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Physical World AI Weekly Signal — Feb 2026
60% of this week's pre-seed deals involve physical-world AI — up from 25% six months ago
Hardware+software hybrid startups raised 2.3x more per deal than pure-software peers
Construction safety and agriculture AI are the sleeper categories no one is talking about
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Funding by Stage
Quarterly Trends
Geographic Split
Deal Volume
What's Inside
- 1The Signal
- 2Pre-Seed & Seed Deals This Week
- 3Physical AI vs Pure Software
- 4Hardware+AI Hybrid Examples
- 5Investor Spotlight
- 6What This Means for Founders
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