Artificial Intelligence

Certivo: $4 Million Seed Funding Raised For AI-Native Compliance Automation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 18, 2026

Certivo, an AI-powered supply chain compliance management platform, announced it has raised $4 million in seed funding to accelerate the launch of what it describes as the AI-native compliance automation category. The round was led by Suffolk Technologies with participation from Pioneer Square Ventures and other investors.

Sphinx: $7.1 Million Seed Funding Closed To Scale Browser-Native Agents For Financial Institutions

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 18, 2026

Sphinx, a compliance automation platform that builds browser-native agents for financial institutions, announced it has raised $7.1 million in seed funding to expand its agent workforce and support growing demand from banks and fintechs managing anti-money laundering and onboarding operations. The round was led by Cherry Ventures, with participation from Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Deel Ventures, and Singularity Capital.

QuadSci: $8 Million Series A Raised For Customer Intelligence AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 18, 2026

QuadSci, a predictive and prescriptive AI platform for customer intelligence, has raised $8 million in a Series A financing round to accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market operations. The round was led by Crosslink Capital, with participation from Alumni Ventures, Correlation Ventures, and angel investors Shail Jain, Peter Gibson, Tom Roloff, and Rob Eberle.

Odyssey Secures Investment From NVentures And Samsung Next For AI Research Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Odyssey, an artificial intelligence research company focused on frontier world models, has announced a new investment from NVentures, the venture capital arm of NVIDIA, and Samsung Next. The funding will support the company’s push to develop a general-purpose world simulator capable of generating infinitely long, interactive simulations from any starting point.

Render: $100 Million Series C Extension At $1.5 Billion Valuation Raised For Modern Cloud Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Render has raised $100 million in a Series C extension at a $1.5 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $258 million as it doubles down on building infrastructure for AI-native software companies.

Cisco Expands AgenticOps Innovations Across Networking, Security, And Observability

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Cisco Systems has unveiled a new wave of AgenticOps innovations designed to reimagine how IT teams automate, scale, and simplify operations in the AI era. Announced at Cisco Live EMEA, the updates extend the company’s agent-first operating model across networking, security, and observability environments.

Zorro: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Guy Ezekiel About the Company’s AI-Powered ICHRA Benefits Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Zorro is an AI-powered platform transforming employee health benefits by allowing employers to offer personalized, cost-effective, and flexible coverage through Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRA) instead of traditional, one-size-fits-all group plans. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Zorro co-founder and CEO Guy Ezekiel to learn more.

Saphyre Appoints Damian Handzy As Chief Operating Officer To Scale AI-Powered Trade Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Saphyre, a pre-trade through post-trade platform focused on accelerating trade-readiness and settlement cycles for major financial institutions, has appointed Damian Handzy as Chief Operating Officer.

SpendRule: $2 Million Seed Funding Raised For Healthcare Contract Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

SpendRule has launched what it describes as healthcare’s first AI-powered contract intelligence platform designed to prevent overpayments in the massive purchased services market. The new system validates service invoices against contract terms before payment, giving health systems greater control over one of their largest and least-managed spend categories.

Breaker: $6 Million Seed Funding Raised To Advance Autonomous Orchestration Software

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Austin-based defense technology startup Breaker has raised $6 million in a seed funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with follow-on investment from Australian venture firm Main Sequence, which previously led the company’s pre-seed round. The new capital will support the development and deployment of Breaker’s AI agent software, designed to enable military operators to control teams of autonomous systems across air, land, and sea using voice commands.

Dataro: $14.28 Million Series A Raised For AI Fundraising Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Dataro, an AI-driven fundraising intelligence platform for nonprofits, has raised $14.28 million in a Series A round led by Blueprint Equity. The funding will support the company’s expansion in the United States while it continues serving charities across Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and other international markets.

Codoxo: $35 Million Series C Raised To Scale Pre-Claim Cost Prevention

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Codoxo, an AI-powered healthcare payment integrity platform, announced an oversubscribed $35 million Series C round to accelerate national adoption of its pre-claim cost-prevention model and expand its generative AI capabilities.

Multiverse Computing: Interview With Co-Founder & CTO Sam Mugel About The AI Model Compression Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Multiverse Computing is an AI model provider and leader in quantum-inspired AI compression, significantly reducing the size and energy consumption of models for applications across various industries. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Multiverse Computing co-founder and CTO Sam Mugel to learn more.

Fluent Commerce Secures A$46 Million To Advance AI-Powered Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Fluent Commerce, a global provider of order management systems, has secured A$46 million in new funding from private equity firm Bain Capital to accelerate its next phase of growth and expand its AI-driven capabilities.

Lightworks Secures Up To $12 Million To Accelerate Large-Scale AI Deployment For Regulated Organizations

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Lightworks, a Canadian enterprise AI consultancy, has secured up to $12 million in financing to support the launch of its flagship AI services and accelerate its expansion among the world’s largest and most highly regulated enterprises.

Model ML Acquires Financial Data Platform Captide To Power Citable Corporate Disclosure Data

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

Model ML, an AI workflow builder for financial services, has acquired Captide, a financial data platform that transforms complex global corporate filings and disclosures into LLM-ready documents for AI agents.

BlueDot Meetings: Secure Video Meeting Platform Launches With Built-In AI Translation

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 17, 2026

BlueDot Meetings, a video collaboration platform developed by BlueDot Global Technologies, Inc., has officially entered the global virtual meetings market, focusing on security and real-time AI-powered language translation. The launch follows a successful seed round as the company moves into a series A funding phase.

Proofpoint Acquires AI Security Firm Acuvity To Secure The Agentic Workspace

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2026

Proofpoint has acquired Acuvity to expand its AI security and governance capabilities across what it describes as the “agentic workspace,” where humans and AI agents collaborate on business-critical workflows.

Neysa: $1.2 Billion Investment Led By Blackstone To Advance Buildout Of India AI Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2026

Blackstone announced that private equity funds affiliated with the firm, along with co-investors, have entered into definitive agreements to invest in Neysa, enabling a total capital raise of $1.2 billion to accelerate the buildout of AI infrastructure in India.

Nscale Signs $1.4 Billion GPU-Backed Delayed Draw Term Loan

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2026

Nscale, the AI-native hyperscaler, announced it has signed a USD $1.4 billion Delayed Draw Term Loan (GPU DDTL) backed by GPUs. The oversubscribed loan, led by funds managed by PIMCO, Blue Owl, and LuminArx Capital Management with support from additional asset managers and banks, will finance multiple GPU cluster deployments across Norway, Portugal, Iceland, and the UK. This follows Nscale’s recent $1.1 billion Series B equity raise—the largest Series B in European history—and its $433 million Pre-Series C SAFE.

Lassie: $75 Million Series C Raised For Prevention-First Pet Insurer

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2026

Stockholm-based pet insurance platform Lassie has raised $75 million in Series C funding as it positions itself to lead Europe’s evolving pet care and insurance market. The round is one of the largest European insurtech financings of the past year and included participation from Balderton Capital, Felix Capital, Inventure, Passion Capital, and Stena Sessan.

Anthropic Appoints Chris Liddell To Board Of Directors

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2026

Anthropic announced that Chris Liddell has been appointed to its Board of Directors, adding a veteran executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience across global corporations and public service roles.

ServiceNow Expanding Data-Driven AI With Pyramid Analytics Acquisition

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 16, 2026

ServiceNow has entered into an agreement to acquire Pyramid Analytics, a provider of a unified, AI-powered business analytics, data science, and data preparation platform, in a move designed to embed intelligence directly into enterprise workflows and accelerate data-driven automation.

Electric Twin: Synthetic Audience AI Platform Secures $14 Million In Funding

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Electric Twin, a London-based synthetic audience AI platform, has raised $14 million in funding to accelerate product development and global expansion. The round includes a previously undisclosed $4 million pre-seed investment and a newly announced $10 million raise, bringing total funding to $14 million.

Stanhope AI: $8 Million Seed Funding Raised For Deep Tech Artificial Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Stanhope AI, a London-based deep tech artificial intelligence company, has raised $8 million in seed funding to advance development of its brain-inspired “Real World Model,” designed to operate in dynamic physical environments beyond the limitations of large language models. The round was led by Frontline Ventures, with participation from Paladin Capital Group and Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund, alongside follow-on investment from UCL Technology Fund and MMC Ventures.

UVeye: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Amir Hever About The AI Vehicle Inspection Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

UVeye uses advanced AI-powered, high-speed camera systems to perform automated, 360-degree inspections of a vehicle's undercarriage, tires, and exterior for defects and damage within seconds. Pulse 2.0 interviewed UVeye co-founder and CEO Amir Hever to learn more.

Runway: $315 Million Series E Secured For AI Video Generation Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Runway, an AI video generation and world modeling company, announced that it has raised $315 million in a Series E funding round to accelerate the development of next-generation world models and expand its product capabilities across industries.

Apptronik: $935+ Million Series A Raised For AI-Based Robotics

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Apptronik, an AI-powered robotics company, announced it has closed a $520 million Series A-X extension round, bringing its total Series A funding to more than $935 million and total capital raised to nearly $1 billion. The latest round includes participation from existing investors such as B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz, and PEAK6, as well as new investors AT&T Ventures, John Deere, and Qatar Investment Authority.

Meridian: $17 Million Seed Funding Raised To Automate Excel-Based Financial Modeling

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Meridian, an AI startup focused on automating repetitive financial modeling workflows, has announced a $17 million seed funding round as it emerges from stealth. The $17 million seed round was co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and The General Partnership. Additional investors include QED Investors, FPV Ventures, and Litquidity, among others.

Didero: $30 Million Secured To Automate Global Supply Chains

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Didero, a New York-based software company using AI agents to automate enterprise procurement, announced it has raised $30 million in a Series A financing round co-led by Chemistry and Headline, with participation from M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund. The new capital will support product development and go-to-market expansion as manufacturers and distributors deploy Didero’s platform to reduce manual work, improve visibility, and operate more resilient global supply chains.