchange, to explore the adoption and growth of emerging financial technologies, as well as innovative digital savings and investment solutions in Pakistan.

The MoU was signed in Islamabad by Jahanzeb Khan, President & CEO of easypaisa digital bank, and Tarik Erk, Regional Head for MENAT and Senior Executive Officer (SEO) Abu Dhabi at Binance, in the presence of senior representatives from both organizations. The collaboration reflects easypaisa’s commitment to supporting innovation and the responsible growth of Pakistan’s digital financial ecosystem.

Under the MoU, easypaisa and Binance will initiate exploratory discussions to assess potential areas of collaboration aimed at supporting the development of Pakistan’s digital savings and investment ecosystem. Any future collaboration will remain subject to applicable regulatory approvals, evolving regulatory frameworks, and the fulfillment of all licensing and compliance requirements.

Binance serves more than 300 million registered users globally and offers a comprehensive suite of blockchain and digital financial technology solutions, including trading platforms, financial products, educational initiatives, and Web3-enabled services. Operating with a strong emphasis on security and regulatory compliance, the company is committed to fostering a more inclusive digital economy that enhances financial access and opportunity worldwide. Binance has also obtained AML registration under the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA), marking an important step in supporting Pakistan’s regulated digital financial ecosystem.

Proposed initiatives under the MoU may include awareness, education, and capacity-building initiatives from an exploratory perspective, which will accordingly enable the bank to develop potential future initiatives in line with applicable regulatory guidelines.

The collaboration reflects growing interest in digital savings and technology-enabled financial innovation, particularly among Pakistan’s rapidly expanding digitally connected population. Pakistan continues to present significant potential for growth in emerging financial technologies, with innovation-led investment and technology initiatives offering promising opportunities for the country’s broader digital economy.

Commenting on the collaboration, Jahanzeb Khan, President & CEO, easypaisa digital bank, said, “easypaisa digital bank is committed to making digital banking easy and secure for our customers. Leveraging Binance’s expertise in emerging areas of financial technology presents an opportunity for us to learn and explore in line with the guidelines of the PVARA. We look forward to working with Binance to explore safer and more reliable ways to support digital financial access and innovation in Pakistan.”

Tarik Erk, Regional Head for MENAT and Senior Executive Officer Abu Dhabi at Binance, added, “Partnering with easypaisa reflects Pakistan’s growing potential as a forward-looking market for emerging financial technologies, supported by scale, trust, and increasing regulatory engagement. With rising awareness and interest across Pakistan, we believe Binance’s global expertise, combined with easypaisa’s local reach and scale, can help support responsible innovation and long-term ecosystem development.”

With a customer base representing one in every five Pakistanis, a 31% female user base, and more than 4.5 billion transactions processed in 2025, valued at over PKR 15 trillion — approximately 13% of Pakistan’s GDP, easypaisa digital bank continues to set new benchmarks for digital banking and financial empowerment across Pakistan.

Disclaimer: Virtual assets are subject to high market volatility and carry significant financial risk, including the potential loss of capital. Prices can fluctuate substantially over short periods. Past performance is not indicative of future results. This material is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, investment, or trading advice. Users should conduct their own due diligence and consult a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decisions. Virtual asset services are subject to applicable regulatory frameworks, including SBP and PVARA requirements. 

About easypaisa digital bank:

easypaisa is Pakistan’s first digital bank and has advanced Pakistan’s digital finance landscape. Backed by our shareholders, Telenor Group-a leading telecom operator in Asia and the Nordics- and Ant Group-the force behind Alipay, the world’s leading open internet platform, easypaisa deliver secure, convenient financial solutions to millions of Pakistanis.

About Binance

Binance is a leading global blockchain ecosystem behind the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume and registered users. Binance is trusted by more than 300 million people in 100+ countries for its industry-leading security, transparency, trading engine speed, protections for investors, and unmatched portfolio of digital asset products and offerings from trading and finance to education, research, social good, payments, institutional services, and Web3 features. Binance is devoted to building an inclusive crypto ecosystem to increase the freedom of money and financial access for people around the world with crypto as the fundamental means.

For more information on Binance, visit: https://www.binance.com.

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