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Techmeme - 2026-02-18T10:01:35-05:00

Digital savings startup Vestwell raised a $385M Series E co-led by Blue Owl and Sixth Street, after a $125M Series D in 2023, taking its total funding to $660M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News) - 2026-02-18T09:55:01-05:00

Canva COO Cliff Obrecht says the company hit $4B in ARR at the end of 2025, had 265M+ MAUs and 31M+ paid users, and expects to IPO in the next "couple of years" (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-18T09:30:02-05:00

Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raised $200M from Autodesk, part of a larger round; the companies are exploring integrating World Labs' AI models in Autodesk products (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-18T09:20:04-05:00

Robinhood launches an IPO for Robinhood Ventures Fund I, a $1B closed-end fund to provide retail investors access to private markets, offering 40M shares at $25 (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T08:40:06-05:00

DG Matrix, which builds solid-state transformers to handle up to 2.4 MW and boost data center power efficiency, raised a $60M Series A led by Engine Ventures (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch) - 2026-02-18T08:20:02-05:00

Sources: Amazon shut down Blue Jay, a multi-armed robotic system launched in October 2025 for same-day delivery warehouses, to focus on small modular warehouses (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) - 2026-02-18T08:05:03-05:00

Saudi-backed AI startup Humain invested $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that completed just before SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T07:51:13-05:00

Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision (Alex Heath/Sources) - 2026-02-18T07:35:03-05:00

Uber plans to spend $100M+ to build fast-charging, autonomous vehicle charging stations in the US, starting in the San Francisco Bay Area, LA, and Dallas (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T07:25:00-05:00

How US citizens, clergy, and elected officials in conservative communities like Missouri are leading a grassroots rebellion against the Trump-backed AI boom (Joe Miller/Financial Times) - 2026-02-18T07:15:01-05:00

At India's AI Summit, Alphabet announces the America-India Connect Initiative, which will build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T07:00:54-05:00

A Las Vegas federal appeals court rejects Kalshi's emergency bid for an administrative stay on Nevada's push to block the platform, a major setback for Kalshi (Krystal Hur/Wall Street Journal) - 2026-02-18T06:45:00-05:00

Filings: Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway cut its Amazon stake by 75%+ to ~2.3M shares in Q4 2025; Berkshire bought 5.1M NYT shares, worth ~$352M in December (Alexandre Rajbhandari/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T06:30:01-05:00

Q&A with Synthesia co-founder and CEO Victor Riparbelli on growing the London-based enterprise AI video platform, hitting a $4B valuation, regulation, and more (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times) - 2026-02-18T06:10:01-05:00

SEC filing: Peter Thiel and Founders Fund have fully exited ETHZilla, down from a 7.5% stake in August 2025; ether is down 60% from its August 2025 peak (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - 2026-02-18T05:55:01-05:00