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🌎 Americas
MerQube develops a cloud-native indexing platform for designing, calculating, and disseminating financial indices at scale, enabling financial professionals with expert knowledge of indices, including research and development, construction, new index product launches, and compliance and governance.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series C
Round Investors: 7RIDGE (lead), Deutsche Borse (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand into Europe and Asia-Pacific, growing the Garage platform to enable more self-service index creation for wealth and asset managers, and improving AI across its data and index systems.
Press: Tech Funding News
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Capital Markets
Employee Count: 76
Wealth.com develops a collaborative digital ecosystem platform for asset management, allowing users to make estate planning easy and accessible.
New Funding Raised: $65M, Series B
Round Investors: Google Ventures, PruVen Capital, Dynasty Financial Partners, Bela Juju Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate AI and product development, support strategic acquisitions, and expand enterprise and institutional distribution.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Tempe, AZ
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 209
Expo operates an open-source framework that enables JavaScript-based applications to run natively on Android, iOS, and the web, enabling developers to accelerate the development, publishing, and scaling of applications.
New Funding Raised: $45M, Series B
Round Investors: Georgian (lead), A.Capital Ventures, Leadout Capital, Red Swan Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission of simplifying the path from idea to production-ready apps.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 167
Beeline Medicines develops precision therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, allowing targeted treatment approaches that address underlying immune dysfunction.
New Funding Raised: $300M, Series A
Round Investors: Bain Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to release data later this year from a Phase 2 study of its daily oral lupus candidate, afimetoran, a program it inherited from Bristol Myers Squibb.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: Stamford, CT
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 50
Artemis Security builds an AI-driven threat detection and protection platform, enabling organizations to identify, analyze, and respond to cyber threats with real-time intelligence and adaptive security coverage.
New Funding Raised: $70M, Series A
Round Investors: Felicis (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Correlate data across cloud environments, identity systems, networks, endpoints, and applications to better understand attacks as they unfold.
Press: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 18
Resolve.ai develops a software engineering support platform that handles production system incidents and related operational tasks, allowing users to investigate and manage software production issues and operational data across systems.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series A
Round Investors: DST Global (lead), Salesforce Ventures (lead), Artisanal Ventures, Greylock
🚀Growth Focus: Support to continue the development of its platform, go-to-market expansion, and long-term research initiatives.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 149
Neato develops eCommerce marketplace management solutions, enabling brands to optimize performance and drive growth across online sales channels.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: Advantage Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the launch of two new operations centers in Las Vegas and Chicago with integrated eCommerce prep capabilities, expansion of their AI agent stack, and accelerate its expansion beyond Amazon.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Las Vegas, NV
Industry: Retail
Employee Count: 54
Solidroad develops an automated quality management platform to analyze user interactions across channels, enhancing human and AI support for continuous agent coaching, quality improvements, and improved interaction speed, consistency, and satisfaction.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: Hedosophia (lead), Y Combinator, Sony Innovation Fund, First Round Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support team expansion across San Francisco and Dublin, and continued product development, as enterprises increasingly seek solutions to maintain quality across both human and AI-driven customer interactions.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 21
Phonely’s AI communication platform provides real-time human-like phone support and connects to a software live call, enabling companies to offer a personalized AI receptionist to users while improving responses over time.
New Funding Raised: $16M, Series A
Round Investors: Base10 Partners (lead), Etech Global Services, TSA Group, EngageCX
🚀Growth Focus: Expand product development, grow its engineering and go-to-market teams, and accelerate adoption across industries.
Press: Startup Daily, FinSMEs
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Administrative and Support Services
Employee Count: 23
Ultralight develops an AI-native clinical operating system, allowing practitioners to automate workflows, unify patient data, and deliver personalized, insight-driven care.
New Funding Raised: $9.3M, Seed
Round Investors: The General Partnership (lead), Emerson Collective, Anthemis, Vivek Murthy
🚀Growth Focus: Deepen its clinical intelligence layer, expand protocol coverage, and hire its first dedicated sales team to serve a qualified pipeline that has outpaced the founding team's capacity.
Press: Business Wire, Wilson Sonsini
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 43
Debbie develops a financial wellness platform that helps users improve their financial health and achieve their money goals, enabling users to easily hook up and track their credit cards and spending accounts.
New Funding Raised: $5.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Reseda Group (lead), TruStage Ventures (lead), Zeal Capital Partners, GoodPaper Ventures Group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: StartUp Beat, Coverager
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 59
GetWhys operates an AI-powered platform that leverages a dataset of peer insights to help organizations make better software decisions, enabling businesses to save significant time in selecting the right software vendor.
New Funding Raised: $5.2M, Seed
Round Investors: EPIC Ventures (lead), Tuesday Capital, Portland Seed Fund, NEXT Frontier Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate go-to-market efforts, expand product development, and further build out the company’s proprietary dataset.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Boise, ID
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 21
🌍 EMEA
Storm Therapeutics operates a biotechnology and drug discovery company that develops small-molecule therapies for RNA modification enzymes for use in the treatment of cancer and other immune diseases, providing physicians with first-in-class therapies against RNA epigenetic targets.
New Funding Raised: $56M, Series C
Round Investors: UTokyo Innovation Platform, Taiho Ventures, M Ventures, Fast Track Initiative, Inc.
🚀Growth Focus: Support the continued development of STC-15, a first-in-class oral small molecule inhibitor of METTL3, including advancement of its Phase 2 monotherapy study in selected sarcoma indications.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Babraham, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 15
Agriodor develops biocontrol tools that replace insecticides with attractants based on Kairomones, allowing farmers to get effective responses to fight against pests in the field and improve yields.
New Funding Raised: €15M, Series A
Round Investors: Crédit Mutuel Impact (lead), Capagro, CAAP Creation, CapHorn Invest
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its international expansion and the deployment of its olfactory biocontrol technology.
Press: Ventureburn, Tech.eu
HQ: Rennes, France
Industry: Farming
Employee Count: 51
EVANIUM Healthcare develops a drug delivery technology for improving the use of plant-based compounds, enabling pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, and nutraceutical manufacturers to work effectively with poorly soluble compounds across oral and topical formulations.
New Funding Raised: €2.2M, Seed
Round Investors: FoodLabs, Feast Ventrues
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the technology platform aimed at increasing bioavailability, a key challenge for many dietary supplements.
Press: EU-Startups, Bio M
HQ: Regensburg, Germany
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 13
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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