Author: Jesse Landry

Meridian did not raise $17M to make spreadsheets prettier. Meridian raised $17M because finance teams still live inside Excel like it is 1998 and nobody has handed them a compass. So John Ling, Zach Kirshner, and George Fang built one. A New York based company under the legal name Longitude Labs Inc., Meridian just emerged from stealth with a $17M seed round at a $100M post money valuation, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, The General Partnership, QED Investors, FPV Ventures, and Litquidity Ventures, with angels including Alexandr Wang and Annie Hu. That is not casual capital. That is conviction capital aimed…

Some companies build hardware. Some companies build hope. Tenna Systems builds clarity in a world where the air itself is contested. Today, Tenna Systems, formerly Tip and Cue Inc., closed an oversubscribed $13.5M Seed round. Let that breathe for a second. Hardware free spectrum intelligence for modern electronic warfare is not a polite dinner topic. It is the invisible chessboard where nations move without moving. Costanoa led the round, with Viola Ventures, Fresh Fund, 202 Ventures, and existing investors stepping in with conviction. When capital that sharp leans forward, it is not out of curiosity. It is pattern recognition. Avner…

Compliance used to be the corporate equivalent of flossing. Everyone knows they should do it. Almost no one wants to. Then the audit hits and suddenly the room smells like panic and cold coffee. Enter Complyance, spelled like compliance but built like a machine that refuses to blink. Complyance just locked in $20M in Series A funding led by GV, with Creandum, HV Capital, Speedinvest, and Everywhere Ventures in the mix. Total capital now stands at $28M. That is not loose change. That is conviction capital aimed squarely at the mess most enterprises politely call GRC. Congratulations to Richa Kaul,…

Cambridge has a habit of producing companies that sound academic right up until the money starts moving, the science starts landing, and patients start showing up in the data. Agios Pharmaceuticals did not begin as a brand exercise. It began in 2008 as a hard scientific question posed by Lewis C. Cantley, Ph.D., Tak W. Mak, Ph.D., and Craig B. Thompson, M.D., 3 scientists staring at cellular metabolism and asking why cancer and blood disorders behave like fuel addicts. ARCH Venture Partners and Flagship Ventures funded the idea early, not because it was fashionable, but because it was defensible. By…

In 2018, while much of venture capital was still mistaking pattern recognition for prophecy, Arjun Sethi, Jonathan Hsu, and Ted Maidenberg built Tribe Capital in San Francisco around a sharper premise. Measure product market fit with precision, and you can identify companies that are not just promising, but singular. N of 1. The kind that bend categories around themselves. Tribe Capital now manages over $2.2B in assets under management, applying AI and data science to find outliers early, before consensus hardens and pricing follows. Arjun Sethi, co founder and CEO, brought conviction shaped by prior investing cycles. Jonathan Hsu contributed…

Something is breaking in software, and it is not the models. It is the quiet agreement engineers have lived by for 20+ years that tests equal truth. That if the green lights turn on, the system deserves our trust. Agentic AI does not respect that agreement. It writes faster than we can read, edits without asking, and ships logic that looks correct while behaving like it learned its ethics from a speed run. Code is no longer scarce. Understanding is. And the old rituals of validation are starting to feel ceremonial. That tension is what the Engineering Leadership Community is…

There is a certain sound when something real lands. Not a boom. More like a low, confident thud that tells you this was set in motion long before the announcement hit inboxes. That sound is Haveli Investments acquiring Budge Studios, and if you operate anywhere near gaming, kids media, or growth capital with standards, you heard it clearly across the startup ecosystem. Budge Studios has never needed volume to prove relevance. It shipped instead. Since 2010, Michael Elman, David Lipes, and Noemie Dupuy built something unusually durable in mobile entertainment for kids. Over 2B lifetime downloads. Reach across 200+ countries.…

Harvey does not announce itself. It advances. Quietly, deliberately, like a closing argument built on facts the room already knows. Founded in San Francisco in 2022 and named after Harvey Specter with intent, the company was never chasing novelty. It was chasing leverage. Legal work has always been governed by precedent, pace, and risk. Harvey asked what happens when speed becomes defensible and accuracy becomes scalable. That question now sits at the center of startup news investors are reading closely. On February 9, 2026, Forbes reported that Harvey is in talks to raise $200M at an $11B valuation, both unconfirmed,…

For most of the modern technology and private markets era, capital access has been treated as the primary constraint on progress. Founders chase it. Policymakers court it. Investors point to its abundance as evidence that the system is functioning. When momentum slows, the diagnosis is familiar and reflexive: capital is tightening, capital is cautious, capital is pulling back. That diagnosis is increasingly wrong. Across venture, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and growth markets, money is rarely the binding constraint. Timing is. Capital is most abundant precisely when it is least useful, and most elusive precisely when it would create the…

When insurance moves slow, customers feel it first. Forms. Friction. 47 clicks to file a claim that should have taken 4. So when ManageMy steps in with $45M in fresh capital, it is not just another funding headline. It is oxygen for an industry that forgot how to breathe digitally. ManageMy just secured $20M in Series B funding, co-led by Ventura Capital and OCVC, with additional backing from BNF and a consortium of strategic leaders across traditional insurance and InsurTech. Total funding now stands at $45M. Not a vanity raise. A velocity raise that signals belief in infrastructure over hype.…