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🌎 Americas
Sierra develops a conversational AI platform that empowers enterprises with AI agents, enabling companies to elevate their customer service experience with AI.
New Funding Raised: $950M, Series E
Round Investors: Google Ventures (lead), Tiger Global Management (lead), Greenoaks, Benchmark
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts to extend its lead in the customer service AI space.
Press: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 723
Reserv develops a digital claims third-party administrator platform that optimizes property and casualty claims by leveraging modern systems, allowing managing general agents and carriers to achieve optimal claims outcomes, enhanced operational efficiency, and actionable underwriting insights.
New Funding Raised: $125M, Series C
Round Investors: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (lead), Flourish Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its handling capacity from 500,000 claims a year to 30 million claims in the next four years.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Insurance
Employee Count: 524
Panthalassa manufactures an ocean-based energy platform that generates clean power at scale from offshore environments, enabling energy providers and industrial users to access scalable, low-emission power for compute and other high-demand applications.
New Funding Raised: $140M, Series B
Round Investors: Peter Thiel (lead), Supermicro, SciFi VC, Future Positive
🚀Growth Focus: Support to complete its pilot manufacturing facility near Portland, Oregon, and accelerate deployment of its Ocean-3 series of nodes, which will perform AI inference computing at sea using power generated from ocean waves.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Portland, OR
Industry: Renewable Energy Power Generation
Employee Count: 110
Deep Infra develops an inference platform that simplifies the deployment of AI models for various applications, allowing developers to accelerate the development of AI-powered applications.
New Funding Raised: $107M, Series B
Round Investors: 500 Global (lead), Georges Harik (lead), NVIDIA, Supermicro
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its global compute capacity, enhance developer tooling, and support the development of new AI models.
Press: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 26
Latus Bio provides curative medicines for neurological diseases, enabling doctors to deliver therapeutic genes to targeted cells with increased substructure- and cell-specific targeting in the central nervous system.
New Funding Raised: $43M, Series A
Round Investors: 8VC (lead), Ben Franklin Technology Partners, DCVC Bio, Korea Development Bank
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations, including initial clinical data from its two programs, which include LTS-201 for Huntington’s disease and LTS-101 for late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis type 2 (CLN2) disease.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Philadelphia, PA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 27
Enzo Health develops an AI-powered clinical documentation platform for home health agencies, allowing agencies to reduce clinician documentation time, improve coding accuracy, increase admissions, and enhance profitability while maintaining compliance and care quality.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: N47 (lead), Lionel Partners, Rigby Watts & Company, Soma Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand into the skilled nursing and hospice sectors by extending its AI-driven platform to address the unique clinical, operational, and regulatory workflows of each setting, enabling providers to operate more efficiently while maintaining high-quality care.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Ventureburn
HQ: Lehi, UT
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 58
Greatly Health develops a virtual integrative medicine platform that supports cancer patients and survivors in healing physically, mentally, and emotionally through evidence-based, whole-person care, enabling users to reduce treatment side effects, improve recovery outcomes, and access supportive communities from anywhere.
New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed
Round Investors: Commonweal Ventures (lead), Pear VC (lead), Flare Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support team expansion, technology platform enhancement, and broadening of the clinical offering.
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 5
Lumian’s AI-driven e-commerce management platform helps brands scale their Amazon operations with continuous automation and expert oversight, allowing sellers to streamline operational tasks, improve performance, and grow businesses with greater speed and consistency.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: Bowery Capital (lead), Fika Ventures, Flybridge
🚀Growth Focus: Grow its AI-native Amazon agency with specialized agents for brand operations.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Advertising Services
Employee Count: 11
Certifyde develops a browser-based learning companion for AI skill development during routine work, enabling professionals to gain AI fluency seamlessly while working.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: K5 Global, DJ Kygo, George Ruan, Brad Garlinghouse
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its sales and go-to-market efforts, accelerate product development, and strengthen the infrastructure needed to support rapid growth.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Miami Beach, FL
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 6
Fermeate operates a light-controlled microbial fermentation technology for sustainable chemical production purposes, allowing biomanufacturers to improve economics, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and scale more sustainable bio-based production.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: Newfund (lead), Ki Tua Fund, Momentum Capital, Tesserakt Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its business reach, as well as its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 5
TIES develops a doctor-formulated men's fertility supplement that supports reproductive health and sperm quality, enabling men to improve sperm morphology, motility, and deoxyribonucleic acid integrity during the preconception phase.
New Funding Raised: $1.5M, Seed
Round Investors: HumanCo (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its R&D efforts.
Press: FinSMEs, Femtech Insider
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Wellness and Fitness Services
Employee Count: 2
🌍 EMEA
Moleculent operates a biotechnology company that decodes human biology with advancements in life science, allowing healthcare professionals to access molecular science-based therapies and diagnostics.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Rubicon Healthcare Partners (lead), ARCH Venture Partners, EIR Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support its expansion, accelerate commercial operations in the United States, and drive the commercial launch of the instrument.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 64
Barocal develops cooling technology that satisfies low-carbon refrigeration requirements, enabling users to reduce indirect emissions of greenhouse gases.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Breakthrough Energy Ventures (lead), World Fund (lead), IP Group, Cambridge Enterprise Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale operations and recruit senior technical and commercial talent to accelerate system development.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Ventureburn
HQ: Cambridge, England
Industry: HVAC and Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 10
Dehaze’s patient record platform helps doctors diagnose and treat patients, allowing clinicians & laboratories to develop and deploy medical AI models into clinical practice.
New Funding Raised: €3.2M, Seed
Round Investors: DN Capital (lead), YZR Capital (lead), Angel Invest, Better Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support it in meeting growing international demand, expanding its engineering, research, and commercial teams, and accelerating product development as it scales its AI platform for chronic disease detection.
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Health and Human Services
Employee Count: 13
Shiprazor develops a merchant technology platform that streamlines logistics, fulfillment, and financial operations for businesses across Africa, enabling small and medium businesses and enterprises across Africa to manage shipping and financial processes efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $2.65M, Seed
Round Investors: Norrsken22 (lead), E4EAfrica, Tremis Capital, AAIC
🚀Growth Focus: Expand courier networks, develop AI-powered solutions including address verification, and reduce shipping costs for merchants.
Press: FinSMEs, Tech In Africa
HQ: Cape Town, South Africa
Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Storage
Employee Count: 29
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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