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Buzz Solutions has been selected as the winner of the 2026 @HearstLab AI Pitch & Showcase, earning $100K in equity-free funding to expand PowerAI's utility-scale solar inspection capabilities. ⚡☀️

Such an amazing view from @Hearst tower! Seriously, that is not a main point! It was a really amazing event at HearstLab when they opened their doors for @Techweek_! The room was full of founders and executives who really care about AI adoption! Love it! #nytechweek #founder #ai

@HearstLab toma una participación estratégica en Founderz para lanzar una alianza global con @FitchLearning y escalar la formación en IA. Más de 125.000 profesionales accederán a aprendizaje personalizado para desarrollar las competencias clave que demanda el futuro del sector financiero. 🔗 Más info aquí: f.mtr.cool/fvubanmjfj

I mapped 60 funds actively investing in women-led startups and innovation across AI, SaaS, fintech, climate, healthcare, and consumer. More investors are actively backing female founders and the opportunities are real, if you know exactly where to look and who to pitch. 🇺🇸 US-BASED 1. Female Founders Fund B2B, Consumer, Fintech, Healthcare 2. BBG Ventures Consumer, Health, Future of Work 3. Halogen Ventures Consumer Tech, B2B Software 4. Backstage Capital Generalist 5. SoGal Ventures Health, Consumer 6. Fearless Fund Underrepresented founders 7. Emmeline Ventures Women's Health, Fintech, Climate 8. G9 Ventures Consumer, Health, Wellness 9. f7 Ventures Future of Work, Consumer 10. HearstLab Enterprise Tech 11. ResilienceVC Fintech 12. Operator Collective 🔆 B2B, Enterprise 13. Mendoza Ventures AI, Cybersecurity, Fintech 14. Harlem Capital Generalist 15. Mother Ventures ⭐ fresh $10M fund Consumer, Maternal Health 16. GingerBread Capital Healthcare, Consumer 17. Chloe Capital Enterprise Tech, HealthTech, CleanTech 18. Kalos Ventures Workforce, Care, Education ⭐️ just closed $78.8M fund 19. The Helm Women's Health, Climate, Deep Tech 🇪🇺 EUROPE 20. Auxxo Female Catalyst Fund SaaS, Fintech 21. Fund F Sector Agnostic 22. Impact Shakers ClimateTech, Inclusion Tech 23. CapitalT Future of Work, Climate 24. Eka Ventures Health, Sustainability, Life 25. Arāya Sie Fund ⭐ brand new fund HealthTech, Climate, Fintech, DeepTech 26. Feminvest Ventures Tech, Consumer (Nordic) 🌎 LATAM 27. Amplifica Capital AgTech, HealthTech, Fintech 🌍 GLOBAL 28. Everywhere Ventures Future of Work, Health, Fintech 29. Epic Angels Generalist 30. Kalaari Capital Fintech, Deep Tech …and 30 more funds I can't fit all on here. I put together a free database with all 60 funds, including partner details, sector focus, investment stage, geography, websites, and contact details. If you'd like access to it comment "Funds" and I'll share it with you.

30 VC Firms Investing in Female Founders The gap in funding for female-led startups is real. These are the investors helping to close it. 1752vc (Formerly Pegasus) Acrew Capital Act One Ventures AmplifyHer Ventures Angel Academe Array Ventures Astia Backstage Capital BBG Ventures Bumble Fund Capita3 Chloe Capital Cowboy Ventures Fearless Fund Female Founders Fund Golden Seeds Halogen Ventures Hannah Grey VC HearstLab How Women Invest Illuminate Ventures Inspired Capital January Ventures Mendoza Ventures Mindshift Capital Portolia Revenge Capital Serena Ventures SoGal Ventures The Artemis Fund The Helm Ulu Ventures

フォースタートアップス運営「STARTUP DB」より最新スタートアップニュースをお届け致します。 lp.startup-db.com/media/arti… 【注目の資金調達企業】 ▶NOT A HOTEL ・調達額：101億円 ・調達先：ミネルバ・グロース・パートナーズ / セコイア ・備考：他2社からの出資含む ▶Sotas ・調達額：10億円 ・調達先：グロービス・キャピタル・パートナーズ(リード) / ツカサペトコ / 弘栄貿易 / ALL STAR SAAS FUND / Archetype Ventures / サムライインキュベート / デライト・ベンチャーズ / 三菱UFJキャピタル ・備考：シリーズAラウンド1stクローズ ▶A‐wave ・調達額：5億4,000万円 ・調達先：MPI-2号投資事業有限責任組合 / JP LIFE NEXT1号投資事業有限責任組合 / OUVC2号投資事業有限責任組合 / 三菱UFJライフサイエンス4号投資事業有限責任組合 / ディープコア / 池田泉州キャピタル / Shimadzu Future Innovation投資事業有限責任組合 / ギガ・システム ・備考：シリーズBラウンド / ディープコアと池田泉州キャピタルはファンドから出資 ▶Yuimedi ・調達額：4億円 ・調達先：DG Daiwa Ventures / 三井住友信託銀行 / HearstLab / SMBCベンチャーキャピタル / 千葉道場 / インキュベイトファンド / D4V ・備考：なし ▶Payn ・調達額：2億5,000万円 ・調達先：アポロ・キャピタル / NCBベンチャーキャピタル / Carbon Ventures / DE‐SIGNキャピタル ・備考：シリーズAラウンド / その他事業会社からの出資を含む 【資本業務提携ニュース】 ▶Third Intelligence × 博報堂DYホールディングス 博報堂DYグループが保有する生活者データおよびクリエイティビティに関する知見と、同社の“遍在型AGI”およびプロダクト開発力をかけ合わせ、生活者起点で設計された事業開発を推進する方針だ。 third-intelligence.com/news/…（2026/02/16） ▶manebi × リバネス × KOBASHI HOLDINGS × ナカシマホールディングス × 長谷虎紡績 × 山田商会ホールディング 日本の産業界全体で“知”を統合・再分配するハブ企業として、誰もが自分らしく輝ける社会の実現に向けて邁進していく方針だ。 prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/00…（2026/02/16） ▶DATAFLUCT × アズビル 本提携を機に取組みを一層発展させ、AIによる新たな価値創造と事業モデルの強化を推進していく方針だ。 azbil.com/jp/news/260218.htm…（2026/02/18） 【ファンド組成ニュース】 ▶地域と人と未来 CJS2号投資事業有限責任組合‍ chuden.co.jp/publicity/press… ▶にいがたサステナブル地域創生投資事業有限責任組合‍ dhbk.co.jp/news/1202653_2128… ▶Frontier Innovations 1号投資事業有限責任組合‍ prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/00… ▶SHIKOKUイノベーション投資事業有限責任組合‍ shikoku.co.jp/wp/wp-content/… 【M&Aニュース】 ▶農業総合研究所 ・M&A発表日：2026/02/17 ・取得日：2026/02/16 ・買収額：127億7,700万円（TOB） ・買収先：SOMPO Light Vortex ▶メドメイン‍ ・M&A発表日：2026/02/17 ・取得日：2026/04末まで ・買収額：23億円（連結子会社化） ・買収先：テクマトリックス‍ ▶トライハッチ ・M&A発表日：2026/02/17 ・取得日：2026/02/27 ・買収額：6億4,200万円（完全子会社化） ・買収先：GMO TECH 【IPOニュース】‍ ▶ベーシック ・上場承認日：2026/02/17 ・上場予定日：2026/03/25 ▶ジェイファーマ ・上場承認日：2026/02/19 ・上場予定日：2026/03/25 ▶セイワホールディングス ・上場承認日：2026/02/20 ・上場予定日：2026/03/27

「HearstLab（ハーストラボ）」が国内3号投資として、医療データの標準化や利活用を推進する株式会社Yuimedi（ユイ... prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/00…

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Excited to share Statusphere (one of Behind Genius's Fund II portfolio companies) closed their $18M Series A! Volition Capital @volitioncapital (Larry Cheng) led the new funding round, with participation from HearstLab, 1984 Ventures and How Women Invest. Statusphere is an AI marketing platform that helps enterprise retailers and consumer brands turn micro-influencers into a scalable, trusted growth channel. In the past year alone, Statusphere has powered more than 50,000 creator collaborations and generated over half a BILLION engagements and video views, providing enterprise brands with the scale required to generate measurable impact across social SEO, in-store retail and e-commerce. Behind Genius invested $400k in their seed round, and we have been blown away by their customer growth. Excited for this next chapter! Congrats to @TheKristenWiley & the entire @JoinStatus team, so happy I got to see you in New York this fall! And thanks so much to fellow Behind Genius portfolio founder @nealjean1 at @beaconsai for introducing us. Full release here: lnkd.in/gyvUBGYG

Community Change Maker Dominique Festa from @HearstLab didn't just automate her investment pipeline—she doubled their review cadence using Airtable Omni! Her secret? Thinking like a user, not a builder, when writing AI prompts. Learn the exact process and copy her prompt to transform your own data strategy → community.airtable.com/annou…

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Arabic AI start-up Intella has raised $12.5M Series A to scale speech intelligence across MENA.

Founded by Nour Taher & Omar Mansour, backed by Prosus, 500 Global, Wa’ed Ventures, Hala Ventures, Idrisi Ventures & HearstLab.

#AFFC #FundingAlert #MENATech #ArabicAI #Intella

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Egypt’s Intella, a rising leader in Arabic speech intelligence, has just secured $12.5 million in an oversubscribed Series A funding round, boosting its mission to build advanced AI models tailored for Arabic dialects and accelerate expansion across the Middle East and North Africa. The round, led by Prosus with participation from 500 Global, Wa’ed Ventures, Hala Ventures, Idrisi Ventures, and HearstLab, comes less than a year after the company secured $3.4 million in pre-Series A funding. “From day one, our vision has been to bridge the gap between global AI advancements and the Arabic-speaking world,” said Nour AlTaher, Intella’s co-founder and CEO. Founded in 2021 by Nour AlTaher and Omar Mansour, Intella has positioned itself as the MENA region’s foremost Arabic-first AI company. It specializes in building tools that address the complex linguistic diversity of Arabic, spanning more than 25 dialects. Details of what Intella does, who it serves, and what makes it special in the MENA region AI advancement as well its potential plans for the newly secured fund are presented in this report by Yakub Abdulrasheed. techparley.com/egypts-intell…

شركة @Intella5 المصرية الناشئة للذكاء الاصطناعي تُغلق جولة استثمارية (Series A) بقيمة 12.5 مليون دولار. قادت الجولة شركة @Prosus_Ventures بمشاركة من @500vc_mena و @Waed_Ventures و @HalaVentures و Idrisi Ventures و @HearstLab. jawlah.co/40619

Intella @Intella5 secures $12.5M in Series A Round Investors: Led by @Prosus_Ventures, with participation from @500vc_mena, @Waed_Ventures, @HalaVentures, Idrisi Ventures, and @HearstLab - Intella is a dialectal Arabic speech intelligence platform - Its solutions include speech transcription, analytics, and customer interaction tools - Stated that it has developed speech-to-text models with 95.73% accuracy, covering over 25 Arabic dialects - The funding will be used to expand operations across the MENA region, boost R&D, and scale hiring in Egypt and Saudi Arabia - Intella was founded in Egypt and recently relocated its headquarters to Saudi Arabia - Founded by Nour Taher and Omar Mansour in 2021

شركة حلول #الذكاء_الاصطناعي باللغة العربية "انتيلا" (@Intella5) تحصد تمويلا بقيمة 12.5 مليون $ في جولة من السلسلة A بقيادة @Prosus_Ventures - المشاركون: @500GlobalVC و @Waed_Ventures و @HalaVentures و #IdrisiVentures و @HearstLab - مقر الشركة: السعودية 🇸🇦 ___________ تفاصيل الخبر/ - تأسست Intella في #مصر عام 2021 قبل أن تنتقل إلى الرياض في 2023 - تركز الشركة على تقديم ذكاء البيانات في الوقت الفعلي للشركات من خلال خدمات أبحاث السوق، تحويل الكلام إلى نص باللهجات العربية المختلفة وتطوير نماذج ذكاء اصطناعي محلية - فازت الشركة بجوائز مثل كأس العالم للشركات الناشئة وستشارك في النهائي "بوادي السيليكون" في ديسمبر 2025