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CyberRisk Alliance, a business intelligence company serving cybersecurity clients, acquires LaunchTech Communications. LaunchTech, founded in 2015, creates communications strategies to build awareness and credibility among both technical and non-technical audiences for early-stage technology companies. LaunchTech founder and managing director Wayne Schepens will continue in his current capacity, with ongoing operating responsibility for the agency’s business strategy, operations and team. "The addition of LaunchTech to CRA’s portfolio will provide our clients new avenues to boost brand awareness, reach critical new audiences, bolster coverage and relationships with industry reporters and analysts, and increase valuation,” said CRA executive VP Marcus Witte.
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FINN Partners and the Future Communicators Foundation award Alise Sloan the FINN Partners FCF Scholarship in Public Relations and Journalism at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University. The scholarship fosters student research into communicating solutions and awareness around climate justice. Sloan won for her Love Earth Campaign, which educates the public about the dangers of plastic pollution in Florida while addressing the environmental deprivation that impacts the most vulnerable communities. Financially supported by FINN Partners, the $2500 FCF Scholarship is awarded annually to a senior undergraduate in public relations and journalism at FAMU. "FINN Partners is wholly committed to providing opportunities for students to advance their academic and professional development," said FINN global chief diversity officer Helen Shelton.
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Penta, a comprehensive stakeholder solutions firm, launches its global artificial intelligence task force. The task force puts Penta’s data scientists side-by-side with public policy experts and strategists to provide clients with AI-powered capabilities as well as a deep understanding of an evolving regulatory framework. It will be co-led by Alberto Lopez-Valenzuela, senior partner, intelligence based in London, and Andrea Christianson, partner, strategy in Washington, DC and will draw on the expertise of Penta from around the world. Penta currently supports clients on the issue of generative AI through such services as message development and refinement, global regulatory landscape analyses, stakeholder mapping and vetting, media monitoring, and creative development and advertising. “Staying ahead means having a finger on the pulse of AI developments and creating thoughtful, flexible frameworks to understand and engage employees, political actors, customers, and investors,” said Christianson.
Precision Strategies, an integrated strategy and marketing agency with offices in Washington and New York, acquires Firehouse Strategies, a DC-based public affairs firm... AVENIR GLOBAL acquires London-based Thinks Insight & Strategy... Good Company, which bills itself as a “cultural engineering firm,” is launched by DJ Hardy, a veteran of Johannesburg-based communications consultancy arxna and M&C Saatchi Sport & Entertainment and Casey Stickles, who has worked at 5WPR, Rubenstein and MWW.
PSC (Princeton Strategic Communications) acquires Nonprofit Partners... CG Life launches 24/364, a cultural brand platform intended to drive awareness, connection and action aimed at keeping rare disease at the forefront of the health and social conversation... Interluxe Group, which focuses on brand experiences and in-person activations; Quinn, a strategic communications agency; and media and digital agency North & Warren are uniting under the Interluxe Group banner.
KITH, which provides corporate reputation and crisis preparation services, is now owned by CEO Stephanie Craig, who has been with the firm since 2021... The Marketing Cloud, a part of Stagwell, introduces several expansions to Agent Cloud, the platform it launched in October 2025 to simplify access to its AI tools and marketing assistants.... Notified launches its AI Press Release Optimizer.
V2 Communications launches its AI Visibility Solution and Earned Media at Scale, two service offerings designed to help companies increase visibility and credibility in generative search... The Public Relations Global Network brings on Greenough Communications as its Boston member agency... DBC is relaunching The DBC Industry Calendar as a free site to help communicators more easily discover relevant events and awards in the cluttered event landscape driven by the growth of webinars and online events. 
PAN releases new original research showing that a significant share of B2B citations surfaced by ChatGPT are inaccurate, misattributed or entirely fabricated, introducing a new credibility risk for brands... REQ, which has offices in DC and San Diego, opens in Phoenix... Notified introduces Market Intelligence, an addition to its all-in-one IR Hub, which gives IR teams a more streamlined way to prepare for earnings calls.
