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🌎 Americas
Sierra Space develops space transportation systems designed for commercial, Department of Defense, and national security organizations, enabling users to safeguard the nation and sustain human exploration in space reliably.
New Funding Raised: $550M, Series C
Round Investors: LuminArx Capital Management LP (lead), General Atlantic, Moore Strategic Ventures, Andalusian Private Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its production capacity and development of advanced space technologies for national security customers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Louisville, CO
Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Employee Count: 1311
Science builds a brain-computer interface technology that understands and engineers the brain, allowing doctors to treat serious brain diseases in the short term without drilling holes into patients' heads.
New Funding Raised: $230M, Series C
Round Investors: Quiet Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the commercialization of its PRIMA BCI retinal implant, a device designed to restore vision for patients with severe retinal diseases.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Alameda, CA
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 289
Cognito Therapeutics develops digital therapeutics that treat neurodegenerative disorders by modulating brain activity and targeting underlying disease mechanisms associated with cognitive decline, enabling patients with neurodegenerative disorders to address disease progression and support cognitive function.
New Funding Raised: $105M, Series C
Round Investors: IAG Capital Partners (lead), Morningside (lead), Starbloom Capital (lead), New Vintage Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support the advancement of the Spectris platform into additional neurodegenerative indications through their network of brain health collaboratories, beginning with WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 57
Evervault’s payments security platform protects and processes sensitive payment data within applications, allowing businesses and developers to build secure, PCI-compliant payment workflows while maintaining control over infrastructure and user experience.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series B
Round Investors: Ribbit Capital (lead), Index Ventures, Next Play Ventures, Sequoia Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its encryption infrastructure, invest in product development, and grow its engineering and product teams.
Press: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 31
Vast develops a commercial space station that expands humanity across the solar system, enabling microgravity research, manufacturing, and human habitation in orbit and will assist both government and private customers.
New Funding Raised: $300M, Series A
Round Investors: Balerion Space Ventures (lead), Jed McCaleb, Space Capital, Mitsui & Co.
🚀Growth Focus: Further its focus on national security space efforts by expanding production capacity and developing differentiated solutions for customers.
Press: Ventureburn, Menlo Times
HQ: Long Beach, CA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 1001
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Minnesota Medical Technologies operates a medical technology company that develops, makes, and sells fecal continence care products, allowing patients to manage FI symptoms.
New Funding Raised: $20.6M, Series A
Round Investors: HM Venture Partners (lead), Southeast Minnesota Capital Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to establish its commercial and distribution infrastructure for the U.S. market, strategically build its sales and marketing teams, and provide financial security for disciplined growth.
Press: PR Newswire, FinSMEs
HQ: Stewartville, MN
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 5
Cylake develops an AI-native, data-driven cybersecurity platform, enabling large and highly regulated institutions to manage and secure operations across on-premises and private cloud environments while maintaining full data and operational control.
New Funding Raised: $45M, Seed
Round Investors: Greylock (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Build a cloud-independent platform for highly regulated organizations requiring full data sovereignty and on-premises protection.
Press: GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 11
Procode AI develops an AI-powered revenue cycle management company for surgeons in private practice, allowing surgeons to obtain more accurate revenue data at a faster rate.
New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed
Round Investors: Story Ventures (lead), Progression, CHAP Health Ventures, Dmitry Shevelenko
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-driven billing infrastructure to improve transparency and efficiency across the surgical revenue cycle while allowing providers to focus more on patient care rather than administrative tasks.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 1
🌍 EMEA
Silverflow develops a cloud-based payments platform that provides direct card-network access to payment service providers, enabling payment providers, merchants, and acquirers to attain agility, transparency, and security in global payment operations.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: Picus Capital (lead), Coatue, Global PayTech Ventures, Inkef
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its next growth phase, helping expand its global presence, strengthen its technology platform, and increase its workforce as demand for modern payment infrastructure rises.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Ventureburn
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 92
UniverCell Holding GmbH manufactures customized battery electrodes and cell products that support performance energy storage applications across mobility, industrial, and stationary use cases, allowing equipment manufacturers, energy system integrators, and mobility providers to source regionally produced battery components that meet defined performance and safety.
New Funding Raised: €30M, Series B
Round Investors: DeepTech & Climate Fonds (lead), European Innovation Council
🚀Growth Focus: Support scaling industrial battery production and advancing proprietary electrode technologies designed for high-performance, specialised use cases.
Press: Tech.eu, Startup Researcher
HQ: Boksee, Germany
Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 50
TruDoc develops an online application platform that offers telemedicine healthcare and telemonitoring services to corporations, government, and individuals, enabling users to connect with healthcare professionals and wellness experts from anywhere. View on: LinkedIn.com | Sales Navigator.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series B
Round Investors: Al-Ketbi family, Al Nahyan Abu Dhabi royal family, Pulsar Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its technology-driven care model across the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Industry: Wellness and Fitness Services
Employee Count: 252
Swarm Oncology operates a cell therapy platform that treats metastatic solid tumors, allowing users to develop autologous therapies that are safe, specific, durable, and applicable to patients with weakened immune systems.
New Funding Raised: £6.1M, Seed
Round Investors: Delin Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: London, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 12
Alithea Genomics develops cost-efficient transcriptomics that perform biomedical discoveries, enabling pharmaceutical companies to perform biomedical research.
New Funding Raised: CHF3M, Seed
Round Investors: Genku Ventures (lead), Novalis Biotechnology Incubation, Zürcher Kantonal Bank
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the commercialisation of its 1536-well MERCURIUS DRUG-seq kits, designed to dramatically increase the scale of RNA sequencing experiments.
Press: Business Wire, Tech Funding News
HQ: Epalinges, Switzerland
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 34
SynuCa Therapeutics develops small-molecule therapeutics for neurodegenerative disease treatment, allowing medical professionals to follow a novel approach to modify disease progression in patients with Parkinson's Disease and related disorders.
New Funding Raised: €1.3M, Seed
Round Investors: BioInnovation Institute Venture Lab (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, scale operations, and move closer to market deployment across sectors spanning HealthTech, AgriTech, ClimateTech, and DeepTech.
Press: Tech.eu, EU-Startups
HQ: Aarhus, Denmark
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 2
Vivox AI’s AI compliance platform automates repetitive financial crime and regulatory review tasks for compliance teams, enabling regulated financial institutions to accelerate onboarding and conduct compliance checks with reduced manual effort and consistent regulatory alignment.
New Funding Raised: £1.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Axel A. Weber, Ventures Together, Dan Cobley, Konstantin Stiskin
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its core platform and advance a new class of AI agents designed specifically for highly regulated financial institutions.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
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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