Top Startup and Tech Funding News – February 10, 2025

It’s Tuesday, February 10, 2026, and we’re back with today’s top startup and tech funding news. Today’s deals reflect sustained investor conviction in AI-native platforms, security infrastructure, and software systems being rebuilt for an agent-driven era. Capital continues to flow toward companies tackling foundational problems in compute, data reliability, compliance, and automation as AI moves from experimentation into production environments.

Across early- and mid-stage rounds, investors backed startups applying AI to regulated operations, developer workflows, procurement, and customer-facing automation. Several key points point to a broader shift: AI systems are no longer edge enhancements but core operational layers, reshaping how enterprises manage risk, cost, and scale across previously fragmented functions.

Late-stage and strategic funding concentrated around infrastructure-heavy bets, including world-model research, security platforms, digital twins, and industrial automation. Larger checks favored companies operating close to physical and digital constraints—compute, power, data gravity, and compliance—signaling where long-term platform value is increasingly being created.

Tech Funding News

Funding Highlights

• Runway Raises $315M Series E for World-Model Development
• Vega Raises $120M Series B for Data-Resident Threat Detection
• Bretton AI Raises $75M Series B for Financial Crime Automation
• Naboo Raises $70M Series B for AI-Powered Corporate Event Procurement
• Neara Raises $64M Series D for Physics-Based Infrastructure Digital Twins
• Entire Raises $60M Seed for AI-Agent Code Management
• Trener Robotics Raises $32M Series A for Software-Defined Industrial Robotics
• Newo Raises $25M Series A for Production-Grade AI Voice Agents
• Matia Raises $21M Series A for Unified Data Infrastructure in Production AI
• Backslash Security Raises $19M Series A for “Vibe Coding” Security

Investor Activity

Today’s rounds attracted a mix of leading venture firms, strategic corporates, and specialist investors backing foundational AI systems, security platforms, and enterprise workflow infrastructure. Across stages, the signal is consistent: investors are prioritizing companies that reduce operational risk, govern AI at scale, and become deeply embedded in critical systems of record. Here’s the full breakdown of today’s most significant startup and tech funding announcements.

AI Video Startup Runway Raises $315M Series E for World-Model Development

Runway has closed a $315 million Series E led by General Atlantic, with notable participation from Nvidia, Fidelity Management & Research, AllianceBernstein, and Adobe Ventures, bringing total funding to $860 million.

This Series E matters because it underwrites the compute- and talent-intensive leap from productized video generation into higher-capability simulation and representation learning. It also signals sustained investor commitment to a small set of “frontier” media-model players as enterprises expand use cases from creative tooling into broader workflows.

Runway builds generative video systems and is increasingly positioning its R&D around “world models” — models that learn structured, physics-informed representations of environments, with applications beyond media creation.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Runway
• Investors: General Atlantic (lead); Nvidia; Fidelity Management & Research; AllianceBernstein; Adobe Ventures
• Amount Raised: $315M
• Total Raised: $860M
• Funding Stage: Series E
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Vega Raises $120M Series B for Data-Resident Threat Detection

Vega closed a $120 million Series B led by Accel, with participation from Cyberstarts, Redpoint, and CRV, bringing the company’s total funding to $185 million. Vega is building an AI-native approach to security analytics and detection that aims to reduce the operational friction of ingesting and centralizing massive security datasets before running detections.

The strategic importance here is that modern enterprise security is colliding with data sprawl: logs and telemetry live across clouds, data lakes, and distributed systems. Vega’s bet is that detection will move closer to the data — and the size of this Series B suggests investors see an opening for a new platform layer in security operations.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Vega
• Investors: Accel (lead); Cyberstarts; Redpoint; CRV
• Amount Raised: $120M
• Total Raised: $185M
• Funding Stage: Series B
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Bretton AI Raises $75M Series B for Financial Crime Automation

Bretton AI announced a $75 million Series B led by Sapphire Ventures, with continued participation from Greylock, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Canvas Ventures, and Y Combinator, plus new participation from TIAA Ventures.  Bretton AI builds AI agents for regulated financial crime operations — including workflows such as KYC/KYB reviews, AML investigations, sanctions screening, and ongoing monitoring.

This financing matters because “trustworthy automation” is becoming a top budget line in regulated fintech and banking operations. AI systems that operate within compliance constraints (auditability, explainability, governance) are moving from pilots into production staffing models, turning compliance from a pure cost center into a lever for scalability.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Bretton AI
• Investors: Sapphire Ventures (lead); Greylock; Thomson Reuters Ventures; Canvas Ventures; Y Combinator; TIAA Ventures
• Amount Raised: $75M
• Total Raised: ~$95M
• Funding Stage: Series B
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Naboo Raises $70M Series B for AI-Powered Corporate Event Procurement

Naboo raised a $70 million Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors including Notion Capital, ISAI, and Ternel. Reported total funding is roughly $119 million. Naboo is building an AI-driven procurement layer for enterprise events, targeting a category that has historically sat outside core procurement systems despite significant budget impact.

This round matters because enterprise “tail spend” and operational purchasing are being re-platformed by AI systems that standardize sourcing, negotiation, booking, and payment flows. Naboo is pushing events — a notoriously fragmented category — toward centralized spend control, which can expand into adjacent procurement categories over time.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Naboo
• Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead); Notion Capital; ISAI; Ternel
• Amount Raised: $70M
• Total Raised: ~$119M
• Funding Stage: Series B
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Neara Raises $64M Series D for Physics-Based Infrastructure Digital Twins

Neara announced a AUD 90 million Series D (reported as roughly $63.5 million) led by TCV, with returning participation from Partners Group, EQT, Square Peg Capital, and Skip Capital. Total capital raised was reported at approximately $127 million.

Neara builds physics-enabled digital twins for critical infrastructure, with a primary focus on utilities and grid planning/operations. The product category is shifting from static mapping toward dynamic, physics-grounded modeling as compute (and power demand) accelerates.

This financing matters because power grids and infrastructure constraints are becoming the limiting factor for AI-era growth (data centers, electrification, and reliability). Tools that identify underutilized capacity and accelerate planning cycles are increasingly strategic for utilities, regulators, and industrial customers.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Neara
• Investors: TCV (lead); Partners Group; EQT; Square Peg Capital; Skip Capital
• Amount Raised: $63.5M
• Total Raised: ~$127M
• Funding Stage: Series D
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Entire Raises $60M Seed for AI-Agent Code Management

Entire raised $60 million in a seed round led by Felicis, with participation from Madrona and M12 among other backers. Entire is developing tooling to help engineering teams manage and govern code written by AI agents, including mechanisms to preserve context and improve reviewability as code volume scales.

This seed is strategically significant because “agentic software development” is forcing a re-think of the developer workflow stack: version control, provenance, review, testing, and deployment processes were designed for human-paced code generation. Large seed rounds in dev tooling now often reflect the expectation that the next generation of infrastructure companies will be built around AI-native workflows from day one.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Entire
• Investors: Felicis (lead); Madrona; M12
• Amount Raised: $60M
• Total Raised: $60M
• Funding Stage: Seed
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Trener Robotics Raises $32M Series A for Software-Defined Industrial Robotics

Trener Robotics has closed a $32 million Series A co-led by Engine Ventures and IAG Capital Partners, with strategic participation including Cadence and Geodesic Capital. The company reported total funding to date of over $38 million.

Trener Robotics is building a “robot skills” platform to make industrial automation more flexible by shifting from rigid programming to skill learning and software-defined control.

This Series A matters because industrial automation is moving toward “physical AI” platforms that can adapt in variable environments, reducing integration costs and expanding automation feasibility beyond highly structured tasks. The round also reflects continued investor confidence in applied robotics platforms that sit between foundation models and shop-floor execution.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Trener Robotics
• Investors: Engine Ventures (co-lead); IAG Capital Partners (co-lead); Cadence; Geodesic Capital
• Amount Raised: $32M
• Total Raised: $38M+
• Funding Stage: Series A
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Newo Raises $25M Series A for Production-Grade AI Voice Agents

Newo raised a $25 million Series A led by Ratmir Timashev, with participating investors including Aloniq, Constructor, Acrobator, and s16vc. The company reported total capital raised of approximately $32 million.

This Series A matters because voice remains one of the last large customer interaction surfaces where reliability requirements are at the “operations” level (appointments, revenue capture, support). As SMBs adopt automation through service providers and channel partners, platforms that package deployment and governance can become the default infrastructure layer.

Newo builds AI voice and text agents designed to operate as always-on front desks for small and midsize businesses, focusing on real-world call handling (routing, booking, escalation) rather than demo-grade voice experiences.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Newo
• Investors: Ratmir Timashev (lead); Aloniq; Constructor; Acrobator; s16vc
• Amount Raised: $25M
• Total Raised: ~$32M
• Funding Stage: Series A
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Matia Raises $21M Series A for Unified Data Infrastructure in Production AI

Matia has raised a $21 million in Series A funding led by Red Dot Capital Partners, with participation from existing backers including Leaders Fund, Secret Chord Ventures, Cerca Partners, and Caffeinated Capital. Total funding was reported to exceed $31 million.

As AI workloads shift from experimentation to production, data reliability becomes a frontline operational risk. Consolidation plays in the data stack also reflects a broader enterprise posture: simplify tooling, reduce failure points, and lower operational overhead while scaling faster.

Matia is building a unified data operations platform that consolidates core data stack functions (ingestion, observability, cataloging, reverse ETL) into a single workflow oriented toward production AI requirements.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Matia
• Investors: Red Dot Capital Partners (lead); Leaders Fund; Secret Chord Ventures; Cerca Partners; Caffeinated Capital
• Amount Raised: $21M
• Total Raised: $31M+
• Funding Stage: Series A
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

Backslash Security Raises $19M Series A for “Vibe Coding” Security

Backslash Security raised a $19 million Series A led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from Maniv, Artofin Venture Capital, StageOne Ventures, and First Rays Capital, bringing the total raised to $27 million.  Backslash Security focuses on securing AI-native software development workflows, including the risks introduced as teams rely more heavily on AI coding agents, IDE integrations, and related toolchains.

As the security perimeter within software development is being redrawn, organizations are accelerating code output while also expanding the attack surface through new agent-driven workflows and tool integrations. Security-first platforms designed specifically for AI-assisted development are emerging as a distinct category.

Funding Details:

• Startup: Backslash Security
• Investors: KOMPAS VC (lead); Maniv; Artofin Venture Capital; StageOne Ventures; First Rays Capital
• Amount Raised: $19M
• Total Raised: $27M
• Funding Stage: Series A
• Funding Date: February 10, 2026

What today’s rounds signal

Across today’s top financings, three patterns stand out. First, AI remains the main gravity well, but capital is clustering around enablement layers—infrastructure, operations, and governance—rather than just end-user apps.

Second, security is re-platforming in response to both cloud-scale data realities (detection without centralization) and changes in developer workflows as AI agents generate more code.

Third, investors continue to fund physical-world constraints (grids, factories, real-world simulation), reflecting how infrastructure and embodied automation are becoming bottlenecks for the AI economy.

Tech Funding Summary Table