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🌎 Americas
AcuityMD develops commercial intelligence software for medical device companies to optimize sales strategy across the product lifecycle, enabling medical companies to prioritize opportunities and drive revenue growth.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series C
Round Investors: StepStone Group (lead), Artisanal Ventures, Benchmark, Atreides Management
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate agentic AI capabilities for commercial personas, including sales reps, leadership, and marketing teams, deepen the MedTech ontology that empowers its data model, and expand its platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 254
Tava Health operates an online healthcare treatment platform that offers real-time access to mental health needs, allowing patients to receive mental health support from their comfort zones without any need to go to clinics.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series C
Round Investors: Centana Growth Partners (lead), Peterson Ventures, Catalyst Investors, SpringTide Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support its evolution from a mental health network into a full-stack behavioral health platform serving providers, employers, and health plans through a unified infrastructure.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Salt Lake City, UT
Industry: Mental Health Care
Employee Count: 235
Ray Therapeutics develops optogenetic gene therapies that restore visual function in individuals affected by degenerative retinal diseases, enabling patients with retinitis pigmentosa and other blinding conditions to regain functional vision and improve daily independence.
New Funding Raised: $125M, Series B
Round Investors: Janus Henderson Investors (lead), Invus, Deerfield Management, Platanus
🚀Growth Focus: Support late-stage clinical development and commercial readiness for its lead program, RTx-015, targeting Retinitis Pigmentosa.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Berkeley, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 33
Tortugas Neuroscience provides neurological therapeutics for the identification of efficacy and impact, allowing patients suffering from brain disorders to access treatments to improve their quality of life.
New Funding Raised: $106M, Series A
Round Investors: AN Ventures (lead), Cure Ventures (lead), The Column Group (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support ongoing research and development initiatives, including the completion of Phase 2 clinical trials for its two lead candidates.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Framingham, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 10
Collov Labs develops an agentic diffusion engine, enabling generative AI systems to act, adapt, and scale across real-world applications.
New Funding Raised: $23M, Series A
Round Investors: Matrix Partners China, Taihill Venture, Brightway Future Capital, MindWorks Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate adoption of AI-powered visual interfaces and applications.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Redwood City, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 4
Archil provides a storage service that transforms the public cloud into local file systems, allowing businesses to store data in a simple storage service bucket with reduced latency and cost.
New Funding Raised: $11M, Series A
Round Investors: Standard Capital (lead), Anurag Goel, Felicis, Wayfinder Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Archil News, Menlo Times
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
Omeza operates a skin healthcare company that focuses on healing chronic wounds and preventing their recurrence, enabling patients to get access to topical omegas for healthy and happy skin.
New Funding Raised: $8.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Astanor Ventures (lead), BluKap Ventures (lead), Florida Opportunity Fund, Catalyst Fund LP
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate clinical trials, expand commercial capabilities, and strengthen its clinical and real-world evidence base to support broader reimbursement coverage.
Press: Yahoo Finance, MedTech Dive
HQ: Sarasota, FL
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 16
Deep Blue Medical Advances develops surgical textile implants that reduce the occurrence and recurrence of abdominal wall defects, allowing surgeons and medical facilities to improve patient outcomes through increased anchoring strength and reduced tissue stress at the operative site.
New Funding Raised: $5.6M, Series A
Round Investors: Tom Carroux, Sacramento Angels
🚀Growth Focus: Support its expansion into aesthetic and breast applications, and deepen already extensive relationships with key opinion leaders and hospital systems.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Durham, NC
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 11
NeoCognition develops specialized AI agents, enabling users to access expert-level intelligence through continuously learning, domain-specific systems.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Seed
Round Investors: Cambium Capital Partners (lead), Walden Catalyst (lead), Vista Equity Partners, Ion Stoica
🚀Growth Focus: Advance specialized intelligence and expert agents.
Press: PR Newswire, TechCrunch
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 50
BuildForever develops consumer software products that create digital experiences that feel personal and human, allowing individual consumers to access technology that prioritizes joy, usability, and meaningful engagement in everyday digital interactions.
New Funding Raised: $9.5M, Seed
Round Investors: A* (lead), Abstract (lead), Elad Gil (lead), Felicis (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: TechCrunch, Yahoo Tech
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 8
Qualitate’s expert intelligence platform supports research and decision-making processes, enabling enterprises, investment firms, and analysts to access and use expert knowledge for research and analysis.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: Crew Capital (lead), IA Ventures (lead), Travis May, Tony Berkman
🚀Growth Focus: Support its mission to automate decision-making workflows, from initial research questions to final recommendations, using AI.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 23
🌍 EMEA
VisioLab develops a camera system that automates the work of a cashier through AI, allowing canteens and cafeterias to fully automate check-out processes.
New Funding Raised: $11M, Series A
Round Investors: eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS (lead), Simon Capital (lead), HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds), APX
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global presence and further develop its integrated AI-powered checkout and payment platform for food service operators.
HQ: Osnabrück, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 35
Exergy3 develops a temperature energy storage technology that displaces fossil fuels and related carbon emissions in small and large-scale thermal processes, enabling users to utilize clean, cheap electricity.
New Funding Raised: £10M, Seed
Round Investors: Axeleo Capital (lead), Scottish Enterprise, Zero Carbon Capital, Bayern Kapital
🚀Growth Focus: Enhance its next phase of growth, scale manufacturing capacity, expand the team, and enable broad deployment across industrial sites.
Press: EU-Startups, FinSMEs
HQ: Edinburgh, Scotland
Industry: Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 16
Seapoint operates a finance stack that helps European founders move fast and scale better in their operations, allowing business founders to run core processes in one place.
New Funding Raised: €7.5M, Seed
Round Investors: 13books Capital (lead), Des Traynor, Frontline Ventures, Laurence Krieger
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate expansion and execute on its roadmap, adding cash flow forecasting, physical cards, foreign exchange services, and US dollar accounts in 2026.
Press: Startup Researcher, FinSMEs
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 22
Orange Quantum Systems develops customized full-stack quantum systems that accelerate the characterization of quantum devices, enabling users to build their quantum computing projects.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: European Innovation Council Fund (lead), QDNL Participations, Qbeat Ventures, Cottonwood Technology Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of key technologies to further enhance its MAX product line, a turn-key, automated, and fast quantum chip testing system.
Press: OrangeQS, Tech Funding News
HQ: Delft, Netherlands
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 45
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Resolve.ai (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs and Solutions Engineers for its NYC and SF-based teams.
Expo (LI) is hiring a fully remote Account Executive and a Technical Inside Sales role for its US-based team.
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.
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