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🌎 Americas
Calyxo develops minimally invasive medical devices that improve kidney stone treatment outcomes, enabling urologists and healthcare providers to achieve stone clearance rates, reduce residual fragments, and improve overall patient outcomes in kidney stone treatment.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series F
Round Investors: Ally Bridge Group (lead), Janus Henderson Investors (lead), Avidity Partners, CRG
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its commercial infrastructure, advance clinical and health economic evidence generation through ongoing and future studies evaluating long-term outcomes and downstream healthcare utilization, and support continued innovation in kidney stone care.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Pleasanton, CA
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 319
Glydways develops autonomous electric public transportation systems for urban mobility purposes, allowing cities and public transportation authorities to provide transit with low congestion, infrastructure costs, and travel times.
New Funding Raised: $170M, Series C
Round Investors: ACS Group Directory (lead), Suzuki Motor (lead), Obayashi Corporation, Khosla Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Launch three operational pilots in 2026 in the UAE, New York City, and Atlanta as it ramps up for large-scale operations beginning in 2027, and accelerate the production of its next generation of products manufactured by its partner, Suzuki.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Claims Journal
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
Industry: Urban Transit Services
Employee Count: 218
nEYE Systems operates optical networking hardware that supports AI data center architectures, enabling hyper-scale data centers to improve processing performance, efficiency, and overall scalability for advanced AI workloads.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series C
Round Investors: Sutter Hill Ventures (lead), Socratic Partners, Micron Ventures, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development and high-volume manufacturing of its proprietary Optical Circuit Switches.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 43
Mintlify’s intelligent knowledge platform organizes, analyzes, and surfaces enterprise knowledge for improved decision-making, allowing enterprises and knowledge-driven teams to access relevant information and improve operational efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $45M, Series B
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Salesforce Ventures (lead), HubSpot Ventures, Bain Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate our mission of building the knowledge infrastructure for AI.
Press: Mintlify News, Xangle
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 62
Bluefish Labs develops an AI-powered marketing platform that helps businesses automate and optimize their marketing campaigns, enabling users to automate tasks, personalize content, and gain data-driven insights to improve campaign performance.
New Funding Raised: $43M, Series B
Round Investors: New Enterprise Associates (lead), Threshold (lead), Bloomberg Beta, Salesforce Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the rollout of its Agentic Marketing Platform across Fortune 500 companies.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Bluefish AI
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 90
Spiral Therapeutics develops drug therapies that treat inner ear disorders, allowing patients to receive treatments for the prevention and treatment of hearing loss.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Series B
Round Investors: Gund Investment LLC (lead), Uni-Bio Sciences, Advanced Bionics, Ferring Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of its pipeline programs, including SPT-2101 and expansion of its proprietary MICS platform.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: South San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 11
Sygaldry Technologies develops a quantum superintelligence infrastructure platform that creates quantum-accelerated AI hardware, enabling companies and research institutions to reduce computational costs, improve energy efficiency, and access scalable infrastructure for AI model development.
New Funding Raised: $105M, Series A
Round Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (lead), Morpheus Ventures, Rock Yard Ventures, WTI
🚀Growth Focus: Support to develop quantum-accelerated AI servers.
Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 27
Common Wealth’s digital retirement platform makes it possible for everyone to have a financially secure retirement, helping individuals to maximize savings throughout their life and into retirement.
New Funding Raised: CA$12M, Series A
Round Investors: Jim Keohane, Flow Capital, Agetech Capital, Broadbent group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand distribution to small and mid-sized employers, deepening advisor partnerships, and investing in the platform infrastructure that supports these businesses.
Press: Yahoo Finance, FinTech Global
HQ: Toronto, ON
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 49
🌍 EMEA
ADCendo provides antibody-drug conjugates that create new medicines for cancer patients with significant unmet needs, enabling doctors to treat patients with diseases such as carcinomas, breast, colon, pancreatic, prostate, ovarian, and renal cancers.
New Funding Raised: $75M, Series C
Round Investors: Jeito Capital (lead), Venrock Healthcare Capital Partners, Vida Ventures, Novo Holdings
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its pipeline of antibody-drug conjugate therapies targeting cancers with high unmet medical need.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 60
Synera develops an AI agent platform that supports engineering teams in managing complex product development tasks, allowing engineering teams to iterate on designs, analyze performance, and progress development tasks efficiently across continuous engineering operations.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: Revaia (lead), UVC Partners, BMW i Ventures, Spark Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand internationally across the U.S., APAC, and Europe, with plans to build a dedicated team in France alongside its growing teams in the U.S. and Germany.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Bremen, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 89
SUBRA A/S manufactures nano-polished metallic substrate services that create a sustainable impact through green energy technology development, enabling both multi-facet modified and standard flat geometries.
New Funding Raised: €40M, Series A
Round Investors: Novo Holdings (lead), SPRIN-D, Maj Invest Equity
🚀Growth Focus: Support its acquisition of its long-standing partner, THEVA, a Germany-based producer of superconducting materials, from today onwards.
Press: subra.dk, Financial Post
HQ: Farum, Denmark
Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Employee Count: 39
Kelluu develops self-steering aircraft that collect information for aerial monitoring, allowing businesses to obtain information about the status of power lines.
New Funding Raised: €15M, Series A
Round Investors: NATO Innovation Fund (lead), Gungnir Capital, Tesi, Keen Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its autonomous airship platform, supporting persistent aerial intelligence for defence and civilian applications.
Press: Kelluu News, EU-Startups
HQ: Joensuu, Finland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 36
Wamo’s financial management platform makes money transfers convenient for people and businesses, enabling users to connect and leverage the world's banking systems.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: 3TS Capital Partners (lead), Oleka Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support its expansion across Europe, enhance its AI-driven financial platform for small businesses, and scale its embedded lending and digital banking services.
Press: Ventureburn, Tech.eu
HQ: London, England
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 122
Helical builds an open-source platform that integrates DNA and RNA models for drug discovery, allowing pharmaceutical and biotech companies to integrate and build drug discovery applications seamlessly.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: redalpine (lead), Clément Delangue, Aidan Gomez, Frst
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its virtual AI lab platform, which turns biological foundation models into reproducible in-silico drug discovery workflows.
Press: GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 20
Clean Food Group develops a cellular agriculture system that commercializes palm oil production by fermentation, enabling users to have a sustainable, local, and circular alternative to palm oil that does not contribute to global deforestation.
New Funding Raised: £4.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Clean Growth Fund (lead), New Agrarian (lead), DohlerGroup
🚀Growth Focus: Enable a more sustainable global food system by producing essential oils and fats through fermentation, using food waste feedstocks and scalable microbial production.
Press: Business Wire, Tech.eu
HQ: London, England
Industry: Food and Beverage Services
Employee Count: 21
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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