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Monteris Medical develops magnetic resonance imaging-guided, laser-based systems for the ablation of brain lesions, enabling neurosurgeons to ablate brain lesions and brain tumors that may be difficult to approach via traditional methods.
New Funding Raised: $28M, Series E
Round Investors: Birchview Fund (lead), InnovaHealth Partners (lead), Madryn Asset Management, OSF Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its U.S. commercial footprint and accelerate it other growth initiatives in technology development, clinical research, and geographic expansion.
HQ: Hopkins, MN
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 7
ORO Labs provides a procurement orchestration company that humanizes the procurement experience by coordinating teams, systems, and processes, allowing businesses to reduce cycle times, decrease risk through end-to-end process visibility, and increase agility in response to change.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series C
Round Investors: Brighton Park Capital (lead), Goldman Sachs Growth Equity (lead), Felicis, XYZ Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion, further its product leadership, and scale customer success and deployment worldwide.
Press: Pulse 2.0, PR Newswire
HQ: La Honda, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 52
XCath develops advanced endovascular robotics and steerable guidewires that enhance precision in navigating the vascular system, enabling doctors to improve clinical outcomes, safer procedures, and faster recovery times.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series C
Round Investors: Crescent Enterprises (lead), Fred Moll, M.D
🚀Growth Focus: Advance development and commercialization of its endovascular surgical robot.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Houston, TX
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 32
Sunday develops helpful home robots for everyday tasks, with a fully verticalized system, advanced AI capabilities trained on proprietary data, and a growing Skills library.
New Funding Raised: $165M, Series B
Round Investors: Coatue (lead), Benchmark, Tiger Global Management, Conviction
🚀Growth Focus: Support deployment and hiring as it prepares to scale to more households.
Press: GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 94
Axiom Math AI develops advanced quantitative AI systems, enabling high-level mathematical reasoning and intelligent problem solving.
New Funding Raised: $200M, Series A
Round Investors: Menlo Ventures (lead), Toyota Ventures, Greycroft, Madrona
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued development of its “Verified AI” approach, which combines advances in formal mathematics and AI to prove whether code and other machine-generated outputs are correct.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 27
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BackOps AI develops operational automation tools for business efficiency, allowing businesses to streamline back-office operations, reduce manual workloads, and enhance decision-making processes.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Series A
Round Investors: Theory Ventures (lead), Gradient, Construct Capital,10vc
🚀Growth Focus: Support the expansion of its engineering, product, and go-to-market teams while accelerating development of its logistics automation platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: IT Systems
Employee Count: 22
Scanner.dev develops a high-speed security data lake platform, enabling organizations to index and search large-scale log data directly in object storage for rapid threat detection and response.
New Funding Raised: $22M, Series A
Round Investors: Sequoia Capital (lead), Christina Cacioppo, CRV, Tom Killalea
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission to deliver faster and more scalable security data infrastructure for enterprise security teams.
Press: Ventureburn, Scanner.dev
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 15
Qurrent develops AI-powered digital workforce solutions, allowing businesses to automate operations and deploy reliable AI-driven processes across multiple industries.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Cervin Ventures (lead), Streamlined
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform, designed to automate complex back-office operations for enterprises.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 39
Freestyle operates an eco-friendly baby products brand that builds biodegradable and sustainable products, enabling parents to get biodegradable baby products.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A
Round Investors: Silas Capital (lead), Mucker Capital, SuperAngel.Fund, ECP Growth
🚀Growth Focus: Support its next phase of growth, including product development, supply chain infrastructure, and expanded marketing initiatives designed to strengthen brand awareness and community engagement.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Manufacturing
Employee Count: 43
Standard Kernel builds an AI technology for automated kernel development, allowing users to benefit from increasingly autonomous and self-optimizing AI systems.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: Jump Capital (lead), Ericsson Ventures, Sachin Katti, David Siegel
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate platform development, enterprise deployments, and adaptive systems capabilities.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 2
Axiom Trust operates a vertically integrated trust company that modernizes fiduciary administration by eliminating friction and preserving advisory relationships, enabling users to navigate complex wealth structures with transparency, continuity, and operational precision while retaining control over investment authority and family governance.
New Funding Raised: $11.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), SNR.vc, The Fintech Fund, Immad Akhund
🚀Growth Focus: Modernize trust administration for the great wealth transfer era, pairing a regulated trust company with AI-powered workflows.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Las Vegas, NV
Industry: Trusts and Estates
Employee Count: 10
zymtrace develops a continuous profiling platform that optimizes the efficiency of general-purpose and accelerated computing workloads, allowing developers to debug and reduce cloud costs, and optimize GPU and CPU.
New Funding Raised: $8.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Venture Guides (lead), Reece Chowdhry, Fly Ventures, Christian Bach
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued product development, expanded enterprise deployments, and growth of the U.S. go-to-market team, while advancing its move toward profile-guided autonomous AI workload optimization.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Wilmington, DE (most ee’s in Germany)
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
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Entrepreneurs First develops a talent investment platform, enabling exceptional individuals to build startups from scratch and secure early-stage funding and support.
New Funding Raised: $200M, Series D
Round Investors: Matt Cohler, John Collison, Greylock, Eric Schmidt
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its intensive company-building programs and support a greater number of innovators globally.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: London, England
Industry: Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Employee Count: 250
Cleafy develops network security software that protects online services against advanced attacks, allowing banks and fintech companies to monitor and assess the risk of application behaviors.
New Funding Raised: €12M, Series B
Round Investors: eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS (lead), United Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of predictive technology, expand global threat monitoring, and grow its presence in Europe and Latin America.
Press: Ventureburn, Tech.eu
HQ: Milan, Italy
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 5
Combat Medical provides a hyperthermic delivery system that offers treatments to patients with bladder and peritoneal cancers, enabling healthcare providers to maximize the efficacy of the chemotherapy treatment.
New Funding Raised: £2.6M, Series A
Round Investors: T&J Meyer Family Foundation (lead), Varia Ventures, NW Angel
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development and regulatory advancement of its hyperthermic intravesical chemotherapy technology for treating BCG-unresponsive non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Wheathampstead, England
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 24
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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.
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