Author: Jesse Landry

Vega just pulled down $120M in Series B funding, and the cybersecurity world felt it in the floorboards. Not because big rounds are rare, but because this one says something about where security is actually headed. Founded in 2024 by Shay Sandler and Eli Rozen, Vega looked at the SIEM-heavy status quo and asked a dangerous question: why are we still dragging oceans of data into centralized systems just to figure out what already happened? On February 10, 2026, that question turned into $120M led by Accel, with Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV leaning in again. Total raised now sits at…

There is a quiet tax inside every sales org. It hides in inboxes, calendars, half-filled CRMs, and that one spreadsheet nobody claims but everybody uses. It is the cost of knowing people but not knowing how to use what you know. In 2021, KnowledgeNet.ai decided that was a problem worth solving and built a machine to remember what companies forget. Not memory for nostalgia. Memory for revenue. From Frederick, Maryland, with a West Coast footprint in Mountain View, KnowledgeNet.ai has been wiring together the most undervalued asset on every balance sheet: relationships. Not vibes. Not gut instinct dressed up as…

Samaya AI just pulled in $43.5M in a Series A led by NEA, and if that reads like just another funding line item, slow down. This one hums a different tune. In a market addicted to generic AI wrappers, Samaya AI is building something sharper, something that actually understands the weight of a balance sheet and the ripple of a rate hike. Founded in 2022, Samaya AI was not born in a brainstorm about vibes. Maithra Raghu and Fabio Petroni came out of serious AI research environments with a clear thesis: finance does not need louder models, it needs smarter…

Denver, Colorado is not trying to be loud about it, but a $4.2M seed round just echoed through the AI marketing world. GenFlux raised $4.2M led by Symbolic Capital, with Borderless Capital, Frachtis, Glasswing Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Delphi Ventures, and Radical Ventures joining the syndicate. That is not a random roll call. That is a table of investors who understand that when behavior shifts, infrastructure wins. GenFlux is building a platform that tracks and optimizes how brands appear inside AI generated answers. Not search results. Answers. The difference is not semantic. It is structural. In a world where ChatGPT, Perplexity,…

Healthcare is the only place where even a radiologist can get lost in the maze. That irony is not funny when it is your mother staring down pancreatic cancer and the system still makes you fill out forms like you are applying for a store credit card. That moment hit Jeremy Gurewitz hard. Not as a headline. As a son. And from that friction came Solace Health. This week Solace Health locked in $130M in Series C funding, led by IVP, pushing the company past a $1B valuation. Unicorn status in a space that usually moves like molasses in January.…

Some companies raise capital. Others inhale it like oxygen, hold it in their lungs, and come back speaking in full sentences. ILiAD Biotechnologies just secured $115M in an oversubscribed Series B. RA Capital Management led the round with the kind of conviction that only shows up after deep diligence. Janus Henderson Investors and BNP Paribas Asset Management Alts stepped in as new believers. Existing backers AI Life Sciences and a multinational pharmaceutical company doubled down. That is not polite support. That is capital leaning forward. Congratulations to Keith Rubin, M.D., Founder and CEO, and Stephanie Noviello, M.D., M.P.H., CMO, for…

On February 11, 2026, the phone rang. Not the metaphorical kind. The real one. Somewhere between the first hello and the closed deal, a machine outsold a human by 30%. Quietly. Clinically. No ego. Just execution. That is not a demo. That is revenue with a pulse. That machine belongs to Simple AI, the San Francisco based voice AI platform that just secured $14M in seed funding. First Harmonic led the round, with Y Combinator, Massive Tech Ventures, Samsung Next, True Ventures, Conviction Capital, HNVR, and a syndicate of 70 angels leaning in. Smart capital does not fund science experiments.…

Some companies raise money. Others raise eyebrows, blood pressure, and the collective expectations of an industry that got a little too comfortable selling duct tape as architecture. Oxide Computer Company just closed a $200M Series C, and the number matters less than the posture. This is capital arriving with intent, not apology, led by Thomas Tull and the US Innovative Technology Fund, with Eclipse, Riot Ventures, Jane Street, Intel Capital, Counterpart Ventures, and Friends and Family Capital leaning in because conviction travels in packs. Oxide Computer Company exists because Steve Tuck, CEO, and Bryan Cantrill, CTO, got tired of watching…

There are raises… and then there are raises that say something about where the culture is headed. Somethings just closed a $19.2M Series A, led by Catalio Capital, with General Catalyst and Tusk Ventures doubling down. Total equity funding now sits at $28.6M. Brooklyn, New York on the map, but the signal is national. This is capital with conviction, not curiosity. Patrick Gilligan, Founder and CEO of Somethings, did not wake up one day and decide youth mental health was a “hot space.” Patrick Gilligan lived it. Stanford product design and computer science sharpened the tools, but the origin story…

Some firms chase trends. 8VC hunts systems. The kind that quietly decide whether hospitals function, freight moves, or a nation defends itself. Founded in 2015 by Joe Lonsdale after the wind down of Formation 8, 8VC was built on operator scar tissue. Joe Lonsdale co founded Palantir Technologies in 2003, then went on to found Addepar and OpenGov. Data, governance, capital markets. Complex arenas where amateurs get eaten. That background is not trivia. It is the blueprint. Today 8VC manages over $6 billion in capital and calls itself a different kind of VC firm. The difference is not volume. It…