NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 — Take2, an AI agents platform purpose-built for healthcare recruiting, today announced it has raised a $14 million Series A led by Human Capital, with participation from Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, Reach Capital, SemperVirens VC, and Honeystone Ventures. The funding announcement was first covered by Axios.
Healthcare hiring has reached a breaking point. One in three new jobs in the U.S. is in healthcare, turnover often exceeds 50%, and vacancy costs are among the highest of any industry. Yet many recruiting workflows remain deeply manual.
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Take2 is addressing that bottleneck with autonomous AI agents designed for healthcare hiring. The company’s first agent, the AI Interviewer, conducts phone interviews with candidates 24/7, evaluates them, records calls, and syncs results directly into applicant tracking systems — all with no human-in-the-loop. Trained on healthcare-specific hiring data, the platform helps organizations assess candidates more accurately while generating predictive insights that improve hiring quality and long-term retention.
Take2 is seeing growing adoption as healthcare organizations look for faster, more scalable ways to staff their roles. Today, the platform serves leading healthcare organizations, including some of the largest health systems in the United States.
“Healthcare systems are under enormous pressure, and hiring is one of their biggest hidden costs,” said Yaniv Shimoni and Kaushik Narasimhan, co-founders of Take2. “We’re building AI agents that actually do the work — not just assist — so recruiting teams can focus on strategic decisions instead of time-consuming manual processes.”
With this funding, Take2 will expand beyond interviews into a broader network of AI agents that automate the end-to-end recruiting process, including sourcing, screening, credential verification, scheduling, and employee onboarding. By automating more of the funnel, Take2 aims to help healthcare organizations save millions of dollars annually while improving quality of hire and employee retention.
“The bottom line is that Take2 works — it’s not just a promise,” said Joe Gage, CHRO at Mercy Health and Chairperson-Elect of the Catholic Health Association. “It enables faster recruiting and hiring, and a more economical, scalable hiring system with a better candidate experience.”
About Take2 Take2 is an AI agents platform purpose-built for healthcare recruiting. Its agent network automates the end-to-end hiring process — from job posting to job offer. Take2’s mission is to manage healthcare recruiting with autonomous AI agents, helping organizations reduce costs, hire faster, and improve retention and quality of hire.
Helping Organizations Prioritize Risk and Drive Coordinated Remediation at Scale
SARASOTA, Fla., Feb. 11, 2026 — Nucleus Security, the leader in unified vulnerability and exposure management, today announced a $20 million Series C funding round led by Delta-v Capital. Nucleus has emerged as the system of record for assets, vulnerabilities, and exposures, and the automation engine to remediate what matters most to prevent breaches.
Nucleus is leading an industry shift away from traditional vulnerability scanning to building an exposure management orchestration platform that operationalizes context, adapts to each enterprise, and closes the gap between data and action. Nucleus integrates security and asset data from more than 200 tools, business context, and AI-driven exploit intelligence into a shared, up-to-date view of exposure to drive prioritized action and measurable risk reduction across the organization.
In the past year, Nucleus has led a major replacement cycle among enterprise customers, as organizations replace expensive, homegrown vulnerability management tools that can no longer meet their needs. Nucleus provides a proven, scalable system of record, creating a uniquely compelling growth opportunity for the company in 2026 and beyond.
“This investment reinforces what our customers already know: security teams need speed, clarity, and real outcomes, not more data. We’re helping organizations cut through the noise, prioritize the risks that matter most, and reduce exposure faster in today’s cloud and AI-driven environments,” said Steve Carter, co-founder and CEO of Nucleus Security.
“Built by practitioners, the platform has emerged as the orchestration platform organizations need to unify risk across the growing sources of exposure data across IT, cloud, application, and OT environments, without vendor lock-in. Vulnerability and exposure management is increasingly a board-level responsibility; we believe Nucleus is uniquely positioned to define the next phase of this market,” said Connor Heard, Principal at Delta-v Capital.
“We invested in Nucleus because the team understood that exposure management is about driving action,” said Ryan Kruizenga, General Partner at Arthur Ventures. “Over time, they’ve proven they can execute, building a platform that scales with modern organizations, delivers real operational rigor, and consistently turns complex risk signals into measurable outcomes. Nucleus has evolved from a strong vision into a category-defining company.”
About Nucleus Security
Nucleus Security is the enterprise leader in unified vulnerability and exposure management, enabling organizations to prioritize and mitigate vulnerabilities faster, at scale. Delivering unmatched time to value, Nucleus automatically unifies and organizes data from all your security and business tools into a single pane of glass. With powerful dynamic automations, teams can effectively automate their vulnerability management program. As a FedRAMP authorized vendor, Nucleus Security is transforming how enterprises, federal agencies and defense contractors secure their digital assets and networks.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2026 — Smart Bricks, a frontier AI lab building agentic AI infrastructure for real-estate investing, today announced a $5 million pre-seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z speedrun), with participation from leading funds and angels across the US, Europe, and the Middle East.
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Founded in 2024, Smart Bricks is re-architecting how real estate is discovered, underwritten, and transacted. The company designs and deploys autonomous reasoning systems that allow capital to identify, evaluate, and execute real-estate investments end-to-end – compressing a process that traditionally takes three to six months into minutes.
Turning real estate into a computable asset class Real estate remains the last trillion-dollar asset class without an AI-native stack. Despite more than 100 million fragmented data sources globally and over 1,000 meaningful variables available to diligence any asset, most investors still rely on two or three data points and broker narratives to make decisions.
“Global real estate is one of the largest asset classes in the world, yet most individual and cross-border investors are still operating with PDFs, WhatsApp threads, incomplete data, and opaque fees,” said Mohamed Mohamed, Founder and CEO of Smart Bricks. “Institutions have proprietary data, AI underwriting, and integrated execution. Everyone else is effectively flying blind. Smart Bricks closes that gap.”
Smart Bricks ingests over one million proprietary and public data feeds and applies agentic AI to continuously analyze supply, pricing, liquidity, regulation, and risk across global markets. The platform surfaces only the top 0.1% of properties by expected risk-adjusted return, then automates up to 99% of the workflow – from valuation and underwriting through due diligence, negotiation, financing, and post-transaction support.
The result is a single AI-native operating system for global real-estate acquisition and ownership.
Built for retail and institutional investors Smart Bricks is designed for retail and institutional operators deploying capital across markets such as Dubai, London, New York, Miami, and major US cities, who want to outperform competitors by leveraging the most advanced AI capabilities. Rather than acting as a marketplace or broker network, Smart Bricks serves as the AI infrastructure layer for modern real-estate investing.
Investors receive ranked opportunities, real-time intelligence, and execution workflows that mirror the sophistication of leading private-equity and institutional real-estate funds – without the need to assemble in-house AI teams or navigate fragmented intermediaries.
“Investors in public markets already expect instant insight, scenario analysis, and AI-driven recommendations,” Mohamed added. “We bring that same level of speed, intelligence, and confidence to global real estate, allowing capital to move with institutional precision across borders.“
Momentum across AI and proptech ecosystems
Smart Bricks has been recognized by TechCrunch as one of the Top 200 startups globally, by Onstage Europe as a Top 20 startup in Europe, and has received nominations from leading global proptech and innovation bodies.
The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Techstars, 500 Global, Cornerstone VC, South Loop Ventures, Harvard Business School Alumni Angels, Cento Ventures, alongside angel investors from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Airbnb, and Blackstone. Smart Bricks is also an alumnus of Google AI First, Microsoft GrowthX, and NVIDIA Inception programmes.
Seasoned leadership at the intersection of AI and capital Mohamed is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree with deep experience at the intersection of frontier technology and global capital allocation. Prior to founding Smart Bricks, he led AI, strategy, and investment initiatives at Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey & Company, advising governments, investment funds, and financial institutions.
He began his career as an investor at Blackstone and Goldman Sachs, and later worked as a venture investor at Atomico and Greycroft. Mohamed is also an active angel investor in 30+ startups.
“Capital and talent have already gone global; the tooling for real-estate investing has not,” Mohamed said. “Smart Bricks is building the intelligence layer that finally allows real estate to operate at the speed, transparency, and scale modern markets demand.“
For more information on Smart Bricks and its AI-native real-estate investment infrastructure, visit www.smart-bricks.com.
About Smart Bricks
Smart Bricks is a frontier AI lab building agentic AI infrastructure for global real-estate investing. The company designs autonomous reasoning systems that allow capital to discover, evaluate, and transact real-estate assets end-to-end, transforming real estate into a computable, data-driven asset class.
The Energy Center seeks U.S. and Israeli Consortia Making Advances in Energy Storage, Fossil Energy, or the Energy-Water Nexus
TEL AVIV, Israel, Feb. 11, 2026 — A second Call for Proposals under the U.S.-Israel Energy Center. The program, managed by the BIRD Foundation (Binational Industrial Research and Development), will focus on three priority areas: energy storage, fossil energy, and the energy-water nexus.
Industrial companies, research institutes, and post-secondary institutions from the U.S. and Israel are encouraged to form consortia and apply. Each consortium must include at least one industrial corporation and one research institute or post-secondary institution from each country.
Under the call, two binational consortia will be selected to receive grants of $6 million each. With required cost-sharing, the total budget for each consortium is expected to be at least $12 million over three years, with an option to submit a proposal for an additional two years. The new call follows the success of the Energy Center’s initial five years of operation, in which four active consortia have resulted in 11 pilots, 19 patents, 231 scientific publications, and a commercial potential estimated at $500 million annually within a decade.
The goal of the Energy Center is to promote energy efficiency, security, resilience, and economic development through the research and development of innovative energy technologies. The Center additionally aims to facilitate cooperation among consortia of U.S. and Israeli companies, universities, and research institutes.
Jaron Lotan, Executive Director of the BIRD Foundation, said, “This strategic U.S.-Israeli partnership forges a direct and vital link between our two innovation-driven economies. By uniting our leading companies and universities, we are creating a powerful engine for economic growth. This initiative accelerates the journey of next-generation energy technologies from the laboratory to industrial use, building critical infrastructure while driving job creation and prosperity in both the United States and Israel.”
Yossi Dayan, Director General of the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure, added, “The U.S.-Israel Energy Center creates an environment where breakthrough ideas are translated into real-world solutions, strengthening resilient energy infrastructure. By fostering deep collaboration between academia and industry in both countries, the program builds long-term capabilities that support energy security, economic growth, and technological leadership.”
Dror Bin, CEO of the Israel Innovation Authority: “This call builds on a proven Israel–U.S. collaboration that brings industry and academia together around shared technological challenges. By aligning the needs of industry with the depth of academic research and knowledge, these binational consortia accelerate the development and maturation of breakthrough technologies toward real-world, commercial impact. Led by industry and strengthened by international partnership, this model delivers meaningful value to Israel’s innovation ecosystem and reinforces the strategic technological ties between Israel and the United States.”
The establishment of a joint U.S.-Israel Energy Center was first authorized by Congress in the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Israeli Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure (MoE), along with the Israel Innovation Authority (IIA) signed an Implementation Agreement on June 25, 2018, establishing the U.S. Israel Energy Center and its topic areas.
In 2019, the DOE, MoE and IIA announced the BIRD Foundation as the operating agent of the Energy Center. The BIRD Foundation was established by the U.S. and Israeli governments in 1977 to generate mutually beneficial cooperation between U.S. and Israeli companies, including start-ups and established organizations. In addition to the Energy Center, BIRD operates and manages the BIRD Energy Program, which funds cooperative R&D projects submitted jointly by one U.S. and one Israeli company or research institute.
The deadline for the submission of executive summaries is June 30, 2026.
More information on the Calls for Proposals and how to apply can be found on the BIRD Foundation website.
About the BIRD Foundation
The BIRD (Binational Industrial Research and Development) Foundation is the binational foundation for industrial research and development of the governments of Israel and the U.S. The Foundation encourages and funds R&D collaborations between Israeli and American companies across various technological fields.
Insight Partners leads round, alongside Quadrille Capital, to accelerate expansion across Americas, EMEA, and strategic verticals
NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 — GitGuardian, a leading secrets and Non-Human Identity (NHI) security platform and #1 app on GitHub Marketplace, today announced a $50 million Series C funding round led by global software investor Insight Partners, alongside Quadrille Capital and existing investors Balderton, BPI, Eurazeo, Fly Ventures and Sapphire Ventures. The investment fuels GitGuardian’s expansion in secrets and AI agent security as organizations grapple with exponential growth in non-human identities.
Eric Fourrier, CEO and Co-Founder, GitGuardian:
GitGuardian Raises $50M Series C to Address Non-Human Identities Crisis and AI Agent Security Gap
“The market has reached a critical inflection point. Organizations that once managed hundreds of service accounts will now face thousands of autonomous AI agents, each requiring secure credentials. While identity solutions matured for human users, non-human identities remain largely unmanaged and recent breaches prove the cost. We’re moving beyond secrets detection into full NHI lifecycle governance. Effective secrets management requires seamless collaboration between development, security and IAM teams at every stage of the workflow.”
Balancing Transatlantic Leadership
GitGuardian’s funding strategy deliberately balances US and European capital, pairing Insight Partners’ deep cybersecurity and AI expertise with Quadrille Capital’s European enterprise network. Insight Partners, with $90B in regulatory assets under management and cybersecurity investments including Wiz, SentinelOne and Darktrace, brings robust experience scaling category-defining security companies.
“Software development and enterprise complexity continue to grow. We believe this is the moment to capitalize on GitGuardian’s approach, which starts from where secrets live in the development workflow and expands into full NHI lifecycle management. This is critical as AI agents rapidly approach parity with developers, with each agent needing credentials, permissions, and governance – further fueling GitGuardian’s growth.” Josh Zelman, Managing Director, Insight Partners
Quadrille Capital and Eurazeo, both ranking among Europe’s top growth funds, provide GitGuardian strategic positioning across EMEA markets where compliance requirements increasingly mandate secrets management and NHI governance.
According to the team, they’ve watched the secrets security conversation evolve from a concern for savvy security-minded developers to board-level priority across European enterprises. GitGuardian has earned the trust of Europe’s most security-conscious enterprises – Deutsche Telekom, ING, BASF and other European leaders navigating GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and sector-specific requirements.
“Not only do these enterprises need to secure code, they then have to demonstrate continuous monitoring and audit trails that satisfy regulators. As compliance deadlines approach over the next 18 months, GitGuardian solutions become critical. That’s the market timing we invest behind.” Romain Stokes, Partner, Quadrille Capital
Enterprise Momentum Accelerates
GitGuardian closed 2025 with record performance that validates enterprise demand:
115,000+ developers protected across enterprise customers globally
350,000 secret exposures detected and remediated in 2025 (5x year-over-year growth)
60% of new enterprise customers committed to multi-year agreements
80%+ of new ARR originated from North America
The platform serves Fortune 500 companies spanning technology, financial services, healthcare, energy, and manufacturing.
Capital Deployment: Three Strategic Pillars
AI Agent Security InnovationThe funding enables GitGuardian to address the fastest-growing attack surface in enterprise software: AI agents. GitGuardian’s platform will expand to detect, monitor, and govern credentials used by AI systems – from coding assistants to customer service bots.
Enterprise-Scale NHI GovernanceGitGuardian continues to invest in its enterprise grade secrets security platform and will deliver comprehensive NHI lifecycle management capabilities designed for enterprises managing tens of thousands of non-human identities. This includes automated discovery, usage analytics, rotation policies, and compliance reporting across the entire development ecosystem.
Geographic Expansion & Market PenetrationGitGuardian will aim to accelerate US expansion while opening new regions including APAC, South America and Middle East. The company will look to strengthen its European presence across DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland), UK, France and Nordic markets, where regulatory frameworks increasingly mandate secrets and NHI security.
Target verticals include technology, financial services, and pharmaceutical/healthcare sectors where stringent compliance requirements and large development teams create substantial platform value.
Looking Ahead
With this funding, GitGuardian aims to reinforce its position as the best solution for Non-Human Identity and AI agents security for large enterprises and remain the #1 application on GitHub.
The company plans to expand hiring across engineering, sales, and customer success teams in both US and European markets.
About GitGuardian
GitGuardian is an end-to-end NHI Security platform that empowers software-driven organizations to secure their Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and comply with industry standards. With attackers increasingly targeting NHIs, such as service accounts and applications, GitGuardian integrates Secrets Security and NHI Governance. This dual approach enables the detection of compromised secrets across your dev environments while also managing non-human identities and their secrets’ lifecycles. The platform is the world’s most installed GitHub application and supports over 550+ types of secrets, offers public monitoring for leaked data, and deploys honeytokens for added defense. Trusted by over 600,000 developers, GitGuardian is the choice of leading organizations like Snowflake, ING, BASF, and Bouygues Telecom for robust secrets protection.
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of June 30, 2025, the firm has over $90B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 875 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has a global presence with leadership in London, Tel Aviv, and the Bay Area. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO.
Quadrille is an independent asset manager that has been financing innovation in Europe and the US for over 25 years. Quadrille invests in high-growth technology companies, and across complementary secondary and primary strategies. The firm manages circa €2bn in assets and has a team of 50 professionals based in Paris, New York, and San Francisco.
FREDERICK, Md., Feb. 11, 2026 — TEDCO, Maryland’s economic engine for technology companies, announced a recent $500,000 Venture Funds investment in KnowledgeNet.ai. TEDCO’s evergreen Venture Funds are dedicated to funding and growing the next generation of early-stage businesses in Maryland.
“At KnowledgeNet.ai, we aim to streamline processes and help to boost efficiency across the company, while also integrating with existing workflow applications,” said Mehdi Tehranchi, CEO of KnowledgeNet.ai. “This investment strengthens our position as a global AI leader and accelerates the expansion of our operational business automation worldwide.“
Based in Frederick, Md., KnowledgeNet.ai has developed AI Engage™, an advanced outbound intelligence platform designed to bridge the gap between sales enablement strategy and revenue execution. The platform utilizes five pillars of intelligent outbound—relationship intelligence, signal mining, buyer intent detection, AI-driven scoring, and hyper-personalized outreach—to transform fragmented data into revenue-generating conversations. By aggregating data from emails, calendars, CRM platforms, ERP systems and websites, the system creates a centralized view of contacts, companies, and interactions.
“Companies working in the AI space, like KnowledgeNet.ai, are developing tools that can address real business needs,” said Katherine Hill Ritchie, senior director, Venture Funds at TEDCO. “We look forward to the company’s continued growth and the broader impact its work can have on the business community”.
The AI Engage™ platform provides a “personal autopilot” for sales teams, automatically identifying and enriching the Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) without manual intervention. This allows SDRs and Account Executives to stop wasting hours on lead research and instead focus on meaningful conversations with prospects already showing genuine intent to buy. For RevOps teams, the platform maintains a healthy CRM with automatically synced, accurate data, eliminating the hassle of manual list building.
“The Baltimore/Washington D.C. region continues to emerge as a strong center for AI development,” said TEDCO CEO Troy LeMaile-Stovall. “With a top ranking and growing pool of cyber talent located here, entrepreneurs building or scaling AI-based companies are looking to Maryland. We offer resources and a growing ecosystem that make it a compelling place to establish headquarters”.
About KnowledgeNet.ai KnowledgeNet.ai is a technology startup focused on turning insight into revenue through AI-powered tools for organizing and analyzing business relationship data. Its flagship product, AI Engage™, leverages relationship intelligence and machine learning models to help organizations reclaim valuable hours, maintain a steady qualified pipeline, and achieve cleaner CRM data.
About TEDCO TEDCO, the Maryland Technology Development Corporation, enhances economic empowerment growth through the fostering of an inclusive entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem. TEDCO identifies, invests in, and helps grow technology and life science-based companies in Maryland. Learn more at www.tedcomd.com.
Funding Accelerates Development of Intelligence Layer That Powers AI with Context for the Salesforce Ecosystem
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11, 2026 — Hubbl Technologies, the intelligence layer for the agentic era, today announced $6 million in Series A funding led by Salesforce Ventures with participation from Industry Ventures. The investment will accelerate development of Hubbl’s Intelligence Platform and expand the company’s ability to deliver contextual intelligence to enterprises navigating the shift to AI-driven business operations.
“As 2026 shifts into the agentic era, enterprise businesses are at risk of being left behind because of their opaque and complex systems,” said Rob Acker, CEO of Hubbl Technologies. “Hubbl transforms this complexity into clarity, giving both AI and teams the deep understanding they need to act with confidence from day one. This investment will accelerate our work in the agentic era, where context becomes the competitive advantage and enterprises finally unlock the full value of the systems they’ve spent years building.”
While global AI spending races toward $632 billion by 2028, 95% of generative AI pilots fail to deliver business value. What separates impressive AI demos from production-ready AI solutions is the lack of context. Salesforce customers demand rapid AI innovation and require clean, well-understood systems to succeed. Today’s implementation approaches force organizations to choose between speed and safety, or invest months in manual discovery before deployment.
Context as the Intelligence Layer
Hubbl’s Intelligence Platform optimizes the value enterprises derive from their Salesforce investments by layering organizational and process intelligence into a single, comprehensive contextual view. By benchmarking metadata against thousands of organizations and best practices, Hubbl gives AI and teams the deep understanding of Salesforce environments they need to act on their data with confidence. Hubbl also helps these companies clear technical debt, tangled automation, and wasted processes to deliver results fast, shortening the path from decision to impact.
Born from decades of Salesforce expertise and trained on data from tens of thousands of organizations, Hubbl turns the chaos of metadata, automation, and process inefficiency into a precision-tuned engine for growth. Since its launch in 2022, Hubbl Technologies is among the leading Salesforce intelligence platforms with over 4,000 customers like Coastal, MagMutual, and Slalom.
“As our Salesforce footprint grew, Hubbl became critical infrastructure for speed, visibility, and trust into a process that’s traditionally high-risk,” said Eric Berridge, CEO, Coastal. “This investment reflects the balance between ecosystem enterprise-grade governance and innovation at speed that the ecosystem needs as it continues to evolve.”
About Hubbl Technologies: Hubbl Technologies powers AI that actually works because we give it the one thing it’s always lacked: context. Built natively on Salesforce and trained on tens of thousands of organizations, Hubbl transforms the chaos of metadata, automation, and process inefficiency into a precision-tuned engine for growth. Fueled by machine learning, governed by insight, and driven by results, Hubbl Technologies rewrites the future of your business by surfacing your next best action. Learn more athttps://www.hubbl.com.
LONDON and NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 — ManageMy, the Intelligent Orchestration Platform transforming how insurers sell, service, underwrite, and manage policies, today announces it has raised $45 million, $20m of which was secured in its recent Series B round, co-led by Ventura Capital and OCVC, with backing from BNF and a consortium of strategic leaders in both traditional insurance and InsurTech.
ManageMy was founded by Sean O’Connor, Co-Founder of the FinTech unicorn Zilch, through his investment operator vehicle OCVC.com, alongside a team of insurance, technology, and data specialists with deep experience across carriers, reinsurers, and distribution, led by Co-Founder and CEO Stephen Collins.
Created to simplify complexity across the insurance value chain, ManageMy provides insurers with a modular, composable platform that spans customer engagement, automated underwriting, and intelligent claims decisioning.
The funding will enable ManageMy to further accelerate:
Market expansion, strengthening its North American presence, while building on growing traction in Asia Pacific and Europe
AI investment, including agentic workflows, explainable decisioning, and data-driven underwriting automation
Product expansion, enhancing ManageMy’s integrated services platform and industry-specific modules
Go-to-market execution, scaling commercial investment to support growth across North America and Asia Pacific
Team scaling, particularly across engineering, implementation, and customer success.
Stephen Collins, Co-Founder and CEO of ManageMy, commented:
“This funding marks a major milestone for ManageMy and validates our vision of a more intelligent, integrated, and adaptable insurance operating model. From the outset, we built ManageMy as a scalable, enterprise-grade platform capable of compounding value as insurers grow and modernise.
This investment enables us to accelerate product depth, expand distribution, and convert strong client adoption into even more durable, high-quality recurring revenue. ManageMy is now uniquely positioned to become a long-term infrastructure partner to the global insurance industry.
Insurers are under growing pressure to improve speed, accuracy, and customer experience while increasing sales and reducing costs. Our platform is purpose-built to address those challenges – delivering AI-enabled decisioning and orchestration across the entire Buy-Manage-Claim lifecycle.”
Mo El Husseiny, Managing Partner at Ventura Capital, said:
“ManageMy has built something of massive strategic value to the insurance industry. Their combined application of intelligence and automation into insurers and brokers environments unlocks value at scale.
The insurance industry has struggled to modernise its business models compared to the financial services market. ManageMy is at the forefront of digitally transforming the insurance sector, one of the world’s largest and most lucrative markets. We are delighted to continue partnering with Sean O’Connor across his ventures and with the team at ManageMy.”
Sean O’Connor: Co-Founder of ManageMy and Founder of OCVC.com, said:
“When we co-found a business, we do so with tier one operating co-founders, like Stephen Collins, who, along with the team he has built, have deep domain expertise in insurance and the application of technology within the industry.
Insurance is a fundamental financial inclusion product, designed for social good. ManageMy is the intelligent application of increasingly critical digital infrastructure into the incumbent insurers and brokers, which enables transformation of the operating model and creates new value for insurers, brokers and consumers. This also makes it increasingly economically viable to open up insurance to the millions who are uninsured or underinsured.”
ManageMy leads a distinct category of ‘Deep Front-End’ platforms, transforming the insurance experience for over 45 major insurance carriers and broker groups across North America. The platform supports enterprise-scale digital journeys and intelligent orchestration across life, health, and P&C lines, delivering three core advantages:
Uniquely designed to bring the key operating functions and journeys – customer experience, underwriting and claims – into the front-end, enabling insurers to manage and automate journeys.
Delivers composable, native, adaptive, and intelligent customer journeys and workflows that respond to context, product, and user intent, reducing friction and errors across the entire insurance journey – from onboarding to claims – with one seamless, modular platform.
Offers one engine to connect, configure, & launch. The only comprehensive solution with a front-end design that transforms great customer experience into a revenue engine, unlocking cross-sell, upsell, and embedded distribution at scale.
Over the past 24 months since its Series A (also led by Ventura and OCVC), ManageMy has gained significant commercial momentum. The company’s solutions are increasingly being adopted as a front-end and decision-layer alternative to traditional portals and point solutions, leveraging its Ai and no-code capability to enhance enterprise insurance environment.
About ManageMy
ManageMy is a deep front end insurance Intelligent Orchestration Platform, which enables insurers to seamlessly orchestrate digital customer engagement, automated underwriting, and intelligent claims decisioning. Designed for flexibility, scale, and AI-driven insight, ManageMy enables insurers to modernise operations, improve customer experience, and unlock sustainable value across the insurance lifecycle. Co-founded by Stephen Collins, Sean O’Connor, Gino Maccio and Sean Rowley, ManageMy is a UK company with global headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina. London. https://managemy.com/
SHANGHAI, Feb. 11, 2026 — Axera, a portfolio company of Qiming Venture Partners and a leading Chinese edge AI chip company, successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on February 10th, 2026, Beijing time, becoming the first of its kind to go public. Axera (00600.HK) issued shares at a price of HK$28.2 per share with a market capitalization of HK$ 16.58 billion.
As the first investors in the company, Qiming Venture Partners led the pre-A round financing of Axera in early 2020 and continued to fund the company’s development in the following two rounds. Before the firm’s IPO, Qiming Venture Partners held a more than 6 percent stake in Axera and was its second-largest institutional investor. With 2026 just beginning, this is already Qiming Venture Partners’ third AI portfolio company to go public this year.
Founded in May 2019, Axera is committed to creating world-leading AI perception and edge computing chips for markets such as intelligent vehicles and edge computing. Axera adopts a strategy of “general technology and customized chips” and develops chips customized for different markets relying on its self-developed core technologies such as AXProton AI-ISP and AXNeutron NPU. It also has a complete development tool chain and a diverse ecosystem cooperation system.
Multiple generations of chips independently developed by Axera have been commercialized, covering dozens of types, mass-procuced in visual terminal computing, intelligent vehicles, and edge computing AI inference applications, and establishing a leading position in key markets.
Axera is not only among the top 5 global suppliers of visual edge AI inference chips by shipments in 2024, but also takes the first place in the mid-to-high-end market with a 24.1 percent market share. In the intelligent vehicle sector, Axera has risen rapidly to become China’s second-largest supplier of domestic intelligent assisted driving chips by the installation volume of intelligent vehicle chips in 2024. By the end of 2025, its cumulative shipments of intelligent vehicle chips had reached nearly 1 million units. Moreover, Axera officially launched a brand-new edge computing business line in 2025, aiming to build an edge intelligence community and promote the large-scale application of AI in all walks of life. The firm has grown into one of the top 3 suppliers in edge computing AI chips in China.
Dr.Xiaoxin Qiu, Founder and Chairman of Axera, said: “This IPO marks a pivotal milestone for Axera’s growth, bringing greater social responsibility and heralding a new chapter. Going forward, we will continue to execute our platform strategy to push technological boundaries, expand our business footprint, and accelerate AI’s leap from smart digital perception to embodied intelligence. “
“Axera has accumulated profound experience in the chip industry and leading core capabilities in AI algorithms, adheres to a platform strategy, and has formed a differentiated advantage by upgrading IP technology and expanding application fields, which makes us firmly believe that the company will grow sustainably in the field of AI chips. I expect that Axera will achieve more innovations and develop faster after its IPO. Qiming Venture Partners has always believed that investing in AI is the greatest certainty in China over the next two decades and sticks to the investment philosophy of ‘being half a step ahead’ to make decisive moves when technological breakthroughs have been verified but market consensus has not yet formed. Meanwhile, Qiming Venture Partners deeply energizes enterprises using the approach of ‘invest in the early stage and accompany all the way’, providing them with support in core technology research and development, commercialization, and the whole process of their listing in the capital market. The successful IPO of Axera is the most solid validation of our entire set of investment philosophy and methodology for AI hard technology,” said Alex Zhou, Managing Partner of Qiming Venture Partners.
About Qiming Venture Partners
Qiming Venture Partners was founded in 2006. Currently, Qiming Venture Partners manages eleven US Dollar funds and seven RMB funds with $9.5 billion in capital raised. Since our establishment, we have invested in outstanding companies in the Technology and Healthcare industries at the early and growth stages.
Since our debut, we have backed over 580 fast-growing and innovative companies. Over 210 of our portfolio companies have achieved exits through IPOs at the NYSE, NASDAQ, HKEX, Shanghai Stock Exchange, or Shenzhen Stock Exchange, or through M&A or other means. There are also over 80 portfolio companies that have achieved unicorn or super unicorn status.
Many of our portfolio companies are today’s most influential firms in their respective sectors, including Xiaomi, Meituan, Bilibili, Zhihu, Roborock, Hesai Technology, UBTech, WeRide, HyperStrong, Insta360, Unisound, Biren Technology, Z.ai, Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals, Tigermed, Zai Lab, CanSino Biologics, Schrödinger, APT Medical, Sanyou Medical, AmoyDx, SinocellTech, Insilico Medicine, AusperBio, Yuanxin Technology, Medilink Therapeutics, LaNova Medicines, StepFun, among many others.
