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OncoRes Medical Closes A$27 Million Private Round To Advance Elora QME Imaging System And U.S. FDA Pathway

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

OncoRes Medical has closed an AUD $27 million private funding round to advance clinical development and regulatory milestones for its Quantitative Micro-Elastography (QME) Imaging System, Elora, as the Perth-based medical device company builds toward U.S. entry and FDA approval.

Bearing: $4.5 Million Seed Funding Raised For Scaling On The ServiceNow AI Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Bearing, a physical security operations software company built natively on ServiceNow, has closed an oversubscribed $4.5 million seed round to support team growth and accelerate product development aimed at automating physical security workflows with ServiceNow AI Agents. The round was led by AZ-VC, with continued investment from High Alpha and participation from PHX Ventures and Lightbank.

Brigade Capital Closes $1 Billion Inaugural Private Credit Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Brigade Capital Management announced it has closed its first dedicated private credit vehicle, the Brigade Private Credit Solutions Fund, raising over $1 billion of investable capital in an oversubscribed fund backed by a range of global institutional investors.

Garden City Equity Raises $255 Million For ‘People First’ Investment Strategy

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 15, 2026

Garden City Equity, a people-first holding company focused on acquiring and growing family- and founder-owned businesses for the long term, said it has raised $255 million for its next tranche of investments. The firm targets lower middle-market businesses in the South and Southwest United States with up to $25 million of EBITDA.

Industrial Service Solutions Acquires MSHS Pacific Power Group

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Industrial Service Solutions (ISS) has acquired MSHS Pacific Power Group (MSHS PPG), an independent maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) specialist serving power generation, industrial, marine, and national security customers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Careerminds Buys Keystone Partners, Renovo, Job Copilot, And Outplacement Australia In Multi-Company Expansion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Careerminds has acquired Keystone Partners, Renovo, Job Copilot, and Outplacement Australia, assembling a portfolio of career transition and talent solutions businesses spanning North America, the UK, and Australia as it pushes to build a larger, end-to-end workforce solutions platform.

HUMAIN Launches Sports Vertical After Taking Controlling Stake In ai.io

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

HUMAIN, a Public Investment Fund-backed artificial intelligence company, has launched a new sports technology vertical called HUMAIN Sport following its acquisition of a controlling interest in ai.io, a London-headquartered AI and sports technology company.

Rep Data Buys ReDem To Combine Pre Survey And In Survey Fraud Controls

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Rep Data, a full-service market research and data quality solutions provider, has acquired ReDem, an in-survey data quality platform, in a deal aimed at bringing pre-survey and in-survey controls into a single end-to-end approach for survey quality assurance. The companies said the combined offering is designed to identify and stop bots, AI-assisted survey takers, professional respondents, duplicate behavior, and other signals associated with low-quality or fraudulent responses across the entire survey lifecycle.

Simplicity Buys Wholehan Marketing And Adds Two New Partners

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Simplicity Group announced it has acquired Wholehan Marketing, a brokerage general agency that provides a range of financial products across life insurance, annuities, disability income, long-term care, and advanced market support. Wholehan has offices in Tampa, Florida, and Toledo, Ohio.

Supreme Group Buys Science-First Creative Agency Broth

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Supreme Group, a marketing and communications platform for healthcare and life sciences, has acquired Broth, a science-first creative agency focused on evidence-driven strategy and creative work in complex therapeutic areas.

Wonder Buys Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken Brand And East Village Restaurant

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Wonder has acquired Blue Ribbon Fried Chicken, taking full ownership of the New York City-based fast-casual concept from Blue Ribbon Restaurants as it continues building a portfolio of restaurant brands designed to scale across its broader mealtime platform.

Nickolas Asset Management Buys Resin Processing Facility From Material Difference Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Nickolas Asset Management (NAM) has acquired a resin processing and materials facility from Material Difference Technologies (MDT), a Florida-based supplier and processor of plastic resins serving industrial and consumer manufacturing markets. The deal adds a 120,000-square-foot operation with the ability to process millions of pounds of reprocessed plastic resins annually, expanding NAM’s materials platform and reinforcing the firm’s emphasis on asset- and infrastructure-heavy manufacturing.

Overmind Exits Stealth With £2 Million Seed to Supervise AI Agents

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Overmind, a London-based startup building a “supervision layer” for AI agents, has emerged from stealth with a £2 million seed round to help companies deploy agentic AI more safely in production environments.

Sable Bio Raises $3.75 Million Seed To Scale Target Safety Assessment Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Sable Bio, a London-based AI startup focused on drug safety, has raised $3.75 million in seed funding to expand its platform designed to help pharmaceutical companies identify safety risks earlier in drug discovery. The round was led by MMC Ventures, with participation from existing investors Episode 1 Ventures and Seedcamp.

DentalMonitoring: $100 Million Secured For AI-Based Remote Orthodontic Monitoring Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

DentalMonitoring has secured a combined $100 million investment led by Lazard Elaia Capital, with participation from ISALT through its Fonds Stratégique des Transitions, as the company looks to accelerate international growth and AI-driven product development. The Paris-based company said the financing follows its achievement of operational profitability in 2025 and reflects continued investor interest in orthodontics and the broader dental market.

Elaia: €120 Million First Close For DV5 Multi-Stage B2B Tech Fund

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Elaia has unveiled DV5, its fifth Digital Venture fund, announcing a €120 million first close to back European founders building category-defining B2B technology companies.

Zelle Posts $1.2 Trillion Sent In 2025, A 20% YoY Increase

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Zelle announced American consumers and small businesses sent more than $1.2 trillion on the network in 2025, marking its second consecutive trillion-dollar year and a 20% year-over-year increase in total dollars sent. The company framed the performance as a sign of its growing role in everyday money movement, noting that the growth rate outpaced U.S. consumer spending and business investment growth rates it cited for the third quarter of 2025.

Mistral AI: Partnering With EcoDataCenter On €1.2 Billion AI Data Center Investment in Sweden

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Mistral AI and Swedish data center developer EcoDataCenter said they have entered a strategic, long-term partnership to build an AI-focused data center at EcoDataCenter’s Borlänge site, representing a €1.2 billion investment aimed at expanding Europe’s digital infrastructure and localized AI capabilities.

tem: $75 Million Series B Raised To Scale AI-Native Energy Transaction Infrastructure

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

tem, an AI-native energy transactions scaleup, has raised $75 million in an oversubscribed Series B round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to $94 million. Strategic follow-on participation in the round came from Hitachi Ventures, Voyager Ventures, Schroders Capital, and Allianz, alongside existing investors including AlbionVC, Atomico, and Revent. As part of the round, Paul Murphy, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, has joined tem’s board.

Nebius To Acquire Tavily To Add Agentic Search

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Nebius, a Nasdaq-listed AI cloud company, announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Tavily, positioning the deal as a move to embed real-time web search infrastructure directly into its AI cloud platform as enterprises accelerate adoption of autonomous, agentic systems. The transaction value was not disclosed, and Nebius said it expects the deal to close in the next few weeks, subject to customary closing conditions.

Ares Management Arranges $2.4 Billion Debt Facility For Hyperscale Data Center Provider Vantage Data Centers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Ares Management announced certain of its funds arranged a $2.4 billion debt facility for Vantage Data Centers, as demand for digital infrastructure tied to cloud and AI workloads continues to drive large-scale capital needs across North America.

Adani Energy Solutions: HVDC Green Energy Corridor Financing Backed by Japanese Banks

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Adani Energy Solutions Ltd. (AESL) announced it has secured long-term financing from a consortium of Japanese banks for its flagship high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project, positioning the facility as a major buildout of transmission capacity intended to move renewable power from Rajasthan into India’s national grid.

PNC Wealth Management Launches Integrated Banking And Investing Experience For Emerging And Mass Affluent Customers

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

PNC Wealth Management has launched PNC Premier Client, a new integrated banking and investment offering designed for individuals and families seeking a more holistic, high-touch financial relationship as their needs become more sophisticated. The program is targeted at clients who have more than $100,000 at PNC and will be delivered through PNC Wealth Management’s national network of affluent bankers and financial advisors.

Truespeed And Freedom Fibre Agree To Strategic Combination

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Truespeed Communications and Freedom Fibre have signed an agreement to combine their businesses, forming what the companies described as a scaled, capital efficient full fibre platform positioned to play a leading role in the ongoing consolidation of the UK alternative network sector.

Meta Breaks Ground On $10+ Billion 1-GW Indiana Data Center Campus

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Meta is launching construction on a new hyperscale data center campus in Lebanon, Indiana, positioning the 1-gigawatt site as a cornerstone of its growing compute footprint for both core products and next-generation AI workloads. The company said the project represents an investment of more than $10 billion in data center infrastructure and the surrounding community, making it one of Meta’s largest infrastructure commitments to date.

Options Technology To Acquire Crossvale To Expand Private Cloud And Data Sovereign AI Modernization

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Options Technology announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Crossvale, positioning the combined business to help financial services firms modernize legacy technology, reduce technical debt, and accelerate private cloud and AI adoption in a security and compliance model designed for regulated markets.

iCapital To Acquire Passthrough To Expand GP Onboarding And Compliance Across Wealth And Institutional Channels

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

iCapital announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Passthrough to broaden investor onboarding and financial compliance capabilities for private markets general partners. The transaction is intended to extend iCapital’s support for limited partners onboarding beyond private wealth distribution into institutional fundraising, offering GPs a single platform to onboard and service investors across channels.

QXO To Buy Kodiak Building Partners For $2.25 Billion

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

QXO announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Kodiak Building Partners from Court Square Capital Partners for approximately $2.25 billion, a deal the company expects to be highly accretive to 2026 earnings and to expand its current addressable market to more than $200 billion.

Halo Partners Acquires Grubb Lifting And Rigging Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

Halo Partners announced affiliates of the private investment firm have acquired W.O. Grubb in partnership with the company’s current management, buying the business from the estate of prior family ownership. Financial terms were not disclosed.

By Light: Defense Modeling And Simulation Provider Buys Dignitas Technologies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 14, 2026

By Light Professional IT Services, a defense-focused provider of modeling and simulation and cyber products, has acquired Dignitas Technologies, an Orlando-based modeling, simulation, and training specialist that supports multiple U.S. military branches and major programs, including the F-35. Financial terms were not disclosed.