Southeast Companies That Raised VC In February 2026
Big checks. Niche bets.
18 Southeast-based companies raised more than $1 million in venture capital this month, totaling $330 million (by Hypepotamus’ count).
Spanning biotech, energy infrastructure, fintech, and beyond, these are the capital rounds to know from the month of February from across the region.
Companies That Raised In February 2026
- Connect Music (Memphis) – $80M venture round
Connect Music is a music rights + technology company focused on helping independent artists and labels monetize and protect IP, including through data/AI-driven tooling and expanded licensing/catalog acquisition.
- Altesa (Atlanta): $75M Series B
Altesa BioSciences is a clinical-stage biopharma company focused on chronic lung diseases (including COPD and asthma), targeting viral respiratory infections that can drive exacerbations and inflammation.
- DG Matrix (Raleigh): $60M Series A
DG Matrix builds solid-state transformer tech aimed at modern power infrastructure, especially for AI data centers and electrification, by intelligently aggregating and converting power from multiple sources.
- Matia (Miami, FL): $21M Series A
Matia is a unified DataOps platform that brings ingestion, reverse ETL, observability, and cataloging into a single product to simplify how data teams operate.
- Nucleus Security (Sarasota, FL) – $20M Series C
unified vulnerability/exposure management platform—helping enterprises prioritize what matters most and automate remediation workflows.
- Linq (Birmingham) – $20M Series A
Linq provides an API layer that lets companies deliver AI assistants via the channels people already use, like iMessage, RCS/SMS, and voice, so “agents” can message/call at scale.
- Payra (Nashville): $15M Series A
Payra is an accounts receivable automation + B2B payments platform built for construction/industrial and other “blue-collar” businesses running on legacy ERPs, with a focus on cash application and ERP-native workflows.
- Croissant (Nashville): $14M Series A (+ $14M debt financing)
Croissant is a commerce/fintech platform that lets merchants offer shoppers a “guaranteed buyback value” at checkout—designed to make resale more seamless and bake circularity into purchasing.
- Dono (West Palm Beach, FL): $6.5M seed
Dono is building an AI-powered property records platform that turns fragmented county records into usable ownership data, delivered via UI and API and backed by human verification.
- SonoVascular (Chapel Hill): $6M Series A
SonoVascular is a clinical-stage medtech company developing a thrombectomy system for treating blood clots (venous thromboembolism), aiming to improve clot removal outcomes.
- Cloneable (Raleigh, NC) – $4.7M seed
Cloneable emerged with a no-code approach to deploying intelligent applications on edge devices (including drones/robots/IoT), targeting use cases like inspection and field intelligence.
- BeHuman (Miami) – $4M seed
beHuman is a physician-led preventive care platform focused on expanding access to early cancer detection—especially for underserved populations—using AI and automation to scale screening and care navigation.
- Wunderfan (Birmingham) – $3.1M investment
Wunderfan is building fan-engagement tech that rewards sports fans for participation (showing up, tuning in, engaging), creating a more measurable channel for teams/brands and a value loop for fans.
- Aspyr Living (Fort Lauderdale, FL): $3M seed
Aspyr Living describes itself as a natural lifestyle company launching a sustainable CPG brand (Ascend®) and scaling its go-to-market strategy.
- QUASH AI (Miami) – $2.6 million seed
Quash is an AI-driven credit assessment / credit risk platform that uses alternative or behavioral data to help lenders identify creditworthy borrowers and improve decisioning.
- ForcesEqual (Tampa): $2.2M seed round
Force Equals is positioning an “AI-native enterprise planning OS” meant to help enterprises plan what to build and why—especially as AI accelerates software delivery and transformation initiatives.
- Postr (Miami): $1.9M seed round
Public footprints describe Postr as a marketplace connecting creators with advertisers—pairing marketing, metrics, and execution to help brands get targeted content at scale while protecting creator/brand rights.
- Maestro Tech (Miami): $1.2M seed round
Maestro AI is building an agentic, AI-powered operating system for mortgage origination—automating workflows and helping lenders/brokers move faster with better compliance and transparency.
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