Artificial Intelligence

Forethought: Customers Have Achieved Over $1 Billion ROI With Agentic AI Customer Experience Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 8, 2026

Forethought, a San Francisco-based provider of agentic AI for customer experience, said it has delivered more than $1 billion in customer ROI since launching in 2018, citing reductions in ticket volume, lower support costs, and faster resolution times. The company said the milestone follows the release of three product innovations — Headless Forethought, Custom Insights, and Browser Agent — which it believes are accelerating enterprise adoption by giving organizations end-to-end control to design and deploy AI across the customer journey.

Alinea: $22.5 Million User Acquisition Financing Secured From PvX Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 8, 2026

Alinea, an AI-powered wealth management platform built for first-time investors, has secured $22.5 million in user acquisition financing from financial services firm PvX Partners. The company said the funding comes in the form of a credit facility intended to scale marketing spend and expand distribution of Alinea’s personalized wealth management product to more investors.

Vena: Agentic AI FP&A Platform To Buy Acterys

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2026

Vena announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Managility Pty Ltd, operating as Acterys, in a deal that the companies say will create a new Microsoft-native environment for “Orchestrated Planning.” The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approval.

Experian To Buy AI-Powered Mortgage Marketplace Own Up

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2026

Experian announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Own Up, an AI-powered mortgage shopping platform, in a deal aimed at expanding mortgage access and adding home-loan shopping to the Experian Marketplace.

Overland AI: $100 Million Secured For Scaling Ground Systems With U.S. Armed Forces

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2026

Overland AI announced it raised $100 million in new funding to scale operations and deployments of its autonomous ground systems with end users across the U.S. Armed Forces, as the company seeks to expand manufacturing, field support, and operational integration teams in step with growing demand. The equity round was led by 8VC and included continued participation from Point72 Ventures, Ascend Venture Capital, Shasta Ventures, and Overmatch Ventures, alongside new support from Valor Equity Partners and StepStone Group, and the total funding announced includes a $20 million venture debt facility from TriplePoint Capital.

Tomorrow.io: $175 Million Closed For Weather Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 7, 2026

Tomorrow.io announced it has raised a $175 million equity financing led by Stonecourt Capital and HarbourVest Partners to accelerate deployment of DeepSky, which the company describes as the world’s first AI-native weather satellite constellation. The Boston-based company said the capital will support rapid expansion of its space infrastructure and intelligence platform, aimed at increasing global atmospheric sensing and improving decision-making for enterprise and public-sector users.

Portal26 Launches AI Value Realization Module To Boost Enterprise ROI

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Portal26 announced it has introduced an AI Value Realization Solution to help enterprises close what it described as a significant gap between generative AI spending and measurable returns. The Los Gatos, California-based company positioned the new module as a decision support layer that uses enterprise user behavior signals to identify which AI agents, applications, and migration efforts are most likely to deliver high value, then guides organizations on how to build and deploy them.

ElevenLabs: $500 Million Series D At $11 Billion Valuation Raised For Voice AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

ElevenLabs announced that it has raised $500 million in a Series D financing round that values the voice and conversational AI company at $11 billion, more than tripling its valuation from a year earlier. The company said the round brings its total funding to $781 million across five rounds since its founding in 2022.

Pasito: $21 Million Series A Raised For Building AI Workspace For Benefits Industry

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Pasito, an AI-native workspace for group health, life, and retirement benefits, has raised $21 million in Series A funding to scale an “agentic AI” platform designed to eliminate manual work across insurance and benefits operations. The round was led by Insight Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and insurance-focused MTech Capital.

OTSAW Robotics: Interview With Founder & CEO Ting Ming Ling About The Autonomous Mobile Robot Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

OTSAW Robotics is a Singapore-based company that develops and manufactures AI-enabled autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for security, healthcare, logistics, and disinfection applications. Pulse 2.0 interviewed OTSAW Robotics founder and CEO Ting Ming Ling to learn more.

Anima: AI Design-To-Code Platform Lands IBM Strategic Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Anima announced it has received a strategic investment from IBM to accelerate enterprise adoption of “vibe coding,” which the company describes as a workflow in which product teams design and build apps by telling AI what they want. The Tel Aviv-based company positions the deal as a way to broaden enterprise uptake of its AI design-to-code platform, deepen integrations with enterprise design systems, and extend support for legacy front-end code.

Arbor: $6.3 Million Raised To Turn Frontline Voices Into Operational Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Arbor, an AI research platform focused on enterprise operations, has raised $6.3 million in combined seed and pre-seed funding as it looks to scale product development and expand its team in New York. The seed round was led by 645 Ventures, with participation from Next Play Ventures, Chaac Ventures, Comma Capital, and notable angel investors, and was followed by a previously unannounced pre-seed round.

Refute: £5 Million Raised For Scaling Military-Grade AI Across Europe

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Refute has raised a £5 million seed round to expand its AI-driven platform for detecting and countering online manipulation amid accelerating disinformation threats across Europe and beyond. The UK company says it is responding to an intensifying “hybrid warfare” environment in which threat actors are blending bot infrastructure with influencer-driven campaigns, using agentic AI to automate operations end-to-end, and increasingly targeting commercial organisations alongside governments.

Fundamental: $255 Million Raised And AWS Partnership

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Fundamental, an AI company focused on predictive intelligence from enterprise data, announced it has emerged from stealth with $255 million in funding and has publicly launched its most powerful Large Tabular Model (LTM), called NEXUS.

Snowflake: $200 Million OpenAI Partnership Brings Enterprise AI Models To Cortex AI And Intelligence

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 6, 2026

Snowflake announced a multi-year, $200 million partnership with OpenAI to help enterprises deploy AI agents and context-aware applications on governed enterprise data. The collaboration centers on co-innovation and joint go-to-market, with Snowflake and OpenAI developing customized AI solutions for shared enterprise customers.