February 2026: Access Expands as Innovation Accelerates

February 5, 2026 admin No comments yet

🟠 February was another busy month with the Mara team structuring a number of feeder vehicles to deliver access to funds, and SPVs for a number of early stage and late-stage / pre-IPO technology companies.

🚀 Fund Spotlight: Two Magnolias

🟠 In February, we partnered withTwo Magnolias to establish a leader feeder vehicle designed to help onboard the team’s vast network of individual investors.

🟠 The Two Magnolias opportunity is important to UK investors because it provides differentiated early-stage access to high-growth companies operating at the intersection of the Transformational Economy and Human Health. Investing across the UK’s regions and devolved nations, the Fund unlocks overlooked entrepreneurial excellence and addresses geographic capital imbalance. By backing underrepresented visionary founders developing breakthroughs in bio-innovation, healthcare, climate resilience, and future energy systems, Two Magnoliasis focused on supporting early-stage founders on their journey.

🟠 Working alongside Addleshaw Goddard, JTC, and The Fund Incubator, the structure was launched in a matter of weeks, significantly faster than the timeline typically associated with traditional partnership feeder structures. This streamlined approach enabled the team to move quickly while maintaining institutional-grade governance and operational setup.

In Focus: AI Moves Beyond the Screen

🟠 Figure AI is bringing AI off the screen and into the physical world with humanoid robots for industrial and logistics applications.

Mara in action:We’ve been helping investors track and coordinate exposure to frontier AI companies like Figure, making early access structured and straightforward.

🟠 Humanoid robots may one day pick and pack your online orders — but Mara makes sure investors don’t have to wait that long to participate in the opportunity.

Market Spotlight: Pre-IPO Access Remains in Demand

🟠Investor appetite for late-stage private opportunities continues to be strong, particularly around leading AI companies such as Anthropic. As capital concentrates in a smaller number of category leaders, access has become a defining factor for emerging and established investors alike.

🟠At the same time, we’re seeing sustained interest in iconic private companies — including opportunities for groups of investors to participate in companies like SpaceX through structured vehicles.

🟠Mara structured SPVs to invest in vehicles holding shares of these companies with many more in the pipeline.

AI for Modern Family Life: MOLO

🟠 MOLO is a digital support system for modern families, designed to reduce the cognitive and administrative burden of running a household. Grounded in behavioural science and backed by research into the “modern load,” MOLO helps parents organise schedules, manage recurring tasks and simplify daily logistics.

🟠 Built at the intersection of psychology, technology and systems thinking, MOLO is designed not just to add another tool, but to meaningfully reduce friction and mental clutter in everyday family life.

Smart systems at home. Smart capital allocation in markets.

Mara schedules your next private deal.

🟠 From embodied AI to pre-IPO demand, household AI, and the rise of investor communities, February reinforced a clear direction: private markets are becoming more connected, more accessible, and more infrastructure-driven.

🟠 For investors, the opportunity lies not only in the companies shaping the future, but also in the platforms and networks enabling participation in that future.