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Code Metal develops an AI-powered automation development platform that translates code into deployable, production-ready software, enabling developers to develop and launch applications.
New Funding Raised: $125M, Series B
Round Investors: Salesforce Ventures (lead), Shield Capital, B Capital, Overmatch Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, support to add engineering capacity, expand commercial and government partnerships, and scale its go-to-market capabilities.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 59
ZaiNar develops an automatic location-tracking platform that tracks the location of physical assets without a line of sight, for use in IoT devices in dynamic industrial environments.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: Nick Pritzker, Jaan Tallinn, Tom Gruber, Steve Jurvetson
🚀 Growth Focus: Accelerate deployments with carrier and enterprise partners globally.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Belmont, CA
Industry: Wireless Services
Employee Count: 46
Jump operates an AI-based note-taking tool for financial advisors, enabling users to customize notes to match their style, saving time by automatically taking notes, creating tasks, and updating CRMs.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series B
Round Investors: Insight Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate growth and development of its intelligence and action layer for modern advisory firms, powering the next era of advisor productivity, insight, and organic growth.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Salt Lake City, UT
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 200
Altesa develops antiviral medicines for the treatment of respiratory infections and global viral threats, allowing healthcare providers to access effective treatments that mitigate disease progression, improve patient outcomes, and reduce the burden of viral infections through targeted therapeutic interventions and regulatory-approved formulations.
New Funding Raised: $75M, Series B
Round Investors: Forbion Capital Partners (lead), Sanofi, Atlantic Partners, Medicxi
🚀Growth Focus: Support the initiation of the Phase 2b CARDINAL study, a multinational randomized placebo-controlled trial that evaluates the safety and efficacy of vapendavir in patients with COPD who experience rhinovirus infections.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 17
Phoenix Tailings operates a metal-refining company that leverages untapped value within mining and refining waste economically and sustainably, enabling enterprises to access carbon-free environmental alternatives through new ways to mine metals from industrial waste.
New Funding Raised: $30.2M, Series B
Round Investors: Olive Tree Capital, Aether VC, Eni Next, Envisioning Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its capabilities beyond its current production of neodymium-praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium to include samarium, yttrium, and other critical rare earth metals.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Woburn, MA
Industry: Mining
Employee Count: 119
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Ownwell provides property tax management services that help homeowners save money on property taxes, allowing homeowners to get a fair valuation for their property.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series B
Round Investors: Alpha Edison (lead), Mercato Partners (lead), Left Lane Capital, First Round Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel continued product developments and serve homeowners across the nation.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 138
Eagle Wireless manufactures cellular modules that transform electronics manufacturing in America, enabling manufacturers in IoT, transportation, and commercial sectors to have access to required components and technologies and secure a technology supply chain.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series B
Round Investors: Asymmetric Capital Partners (lead), The O.H.I.O. Fund (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand research and development, advance its 5G roadmap, and support its expansion into full-device production for customers in the United States, leveraging its existing cellular module platforms and long-standing customer relationships.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Cleveland, OH
Industry: Telecommunications
Employee Count: 104
Payra develops an invoicing and collections platform that helps businesses get paid on time and manage accounts receivable efficiently, allowing small and mid-sized businesses, distributors, contractors, and service providers to improve cash flow, reduce overdue invoices, and simplify reconciliation.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Edison Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand product capabilities, deepen ERP integration partnerships, and scale go-to-market efforts across construction and industrial verticals.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Nashville, TN
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 14
Portkey AI’s comprehensive platform streamlines and improves AI integration for developers and organizations, enabling companies to develop, launch, maintain, and iterate over generative AI applications and features.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Elevation Capital (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI control plane and scale go-to-market operations.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Portkey
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 32 (⚡33% increase in last 6 months)
Badge operates a peer-to-peer marketplace that facilitates the trading of branded phone wallet products, allowing businesses to unlock community-led growth to convert more customers at a lower acquisition cost.
New Funding Raised: $13.8M, Series A
Round Investors: TTV Capital (lead), Infinity Ventures, Synchrony Ventures, Stripe
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand product capabilities, and deepen partnerships to help enterprise brands and platforms adopt Apple and Google wallets as a core customer interface.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 32
Adronite develops an AI-powered engineering assistant that helps teams build, understand, and secure software from prompt to production, enabling software development teams to write reliable code, maintain security, and ship applications with greater confidence and control.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Series A
Round Investors: Gatemore Capital Management (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued product development and commercial expansion as it scales deployments across regulated and complex enterprise environments.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 6
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Stacks develops an AI-powered finance and collaboration platform for monthly reporting of financial results, allowing businesses to streamline financial processes, improve transparency, and increase collaboration across teams.
New Funding Raised: $23M, Series A
Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), General Catalyst, EQT Ventures, s16vc
🚀Growth Focus: Support infrastructure upgrades, developer tools, and ecosystem growth.
Press: Startup Researcher, SiliconANGLE
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 35
Flinn operates a medical management application that digitizes and automates paper compliance trails, enabling medical companies to operate more efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: HV Capital (lead), Bertelsmann Healthcare Investments, SquareOne Venture Capital, Speedinvest
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the expansion of AI-driven regulatory software for medical devices.
Press: Startup Researcher, Tech.eu
HQ: Vienna, Austria
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 48
Appetise develops a digital meal planning platform that simplifies how households plan, shop, and cook using groceries from local supermarkets, allowing individuals and families to enjoy more variety, reduce food costs, and prepare meals with ease.
New Funding Raised: A$7M, Series A
Round Investors: Icehouse Ventures (lead), OIF Ventures, NZVC, Brand Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Expand further in Australia, develop the insights platform, and prepare for entry into the US.
Press: SmartCompany, Capital Brief
HQ: Christchurch, New Zealand
Industry: Food & Beverages
Employee Count: 21
SportIQ develops real-time sports analytics and tracking technology, enabling teams, coaches, and broadcasters to analyze player performance and tactics through integrated data and video insights.
New Funding Raised: $6.2M, Series A
Round Investors: KB Partners (lead), Koppenberg Management, Match Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Further commercialize its AI-powered platform and scale its real-time player tracking system.
HQ: Helsinki, Finland
Industry: Spectator Sports
Employee Count: 18
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Bretton AI (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs & Deployment Strategists for its SF-based team.
Brandlight (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC-based team.
ElevenLabs (LI) is hiring for tons of Revenue roles, including remote Commercial AEs and Enterprise AEs in the US and globally.
Northslope (LI) is hiring a Principal, Business Development for its New York-based team.
Decagon (LI) is hiring remote Director, Strategic Accounts, Enterprise AEs, and SDRs out of its NYC and SF offices.
Upwind (LI) is hiring remote Enterprise AEs and Commercial AEs across the US, and globally.
Deepgram (LI) is hiring remote AEs for its US and EMEA teams, and a Commercial Sales Manager for its US-based team.
DepthFirst (LI) is hiring a founding Account Executive for its SF-based team.
Fal (LI) is hiring a Commercial AE and an Enterprise AE for its SF-based team.
Harness (LI) is hiring an RVP of Partners & Alliances, and an RVP of Enterprise Sales for its US-based team.
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