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ANEUVO provides emerging bioelectronic medicine for innovative disease and injury treatment, enabling patients to get cured through traditional pharmaceutical approaches.
New Funding Raised: $22M, Series C
Round Investors: CATCHER TECHNOLO RG (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the next phase of growth as it expands manufacturing capabilities, strengthens quality systems, and advances regulatory initiatives for its ExaStim Stimulation System.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 22
Lyzr AI develops an agent infrastructure platform for building reliable AI Agents for data analysis and decision-making purposes, allowing businesses to extract valuable insights from large datasets, optimize operations, and enhance strategic planning across various industries.
New Funding Raised: $14.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Accenture (lead), Rocketship.vc, Firstsource, Benhamou Global Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel global expansion for its enterprise AI agent platform.
Press: Startup Researcher, Tech Funding News
HQ: Jersey City, NJ
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 139
Mega develop an AI-powered SEO automation platform, enabling businesses to manage analytics, optimization recommendations, content planning, and content creation in a single system.
New Funding Raised: $11.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Goodwater Capital (lead), SignalFire, Kearny Jackson, Andreessen Horowitz
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-driven marketing infrastructure with new capabilities including email marketing, outbound campaigns, organic social media, lead qualification, sales operations, and performance reporting.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: Brooklyn, NY
Industry: Marketing Services
Employee Count: ~10
Yourco develops an SMS-based employee application that increases on-campus recruitment for talent acquisition teams, allowing workers to eliminate the time spent doing manual data entry.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Series A
Round Investors: High Alpha (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Launch frontline intelligence to turn deskless workforce data into real-time business insights.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 24
Dify’s LLM application development platform builds and manages AI-powered apps, enabling users with production-ready AI application development.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Seed
Round Investors: HSG (lead), NYX Ventures, 5Y Capital, Mizuho Leaguer Investment
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its 2026 roadmap, integrate agent capabilities into the core product experience, build a dedicated enterprise product team focused on performance and compliance, launch new initiatives to support the builder community, and deliver product updates.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 98
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Zodl develops crypto technologies that provide equal access to economic systems and give everyone the ability to participate in economic activity, allowing investors and consumers to conduct safer transactions.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Seed
Round Investors: Mert Mumtaz, Winklevoss Capital, Haseeb Qureshi, a16z crypto
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its work on privacy-focused blockchain technology and support protocol work, wallet growth, and privacy-preserving infrastructure.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Ventureburn
HQ: Dallas, TX
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 4
Axiomatic AI operates an AI model that accelerates engineering workflows through rigorous verification across photonics, electronics, thermal, mechanics, and signal domains, enabling businesses to combine reinforcement learning and large language models to streamline end-to-end prototype development.
New Funding Raised: $18M, Seed
Round Investors: Engine Ventures (lead), Global Vision Capital, Big Sur Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support enterprise expansion and deeper integration into science and engineering workflows.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 32
Crafting develops a cloud development environment platform that provides a complete developer environment on the cloud for multi-service apps, allowing users to develop and test applications in a production-like environment, without having to worry about managing and maintaining infrastructure.
New Funding Raised: $5.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Mischief (lead), Andy Manoske, Arash Ferdowsi, Gokul Rajaram
🚀Growth Focus: Build AI-driven engineering infrastructure.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Information Services
Employee Count: 31
Denki develops an AI-based auditing platform that complies with financial regulations, enabling audit and assurance professionals to reduce manual workload, increase coverage of tested items, and improve consistency of audit processes.
New Funding Raised: $4.1M, Seed
Round Investors: Base10 Partners (lead), Shine Capital (lead), The Twenty Minute VC, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Develop its platform and expand its business reach.
Press: Tech Funding News, FinSMEs
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 2
Advocacy’s AI-powered litigation intelligence platforms support legal research, drafting, and case analysis, allowing litigation teams to organize case information and generate legal insights using AI-driven case intelligence.
New Funding Raised: $3.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Relentless, Relativity (lead), Fenwick & West
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform designed specifically for litigation teams.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 28
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Nscale develops AI infrastructure that supports organizations running large computing workloads, helping organizations access the computing capacity required for AI and high-performance workloads.
New Funding Raised: $2B, Series C ($14.6B Valuation)
Round Investors: 8090 Industries (lead), Aker (lead), Lenovo, Nokia
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its global expansion, with projects planned across Europe, North America, and Asia as demand for AI compute continues to surge.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Yahoo Finance
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 354
Isembard develops modular manufacturing units for the production and repair of high-precision metal and composite parts, enabling aerospace and maritime sectors to access sustainable manufacturing capabilities.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series A
Round Investors: Union Square Ventures (lead), IQ Capital, Matt Briers, CIV
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the rollout of AI-powered manufacturing facilities focused on high-precision components for aerospace, defense, energy, and robotics customers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: London, England
Industry: Manufacturing
Employee Count: 22
Qevlar AI operates an agentic AI security operations center platform that automates and deepens security investigations, allowing security operations teams and managed security service providers to identify real threats, improve investigation consistency, and strengthen incident response.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Forgepoint Capital (lead), Partech (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its autonomous AI SOC platform, helping SOCs leverage insights from alert investigations for measurable security posture improvement.
Press: Business Wire, EU-Startups
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 52
Cellbox Solutionsoperates a biotechnology logistics company that safely transports living cells and biological samples between labs, hospitals, and research facilities, ensuring quality and functionality.
New Funding Raised: €3.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Companisto (lead), NRW.BANK
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate global expansion of its warm-chain logistics technology for transporting living cells under controlled physiological conditions.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Cologne, Germany
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 20
ILS develops digital side letter management solutions, allowing investment firms to manage, track, and organize fund side letter agreements efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: Chicago Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the expansion of the ProVision platform, allowing the team to fulfill an ambitious roadmap for 2026.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 16
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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