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Kalshi provides financial exchange services that facilitate trading based on event outcomes, enabling individual traders and participants to express predictions and manage risk through trading on future event outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $4.7M, Series E Extension
Round Investors: FACTORY (lead), CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, ARK Investment Management
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Yahoo Finance, FinSMEs
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 473
Slate Auto manufactures a customizable electric vehicle that offers a simple, affordable, and personalized truck, allowing users to tailor their vehicle to specific needs.
New Funding Raised: $650M, Series C
Round Investors: TWG Global (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Enable it to reach the next stages of production this year on time and on budget.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Troy, MI
Industry: Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
Employee Count: 614
Neomorph operates a biotechnology company that focuses on the science of targeted protein degradation, enabling medical practitioners to prosecute a pipeline of projects through clinical development.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: Deerfield (lead), Longwood Fund, Alexandria Venture Investments, Binney Street Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support the advancement of its pipeline across multiple therapeutic areas, driven by its proprietary platform to unlock targets that have historically been unreachable with conventional drug discovery.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 82
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Nas.io develops a solopreneur platform that builds a digital business using AI, helping entrepreneurs to grow revenue while keeping human connection at the core.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Series A
Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead), Shuo Wang, Tim Ferriss, Lightspeed Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support allocated equally across hiring, AI product development, and geographic expansion, with strong momentum in the United States, Mexico, and Latin America.
Press: MarketWatch, The Malaysian Reserve
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 54
Critical Loop provides an off-grid power-sharing service that provides quick access to increased power capacity and cost savings to commercial and industrial users by delivering batteries-as-a-service, enabling users to reduce electricity costs and improve the cash flow of industrial facilities.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Series A
Round Investors: Conifer Infrastructure Partners (lead), Hanover (lead), Adapt Nation Capital, Climate Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its work with partners, including San Diego International Airport, supported by a supply agreement for US-made batteries with LG Energy Solution Vertech.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Long Beach, CA
Industry: Energy Technology
Employee Count: 38
Citra Space develops space object identification systems that detect, track, and classify orbiting objects for safe space operations, allowing space agencies and defense organizations to monitor space activity and identify objects with accuracy.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Washington Harbour Partners (lead), Scout VC, Flex Capital, Alumni Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the continued development and deployment of its technology across both commercial and government customers, as it works to address growing challenges in identifying and understanding objects in orbit.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Colorado Springs, CO
Industry: Space Research and Technology
Employee Count: 14
The Interaction Company of California develops user experience and interaction design services, enabling organizations to create intuitive, user-centered digital products and experiences.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Patrick Collison, John Collison, Thomas Wolf, Jake Paul
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: TechCrunch, National Today
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 12
Primepoint operates an AI system for construction management, allowing contractors to enhance project accuracy and operational efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: NextView Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform capabilities and grow its customer base among large commercial general contractors across the United States.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Mateo, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 11
Flashpass develops an online social media certification platform that assists in upskilling for the job market, enabling employees and students to learn and gain new knowledge.
New Funding Raised: $4.25M, Seed
Round Investors: J2 Ventures (lead), Seven Stars, Uncommon Projects, RiverPark Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand product development, scale its training offerings, and enter new markets.
HQ: Columbus, OH
Industry: Education
Employee Count: 12
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Round Treasury’s treasury management platform manages portfolios, reinvests income, and makes strategic adjustments for startups, allowing startups to earn yield with safe, secure, government-backed securities.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Alstin Capital (lead), Passion Capital, BACKED VC, GoCardless
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, deepen integrations with banks and financial systems, and scale its infrastructure.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 14
Pixel Photonics develops single-photon detectors with integrated photonics for scaling in the areas of quantum computing, enabling companies to boost the performance of photonic quantum computing, quantum key distribution, microscopy, or other sensing applications that require highly efficient detection of light at the single-photon level.
New Funding Raised: €5M, Seed
Round Investors: Futury Capital (lead), HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds), SPRIN-D, Kensho VC
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate market entry and firmly anchor the company within the continent's innovation ecosystem.
Press: EU-Startups, Startup Researcher
HQ: Munster, Germany
Industry: Research Services
Employee Count: 35
Tok-Edge develops edge computing and AI infrastructure solutions, allowing businesses to process data, deploy applications, and run intelligent workloads closer to the source.
New Funding Raised: $1.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Marcus Meijer (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Launch a fund that will be the first to implement the Redemption Token framework.
Press: PR Newswire, FinanceFeeds
HQ: London, England
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 10
MillTech provides currency management services for the United Kingdom, enabling corporates, institutions, and asset managers to reduce execution and hedging costs by providing direct access to preferential rates and credit.
New Funding Raised: $60M, Private Equity
Round Investors: Apax Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support North American expansion and further development of the firm’s AI-powered treasury products.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Tech Funding News
HQ: London, England
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 92
BLOCKS’s cloud management and automation services platform for early-stage technology companies, allowing startup businesses to achieve significant cloud cost savings and operational efficiency while maintaining high standards of reliability and agility in their development lifecycle.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Speedinvest (lead), Mario Götze, Daniel Krauss, Caesar Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts, as well as its business reach.
Press: FinSMEs
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 16
Ralio develops programmable payment infrastructure for autonomous agent transactions, enabling AI agent platforms and developers to securely execute, monitor, and audit payments while maintaining compliance and preventing fraud.
New Funding Raised: $2.5M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Sure Valley Ventures (lead), Plug & Play, Campus Fund, rule30
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its product development and ensure that as AI begins to transact, it does so within a framework of total accountability.
Press: Startup Networks, EU-Startups
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 5
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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