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Portal Space Systems provides space maneuverability services that empower the next generation of space operators to maintain space superiority, enabling users to achieve tactical responsiveness in orbit on demand.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series A
Round Investors: Geodesic Capital (lead), Mach33 Financial Group (lead), Trajectory Ventures, AlleyCorp
🚀Growth Focus: Advance the development of rapidly maneuverable spacecraft designed for operations across multiple orbital regimes.
Press: Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch
HQ: Bothell, WA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 25
Elorian develops visual reasoning AI models that help machines interpret and reason over visual information, allowing robotics teams, engineers, and scientific organizations to build applications that interpret scenes more reliably, reduce text-only inference errors, and automate analysis from visual data.
New Funding Raised: $55M, Seed
Round Investors: Jeff Dean, Menlo Ventures, NVIDIA, 49 Palms Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Advance the next frontier of AI focused on visual understanding.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 12
Inner AI develops a content creation platform for individuals to improve their creative potential, enabling creators to save time and money creating texts, videos, audios, and images.
New Funding Raised: R$30M, Seed
Round Investors: Canary (lead), ONEVC (lead), Phenomen, Crivo Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the launch and development of Squad.com, its autonomous AI agent platform designed to enable collaborative, always-on digital workers across business functions.
Press: Startup Researcher, newdecoded.com
HQ: Sao Paolo, Brazil
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 54
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Hybron manufactures advanced composite components that replace traditional metal parts in high-performance applications, allowing users to explore the benefits of lighter-weight materials in their applications.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: Marque Ventures (lead), Ultratech Capital Partners, DTX Ventures, First In
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate next-generation defense manufacturing, continue engineering development, and expand its manufacturing capabilities as it moves toward initial munitions production and broader commercialization.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: El Segundo, CA
Industry: Manufacturing
Employee Count: 18
Flora Fertility provides direct-to-consumer fertility insurance services for fertility and women's health, enabling women to access affordable fertility and reproductive health care.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: ManchesterStory Group (lead), David Stern, Cartography Cap, BDC Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the rollout of its first-of-its-kind fertility insurance platform across the United States, with plans to expand into Canada.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Insurance
Employee Count: 13
Plume provides a geospatial analysis system for infrastructure site selection, allowing renewable energy developers to identify and validate viable locations for large-scale projects by automating the evaluation of complex environmental and logistical variables.
New Funding Raised: €3.3M, Seed
Round Investors: AENU (lead), Raise Sherpas, Collaborative Fund, Better Angle
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the team for European and American growth and develop the platform's next phases, including enhanced stakeholder mapping and AI-driven competitive intelligence.
Press: Vestbee, EU-Startups
HQ: San Francisco, CA + Paris, France
Industry: Climate Data and Analytics
Employee Count: 6
Deck Bio develops cell receptor therapeutics targeting cancer-specific peptide MHCs to enhance response rates and reduce drug resistance, aiding oncology researchers and biopharmaceutical companies in advancing targeted cancer therapies for a broader patient population.
New Funding Raised: $3.1M, Seed
Round Investors: BrightEdge - American Cancer Society, Mission BioCapital, Impact Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Launch multi-target T cell engager platform for solid tumors, with preclinical data to be presented at AACR 2026.
Press: PR Newswire, National Today
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 3
Nirova develops an anaerobic digester monitoring software that provides real-time biological intelligence for biogas facilities, allowing biogas facility operators to stabilize processes, monitor methane yield, and increase gas production.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Expand service offering, enhance technology platform, and organizational growth as it scales its capabilities.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Boise, ID
Industry: Waste Treatment and Disposal
Employee Count: 3
Sigma Automate develops a no-code IT automation platform, enabling administrators to manage infrastructure, enforce security, and streamline workflows across cloud and on-prem environments without coding.
New Funding Raised: $2.75M, Seed
Round Investors: Glasswing Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Address the growing complexity of enterprise IT environments through a no-code, AI-native automation platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Atlanta, GA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 3
Sedron Technologies manufactures water, energy, and waste treatment technologies that equip the world with better tools for sanitation and waste management, allowing people from developing countries to improve sanitation methods and gain access to clean drinking water and energy.
New Funding Raised: $500M, Private Equity
Round Investors: Ara Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its project development pipeline and expansion of its manufacturing and deployment capabilities across North America.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Sedro-Woolley, WA
Industry: Environmental Services
Employee Count: 152
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Refiant develops AI algorithms that optimize computing efficiency and reduce energy consumption, enabling enterprises, research institutions, and technology developers to lower operational costs, minimize carbon footprint, retain data sovereignty, and achieve faster performance while integrating advanced AI and machine learning processes into diverse applications.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: VoLo Earth Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its mission to make AI more efficient and sustainable.
Press: Startup Researcher, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Durban, South Africa
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 4
Handhold’s AI agent platform for tailored product demos and user activation for SMB prospects, allowing businesses to guide prospects across the entire user journey directly on their website or within the product.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: Entourage (lead), Inovia Capital, Janer Gorohhov, Markus Villig
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate go-to-market efforts and expand its ability to move from converting leads to managing entire customer bases.
Press: Startup Researcher, EU-Startups
HQ: Harju, Estonia
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 6
Golden Owl develops software development and digital solutions for business and organizational use, enabling enterprises and startups to build, maintain, and scale digital products with operational consistency and technical implementation support.
New Funding Raised: €1.4M, Seed
Round Investors: First Drop (lead), ENISA, Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its anticipatory intelligence operating system focused on recognising complex dynamics in informational, geopolitical, and business contexts.
Press: EU-Startups, Tech Funding News
HQ: Alicante, Spain
Industry: Information Services
Employee Count: 9
Insurteam operates a travel insurance platform that automates claims and simplifies policy administration, allowing travel providers and insurers to support policyholders, reduce manual workload, and increase service reliability.
New Funding Raised: $1.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Spicehaus Partners (lead), Nextpatron, InsurAngels Suisse
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the rollout of its technology and insurance operations across Europe.
Press: Startupticker.ch, Venturelab Swiss
HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 11
Apex B2B develops a B2B eCommerce platform, enabling companies to quickly launch and manage online stores with enterprise-grade features and scalability.
New Funding Raised: £1.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Enterprise Ireland
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its presence in the UK market, targeting B2B merchants seeking to modernise their digital infrastructure and improve operational efficiency.
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 4
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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