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Frore Systems develops thermal management chips for removing heat from compact electronic and AI devices to enhance sustained processor performance, enabling consumer electronics and edge and data center AI system manufacturers to unlock full processor capabilities and prevent thermal throttling.
New Funding Raised: $143M, Series D
Round Investors: MVP Ventures (lead), Addition, Top Tier Capital Partners, Qualcomm Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate global deployment of its cooling platforms across data centers and edge computing environments as demand for AI infrastructure continues to surge.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: San Jose, CA
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 79
Unnatural Products’s computational biology techniques platform engineers peptides that access traditionally undruggable targets, enabling researchers to accelerate the drug discovery process.
New Funding Raised: $45M, Series B
Round Investors: The Venture Collective (lead), Artis Ventures, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, First Spark Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of its proprietary drug discovery platform and advance its pipeline of macrocyclic peptide therapeutics designed to address historically difficult-to-drug or undruggable targets.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Startup Researcher
HQ: Santa Cruz, CA
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 65
AgZen operates an agricultural spraying optimization system that improves the efficiency and outcomes of foliar chemical applications, allowing growers in the agriculture market to lower input costs while improving crop performance and profitability.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series B
Round Investors: DCVC Bio (lead), Material Impact, Astanor Ventures, Syngenta Group Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development after selling out its 2026 production allocation.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Somerville, MA
Industry: Farming
Employee Count: 34
Fuse develops a loan origination system that streamlines and automates the lending process, allowing banks, credit unions, and fintechs to enhance operational efficiency and improve borrower experiences.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: Footwork (lead), NextView Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Primary Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support to modernize loan origination with AI.
Press: Business Wire, TechCrunch
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 84
Halcyon develops an AI-powered energy data platform, enabling users to easily search, analyze, and interpret energy-related information.
New Funding Raised: $21M, Series A
Round Investors: Energize Capital (lead), Sabanci Climate Ventures, Obvious Ventures, Zero Infinity Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission of becoming a system of action for the global energy industry by expanding its software capabilities, strengthening its data advantage, and scaling to meet growing demand from energy investors, developers, and operators.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 42
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IRONLIGHT Group’s blockchain finance platform provides decentralized financial services through tokenized securities, allowing public and private fund managers to create efficient and compliant product offerings and customized smart contracts.
New Funding Raised: $21M, Series A
Round Investors: Sei Development Foundation, Greg Braca, Laidlaw & Company
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its ATS, which integrates issuance, distribution, and trading, and Ironlight Technologies, which provides the platform and settlement options for tokenized securities.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 18
Great Sky builds computing hardware technology that eliminates data bottlenecks, augmenting silicon microelectronics with superconducting circuits and leveraging light instead of electricity for communication, enabling architectures to get a scalable approach to profound general intelligence.
New Funding Raised: $14M, Seed
Round Investors: Bison Ventures (lead), Ivan Vendrov, Harry Gandhi, Adam Pritzker
🚀Growth Focus: Support further development of its AI-native hardware platform and commercialization across sectors, including defense, energy, and large-scale AI infrastructure.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Boulder, CO
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 10
Rasa Legal develops a tech-powered record clearance platform that provides accessible and affordable tools to clear criminal records and unlock a second chance, allowing users and users to navigate complex legal systems, overcome financial barriers, and build brighter futures. prices.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Rethink Education (lead), Richard King Mellon Foundation, Social Finance, Halogen Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its leadership team, accelerate product development, and scale its affordable criminal record sealing and expungement services across America.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Salt Lake City, UT
Industry: Legal Services
Employee Count: 18
Rebel Audio develops a podcasting technology platform that streamlines podcast and social media content, allowing content creators to focus on workflow automation, multichannel content creation, traffic generation, and high-fidelity audio.
New Funding Raised: $3.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Launch Tennessee, Armin Tehrany, Benjamin Lurie, Richard Firshein
🚀Growth Focus: Support for an AI-powered podcast creation platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Nashville, TN
Industry: Online Audio and Video Media
Employee Count: 1
Dodge AI develops AI agents for ERP maintenance, enabling organizations to automate legacy system management and reduce reliance on external dependencies.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Google AI Futures Fund (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: TechCrunch, Indiatimes
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
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Ternary Therapeutics operates an AI-driven drug discovery platform for molecular glue therapeutics, allowing the healthcare industry to reduce drug discovery timelines and increase success rates for immunological disorders.
New Funding Raised: £3.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Daphni (lead), i&i Biotech Fund, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund, Pace Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its computational and laboratory teams and advance lead programmes towards preclinical development.
Press: EU-Startups, UKTN
HQ: London, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 12
Loxa develops a product protection insurance platform for retailers and manufacturers, enabling businesses to embed insurance at the point of sale.
New Funding Raised: £2.7M, Seed
Round Investors: Lazaroo-Hood Group (lead), Entrepreneurs Collective, FundMyPitch, Angel Investment Network
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its insurance solution, which embeds accidental damage protection at the point of purchase.
Press: Furniture News, businesscloud.co.uk
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 27
WhiteBridge AI develops an AI-powered people search platform that analyzes individuals' public digital footprints and online reputation, allowing users and businesses to verify identities, conduct due diligence, and gain contextual insights before personal or professional interactions.
New Funding Raised: €2.6M, Seed
Round Investors: FIRSTPICK (lead), Necto Labs, BADideas.fund, NGL
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the number of data sources integrated into the platform, improve verification and data accuracy features, and accelerate development of its AI-powered people search engine.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania
Industry: Data Security Software Products
Employee Count: 23
Endform develops an automated testing infrastructure for accelerating end-to-end test execution, enabling software developers to focus more on shipping code and less on waiting for test re-runs, thereby enhancing productivity and code quality.
New Funding Raised: €1.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Alliance VC (lead), Antler (lead), First Fellow Partners (lead), Greens Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its core team and support further growth as it targets the quality assurance infrastructure market, which faces increased demand as AI-assisted development accelerates software iteration.
Press: TNW | The heart of tech, Dealroom
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 2
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⭐️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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