ORAN Development Company develops an AI-optimized Open Radio Access Network platform that enhances next-generation wireless systems and accelerates the transition from 5G to 6G networks, allowing users to deploy flexible, scalable, and cost-efficient mobile networks with real-time intelligence at the edge.

New Funding Raised: $45M, Series A

Round Investors: MTN Group, Phoenix Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, Cerberus Capital Management

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its deployment of an AI-native open-architecture platform unifying communication, sensing, and edge intelligence.

Press: PR Newswire, citybiz

HQ: Virginia, MN

Industry: Telecommunications

Employee Count: 12

Blossom Health operates an online mental healthcare platform that connects users with psychiatric providers, enabling individuals to receive care that is both affordable and accessible.

New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A

Round Investors: Headline (lead), TA Ventures, Village Global, Correlation Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand access to mental healthcare and accelerate development of its applied AI technology.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 39

XFX develops a cross-border transaction platform that streamlines international settlement through real-time execution, allowing financial institutions and global businesses to move funds efficiently and reduce capital lock-up.

New Funding Raised: $17M, Series A

Round Investors: Castle Island Ventures (lead), Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its core operations by growing its quantitative team and deepening relationships with trading desks and banks.

Press: Yahoo Finance UK, Bitget

HQ: Saugerties, NY

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 10

Scalvy’s modular power electronics platform delivers grid-interactive power across distributed energy loads, enabling data centres, energy storage operators, and electric mobility providers to reduce hardware footprint and improve efficiency and reliability as power demand scales.

New Funding Raised: $13.9M, Series A

Round Investors: Silicon Badia (lead), Azolla Ventures, SkyRiver Ventures, Climate Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate certification, field testing, and deployment of its platform across AI data centers, energy storage, and electric mobility, while supporting rapid team expansion to meet rising customer demand.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Austin, TX

Industry: Embedded Software Products

Employee Count: 31

Trayd develops a construction payroll platform for same-day pay and attendance capture, allowing users to receive hassle-free, industry-specific payroll services.

New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A

Round Investors: White Star Capital (lead), Suffolk Technologies, Y Combinator, RXR Realty

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its product development and national expansion.

Press: GlobeNewswire, Startup Researcher

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Construction

Employee Count: 32

Helix Earth Technologies operates a filtration technology that saves on air conditioning energy costs, enabling commercial buildings and industrial facilities to maintain a healthy indoor environment and improve sustainability.

New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed

Round Investors: Veriten (lead), Carnrite Ventures, Textbook Ventures, Rua Growth Fund

🚀Growth Focus: Scale manufacturing and accelerate deployment of its first commercial product, targeting a significant portion of the $150 billion global commercial air conditioning market.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: Houston, TX

Industry: Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing

Employee Count: 24

Neion Bio’s biomanufacturing platform produces biological medicines using re-engineered protein systems, allowing biopharmaceutical and animal health companies to manufacture biological molecules with improved scalability, consistency, and cost efficiency.

New Funding Raised: $11M, Seed

Round Investors: Caffeinated Capital (lead), Haystack, Basis Set Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.

Press: Business Wire, FinSMEs

HQ: Yorkshire, NY

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 50

Krane develops enterprise software that integrates supply chains across companies to manage large-scale projects, enabling users to set the industry up for success by changing the way materials are ordered and managed on-site.

New Funding Raised: $9M, Seed

Round Investors: Glasswing Ventures (lead), Link Ventures (lead), New Normal Ventures, Rosecliff Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product roadmap execution and enterprise deployment expansion.

Press: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Construction

Employee Count: 32

Applied Atomics, Inc. develops a modular nuclear power generation infrastructure that provides firm, clean, co-located electricity capacity, allowing hyperscale computing operators, utilities, and industrial energy users to access abundant, reliable, low-carbon baseload power tailored to growth needs.

New Funding Raised: $8.3M, Seed

Round Investors: Morpheus Ventures (lead), Transition (lead), Acequia Capital (AceCap), Alpaca VC

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering, product, and deployment teams, scaling the internal execution capacity required to design, build, and operate its first nuclear power plants.

Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Anchorage, AK

Industry: Nuclear Electric Power Generation

Employee Count: 7

Arinna builds lightweight and flexible solar panel technology that improves power generation in space-constrained and mobile environments, enabling improved energy performance where conventional panels are limited by weight, form factor, and performance.

New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed

Round Investors: Spacecadet Ventures (lead), Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Anorak Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Develop a new generation of solar technology for spacecraft.

Press: Startup Researcher, TechCrunch

HQ: South San Francisco, CA

Industry: Space Research and Technology

Employee Count: 8

DRONUS develops industrial drone solutions, allowing enterprises to deploy advanced aerial systems for inspection, monitoring, and operational efficiency.

New Funding Raised: €15M, Series A

Round Investors: Algebris Investments (lead), Azimut Digitech Fund, Eni Next, SIMEST

🚀Growth Focus: Further develop its proprietary technology and expand its market position in Europe and beyond.

Press: startbase.com, Startupbusiness.it

HQ: Trieste, Italy

Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing

Employee Count: 28

Cauldron Ferm develops precision fermentation-based biomanufacturing processes that improve the cost efficiency and scalability of industrial production, enabling industrial manufacturers to achieve lower-cost commercial-scale bioproduction.

New Funding Raised: $13.25M, Series A

Round Investors: Main Sequence Ventures (lead), SOSV, NGS Super, Horizons Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Scale its proprietary hyper-fermentation technology, a continuous production platform designed to make bio-based products cost-competitive at an industrial scale.

Press: Business Wire, Startup Researcher

HQ: Orange, Australia

Industry: Manufacturing

Employee Count: 19

PAVE Space develops orbital transfer and propulsion systems, allowing rapid last-mile satellite delivery and repositioning across orbits.

New Funding Raised: $40M, Seed

Round Investors: Creandum (lead), Visionaries Club (lead), b2venture, Ilavska Vuillermoz Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Develop a new generation of spacecraft designed to move satellites rapidly between orbits.

Press: Startup Researcher, Tech.eu

HQ: Crissier, Switzerland

Industry: Space Research and Technology

Employee Count: 31

Cellbricks Therapeutics’s bio-fabrication platform addresses the global challenge of organ shortage and the need for improved in-vitro models, enabling medical researchers to provide patients with improved clinical treatments.

New Funding Raised: €7M, Seed

Round Investors: Silicon Roundabout Ventures (lead), ACT Venture Partners, SPRIN-D

🚀Growth Focus: Enable the next stage of translational development for its biofabricated human tissue implants.

Press: GlobeNewswire, Tech.eu

HQ: Berlin, Germany

Industry: Biotechnology

Employee Count: 30