How Did AI Capture 90% Of February’s $189B Funding? 📈🤖💰

TL;DR

• AI megadeals drove $171B of February venture flows
• Healthcare AI saw fresh funding and product launches
• Agentic AI startups pulled in multi-region Series A rounds
• Data center policy tightened as energy risks escalated

HEADLINES

OpenAI, Anthropic, Waymo concentrated $156B of February VC 💥🔗

Nvidia paused new big AI startup bets 🛑🔗

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect Health platform 🏥🔗

SoftBank sought $40B loan for OpenAI bet 🏦🔗

OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.4 reasoning models 🧠🔗

Cursor shipped agentic coding Automations system 👨‍💻🔗

FROM THE BIG PLAYERS

SoftBank arranging $40B loan backing OpenAI 🏦🔗

Nvidia scaled back equity checks to AI labs 🤖🔗

AMD & Meta agreed $100B multi‑year AI compute pact 🖥️🔗

Foxconn posted 21.6% revenue jump on AI servers 📦🔗

JPMorgan earmarked $1.2B of tech budget for AI 🏛️🔗

RAISES

Dyna.Ai raised eight‑figure Series A led by Lion X Ventures 🌏🔗

Cybervergent raised $3M seed co‑led by Ventures Platform 🛡️🔗

ARK raised $13.7M Series A for chronic‑disease screening 🩺🔗

Angelic Intelligence raised $15M seed from Orchestro.AI backers 😇🔗

t54 raised $5M seed for agentic trust layer 🔐🔗

RAISING

Bob McGrew raising $70M for AI manufacturing platform 🏭🔗

Pasqal planning SPAC raise up to €600M 🔬🔗

SoftBank seeking $40B debt financing to fund OpenAI 💳🔗

NEW LAUNCHES

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect Health for clinical workflows 🏥🔗

OpenAI launched GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 Thinking 🧠🔗

Cursor unveiled agentic coding Automations for dev workflows ⚙️🔗

Anthropic introduced Observed Exposure workforce‑impact early warning tool 📉🔗

Google rolled out Gemini Canvas inside US Search 🖌️🔗

TRY THESE TOOLS

Flowise open‑source drag‑and‑drop AI agent builder 🧩🔗

ReMe agent memory toolkit for long‑running workflows 🧠🔗

Claude Scientific Skills packaged research and finance agent skills 🔬🔗

Nautilus Trader high‑performance algorithmic trading and backtesting stack 📈🔗

Trivy AI‑friendly scanner for cloud misconfigurations, SBOM 🛡️🔗

METRICS

Global VC hit $189B in February, all‑time high 📊🔗

AI startups captured $171B, or 90% of VC 🚀🔗

Large organisations report 69% generative‑AI adoption, up from 48% 📈🔗

JPMorgan allocating $1.2B of $19.8B tech budget to AI 🏦🔗

Keysight stock jumped 26% on AI‑driven Q1 results 💹🔗

BENCHMARKS

PitchBook report shows AI took 52.7% of 2025 VC 📘🔗

Female‑founded startups raised $73.6B, nearly double 2023 👩‍💻🔗

Enterprise AI now live at majority of $500M‑plus firms 🏢🔗

Agentic AI emerging as post‑chatbot benchmark at MWC 2026 📡🔗

INFRA & COSTS

AMD–Meta targeting 6 GW AI capacity, $100B spend ⚡🔗

CoreWeave deploying GB200 clusters to power Perplexity 💽🔗

Akamai claims 86% lower AI inference costs 💲🔗

US report warns hyperscale AI centers use power of 2M homes 💧🔗

Nebius AI factory projected at 300 MW Birmingham power draw 🏗️🔗

VALUATIONS

OpenAI closed $110B round, largest private tech deal 🏷️🔗

Anthropic added $30B in mega‑financing round 📈🔗

Waymo secured $16B, rounding out February AI megadeals 🚗🔗

AI deals took 83% of February global venture value 🌍🔗

POLICY

Michigan lawmakers proposed one‑year pause on new data centers ⚖️🔗

White House announced data‑center pledge to shield power bills 🏛️🔗

NECA joined White House AI‑energy roundtable on data centers 🔌🔗

SEBI deployed Sudarshan AI system to flag fin‑influencers 📜🔗

Trump administration moved to label Anthropic supply‑chain risk 🚨🔗

SOVEREIGN

UK government backed £40M frontier AI research lab 🇬🇧🔗

Red Hat & Telenor building Norway sovereign AI factory 🇳🇴🔗

Independence, Missouri approved $6B tax breaks for Nebius AI center 🏙️🔗

Food & Water Watch urged curbs on AI data‑center buildout 🌎🔗

SECTORS

Healthcare deployed AI agents for scheduling and documentation 🏥🔗

Banking scaled governed agentic AI across regions 🏦🔗

Compliance adopted AI posture management for 150+ organisations 📑🔗

Capital markets deployed Sudarshan AI to monitor promoters 📊🔗

Developer tooling embraced autonomous agents for incident‑driven coding 🧑‍💻🔗

COMMUNITY MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

HerSay team launched AI companion for women’s health tracking 🌸🔗