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OMNICOM MEDIA OFFICIALLY LAUNCHES HEARTS UNITED

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New Agency Brings Together OM’s Hearts & Science and Mediahub to Create a New 40-Market Global Network

Hearts United debuts as a leader in new business, outperforming its competitors globally and in EMEA, and topping the US ranking 

NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Omnicom Media, an Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) Connected Capability, today officially launched Hearts United, a new global media agency created through the combination of its Hearts & Science and Mediahub networks.

Bringing together two high-growth challenger organizations with complementary capabilities, cultures and geographic strengths, Hearts United is built to help ambitious brands navigate a media environment where influence moves continuously across platforms, creators, communities, commerce, and AI.

“Hearts & Science helped pioneer data-driven decision-making, while Mediahub broke new ground by proving media could serve as a creative platform,” says Omnicom Media CEO Florian Adamski. “In bringing them together as Hearts United, we have created a new globally scaled network built from complementary strengths, approaches and footprints, and grounded in the shared principle of putting client growth at the heart of every decision.”

The new agency – which operates across 40 markets and represents approximately $9.1 billion in 2025 billings – launched following sustained growth at both organizations. Between 2021 and 2025, Hearts & Science increased its billings by 50%, while Mediahub grew 33% – momentum that has continued into 2026. As result, the new agency debuts with one of the best new business performances in the industry as tracked by the COMvergence real-time dashboards, currently ranking #1 in the US YTD in total new business (wins minus losses, including retentions), and #3 globally and in EMEA, outperforming agencies that are up to three times its size.

Four principles define the new agency’s approach:

Outcomes-oriented: An evolving commercial model connects the agency’s success with client growth, putting accountability into the operating model.Predictive by design: AI is embedded into workflows and the operating model to expand capacity, strengthen human judgment and give talent more time to solve higher-value problems.Ecosystem mastery: Teams plan holistically across the platforms, communities, creators, and commerce environments where attention and influence move, rather than treating channels as isolated decisions.Focused and senior-led: Expert teams work as extensions of clients’ organizations, reducing silos and handoffs while bringing senior guidance and diverse expertise to the work.

Like its sibling Omnicom Media agencies OMD, Initiative, PHD and UM, Hearts United will leverage the singular advantages and assets of the world’s largest global media network in scale, data & technology, identity, commerce capabilities, and talent to deliver disproportionate growth for its clients.

Hearts United will be led in the U.S. by Nicole Estebanell, who previously served as CEO of Mediahub U.S., and in EMEA by Ross Jenkins, who led Mediahub across that region. Both leaders bring experience scaling high-growth businesses while maintaining the entrepreneurial cultures and client relationships that drove their success. Their counterparts in APAC and LATAM are expected to be announced in Q4.

Hearts United joins the Omnicom Media agency portfolio as the group has the best 2026 YTD total new business performance among all global media groups for 2026 – including earning more new client billings ($4.1b) than any other group – resulting from a streak of wins including Adidas, Delta, Dyson, IBM, Mark Anthony Brands, Novo Nordisk, On, and Subway.

For more information visit www.heartsunited.com.

About Hearts United
Operating across 40 markets, Omnicom Media agency Hearts United combines media, data, technology, creativity, and commerce to help brands create momentum in a world where people move continuously across platforms, creators, communities, and AI. Built around the belief that growth requires motion, Hearts United was designed to find what others overlook, turn insight into action, and make brands more attention-worthy, crave-worthy, and shop-worthy in an AI-mediated world.

As part of Omnicom Media, the world’s largest global media network, Hearts United gives clients the speed, agility and entrepreneurial culture of a challenger agency, combined with Omnicom Media’s unparalleled advantages in scale, data, identity, commerce capabilities, and talent. The result is a connected growth system designed to deliver disproportionate impact for ambitious brands, regardless of their size or category.

CONTACT: isabelle.gauvry@omc.com 

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AiPrise Launches Token Sharing to Reduce Duplicate Compliance Checks

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AiPrise Token Sharing infrastructure enables financial institutions to securely exchange verified customer information, eliminate duplicate compliance work, and collaborate on ongoing compliance requests.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPrise, an AI-powered global compliance and verification platform, today announced the launch of AiPrise Token Sharing, a new capability that lets two companies working on the same transaction securely share verified customer information. Each institution keeps full control over its own compliance requirements and decisions.

Repeat business verifications on AiPrise have increased sixfold over the past year, with some businesses verified by as many as 13 different companies over the platform’s history. The growth reflects how payments now move: a single cross-border transaction can involve an on-ramp, a payout partner and local banking providers, each with its own onboarding.

Each of those companies typically collects the same documents and runs its own Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks, even when another institution has already verified the information. For compliance teams, that means duplicated work. For the business, it means slower onboarding and delayed transactions.

AiPrise Token Sharing is built to remove that duplication. Rather than sharing only a pass-or-fail verification result, it gives participating companies access to the underlying evidence, including the information provided, checks performed, sources consulted and supporting audit trail. With the verified party’s consent, receiving companies can reuse checks that meet their own requirements, request additional information where necessary and make their own compliance decisions.

alfred, BlindPay, Conduit, dLocal, KAST, Mesta, MoneyGram, nsave, Saber Money, Tazapay and Walapay are among the companies participating in the network.

Breaking Down the Compliance Silos of Global Finance

“Financial services have become deeply interconnected, but compliance is still done in isolation,” said Rushabh Shah, Co-CEO of AiPrise. “The answer isn’t asking institutions to take each other’s decisions at face value. We believe the future of compliance isn’t simply faster verification. It’s letting verified information move between institutions while each keeps its own compliance responsibilities.”

Today, when one institution passes a verification to another, compliance teams have two choices: accept the other institution’s verification as it is, or start over. AiPrise Token Sharing gives them a middle path: reuse what fits their own rules without skipping their own checks. They can reuse KYC and KYB information already collected by a partner where it meets their policy, run only the extra checks their policy requires, and raise any follow-up questions through the same token.

Unlike a one-time handoff, the token stays active for the life of the customer relationship. An institution can ask for more information or answer a request without restarting onboarding or chasing documents over email. For transactions that involve multiple financial platforms, these requests traditionally take three to five days to resolve. By letting institutions work directly through the same token, AiPrise aims to significantly reduce these delays, helping customers activate and transact sooner.

Building Compliance Infrastructure for the Global Economy

AiPrise envisions a financial system where the work behind every verification can be shared and built on across institutions, products and borders, rather than repeated with every new relationship.

Token Sharing lays the groundwork for that future, starting with transactions where institutions already work side by side.

“Businesses shouldn’t have to start from scratch every time they join a new financial platform,” said Chaitanya Sarda, CEO of AiPrise. “We know because we’ve lived it: we were KYB’d 27 times in our first six months, with each bank, payment provider and vendor asking for the same documents and checking the same registries. Verified information should be able to move with businesses as they build new financial relationships, without taking control away from the compliance teams responsible for making those decisions.”

Availability

AiPrise Token Sharing is available to AiPrise customers from today, November 12, 2026.
For more information about AiPrise Token Sharing, visit aiprise.com/features/token-sharing.

About AiPrise

AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance and verification platform. Through a single API, companies run KYB, KYC, AML screening and document verification across 200+ countries and 500+ government and business registries. AiPrise’s AI agents analyze the results and help compliance teams decide, in minutes instead of days, whether a business or individual is safe to onboard. Leading payment companies, marketplaces, neobanks, crypto platforms and financial institutions rely on AiPrise to scale their compliance, risk and fraud operations globally. AiPrise is backed by Y Combinator and headquartered in San Jose, California. Learn more at aiprise.com.

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AiPrise Launches Token Sharing to Reduce Duplicate Compliance Checks

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AiPrise Token Sharing infrastructure enables financial institutions to securely exchange verified customer information, eliminate duplicate compliance work, and collaborate on ongoing compliance requests.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AiPrise, an AI-powered global compliance and verification platform, today announced the launch of AiPrise Token Sharing, a new capability that lets two companies working on the same transaction securely share verified customer information. Each institution keeps full control over its own compliance requirements and decisions.

Repeat business verifications on AiPrise have increased sixfold over the past year, with some businesses verified by as many as 13 different companies over the platform’s history. The growth reflects how payments now move: a single cross-border transaction can involve an on-ramp, a payout partner and local banking providers, each with its own onboarding.

Each of those companies typically collects the same documents and runs its own Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks, even when another institution has already verified the information. For compliance teams, that means duplicated work. For the business, it means slower onboarding and delayed transactions.

AiPrise Token Sharing is built to remove that duplication. Rather than sharing only a pass-or-fail verification result, it gives participating companies access to the underlying evidence, including the information provided, checks performed, sources consulted and supporting audit trail. With the verified party’s consent, receiving companies can reuse checks that meet their own requirements, request additional information where necessary and make their own compliance decisions.

alfred, BlindPay, Conduit, dLocal, KAST, Mesta, MoneyGram, nsave, Saber Money, Tazapay and Walapay are among the companies participating in the network.

Breaking Down the Compliance Silos of Global Finance

“Financial services have become deeply interconnected, but compliance is still done in isolation,” said Rushabh Shah, Co-CEO of AiPrise. “The answer isn’t asking institutions to take each other’s decisions at face value. We believe the future of compliance isn’t simply faster verification. It’s letting verified information move between institutions while each keeps its own compliance responsibilities.”

Today, when one institution passes a verification to another, compliance teams have two choices: accept the other institution’s verification as it is, or start over. AiPrise Token Sharing gives them a middle path: reuse what fits their own rules without skipping their own checks. They can reuse KYC and KYB information already collected by a partner where it meets their policy, run only the extra checks their policy requires, and raise any follow-up questions through the same token.

Unlike a one-time handoff, the token stays active for the life of the customer relationship. An institution can ask for more information or answer a request without restarting onboarding or chasing documents over email. For transactions that involve multiple financial platforms, these requests traditionally take three to five days to resolve. By letting institutions work directly through the same token, AiPrise aims to significantly reduce these delays, helping customers activate and transact sooner.

Building Compliance Infrastructure for the Global Economy

AiPrise envisions a financial system where the work behind every verification can be shared and built on across institutions, products and borders, rather than repeated with every new relationship.

Token Sharing lays the groundwork for that future, starting with transactions where institutions already work side by side.

“Businesses shouldn’t have to start from scratch every time they join a new financial platform,” said Chaitanya Sarda, CEO of AiPrise. “We know because we’ve lived it: we were KYB’d 27 times in our first six months, with each bank, payment provider and vendor asking for the same documents and checking the same registries. Verified information should be able to move with businesses as they build new financial relationships, without taking control away from the compliance teams responsible for making those decisions.”

Availability

AiPrise Token Sharing is available to AiPrise customers from today, November 12, 2026.
For more information about AiPrise Token Sharing, visit aiprise.com/features/token-sharing.

About AiPrise

AiPrise is an AI-powered global compliance and verification platform. Through a single API, companies run KYB, KYC, AML screening and document verification across 200+ countries and 500+ government and business registries. AiPrise’s AI agents analyze the results and help compliance teams decide, in minutes instead of days, whether a business or individual is safe to onboard. Leading payment companies, marketplaces, neobanks, crypto platforms and financial institutions rely on AiPrise to scale their compliance, risk and fraud operations globally. AiPrise is backed by Y Combinator and headquartered in San Jose, California. Learn more at aiprise.com.

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Positron AI Named to the Inaugural 2026 AI 100 List of Top Private AI Companies

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Recognition comes amid a period of significant momentum for Positron, following its $875 million Series C and expanding AI inference deployments

RENO, Nev., Nov. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Positron AI, the AI inference hardware company built to make generative AI dramatically cheaper and more energy-efficient, today announced it has been named to the inaugural 2026 AI 100, the definitive ranking of the top 100 private AI companies in the world, published by Newcomer in collaboration with Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 recognizes leading private companies driving innovation across the AI ecosystem. Positron’s inclusion reflects its progress in bringing purpose-built inference technology to market as growing AI adoption drives demand for more cost- and energy-efficient infrastructure.

“We’re honored to be recognized among the companies shaping the future of AI,” said Mitesh Agrawal, CEO of Positron AI. “Making AI inference profitable, scalable and accessible takes advanced technology and a business and supply chain built to serve some of the world’s largest technology companies. Positron combines deep semiconductor and systems expertise with customer-driven development and investor backing to position us for growth. I’m proud of the business we’re building as we serve customers today and develop our next generation of technology, and grateful to our team, customers, partners and investors for their support.”

Positron’s recognition follows a series of major company milestones. In September, the company announced an $875 million Series C financing at a $5 billion valuation to accelerate development of its next-generation Asimov silicon, ramp production of Titan and expand manufacturing capacity. Positron has also deployed more than 50 racks of Atlas, its first-generation inference system, at Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Most recently, the company announced a partnership with General Compute, which is purchasing Atlas systems and has committed to adopting Titan to support next-generation AI workloads.

The inaugural AI 100 evaluated nominated companies and recognized category leaders across four factors: market leadership (35%), estimated valuation (30%), operating metrics (20%), and people & culture (15%). Only independent AI companies that have not had a majority strategic or private equity M&A transaction or a public listing were eligible. Honorees span foundation models, AI infrastructure and compute, developer tools and agents, AI apps, vertical AI, security, physical AI and robotics, and deeptech and AI for science.

“The artificial intelligence startup set plays by its own rules: there are upstarts with unprecedented revenue growth, companies profiting off of seemingly insatiable inference spending, highly valued speculative research labs, and wildly ambitious robotics companies. These AI native startups are already reshaping the global economy. With our friends at Bessemer, we rethought what matters for the AI age, bringing together the most promising startups harnessing foundation models to transform our digital and physical world,” said Eric Newcomer, founder of Newcomer.

“The AI 100 puts a spotlight on the top 100 companies driving the AI economy forward, built by a generation of founders moving at a speed and scale we’ve never seen before. We’re already seeing that exponential value creation play out across infra, AI applications, and physical AI. The remarkable part is that it’s still early: this inaugural cohort is just the starting point, a natural evolution of our decade-long Cloud 100 franchise,” said Byron Deeter, partner at Bessemer Venture Partners.

The inaugural AI 100 is published at ai100.newcomer.co, and was unveiled live onstage at the Cerebral Valley AI Summit in San Francisco.

About Positron AI
Positron AI builds hardware and software to make AI inference dramatically cheaper and more energy efficient. The company’s shipping product, Atlas, is deployed at hyperscaler scale today, and its next-generation custom silicon, Asimov, tapes out in late 2026 with production in the second half of 2027. Asimov powers Titan, a multi-terabyte-memory inference system for long-context and next-generation AI workloads. Positron’s energy-efficient architecture allows its systems to be deployed in air-cooled or liquid-cooled data centers at varying rack densities, without dependence on constrained HBM or CoWoS supply chains. Learn more at positron.ai.

About Newcomer
Newcomer is a media company covering the business of startups and venture capital, founded by independent journalist Eric Newcomer. We write a newsletter, produce a podcast, host technology summits, and more. https://www.newcomer.co/ 

About Bessemer Venture Partners
Bessemer Venture Partners helps entrepreneurs lay strong foundations from inception to build enduring companies. With more than 155 IPOs and 450-plus portfolio companies across industries, Bessemer supports founders and CEOs from seed through every stage of growth. Bessemer has backed industry-defining companies including Anthropic, Abridge, Canva, LinkedIn, Perplexity, Pinterest, RocketLab, Shopify, ServiceTitan, Toast, and Twilio, and has $20 billion of assets under management. Bessemer invests globally, with investment teams located in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, London, Bangalore, and Tel Aviv. www.bvp.com 

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