February could also be the shortest month of the yr, but this yr startups and founders made sure as of late are action-packed.
Here’s a roundup of the top events, including funding news, for startups in February.
Seed rounds often give us insight into what startups are interested in: technological innovation and financing the data was announced in February discovering some interesting trends.
Startups at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity have secured $400 million in investments for seed-stage firms, suggesting there is strong demand for cybersecurity solutions that leverage AI to combat increasingly sophisticated and frequent cyberattacks with automated security testing solutions.
Robotics using artificial intelligence is one other area that has attracted investor interest to the tune of $850 million – each from startups building humanoid robots that help with household chores and others designed for industrial applications.
Outside the seed phase, Your own goodan artificial intelligence startup that appeals property taxes on behalf of homeowners secured $50 million in financing this month, including $30 million in equity and $20 million in debt, in a Series B round.
We have also observed great activity in the MENA region – an area where an increasingly competitive startup ecosystem is developing. This month, there have been more startups in the region $190 million in a multi-sector wave of funding for technology-based startups spanning fintech, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity.
Finally, on the European front, Lithuania has released data suggesting that this Baltic country is punching above its weight and contributing increasingly to the growth of the European ecosystem. IN data published this monthstartups in the country raised EUR 238 million with a record number of exits. This is the highest annual total ever recorded in the country.
In addition to the funding news, here’s a roundup of the tech company stories that made headlines this month that it’s possible you’ll have missed.
AI Impact Summit 2026 Results
Last week in New Delhi, India hosted one of the largest artificial intelligence events in the world. There has been a clear push to look at AI not only in terms of innovation, but also the way it performs in the real world.
Based on the five principles of moral and ethical systems, responsible governance, national sovereignty, accessibility and inclusion, and validity and legitimacy, the vision aimed to anchor technology in humanity, combining innovation with ethics and sovereignty with openness.
Other topics included removing barriers to international adoption by creating over 200 homegrown models and bridging the digital divide in countries in the Global South.
Big Tech was also present and announced a number of key events at the summit. One of them got here from Google, which contributed $15 billion to build basic AI infrastructure in India. The investment will even mark the launch of the “America-India Connect” project, which is able to install recent undersea fiber-optic cables, which is able to significantly improve trans-Pacific connectivity.
Meanwhile, the US government has signed Pax Silica – a binding technology agreement India closer to American technology and away from Beijing.
These two announcements suggest that we will expect much closer collaboration between U.S. and Indian startups and AI innovations.
Industry veteran Tony Colon joins Gift AI’s senior management team
Gift AI announced that Tony Colon, chief customer officer at Veeam Software, has joined the company as a senior executive, where he and other industry leaders will help operate its industry-leading AI-powered business communications platform.
Tony is an experienced technology executive with over twenty years of leadership experience in customer success, engineering and product innovation. Previously, he was vp at ServiceNow.
The decision to ask Tony to the senior management team is expected to assist the company expand its enterprise AI offerings and ensure product solutions are closely aligned with key business KPIs comparable to productivity, operational excellence and strategic impact.
Ness Digital Engineering appoints Sudip Singh as its recent CEO
This month, Ness Digital Engineering, a leading global provider of intelligent data engineering and software services, announced appointment of Sudip Singh as CEO.
Sudip brings deep experience in technology, product and customer support in a strategic move for Ness because it enters a recent phase of growth.
Sudip is a talented executive who brings deep experience in technology, product and customer support as Ness enters its next phase of growth in the AI-driven economy. He was most recently CEO at ITC Infotech.
Sudip will succeed Dr Ranjit Tinaikar, who will step down after six years of success in the role. Recent achievements include the launch of the ATONIS full lifecycle AI workbench, which increases human productivity across the entire software lifecycle.
Ness also ended 2025 by establishing recent offices in Guadalara, Mexico to strengthen its global network of AI Centers of Excellence and its position in Latin America – a key nearshoring location for North American partners.
Can start-ups at the intersection of artificial intelligence and health be at risk?
Grace Chang is the founder and CEO of Kintsugi, a mental health artificial intelligence startup that has developed clinically validated voice biomarkers. Despite raising $30 million and conducting a pivotal study involving 1,600 participants over 4 years, the highly promising company needed to close its doors for good.
In interview in Forbes, Chang explains why she believes AI in healthcare is fundamentally unsustainable for the classic startup model, where investors expect revenue returns in increasingly shorter cycles.
This development carries essential lessons for startups in other highly regulated industries.
Planno recognized as solar startup of the yr
As AI grows in popularity, its demand for energy resources will even increase significantly in the coming years, driving demand for alternative routes to power the AI economy.
Planno, founded by Daniel Domingues, was named Solar Startup of the Year at the 2026 MESIA Solar Awards in recognition of the company’s contribution to accelerating the business and industrial development of solar energy through geospatial intelligence and artificial intelligence.
This technology helps make the best use of existing infrastructure to capture more solar energy, helping to offset the growing demand on power grids around the world.
Ads may appear in ChatGPT soon
This month also saw interesting developments in business models related to artificial intelligence.
While OpenAI offers various subscription tiers, many people around the world rely on the free option as a gateway to the AI tool. However, each query has associated costs and overheads.
To maintain a free option for users, OpenAI is currently testing the use of promoting to keep up broad access to its model. According to the company, these ads can be clearly marked as sponsored and visually separated from the organic response, but the news marks the first step toward monetizing conversational AI.
Anthropic’s latest AI plug-in is causing backlash among traditional, legal software resources
Anthropic’s recent legal plugin for Claude has already sent shockwaves through the legal software market. In the first week of February, shares of Thomson Reuters and RELX, major service providers legal software, dropped by 15%.which reflects investors’ concerns about this recent AI tool.
The reality, nevertheless, is that the majority law firms today are not limited by a lack of technology. They are constrained by workflows built for a pre-AI environment. Traditional law practice is based on a linear model: documents are collected, lawyers interpret them and decisions are made.
“Legal software goes beyond document storage to decision support,” he says Mariano Juriczsenior product leader in Makes sensea Silicon Valley-based software development company with over 15 years of hands-on experience driving digital transformation at mid-market U.S. firms. “Artificial intelligence will also force changes in the way legal value is measured. As the time needed to complete tasks decreases, software will increasingly track risk reduction, outcome probability and bargaining power, not just hours worked.”
Legal platforms will evolve into intelligence environments shared between attorney and client, moderately than remaining internal company tools.
Startup Get Covered introduces a recent solution for pet control and insurance for rented apartments
Get insuredleader in software solutions for the property insurance industry, this month announced the launch of Get Pawtected, a recent solution designed to repair one of the most persistent problems in rental housing: how properties assess and manage animals fairly and consistently.
The recent solution combines pet screening with $100,000 in dog bite liability coverage per policy, providing real estate teams with a single system to confirm pets, track vaccinations and documentation, manage emotional support compliance, and maintain consistent records over time.
Instead of using a one-size-fits-all command, the platform allows property managers to tailor specific animal programs, ensuring that technology adapts to the existing culture of the property, moderately than the other way around. “For too long, rental housing has relied on unclear pet policies and outdated restrictions that leave tenants and property managers in the dark,” Brandon Tobman, CEO of Get Covered, said in a company statement.