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Nexthop AI develops AI infrastructure for large-scale cloud operators, enabling hyperscale data centers and cloud providers to scale AI systems while lowering the cost per token and improving reliability.
New Funding Raised: $500M, Series B
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Battery Ventures, Emergent Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support expanded research and development efforts and broader infrastructure investments to accelerate the development of its networking platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Industry: Computer Networking Products
Employee Count: 214
Rhoda AI builds an AI-driven robotics platform that enables general-purpose manipulation and improves robot performance across varied real-world environments, providing manufacturing firms, logistics operators, and automation integrators with scalable robot training, broader task generalization, and increased autonomy in complex operational settings.
New Funding Raised: $450M, Series A
Round Investors: Premji Invest (lead), Mayfield Fund, Matter Venture Partners, Temasek Holdings
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate research and engineering, expand industrial deployments and customer pilots, and grow its multidisciplinary team spanning generative AI, computer vision, and robotics.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: ~50
Eridu develops advanced hardware and infrastructure technology to make AI systems run fast, enabling users to reduce energy consumption, lower operational costs, and speed up the training of large AI models.
New Funding Raised: $200M, Series A
Round Investors: Capricorn Investment Group (lead), Hudson River Trading (lead), John Doerr (lead), Matter Venture Partners (lead), Socratic Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to complete development of its networking platform and bring the system to market as demand for large-scale AI infrastructure continues to surge among hyperscalers, AI research labs, and emerging cloud providers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Saratoga, CA
Industry: Computer Networking Products
Employee Count: 69
PactFi’s fintech platform transforms the infrastructure on which the private asset market operates, allowing private credit market players to scale operations, digitize data, and make business more liquid and secure.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: 7RIDGE (lead), Vestigo Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand industry relationships and drive adoption among counterparties and service providers such as administrative agents.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 34
Rebar develops AI-powered HVAC estimating software that automates material takeoffs and improves the speed and accuracy of project bids, enabling HVAC suppliers and distributors to prepare consistent estimates faster while maintaining control, data privacy, and organization-specific standards.
New Funding Raised: $14M, Series A
Round Investors: Prudence (lead), Founder Collective, Optimist Ventures, Villain Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its operating system and develop additional agentic solutions that address more workflows across the HVAC value chain.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Construction
Employee Count: 36
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Nectir develops a social platform that encourages collaborative learning by connecting students in the same classes, allowing students to better connect with the student body and with professors.
New Funding Raised: $12.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Rethink Impact (lead), Strada, GingerBread Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform designed specifically for higher education institutions.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Education
Employee Count: 21
Amigo AI operates an AI-based clinical agent infrastructure to optimize healthcare delivery, enabling healthcare providers to deploy scalable, reliable, and context-aware digital agents that reduce human escalation, improve care quality, and maintain transparency across patient engagements.
New Funding Raised: $11M, Series A
Round Investors: Madrona (lead), Optum Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the development and deployment of its clinical AI agents and scale its platform for healthcare organizations globally.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 60
Lux Aeterna develops reusable satellite platforms for space operations, allowing industries to get a flexible, fleet-based model built to scale with the future of launch.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Konvoy (lead), Space Capital, Channel 39 Ventures, Cubit Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development and manufacturing of its flagship spacecraft, Delphi.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Industry: Denver, CO
Employee Count: 10
AgentMail’s AI-based email Infrastructure platform allows agents to have their own inbox, enabling users to get automatic labeling with user-defined prompts for semantic search across every inbox in their organization and structured data extraction.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Karim Atiyeh, Y Combinator, Paul Copplestone
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the engineering team and its platform, and accelerate developer and agent adoption.
Press: TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Technology, Information, and Internet
Industry: San Francisco, CA
Employee Count: 7
🌍 EMEA
Legora develops an AI assistant that adapts ways of legal working, unlocking team and machine collaboration at scale, allowing lawyers to dedicate time to strategic decision-making and achieving favorable user outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $550M, Series D
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Salesforce Ventures, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion across the United States.
Press: Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 338
Vitestro develops medical robotic devices for use in hospitals and clinical laboratories, enabling doctors to perform operations without creating any complications and improving patient health.
New Funding Raised: $70M, Series B
Round Investors: LabCorp Venture Fund, Puma Venture Capital, Intervest, Sonder Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its robotic phlebotomy platform and expand commercial readiness.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Utrecht, Netherlands
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 14
KAST operates a neo-bank platform that reduces friction in making international payments by bypassing traditional banking networks, allowing users to spend stablecoin holdings at merchants who don't support crypto transactions.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series A
Round Investors: Left Lane Capital (lead), QED Investors (lead), DST Global, Peak XV Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand across Latin America, North America, and the Middle East, and accelerate licensing, compliance, product development, and headcount growth.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Mutsamudu, Comoros
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 155
Saltz operates a food sourcing marketplace that simplifies procurement for restaurants and food service businesses, enabling restaurants and chefs to source meat, seafood, and specialty ingredients directly from verified producers and distributors.
New Funding Raised: €20M, Series A
Round Investors: Lifeline Ventures, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Mantas Mikuckas, Change Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate expansion across Europe and further develop technology for cross-border food trade.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 47
Seprify manufactures cellulose-based white pigments that replace titanium dioxide, allowing various industries to produce sustainable and safe products.
New Funding Raised: €13.4M, Series A
Round Investors: Zürcher Kantonal Bank, Una Terra, Inter Ikea, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the transition of its cellulose platform from pilot validation into procurement-ready industrial supply.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Marly, Switzerland
Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 22
Captur develops a quality control automation platform that helps supply chains reduce the risk of churn on a large scale, enabling businesses and users to build user trust with a transparent process.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Rally Ventures (lead), Sure Valley Ventures, VENTIUR, DOMO.VC
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its team and accelerate product development as it scales its edge AI engine across new industries, including logistics, micro-mobility, and retail.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 29
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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