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GoPro retains investment bankers Houlihan Lokey to advise on potential sale Investments News 

GoPro retains investment bankers Houlihan Lokey to advise on potential sale

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GoPro, Inc. announced it has retained Houlihan Lokey, Inc., a leading global investment bank with strong ties to defense and consumer sectors, to serve as its financial advisor as the company evaluates a potential sale and other strategic alternatives. This engagement follows GoPro’s announcement that it has initiated a process to evaluate several unsolicited inbound strategic inquiries from parties across... Read More
FotoNation, SEMFIVE announce collaboration for development of TriSilica perceptual AI chip family using Samsung Foundry Investments Partnerships 

FotoNation, SEMFIVE announce collaboration for development of TriSilica perceptual AI chip family using Samsung Foundry

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FotoNation Ltd., a Galway, Ireland-based perception recognition company, and SEMIFIVE Inc., a leading global provider of custom AI semiconductor solutions, announced a strategic collaboration agreement under which SEMIFIVE will lead turnkey development for TriSilica, FotoNation’s ultra-low-power perceptual AI chip family. TriSilica is an ultra-low-power, compact-footprint perceptual AI silicon platform designed to support multimodal sensor inputs, including audio, mmWave, spectral, infrared,... Read More
OM Digital Solutions CEO becomes principal shareholder Investments People on the Move 

OM Digital Solutions CEO becomes principal shareholder

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Changes are afoot in the management of OM Digital Solutions, the successor of Olympus cameras. Last week, the company announced a “change in its shareholder structure,” where its president and CEO Shigemi Sugimoto becomes the principal shareholder in the company. Simultaneously, Japan Industrial Partners, the private equity firm that bought Olympus’ camera business in 2021  announced its own change in... Read More
Captur raises $6M seed round real-world image capture solutions Investments News 

Captur raises $6M seed round real-world image capture solutions

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Captur announced a $6 million US seed round led by Rally Ventures, with continued participation from existing investor Sure Valley Ventures (SVV). Captur’s technology runs directly on users’ phones, analyzing images in 30 milliseconds without requiring an internet connection or costly cloud tokens. Captur processes tens of millions of images monthly across delivery, mobility and e-commerce platforms. The company’s mobile... Read More
Nikon is spending $159 million to update lens manufacturing Investments News 

Nikon is spending $159 million to update lens manufacturing

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Nikon Corp. has officially commenced the construction of two major new buildings at its Tochigi Nikon subsidiary, marked by a ground-breaking ceremony held on Jan. 7, 2026. Located in Otawara City, Tochigi Prefecture, this expansion represents a significant investment of approximately 25 billion yen and is designed to modernise and reinforce Nikon’s core production capabilities for high-precision optical technology, the... Read More
Kodak completes pension reversion process, freeing up $1 billion Investments News 

Kodak completes pension reversion process, freeing up $1 billion

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Eastman Kodak Co. announced it has completed the reversion process for the $1.023 billion in excess pension assets held in the company-funded Kodak Retirement Income Plan (“KRIP”), the final step in the previously disclosed KRIP transition. The move provides Kodak with a substantial liquidity boost and further stabilizes its long-term financial outlook.  Approximately $767 million of the excess assets were... Read More
Bloomberg: General Atlantic looking to provide $2 billion debt financing to Shutterfly Investments News 

Bloomberg: General Atlantic looking to provide $2 billion debt financing to Shutterfly

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Bloomberg reports that debt-burdened photo personalization leader Shutterfly is in talks with private credit lenders led by General Atlantic are in talks to provide about $2 billion of debt, citing “people with knowledge of the matter.” Proceeds would refinance some of the company’s high-yield bonds and leveraged loans, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing a private transaction. The... Read More
Axios: Photography service Snappr launches in Europe after raising $28 million Investments 

Axios: Photography service Snappr launches in Europe after raising $28 million

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Axios reports Snappr, a service for connecuting customers to professional photographers, is expanding to Europe after raising a $28 million Series B round. CEO Matt Schiller told Axios: “We have brands that have done hundreds of thousands of shoots with us. They have particular needs and specs, we have an app that creators can use to access the brand... Read More
EssilorLuxottica can raise Nikon stake to 20% Investments News 

EssilorLuxottica can raise Nikon stake to 20%

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French-Italian eyewear maker EssilorLuxottica has secured permission to raise its stake in Nikon Inc. to as much as 20% under Japan’s Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Act, Nikon said in a press release. The maker of Ray-Ban sunglasses has also raised its holding in Nikon to 10.8% from 9.6% to become the largest shareholder. As previously announced, EssilorLuxottica has been... Read More
Camera Intelligence (formerly Alice Camera) closes $2 million seed funding for its LLM-powered camera Investments News 

Camera Intelligence (formerly Alice Camera) closes $2 million seed funding for its LLM-powered camera

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Camera Intelligence, formerly known as Alice Camera, the company building an AI-powered camera system for content creators and businesses, announced the closure of its $2 million seed funding round. The round, which included investment from venture capital firms Betaworks, F4 Fund, Next Wave via Flybridge, 7pc ventures, and Digital Catapult, will accelerate the development of its integrated AI-native camera and... Read More
Platinum Equity announces Kodak Alaris recapitalization Investments News 

Platinum Equity announces Kodak Alaris recapitalization

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Beverly Hills, Calif.-based Platinum Equity led a recapitalization for Kodak Alaris, which operates Kodak Moments, a global provider of film and photo solutions, and Alaris, a provider of data capture and processing solutions to enterprises and consumers. Platinum Equity is a investment firm with approximately $50 billion of assets under management and a portfolio of approximately 60 operating companies, including Jostens.... Read More
European AI portrait startup BetterPic announces $2.5 million seed funding Investments 

European AI portrait startup BetterPic announces $2.5 million seed funding

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BetterPic, a European AI startup specializing in AI imaging, announced a USD $2.5 million seed funding round as it positions itself among Europe’s new wave of AI challengers. The round was led by MOC Capital and Shilling VC, with participation from several tech and fashion leaders, the company said in a press release. The company achieved significant traction before this... Read More
Xerox reports second-quarter results, ties in with Kyocera Document Solutions for cut-sheet inkjet press Earnings reports Investments News 

Xerox reports second-quarter results, ties in with Kyocera Document Solutions for cut-sheet inkjet press

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Xerox Holdings Corp. reported second-quarter revenue was flat, at $1.58 billion, while the GAAP net loss declined by declined by $124 million to $(106) million, or $(0.87) per shar. “Completing the Lexmark acquisition marks an important milestone in the company’s Reinvention, creating a vertically integrated market leader with a broader, differentiated set of workflow and technology solutions for our clients... Read More
PhotoDay lands investment to scale AI-driven photo platform from Serent Capital Investments 

PhotoDay lands investment to scale AI-driven photo platform from Serent Capital

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PhotoDay, a volume photography platform company, secured a significant growth investment from Serent Capital, a growth-focused private equity firm with a track record of supporting founder-led B2B software companies. The partnership will support PhotoDay’s mission to transform the volume photography industry through continued investment in innovation, customer experience, and product development, the company said in a press release. The amount... Read More
Insta360 goes public on Shanghai stock market Investments News 

Insta360 goes public on Shanghai stock market

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On June 11, 2025, Chinese camera maker Insta360 made a splashy debut on Shanghai’s STAR Market, with its stock surging 285% on opening day and its market capitalization briefly topping ¥70 billion (over $10 billion). Founder JK Liu rang the opening bell while wielding an Insta360 X5 panoramic camera, marking him as the first 1990s-born founder to lead a company to China’s... Read More