Temporal Technologies develops an open-source microservices orchestration platform that builds and operates resilient applications at scale, enabling developers to write and operate reliable applications on top of scalable microservice architectures.

New Funding Raised: $300M, Series D

Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Amplify Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Continue investing in open source, expand its cloud platform, and enable companies everywhere to move agentic AI out of the lab and into the real world.

Press: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE

HQ: Bellevue, WA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 412

Utility Global develops clean energy generation systems that reduce emissions, produce hydrogen, and improve productivity, allowing the steel industry to store and transform energy and improve operational efficiency.

New Funding Raised: $100M, Series D

Round Investors: APG Asset Management (lead), Ara Partners (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Expand manufacturing capacity, strengthen project delivery teams, and advance commercial deployments across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Houston, TX

Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing

Employee Count: 92

Render operates a cloud infrastructure platform that enables developers to deploy and scale applications and AI agents to production environments, enabling software developers and engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate applications and agent workflows without managing underlying infrastructure.

New Funding Raised: $100M, Series C

Round Investors: Georgian (lead), Addition, General Catalyst, Bessemer Venture Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Expand for AI use cases and to build a unified AI application runtime, offering developers the full set of cloud primitives needed to bring AI applications and agents into production on a single platform.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 158

Braintrust develops an AI-based software that scales for building AI products, allowing professionals in the AI space to navigate uncertainties and build better software.

New Funding Raised: $80M, Series B

Round Investors: ICONIQ Capital (lead), basecase capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Greylock

🚀Growth Focus: Grow its engineering and go-to-market teams, launch new observability tools, and expand into new regions.

Press: SiliconANGLE, Braintrust News

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 116

VulnCheck’s cyber threat intelligence platform helps organizations outpace adversaries, enabling businesses to take quick action before an attack.

New Funding Raised: $25M, Series B

Round Investors: Sorenson Capital (lead), IQT, National Grid Partners (NGP), Ten Eleven Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Scale growth and expand its intelligence capabilities, helping global organizations close the exploitation-timing gap and strengthen transformative automation and AI-powered emerging threat detection.

Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Lexington, MA

Industry: Computer and Network Security

Employee Count: 71

Mesh Optical Technologies develops advanced optical systems, allowing large-scale manufacturing and deployment of precision photonics solutions.

New Funding Raised: $50M, Series A

Round Investors: Thrive Capital (lead), Also Capital, Banner Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Develop its first integrated photonic compute system, including data center-ready OPU modules, a full software stack, and early-access developer hardware.

Press: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE

HQ: Los Angeles, CA

Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing

Employee Count: 3

ChipAgents develops AI-driven tools for semiconductor design and verification that enhance the productivity of hardware engineers, enabling chip designers and semiconductor companies to improve productivity and accelerate time-to-market.

New Funding Raised: $50M, Series A

Round Investors: Matter Venture Partners (lead), Micron Ventures, ScOp Venture Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Scale its platform, expand its engineering and research organization, and accelerate global deployment of multi-agent chip teams.

Press: Business Wire, FinSMEs

HQ: Santa Barbara, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 46

Seasats manufactures small autonomous surface vehicles for defense, scientific, and commercial applications, allowing businesses to conduct high-risk and high-cost missions.

New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A

Round Investors: Konvoy (lead), Dorado Property, Techstars, DNS Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Expand production and accelerate product development as demand grows across defense and commercial markets.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: San Diego, CA

Industry: Maritime Transportation

Employee Count: 49

Zero Homes develops a digital HVAC design and remote quoting platform, enabling homeowners and contractors to model homes, size systems, and generate certified installation plans without site visits.

New Funding Raised: $16.8M, Series A

Round Investors: Prelude Ventures (lead), Exelon Foundation, Watsco Ventures, Overture Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Support the expansion of its digital-first approach into new markets, the enablement of broader product offerings, and the continued growth of its contractor network.

Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Denver, CO

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 21

Moab builds software for equipment rental businesses and dealerships, allowing operators to manage operations, customers, and growth across the rental lifecycle.

New Funding Raised: $8M, Series A

Round Investors: Elad Gil (lead), Karim Atiyeh, Ironspring Ventures, Dave Yuan

🚀Growth Focus: Continue investing in product development and scale its engineering and go-to-market teams.

Press: Yahoo Finance, citybiz

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 6

QuadSci operates an AI-powered analytics platform providing insights to reduce churn and enhance expansion for GTM teams, helping B2B companies improve user journeys, productivity, and financial performance.

New Funding Raised: $8M, Series A

Round Investors: Crosslink Capital (lead), Robert A. Eberle, Shail Jain, Correlation Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand go-to-market teams, and support continued growth with enterprise customers and strategic partners globally.

Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 25

Gelmedix develops a light-activated biomaterial platform that brings innovation in ocular and regenerative therapies, allowing medical professionals to perform cell-based therapies for vision restoration, intraocular sustained release of small molecules and peptides, and in situ forming bioadhesives.

New Funding Raised: $13M, Seed

Round Investors: Safar Partners (lead), Beacon Angels, HTL Biotechnology, TiE Angels Boston

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its lead program, GMX-101, a retinal pigment epithelial cell therapy designed to treat late-stage Geographic Atrophy, and to further develop its proprietary injectable hydrogel scaffold platform.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 11

SurrealDB develops a multi-modal cloud-based database that helps developers build better AI agent applications, enabling developers and organizations to meet the needs of applications without needing to worry about scalability or keeping data consistent.

New Funding Raised: $38M, Series A

Round Investors: Chalfen Ventures (lead), FirstMark (lead), Georgian (lead), Crew Capital, Alumni Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and adoption, and expand its team to scale its cloud offering and deepen support for production deployments.

Press: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs

HQ: London, England

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 36

Flextock operates an on-demand warehousing and logistics platform that helps businesses scale their operations, allowing companies and sellers to optimize order fulfillment and distribution cost-effectively and reliably, and grow their business.

New Funding Raised: $12.6M, Series A

Round Investors: TLcom Capital Partners (lead), Foundation Ventures, BY Venture Partners, Access Bridge Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand infrastructure, enhance its end-to-end product suite, and accelerate merchant acquisition across core markets, as it seeks to support SME growth and regional e-commerce expansion.

Press: Wamda, CairoScene

HQ: Cairo, Egypt

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 165

Resurrect Bio manufactures plant biotechnology products for enhancing disease resistance in crops through immune system restoration, enabling agricultural producers to accelerate trait development, reduce dependence on chemical inputs, improve crop resilience, and address a broad spectrum of pathogens across diverse crop species.

New Funding Raised: $8.1M, Series A

Round Investors: Corteva Catalyst (lead), Pymwymic, Calculus Capital, AgFunder

🚀Growth Focus: Enable it to accelerate its high-throughput trait discovery platform and advance multiple disease resistance products toward commercial partnerships, bringing solutions to farmers significantly faster than conventional breeding methods.

Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: London, England

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 14