This digest compiles the latest from Tech Crunch.
Today’s Tech Crunch Roundup
Integrate raises $17M to move defense project management into the 21st century
11 Feb 2026, 2:21 pm by Marina Temkin
The round was led by FPV Ventures co-founder and managing partner Wesley Chan.
Meridian raises $17 million to remake the agentic spreadsheet
11 Feb 2026, 2:00 pm by Russell Brandom
A new company called Meridian.AI has emerged from stealth with an IDE-based approach to agentic financial modeling.
Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation
11 Feb 2026, 2:00 pm by Julie Bort
Apptronik has sold another $520 million in a Series A extension to existing and new investors like Google and Mercedes-Benz.
Complyance raises $20M to help companies manage risk and compliance
11 Feb 2026, 2:00 pm by Dominic-Madori Davis
Complyance raised a $20 million Series A led by GV for its AI-native compliance platform.
Samsung to hold its Galaxy S26 event on February 25
11 Feb 2026, 7:06 am by Ivan Mehta
Samsung is going to launch S26 lineup just before Mobile World Congress (MWC).
With co-founders leaving and an IPO looming, Elon Musk turns talk to the moon
11 Feb 2026, 5:23 am by Connie Loizos
According to The New York Times, which reports that it heard the meeting, Musk told employees that xAI needs a lunar manufacturing facility, a factory on the moon that will build AI satellites and fling them into space via a giant catapult.
OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim
11 Feb 2026, 2:15 am by Lucas Ropek
The executive has denied the allegation that she engaged in discrimination.
Okay, now exactly half of xAI’s founding team has left the company
11 Feb 2026, 1:50 am by Russell Brandom
Whatever the cause of the departures, the cumulative impact is alarming. There is a lot of work left to do at xAI, and an IPO will bring more scrutiny than the lab has ever faced before.
End of today’s Tech Crunch roundup.
