NoTraffic develops an autonomous traffic management platform that reduces traffic congestion, enabling users to identify, categorize, and predict buses, cyclists, electric scooters, and pedestrians from the time of arrival at an intersection, improving road safety in real-time.

New Funding Raised: $90M, Series C

Round Investors: PSG Equity (lead), Meitav Investment House, M&G Investments, LifeX Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Scale deployments, expand product offerings, and further develop its software-based mobility applications as cities increasingly look for flexible, scalable solutions to modern transportation challenges.

Press: Yahoo Finance, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Overland Park, KS

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 23

Spade operates a card transaction infrastructure that creates applications, mission-critical systems, and access-rich data without investing in data cleaning, allowing card issuers, anti-fraud providers, and fintech users to use this data to increase authorization rates, prevent fraud, and build more innovative features.

New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B

Round Investors: Oak HC/FT (lead), Gradient, Flourish Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate platform capabilities, expand the team, and meet growing demand from financial institutions and fintechs that rely on its foundational enhanced transaction data to power AI initiatives.

Press: Business Wire, FinTech Global

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Financial Services

Employee Count: 33

Gilgamesh Pharmaceuticals develops novel chemical entities that transform the treatment of psychiatric disorders through rapid-acting and durable therapies, enabling patients with depression, anxiety, and substance use disorders to achieve faster relief and sustained therapeutic effects.

New Funding Raised: $60M, Series A

Round Investors: Satori Capital (lead), Prime Movers Lab

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its portfolio of novel neuropsychiatric drug candidates, all structured as new chemical entities with composition-of-matter protection, and expand its discovery platform.

Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Employee Count: 37

Highlight provides desktop-based AI assistants for productivity enhancement and contextual task support, allowing knowledge workers and students to streamline workflows, capture relevant information, and interact with multiple AI models through a unified interface.

New Funding Raised: $40M, Series A

Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead), General Catalyst, Collaborative Fund, 359 Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Support to double its headcount, focusing on hiring engineers, operators, and marketers in San Francisco to accelerate product development and go-to-market efforts.

Press: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 12

Worth AI develops a patent-pending platform that offers risk management and business valuation expertise, enabling banks, credit unions, fintech, and financial service providers to accelerate approvals for business loans and lines of credit.

New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A

Round Investors: Fulcrum Equity Partners (lead), TTV Capital, Amex Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Refine its existing technology, introduce Know Your Agent frameworks, and deploy new product updates, such as its Decision Intelligence.

Press: GlobeNewswire, FinTech Global

HQ: Orlando, FL

Industry: Financial Services

Employee Count: 64

Pro Padel League operates a sports league that generates nationwide awareness and excitement for padel sports, providing players and fans with a new platform that showcases padel and grows participation in the sport.

New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A

Round Investors: Rick Schnall (lead), Left Lane Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Support the next phase of its growth, with a focus on team infrastructure, player development across all levels of the sport, and executing world-class PPL events throughout North America.

Press: Yahoo Finance Singapore, CNBC

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Spectator Sports

Employee Count: 16

Ateios manufactures conformal energy batteries for medical wearables, enabling electronics manufacturers to integrate flexible batteries to create ergonomic, compact, and efficient products.

New Funding Raised: $7.25M, Series A

Round Investors: TitletownTech (lead), Stonecast Ventures, ZAKA VC, Keshif Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand commercial engagements with battery manufacturers, increase production capacity, and support its move towards gigawatt-hour production.

Press: Cincinnati Enquirer, TAMradar

HQ: Newberry, IN

Industry: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing

Employee Count: 10

LittleBird develops AI-based information analysis software for data aggregation and insight generation purposes, allowing enterprises and research-driven markets to derive actionable insights and improve decision-making efficiency.

New Funding Raised: $11M, Seed

Round Investors: Lotus Studio (lead), Gokul Rajaram, Scott Belsky, Lenny Rachitsky

🚀Growth Focus: Develop an AI-powered “recall” tool that captures context directly from a user’s computer, enabling it to query digital activity seamlessly.

Press: Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 30

Rybodyn develops front-running scientific breakthroughs that develop upgraded medicines, enabling individuals to get treated for terminal diseases and ailments.

New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed

Round Investors: Not Disclosed

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its transition from foundational discovery into scaled platform execution and progress early-stage programs into IND-enabling studies. 

Press: PR Newswire, TNGlobal

HQ: San Diego, CA

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 14

Zalos’s computer agent platform automates repetitive finance tasks within established financial environments, allowing enterprise finance teams to reduce manual work and maintain operational accuracy.

New Funding Raised: $3.6M, Seed

Round Investors: 14Peaks Capital (lead), Ian Sutherland, Harry Stebbings, Mike Lenz

🚀Growth Focus: Develop ERP computer agents that operate finance systems like humans.

Press: SiliconANGLE, Tech Funding News

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 10

CisLunar Industries develops a critical power infrastructure for space to leverage a modular, adaptable core design, enabling users to reduce wait time and non-recurring engineering costs, increase resilience and efficiency, and free up spacecraft capacity for expanded mission capability.

New Funding Raised: $2.6M, Seed

Round Investors: ONE Funds (lead), Stout Street Capital, Deming Center Venture Fund, RIT Venture Fund I, LLC

🚀Growth Focus: Continue development and expand production of its Electric Power Intelligent Conversion product line for Earth orbit and beyond.

Press: Cincinnati Enquirer, FinSMEs

HQ: Loveland, CO

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Employee Count: 19

Halter develops a livestock management software that monitors, manages, and optimizes pasture-based farming operations, allowing dairy and beef farmers to improve herd management, reduce manual labor, and make informed grazing decisions for productive farm operations.

New Funding Raised: $220M, Series E

Round Investors: Founders Fund (lead), Icehouse Ventures, Promus Ventures, NewView Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global footprint, grow operations in the U.S., New Zealand, and Australia, and enter new markets, including Ireland and the United Kingdom.

Press: Business Wire, Startup Researcher

HQ: Auckland, New Zealand

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 361

Kandou AI operates a semiconductor hardware company that supports the development of scalable and energy-efficient AI systems, enabling users to access compute capacity in a compact, low-cost, and low-energy format.

New Funding Raised: $225M, Series A

Round Investors: Maverick Silicon (lead), Alchip, SoftBank Group, Cadence Design Systems

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its chip and IP portfolio to enable multi-terabit connectivity, manufacturing ramp-up of its high-performance AI connectivity chips, and deepening partnerships with hyperscale and AI infrastructure customers globally.

Press: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs

HQ: Écublens, Switzerland

Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing

Employee Count: 194

Immutrin provides novel antibody treatments for treating systemic and local amyloidosis, allowing healthcare firms to treat a range of amyloidosis-related conditions, including those affecting the heart, kidneys, liver, and nervous system.

New Funding Raised: £65M, Series A

Round Investors: Frazier Life Sciences (lead), Cambridge Innovation Capital, F-Prime, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its lead asset through clinical proof of concept, targeting best-in-class outcomes in ATTR cardiomyopathy with a differentiated antibody that removes pre-existing amyloid deposits and reverses amyloidosis.

Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance Singapore

HQ: Cambridge, England

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 6

LittleFish’s fintech infrastructure platform supports merchant services and payment operations for financial institutions, enabling banks to manage merchant acquisition and expand financial services.

New Funding Raised: $9.5M, Series A

Round Investors: Partech (lead), Flourish Ventures, Proparco, TLcom Capital Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Grow its team, accelerate product development, deepen its footprint in South Africa, and expand into more than ten African markets.

Press: TechCabal, Startup Researcher

HQ: Johannesburg, South Africa

Industry: Financial Services

Employee Count: 30