Technology Private Placement and M&A Transactions Review Week Ending February 15, 2026

Anthropic: The company raised $30 billion of Series G venture funding in a deal led by Coatue Management, Dragoneer Investment Group and Founders Fund on February 12, 2026, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $350 billion. Microsoft, Jane Street, Saraswati Ventures, Nvidia, AMP PBC, NX1 Capital, Sands Capital, MAGNA Investment , Blackstone, Insight Partners, TPG, Bessemer Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, Teachers’ Venture Growth, BlueSky Capital Management, Alpha Wave Global, TowerBrook Capital Partners, Greenoaks Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Addition, Accel, Sequoia Capital, Koru Capital, Korea Investment Partners, Menlo Ventures, Altimeter Capital Management, Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst, Exitfund, EAI Investments, Guindy Alumni Angels, Seed9, Mozza Angels, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Appaloosa Management, Goldman Sachs Alternative Energy Investing Group, Temasek Holdings, XN, Qatar Investment Authority, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, BlackRock and Whale Rock Capital Management also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a large language model platform used to run business-critical workflows for enterprise users.

Databricks: The company raised $7 billion of Series L venture funding through a combination of debt and equity on February 9, 2026, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $129 billion. $5 billion of Series L venture funding was led by Insight Partners, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, Saraswati Ventures and Fidelity Management & Research Company with participation from Microsoft, Robinhood, BlueSky Capital Management, CapitalG, Battery Ventures, 9Yards Capital, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Deepwater Asset Management, Glade Brook Capital Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, MGX, Scale Asia Ventures, Koru Capital, Rigby Technology Investments, Octant Ventures, 2468 Ventures, Sunway iLabs, Selective VC, Qatar Investment Authority, Neuberger Berman, Bank of New York Mellon and Morgan Stanley. The company is a developer of a data analytics platform used to unify data engineering, analytics, and machine learning workloads for AI teams.

Runway AI: The company raised $315 million of Series E venture funding in a deal led by General Atlantic and Qatar Investment Authority on February 10, 2026, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $5 billion. Nvidia, Adobe Ventures, AMD Ventures, Premji Invest, Mirae Asset Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Felicis Ventures Management Company, AllianceBernstein, Fidelity Management & Research Company, and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of generative AI models and tools used to create and edit multimodal content, including text-to-video generation and world-model simulation.

Olix Computing: The company raised $220 million of venture funding in a deal led by Hummingbird on February 11, 2026, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at an estimated $780 million. Vertex Ventures US, Entrepreneurs First, Plural, Transition Ventures and Phoenix Court also participated in the round. The company is technology business intended to design and manufacture optical processors for training and running inference on large AI models.

Simile: The company raised $100 million of venture funding in a deal led by Index Ventures on February 12, 2026. A*, Bain Capital Ventures, Hanabi Capital Management, Fei-Fei Li, Andrej Karpathy, Adam D’Angelo, Guillermo Rauch, Scott Belsky and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an AI-driven human behavior simulation platform used to model how customers, employees, or populations respond to changes.

Propagate Content: The company received $50 million of development capital from Ares Management on February 11, 2026. The company is an operator of an independent content studio used to develop, produce, and distribute scripted and unscripted programming for broadcast, cable, and digital platforms based in Los Angeles, California.

Gather AI: The company raised $40 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by Smith Point Capital on February 9, 2026, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at $182 million. XRC Ventures, Dundee Venture Capital, Bling Capital, Tribeca Venture Partners, Bain Capital Ventures, The Hillman Company, and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an autonomous inventory management platform used to capture warehouse inventory data via drone-based image collection integrated with WMS data.

Ever: The company raised $31 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Eclipse Capital on February 12, 2026. Jimco, Lifeline Ventures, Joint Effects, Maki.vc Jameel Investment Management Company and Ibex Investors also participated in the round. The company is an operator of an AI-native auto retail platform used to run end-to-end electric vehicle buying and selling workflows for consumers, fleets, and dealer partners.

Didero: The company raised $30 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Chemistry Ventures and Headline on February 12, 2026. M12 also participated in the round. The company is a developer of AI agents used to automate enterprise procurement workflows by coordinating actions on existing ERP systems.

Newo.ai: The company raised $25 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Ratmir Timashev on February 10, 2026. Constructor Capital, Acrobator Ventures, Aloniq, S16VC and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a low-code agent platform used to deploy “digital employee” AI agents across channels and integrate them into robots.

Mpathic: The company raised $23 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Foundry Group on February 9, 2026. The company is an operator of a conversational analytics platform used to analyze conversational and contextual data for safety, compliance, and performance in life sciences settings.

Blockbrain: The company raised EUR 17.5 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by 13books Capital and ALSTIN Capital on February 12, 2026. LBBW Venture Capital, HARTING, Giesecke+Devrient Ventures, and Mätch VC also participated in the round. The company is a developer of an artificial intelligence platform designed to organize and apply internal knowledge for improved operational effectiveness.

Taiv: The company raised $13 million of venture funding through a combination of debt and equity in a deal led by IDC Ventures on February 10, 2026. EMERGING, Garage Capital and Y Combinator also participated in the round. The company is an operator of a television advertising firm intended to provide venue-controlled ads and content for bars, restaurants, and retailers.

Electric Twin: The company raised $10 million of venture funding in a deal led by Atomico on February 12, 2026. Mercuri, Samos Investments, Phoenix Court, Marc Andreessen, Cal Henderson, Eric Salama, Tom Shinner and Louis Mosley also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a customer behavior analysis platform used to build synthetic audiences for message, product, and campaign testing.

TG0: The company raised GBP 4.9 million of Series B venture funding in a deal led by NetMind.AI on February 13, 2026, putting the company’s pre-money valuation at GBP 42.6 million. WPP Health & Wellness, and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of touch and pressure-sensing technology used to embed tactile input into device surfaces via flexible conductive polymer materials and capacitive sensing.

Hubbl Technologies: The company raised $6 million of Series A venture funding in a deal led by Salesforce Ventures on February 11, 2026. Industry Ventures and other undisclosed investors also participated in the round. The company is a developer of a software platform designed to optimize and monitor enterprise cloud systems.

Synchronoss Technologies / Lumine Group: The company was acquired by Lumine Group through a $258.4 million public-to-private LBO on February 12, 2026. The company is a provider of white-label cloud and messaging software used by communications service providers to back up, manage, and sync subscriber content across devices.

Mattel163 / Mattel: The company reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by Mattel for $159 million on February 10, 2026. The company is a developer of mobile game software used to publish and operate digital games based on Mattel brands.

BentoML / Modular: The company was acquired by Modular for an undisclosed amount on February 10, 2026. The company is a developer of a model-serving platform used to package and deploy machine learning models as inference APIs and production prediction services.

Budge Studios / Haveli Investments: The company, a subsidiary of Tilting Point Media, entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Haveli Investments through an LBO on February 9, 2026 for an undisclosed amount. The company is a developer of mobile games designed to entertain and educate children.

Cimulate / Salesforce: The company reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce for an undisclosed amount on February 10, 2026. The company is a developer of a commerce AI platform used to deliver context-aware product search and conversational shopping to infer shopper intent.

Court TV Media / Law & Crime: The company, a subsidiary of Bounce TV was acquired by Law & Crime, a subsidiary of Jellysmack, for an undisclosed amount on February 9, 2026. The company is an operator of a television programming network based in New York.

CRACKS Sports & Media / IRIS: The company was acquired by IRIS for an undisclosed amount on February 12, 2026. The company is a provider of sports and media services intended to serve the Latin American and United States markets.

Deep Fusion Films / John Gore Media: The company was acquired by John Gore Media for an undisclosed amount on February 11, 2026. The company is an operator of an AI-enabled production studio used to produce film and TV content based in Cardiff, United Kingdom.

Gaming Analytics / Aristocrat Leisure: The company was acquired by Aristocrat Leisure for an undisclosed amount on February 11, 2026. The company is a developer of a casino analytics platform used to deliver real-time player analytics, slot optimization, and marketing automation alongside casino management systems.

Good World Management / Initial Group: The company was acquired by Initial Group, via its financial sponsor TPG, through an LBO on February 9, 2026 for an undisclosed amount. The company is a provider of entertainment services used to develop and manage programming and production operations in Los Angeles.

Highspot / Seismic: The company reached a definitive agreement to be acquired by Seismic for an undisclosed amount on February 12, 2026. The company is a developer of a sales enablement platform used to manage content, training, coaching, and buyer engagement analytics.

New England Cable News / Spectrum News: The company was acquired by Spectrum News for an undisclosed amount on February 12, 2026. The company is a provider of cable news broadcasting services across New England.

Pyramid Analytics / ServiceNow: The company was acquired by ServiceNow for an undisclosed amount on February 12, 2026. The company is a developer of a business intelligence platform used to support self-service analytics and enterprise deployments for data preparation and embedded BI.

Upcraft / Labelbox: The company was acquired by Labelbox, via its financial sponsor One Madison Group, through an LBO on February 10, 2026 for an undisclosed amount. The company is a developer of a virtual meeting platform.