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Jump, a Salt Lake City-based provider of artificial intelligence solutions for financial advisors, has secured $80 million in a Series B funding round aimed at expanding its AI-native operating system designed for advisory workflows. This latest infusion of capital marks a significant step in Jump’s strategy to broaden its platform’s capabilities beyond automation toward proactive, insight-driven support for financial advisory teams.Since its inception in 2023, Jump has rapidly grown its user base, onboarding more than 27,000 financial advisors in less than two years and adding over 2,000 new advisors each month, signaling robust demand for AI-enabled productivity tools in the wealth management sector.Funding Round and Investors - The Series B was led by Insight Partners, bringing Jump’s total capital raised to approximately $105 million after its $20 million Series A in 2025. New investors participating in the round include F-Prime, Allianz Life Ventures (the venture capital arm of Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America), TIAA Ventures, and Peterson Partners. Existing backers such as Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Pelion Venture Partners, Citi Ventures, and angel investors Hans Tung, Ryan Anderson, and Aaron Skonnard also joined the round.Jump’s AI platform helps financial advisors streamline and enhance key aspects of their workflow - from meeting preparation and real-time assistance to automated note-taking, CRM updates, compliance-friendly summaries, and follow-ups. With the new funding, the company plans to invest in advancing its intelligent orchestration layer that identifies client opportunities, risks, and next best actions, while bolstering enterprise-grade controls and scalability for larger advisory firms and institutions.The platform’s rapid adoption underscores demand for AI solutions that extend beyond simple task automation, evolving into comprehensive systems that help advisors improve operational efficiency, client engagement, and growth outcomes.

Eezee, a Singapore-based enterprise procurement platform focused on automating tail-end spend for businesses, has raised $5 million in a pre-Series B funding round that will help expand its regional footprint and enhance its artificial intelligence-powered procurement software.The company leverages intelligent tools designed to simplify and accelerate traditionally manual procurement workflows, cutting sourcing and purchasing cycles from days to minutes. Eezee’s solutions aim to make enterprise-level purchasing for low-value items faster, more cost-effective and seamlessly integrated with existing business systems.Funding Round and Investors - The pre-Series B round was led by Korea Investment Partners Southeast Asia, with continued backing from existing investors Kickstart Ventures and Wavemaker Ventures, as well as participation from other strategic investors. The fresh capital will support Eezee’s rollout of its AI tools, RFQBot and ProcureFlow, across multiple markets and strengthen its presence in emerging Southeast Asian economies including Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.Eezee recently announced a launch in Thailand while maintaining established operations in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines, highlighting growing customer demand across the region. Its tools are designed to automate and optimise enterprise procurement, particularly for long-tail, low-value purchases that traditionally remain fragmented and manual.The company says its operations in Indonesia and Malaysia have already reached operational profitability, and it aims to achieve group-level profitability in the second half of 2026 as its AI solutions roll out broadly.

Aerospace communications firm Aalyria has successfully closed a $100 million Series B funding round, placing the company at a $1.3 billion valuation and marking a major milestone in the development of next-generation space networking infrastructure. The freshly raised capital will accelerate deployment and expansion of the company’s core technologies that connect satellites, aircraft, ships and terrestrial networks into resilient communications systems.Founded as a spin-out from Alphabet (Google) in 2022, Aalyria focuses on building advanced networking solutions tailored to the evolving demands of the new space economy. Its flagship platforms Spacetime, an AI-driven network orchestration system, and Tightbeam, a laser optical communications terminal are designed to manage and optimise high-speed, interoperable connectivity across multiple domains and environments.Funding Round and Investors - The Series B round was led by Battery Ventures and J2 Ventures, drawing participation from DYNE and additional strategic investors. This funding surge reflects strong confidence in Aalyria’s mission to establish a unified communication layer capable of supporting large-scale satellite constellations, airborne networks and ground-based systems. Aalyria plans to channel these funds into scaling production, expanding its workforce, commercialising its technologies more broadly, and strengthening its global partnerships.Aalyria’s technologies have already been tested and deployed with notable partners. In 2023, the company signed a long-term agreement to deploy its Spacetime platform across Telesat’s Lightspeed LEO constellation. It maintains collaborations with major organisations including Google, NASA, Airbus and the European Space Agency. Additionally, Aalyria’s technology is being evaluated by the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory under its Space Data Network Experimentation program, and it has formed strategic alliances with developers such as All.Space in defense interoperability initiatives.

San Francisco- Pinegrove Venture Partners has announced the return of Thorben Hett as Managing Partner, where he will work closely with senior leadership to co-lead the firm’s efforts in venture fund investments, co-commitments, and co-investments. His reappointment reinforces Pinegrove’s dedication to strengthening long-term partnerships with limited partners, general partners, and founders throughout the global innovation ecosystem.

New Delhi/Gurugram - Influencer-driven commerce platform Wishlink has successfully raised $17.5 million in a Series B funding round spearheaded by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India. The fresh capital will help the startup intensify its growth in the booming creator-to-commerce segment, strengthening tech capabilities and extending partnerships across creators and brands.Incepted in 2022 by founders Shaurya Gupta, Divyansh Ameta, and Chandan Yadav, the Gurugram-based company bridges creator recommendations with direct product discovery and purchasing across major e-commerce marketplaces such as Amazon, Flipkart, Myntra, Nykaa, Meesho and Shopsy. Wishlink’s platform empowers creators to monetize their content by connecting audiences with shoppable links and personalised storefronts, accelerating commerce driven by social influence.Funding Details - The Series B round was led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, with continued backing from existing investors Fundamentum Partnership and Elevation Capital. This investment follows Wishlink’s earlier $7 million Series A in February 2024 and a $3 million seed round in October 2022, taking the company’s total funding to about $27.5 million to date. The funds will be channelled to scale its creator and brand network, enhance technology that streamlines shopping experiences, and bolster analytics and monetisation tools for stakeholders across the platform.What This Means for the Market Wishlink currently supports over 40,000 monthly active creators generating content that drives more than 6 million orders per month, resulting in over ₹350 crore in monthly sales for partner brands and marketplaces. The company’s creator base spans micro-influencers to macro creators, pushing the frontier of influencer-led commerce in India and beyond.Executive Insight “Consumer buying behaviour is shifting meaningfully toward influencer-led discovery and purchase. Wishlink is uniquely positioned to capture this accelerating trend with its technology-enabled platform,” said Nikhil Marwaha, Partner, Investment at Vertex Ventures SEA & India.

At least a dozen direct investors in OpenAI were announced as backers in Anthropic’s $30 billion raise earlier this month, including Founders Fund, Iconiq, Insight Partners, and Sequoia Capital.  https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/23/with-ai-investor-loyalty-is-almost-dead-at-least-a-dozen-openai-vcs-now-also-back-anthropic/