Artificial Intelligence

ManageMy: $45 Million Closed For Expanding Agentic AI Workflows And Underwriting Automation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

ManageMy, an intelligent orchestration platform for insurers, said it has raised $45 million, including $20 million secured in a recent Series B round co-led by Ventura Capital and OCVC, with backing from BNF and a consortium of strategic leaders in traditional insurance and insurtech.

Brandlight: $30 Million Series A Raised For Enterprise AI Visibility Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Brandlight announced it has raised $30 million in Series A funding to accelerate development and scaling of its enterprise platform focused on helping brands manage AI search visibility and navigate what it described as a convergence of AI search, advertising and commerce. The round was led by Pelion Venture Partners with participation from existing investors Cardumen Capital and G20 Ventures.

ProRata.ai Appoints Michele Tobin As Chief Revenue Officer And Peter Sloterdyk As Chief Marketing Officer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

ProRata.ai, a technology company developing AI solutions focused on respecting content creators, has appointed Michele Tobin as chief revenue officer and Peter Sloterdyk as chief marketing officer. Both executives report to founder and CEO Bill Gross and will also hold the same roles at Gist, a ProRata company that provides brand-visibility products to help brands and businesses stand out as generative AI reshapes discovery and marketing.

Equal Parts: $23 Million Series A Raised To Scale AI-Enabled Independent Agency Acquisitions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Equal Parts, an Austin-based insurance platform focused on transforming independent agencies, has raised $23 million in Series A funding led by Inspired Capital. The company said the round will support expansion of its footprint, continued development of its purpose-built operating system, and progress toward a goal of $1 billion in premiums by 2028.

Simple AI: $14 Million Seed Funding Raised For Voice AI Agent Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Simple AI, a voice AI agent platform, has raised $14 million in a seed round led by First Harmonic, with participation from Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures, and True Ventures. The San Francisco-based startup said the funding will support continued development of its voice agent platform, including custom generative AI models, as well as analytics and customer insights for businesses of all sizes.

Ouster Buys StereoLabs To Build Unified Physical AI Sensing And Perception Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Ouster announced it has closed its acquisition of StereoLabs SAS, expanding the company's offering beyond lidar to a single, unified sensing and perception platform for “Physical AI.” The deal adds stereo cameras, AI vision software, and a large developer and customer community to Ouster’s portfolio. Ouster said the combined platform brings together high-performance digital lidar, cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion and perception software, and AI models, positioning the company to serve customers who want vision and lidar integrated rather than deployed separately.

Dono: $6.5 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI-Based Property Records Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Dono, an AI-powered property records platform that turns fragmented county records into usable ownership data, announced it has raised a $6.5 million seed round, bringing total funding to $10.2 million. The round was led by Link Ventures with participation from lool VC and Alumni Ventures.

Uptool: $6 Million Seed Funding Closed for Helping U.S. Shops Quote 10x Faster

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Uptool, an AI manufacturing software startup, has emerged from stealth and introduced its first product aimed at removing a major bottleneck for U.S. small and midsize manufacturers: quoting. The company says its AI quoting software helps machine and fabrication shops cut quoting time from hours to minutes, allowing them to respond faster, win more work, and raise shop utilization as demand and complexity in hardware supply chains continue to rise.

Bretton AI: $75 Million Series B Secured For Financial Crime Compliance Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Bretton AI, formerly Greenlite AI, said it has raised a $75 million Series B funding round and rebranded as Bretton AI as it expands its mission to define how AI is deployed across financial crime operations in regulated financial institutions. The round was led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued participation from existing investors Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Canvas Ventures, and Y Combinator. New investors include TIAA Ventures. Sapphire Ventures Partner Rajeev Dham has joined Bretton AI’s board. The company said the financing comes less than one year after its Series A.

Pelgo: $5.5 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI-Based Career Transition Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Pelgo, an AI-based career transition agent, said it has raised $5.5 million in seed funding to support product development, expand its AI and engineering teams, and fuel go-to-market efforts ahead of an initial product launch in early February. The round was led by Flybridge Capital Partners, with participation from ENIAC Ventures, Primary Venture Partners, and 645 Ventures.

Trener Robotics Raises $32 Million Series A For Agentic Physical AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

Trener Robotics, formerly known as T-Robotics, said it has raised a $32 million Series A round to scale Acteris, its agentic AI platform that brings “physical intelligence” to industrial automation by enabling software-defined control of robots. The round was co-led by Engine Ventures and IAG Capital Partners, with participation from strategic investors Cadence and Geodesic Capital through Nikon’s NFocus Fund. Trener said the financing comes on the heels of its seed round and brings total funding to over $38 million.

BotGauge AI Raises $2 Million Seed Funding For Autonomous QA Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 10, 2026

BotGauge AI, a U.S.-headquartered autonomous quality-assurance-as-a-solution startup, has raised $2 million in funding led by Surface Ventures, with participation from IA Seed Ventures and Saka Ventures.

Gather AI: $40 Million Series B Secured To Scale Logistics Intelligence Globally

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

Gather AI, a Pittsburgh-based Physical AI company focused on warehouse and intralogistics operations, has raised $40 million in Series B funding to expand its platform across global logistics and manufacturing networks. The round was led by Smith Point Capital Management, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Tribeca Venture Partners, Bling Capital, Dundee Venture Capital, XRC Ventures, and new investor The Hillman Company. The company said it has raised $74 million to date.

ActiveCampaign Acquires Feedback Intelligence AI Evaluation Tool

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

ActiveCampaign announced it has acquired Feedback Intelligence, an AI evaluation and analytics platform that turns raw agent and user conversations into actionable insights to improve AI performance over time.

Datarails Launches Spend Control To Eliminate Zombie Subscriptions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

Datarails, an AI-powered platform that provides finance leaders with a single source of truth across core CFO office workflows, has launched Spend Control, a new product designed to centralize and automate how companies manage vendor contracts and subscription spend.

Avidian Wealth Solutions Adds Troy Taylor As Partner And Senior Wealth Advisor

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

Avidian Wealth Solutions has announced a strategic partnership with Troy Taylor, CFP, bringing him into the firm as a Partner and Senior Wealth Advisor. The Houston-based, employee-owned fiduciary wealth manager said the move adds an experienced advisor and leader to its growing team as it continues to expand its platform and client service capabilities.

OpenAI Reveals GPT-5.3-Codex, A Faster ‘Agentic’ Coding Model Built For Long-Running Work

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new Codex model positioned as a step beyond “code helper” to a more agentic system that can handle long-running, multi-step work on a computer. The company says GPT-5.3-Codex combines the frontier coding strengths of GPT-5.2-Codex with the reasoning and professional knowledge capabilities of GPT-5.2, and that it runs about 25% faster for Codex users.

Google Gemini Surpasses 750 Million Monthly Active Users

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

Google says the Gemini app has surpassed 750 million monthly active users, a milestone the company disclosed in CEO Sundar Pichai’s prepared remarks for Alphabet’s Q4 2025 earnings call. In the transcript, Pichai said the Gemini user base has grown alongside “significantly higher engagement per user,” which he tied to the December launch of Gemini 3.

Pendo Acquires Chisel Labs To Expand Agentic AI For Product Teams

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 9, 2026

Pendo, a software experience management platform, has acquired Chisel Labs, an AI-powered product management platform headquartered in San Francisco and Pune, India, as it deepens its focus on agentic AI to accelerate core product workflows.

Firmus: AI Infrastructure Company Secures $10 Billion Financing To Scale Energy-Efficient Factories

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 8, 2026

AI infrastructure company Firmus announced it has secured a US$10 billion debt financing facility led by funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities, Blackstone Credit & Insurance, and affiliated funds, with additional support from Coatue, to fund the next phase of Project Southgate, a national rollout of the company’s AI Factory platform based on the NVIDIA DSX reference architecture.

Woven Solutions Buys Apira Technologies To Expand Cyber And Information Operations Capabilities

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 8, 2026

Woven Solutions, a provider of AI-enabled mission software for national security customers, has acquired Apira Technologies, a developer of software tools used in sensitive cyber and information operations. Woven said Apira’s patent-pending commercial technology strengthens its ability to support a broader range of virtual and cyber operations tied to high-priority missions.

Capalo AI: €11 Million Raised For Battery Storage And Renewable Asset Optimizer Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 8, 2026

Capalo AI announced it has raised €11 million to accelerate international expansion and scale the optimization and trading of battery energy storage systems across Europe, including stand-alone assets and batteries co-located with wind or solar farms.

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.