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Profound develops a search engine optimization tool for AI search optimization, enabling users to increase online visibility and organic search traffic.
New Funding Raised: $96M, Series C
Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), South Park Commons, Saga Ventures, Kleiner Perkins
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI visibility monitoring and automation platform to support greater enterprise usage and to accelerate development of its analytics and AI-driven workflow capabilities.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 165
MatX manufactures computer chips that build a computing platform for artificial general intelligence, allowing developers and programmers to make models an order of magnitude more useful.
New Funding Raised: $500M, Series B
Round Investors: Jane Street Capital (lead), Situational Awareness (lead), Triatomic Capital, Harpoon
🚀Growth Focus: Develop AI chips competing with Nvidia and secure manufacturing space and critical components, particularly memory, which is currently scarce in the semiconductor industry.
Press: TechCrunch, Ventureburn
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 86
Basis develops an AI-based accounting assistant software that offers accounting automation agents for accounting firms, enabling accounting firms to increase productivity across work and access services to gain insights for users regarding labor-intensive tasks.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Jeff Dean, Aaron Levie, Khosla Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate platform development, expand engineering and machine learning teams, and build increasingly advanced agents capable of handling more complex workflows.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 118
Nimble develops a web data automation platform for web data gathering at scale, allowing businesses to streamline web data collection pipelines for continuous, stable, accurate public web data acquisition.
New Funding Raised: $47M, Series B
Round Investors: Norwest (lead), Slow Ventures, J-Ventures, Square Peg Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand R&D in multi-agent web search and a governed data layer that processes and validates search results.
Press: Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 131
Letter AI’s generative AI platform accelerates content creation for sales teams, enabling them to improve operational overhead, collect feedback, and monitor performance.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: Battery Ventures (lead), Y Combinator, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures, Stage 2 Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Scale product development, expand its global team, and accelerate go-to-market efforts as enterprises move away from fragmented enablement tools toward unified, AI-native systems built for modern revenue teams.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 32
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Slang develops a conversational AI platform for tailored service for the restaurant industry to improve user service operations, allowing users to help streamline operations and boost overall user satisfaction.
New Funding Raised: $28M, Series B
Round Investors: Thayer Investment Partners (lead), Claire Hughes Johnson, Homebrew, U.S. Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand and deepen its agentic voice AI platform for guest communications in hospitality settings, empowering restaurants, hotels, and venues.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 61
Mojo AI develops an AI-based safety management software for high-risk industrial environments, enabling construction and energy firms to enhance frontline engagement and reduce workplace incidents.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series B
Round Investors: Altira Group (lead), Frame VC (lead), Pelion Venture Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-powered safety management platform into new markets across construction and oil and gas.
Press: EIN Presswire, The Des Moines Register
HQ: Sandy, UT
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 34
Slate Medicines develops next-generation therapeutics for migraine and headache disorders, allowing targeted prevention through novel anti-PACAP treatments.
New Funding Raised: $130M, Series A
Round Investors: Forbion Capital Partners (lead), Foresite Capital (lead), RA Capital Management (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the clinical advancement of SLTE-1009 and position the business to redefine migraine prevention with a differentiated product profile and convenient at-home dosing.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Raleigh, NC
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 10
Koah Labs provides monetization layer services for AI applications, helping businesses develop ads that feel like part of the conversation and grow revenue and user base.
New Funding Raised: $20.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Theory Ventures (lead), Forerunner, South Park Commons
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate engineering hiring and go-to-market expansion as it builds out its full technology stack for AI monetization.
Press: PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Media
Employee Count: 16
Handl Health operates a healthcare price transparency platform that aggregates and contextualizes price transparency, insurance, and demographic data, enabling users to realize average cost savings to guide every healthcare purchasing decision.
New Funding Raised: $14.2M, Series A
Round Investors: Arthur Ventures (lead), Syndra Capital Partners, Boutique Venture Partners, Riverfront Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform and enhance analytics capabilities, enabling deeper plan insights and more predictable pricing structures.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics
Employee Count: 17
Circadian Risk develops a security assessment platform that assesses and improves physical security for enterprise companies, allowing enterprises to generate, resolve, and communicate valuable data to avoid vulnerable situations in the workplace.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Series A
Round Investors: Arthur Venture (lead), Tamiami Angel Funds, 11 Tribes Ventures, Roll Tack Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its next phase of growth, refining its go-to-market strategy and expanding its development team to integrate generative AI into the real-time, scored platform.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Ann Arbor, MI
Industry: Security and Investigations
Employee Count: 23
🌍 EMEA
Turbine provides cancer combination therapies that clarify the underlying biology of diseases and develop personalized therapies, enabling cancer patients to receive a low-cost and effective cancer treatment plan.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series B
Round Investors: Interactive Venture Partners (lead), Accel, Mercia Ventures, Beiersdorf Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform to virtualize new assays across discovery and translational medicine.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Budapest, Hungary
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 106
Frankenburg Technologies develops missile systems for defense purposes, allowing defense forces effectively counter modern warfare challenges.
New Funding Raised: €30M, Series A
Round Investors: Plural Platform (lead), SmartCap
🚀Growth Focus: Build new missile-manufacturing capacity in Europe, with a focus on production, resilience, and regeneration.
Press: EU-Startups, Ventureburn
HQ: Tallinn, Estonia
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 45
Nyra Health’s digital neurotherapy platform supports speech, language, cognitive, and everyday skill rehabilitation for people with neurological conditions, enabling patients, clinics, and therapy practices to deliver consistent rehabilitation and support long-term recovery.
New Funding Raised: €20M, Series A
Round Investors: Armira (lead), EVER Pharma, Crane Venture Partners, Wellington Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its technology platform in the DACH region, accelerate its expansion in the US, and pursue its goal of establishing a new standard for data-driven neurorehabilitation.
Press: EU-Startups, startbase.com
HQ: Vienna, Austria
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 37
VoiceLine develops a smart voice messaging platform that connects remote and hybrid teams at work, allowing users to be effective at work and save time while helping the sales team to make better decisions.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: Alstin Capital (lead), NAP, SCALEHOUSE Capital, Venture Stars
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its voice AI platform for frontline enterprise teams, positioning the company for broader European and international growth.
Press: Startup Researcher, startbase.com
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 43
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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