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Clarium Raises $27M Series A to Scale AI-Powered Supply Chain Resiliency Technology to Leading Health Systems

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Amid global supply chain volatility, Yale, Stanford, and Kaiser Permanente build resilient healthcare supply networks powered by Clarium

NEW YORK, May 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Clarium, the company powering the world’s first and market-leading AI-powered healthcare supply chain resiliency platform, today announced a $27 million Series A funding round from Northzone, with participation from existing investors including General Catalyst, AlleyCorp, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Texas Medical Center Ventures, and 1984 Ventures. This round brings Clarium’s total funding to $43 million to-date, and will allow the company to deliver on its mission of optimizing the modern health system and mitigating growing economic and environmental uncertainty in the supply chain for suppliers and hospitals.

The healthcare industry overspends on its supply chain by over $25B each year, largely due to fragmented, unharnessed data, inefficient workflows, and wasted supplies. As major weather events, global pandemics, and economic tariffs intensify, supply chain vulnerabilities are poised to disrupt critical care operations in hospitals nationwide.

Clarium’s platform collects, unifies, and automates crowdsourced data from providers, suppliers, and vendors across the entire healthcare supply chain, creating the world’s first AI-powered resiliency platform dedicated to helping major hospitals and health systems manage their supply chain operations. Clarium predicts supply chain disruptions based on real-time weather, geopolitical, and current events data, providing tailored recommendations for substitutions and preventing major disruptions to productivity and outcomes. The resiliency platform – which spans workflow operations, inventory and stock management, and disruption and substitution optimization – are ideated and built in collaboration with leading health systems, allowing Clarium to respond swiftly and directly to the needs of supply chain teams. After adopting Astra OS, hospital systems have seen over $10 million in average cost savings, fueled by 50% faster disruption resolution and 88% substitute approvals.

“The fragmentation and inefficiencies of the healthcare supply chain continue to plague our country’s hospital systems as they face more financial pressure than ever,” said Steve Liou, Founder and CEO of Clarium. “At Clarium, we’re leveraging the power of AI to modernize the hospital supply chain, working directly with health systems to develop valuable technology that enhances productivity, cuts wasteful spend, and improves patient health outcomes. We are grateful for the support from Northzone and our existing investors as we continue scaling our platform to new partners across the country.”

“Working closely with Clarium has allowed us to access the next-gen technology we need to manage our supply chain more efficiently,” said Jacqueline Epright, Chief Supply Chain Officer at Yale New Haven Health. “Clarium is innovative to address supply chain pain points, attuned to our needs, and truly dedicated to helping our hospital systems save on costs and deliver the best possible health outcomes to patients.”

Clarium’s $27 million financial investment from Northzone and existing partners will allow the company to accelerate the development and scale of Astra OS – including additional app and solution development – expand its team, and develop relationships with new health system partners.

“Despite many recent advancements in healthcare technology, hospital procurement processes have largely remained stuck in the 20th century. While several point solutions exist, Clarium is the first comprehensive, end-to-end platform for managing the hospital supply chain,” said Molly Alter, Partner at Northzone. “We believe Clarium possesses the technology and vision to enable end-to-end supply chain management for every one of the 5,000 hospitals nationwide.”

Since announcing its seed funding in 2024, Clarium has doubled its headcount and added key leadership including Burton Bracken (Head of Business Development), Marek Sirendi (Head of AI), Marcelo Fracchia (VP of Growth), and Shivani Stadvec (Chief Marketing Officer). The company has also expanded its collaborators roster beyond Yale New Haven Health, Geisinger, Ochsner Health, and Boston Children’s Hospital to include The Cleveland Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, St. Luke’s, and others. Additionally, Clarium announced a long-term strategic partnership with the Healthcare Industry Resiliency Collaborative (HIRC) to co-develop transformative technology and data standards.

To learn more about Clarium and its technology, visit www.clariumhealth.com.

About Clarium
Clarium is a healthcare technology company that is transforming how the hospital supply chain is managed for providers and suppliers. Clarium empowers leading health systems, including Yale New Haven Health, Stanford, and Geisinger, to optimize their supply chain operations with an AI-powered platform, Astra OS, which delivers unified data, actionable insights, and intelligent workflow automation. The company was founded in 2020 by Steve Liou and has raised $43 million in venture funding.

About Northzone
Northzone (northzone.com) is a global venture capital fund built on experience spanning multiple economic and disruptive technology cycles. Founded in 1996, Northzone has raised more than ten funds to date, with its most recent fundraise in excess of $1.2 billion and has invested in more than 175 companies, including category-defining businesses such as Trustpilot, Spotify, Klarna, iZettle, Kahoot!, Personio, TrueLayer, Spring Health, and Zopa.

Northzone is a full-stack investor from Seed to Growth stage, with transatlantic hubs out of London, New York, Amsterdam, Berlin, Stockholm and Oslo.

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QuantalRF to Speak on Next-Generation RF Innovations at Wi-Fi World Congress Europe 2026

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CEO/CTO Dr. Ali Fard will discuss RF front-end advancements on Oct. 8

ZÜRICH, Oct. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — QuantalRF, the pioneering developer of RF semiconductor and antenna solutions, today announced that CEO/CTO Dr. Ali Fard will speak at Wi-Fi World Congress Europe 2026. Hosted by Wi-Fi NOW, the free, three-day virtual event runs Oct. 6–8 and brings together the European wireless industry to discuss the future of intelligent connectivity. Other speakers include MediaTek, Silicon Labs, NXP, Intel, Cisco, HPE and the Wi-Fi Alliance.

Dr. Fard will present “Enabling Future Wireless with Innovations in RF” on Thursday, Oct. 8, from 17:45 to 18:05 CEST. The final day of the event focuses on the wireless technologies that will define the next decade. In his session, Dr. Fard will explain why RF front-end technology has not kept pace with advances in Wi-Fi standards and how CMOS SOI intelligent, adaptive architectures can improve power efficiency and range while lowering cost for next-generation Wi-Fi access points, mobile devices and edge AI.

“Future wireless systems—from Wi-Fi 8 to satcom and edge AI devices—will demand far more from hardware, especially RF,” said Dr. Fard. “At QuantalRF, we’ve redesigned the RF front end from the ground up to deliver better efficiency and integration on mature silicon processes. I look forward to sharing how these innovations can help the wireless industry close the gap between what Wi-Fi standards promise and what RF hardware can deliver.”

To attend this virtual event, register here.

About QuantalRF AG

QuantalRF is transforming the RF signal chain for wireless communications to deliver an unmatched user experience. Its ultra-compact, highly configurable front-end ICs and extremely efficient antennas substantially improve area, cost, power, and overall performance. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, with R&D centers in the USA and Sweden, QuantalRF has an extensive portfolio of over 225 patents. For more information, visit www.quantalRF.com.

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This announcement contains forward-looking statements that reflect our current expectations and projections about future events. These statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our actual results to differ materially. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. A non-exclusive list of risk factors may be found on our website at www.quantalRF.com/forward-looking-statement.

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Creatify Labs launches Boreal-H3, a MiniMax H3 video model post-trained for advertising

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Boreal-H3 scores a third higher than its MiniMax H3 base on Creatify’s Ads Quality Index and costs $0.04 per second, about one-twelfth the price of Seedance 2.5.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Oct. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Creatify Labs today launched Boreal-H3, an AI video model for ads built by post-training MiniMax H3 in partnership with MiniMax. Creatify trained the model on the work an ad has to do: keep the product from the reference image intact, deliver natural creator performances, and carry out the brief as written. In the company’s evaluation, Boreal-H3 scored 133.3 on its Ads Quality Index, where MiniMax H3 is 100, the highest score among the frontier video models compared. At $0.04 per second at 768p, it costs about 12 times less than Seedance 2.5, which runs at roughly $0.47 per second.

Boreal-H3 is the second model in the Boreal family, following the original Boreal released earlier this month. Where the first Boreal was built for realtime generation at one cent per second, Boreal-H3 targets the details an advertiser checks first: whether the label is readable, whether the packaging keeps its shape, and whether the creator stays the same person from the first frame to the last.

Ad quality as the benchmark

The Ads Quality Index measures how often a model produces a clip that works as an ad. A clip passes only when prompt following, reference consistency and visual realism each score 6 out of 10 or higher, and each model’s pass rate is indexed against MiniMax H3’s. Boreal-H3 scored 133.3, ahead of Omni 1.1 Flash at 122.2, Seedance 2.5 at 118.1 and Wan 3.0 Prime at 111.1.

On reference fidelity, scored at a stricter 7 out of 10 threshold, Boreal-H3 reached 85.3%, ahead of MiniMax H3 at 82.4%, Wan 3.0 Prime at 79.4%, Seedance 2.5 at 71.9% and Omni 1.1 Flash at 70.6%. Creatify’s automated judges were validated against human preferences, and its human studies used anonymized, randomized outputs.

The product stays the product, and the creator stays the creator

Against its MiniMax H3 base, Boreal-H3 raised subject consistency from 83.3% to 94.4%, keeping the product and the creator recognizably the same across a clip. On a set of difficult production briefs, it raised brief completion from 27.8% to 50.0% and cut visible defects from 1.11 to 0.33 per clip, a 70% reduction.

The model is also built for the performance side of a UGC ad. Boreal-H3 handles complex dialogue and multi-avatar conversations, with a focus on clear speech, natural pacing and a creator who can handle the product while speaking. Product demonstrations get the same attention, with cause-and-effect actions such as a vacuum leaving a clean path or a pour that behaves like liquid.

More control over every shot

Boreal-H3 gives creative teams two ways to direct a shot. Keyframe control, in image-to-video, preserves the subject and visual style of an opening frame, with an optional ending frame to set exactly where the shot lands. Multi-reference control, in reference-to-video, combines up to 9 images, 3 videos and 3 audio clips into a single coherent shot. Text-to-video is also supported, and the model follows camera direction with natural transitions between scenes.

Faster and cheaper iteration

Boreal-H3 generates video at 1.1 seconds per video-second at 768p, so a 10-second clip takes about 11 seconds and costs $0.40. In the same comparison, Seedance 2.5 ran at 46.5 seconds per video-second and about $0.47 per second, which makes Boreal-H3 roughly 42 times faster and 12 times cheaper. MiniMax H3 ran at 32.3 seconds per video-second. On a 15-second product demo published on the model page, Boreal-H3 rendered in 84 seconds against 411 seconds for Seedance 2.5.

A post-training loop that learns what to improve next

Creatify details the approach in its technical report, Introducing Boreal-H3: The Next Frontier in Video Is Post-Training. The company built a closed-loop system that improves the model across data, training and inference strategy. Each generated ad is evaluated on five dimensions: brief execution, product integrity, creator identity, realism, and motion and continuity. When the feedback is unreliable, the team revises the evaluator or reward before optimizing the generator, putting measurement quality ahead of training volume.

Creatify notes that the evaluation measures ad quality before launch, and real campaign testing still has to determine which ads convert.

Pricing and availability

Boreal-H3 is available now in Creatify’s Model Playground and through the Creatify API, with text-to-video, image-to-video and reference-to-video modes. Pricing is the same across all three modes: $0.04 per second at 768p, $0.12 per second at 1088p and $0.26 per second at 2K. At 768p, that is half of MiniMax H3’s $0.08 per second list price. More details are on the Boreal-H3 model page.

About Creatify Labs

Creatify Labs is the research lab building lifelike AI video models, including the Boreal family and the avatar model Aurora. Its work centers on post-training video foundation models into production-grade generators for advertising and serving them as fast, low-cost APIs. More information is available at https://labs.creatify.ai/.

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Yinan Na, Creatify AI, 1 (650) 319-6694, hello@creatify.ai, https://creatify.ai/

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COSRX Sets the Fall Skincare Agenda for Amazon Prime Big Deal Days

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NEW YORK, Oct. 2, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fall skincare resets are in full swing, and COSRX is giving shoppers a reason to refresh their routines during Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, October 6–7. For two days, the global derma beauty brand will offer some of its strongest savings of the season across longtime bestsellers and newer formulas spanning Snail Mucin, Peptides, PDRN, Exosomes and Ceramides.

The event also offers an opportunity to replenish some of the brand’s most recognized essentials. The cult-favorite Advanced Snail 96 Mucin Power Essence and Advanced Snail 92 All In One Cream will each be 41% off, while The 6 Peptide Skin Booster Serum will be 36% off.

At the same time, the lineup gives shoppers room to go beyond their regular staples and explore newer formulas across some of COSRX’s key skincare categories.

“Prime Big Deal Days is one of those moments when our customers can replenish the COSRX products they already rely on while adding something new to their routines,” said a COSRX spokesperson. “For fall, we’re especially focused on hydration, skin barrier care and Peptide-powered skincare—bringing together proven COSRX favorites with newer formulas that reflect what our community is looking for now.”

The COSRX Products Worth Stocking Up on This Prime Big Deal Days

The Blue Peptide Bakuchiol Plump Glow Serum — 26% Off
As temperatures drop and routines become more hydration-focused, The Blue Peptide Bakuchiol Plump Glow Serum offers an easy way to layer moisture and anti-aging care into the same step. Built on COSRX’s Peptide expertise, the serum pairs Copper Tripeptide-1 with Bakuchiol to target the appearance of elasticity, fine lines and loss of firmness while leaving skin looking hydrated, plump and luminous. Its firming and plumping focus also make it relevant for skin that appears less resilient or more depleted after periods of stress, including changes associated with weight fluctuation. For those looking to anchor their routine with one key healthy-aging product, the serum offers a versatile year-round option that layers easily into more hydration-focused fall and winter routines.PDRN EXOSOME Skinplaning Glaze Mask — 20% Off
The TikTok viral PDRN EXOSOME Skinplaning Glaze Mask combines PDRN with Exosomes in a cream-to-film format designed to boost hydration, firmness and glow. As it dries, the formula turns into a peel-off glaze with a subtle pearlescent sheen, leaving skin looking smoother, plumper and more luminous, even after just one use.The Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizer — 30% Off
The transition into colder weather often comes with a shift in skincare priorities and barrier care moves to the top of the list. The Ceramide Skin Barrier Moisturizer combines Ceramides with Panthenol and Hyaluronic acid to help replenish hydration and support the skin barrier, making it an easy seasonal switch for skin that starts to feel drier, tighter or more sensitive as temperatures fall.New COSRX Peptide Sets — Up to 33% Off
Prime Big Deal Days also arrive just as holiday shopping starts to pick up, giving COSRX fans an early opportunity to shop for the brand’s new peptide-focused value sets.
The Glow Boosting Peptide Trio will be available at 33% off, while the Peptide Bounce and Glow Giftset will be 30% off, bringing multiple Peptide skincare products together in value-driven formats suited for gifting—or simply building out a more complete Peptide routine.One Step Original Toner Pads — 30% Off
For shoppers who prefer to tailor their routines to specific skin concerns, COSRX’s One Step Original Toner Pad collection offers four options addressing concerns ranging from pores and texture to hydration, calming and visible firmness. During Prime Big Deal Days, the toner pads will be 30% off, with an additional 10% off when shoppers purchase two or more qualifying toner pads. The mix-and-match promotion allows shoppers to build a routine around different skin needs rather than committing to a single concern.

From replenishing everyday staples to exploring newer formulas built around Peptides, PDRN and barrier-supporting ingredients, COSRX’s Prime Big Deal Days lineup brings together products for a wide range of fall skincare needs. With savings across both established favorites and newer additions, the two-day event offers an opportunity to refresh routines ahead of the colder months—and get an early start on holiday beauty shopping.

About COSRX

Rooted in science and driven by consumer needs, COSRX is a global skincare and beauty brand known for effective, accessible formulations developed around carefully selected ingredients and real skin concerns. Through ingredient-led innovation and targeted solutions, COSRX creates high-performance skincare that is easy to understand and incorporate into everyday routines.

COSRX products are available through COSRX.com, Amazon, ULTA, Revolve, Dermstore, Nordstrom and Target. COSRX is also on Instagram and TikTok.

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