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🌎 Americas
Censys develops a data-driven security platform that provides comprehensive visibility into the external attack surface, enabling organizations to address security risks and reduce the likelihood of data breaches and other cyber incidents.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series D + $30M, Debt Financing
Round Investors: Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital (lead), Intel Capital, Google Ventures, Greylock
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the expansion of its Internet intelligence platform and advance AI-driven security solutions.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Ann Arbor, MI
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 163
Also develops an integrated technology platform that meets the global mobility transportation challenges, allowing people to take easy rides as compared to traditional transportation options.
New Funding Raised: $200M, Series C
Round Investors: Greenoaks (lead), Prysm Capital, DoorDash
🚀Growth Focus: Support its continued investment in product development, manufacturing, and global deployment of small vehicles.
Press: Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Employee Count: 256
Coder operates a developer workspace platform that centralizes developer creation and management, enabling engineers to work on sensitive source code and data sets while protecting the network.
New Funding Raised: $90M, Series C
Round Investors: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (lead), Qube Research & Technologies, Uncork Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support platform innovation with a focus on supporting enterprise AI workflows and strengthening governance capabilities.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 595
Ambrosia Biosciences operates a metabolic disease biotech company that treats obesity and other metabolic disorders, allowing patients to manage conditions effectively with fewer side effects compared to other traditional medications.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: Blue Owl (lead), Deep Track Capital (lead), Redmile Group (lead), Janus Henderson Investors
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its pipeline of orally delivered small molecule therapies targeting cardiometabolic diseases.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Boulder, CO
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 35
Cognichip develops an AI platform that transforms semiconductor design through physics-informed models, enabling silicon engineers to achieve greater efficiency, accuracy, and speed in the design process.
New Funding Raised: $60M, Series A
Round Investors: Seligman Ventures (lead), Lux Capital, FPV Ventures, Lip-Bu Tan
🚀Growth Focus: Support expanded enterprise deployments and further development of its AI-driven design platform, as it aims to play a central role in re-architecting semiconductor development for the AI era.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Redwood City, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 63
ThinkLabs AI develops an AI platform that supports critical infrastructure in achieving energy autonomy, allowing electric utilities and energy providers to manage grid complexity, improve reliability, and optimize real-time performance.
New Funding Raised: $28M, Series A
Round Investors: Energy Impact Partners (lead), Edison International, Blackhorn Ventures, Active Impact Investments
🚀Growth Focus: Expand customer delivery, enhance its product portfolio focused on AI-powered digital twins and agents, and scale deployment with ecosystem partners.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Utilities
Employee Count: 21
Variance’s data management platform creates, accesses, and manages intent-based signals, enabling businesses to increase productivity and drive growth.
New Funding Raised: $21.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Ten Eleven Ventures (lead), Urban Innovation Fund, 645 Ventures, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform capabilities and scale adoption among organizations facing increasing fraud risks, regulatory pressure, and AI-driven threats.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 15
AvoMD develops a no-code AI-powered clinical workflow platform, allowing healthcare providers to streamline care processes, improve efficiency, and enhance the quality of care across specialties and settings.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A
Round Investors: Noro-Moseley Partners (lead), AlleyCorp, Las Olas Venture Capital, Scrub Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its path to becoming the leading AI platform for healthcare enterprises looking to drive their most pressing initiatives at the point of care.
Press: EIN News, The Providence Journal
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 41
Arcanus Aerial Systems develops unmanned aerial systems and AI-driven sensors, enabling defense and commercial users to gather real-time intelligence and enhance operational awareness.
New Funding Raised: $3.15M, Series A
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate inbound demand from family offices, institutional investors, and advisory channels, and expand testing, certification, and deployment capabilities.
Press: Yahoo! Finance Canada, Newswire Canada
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Employee Count: 3
Jimini Health’s online therapy platform enhances the effectiveness of mental health treatment, allowing individuals to access consistent guidance and reinforce therapeutic progress over time.
New Funding Raised: $17M, Seed
Round Investors: M13 (lead), Town Hall Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, One Mind Accelerator
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its clinician‑supervised AI platform for behavioural health care, underscoring increasing investor interest in safe, clinically anchored AI solutions in mental health.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Ventureburn
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Mental Health Care
Employee Count: 23
Whirl AI develops an AI platform that helps enterprise information technology teams understand and modernize their business processes and core systems, enabling enterprise information technology organizations to research, design, and implement system changes significantly faster than traditional approaches allow.
New Funding Raised: $8.9M, Seed
Round Investors: ICONIQ Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering team, deepen product development, and accelerate deployments with enterprise customers.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 50
Nomadic develops a visual AI platform for physical autonomy, allowing teams to identify critical edge cases from large-scale video data to improve autonomous system performance.
New Funding Raised: $8.4M, Seed
Round Investors: TQ Ventures (lead), Jeff Dean, Pear VC
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its platform and meet the growing demand from robotics teams that have found themselves drowning in data archives.
Press: Startup Researcher, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 8
Latitude develops a cross-border payments and stablecoin infrastructure platform, enabling businesses and fintechs to move funds globally with efficient fiat payouts and seamless crypto on- and off-ramps.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: New Enterprise Associates (lead), Paxos, Faction, Bitso
🚀Growth Focus: Build a new foundation for cross-border money movement.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Spring, TX
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 50
🌍 EMEA
Manna Air Delivery provides drone delivery services that replace road-based delivery, allowing retailers and businesses to reduce delivery times to a fraction of current times and improve the delivery experience for consumers.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series B
Round Investors: ARK Investment Management (lead), Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (lead), Schooner Capital (lead), Molten Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion across the United States and Europe, targeting up to 40 new operational bases.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Storage
Employee Count: 146
Sona builds an AI-powered workforce management platform for frontline industries such as care and hospitality, enabling companies with a real-time view of data across the entire business.
New Funding Raised: $45M, Series B
Round Investors: N47 (lead), Gradient, Felicis, Northzone
🚀Growth Focus: Support its expansion in the United States and accelerate the rollout of its AI-driven platform capabilities.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 187
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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