🎯Today's Venture Capital Pulse
Updated 1h agoWhat's happening: Machina Labs raises $124M Series C to build AI-driven intelligent factory
Machina Labs closed a $124 million Series C round led by Woven Capital, Lockheed Martin Ventures, Balerion Space Ventures and the Strategic Development Fund. The capital will fund a 200,000‑square‑foot Intelligent Factory in the United States, featuring up to 50 RoboCraftsman cells that produce complex metal assemblies for defense, aerospace and automotive customers.
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By the numbers: OpenAI secures $110B corporate funding round
News•Feb 13, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30B, Bringing Its Valuation to $380B
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round, pushing its valuation to $380 billion, the second‑largest private tech financing after OpenAI. The round was led by Coatue and GIC, with participation from Nvidia, Microsoft, D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ and MGX. Anthropic reported a $14 billion revenue run‑rate, driven largely by enterprise adoption of its Claude models, especially Claude Code, which generated $2.5 billion. The company plans to use the capital to expand Claude’s infrastructure and enterprise‑grade offerings.
By AI Business
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Spot the #1 Sign Management Lacks Business Command
What’s the #1 tell that a management team doesn’t actually have command of their business? I spoke with Paul Stansik , an operating partner at ParkerGale Capital , about the relationship between boards and their portfolio companies. Paul works on scaling profitable,...
By CJ Gustafson
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Mid‑Size SaaS Growth Re‑Accelerates, Rule‑40 Slips, NDR Returns
The latest Private Company SaaS Benchmarks are here. How did 2025 finish? TL;DR: 1) Growth is (somewhat) re-accelerating between $5M–$50M ARR 2) Rule of 40 is sad between $5M–$25M ARR 3) NDR is making a quiet comeback For the full 33 page deck: https://lnkd.in/e7yBAXku
By CJ Gustafson
News•Feb 13, 2026
Artha Venture Moves To Oust Hornet CEO Over Alleged Governance Breaches
Artha Venture Fund exercised its shareholder rights to remove Hornet’s co‑founder and CEO, Souvik Haldar, citing serious governance breaches. The VC alleges Haldar diverted seed‑fund proceeds, took paid external work with a client, and copied the startup’s code and sensitive...
By Inc42
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Decode the LP‑GP Language Gap: Survival vs Longevity
LPs & GPs are often having the same conversation, but not speaking the same language. In my convo w/ @chudson & @miafarnham, we talked about the LP/GP “language gap.” As Charles put it: “Once you learn to decode it, it’s actually quite...
By Beezer Clarkson
News•Feb 13, 2026
Ever Raises $31M Series A for AI Auto Retail Platform
Ever announced a $31 million Series A round, bringing its total capital to roughly $100 million, as it emerges from stealth with an AI‑driven auto retail platform. The funding, led by Eclipse, targets the $1.2 trillion U.S. auto retail market, which remains fragmented and...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 13, 2026
UK Tech Funding Roundup: This Week’s Deals From Tem to Occam Industries
UK tech investment this week totaled £82.5 million across six rounds, an 81% drop from the prior week, partly due to last week’s £368 million ElevenLabs megadeal. The headline transaction was tem’s £55 million Series B, an energy‑brokerage platform matching buyers with suppliers. Seed‑stage...
By UKTN (UK Tech News)
News•Feb 13, 2026
Startup Bets on New Approach to Space-Based Missile Defense
California startup Wardstone has closed a $5 million seed round to develop space‑based kinetic interceptors. The company plans to test its first prototype on a suborbital sounding rocket in late April, employing a novel “buckshot” particle‑cloud approach to counter hypersonic missiles....
By SpaceNews
News•Feb 13, 2026
Centre Approves Startup India FoF 2.0 With An Outlay Of ₹10,000 Cr
The Indian government has approved the second phase of the Startup India Fund of Funds (FoF) 2.0, allocating an additional ₹10,000 crore to the scheme. Managed by SIDBI under DPIIT oversight, the FoF channels capital to SEBI‑registered alternative investment funds, which...
By Inc42
News•Feb 13, 2026
Immunic's Private Placement; Vertex's Cystic Fibrosis Data in Young Kids
Immunic announced an oversubscribed private placement raising up to $400 million to fund its shift toward a commercial‑stage biotech. The capital injection will support late‑stage development programs and accelerate the search for a new chief executive officer. Meanwhile, Vertex Pharmaceuticals disclosed...
By Endpoints News
News•Feb 13, 2026
Didero Raises $30M Series A for AI Procurement Platform
AI startup Didero announced a $30 million Series A round, co‑led by Chemistry and Headline with participation from Microsoft’s M12 venture fund. The financing will accelerate adoption of its AI‑driven procurement platform, which embeds autonomous agents into existing ERP and communication tools...
By Just AI News
News•Feb 13, 2026
Stanhope AI Raises $8M to Build Adaptive AI for Robotics and Defence
London‑based deep‑tech startup Stanhope AI closed a €6.7 million ($8 million) seed round led by Frontline Ventures to develop adaptive AI for robotics and defence. The company’s “Real World Model” leverages neuroscience principles, especially the Free Energy Principle, to enable edge‑run perception,...
By The Next Web (TNW)
News•Feb 13, 2026
ScyAI Secures €2M and Launches AI Risk Platform for Real Assets
Zurich‑based ScyAI closed a €2 million pre‑seed round led by AENU and PT1, bringing together unicorn founders and angel investors. The startup launched an AI‑driven platform that merges operational data with external hazard models to create auditable, asset‑specific climate risk profiles....
By Tech.eu
News•Feb 13, 2026
Exclusive: D2C Brand ClayCo Raises ₹30 Cr From Twenty Nine Capital Partners
ClayCo Cosmetics, a 2023‑founded D2C beauty brand, closed a fresh Series A round of ₹29.99 crore (about $3.3 million) from London‑based Twenty Nine Capital Partners. The funding was issued as 1,529 non‑cumulative CCPS at a premium exceeding ₹1.96 lakh per share. This capital...
By Inc42
News•Feb 13, 2026
Axiom Space Raises $350M to Fuel Station, Suit Development
Axiom Space announced a $350 million capital raise, co‑led by Type One Ventures and Qatar Investment Authority, to accelerate its commercial space‑station program and the development of NASA‑contracted AxEMU spacesuits. The funding will finance the design, testing and launch of two...
By Payload
News•Feb 13, 2026
19 MENA Startups Graduate From the Second Exel by Merak Accelerator Cohort
Nineteen MENA game studios have graduated from the second cohort of Exel by Merak, an $80 million gaming accelerator launched by Merak Capital. Each studio receives $300,000 in seed funding plus mentorship and global network access. Cohort 2 has already produced $1.2 million...
By PocketGamer.biz
News•Feb 13, 2026
Battery Tech Startup E-TRNL Energy Raises ₹27.4 Cr For Product Development
e-TRNL Energy, a battery‑tech startup founded in 2021, secured ₹27.4 cr ($3 mn) in a seed round led by IAN Alpha Fund. The capital will fund completion of its chemistry‑agnostic lithium‑ion and future sodium‑ion cell technology and demonstrate large‑scale manufacturing in India....
By Inc42
News•Feb 13, 2026
Six Sense Mobility Bags $4.8 Mn To Build New Electronics Manufacturing Unit
Six Sense Mobility secured $4.8 million (₹44 cr) in a Pre‑Series A round led by Ashish Kacholia, with Piper Serica Angel Fund participating. The capital will finance a new electronics manufacturing facility in Noida, designed for an initial output of one million units...
By Inc42
Social•Feb 13, 2026
From Board Exit to AI‑Powered Gun Detection Revolution
After 13 years, I stepped down from the Board of $EVLV today. In 2011, Mike Ellenbogen and Anil Chitkara became Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at General Catalyst in Boston. We spent nearly two years exploring incubation ideas together. Then the world shifted. 2012 - Sandy Hook. 2013...
By Bilal Zuberi
Social•Feb 13, 2026
Incentives Keep Frontier AI Labs Private, Excluding Public Investors
it's deeply unfortunate that incentives have aligned such that all these frontier AI labs and other tech companies are way better off staying private and the general public cannot invest in them despite desperately wishing they could.
By Harrison Kinsley
News•Feb 13, 2026
Vaccine Play Iliad Draws Nine-Digit B Round; Denmark’s Gubra Launches Venture Creation Unit
Iliad Biotechnologies announced a $115 million Series B round, the largest venture deal of the week, led by RA Capital Management. New investors Janus Henderson and BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts also participated. The funding will accelerate Iliad’s intranasal vaccine program targeting pertussis...
By BioCentury
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Biotech IPOs Deliver Median -15% Return, Outperforming Losses
Humbling 30 year Biotech stats shared by @verdadcap in a recent report: Just over 1,000 biotechs hit $200M mkt cap at some point. Of those, 67% have lost value (had cumulative negative returns), vs 48% for all other US companies....
By Bruce Booth
News•Feb 12, 2026
Kainova Closes $32 Million to Advance Cancer and Inflammation Therapies
Kainova Therapeutics announced a CAD 32 million first close of its Series B financing, led by Investissement Québec and supported by existing backers. The funding brings total venture capital to about $90 million USD and will accelerate development of its GPCR‑focused drug candidates. Lead...
By BetaKit (Canada)
News•Feb 12, 2026
Anthropic Raises $30B At $380B Valuation In Second-Largest Venture Funding Deal Of All Time
Anthropic announced a $30 billion Series G round that lifts its post‑money valuation to $380 billion, making it the second‑largest venture financing ever and the biggest deal of 2026. The round was led by GIC and Coatue, with co‑lead investors including D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer,...
By Crunchbase News AI
News•Feb 12, 2026
Talkiatry Rakes In $210M to Scale Virtual Psychiatry Group
Telepsychiatry startup Talkiatry closed a $210 million Series D round, bringing total capital raised above $400 million. The funding, led by Perceptive Advisors with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and others, will support scaling its virtual psychiatry platform, which currently employs over 800 psychiatrists...
By MedCity News
News•Feb 12, 2026
Proptech Lebane Raises $4M Seed Round
Argentine proptech Lebane announced a $4 million seed round led by Atlántico and Zacua Ventures, with participation from ADN.vc, Fen Ventures, Kuiper VC, and Galicia Ventures. The AI‑native platform offers real‑estate developers tools for accounting, contract, stock management, and project oversight,...
By LatamList
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Feisty Insights From My Talk with Keith Rabois
Just dropped my conversation with Keith Rabois . Things got feisty. https://lnkd.in/ei2xD9_X
By Eric Newcomer
News•Feb 12, 2026
Anterior Secures $40M to Expand AI Deployments in Health Plans
Anterior, a clinician‑led AI platform for health insurers, closed a $40 million financing round, raising its total capital to $64 million with investors including NEA and Sequoia. The company differentiates itself through a “Forward Deployed Clinician” model that embeds medical professionals alongside...
By HIT Consultant
News•Feb 12, 2026
Nuclear Power Group Alva Energy Launches with $33 Million in Funding
Alva Energy, a Massachusetts‑based nuclear startup, closed a $33 million Series A round led by Playground Global to fund retrofits of existing U.S. reactors. The company will replace steam generators and add a second turbine, boosting each plant’s output by 200‑300 MWe and...
By POWER Magazine
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Venture Splits: Platform Funds vs Early‑Stage Specialists
“I don’t understand why we call both things venture capital.” — Dan G. on multi-stage mega funds (or the “big banks” as Nicholas Chirls calls them) vs smaller managers dedicated to the craft of early-stage venture. We had a super interesting...
By Beezer Clarkson
News•Feb 12, 2026
Stockholm-Based Loovi Secures €1 Million to Scale Preventive Health and Longevity Platform
Swedish HealthTech startup Loovi has secured €1 million to scale its digital platform for data‑driven longevity and preventive health. The funding round, led by investors such as Susanne Najafi and Emad Zand, will be used to enhance medical and technical capabilities...
By EU-Startups
Podcast•Feb 12, 2026•22 min
Bootstrapping to $50M ARR in Vertical SaaS | Vantaca's HOA Software Playbook
In this episode, Ben Currin, CEO of Vantaca, explains how the company bootstrapped a vertical SaaS platform for HOA management from under $1M ARR to $50M ARR, first reaching $5–10M without external funding and then scaling tenfold after a minority...
By SaaS Interviews with CEOs
News•Feb 12, 2026
UK Government Adviser and Military Commander Land €12 Million to Scale Electric Twin’s Synthetic Audience Platform
Electric Twin, a UK‑based AI platform that creates synthetic audiences, announced a €12 million funding round led by Atomico, with participation from LocalGlobe, Mercuri, Samos Investments and high‑profile angels such as Marc Andreessen and Cal Henderson. The capital will accelerate global...
By EU-Startups
Podcast•Feb 12, 2026•34 min
Cooling Construction Workers with Human-Centric Tech, with Tiffany Yeh, MD Co-Founder & CEO of Eztia Materials
In this episode, Dr. Tiffany Yeh, MD, co‑founder and CEO of climate‑tech startup Eztia Materials, discusses the urgent heat challenge facing construction workers and how human‑centric cooling technologies can protect them. She explains the science behind Eztia’s HydroVolt material, its...
By Tangent – Proptech
News•Feb 12, 2026
Chronic Rhinitis Solution NEUROMARK Secures €62.5 Million as Irish Startup Neurent Medical Closes Series C
Neurent Medical announced an oversubscribed €62.5 million Series C round, led by MVM Partners and Sofinnova Partners, to accelerate the commercial rollout of its NEUROMARK system for chronic rhinitis. The funding will expand European market presence, deepen clinical evidence, and support a...
By EU-Startups
News•Feb 12, 2026
STAT+: European VCs Band Together to Improve the Landscape for Biotech Startups
European venture capital firms have launched the European Life Sciences Coalition, a new alliance aimed at strengthening funding pipelines for biotech startups across the continent. The coalition highlights a stark financing gap: of the 67 EU‑based biotech firms that went...
By STAT (Biotech)
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Stash Sold for $425M, Far Below $747M Raised
Ouch. Stash selling for $425MM after raising $747MM As a founder who has met a liquidation preference once in a while, this is PTSD. It is a tough hurdle to raise so much and then return the capital. Am sure the team...
By Lex Sokolin
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Sourcing and Securing Cap Tables: Venture’s Toughest Challenges
Sourcing is the single hardest part about venture. Equally followed by actually getting on the cap table of the best companies.
By Nicole DeTommaso
News•Feb 12, 2026
Demoboost Closes €2.8M to Turn Product Demos Into Revenue Intelligence
Warsaw‑based Demoboost announced a €2.8 million funding round led by Digital Ocean Ventures and Rafał Brzoska’s family office. The capital will accelerate AI‑driven product demo creation and expand the platform internationally. Demoboost’s solution lets B2B software firms standardise, personalise and share...
By Tech.eu
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Student-Built Livestorm Scales to $20M ARR
Gilles Bertaux built Livestorm for a university final exam in 2016. Nearly $20M ARR. 3,500 customers. $35M raised. Last round was 2020. https://t.co/DXieBIwtcs
By Omer Khan
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Founder Friends & Rivian Host LA Networking Night Feb 26
Founder Friends is coming to LA on Feb 26! Join us and @Rivian for an evening of networking, learning, and connection with fellow founders and investors. More >> https://t.co/1bltGWHwcQ
By Elizabeth Yin
News•Feb 12, 2026
Swedish Lassie Fetches $75 Million to Scale Automated Claims and Prevention-First Pet Care
Swedish pet insurer Lassie secured $75 million in a Series C round led by Balderton Capital and other investors, fueling AI‑driven claims automation and European expansion. The startup’s app blends insurance with preventive care, rewarding healthy pet behavior and processing 60% of...
By ArcticStartup
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Investors Need Massive User Base, Causing Game Sector Exit
You would need like 100 Mewgenics to satisfy the returns these types of investors in games are looking for which is why they are abandoning the sector.
By Ethan Gach
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Early‑stage Funds Demand Belief in Future Exponential Growth
I like this trend line. To invest in an early-stage fund you have to believe the outcomes will be much larger in the next decade than they were in the prior. via @daveclark85 https://t.co/p6Njk2pxW0
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Feb 12, 2026
Exclusive Investor Mixer at Vegas Hangar, Feb 26
I’m hosting an exclusive investor mixer at this private hangar in Vegas on Thurs 2/26 👀 DM if interested. https://t.co/65LxbH2BJO
By Darren Marble
Social•Feb 11, 2026
YC Still Accepts Late Applications After Deadline
Stumbled across this snap from 2014 in my camera roll. Founders, YC’s deadline just passed but they accept late applications. https://t.co/wp6gokGBi5
By Ryan Hoover
Social•Feb 11, 2026
45 New Billion‑Dollar Tech Exits Signal Accelerating Pace
since @behind_genius's last study of the 100 most recent billion-dollar-plus tech exits study in April 2025, there have been 45 new exits added...things are heating up! https://t.co/W4I8gsyiDu
By Paige Finn Doherty