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:

“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
• 610,000+ repositories monitored continuously
• 210,000+ connected collaboration sources (Slack, Jira, Confluence) — 7x growth year-over-year
• 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.

For more information, users can visit www.gitguardian.com

About Insight Partners

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.

For more information, users can visit www.insightpartners.com

About Quadrille Capital

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.

For more information, users can visit https://www.quadrillecapital.com/ 

Link to the press release: https://blog.gitguardian.com/series-c-pr/

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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.

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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 at https://www.hubbl.com.

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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/

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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 10^th, 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.

DENVER, Feb. 10, 2026 — GenFlux, a platform helping brands track and optimize how they appear in AI-generated answers, announced a $4.2 million seed funding round led by Symbolic Capital, with participation from Borderless Capital, Frachtis, Glasswing Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Delphi Ventures, and Radical Ventures.

More than 40% of Gen Z now use ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini as their primary search tools. In a world where AI engines recommend products directly — with no page two — most brands have zero visibility into whether they’re being mentioned, how they’re being described, or what they can do about it.

“In the age of AI search, there are no blue links — your brand either gets recommended or it doesn’t,” said a partner at Symbolic Capital. “GenFlux is building the essential infrastructure for brands to win in this new landscape.”

GenFlux pioneers AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) and GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), two emerging disciplines purpose-built for the AI search era. The platform includes:

• Multi-Engine Tracking: Real-time brand monitoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, and Meta AI
• Answer Rank Scoring: Proprietary ranking system measuring where brands appear in AI-generated answers relative to competitors
• Query Intelligence: AI-powered discovery of the exact questions that trigger brand mentions, with optimization recommendations
• Content Optimizer: Automated suggestions to restructure content for maximum AI discoverability and citation

About GenFlux

GenFlux equips marketers to succeed as AI agents — rather than traditional search results — drive product discovery. The seed funding will be used to scale the engineering team, launch a self-serve platform, and expand go-to-market efforts across the US and Europe.

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New funding led by Ten Coves Capital to fuel continued growth and U.S. expansion

DUBLIN and NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2026 — Circit, the audit confirmation and financial data verification platform, today announced a $22 million growth equity financing to scale its global verification network and embed trusted data at the core of every audit.

The round was led by Ten Coves Capital, a New York–based growth equity firm specializing in financial software, with strong participation from existing investors Aquiline and MiddleGame Ventures. Together, the investor group brings deep experience supporting enterprise technology companies that transform mission-critical infrastructure across audit, tax, and regulated financial services industries.

The funding follows a breakout year for Circit, with adoption across more than 400 audit firms – including all of the Top 20 global audit networks – and a verification network spanning over 30,000 banks, funds service providers, and other evidence providers. Over the past year, the Circit platform facilitated the confirmation of assets and liabilities for 150,000 corporate entities and, on average, independently verified over 100 million transactions.

This growth comes as demand from audit committees at the largest corporates is accelerating, with an expectation that auditors will increasingly leverage AI-enabled technology to deliver enhanced quality and better economics via real-time, verified audit data.

Building the Verification Layer for Modern Audit

Circit provides auditors with independent, source-verified audit evidence by connecting audit firms, financial institutions, law firms, and corporates through a secure, API-driven network.

The Circit platform allows auditors to replace manual, client-provided workflows with direct data connections that improve audit quality, speed, and trust and reduce the risk of large-scale financial fraud. The platform enables:

• Digital audit confirmations across bank and non-bank-held assets and liabilities
• Direct, permissioned access to bank-verified transaction data
• A single AI-driven end-to-end auditor to client collaboration, and data ingestion workflow that delivers critical evidence directly into the audit file

As the audit industry transitions from manual processes toward digital, continuous, and agentic workflows, Circit is emerging as the trusted verification layer underpinning the next-generation of AI-powered audit evidence, analytics and transaction insights.

The new capital will be used to invest in product innovation, including AI-powered workflows across all stakeholders in Circit’s audit confirmations network; deepen bank API connectivity; and scale go-to-market and customer success teams with a focus on the US and plans to double the Circit team over the next two years.

David Heath, Co-Founder and CEO of Circit, said, “We’re pleased to welcome Ten Coves and to partner with investors who understand the long-term importance of modernizing audit infrastructure. Audit confirmations are fundamental to trust in financial reporting, yet the process has remained manual, costly, and fraught with fraud risk for both auditors and corporates. Circit was built to change that—by giving auditors direct, independent access to confirm all asset and liability types on corporate balance sheets.

As financial infrastructure evolves through open banking, API access, and digital asset frameworks such as the GENIUS Act, Circit is building the verified data infrastructure to power AI-driven audit testing and workflows.”

“Circit is delivering critical infrastructure for the audit profession at a time of profound industry change,” said Steven Piaker, Managing Partner at Ten Coves Capital who will join the Circit Board. “Circit’s network-driven model, deep auditor adoption, and API-first architecture position it to become the trusted verification layer powering modern audit and compliance workflows globally.”

Giovanni Nani, Head of European Venture at Aquiline, added, “Repeated, high-profile audit failures have underscored the systemic risk of relying on unverified, client-provided data. Circit addresses this challenge head-on by enabling independent, real-time verification at scale across the audit ecosystem. At Aquiline, we focus on building businesses that matter by backing teams solving fundamental industry problems and supporting them as they scale globally. Circit is building critical verification infrastructure for the future of audit, and we’re excited to continue supporting the team as they expand the platform’s reach and impact across the industry.”

Patrick Pinschmidt, Co-Managing Partner of MiddleGame Ventures, noted that “Circit is operating at the intersection of powerful financial services trends — the digitization and automation of data augmented by differentiated AI tools that facilitate a global network to transact and manage risk in a faster and more secure manner.”

About Circit

Founded in 2017, Circit is an audit confirmation, data validation, and client collaboration platform that connects auditors directly with banks, financial institutions, and trusted counterparties to verify financial data at the source. Circit transforms manual confirmations and unstructured client-provided data into structured, independently verified audit evidence.

The company is regulated as an Account Information Service Provider (“AISP”) by the Central Bank of Ireland, as well as the UK, the EU, and Australia.

www.circit.io

About Ten Coves Capital

Ten Coves Capital backs high growth companies across the FinTech ecosystem where its capital, network, and decades of experience can help accelerate growth and value creation. Investing across payments, banking & lending, asset management, capital markets, and insurance & benefits (among other segments), the Ten Coves team has helped scale over 40 companies that are solving industry pain points, enabling workflows, and providing critical infrastructure to the largest financial institutions down to SMBs. 

www.tencoves.com

About Aquiline

Aquiline Capital Partners LP (“Aquiline”) is a global private investment firm with offices in New York, London, and Philadelphia that focuses on financial services and technology. As of September 30, 2025, Aquiline has approximately $12 billion of assets under management and deployed approximately $8.2 billion of capital across the firm’s strategies since inception.

www.aquiline.com

About MiddleGame Ventures

MiddleGame Ventures is a fintech-focused investment firm backing ambitious founders building transformative financial infrastructure. With a strong emphasis on network-driven platforms and ecosystem collaboration, MiddleGame supports companies shaping the future of finance, including payments, banking, asset management, compliance, and enterprise financial workflows.

www.middlegamevc.com

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New investment arm reflects JumpCloud’s commitment to building a more secure and productive tech ecosystem

LOUISVILLE, Colo., Feb. 10, 2026 — JumpCloud Inc. has revealed the launch of its new venture arm, JumpCloud Ventures. JumpCloud Ventures will support early-stage companies building identity, security, AI, and IT productivity solutions. The program fuels the foundational technologies that help modern enterprises scale safely. The company also announced its first investment in Tofu, a startup focused on addressing identity fraud in hiring.

“Greg Keller and I have spent much of our careers building companies from the ground up,” said Rajat Bhargava, CEO, JumpCloud. “At our current scale, it is time to give back. We are supporting emerging companies tackling hard problems in identity and security. JumpCloud Ventures is about investing in innovation and helping these companies grow.”

JumpCloud Ventures is a long-term investment program and offers more than just capital. It gives portfolio companies access to JumpCloud’s experience, insights, and network as they grow. JumpCloud Ventures aims to support companies without prescribing product direction or integration.

Tofu, JumpCloud Ventures’ first investment, focuses on preventing identity fraud during the hiring process. This is an increasingly visible risk as organizations expand remote and distributed workforces.

“Identity-based attacks often begin long before a user ever logs in,” Bhargava said. “Hiring and onboarding represent an important but underexplored area of identity risk. Tofu is bringing new thinking to that problem, which is why we’re excited to support the team through JumpCloud Ventures.”

The investment reflects JumpCloud’s belief in Tofu’s vision and leadership, as well as the growing importance of identity verification earlier in the employee lifecycle.

“JumpCloud’s support is a strong validation of the problem we’re solving,” said Jason Zoltak, co-founder and CEO, Tofu. “Our mission is to build the identity and security platform for recruiting that helps establish a new foundation of trust in an AI and remote working world. This is a new problem that has suddenly emerged. While companies are ill-equipped to solve it, we’re ready to help every company establish a stronger layer of trust between talent, security, and candidates. We’re excited to work with the JumpCloud team as we continue to build and scale our platform.”

About JumpCloud

JumpCloud^® is the AI-powered unified IT management platform designed to secure the modern workforce. By consolidating identity, device, and access management, JumpCloud provides intelligent, secure IT that scales from human users to autonomous AI agents. We help organizations around the globe eliminate complexity and turn AI risk into an optimized advantage, ensuring the right people and agents have secure access to the right resources at all times.

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ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 10, 2026 — Today Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL3, LLC), an early-stage investment firm that backs entrepreneurs solving society’s most pressing problems, as well as Cubit Capital, 8VC, and GSV, announced their investment in Training All People (TAP), a workforce development platform transforming how advanced manufacturing talent is trained, evaluated, and deployed. TAP enables employers and educators to reliably build and verify hands-on technical skills through immersive, simulation-based training, available in virtual reality, mobile, or any web browser.

As millions of Baby Boomers retire over the next decade, the shortage of younger workers with comparable training and education will create serious pressure on the labor market. TAP is helping strengthen U.S. manufacturing capability and resilience by addressing training bottlenecks and persistent gaps in hands-on technical readiness. Importantly, TAP is not just for people entering the workforce. It’s also a critical resource for reskilling and upskilling existing workers. Whether it’s a 45-year-old whose job has been displaced or an experienced employee adapting to new technology, TAP provides a lifeline that supports continuous career mobility. Its adaptive, AI-guided simulations offer realistic practice environments that help learners safely master real procedures, while giving employers objective insights into true competency before hiring or redeploying talent.

Traditional training is slow, inconsistent, and expensive. TAP solves some of the most persistent challenges facing employers and training institutions. New workers often lack hands-on experience with real equipment, so TAP provides safe, repeatable simulations that build practical skills without downtime. TAP also provides each trainee with a personalized AI coach to help them learn critical skills, evaluate their abilities, and prepare for interviews. Because interviews can’t reliably measure real ability, TAP uses objective, performance-based assessments to verify competency before hiring.

“At Stand Together Ventures Lab, we invest in solutions that unlock human potential and drive meaningful societal progress. TAP is a perfect fit for that thesis,” said Jonathan Jou, Managing Director, Head of Investments, STVL. “They are addressing one of the most pressing problems in the U.S. economy, which is developing a workforce that is truly prepared for advanced manufacturing and they’re doing it with technology that is both scalable and proven. TAP’s AI-guided simulations deliver measurable performance improvement and give workers and employers confidence rooted in real data. That combination of innovation, scalability, and impact is exactly why we’re investing.”

“America is on the cusp of an industrial renaissance that will lift up millions of lives,” said 8VC Managing Partner Joe Lonsdale. “TAP’s AI-enabled skills training will be an engine of this reindustrialization, helping companies develop and scale a talented workforce quickly and with confidence.”

“TAP’s platform helps America maintain its competitive edge in advanced manufacturing by solving one of the biggest barriers to innovation: the shortage of skilled technical talent,” said Gui Hadlich, Partner at Cubit Capital. “At Cubit, we invest at the intersection of frontier technologies and human flourishing, and TAP is an incredible example of a company advancing both. They’ve achieved significant traction in a short amount of time, and we’re excited to support their growth journey.”

TAP’s platform is already delivering meaningful results for partners across defense, manufacturing, and higher education. Northrop Grumman employees improved technical skills by 45%, and Austin Community College learners developed the confidence and proficiency to succeed in high-demand technical interviews.

“GSV is proud to support TAP for delivering learning systems that produce demonstrable skills giving employers confidence and learners access to upward mobility,” said Debroah Quazzo, Managing Director, GSV Ventures.

TAP’s adaptive simulations and AI tools equip employers to remotely assess hands-on competencies, onboard workers faster, and maintain high standards of operational performance. By strengthening industrial readiness, TAP helps ensure American manufacturing remains competitive, resilient, and equipped for the challenges ahead.

About Training All People (TAP)
TAP 3D is a leader in immersive training solutions that bridge the gap between education and industry. Through cutting-edge virtual reality, on-the-job AI instructional assistance, WEBGL simulations and self-paced, asynchronous training, TAP 3D equips students and employees with the skills needed to succeed in advanced manufacturing and the semiconductor industry. TAP 3D’s exclusive content and workforce development tools help schools, training providers, and employers strengthen the talent pipeline while reducing training costs and increasing engagement by empowering learners with access to a blended hands-on realism with scalable technology. TAP3D is redefining how future-ready careers are built. Learn more at www.tap3d.com.

About Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL)
Stand Together Ventures Lab (STVL) is an early-stage investment firm that backs entrepreneurs solving the country’s most pressing problems. Aligned with the broader Stand Together vision, STVL invests in disruptive technologies and business models in healthcare, education, and economic mobility. To learn more visit: www.stventureslab.com 

About Cubit Capital
Cubit Capital is a Dallas-based, mission-driven venture capital firm investing in early-to-growth stage companies (Pre-Seed through Series A). We partner with courageous entrepreneurs building technology-enabled businesses that confront meaningful problems in innovative and significant ways. Guided by a philosophy of stewardship, human flourishing, and a commitment to democracy and free markets, we work alongside values-aligned founders and investors to help build enduring companies. To learn more, visit our website and follow on LinkedIn.

About 8VC
8VC is a leading early-stage technology investment firm focused on entrepreneurs applying novel technologies to the most important industries of our economy including defense, logistics, manufacturing, financial services and healthcare. In addition to investing in existing companies, 8VC starts businesses from scratch through a strategy we call 8VC Build. Through 8VC Build and previous entrepreneurial experience, partners at 8VC have co-founded over two dozen technology companies including Palantir (PLTR), Saronic, Resilience, OpenGov, Addepar, Epirus and Affinity. Learn more at 8VC.com.

About GSV Ventures
GSV Ventures is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on the $7+ trillion global education and workforce skills sector. The firm manages and is currently investing out of GSV Ventures Fund III, backing innovative entrepreneurs across the “Pre-K to Gray” Arc of Learning and Skills. GSV has made investments in industry leaders, including ClassDojo, Coursera, Degreed, Guild, Handshake, Lead, Mattilda, PhysicsWallah, Photomath, QuillBot, Quizizz, Toddle, MasterClass, and others. Learn more at GSV.Ventures.

SOURCE Stand Together Ventures Lab