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🌎 Americas
HawkEye 360 develops a data analytics platform that identifies, processes, and geolocates a broad set of radio frequency signals, enabling users to gain access to powerful analytical products that solve hard challenges in their businesses.
New Funding Raised: $23M, Series E
Round Investors: Strategic Development Fund, Principia Growth, Ghisallo, Sixty Degree Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its technology platform and support the integration of Innovative Signal Analysis, a move aimed at enhancing its signals intelligence capabilities.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Herndon, VA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 246
Eight Sleep operates a sleep product brand that improves and supports optimal rest, health, and daily function, allowing users to create a comfortable sleep environment.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series D
Round Investors: Tether Ventures (lead), SoftBank, Kevin Hart, Charles Leclerc
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate AI-driven predictive health and global expansion.
Press: TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Employee Count: 226
Polares Medical develops a medical device that treats patients suffering from mitral regurgitation, enabling physicians to make hemi-replacements of the mitral valve to enhance coaptation with the native anterior leaflet.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series C
Round Investors: Decheng Capital (lead), Lumination Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the U.S. expansion of its MRace Posterior Leaflet Replacement system following strong clinical results.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 21
Crossover Markets Group develops a digital asset exchange platform that meets the liquidity needs of institutional users, allowing investors to trade cryptocurrencies and maintain liquidity.
New Funding Raised: $31M, Series B
Round Investors: Tradeweb (lead), Wintermute Ventures, XTX Markets, DRW Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Enhance its technology stack, expand global operations, and deepen integrations with institutional partners.
Press: PR Newswire, Crossover Markets
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 19
Reclaim Security’s security platform simplifies and regains control over digital asset management, enabling organizations to reduce complexity, improve risk management, and regain confidence in security posture, offering clarity and control to businesses navigating modern, distributed digital landscapes.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Acrew Capital (lead), QP Ventures, Ibex Investors
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering organization, deepen enterprise integrations, and accelerate go-to-market initiatives across North America and Europe.
Press: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 26
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Veyor develops cloud-based coordination technology for logistics scheduling in the construction sector, allowing businesses to manage resources effectively, reduce delays, improve collaboration, and increase overall project efficiency through streamlined logistics management.
New Funding Raised: A$10.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Marbruck (lead), Investible, SpringCapital Investment, CoAct Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the US expansion, including senior go-to-market hires, and expand the product beyond delivery scheduling into procurement, inventory, and warehouse management.
Press: SmartCompany, Startup Daily
HQ: Austin, TX (most ee’s in Sydney, Australia)
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 58
JetStream Security develops an enterprise AI governance and security platform, enabling organizations to control, secure, and scale agentic AI with continuous visibility, policy enforcement, and compliance management.
New Funding Raised: $34M, Seed
Round Investors: Redpoint (lead), Assaf Rappaport, George Kurtz, Frederic Kerrest
🚀Growth Focus: Expand rapidly across engineering, product, and go-to-market.
Press: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 25
Cyclops.io operates a digital asset payments platform for payment processing companies, allowing payment processors and merchant acquirers to offer digital asset payment and settlement capabilities.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: Castle Island Ventures (lead), Shift4 Payments, F-Prime
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for enterprises that want to issue, manage, and integrate stablecoin products into their existing payments and banking stacks.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 10
Artemis develops AI-powered solar design and sales software for residential and commercial solar installers, enabling installers to accelerate sales cycles, reduce operational overhead, and streamline end-to-end solar project delivery.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Long Journey Ventures (lead), WIND Ventures (lead), Ludlow Ventures, FJ Labs
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand customer support, and scale go-to-market operations.
Press: Yahoo Finance, citybiz
HQ: Houston, TX
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 33
NextWork’s education and career development platform helps people learn skills and get jobs, allowing students to learn at their own pace and make a better future.
New Funding Raised: $4.45M, Seed
Round Investors: SHAKTI (lead), Blackbird Ventures, Icehouse Ventures, GD1 (Global From Day One)
🚀Growth Focus: Support its expansion in the U.S., including establishing its headquarters in Austin, Texas, and continued investment in engineering and growth hiring to scale the platform and accelerate learner adoption.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: E-Learning Providers
Employee Count: 33
PartsPulse develops an AI-powered aftermarket management platform that enables companies to manage production, network performance, and pricing of aftermarket parts in real time.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: UP Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued product development, team growth, and customer expansion in North America.
Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs
HQ: Santa Monica, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 5
🌍 EMEA
PLD Space provides an international space services platform that transports satellites and people into space, allowing commercial space operators and government agencies reliable access to space and greater mission flexibility.
New Funding Raised: €180M, Series C
Round Investors: Cofides (lead), Mitsubishi Electric (lead), Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), Nazca Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support its transition to commercial operations and the scaling of its industrial and launch capabilities.
Press: EU-Startups, Vestbee
HQ: Elche, Spain
Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Employee Count: 425
Unleash operates an open-source feature management platform that is used for product deployment automation, enabling users to experiment without impacting the applications' performance.
New Funding Raised: $35M, Series B
Round Investors: One Peak (lead), Firstminute Capital, Spark Capital, Frontline Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product innovation and global expansion as enterprises confront the opportunities and risks of AI-accelerated software delivery.
Press: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 44
Photoncycle develops a distributed energy system that revolutionizes electricity generation, storage, consumption, and payment, allowing households and businesses to meet the growing demand for clean, sustainable power.
New Funding Raised: €15M, Series A
Round Investors: NordicNinja VC (lead), Voima Ventures (lead), Eviny Ventures, Momentum
🚀Growth Focus: Enable households to store surplus summer solar power for winter heating and electricity.
Press: EU-Startups, The Next Web
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Industry: Renewable Energy
Employee Count: 24
Shellworks develops sustainable bio-polymer products that turn waste crustacean shells into biodegradable and compostable products, enabling users to solve the problematic environmental issue of plastic pollution.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Alter Equity 3P (lead), JamJar Investments, LocalGlobe, Nat Friedman
🚀Growth Focus: Scale production of its plastic alternative, Vivomer, and expand into the United States and Europe.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 44
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Nimble (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC and West Coast teams, as well as a RevOps leader and BDRs, based in NYC.
Encord (LI) is hiring AEs for its London and SF-based teams, as well as a BDR Manager for its SF-based team.
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.
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