This new workforce and workflow intelligence platform helps enterprise leaders understand what to automate and if those automations paid off.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb.11, 2026 — Reflow today announced the launch of its workforce and workflow intelligence platform designed to help modern enterprises understand how work happens across people and systems. The company also announced a $15M+ seed round to accelerate technology development and bring operational and AI automation intelligence to more enterprise customers.

As organizations rush to adopt AI, most leaders face a familiar constraint: they can measure outputs, but they lack visibility into the work that produces them. Decisions about automation and optimization are often driven by instinct, anecdotes, or slow, expensive consulting efforts.

Reflow was built to change that. The platform makes operational work observable, showing how work flows across systems and teams, identifying what to automate, and measuring the ROI impact of those changes.

Turning operational work into data

Reflow provides real-time visibility into how work is performed across people, systems, and processes, without time tracking, self-reported data, or complex integrations.

By turning operational work into structured data, Reflow helps organizations understand their true capacity, identify which workflows to automate, and measure AI automation ROI.

Built for operations-heavy enterprises

Reflow is designed for mid-market and enterprise organizations with large operational teams performing high-volume, repeatable, computer-based work.

These teams commonly operate in functions such as customer support, accounting, tax, legal, compliance, and where accuracy and efficiency directly impact margins.

The visibility gap holding modern operations back

Most companies can answer what their teams produce, but not how that work actually gets done.

This lack of enterprise process visibility creates real operational risk. Leaders struggle to validate capacity, enforce SOPs, identify automation opportunities, or measure whether AI and automation efforts actually worked.

In an AI-driven world, that lack of visibility becomes a blocker. Automation depends on understanding human work first.

From time tracking to workflow intelligence

Traditional time tracking and productivity tools focus on individual activity, hours logged, or self-reported tasks. While useful for basic oversight, they fail to capture how work actually moves across systems and teams.

Reflow takes a system-level approach. Instead of relying solely on measuring individuals in isolation, it observes workflows, revealing how tasks flow, where bottlenecks form, and where time is truly spent.

The platform helps organizations:

• Identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and SOP deviations
• Decide where automation or AI will have the highest impact
• Measure the ROI of automation efforts over time

The result is a view of operations leaders can actually act on.

Designed for workflow insight, not employee surveillance

Reflow is designed to help organizations understand systems, workflows, and capacity, not monitor individual employees.

The platform is privacy-first by design and includes enterprise-grade controls such as SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, configurable metadata collection, and flexible visibility settings. Organizations have full control and can choose aggregated or anonymized views and set clear boundaries around how data is used.

Early results from enterprise operations teams

Early customers have uncovered significant hidden capacity, reduced unnecessary headcount while increasing output, and identified high-impact areas of automation.

“Reflow helped us understand the unit economics of our work and where to optimize across workflows, productivity, and cost,” said Robert Robles, Chief of Staff at Boundless and early Reflow customer. “That clarity enabled smarter automation and more scalable operations.”

“Reflow saved us $1.2M in just two months. It showed us bottlenecks and helped us prioritize the highest-impact improvements with measurable ROI,” said Rohan Powar, Finance, Analytics and Strategy leader at Collective, another early Reflow customer.

A foundation for AI-driven operations

Automation without visibility leads to wasted spend, broken processes, and disappointing outcomes. Reflow acts as the precursor to automation, helping companies see what is actually happening and decide what to automate.

“AI can’t improve what organizations don’t understand,” said Ugur Kaner, founder of Reflow. “Reflow gives leaders a clear, shared view of how work actually happens, so automation decisions are grounded in reality, not assumptions. In an AI-driven world, that visibility becomes essential infrastructure.”

In a world where AI reshapes how work gets done, Reflow ensures that leaders understand how work actually happens.

About Reflow

Reflow is a workforce and workflow intelligence platform that helps enterprises understand how work actually happens across people and systems. By making operational work observable, Reflow enables leaders to optimize workflows, deploy automation with confidence, and measure real ROI.

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GALWAY, Ireland and BRAINTREE, Mass., Feb. 11, 2026 — Neurent Medical, the pioneer behind NEUROMARK^®, an innovative, minimally invasive solution to treat chronic rhinitis, today announced the successful close of its oversubscribed Series C financing, raising €62.5 million ($74 million) to drive commercial expansion, broaden clinical evidence, and advance its product and indication pipeline.

The financing was led by MVM Partners, with significant participation from Sofinnova Partners, and included continued support from existing investors EQT Life Sciences, Atlantic Bridge, Fountain Healthcare Partners and Enterprise Ireland.

Chronic rhinitis affects millions of people worldwide and is characterized by persistent symptoms including nasal congestion, rhinorrhea (runny nose), sneezing and postnasal drip that can significantly diminish quality of life. NEUROMARK’s proprietary Impedance Controlled Radiofrequency technology targets the overactive posterior nasal nerves (PNN) that drive these symptoms, providing clinicians with a differentiated and durable treatment option designed to address the root cause, not just manage symptoms.

“I am delighted to welcome MVM Partners and Sofinnova Partners to the Neurent Medical team, two global leaders in medtech investing,” said CEO of Neurent Medical, Brian Shields. “This Series C financing will support our commercial expansion and help bring NEUROMARK to the patients and physicians who need it most.”

Neurent Medical also welcomed Kyle Dempsey, Partner at MVM Partners, and Cedric Moreau, Partner at Sofinnova Partners, to its Board of Directors.

“Millions of patients suffer from chronic rhinitis, and posterior nasal nerve ablation represents a powerful tool to provide proven relief,” said Kyle Dempsey. “In this rapidly emerging category, Neurent has set a new standard with a best-in-class solution, powered by a proprietary impedance control system that delivers real-time feedback, giving clinicians greater treatment confidence, control, and predictability during every procedure.”

“Chronic rhinitis is a widespread and often overlooked condition affecting millions of patients with limited effective treatment options. Neurent Medical has developed a truly differentiated approach supported by a growing body of clinical evidence demonstrating meaningful and durable patient benefit,” added Cedric Moreau. We also see significant potential to expand this platform into additional indications, and we are confident in our partnership with Neurent Medical at this pivotal stage of commercial growth.”

“Our mission since inception has been to meaningfully improve patients’ lives while empowering ENT physicians with predictable, minimally invasive care,” Shields continued. “In addition to expanding patient access, this investment will also enable further evidence generation across broader populations and support the continued development of our exciting pipeline offerings.”

About NEUROMARK® and Neurent Medical
Neurent Medical is dedicated to transforming the treatment landscape for chronic inflammatory sinonasal diseases. Its flagship NEUROMARK System utilizes proprietary Impedance Controlled Radiofrequency technology to gently disrupt hyperactive posterior nasal nerves, delivering durable symptom relief from chronic rhinitis with minimal downtime and a strong safety profile.

Headquartered in Galway, Ireland, with U.S. operations in Braintree, Massachusetts, Neurent is advancing both scientific evidence and clinical adoption to establish a new standard of care in chronic rhinitis management. Learn more at www.neuromark.com.

About MVM Partners
MVM has invested in high-growth healthcare businesses since 1997. With teams in Boston, London, and the San Francisco Bay Area, MVM has a broad, global investment outlook spanning medical technology, pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, contract research and manufacturing, digital health, and other sectors of healthcare. More information can be found at www.mvm.com.

About Sofinnova Partners
Sofinnova Partners is a leading European venture capital firm in life sciences, specializing in healthcare and sustainability. Based in Paris, London and Milan, the firm brings together a team of professionals from all over the world with strong scientific, medical and business expertise. Sofinnova Partners is a hands-on company builder across the entire value chain of life sciences investments, from seed to later-stage. Founded in 1972, Sofinnova Partners is a deeply established venture capital firm in Europe, with 50 years of experience backing over 500 companies and creating market leaders around the globe. Today, Sofinnova Partners manages over €4 billion in assets. For more information, please visit: www.sofinnovapartners.com.

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• Google Analytics founder and FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner, Wesley Chan, joins Integrate’s Board of Directors
• Integrate’s platform has quickly become a requirement for government launch programs with the U.S. Space Force

SEATTLE, Feb. 11, 2026 — Integrate, the developer of the world’s first ultra-secure project management platform for dynamic multi-entity execution, today announced a $17 million Series A raise led by FPV Ventures with participation from Fuse VC and Rsquared VC. Returning investors include New Vista, Hyperplane, and Riot Ventures. Building on the success of its customer agreement with the U.S. Space Force, Integrate plans to leverage the funding to accelerate the launch of new product capabilities to government customers and scale its go-to-market strategy to meet the needs of the defense tech sector.      

With the nation’s defense budget expected to exceed $1 trillion in the near term, the U.S. government is investing in efforts to protect domestic innovation, bolster its competitive advantage, and maintain national security. From the first government-funded infrastructure project to today, project management has remained a major vulnerability for teams and a constant bottleneck to efficient execution. To pave new collaboration pathways for government projects, Integrate aims to unlock secure, shared multi-entity coordination, eliminating errors, delays, and losses incurred by fragmented workflows.

The first and only collaborative project management platform deployed to the classified environment Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS), Integrate enables real-time collaboration on billion-dollar, top-secret projects involving hundreds of companies and stakeholders, operating across multiple clearance levels. Developed by a U.S. Air Force veteran with tenures at three aerospace unicorns, Integrate’s AI-native platform provides an ultra-secure environment for internal and external partners to eliminate siloed workflows and accelerate the development and implementation of the world’s most complex, mission-critical technologies.

Joining Integrate’s Board of Directors is FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner Wesley Chan. An early investor in today’s software giants, including Canva, Robinhood, and Plaid, Chan’s foresight has built a robust company portfolio that includes five decacorns and more than 20 unicorns.

“It’s clear that the market has an appetite for technologies that are additive to the massive global defense tech sector,” said Wesley Chan. “Integrate’s AI-native platform has the potential to upend the market and accelerate the speed of innovation as we know it. Within one day of meeting John and the team, we were sold on their technology, market application, and results with customers.”

Integrate’s technology has rapidly become a requirement for launch programs by the U.S. Space Force. As part of its $25 million contract with the U.S. Space Force, Integrate has already added dozens of partners in aerospace and defense. With the new round of funding, Integrate plans to bring its technology into the maritime, aviation, and automotive sectors. 

“For too long, governments have wasted billions on bespoke, custom products that ultimately fall short in advertised capabilities, security, and availability. The tides are turning on widespread government inefficiency, and commercial ‘off-the-shelf’ products are becoming the new norm,” said John Conafay, CEO and co-founder of Integrate. “There is no other project management software on the market today close to offering the same level of security, accessibility, and collaborative experience that Integrate does.”

About Integrate
Integrate is the world’s first ultra-secure platform for dynamic, multi-entity collaboration, and the project management partner of choice for complex and classified projects in government and defense tech. Integrate’s technology drives innovation and streamlines orchestration where it matters most – building and operating critical land, maritime, air, space, and cyber capabilities. Backed by world-class investors like FPV Ventures, Integrate is already working with dozens of partners and customers, including the U.S. Space Force. Learn more at www.integrate.co

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The software-driven spectrum resilience platform transforms real-time visibility and precise geolocation of Radio Frequency Interference for defense, aerospace and mobility systems

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 — Tenna Systems, a defense technology company pioneering software-driven spectrum intelligence, today announced it has raised an oversubscribed $13.5 million seed funding round led by Costanoa, with participation from Viola Ventures, Fresh Fund, 202 Ventures and existing investors. The new funding will accelerate Tenna’s expansion in the U.S. defense market, where the company has already partnered with government agencies and prime contractors to deliver hardware-free spectrum intelligence for wireless-dependent systems at global scale.

In a world where billions of dollars in defense, navigation, electronic warfare, and autonomous assets are vulnerable to connectivity gaps and Radio Frequency Interference (RFI), such as jamming and spoofing, Tenna transforms existing sensors into a unified, real-time map of the invisible domain. By turning every aircraft, drone, satellite, ship, and mobile devices into live sensors, Tenna’s platform provides actionable threat warnings by pinpointing interference within 50 to 200 meters, providing defense, aerospace, and mobility systems with real-time mission-ready resilience, without the need for additional hardware.

“Much like AccuWeather but for electronic warfare, our software transforms the blizzard of sensor data into a real-time map of Radio Frequency (RF) domains. This gives our partners a ground truth in navigating the electromagnetic spectrum,” said Avner Bendheim, co-founder and CEO at Tenna. “Agility is everything in the evolving world of the electromagnetic spectrum. While traditional solutions demand costly infrastructure rollouts and custom sensors, we provide a hardware-free solution that is as essential as any other mission-critical tool.”

Tenna was founded by twin brothers Avner and Gabriel Bendheim. After decades leading signals intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic warfare programs, they saw that traditional, hardware-heavy systems could no longer keep pace with modern warfare’s fast-moving, wireless environment. That realization led them to design their scalable, software-based solution that leverages existing signal emitters to safeguard the world’s most critical wireless systems in today’s congested spectrum.

Tenna currently offers three products to span the full range of real-time electronic connectivity needs:

• Arena for real-time monitoring of radio frequency coverage gaps and interference.
• Tracer for accurately locating interference sources and enabling targeting mitigation.
• Halo embedded software “armor” enabling operational continuity and RF resilience.

“Tenna’s founding team brings a rare mix of operational, technical, and commercial expertise,” said Greg Sands, Founder and Managing Partner at Costanoa. “We believe Tenna is advancing a new era of spectrum intelligence to protect connectivity across all domains. It has the power to transform how defense partners secure wireless systems, ensuring readiness and resilience on a global scale.”

Tenna is actively engaged with the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, and other federal defense agencies to advance spectrum intelligence capabilities for wireless systems, as well as operational deployments with electronic warfare and SIGINT units in allied defense forces. As the company rapidly scales, it plans to more than double its headcount in the next 12 months.

To learn more or request a demo, visit: https://tennasys.com/ 

About Tenna Systems
Founded in 2023, Tenna Systems (formerly Tip & Cue Inc.) is a software-first spectrum intelligence company building the world’s first dynamic, unified map of the electromagnetic spectrum. Tenna was founded with a singular vision: to enable seamless wireless connectivity across all domains. Drawing on decades of experience in signals intelligence (SIGINT) and electronic warfare, Tenna’s technology is battlefield-proven, having been successfully deployed with U.S. allied forces in recent conflict zones. It has delivered critical operational advantages in some of the world’s most contested environments, demonstrating its reliability, performance, and mission-ready design for wireless-dependent systems operating worldwide.

About Costanoa
Costanoa exists to elevate founders building companies of consequence. We lead investments from formation through Series A in Applied AI, AI Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, National Security, and Fintech. With $2.3B AUM, we’re boutique by design—making fewer investments to deliver deeper expertise and operational support when it matters most: the early, defining stages of growth. For more information, please visit www.costanoa.vc.

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Funding will scale platform that guides Fortune 500 Brands through AI search, ads, and commerce convergence

NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2026 — After working with hundreds of the world’s largest brands to grow AI search visibility, Brandlight today announced $30M in Series A funding led by Pelion Venture Partners, with participation from existing investors Cardumen Capital and G20 Ventures.

The funding will accelerate the development and scale of Brandlight’s enterprise-grade platform, which already gives dozens of Fortune 500 brands control over their AI visibility and now helps them navigate the shift to AI-native advertising.

Founded in October 2024 by Imri Marcus, Uri Gafni, and Didi Dvash, the Brandlight platform has quietly been chosen by hundreds of the world’s largest brands, including Fortune 500 companies such as Kimberly-Clark, LG, The Hartford, and Estée Lauder, to guide decision-making in AI-driven discovery and media. This allows brands to anticipate market shifts rather than react to them.

2026 marks the first year AI visibility becomes a dedicated budget line for major global brands. AI ads, recently announced by OpenAI, collapse discovery, media, and conversion into a single surface. AI is creating a new multi-trillion-dollar marketing channel as search, commerce, ads, and agents converge into AI-driven discovery, reshaping how brands are found, evaluated, and chosen.

The Brandlight proprietary platform serves as the navigator for this environment, analyzing billions of AI-generated signals across the customer journey and translating them into clear, actionable recommendations that marketing, PR, content, and media teams can use to make confident decisions.

“We’ve been preparing for this moment for over a year,” said Imri Marcus, CEO of Brandlight. “From its inception, Brandlight was built to become a marketing operating system for AI as a channel, starting with AI search and now expanding into AI ads and commerce. Our promise to brands is simple: to keep being a partner they can rely on as this market evolves, helping them stay ahead rather than react.”

AI visibility is rapidly evolving from an emerging concern into a core marketing discipline requiring dedicated strategy and measurement. Brandlight continues to build the infrastructure that enables enterprise brands to approach this channel with the same confidence they’ve developed in search and social over the past two decades.

About Brandlight
Brandlight empowers brands to shape their presence in the era of AI-driven search. As consumers increasingly rely on AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini for information and recommendations, traditional SEO strategies are no longer sufficient. The Brandlight Platform provides tools and insights to help brands monitor, optimize, and influence how AI models perceive and present their narratives.

Our platform offers real-time tracking of brand mentions across AI platforms, sentiment analysis, and identification of key content sources influencing AI-generated answers. By understanding and managing these factors, brands can ensure accurate representation, enhance visibility, and maintain control over their digital narratives.

With Brandlight, companies can proactively engage with the evolving AI search landscape, ensuring their brand stories are accurately and favorably conveyed in AI-driven interactions. For more information, please visit: https://www.brandlight.ai/

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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.

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.

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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.

For more information about Nucleus Security and its services, please visit: https://nucleussec.com/get-started/

Contact:
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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. 

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.

Press Inquiries: Jim Redner, [email protected], +1 (323.217.4314)

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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.

For further information, please contact:

Nitzn Zarotski, Extra Mind PR
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