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🌎 Americas
SiFive develops customized and open-source-enabled semiconductors that democratize access to custom silicon, enabling system designers to reduce time-to-market and realize cost savings with customized semiconductors.
New Funding Raised: $400M, Series G
Round Investors: Atreides Management (lead), Point72, NVIDIA, T. Rowe Price
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of its next-generation data center solutions and expand its global engineering teams to meet the needs of agentic AI workloads.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Ventureburn
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 502
Chapter provides digital advisory and health care plan services that improve the way seniors choose health coverage, allowing healthcare providers to foster informed decision-making and long-term healthcare security for elders to navigate healthcare options efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series E
Round Investors: Generation Investment Management (lead), Susa Ventures, Maverick Ventures, 8VC
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate growth and expand into additional financial products aimed at improving the health, wealth, and overall well-being of retirees, a demographic the company believes is underserved by most technology providers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 207
Click Therapeutics develops software as a medical treatment prescription platform that delivers safe digital treatments to patients in need, enabling the medical community to optimally treat individuals with brain disorders and neuro-psychiatric dysfunctions.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series D
Round Investors: Boehringer Ingelheim (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Advance commercialization of CT-155.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Ventureburn
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 134
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Luminai develops a cloud-based platform that assists helpdesks by providing them with automated code documentation alternatives, allowing firms to store all their user data in one place and provide a swift response to user grievances.
New Funding Raised: $38M, Series B
Round Investors: Peak XV Partners (lead), General Catalyst, Y Combinator, Define Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand product capabilities, grow its engineering and deployment teams, and support additional enterprise customers as demand continues to grow for reliable, scalable AI-driven automation.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Mateo, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 50
Incyclix Bio provides oncology therapeutics that advance precision treatments that target aberrant cell proliferation in cancer, enabling oncology patients and healthcare providers access to targeted therapies for ovarian, breast, lung, and other tumor types to improve clinical outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Series B
Round Investors: Hatteras Venture Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support of the clinical development of its lead compound INX-315, a novel, potent, and selective CDK2 inhibitor, for the treatment of advanced and metastatic breast and ovarian cancer.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Durham, NC
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 12
Pharos develops a full-stack parallel blockchain network that bridges existing fintech services with trustless Web3 innovations, allowing users to access a decentralized payment network globally.
New Funding Raised: $44M, Series A
Round Investors: Chainlink, Flow Traders, SNZ Holding, Sumitomo
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the build‑out of on-chain RWA infrastructure across Asia and beyond.
Press: Ventureburn, Chainwire
HQ: Road Town, British Virgin Islands
Industry: Blockchain Services
Employee Count: 20
AfterQuery develops an applied research lab that optimizes data retrieval and query processing, enabling businesses to encode, evaluate, and scale expertise across different professional domains.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Altos Ventures (lead), BoxGroup, Latitude Capital, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its network, deepen domain coverage, and invest in its team, hiring across operations, engineering, research, and more.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 102
Haast operates an AI-powered marketing compliance platform for organizations to manage digital risk, allowing businesses to restore brand damage, regenerate lost revenue, and manage legal fines.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Series A
Round Investors: Peak XV Partners (lead), Black Sheep Capital, DST Global, Airtree Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its agentic workflows, accelerate product development, and expand its global enterprise footprint, with offices currently in New York, San Francisco, and Sydney.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 47
PeakMetrics develops a narrative intelligence platform that helps enterprises and governments identify and combat emerging online narrative threats, enabling users to monitor and track news through online publications so that media impact can be measured efficiently and make actionable predictions.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Series A
Round Investors: Moneta Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate advancements across its AI-driven platform, support go-to-market expansion, bringing the platform to more organizations across industries and government agencies at a moment when demand has never been higher.
Press: GlobeNewswire, The Manila Times
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 27
Rork builds an application development platform for cross-platform mobile app creation, allowing developers with limited technical expertise to build mobile applications that meet specific requirements.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Seed
Round Investors: Left Lane Capital (lead), Peak XV Partners, a16z speedrun, Goodwater Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission of transforming how mobile software is created and monetized.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 17
Juno’s AI-powered tax automation platform streamlines tax preparation, review, and advisory workflows, enabling tax professionals and accounting firms to streamline tax preparation and review processes, reduce manual effort and errors, and deliver faster, more accurate, and insight-driven services to users.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed
Round Investors: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Xfund, Impression Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-powered tax automation platform and scale adoption across tax firms.
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 55
Livid develops an ad-free video hosting platform, allowing individuals and small businesses to store, customize, and securely share video content.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Dan Briggs (lead), Geige Vandentop (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its ad-free video hosting platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Dover, DE
Industry: Online Audio and Video Media
Employee Count: 5
🌍 EMEA
Fermtech produces microbial protein using fermentation for use in plant-based foods, enabling food and beverage manufacturers to reduce supply chain risk, lower environmental impact, and strengthen food system resilience.
New Funding Raised: £2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Elbow Beach Capital (lead), Carbon13, Empirical Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale the production of Koji Cocoa, a sustainable cocoa alternative that promises to shield food manufacturers from the extreme price volatility of the global cocoa market.
Press: Hort News, Food and Drink Technology
HQ: Oxford, England
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 12
Edmund develops a production supervision application that simulates the decision-making of real employees and proposes actions based on proven practices, allowing companies to effectively address issues, manage their technologies, and make improved strategic decisions.
New Funding Raised: €2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: FORWARD.one (lead), Tensor Ventures, University2Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support international expansion and continued development of its platform.
Press: Vestbee, EU-Startups
HQ: Ostrava, Czech Republic
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 17
DeepCyte develops predictive toxicology solutions using single-cell metabolomics, enabling advanced analysis of cellular responses for drug development and safety assessment.
New Funding Raised: $1.5M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Develop AI toxicology tools that predict drug toxicity in human cells at single-cell resolution.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 6
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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