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🌎 Americas
Monarch Quantum manufactures integrated photonics hardware catering to quantum computing, sensing, and communications developers, enabling quantum hardware developers, research institutions, and industrial technology manufacturers to accelerate development cycles, enhance reliability, and deploy high-performance quantum infrastructure at scale.
New Funding Raised: $55M, Series A
Round Investors: Serendipity Capital (lead), Global Innovation Labs, 55 North
🚀Growth Focus: Expand production capacity, strengthen the supply chain, and build global partnerships as demand for quantum infrastructure grows.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
Employee Count: 60
Insight Health develops an AI agentic platform that automates routine clinical tasks and streamlines healthcare operations, allowing healthcare providers to reduce administrative burden, improve efficiency, and focus on direct patient care.
New Funding Raised: $11M, Series A
Round Investors: Standard Capital (lead), Pear VC, Kindred Ventures, ElevenLabs
🚀Growth Focus: Expand product development and scale partnerships with healthcare providers nationwide.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 25
Moonbounce develops an AI control and governance platform, enabling organizations to enforce real-time, policy-driven behavior across AI systems with consistency and transparency.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed
Round Investors: Amplify Partners (lead), StepStone Group (lead), PrimeSet
🚀Growth Focus: Support to help organizations manage and control AI behavior in real time.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 12
Miravoice develops an AI voice agent platform that collects survey and interview data for specific needs, allowing users to interpret vague or imprecise human speech and automatically categorize responses.
New Funding Raised: $6.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Unusual Ventures (lead), Rajeev Goel, Amar Goel, Ramp
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its AI platform for market research and polling.
Press: Startup Researcher, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 3
Acurion operates an AI-driven digital pathology for oncology diagnostics, enabling oncologists and healthcare providers to deliver timely, accurate, and equitable cancer care.
New Funding Raised: $4.3M, Seed
Round Investors: TK & Partners (lead), Bootstrap Venture Partners, Asian Fund For Cancer Research, National Foundation for Cancer Research
🚀Growth Focus: Support clinical validation, platform development, regulatory preparation, and commercialization efforts as it moves toward broader clinical and research adoption.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
Employee Count: 12
myStoria develops a digital fertility support platform that guides individuals through family planning, fertility preservation, and treatment journeys, allowing individuals navigating fertility decisions to access clear guidance, stay organized, and advocate for better care.
New Funding Raised: $1.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Graphite Ventures (lead), Conexus Venture Capital, Archangel Network of Funds
🚀Growth Focus: Launch AI-powered reproductive health platform.
Press: The Next Web, HIT Consultant
HQ: Kitchener, Canada
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 15
The Forest Road Company develops an investment and advisory platform, enabling capital deployment and operational support across diverse, high-growth sectors.
New Funding Raised: $750M, Private Equity
Round Investors: Liberty Mutual Investments (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to launch its alternative energy investment platform, Centernode.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 31
Trantech manufactures radiators, coolers, and cooling systems for transformers used in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electric power, allowing users to access cost-effective and efficient cooling systems.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Private Equity
Round Investors: MSC Income Fund, Main Street Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
HQ: Edgefield, SC
Industry: Utilities
Employee Count: 54
PickMyBrain develops a digital brain-picking platform that lets experts offer access to their knowledge without always being on, enabling knowledge-based professionals, creators, coaches, and consultants to productize their expertise, reduce real-time meeting load, and still provide responsive, personalized support to global audiences and users.
New Funding Raised: $2.1M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Garri Zmudze, Raison
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the team, enhance the product, and support international growth.
Press: Startup Researcher, Tech.eu
HQ: Wilmington, DE
Industry: Social Networking Platforms
Employee Count: 15
Earlyasset operats software platform for facilitating venture secondary transactions, allowing growth-stage private market participants to access structured liquidity, improve transaction efficiency, and maintain ownership stability while supporting informed investment decisions through integrated pricing and deal flow data.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: New Stack Ventures (lead), Cervin Ventures, Andrew Ryan
🚀Growth Focus: Develop technology and financial infrastructure that simplifies and accelerates secondary transactions for private company shareholders.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: Park City, UT
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 6
🌍 EMEA
Lucida Medical develops an AI-based healthcare technology that assists clinicians in detecting and diagnosing cancer, enabling clinicians and physicians to make cancer detection accurate, accessible, cost-effective, and quick.
New Funding Raised: £8.7M, Series A
Round Investors: IW Capital (lead), Macmillan Cancer Support, XTX Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of AI tools for additional cancer types beyond prostate cancer and help it pursue US FDA approval, positioning it to bring faster, more accurate cancer diagnoses to more patients and healthcare systems.
Press: Vestbee, Lucida Medical News
HQ: Cambridge, England
Industry: Medical Device
Employee Count: 30
Octostar’s investigative and decision intelligence platform for security and compliance purposes, allowing businesses to conduct thorough investigations, enhance decision-making processes, and mitigate risks.
New Funding Raised: €6.1M, Seed
Round Investors: The Techshop (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate efforts to reduce dependence on non-European intelligence platforms.
Press: Courier & Press, Octostar News
HQ: Galway, Ireland
Industry: Security and Investigations
Employee Count: 26
Delta Labs develops an AI-powered user simulation platform that serve consumer facing brands and product teams, enabling teams to test concepts, messages, and scenarios across hundreds of microsegments before they spend, ship, or launch.
New Funding Raised: €4.4M, Seed
Round Investors: Cusp Capital (lead), Auxxo
🚀Growth Focus: Further development of the technology, enabling companies to model customer responses to product, pricing, and strategic decisions using real and company-specific data.
Press: Vestbee, Startupticker.ch
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 6
PENEMUE develops AI-powered language analysis and moderation technology, allowing organizations to detect and mitigate hate speech, digital violence, and disinformation online.
New Funding Raised: €1.7M, Seed
Round Investors: Berlin Angel Fund, 4seedimpact, CGS Consulting und Beteiligungs GmbH, zigzag
🚀Growth Focus: Develop solutions for detecting and combating online hate speech, digital violence, and disinformation.
Press: EU-Startups, Startup Rise EU
HQ: Freiburg, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 7
Omniscient operates an AI platform for reputation and environmental, social, and corporate governance risk management, enabling enterprise communications and sustainability teams to identify emerging risks, streamline corporate governance workflows, and maintain transparency throughout strategic decision-making processes.
New Funding Raised: $4.1M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Seedcamp (lead), Anamcara Capital, Drysdale Ventures, xdeck
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its mission to provide boards and executives with synthesized, real-time intelligence.
Press: Startup Researcher, EU-Startups
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Technology, Information, and Media
Employee Count: 11
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Cognichip (LI) is hiring a VP of Sales and Sales Director for its Redwood City based team.
Coder (LI) is hiring a remote Cloud Partner Sales Manager for its US-based team.
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.
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