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🌎 Americas
Pepper develops a digital food distribution platform that facilitates an online food supply chain, enabling food distributors to find new users, deepen relationships, grow revenue, and run.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series C
Round Investors: Lead Edge Capital (lead), Greylock, ICONIQ Growth, Harmony Partners
🚀 Growth Focus: Expand product innovation, deepen AI-enabled capabilities, and accelerate adoption across the food distribution ecosystem.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 220
Pharaoh Neuro develops neuroscience-driven technology solutions, allowing advanced brain research, diagnostics, and data-driven neurological insights.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Arboretum Ventures (lead), Laerdal Million Lives Fund, IAG Capital Partners, Hatteras Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Continue development and regulatory clearance of its Neurapheresis Cerebrospinal Fluid Management System and support the U.S. reintroduction of the MindsEye Expandable Port, the world’s first expandable cranial access port.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Pharaoh Neuro News
HQ: Minneapolis, MN
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 4
InScope’s financial statement automation platform provides audited financials, enabling companies to maintain accurate financial records.
New Funding Raised: $14.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Norwest (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Storm Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support ongoing investment in engineering, product development, and go-to-market teams.
Press: GlobeNewswire, TechCrunch
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 24
Solid operates an AI-powered data democratization platform for organizations to work smartly, allowing teams to focus on strategic analysis that drives business impact.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: SignalFire (lead), Team8 (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate enterprise adoption of trustworthy AI by eliminating the manual work required to maintain business meaning in data.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics
Employee Count: 24
Mirai develops on-device AI technology for human-computer interaction, enabling software developers and consumer technology markets to deliver efficient, private, and responsive AI-powered applications directly on user devices without dependence on cloud processing.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Uncork Capital (lead), Marcin Zukowski, Mati Staniszewski, The New Normal Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Build an on-device AI capability layer that makes local inference accessible and efficient for developers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 13
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Grotto AI develops tenant journey AI technology that reduces vacancy loss and optimizes multifamily leasing performance, allowing multifamily property managers to improve lead conversion, reduce turnover delays, and personalize renter engagement with greater precision.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: ICONIQ Capital (lead), David Dear, Asymmetric Capital Partners, Caren Maio
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its product and scale deployments with multifamily operators, continuing to position real-time coaching and post-call feedback as a direct lever on vacancy loss and property-level revenue.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 8
Odynn operates an AI-powered fintech platform for comparing rewards and cash pricing for hotels and flights, enabling travelers to maximize returns based on primary spending and make informed booking decisions.
New Funding Raised: $9.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Fiat Ventures (lead), Team Ignite Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its go-to-market efforts and expand its engineering and data science teams.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 14
Sphinx’s AI-powered compliance management platform automates and streamlines know-your-user processes within fintech companies, allowing businesses to deploy intelligent chatbots and virtual assistants that can handle complex user inquiries, improve engagement, and free up human agents for strategic tasks.
New Funding Raised: $7.1M, Seed
Round Investors: Cherry Ventures (lead), Y Combinator, Rebel Fund, Singularity Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its agentic compliance workforce as banks and fintechs increasingly rely on it for core AML, KYC, and KYB operations.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 12
Certivo operates an AI-powered product compliance management platform, enabling regulated manufacturers to automate certificate collection, monitor evolving regulations, and reduce compliance risk across complex supply chains.
New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed
Round Investors: Suffolk Technologies (lead), Pioneer Square Labs
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand engineering and AI capabilities, and scale go-to-market efforts across manufacturing and the built world.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Manufacturing
Employee Count: 15
🌍 EMEA + Australia
Vizzia develops 4G/5G-connected urban monitoring and security solutions, allowing municipalities to combat illegal dumping, enhance public safety, and optimize territorial management through deployable smart detection and video protection systems.
New Funding Raised: €30M, Series B
Round Investors: Base10 Partners (lead), SistaFund, Headline
🚀Growth Focus: Further develop its video surveillance technology and accelerate its deployment across France, the United Kingdom, and Italy.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 99
EatClub develops a user engagement platform that helps restaurants manage demand for their tables, enabling restaurants to fill tables at off-peak times and improve profit margins through the use of dynamic pricing.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Series B
Round Investors: Marbruck (lead), EVP, CoAct Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its earn loyalty program, which allows users to accumulate dining credits through participating retailers and redeem them at restaurants on the platform.
Press: SmartCompany, Startup Daily
HQ: Melbourne, Australia
Industry: Hospitality
Employee Count: 184
happyhotel builds a revenue management software for the hospitality industry, allowing them to help generate more revenue and optimize revenue management.
New Funding Raised: €6.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Reimann Investors (lead), seed + speed Ventures, Wecken & Cie., Start-up BW Innovation Fonds
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI capabilities and strengthen its presence across Europe to support hotels facing operational and market challenges.
Press: Tech.eu, happyhotel.io
HQ: Offenburg, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 38
Plato develops a sales intelligence platform that makes wholesale proactive and data-driven, enabling businesses to be flexible and scalable to meet the needs of every retailer.
New Funding Raised: $14.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Atomico (lead), Lucid Capital, D11Z.Ventures, Cherry Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its technology and support users seeking to modernize their sales operations within the distribution sector.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 28
Rapidata develops a data labeling technology that processes huge amounts of data with human intelligence and sentiment from specific regions, allowing users to access the technology for labeling or validating data.
New Funding Raised: $8.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Canaan Partners (lead), IA Ventures (lead), Acequia Capital (AceCap), BlueYard Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global human data network and support rising demand from AI companies seeking faster and more reliable feedback loops.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 14
Cognee operates an AI assistant tool that helps reduce cognitive load and automate decision-making, enabling businesses to improve productivity.
New Funding Raised: $7.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Pebblebed (lead), Jan Ebbinghaus, Bojana Miloradovic Parman, Steffen Kirchhoff
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of its structured memory layer for AI systems and agents.
Press: EU-Startups, Startup Researcher
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 19
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Braintrust (LI) is hiring tons of sales roles, including Strategic, Commercial, and Enterprise AEs across all regions of the US.
Render (LI) is hiring a remote Enterprise AE and Strategic Account Manager for its SF-based team.
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.
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