Venture Capital

Evergreen: Cultivated Beef Producer Secures $6 Million And Rebrands From Omeat

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Omeat has rebranded as Evergreen Select and raised an additional $6 million in an open round, sharpening its message around one theme: using cultivated beef to bring predictability to a beef supply chain the company says is defined by volatility.

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.

Cashmere: $5 Million Closed For Premium Content Data Licensing Platform

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

NAVER D2SF, NAVER’s in-house corporate venture capital arm, has invested in Cashmere, a data infrastructure platform designed to connect premium content publishers with AI companies in a way that supports licensing, rights protection, and monetization.

Feltsense: $5.1 Million Seed Funding Raised To Build Autonomous ‘Agentic Founders’ To Create New Companies

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

Feltsense Holdings announced it raised $5.1 million in seed funding to build AI agents that operate as fully autonomous founders, ideating products, building them, and taking them to market without human intervention.

QCA Ventures Rebrands From Queen City Angels

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

QCA Ventures announced it has officially rebranded from Queen City Angels, positioning the new name as a marker of the group’s expansion from a Cincinnati-based angel collective into what it describes as a nationally recognized venture organization backing early-stage founders with capital and hands-on support.

APEXX Global: Payment Orchestration Platform Secures Up to $10 Million Strategic Investment

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

APEXX Global, a merchant-centric payment orchestration platform, announced a strategic investment of up to $10 million led by European growth investor Finch Capital as it looks to accelerate product development and expand internationally.

ShengShu Technology: Multimodal Video Model Developer Raises RMB 600M+ Series A+

By Amit Chowdhry ● Feb 5, 2026

ShengShu Technology said it has completed a Series A+ funding round of more than RMB 600 million as it scales development and commercialization of its multimodal foundation models, including its Vidu video generation platform. The round was co-led by Zhongguancun Science City and LINK-X CAPITAL, and included strategic investments from Wondershare, Visual China Group Co., Ltd., and TRS. ShengShu added that existing backers, including Qiming Venture Partners, the Beijing Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund, G&O, C&D Emerging Industry Equity Investment, and Guowen Hechuang, also increased their investments.