Innovation

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.

Infragistics: Interview With Founder & CEO Dean Guida About The Software Tools Company

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Infragistics develops software tools—enterprise UI component libraries, design/prototyping products, its Reveal embedded analytics platform that helps teams build modern web and desktop applications, and Slingshot, where AI-powered insights meet seamless work management. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Infragistics founder and CEO Dean Guida to gain a deeper understanding of the company.

Nasdaq Launches New Private Capital Index Benchmarks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Nasdaq has launched the Nasdaq Private Capital Indexes, a new suite of rules-based benchmarks designed to provide more consistent, objective measurement in private markets, where performance data and benchmarking have often been fragmented and less standardized. The company positioned the launch as the next step in expanding Nasdaq Private Capital Solutions, a broader platform that combines benchmarking, institutional-grade datasets, and analytics into workflow-ready tools for institutional investors and consultants.

Take2: $14 Million Series A Closed For Healthcare Recruiting AI Agent Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Take2, an AI agents platform built for healthcare recruiting, announced it has raised a $14 million Series A round led by Human Capital, with participation from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC and Honeystone Ventures. Take2 is positioning its platform as a response to what it describes as a healthcare hiring breaking point, citing high turnover, significant vacancy costs, and recruiting workflows that remain heavily manual. The company said its autonomous AI agents are designed to automate core recruiting work rather than simply assist recruiters.

Perseus Materials Raises Strategic Investment From Lockheed Martin For Composite Manufacturing

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Perseus Materials, a venture-backed startup developing a large-scale additive manufacturing system for composite parts, announced it has closed a strategic investment from Lockheed Martin. The company, founded in 2022 by Stanford researchers, said the backing will support hiring, fulfillment of initial customer orders, and an expansion of its physical footprint.

Nucleus Security: $20 Million Series C Closed For Exposure Management Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Nucleus Security, a unified vulnerability and exposure management platform, announced it has raised a $20 million Series C funding round led by Delta-v Capital to meet what it described as surging enterprise demand for exposure management.

Tenna Systems: $13.5 Million Seed Funding Closed For Spectrum Intelligence Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 11, 2026

Tenna Systems, a defense technology company focused on software-driven spectrum intelligence, said it has raised an oversubscribed $13.5 million seed funding round to accelerate expansion in the U.S. defense market, where it said it has already partnered with government agencies and prime contractors to deliver hardware-free spectrum intelligence for wireless-dependent systems at global scale.