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🌎 Americas
Onyx Security develops an enterprise AI security platform that offers features such as agent discovery and cataloging, policy enforcement, risk identification, real-time monitoring, and control of agent actions, enabling users to secure AI agent operations.
New Funding Raised: $35M, Series A
Round Investors: Conviction (lead), Cyberstarts (lead), Cyberstarts
🚀Growth Focus: Relocate its HQ from Tel Aviv to NYC and accelerate US GTM; scale its R&D investment toward multi-agent mesh governance, cross-cloud policy federation, and adversarial attack simulation; grow strategic partnerships embedding natively within agent frameworks and enterprise platforms.
Press: gmacouncil.org, SiliconANGLE
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 70
Qurrent has developed an AI-based framework platform that uses agents to build complex software with optional human supervision, enabling businesses to integrate AI efficiently and scale.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Cervin Ventures (lead), Streamlined
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate enterprise expansion and further develop its platform capabilities.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 39
Unitas operates a decentralized financial infrastructure that provides stable yield generation through crypto-based instruments, enabling users to access consistent returns with minimized exposure to market volatility.
New Funding Raised: $13.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Taisu Ventures, Amber Group, Blockchain Builders Fund, Awaken Finance
🚀Growth Focus: Revolutionize yield-bearing assets and scale its stablecoin posture.
Press: MEXC, CryptoRank
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Blockchain Services
Employee Count: 5
Handle’s AI insurance platform offers automated drafts and custom workflows, organizational labels, contact categories, and administrative dashboards, enabling insurance professionals to enhance operations efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz
🚀Growth Focus: Launch in Mexico as part of its North American expansion.
Press: LatamList, Startup Researcher
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 10
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Nyne.ai develops a data intelligence platform that identifies real-time buying signals and life events tied to verified individuals, enabling sales and marketing teams to reach accurately matched prospects with timely context for improved outreach effectiveness.
New Funding Raised: $5.3M, Seed
Round Investors: South Park Commons (lead), Wischoff Ventures (lead), Gil Elbaz, Bain Capital Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Solve the critical human context problem for AI agents.
Press: TechCrunch, The Tech Buzz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
HURRAY'S GIRL BEER produces flavored light beers for easy drinking and low-calorie consumption purposes, enabling beer drinkers seeking lighter, fruit-infused alternatives to access approachable, flavorful options that emphasize simplicity and novelty.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Lakehouse Ventures (lead), Spice Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Pulse 2.0, PR Newswire
Press: Accelerate national retail expansion.
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Food and Beverage Retail
Employee Count: 20
Taya develops personalized jewelry products, enabling customers to capture and preserve meaningful memories through wearable keepsakes.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Corteva Catalyst (lead), Forbion Capital Partners (lead), Just Climate, ABN AMRO Bank
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its innovative AI necklace.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 10
General Tensor develops a blockchain platform and data-center infrastructure that supports decentralized AI computing, blockchain validation, and high-performance AI mining, enabling investors, traders, and AI professionals to access scalable compute and AI-driven applications.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Good Morning (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its validator operations, accelerate the development of high-performance subnet infrastructure, and scale a suite of consumer-facing decentralized finance applications.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 4
🌍 EMEA
Tropic Biosciences develops gene editing technology that promotes cultivation efficiencies and meets growing food demand, enabling farmers to get organic crops and meet unmet demands.
New Funding Raised: $105M, Series C
Round Investors: Corteva Catalyst (lead), Forbion Capital Partners (lead), Just Climate, ABN AMRO Bank
🚀Growth Focus: Scale gene-edited banana production.
Press: Startup Researcher, AgFunderNews
HQ: Colney, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 152
Wonderful operates an AI-based software platform that automates and manages digital advertising campaigns, enabling businesses to manage and optimize online marketing campaigns across advertising channels.
New Funding Raised: $150M, Series B
Round Investors: Insight Partners (lead), IVP, Vine Ventures, Index Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale operations to more countries globally and triple its headcount, with a focus on its forward-deployed engineering teams.
Press: TechCrunch, Ventureburn
HQ: Tel Aviv, Israel
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 345
Qdrant develops a vector similarity search technology that powers the next generation of AI applications, enabling clients to have wider adoption and reduced resources and costs.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series B
Round Investors: AVP (lead), Bosch Ventures, 42CAP, Unusual Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Define composable vector search as core infrastructure for production AI.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 22
Living Models operates AI-based computational models that optimize plant traits and crop performance prediction, enabling agricultural research and development teams to accelerate trait discovery, improve breeding decisions, and simulate real-world crop outcomes for faster and more precise innovation.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: Artesian VC (lead), Asterion Ventures (lead), GrainCorp (lead), The Galion Project (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Train its next generation of biological AI models.
Press: Tech.eu, iGrow News
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 11
Tower.dev builds Python-based data application management tools that simplify the deployment and optimization of data workflows, enabling data engineers to streamline their data operations, reduce complexity, and increase productivity in handling large-scale data projects.
New Funding Raised: $6.4M, Seed
Round Investors: Speedinvest (lead), Maik Taro Wehmeyer, Flyer One Ventures, Angel Invest
🚀Growth Focus: Operationalize AI-generated data pipelines.
Press: Startup Researcher, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Information Services
Employee Count: 11
Ark Labs operates a cryptocurrency payment service platform that allows bitcoin unspent transaction outputs to be lifted off-chain without relying on additional layers and consensus models, enabling users to benefit from a native, secure bitcoin environment that's free from the constraints of the blockchain.
New Funding Raised: $5.2M, Seed
Round Investors: Tether Ventures (lead), Ralph Ho, Anchorage Digital, Epoch VC
🚀Growth Focus: Build Bitcoin's programmable infrastructure.
Press: KuCoin Exchange, Bitget
HQ: Lugano, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 8
AIRMO’s satellite-based greenhouse gas monitoring platform offers precision, near-real-time satellite data on greenhouse gas emissions, enabling organizations to monitor and cut down their emissions with actionable, accurate, real-time methane insights.
New Funding Raised: €5M, Seed
Round Investors: Ananda Impact Ventures (lead), Matthias Fackler, Desai Ventures, Findus Venture
🚀Growth Focus: Detect greenhouse gas emissions from space.
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Space Research and Technology
Employee Count: 27
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Replit (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC and Foster City (Bay Area) based teams.
Legora (LI) is hiring Mid-Market & Enterprise GTM Managers across the US.
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.
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