Cyces plans to expand Looppanel’s AI-native capabilities, while keeping user insight at the center of how products get built.

New York, USA

Cyces Inc. and Obtan Technologies Inc. announced today that Cyces has acquired Looppanel, an AI-powered qualitative research platform used by UX and product teams globally.

Looppanel was founded to help companies make faster, better decisions grounded in user insight. Its platform offers capabilities including multilingual transcription, AI-assisted analysis, thematic tagging, search, and collaboration, giving UX and product teams tools to analyze research and act on insights.

“We founded Looppanel out of a simple belief: the best products are built when we listen to customers,” said Kritika Oberoi, Co-Founder and CEO of Looppanel. “Today, we’re taking the next step in that journey with Cyces expanding Looppanel’s capabilities and making it easier for teams to act on user insight.”

A Looppanel customer since 2022, Cyces has seen firsthand the value the platform brings to product development. Under Cyces, Looppanel will continue serving its existing customers without interruption while growing its feature set. Cyces said it plans to accelerate product development, expand the platform’s AI capabilities, and bring Looppanel to more teams worldwide.

“We’ve used Looppanel for the last four years, so we know the value it brings,” said Senthil Ramasamy, Founder of Cyces, a tech company with operations in the US and India. “AI has made software much easier to build. We see user research as the layer that decides whether a product succeeds or not. We’re looking forward to bringing Looppanel to more teams around the world and showing them what it can do.”

“This acquisition is a natural fit for Cyces’s product DNA. Looppanel is a great product, and we’re excited to help shape its next chapter. Our roadmap is moving towards agentic UX research,” said Kalidass Rajasekar, Head of Product, Cyces.

As the future of research and work continues to change, Cyces said its investment in Looppanel will support continued development of the product and its AI capabilities.

“From day one we have built AI systems that could understand the complexity of qualitative research without taking control away,” said Akash Tandon, Co-Founder and CPTO of Looppanel. “We’re excited to see Cyces’s engineering team expand what’s possible with AI and Looppanel.”

Looppanel works with UX and product teams globally. The company presented at TechCrunch Disrupt and was part of Sequoia Capital’s Spark cohort for early-stage startups.

About Looppanel

Looppanel helps product and UX teams analyze, organize, search and share qualitative user research through its AI-powered platform. For more information, visit looppanel.com.

About Cyces

Cyces, an AI-first product studio, has partnered with enterprises and growing companies across the US, India, the Middle East and Australia to build software products in industries including finance, healthcare and energy. The company also builds and operates its own software products, with applied AI taking a central role. For more information, visit cyces.co.

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Singapore

Tujamo confirmed for a 3,000-capacity night at one of Asia’s most storied venues, with a headliner announcement still to come.

The Best Event, the production house behind more than 130 events across 24 cities globally, will bring AFTERDARK to Singapore’s Capitol Theatre on October 5 — a single, standalone night built for the week Token2049 and the Singapore Grand Prix collide on the same calendar. Tujamo is confirmed on the lineup, with a headliner announcement still to come and additional artists to be named in the following weeks. 

The Best Event is expecting more than 5,000 registrations for a room that holds 3,000. GA is free, but entry isn’t guaranteed — VIP is the only way to lock your spot, and doors open early for everyone else on a first come, first served basis.

Tickets are live now at luma.com/tbe-afterdark.

AFTERDARK lands ten minutes from Marina Bay Sands, the same week The Best Event also runs CoinFerenceX × The Best Event Singapore during the day on October 5th and 6th— giving the city back-to-back marquee events during the industry’s most concentrated week of the year.

“AFTERDARK is where we’re going all in,” said Tobias Bauer, Co-Founder of The Best Event and General Partner at TBV. “We built this night from the ground up for the people who travel around the world and trust our events to meet the leaders of our industry — builders, investors, institutions, creators who are tired of the same formula and want a night that matches the scale of what they’re building. Capitol Theatre, a headline lineup, and the full weight of our production behind it. This sets the bar for what a Web3 event night looks like in Singapore, our home market.”

Two Nights in One

The evening opens with two hours of VIP-only networking, anchored by a KOL Awards ceremony on the main stage — before doors open to General Admission, first come, first served.

The lineup is confirmed so far by Tujamo, the German electro-house producer behind chart-topping collaborations with Steve Aoki, Chris Lake, and Plastik Funk, and a fixture on festival mainstages worldwide, and Ariel Estrella, the Afro House DJ and producer who’s built a global following from Europe to Asia. A headliner announcement — along with more tier-one names — is coming in the weeks ahead.

The Best Event is planned for a crowd of more than 5,000, with VIP networking, global press and media coverage on the night to match. It’s shaping up to be one of the most talked-about nights of Token2049 week.

The Venue

Capitol Theatre isn’t a standard rental — it’s Singapore’s restored art deco landmark, and one of the only venues in the region built with a fully convertible, rotational seating system that flips from tiered theatre to open dance floor in under eight minutes. The stage has hosted private performances from Ed Sheeran, Eric Prydz, Calum Scott, Tinashe, Yungblud, The Darkness, Passenger, and The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. It’s the rare room built for both spectacle and a proper dance floor — which is exactly what this night needs.

Event Details

Event: The Best Event: AFTERDARK
Date: Monday, October 5, 2026
Location: Capitol Theatre, 17 Stamford Road, Singapore 178907
Lineup: Tujamo, Ariel Estrella, and more tier-one artists to be announced
Tickets: https://luma.com/tbe-afterdark
Admission: GA is free, but capacity is limited to 3,000 and 5,000+ registrations are expected — entry is not guaranteed. VIP ticket holders get guaranteed priority access; GA is first come, first served, so arrive early. VIP is strongly recommended while early bird pricing lasts.

About The Best Event

The Best Event is the global event series where Web3 comes to life. With over 130+ events organised across 24+ cities, and 60,000 guests, The Best Event is a leader in the space. From bespoke and intimate meetups, to large-scale parties at the likes of Marquee and E11even Miami, we bring together the boldest creators, top brands, and visionaries shaping the future for unforgettable experiences.

For partnerships and sponsorship inquiries, email Mihir Odhrani at [email protected].

$1 Million Allocation Offers 500,000 NVIDIA H200 GPU Hours at $2 Per Hour With No Expiration and Lifetime Lowest-Cost Match in North America

CALGARY, AB, September 17, 2026

Infinidium Power Corp. today announced its Founding Customer Program, offering enterprises, AI developers, cloud compute users and service providers early access to its proprietary Vortex Vacuum Chamber [VVC] AI infrastructure.

The program offers $1 million of NVIDIA H200 capacity at $2 per GPU hour, representing 500,000 GPU hours with no expiration. Founding customers receive priority access to the initial 16-GPU deployment, preferred future capacity and a lifetime lowest-cost match in North America for comparable, verifiable H200 enterprise pricing, subject to definitive agreements.

Free cooling is the breakthrough. Net-positive energy and heat recovery in one envelope is the destination.

The VVC is designed to address four major constraints confronting AI infrastructure: cooling, power demand, capital cost and deployment time.

VVC Removes the Cooling Cost Layer

VVC removes the cooling cost layer from the data center. By eliminating conventional electrical cooling, cooling-water systems, refrigerants and major mechanical cooling equipment, the architecture is designed to reduce both capital and operating costs to a small fraction of conventional systems.

The VVC is grounded in established fluid mechanics and thermodynamics: Navier–Stokes, continuity, Boussinesq buoyancy, Archimedes’ principle, hydrostatic pressure, stack/chimney effect, natural convection, thermal stratification, boundary-layer heat transfer, Fourier’s law, Newton’s law of cooling, Bernoulli/continuity flow, Reynolds/Grashof/Rayleigh/Nusselt relationships, and conservation of energy. Together these principles explain the VVC’s heat-driven airflow, pressure differential, heat transfer, and exhaust heat recovery, with CFD and prototype testing providing supporting validation.

Rapid Permitting

VVC is designed to be deployed as server-room infrastructure within existing commercial, office and industrial space, avoiding the need for the extensive greenfield development approvals associated with conventional data centers.

With limited modifications such as rooftop ventilation, electrical upgrades and connectivity, the approach is designed to simplify permitting and potentially accelerate deployment in days compared with the months or years associated with conventional data-center development. Infinidium currently targets initial customer compute within 45 days, subject to procurement, commissioning and site-specific requirements.

A Global AI Infrastructure Bottleneck

The world now operates approximately 11,800 data centers, while AI is driving dramatically higher power densities and cooling requirements.

Industry tracking reported by major financial publications indicates that at least $156 billion of data center projects were blocked or stalled by local opposition in 2025. Texas alone has more than 1,800 projects in its large-load queue representing over 474 GW of potential demand, with approximately 90% associated with data centers, as the state moves to audit projects before new grid connections proceed. In Europe, European Commission research identifies limited access to energy and lengthy permitting procedures among significant obstacles to scaling data-center infrastructure.

JLL reports 57% of global data center projects experienced construction delays of three months or more in 2025, while the average global construction time for a 50 MW facility is approximately 18 months.

Infinidium is designed to address this bottleneck by reducing the infrastructure required to deploy high-density compute and enabling suitable existing buildings to become AI infrastructure.

Turning Thermal Waste Into an Energy Opportunity

Typically 85% of electricity consumed by servers converts into heat. Conventional infrastructure then spends additional energy, capital and, in many facilities, water and/or refrigerants to remove that heat. The VVC is designed to eliminate the conventional cooling cycle while harvesting value from the resulting thermal energy that is otherwise released into the environment.

Kinetic heat escaping from the VVC is captured and returned as internal power regeneration as hot cold side walls enable additional heat recovery. The architecture utilizes 3 phases of proven technologies that can lower external power beyond 30% in total.

Nvidia Strategic Positioning

Infinidium is an NVIDIA Inception Partner and is collaborating with Dell Technologies on enterprise computing infrastructure customizations under warranty. The passive cooling mechanism is supported by independent extensive CFD analysis, feasibility studies and prototype testing.

Sustainability Creates Additional Value

VVC is designed to operate without water-based cooling, refrigerants or conventional electrical cooling systems. The architecture also creates opportunities to recover waste heat and reintegrate a portion of that energy as supplemental onsite power.

Company modeling identifies approximately 1,400 tonnes of CO₂e avoidance per year per 5 MW deployment, with potential future GHG-credit monetization subject to measurement, verification and applicable methodologies.

Founding Customer Program and Pre-IPO/Seed Round

The Founding Customer allocation is capped at $1 million and will close upon allocation.

Separately, Infinidium is advancing its $1 million Seed Round at a $9 million pre-money valuation, with Castle Placement as placement partner. Proceeds are intended for GPU and hardware procurement, VVC fabrication, integration and working capital.

Paul Grist, Founder and CEO

“AI is becoming constrained by the physical systems required to power and cool it,” said Paul Grist, Founder and CEO of Infinidium Power. “Virtually all electricity consumed by computing hardware ultimately becomes heat, and we then spend more energy, capital and water to remove it. VVC is designed to eliminate that conventional cooling cycle, recover value from thermal waste, and put high-performance compute into existing buildings that can deploy far faster.”

About Infinidium Power Corp.

Infinidium Power Corp. is developing the Vortex Vacuum Chamber, a next-generation AI infrastructure platform designed to eliminate conventional electrical cooling, reduce external power demand through thermal recovery, and enable high-density compute inside existing commercial, industrial and other suitable buildings. The company is based in Calgary, AB.

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Technical disclosure: Prototype results support the underlying passive cooling mechanism. Heat recovery, power reintegration, CAPEX and OPEX savings, external power-demand reductions, GHG avoidance and deployment timelines are developmental or modeled targets and remain subject to commercial-scale validation and site-specific conditions. Customer pricing, the lifetime lowest-cost match and other program terms are subject to verification and definitive agreements. Seed financing is subject to applicable offering documents, securities laws and investor eligibility requirements.

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