Artificial Intelligence

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.

Cadastral: $9.5 Million Raised To Build ‘AI Analyst In A Box’

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Cadastral, an AI-native software company building vertically specific intelligence for the commercial real estate industry, has raised $9.5 Million in funding from Navitas, JLL Spark Global Ventures, AvalonBay, Equity Residential, and 1Sharpe.

Goodfire: $150 Million Series B At $1.25 Billion Valuation Raised For Interpretability AI Lab

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Goodfire, an AI research lab focused on interpretability for understanding and designing neural networks, has raised a $150 million Series B round at a $1.25 billion valuation, according to the company. The financing was led by B Capital, with participation from existing investors Juniper Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, South Park Commons, and Wing Venture Capital, as well as new investors including DFJ Growth, Salesforce Ventures, and Eric Schmidt.

Midas: $10 Million Raised For AI Verification Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Midas, an AI security and reliability company focused on mathematical verification, has launched publicly after closing a $10 million funding round led by Nova Global. The company says it is building a “mathematical trust infrastructure” to ensure AI outputs and underlying reasoning are provably correct before they are used in real-world systems where mistakes are costly.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 Adds 1M-Token Context Window And New Agentic Coding, API, And Office Tool Updates

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.6, positioning the model as an upgrade to its Opus line with stronger coding performance, more deliberate planning, and improved reliability on longer, more agentic workflows. The company says Opus 4.6 is better at operating in large codebases, conducting code reviews, and debugging by catching its own mistakes, while also applying those improvements to everyday knowledge work tasks such as financial analysis, research, and building documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.

Turnstile: $29 Million Closed For AI-First Quote-To-Cash Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Turnstile has launched an AI-first quote-to-cash platform aimed at sales-led B2B SaaS startups, debuting with $29 million in funding from First Round, OMERS Ventures, Illuminate Financial, and a group of angel investors.

Flock AI: $6 Million Seed Funding Closed To Scale One-to-One Visual Commerce For Fashion and Retail

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Flock AI, an AI-native visual commerce platform built for fashion and retail, has raised a $6 million seed round led by Work-Bench, bringing total funding to $7.5 million. The round also included participation from January Ventures, Red Bike Capital, Outlander VC, AI Furnace, and strategic angels.

Duna: €30 Million Series A Raised For AI Native Business Identity Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Duna, an identity fintech founded by two Stripe alumni, has raised a €30 million Series A to expand its AI native business identity platform for regulated enterprises. The round was led by CapitalG, Alphabet’s independent growth fund, with participation from existing investors Index Ventures and Puzzle Ventures, as well as Snowflake Chairman Frank Slootman.

Cerebras: AI Chipmaker Raises $1 Billion Series H At About $23 Billion Valuation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Cerebras Systems, an AI chipmaker focused on wafer-scale processors for training and inference, said it has closed a $1 billion Series H financing at a post-money valuation of approximately $23 billion. The company said the round was led by Tiger Global and included participation from Benchmark, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Atreides Management, Alpha Wave Global, Altimeter, AMD, Coatue, and 1789 Capital, among others.

Airrived: $6.1 Million Seed Funding Raised For Enterprise Security and IT Agentic OS Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Airrived launched from stealth on Thursday with $6.1 million in seed funding to bring agentic AI into the core of enterprise cybersecurity, IT, and business operations. The round was led by Cannage Capital, with participation from Plug and Play Ventures, Rebellion Ventures, and Inner Loop Capital, along with strategic investments from cybersecurity veterans Manoj Apte, Mahendra Ramsinghani, and Saqib E. Awan.