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🌎 Americas
Blue Energy operates a nuclear fission energy company providing clean, reliable, and affordable power for safe and cost-effective plant operations.
New Funding Raised: $380M, Venture - Series Undisclosed
Round Investors: VXI Capital (lead), Tamarack Global, At One Ventures, Engine Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Advance development of prefabricated nuclear power plants designed for faster, more predictable deployment.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Chevy Chase, MD
Industry: Nuclear Electric Power Generation
Employee Count: 62
Omni develops an AI analytics platform that transforms data into reliable insights for decision-making, enabling business and data teams to access trusted insights quickly and make informed decisions.
New Funding Raised: $120M, Series C
Round Investors: ICONIQ Growth (lead), First Round Capital, Theory Ventures, Google Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform as a foundational layer for enterprise AI analytics, focusing on improving trust, governance, and usability as organizations scale their AI initiatives.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 755
Fortem Technologies develops an airspace security platform that protects against autonomous aerial threats and supports the safe integration of advanced air mobility systems, allowing defense, government, and commercial sectors to identify and neutralize unauthorized drones with precision and reliability.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series B
Round Investors: Lockheed Martin (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate deployment of tested systems to address a fast-growing segment of the defense technology market..
Press: citybiz, Lockheed Martin
HQ: Lindon, UT
Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Employee Count: 127
Amperos Health develops AI-powered healthcare assistants that streamline claim processing for medical providers, enabling medical practitioners to save time on administrative tasks and improve claim reimbursement rates.
New Funding Raised: $16M, Series A
Round Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), Uncork Capital, Neo
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform capabilities, enhance analytics, and extend its agentic AI solutions into additional revenue cycle management workflows.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 26
PressBox’s AI-powered content creation platform serves sports leagues, teams, and media organizations worldwide, allowing leagues to reach more fans by automating the creation and streamlining content workflows.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: Relay Ventures (lead), Alumni Ventures, Capital Eleven, PAX Holdings
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, key hires, and scaling for emerging sports.
Press: Sports Business Journal, Dealroom
HQ: Bellingham, WA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Media
Employee Count: 13
Cloneable operates a no-code AI platform for deploying intelligent applications on edge devices, including tablets, IoT devices, robots, and drones, enabling enterprises to optimize their assets globally through AI, machine learning, and computer vision.
New Funding Raised: $4.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Congruent Ventures (lead), Bull City Venture Partners, St. Elmo Venture Capital, First In
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate expansion across infrastructure-intensive industries such as public utilities, vegetation management, energy, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Raleigh, NC
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 10
10x Science develops AI software for molecular protein characterization and data analysis, allowing life science researchers to accelerate proteoform identification and improve the precision of protein-based therapeutic development.
New Funding Raised: $4.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Initialized Capital (lead), Civilization Ventures, Founder Factor, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate platform development and expand to more pharma and biotech customers.
Press: PR Newswire, TechCrunch
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 3
Bond develops an AI-powered memory platform, enabling users to capture, organize, and utilize personal and digital experiences for enhanced insights and productivity.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Caffeinated Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Launch an AI social platform focused on personal relationships.
HQ: Redwood City, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 2
Humble Robotics develops an autonomous ground transportation system that simplifies freight movement, allowing logistics and transportation sectors to achieve more reliable and cost-effective freight operations.
New Funding Raised: $24M, Seed
Round Investors: Eclipse (lead), Energy Impact Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support to create a new take on the tractor-trailer combo.
Press: Yahoo Finance, FreightWaves
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 26
🌍 EMEA
Cloudsmith builds a cloud-native artifact management platform for software supply chain management, allowing software engineers to set up a secure artifact repository and boost productivity with package distribution.
New Funding Raised: $72M, Series C
Round Investors: TCV (lead), Insight Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and expand its go-to-market capabilities as enterprises increasingly adopt AI-driven software development.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 149
Axomove develops an e-health application that improves patient compliance to achieve their exercises at home and in sessions, enabling healthcare professionals to create personalized programs of rehabilitation exercises.
New Funding Raised: €4M, Series A
Round Investors: Bpifrance (lead), GO CAPITAL (lead), INCO Ventures, Faraday Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel the commercial expansion of its solution for preventing and treating musculoskeletal disorders.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Startup Researcher
HQ: Lille, France
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 27
Decade Energy operates as an energy transition partner for fleet operators and depot managers looking to deploy an electric fleet, allowing logistics operators and depot managers with insights to improve and optimize the system when operational to lower costs and maximize uptime.
New Funding Raised: €22M, Seed
Round Investors: Eiffel Investment Group (lead), SET Ventures (lead), Ananda Impact Ventures, Contrarian Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale Europe’s depot power infrastructure for truck electrification.
Press: Tech.eu, Startup Rise EU
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Services for Renewable Energy
Employee Count: 22
Cosaic develops yeast fermentation technology that produces multifunctional food ingredients, texture, and stability of dairy alternatives, enabling food manufacturers and plant-based brands to simplify ingredient labels and improve sensory appeal through creaminess and extended product shelf life.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: DSM-Firmenich Venturing, Navus Ventures, Zürcher Kantonal Bank, Kickfund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate scale-up of its yeast fermentation platform.
Press: FoodBev Media, Green Queen Media
HQ: Zurich, Switzerland
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 19
TheStorage develops an industrial heat electrification system that produces power with buffered carbon-free energy, allowing users to access green energy services and transition to renewable energy production.
New Funding Raised: €3.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Voima Ventures (lead), Superhero Capital, 2C Ventures, Momentum Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate commercialization, expand its team, and further develop its technology, aiming to scale its solution globally as industries seek practical pathways to reduce emissions and energy costs.
HQ: Tampere, Finland
Industry: Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 9
Affix Labs operates a chemical technology company that creates new coating technologies and novel active formulations to help society fight communicable diseases, enabling companies with products to prevent the spread of communicable diseases via surface transmission or insect bite.
New Funding Raised: €1M, Seed
Round Investors: OostNL (lead), VP Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand neurotoxic-free insect repellent across Europe.
Press: PR Newswire, Dealroom
HQ: Helsinki, Finland
Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 9
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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