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June 2026

Bright Pixel Capital appoints Mike Privette as Cybersecurity Venture Partner

Appointment strengthens Bright Pixel’s cybersecurity investment expertise and marks a new phase in the firm’s evolution as a global investment platform.

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By RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES

THEKER raises $85M in Europe’s largest ever robotics Series A, led by CRV with backing from Samsung and LVMH

June 2026 RETAIL TECHNOLOGIES THEKER raises $85M in Europe’s largest ever robotics Series A, led by CRV with backing from Samsung and LVMH Founded by Carla Gómez Cano and Jiaqiang Ye Zhu, THEKER Builds AI-native generalist robots designed to operate in real production environments today. THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company building AI-native generalist robots for industrial production environments, today announced a $85 million round, making it the largest robotics Series A round ever raised in Europe. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya and Bright Pixel Capital alongside existing investors Inditex, Carles Reina (ElevenLabs), Itnig (Factorial Founders), Kfund, Kibo Ventures and Mission, among others. The financing comes less than a year after THEKER closed the largest seed round in Spanish startup history, underscoring the extraordinary speed at which the company has moved from breakthrough technology to real-world industrial deployment....
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By INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE

Encord secures $60M Series C to scale AI-Native data infrastructure as physical AI hits inflection point

February 2026 INFRASTRUCTURE SOFTWARE Encord secures $60M Series C to scale AI-Native data infrastructure as physical AI hits inflection point Wellington Management-Led Round brings Encord’s total funding to $110M as company sees physical AI revenue grow 10x in last twelve months. Encord, the data infrastructure company for physical AI, today announced a $60 million Series C led by Wellington Management, bringing the company’s total funding to $110 million. Existing investors Y Combinator, CRV, N47, Crane Venture Partners and Harpoon Ventures also participated in the round alongside new investors Bright Pixel Capital and Isomer Capital. The investment will help Encord scale its AI-native data infrastructure platform, which helps AI teams manage, curate, annotate, and align the multimodal data that physical AI systems depend on, including audio, video, images, sensor data, 3D point clouds and other formats that legacy data platforms weren't built to handle. Encord works with over 300 AI teams...
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By CYBERSECURITY

Mesh Security Raises $12 Million Series A to Power Autonomous Execution for Cybersecurity Mesh at Enterprise Scale

January 2026 CYBERSECURITY Mesh Security Raises $12 Million Series A to Power Autonomous Execution for Cybersecurity Mesh at Enterprise Scale Mesh Security, the company delivering the world’s first Cybersecurity Mesh Architecture (CSMA) platform, today announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Lobby Capital, with participation from S Ventures (SentinelOne CVC), and Bright Pixel Capital. Mesh provides the execution layer for modern security operations, as enterprises shift toward unifying fragmented security investments into a single, interoperable system that reduces exposure and improves business resiliency at scale. Mesh Security provides the execution layer for modern security operations, enabling enterprises to run their security investments as a single, interoperable system at scale. Over the past decade, organizations invested heavily in best-of-breed stacks across identity, endpoints, data, cloud, SaaS, networks, and CI/CD. While individual tools improved, security as a system did not. The result has been consistent across the industry: too...
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