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🌎 Americas
Valar Atomics operates an atomic energy company that creates abundant and cheap gas out of thin air using atomic energy, enabling industries to take advantage of energy density and existing infrastructure to get energy.
New Funding Raised: $340M, Series B
Round Investors: Palmer Luckey, Shyam Sankar
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission of applying nuclear power as a solution to rising global electricity demand driven by artificial intelligence infrastructure and industrial decarbonization.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Tech Funding News
HQ: El Segundo, CA
Industry: Oil and Gas
Employee Count: 92
Antaris develops a cloud-based software platform for designing, simulating, and operating satellites and space missions, allowing companies and governments to reduce costs, minimize risks, and launch missions fast.
New Funding Raised: $28M, Series A
Round Investors: WestWave Capital (lead), Lockheed Martin Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand partnerships for global satellite manufacturing in regional and sovereign jurisdictions.
HQ: Los Altos, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 31
daydream Labs develops an AI-driven search engine optimization platform that offers product-led, programmatic, editorial, and generative engine optimization strategy and execution, enabling startups with increased online visibility.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: WndrCo (lead), Basis Set Ventures, First Round Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate hiring, product development, and go-to-market expansion.
Press: The Manila Times, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 30
Cara develops a domain-specific AI platform for insurance, allowing agencies and brokerages to automate servicing, accelerate sales, and scale operations with a digital workforce.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: Kearny Jackson (lead), Kevin Mahaffey, Sam Hodges, Claire Hughes Johnson
🚀Growth Focus: Enhance its insurance-specific AI research and product development, improve integrations with agency management and CRM systems, and team growth.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 21
Kulipa’s API-as-a-service platform for seamless integration and to bring mainstream payment into the platform, enabling users to supercharge crypto wallets from payment to checkout.
New Funding Raised: $6.2M, Seed
Round Investors: 1kx (lead), Flourish Ventures (lead), Fabric Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its regulated issuing capabilities across Europe, Latin America, and Africa.
Press: Startup Researcher, Businessday NG
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 27
Openbox.ai develops AI governance infrastructure focusing on execution-time enforcement, with features like real-time audit trails, cryptographic attestation, human oversight for critical decisions, and adaptive risk scoring.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Tykhe Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and growth.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 12
TippingPoint Biosciences operates a drug discovery company that identifies treatments for diseases caused by defects in DNA packaging, enabling doctors to treat cancers and neurodegenerative diseases and provide stem cell therapies by targeting disease-causing dysfunctional genome packaging.
New Funding Raised: $4.5M, Seed
Round Investors: LKS Fund (lead), SOSV (lead), Sontag Innovation Fund, WECAN - Windsor Essex Capital Angel Network
🚀Growth Focus: Advance a novel drug discovery platform focused on previously undruggable epigenetic targets.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 7
Nexus develops an AI agent platform, allowing business teams to build and deploy reliable autonomous agents for operational workflows.
New Funding Raised: $4.3M, Seed
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Transpose Platform Management, Gokul Rajaram, TwentyTwo VC
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform aimed at letting business teams launch autonomous agents without relying heavily on internal engineering resources.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Startup Researcher
HQ: Wilmington, DE
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 9
Numos develops AI-powered workflow automation tools that streamline financial operations and enhance decision-making in finance organizations, enabling finance professionals in mid to large-sized organizations to improve operational efficiency, reduce manual workload, and make more informed strategic decisions.
New Funding Raised: $4.25M, Seed
Round Investors: General Catalys (lead), Operator Collective
🚀Growth Focus: Expand engineering operations and its development efforts, as well as its business reach.
Press: Business Wire, FinSMEs
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 13
Rowan’s business succession platform simplifies the process of selling businesses, allowing business owners to connect with ideal buyers efficiently while maximizing value.
New Funding Raised: $3.3M, Seed
Round Investors: DRW (lead), Eddie Lou, Motivate Venture Capital, Mercury
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its technology and expand support for business owners preparing for ownership transitions.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 19
Nomad develops an AI-powered freight management platform, enabling small and mid-sized fleets to optimize fuel usage, reduce costs, and scale operations efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and expand its market presence as it builds what it describes as an AI operating system for the North American trucking industry.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 21
Audicin develops a digital stress management platform that improves well-being, allowing users to experience a variety of benefits, including reduced stress, improved sleep, and increased productivity.
New Funding Raised: $1.9M, Seed
Round Investors: Petteri Lahtela, Virpi Tuomivaara
🚀Growth Focus: Support to develop audio treatments for nervous system overstimulation.
Press: EU-Startups, Startup Networks
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Mental Health Care
Employee Count: 17
🌍 EMEA
Generare operates a biotechnology company that discovers novel drug leads of microbial origins, enabling pharmaceutical companies and research institutions to access molecules that offer novel modes of action for drug development.
New Funding Raised: €20M, Series A
Round Investors: Alven (lead), Daphni (lead), Galion.exe, VIVES Funds
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for generating novel molecular data, supporting the development of new compounds for drug discovery, and scaling its dataset and research capabilities.
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 32
Covalo operates an online marketplace for the personal care product manufacturing industry, allowing suppliers to grow sales and brands to boost product development.
New Funding Raised: €3.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Hi Inov - Dentressangle (lead), seed + speed Ventures, HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for managing ingredient data, supporting more efficient data exchange and regulatory workflows across the personal care industry.
Press: EU-Startups, Tech.eu
HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 28
Brickken develops a decentralized application using blockchain technology that allows anyone to tokenize without intermediaries, enabling investors to comply as much as possible and in a barrier-free manner, creating a frictionless process for any type of investor.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: GRX, Deda Group, Hodl, Ergodic Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its tokenisation platform to support financial institutions in managing real-world assets on-chain, strengthening its regulatory capabilities, and scaling operations to meet growing institutional demand.
HQ: Barcelona, Spain
Industry: Blockchain Services
Employee Count: 44
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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