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Tractian’s $130M Series D Values the Company at $1.4B to Scale Physical AI for Asset-Heavy Industries

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Round led by Sapphire Ventures values Tractian at $1.4 billion, accelerates efforts to scale multimodal intelligence for asset-heavy industries worldwide

ATLANTA, Oct. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Tractian, the leading Physical AI platform for asset-heavy industries, today announced a $130M Series D round led by Sapphire Ventures and co-led with M&G’s Catalyst. The round values the company at $1.4 billion and accelerates its evolution from predicting failures to protecting the full health of every critical machine an operation runs on. New and existing investors such as N47, General Catalyst, Bosch Ventures, 53 Stations, Monashees, Endeavor Catalyst, Norte Ventures, and Y Combinator also participated.

Tractian’s asset health solution protects the infrastructure that keeps the world running by applying Physical AI to critical machines. Its multimodal intelligence platform leverages vibration, ultrasound and other sensor modalities to sample machine data across a vast array of variables at once, turning those signals into a single living picture of each machine’s condition. Tractian’s agentic platform, trained on one of the largest industrial failure datasets in existence, then turns that picture into a diagnosis, identifying root causes of any potential problems and providing a recommended plan of action for the operator.

Igor Marinelli, CEO and Founder of Tractian, said, “I grew up watching my father work as a maintenance technician at a paper mill, and I saw how backwards the tools were for the people keeping those machines alive. That sparked my passion to transform how mission-critical assets are maintained in every industry that relies on heavy machinery. This funding round will allow us to scale our platform even further, providing manufacturers, data center operators, defense companies, utilities and more with strategic insights to help optimize the health of their machines, close the alert-to-action gap and eliminate unplanned downtime and lost revenue.”

Tractian is trusted by some of the world’s largest enterprises to protect the critical assets and infrastructure powering their operations. From pharmaceutical giants like Eli Lilly to McKesson’s high-tech distribution centers, Whirlpool’s appliance manufacturing operations, Coca-Cola bottling facilities, Cummins’ industrial engine production, and Embraer’s cutting-edge manufacturing plants, as well as undisclosed customers operating mission-critical data centers and government infrastructure, Tractian is helping keep essential industries running. Today, more than 2,000 critical facilities worldwide rely on Tractian’s technology to keep their equipment running, with no surprises or unexpected outages.

“The AI boom is driving a massive build-out of physical infrastructure, and the companies building and running it can’t afford equipment failures. Tractian is meeting the moment, winning big industrial customers and building a Physical AI platform that gets sharper with every machine it monitors,” said Anders Ranum, Partner at Sapphire Ventures. “When we led Tractian’s Series C, we believed that combining hardware, data, and AI would give the company a real edge. Since then, our thesis has only strengthened. We’re thrilled to once again lead Tractian’s latest round and continue our partnership with Igor and his team.”

The Growing Stakes of Unplanned Downtime

Unplanned downtime costs the world’s 500 largest industrial companies roughly 11% of annual revenue, or about $1.4 trillion a year (Siemens, True Cost of Downtime, Jan 2026). Aging infrastructure compounds the problem, with industrial fixed assets now averaging 24 years in service.

At the same time, the people who know those machines best are leaving at an accelerated rate. Deloitte projects that over 2.1 million manufacturing jobs could go unfilled by 2030. The hard-earned veteran knowledge of how each machine functions or fails will depart with them.

For many asset-heavy companies and those that depend on them, any increase in unplanned downtime can be devastating, from pharmaceutical lines where a brief stoppage or temperature change can mean the loss of an entire production run to data center operators whose software customers may cancel contracts if KPIs are missed.

Built for Operations That Can’t Fail

Tractian was built to solve these challenges. The company’s solution puts individual knowledge regarding a machine’s performance where the next technician can reach it, transforming the expertise of an operator’s retiring workforce into something a plant, and its people, keep.

Tractian’s solutions are trusted where downtime isn’t an option, keeping compressors, chillers, palletizers, pumps, backup systems and more running across pharma, food and beverage, oil & gas, datacenters, government and defense, energy and water, and the manufacturing plants pulling production back onto American soil.

About Tractian
Tractian is the Physical AI that keeps the world’s infrastructure running, ensuring your everyday life stays uninterrupted by outages you never knew could happen. By combining physically deployed sensors with its proprietary AI trained on one of the largest industrial assets datasets in existence, Tractian gives reliability and operations teams the ability to protect assets at every layer, and act on evidence instead of instinct. Over 2,000 customers worldwide run on Tractian. The company is headquartered in Atlanta, with offices in Monterrey, São Paulo, and Poland, and employs more than 700 people. Learn more at tractian.com.

About Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire Ventures partners with Enterprise AI founders building Companies of Consequence. With 15+ years of experience and $10B+ in AUM, the firm invests with high conviction in a select number of post–product-market fit companies. Sapphire helps founders scale go-to-market, operations, and leadership—contributing to 30+ public listings and 50+ acquisitions. Investments include Glean, Cyera, Temporal, LangChain, Clay, Huntress, EliseAI, Grafana, WorkOS, and OneBrief.

About M&G’s Catalyst strategy
Catalyst is a global growth equity strategy investing in technology-led businesses with proven models and global scale potential, focusing on themes including climate, infrastructure healthcare and financial inclusion. Catalyst is backed by M&G’s £138 billion With Profits Fund, alongside other major investors including the British Business Bank, providing patient capital to support high- growth innovative companies and broader economic development.

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Club Offers for Travel Enthusiasts in Canada

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TORONTO, Oct 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Travelzoo® (NASDAQ: TZOO), the club for travel enthusiasts, announces three of many new Club Offers for Club Members in Canada.

Rigorously vetted and negotiated for us travel enthusiasts:

$799—COSTA RICA WEEK WITH FLIGHTS & CAR
We think fall is an ideal time to visit Costa Rica; the scenery is lush and the crowds are gone. Drive between volcanic Arenal and the idyllic beaches of Tamarindo on this seven-night trip. Since it’s not as busy, we were able to negotiate a price that saves members up to $648 on departures through mid-December.

$899—BARCELONA: 5 NIGHTS WITH FLIGHTS
Explore Barcelona’s world-class museums and architectural masterpieces in the quieter winter months to pack more into your trip. You won’t waste hours in lines and can access top restaurants that are fully booked in summer. We save $300 on travel this January and February, when temperatures are still spring-like. Roundtrip flights from Toronto, hotel and daily breakfast are included.

$999—ST. KITTS GETAWAY FOR 2, REG. $2083
Most visitors to St. Kitts book months in advance, but when we pointed out that travel enthusiasts are more spontaneous, this resort gave us a terrific rate for stays this November and December. Spend four nights in Frigate Bay and get an upgraded Oceanview room, too.

Are you a travel enthusiast? Join the club today: https://travelzoo.com

Who are we?
We, Travelzoo®, are the club for travel enthusiasts. We reach 30 million travellers. Club Members receive Club Offers negotiated and rigorously vetted by our deal experts around the globe. Our relationships with thousands of top travel companies give us access to irresistible deals. Our club and its benefits are built around the lifestyle of a modern travel enthusiast.

Media Contact: 
Amanda Ieraci – Toronto
+1 437 866 8540
aieraci@travelzoo.com

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Howard Hughes Holdings Set to Join S&P SmallCap 600

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NEW YORK, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Howard Hughes Holdings Inc. (NYSE: HHH) will replace Arcosa Inc. (NYSE: ACA) in the S&P SmallCap 600 effective prior to the opening of trading on Wednesday, October 28. S&P 500 constituent CRH plc (NYSE: CRH) has acquired Arcosa in a deal that closed today, October 23.

Following is a summary of the changes that will take place prior to the open of trading on the effective date:

Effective Date

Index Name  

Action

Company Name

Ticker

GICS Sector

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Addition

Howard Hughes Holdings

HHH

Real Estate

October 28, 2026

S&P SmallCap 600

Deletion

Arcosa

ACA

Industrials

ABOUT S&P DOW JONES INDICES

S&P Dow Jones Indices is the largest global resource for essential index-based concepts, data and research, and home to iconic financial market indicators, such as the S&P 500® and the Dow Jones Industrial Average®. More assets are invested in products based on our indices than products based on indices from any other provider in the world. Since Charles Dow invented the first index in 1884, S&P DJI has been innovating and developing indices across the spectrum of asset classes helping to define the way investors measure and trade the markets.

S&P Dow Jones Indices is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI), which provides essential intelligence for individuals, companies, and governments to make decisions with confidence. For more information, visit www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/. 

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

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index_services@spglobal.com

Media Inquiries
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Chelsea FC announces multi-year sleeve partnership with Sokin, the business payments and FX platform

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Chelsea FC name fast-growing fintech platform as Principal Partner

LONDON, Oct. 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Chelsea Football Club has today announced a multi-year partnership with Sokin, the embedded finance and payments company used by businesses worldwide. Sokin will be named a Principal Partner and Official Business Payments and FX Partner of Chelsea FC and Chelsea FC Women.

As a Principal Partner, Sokin will be represented on the sleeves of the Chelsea FC men’s, women’s and academy home, away, and third kits from the 2026/27 season.

The partnership brings together two ambitious London-headquartered organisations with worldwide reach – a club with millions of fans across the world and a fintech platform through which businesses move more than $11 billion a year. A club of Chelsea’s scale works in many currencies every day, with partners, competitions and supporters around the world, and needs a financial partner built to handle that.

Sokin gives finance teams business payments, multi-currency accounts, foreign exchange, checkout and treasury in one place, so they spend less time juggling banks and providers and keep more of what they move.

As Official Business Payments and FX Partner, Sokin will simplify how Chelsea FC sends, receives and manages money in the currencies the club operates in.

The Sokin logo will feature on the sleeve of the Chelsea shirt for the first time [when the men’s team host Tottenham Hotspur at Stamford Bridge on Saturday 24th October.]

Jason Gannon, President at Chelsea FC said:

“At Chelsea, we seek to partner with organisations that share our ambition and innovative mindset. Sokin’s expertise in business payments, and their focus on making both simpler for the businesses they serve, makes them a natural fit for the Club. We are pleased to welcome Sokin to the Chelsea family and look forward to working together in the years ahead.”

Vroon Modgill, CEO and founder at Sokin said:

“Chelsea plays on the biggest stage in world football, and its business runs in dozens of currencies. Sokin was built for that with regulated, multi-currency payments and foreign exchange for organisations that operate internationally. We’re proud to be the platform behind the business payments and FX of one of the most iconic teams in football. Sokin’s platform serves businesses in more than 170 countries. We’re thrilled to be partners for the season ahead. An organisation as sophisticated as Chelsea doesn’t leave its finances to chance.”

About Sokin

Sokin is the financial layer global business runs on. Businesses can transact, convert and hold money in 70+ currencies across 170+ countries. Some businesses use Sokin to manage global finance in-house. Others build it into their products to power financial experiences for their customers. Businesses move more than $9 billion a year on licenses Sokin holds in 36+ countries and infrastructure Sokin owns. Founded in 2019, Sokin has raised over $100 million from investors including Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Prysm Capital.

About Chelsea Football Club

Chelsea Football Club is one of the biggest, most successful football clubs globally and our men’s team are reigning world champions, having won the four-yearly FIFA Club World Cup in 2025. Our women’s team, Chelsea Women, are also multiple trophy winners.

Founded in 1905, Chelsea is London’s most central football club, based at the iconic 40,000-capacity Stamford Bridge stadium. Nicknamed the Blues, the club lifted the Champions League for the first time in 2012 and domestically has won the Premier League five times, the FA Cup eight times, the Football League Cup five times and the Football League Championship once, in 1955.

The Chelsea Women’s team have enjoyed a huge amount of success and in 2025 won the FA Women’s Super League for a sixth consecutive year and the eighth time overall. The Women’s FA Cup has been won on six occasions. We have also captured the FA Women’s League Cup four times as well as reaching the UEFA Women’s Champions League final in 2021. In two seasons, 2020/21 and 2024/25, a domestic treble of trophies was secured.

The Chelsea Foundation boasts one of the most extensive community initiatives in sport, helping to improve the lives of children and young people all over the world.

Media Contacts:

Taina Biggs
taina.biggs@sokin.com 

Nerissa Chesterfield
nerissa.chesterfield@chelseafc.com 

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