ScaleOps develops an optimization platform that dynamically manages cloud resources in real-time, enabling engineering teams to reduce cloud expenses, maintain workload performance, and eliminate manual tuning efforts.

New Funding Raised: $130M, Series C

Round Investors: Insight Partners (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Picture Capital, NFX

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its product roadmap, expanding autonomous management across the full spectrum of AI and cloud infrastructure, and offering new features and products, expanding its global enterprise presence, and scaling its engineering and go-to-market teams.

Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 121

Starcloud develops power and cooling systems that create cost-competitive, sustainable, and rapidly scalable data centers in space, allowing users to build critical infrastructure for the future and avoid permitting constraints on Earth.

New Funding Raised: $170M, Series A

Round Investors: Benchmark (lead), EQT (lead), Seven Seven Six, Taurus Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the design and build of its next-generation Starcloud-3 satellites, the establishment of a dedicated manufacturing facility, critical headcount expansion, and the procurement of future launch contracts.

Press: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE

HQ: Redmond, WA

Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

Employee Count: 30

Nopalera manufactures Mexican botanical products for personal body care, enabling users to get beauty products with organic ingredients.

New Funding Raised: $4M, Series A

Round Investors: L'ATTITUDE Ventures (lead), Morgan Stanley Next Level Fund (lead), Sixty8 Capital, Siddhi Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its retail footprint and broaden its product offerings as it continues to scale its presence in the global beauty market.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: San Antonio, TX

Industry: Personal Care Product Manufacturing

Employee Count: 37

Sycamore develops an AI agent operating system, allowing enterprises to build, deploy, and orchestrate autonomous agents with security, oversight, and continuous organizational learning.

New Funding Raised: $65M, Seed

Round Investors: Coatue (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Abstract Ventures, Dell Technologies Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Expand engineering and applied AI teams, deepen enterprise deployments, and advance research in trust architectures, memory systems, and multi-agent coordination.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: Palo Alto, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 50

The Sentience Company’s personal AI platform captures and organizes an individual's digital memory and decision-making patterns, enabling individuals and teams to access information, share knowledge, and perform actions while maintaining data ownership.

New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Bain Capital Ventures (lead), Soleio‎, South Park Commons, Annie Case

🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.

Press: Business Wire, 01net

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 6

Conduit develops a dock management platform that helps shippers and warehouse teams, allowing businesses to understand how much labor to plan for each day, make adjustments on the fly, and keep everyone informed.

New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed

Round Investors: Innovation Endeavors (lead), Y Combinator

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission to replace manual shipping and receiving systems with AI-powered workflows.

Press: PR Newswire, Startup Researcher

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Storage

Employee Count: 20

Virchow Medical develops a precision diagnostics and biopsy-based specimen management system that improves the collection, handling, and analysis of clinical samples for medical research and patient care, enabling pathologists, oncologists, clinical laboratories, and research organizations to enhance accuracy, traceability, and efficiency in diagnostic and genomic testing workflows.

New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed

Round Investors: Cerberus Ventures (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Advance biopsy specimen stewardship and expand access to precision oncology.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: San Diego, CA

Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing

Employee Count: 7

Mandel AI builds an AI-powered supply chain coordination platform that automates procurement communication and order tracking, allowing businesses to improve supply chain visibility, prevent disruptions, and streamline procurement operations.

New Funding Raised: $3.9M, Seed

Round Investors: Ritual Capital, Category Ventures, Y Combinator, e2vc

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and expand its reach in a market ripe for disruption.

Press: Startup Researcher, Tech.eu

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 12

Stratum Biosciences’s AI-based molecular design platform develops skin therapies, enabling users with skin conditions and dermatologists to come up with skin therapies without disturbing skin barriers.

New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed

Round Investors: Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater NY (lead), Skin Angels

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its AI-powered skin biology discovery platform and expand research and development partnerships.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 12

CurrentClient develops a compliant communication platform that streamlines user interactions for financial advisors, allowing wealth management firms, insurance advisors, and financial services teams to communicate efficiently, maintain regulatory compliance, and enhance client relationships.

New Funding Raised: $1.25M, Seed

Round Investors: Thicket Ventures (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its growth as it looks to expand its reach among financial advisors seeking to reduce compliance risk and modernize the client experience.

Press: GlobeNewswire, The Manila Times

HQ: Salt Lake City, UT

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 5

SIGMAS operates a fitness apparel product, enabling consumers to access performance-focused athletic wear.

New Funding Raised: $1M, Seed

Round Investors: HongShan (lead), Mucker Capital (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations, accelerate product development, and scale its direct-to-consumer strategy.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Los Angeles, CA

Industry: Retail Apparel and Fashion

Employee Count: 19

Incirt develops ultra-high-speed, low-power data converters that improve wireless communication and radar performance, allowing manufacturers of wireless chipsets and digital radar devices to improve energy efficiency and compact designs.

New Funding Raised: €4.8M, Seed

Round Investors: Lifeline Ventures (lead), HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)

🚀Growth Focus: Advance product development, validate its technology, and prepare initial customer projects and market entry, while supporting commercialization and contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty.

Press: EU-Startups, Tech.eu

HQ: Aachen, Germany

Industry: Telecommunications

Employee Count: 18

Nature Robots develops a robotics platform that powers AI-based autonomous farming, enabling agricultural machinery manufacturers to improve operational efficiency and adaptability across diverse farming practices.

New Funding Raised: €4M, Seed

Round Investors: Climentum Capital (lead), Marc Matthaeus, Bayern Kapital, Dirk Fehse

🚀Growth Focus: Scale its modular autonomy software for agricultural machinery, expand its team, and establish an additional location in Munich.

Press: EU-Startups, Tech Funding News

HQ: Osnabrück, Germany

Industry: Robotics Engineering

Employee Count: 13

Galtea’s AI evaluation platform enhances the reliability, security, and compliance of AI systems, allowing companies to understand their performance in these dimensions when using generative AI for processes or end-user interactions.

New Funding Raised: $3.2M, Seed

Round Investors: 42CAP (lead), Mozilla Ventures, JME Ventures, Masia.vc

🚀Growth Focus: Further develop its platform for generating high-quality, use case-specific test scenarios for generative AI agents.

Press: Startup Researcher, EU-Startups

HQ: Barcelona, Spain

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 13

SolidWatts develops radio frequency heating technology that electrifies industrial heating processes, enabling industrial manufacturers and equipment integrators to replace fossil fuel-based heating and improve process performance.

New Funding Raised: CHF1.8M, Seed

Round Investors: Uni.Fund, Kickfund, Evercurious VC, Almanac Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development and market launch of its industrial heating technology.

Press: Startup Rise EU, EU-Startups

HQ: Pully, Switzerland

Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing

Employee Count: 10