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Kapwork Launches Free $42.45 Billion BEAD Tracker and Invoice Certification for Contractors

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Free data from 80 plus federal agencies shows where the work is; free invoice certification helps the businesses doing it get funded faster. Data center fit-out and federal contract award trackers come next.

LOS ALTOS, Calif., Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kapwork today introduced Kapwork Growth Suite, a free platform that helps small businesses find relevant infrastructure work and access capital to grow. The suite brings together data from 80 plus federal departments and agencies. It sits alongside Kapwork’s free invoice certification, which verifies money a business is owed so it can be matched with credit providers and funded faster. Any US business can join today at kapwork.com/grow.

The AI buildout needs more than GPUs, it needs the businesses that build America’s network: fiber connections, electrical systems, cooling and the contractors who install them. Alongside private investment in AI infrastructure, federal funding is expanding broadband networks. For telecom providers, fiber crews and specialist contractors, the challenge is knowing which projects to pursue, and how to pay for growth.

See where infrastructure money is going

The suite is built around the questions a business owner needs answered. It launches with the BEAD tracker; two more trackers follow:

BEAD Awards — Who received funding to build broadband? The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment program is a $42.45 billion federal initiative to expand high-speed internet access. Kapwork’s live tracker helps businesses research award recipients. A fiber contractor can use that information to decide which operators to approach before committing a crew.Data Center Fit-Outs — Which projects are moving beyond an announcement? Coming next: a tracker that organizes fit-outs by location, operator, and reported stage: proposed, under construction, operating, cancelled, or suspended.Federal Contract Awards — Which prime contractors are winning work? Also coming: a tool that will organize more than 50 million federal award actions to help small businesses find federal work.

Kapwork’s BEAD tracker covers $11.46 billion in announced awards as of September 16 and adds new awards as states announce them.

“The businesses that build America’s network have a cashflow problem. Unless we solve it, we can’t build at the speed the country needs to stay competitive,” said Mauricio Vergara, co-founder and CEO at Kapwork. “Our goal is to help small businesses grow by providing free tools to understand where the market is going, see who’s getting the work, and access working capital.”

Turn unpaid invoices into growth capital

A new job can create costs before it generates cash. Contractors need to pay crews and buy materials while invoices for earlier work remain unpaid. Kapwork certifies those receivables and helps the business get funded faster, at better rates.

Once a business sends out an invoice, by email or through a vendor portal, Kapwork proves the invoice exists with the customer who owes it. Kapwork’s AI agents verify invoice amounts, approval status and payment terms at the debtor’s source turning self pledged paper into certified receivables that a credit provider can evaluate.

“”Fabricating invoices is the fraud risk everyone in this space is watching for right now. Pulling from the debtor’s own portal cuts that off at the source. Kapwork’s certified data gives us the confidence to deploy capital faster and price deals without carrying that doubt in the rate.” said Saul Gewer, Chief Strategy Officer, TowerCap. 

Kapwork then matches the business with participating capital providers, including banks, factoring companies and private credit funds that prefer issuing credit against certified invoices. The business reviews available offers and decides whether to accept. The Growth Suite, Invoice Certification and credit matching are free for businesses.

“In Brazil we processed more than US$1 trillion in receivables. As a result, credit supply to SME’s more than tripled, with an average cost of credit 75 percent lower than the cost observed before we began operations. Once an invoice is verified, it can’t be pledged twice, so funders trust what they’re financing, and credit reaches companies that never had it before,” said Marcelo Maziero, co-founder of CERC, the Brazilian financial market infrastructure and an investor in Kapwork.

Businesses can join and explore Kapwork Growth Suite today at kapwork.com/grow.

About Kapwork

Kapwork is an AI-native platform helping small businesses find growth opportunities, certify receivables and get matched with capital providers. The company has certified over half a billion dollars in receivables, most of that coming from telecom and datacenter providers. Backed by SaaSholic, Kapwork is also a member of NVIDIA’s Inception, a program supporting innovative AI startups.

Kapwork was founded by Pete Thomas and Mauricio Vergara. Thomas helped build C2FO, the working capital platform with half a trillion dollars in receivables flowing through it. Vergara, CEO, saw how “third party” developers at Google struggled with cashflow. Learn more at kapwork.com.

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Omneky Brings Its AI Growth Agent to Slack, Extending the Premier Agentic Harness for Advertising

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Marketing teams can now brief, approve, and launch ad campaigns from the channels where they already work

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Omneky, the autonomous AI growth platform, today announced a Slack integration that brings the Omneky AI Growth Agent into the channels where marketing teams plan, review, and approve their work. The launch comes during Dreamforce week, as Salesforce, Slack’s parent company, brings the Slack ecosystem to Omneky’s home city of San Francisco.

A growth lead posts a brief in a channel and tags Omneky. The agent researches the brand and its competitors, proposes a strategy, and returns creative variants in the thread. Teammates comment and approve. The agent then launches the campaign, shifts budget toward the variants that convert, and posts pacing and performance updates back to the channel.

Slack joins Omneky’s public API, MCP server, and Claude and Grok connectors, all driving the same harness: the customer’s brand ontology, closed-loop performance data across more than $1 billion in ad spend, media buying across six channels including ChatGPT, human approval controls, and a router that picks the best model across Claude, GPT, Grok, Gemini, Seedance, and others. That is what makes Omneky the premier agentic harness for advertising. Whatever agent a team uses, Omneky is the layer that lets it research, create, launch, and optimize ads.

“Agents are going to run advertising, and they need a harness built for it: the brand data, the models, the channels, and the controls. We built that harness, and Slack is now one more place teams can drive it,” said Hikari Senju, Founder and CEO of Omneky.

The integration is available today to all Omneky customers at https://omneky.com/slack. New customers can start a free trial at omneky.com. To schedule a briefing during Dreamforce week, contact hi@omneky.com.

About Omneky

Omneky is the autonomous AI growth platform and the premier agentic harness for advertising. Its AI Growth Agent researches markets, generates ad creatives and landing pages, launches campaigns, allocates budget, and buys media across Meta, Google, LinkedIn, TikTok, Reddit, and ChatGPT. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, Omneky serves more than 6,000 customers and is SOC 2 Type II certified. Learn more at omneky.com.

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Linkind Light Stick Launches at tm:rw, Bringing Immersive Smart Lighting to Experiential Retail

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Linkind brings its latest smart lighting innovation into tm:rw, giving consumers a new way to experience dynamic, customizable lighting in person.

NEW YORK, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Linkind, a smart lighting brand focused on making expressive, connected lighting more accessible, announced the launch and retail installation of the Linkind Smart Light Stick at tm:rw, the technology-focused experiential retail destination in New York City.

The installation gives visitors the opportunity to experience Light Stick beyond the screen, with a dedicated retail presence designed to showcase its dynamic lighting effects, highly customizable color control, and ability to transform the atmosphere of a space.

Light Stick represents a new direction for Linkind’s smart lighting portfolio, combining functional illumination with a more expressive approach to ambient lighting. Featuring 50 independently controllable color zones, more than 120 preset effects, 16 million colors, and dynamic flame-inspired effects, Light Stick can create everything from subtle ambient illumination to bold, animated lighting displays.

With support for Matter, Light Stick can also integrate across compatible smart home ecosystems, bringing its visual capabilities into the wider connected home.

Smart Lighting You Can Experience

The tm:rw installation is designed to turn those capabilities into a physical experience.

Rather than relying solely on product imagery or specifications, visitors can see Light Stick’s color, movement, and effects operating in a real environment, and experience how multiple lights can work together to dramatically change the character of a space.

“Light Stick is a product that really needs to be experienced,” said Kevin Bright, Communications Director, Linkind. “Its impact comes from seeing the movement, color and depth it can create in a room. tm:rw gives us an opportunity to take that experience out of a product page and put it directly in front of people.”

The installation also reflects Linkind’s broader push toward experience-led smart lighting—products that do more than simply turn on, off, or change color, and instead allow consumers to actively shape the atmosphere of their homes.

Bringing Linkind into the Physical Retail Experience

The launch at tm:rw represents another step in Linkind’s expanding physical retail presence and gives the brand a platform for consumers, creators, and technology enthusiasts to discover its products firsthand.

tm:rw is built around interactive technology discovery, creating an environment where emerging products can be demonstrated and experienced rather than simply displayed on shelves.

“Consumers increasingly want to understand what new technology actually does for them before they bring it into their homes,” said Kevin. “Products like Light Stick are particularly well suited to an experiential environment because the product itself becomes part of the space.”

The Linkind Smart Light Stick is now on display and available at tm:rw in New York City and is available online at Linkind and Amazon.

About Linkind

Linkind creates smart lighting designed to make connected homes more colorful, expressive and accessible. From everyday illumination to immersive entertainment and outdoor lighting, Linkind combines smart-home connectivity with creative lighting experiences that allow people to shape their spaces around the way they live.

For more information, visit Linkind.com.

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WareSpace Expands in South Florida and Enters Bay Area with $36.5 Million in Industrial Acquisitions

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The acquisitions add warehouse space for more than 210 small businesses in two supply-constrained markets and bring WareSpace to 34 facilities and more than 3.2 million square feet nationwide.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — WareSpace, a leading operator of micro-bay warehouse space, today announced $36.5 million in industrial acquisitions in Miami Gardens, Florida, and South San Francisco, California. The acquisitions mark WareSpace’s third property in South Florida and its first in the Bay Area, and will create more than 210 flexible warehouse units for small businesses in two markets where appropriately sized industrial space is increasingly difficult to find.

The deals add approximately 164,000 square feet to WareSpace’s national footprint and bring the company to 34 facilities totaling more than 3.2 million square feet nationwide. They also follow WareSpace’s recent $300 million capital commitment from Jadian Capital, and its first portfolio-level acquisition, which added five properties across four new U.S. markets in July.

In South Florida, WareSpace acquired 4900 NW 167th Street in Miami Gardens for $20.42 million. The 100,000-square-foot property will be converted into flexible warehouse units, expected to serve more than 125 small businesses, along one of Miami-Dade County’s busiest commercial corridors. The property has direct access to the Palmetto Expressway and I-95 and is approximately 18 minutes from WareSpace’s existing Medley location and 35 minutes from the Fort Lauderdale location, which opened earlier this year.

In South San Francisco, WareSpace purchased 161 Starlite Street for $16.05 million. The 64,103-square-foot industrial property will be converted into 85+ flexible units for small businesses in one of the country’s most supply-constrained industrial markets. Small-bay industrial inventory in the area has declined by approximately 5% over the past five years, with no new small-bay supply currently under construction.

“These acquisitions are in very different parts of the country, but the opportunity is remarkably similar,” said Joseph Ely, Co-Founder and COO of WareSpace. “Both areas are population dense, high-barrier markets where small businesses need industrial space close to their customers and employees, but appropriately sized options are increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to find. We’re continuing to invest in locations and assets where we see that disconnect and where our model can solve a real need for business owners across America.”

“Miami gives us the opportunity to build on the momentum we’ve already established in South Florida, while South San Francisco opens the door to a new market where industrial space is becoming increasingly scarce,” said Levi Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of WareSpace. “Both acquisitions reflect how we’re growing — expanding in markets where we’ve seen strong demand while selectively entering new ones where we see a clear opportunity for the WareSpace model.”

WareSpace will reposition both properties into flexible, move-in-ready warehouse units typically ranging from approximately 200 to 2,000 square feet. The company’s model combines shorter-term leases with all-inclusive pricing and on-site services, giving contractors, e-commerce businesses, distributors, service companies and other small operators access to industrial space without the size and long-term commitments associated with traditional warehouse leases.

The two acquisitions continue a period of rapid national growth for WareSpace as it expands its micro-bay model across major U.S. metropolitan areas.

Businesses looking for flexible warehouse space in Miami Gardens or South San Francisco can learn more and join the waitlist at warespace.com.

About WareSpace

WareSpace is a national real estate firm specializing in the development of co-warehousing and small-bay industrial spaces between 200 and 2,000 square feet. WareSpace creatively adapts and reconfigures dated industrial and challenged properties into thriving hubs that support surrounding small business communities. Operating with a vertically integrated structure, WareSpace offers major service lines in-house, including acquisitions, development, construction, finance, operations, marketing and sales.

Learn more at warespace.com.

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