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Arc Boats develops battery-electric recreational watercraft for zero-emission performance on lakes and coastal waters, enabling recreational boaters and commercial operators to access quieter operation, reduced maintenance needs, and lower operational emissions.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series C
Round Investors: Eclipse Ventures (lead), Offline Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Necessary Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale the production of its electric watercraft and accelerate the development of its propulsion technology for commercial and defense applications.
Press: TechCrunch, Startup Researcher
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Shipbuilding
Employee Count: 238
Cloaked develops personalized privacy software that creates unlimited identities and privacy protection for online and travel, allowing users to eliminate the pressure to share personal info online and in-person.
New Funding Raised: $375M, Series B
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Liberty City Ventures (lead), NFL Players Association, LG Technology Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support its mission to make data privacy the default and accelerate the development of AI-driven protections.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Lowell, MA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 92
Bluesky is a social platform for open and decentralized public conversation, enabling users to get control of the social experience.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: Bain Capital Crypto (lead), Knight Foundation, Bloomberg Beta, Alumni Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Further its mission of building an Open Social Web, scaling engineering and R&D, expanding its safety & moderation efforts, and providing ecosystem grants to its network of developers.
Press: Ventureburn, TechCrunch
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 76
Paraform develops a recruiting platform that connects companies with specialized recruiters, allowing individuals to find jobs through a digital portal at desired startups and companies.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: Scale Venture Partners (lead), Felicis, Liquid 2 Ventures, A*
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its internal team, accelerate its product roadmap, and expand its global network of both hiring companies and independent recruiters.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Internet Marketplace Platforms
Employee Count: 71
Latent builds a clinical automation platform that automates prior authorization processes and reduces administrative burden in medication access, enabling healthcare providers to manage pharmacy-related workflows, ensuring timely access to prescribed treatments.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series A
Round Investors: Spark Capital (lead), Transformation Capital (lead), Y Combinator, McKesson Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its health system footprint and deepen the platform connecting hospitals, payers, pharmacies, and patients.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 71
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Deeptune develops a simulation platform for the reinforcement learning and benchmarking of autonomous AI agents, allowing users to develop and refine agentic models for coding and data management in realistic workplace scenarios.
New Funding Raised: $43M, Series A
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Abstract, Noam Brown, Seven Seven Six
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering and operations teams to accelerate its mission of building the simulation infrastructure necessary to bridge the gap between AI model intelligence and real-world task execution.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Research Services
Employee Count: 14
Corridor develops an AI-powered secure coding platform, enabling development teams to prevent vulnerabilities during the software creation process.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: Felicis (lead), Lovable, Sunflower Capital, Artisanal Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its ACSM capabilities, expand AI development integrations, support customer demand, and continue to grow its team of engineers, researchers, and cybersecurity experts.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 22
Avtal develops digital debt-collection software for use by third-party agencies, allowing collection agencies to manage accounts more efficiently and improve recovery outcomes without expanding staff.
New Funding Raised: $24M, Series A
Round Investors: S3 Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering team and accelerate development of its platform, which helps collection agencies engage consumers through digital channels while maintaining strict compliance with consumer protection regulations.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 24
Carecubes provides a medical-grade isolation technology that offers a PVC canopy, enabling care workers to enter the negative-pressure patient area safely.
New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Schooner Capital, William A. Hawkins, Mark Bertolini, Betsy Cohen
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its R&D efforts.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: St Paul, MN
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 13
Claros operates a power management company that makes AI more sustainable and widely available, allowing users to decrease energy consumption, optimize power delivery, increase computing performance, and maximize the efficiency of AI operations.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Seed
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Red Cell Partners (lead), Systemiq capital, Trenches Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its lab, grow the team, continue prototyping IVR and Power Gateway, and begin its first manufacturing runs, all in its effort to minimize energy waste while enabling greater productivity, cost savings, and more efficient power consumption in American data centers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Mclean, VA
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 35
Anori develops an AI-native intelligence platform that accelerates and improves collaborative city planning and building development worldwide, enabling users to make faster, smarter and transparent decisions across the building lifecycle, reducing costly redesigns, expediting approvals and ensuring resilient, community-focused development.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Seed
Round Investors: Builders VC (lead), Prologis (lead), Series X Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support to transform building approval processes.
Press: Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch
HQ: San Mateo, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 50
Hosted·AI develops infrastructure management software for operating GPU-based cloud and AI workloads, allowing cloud and hosting service providers to increase GPU utilization, lower capital expenditure, and improve long-term return on infrastructure investments.
New Funding Raised: $19M, Seed
Round Investors: Creandum (lead), Tekton Ventures, Hersir Ventures, People Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its mission of making AI infrastructure more efficient, accessible, and cost-effective for service providers, developers, and enterprises.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Jose, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 34
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Parallel develops administrative automation solutions for hospitals, enabling healthcare providers to reduce operational costs and free up staff time for patient care.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Y Combinator, Quentin de Metz, Hexa
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the rollout of its existing coding agents, expand internationally, develop new solutions to automate time-intensive hospital processes, and expand its team.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 11
Flexzo AI operates an AI-powered staffing platform that streamlines healthcare recruitment and compliance processes, allowing hospitals to eliminate inefficiencies, reduce costs, and improve patient care through technology.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Series A
Round Investors: Octopus Ventures (lead), Fuel Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued adoption across NHS Trusts and accelerate expansion in the United States.
Press: Ventureburn, Startup Researcher
HQ: Milton Keynes, England
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 46
games2gether develops a gamified community management platform, enabling brands to engage users, streamline interactions, and build loyal communities.
New Funding Raised: €4.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Griffin Gaming Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate expansion across France and Europe, strengthen indirect sales channels, and enhance predictive AI features to anticipate SaaS drift.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 19
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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