Anello Photonics develops a mass-market sensor that offers optical gyroscope performance, enabling users to redefine navigation with next-generation sensors.

New Funding Raised: $25M, Series B

Round Investors: MESH (lead), Catapult Ventures, Lockheed Martin Ventures, New Legacy Group

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion and drive broader deployment of resilient navigation solutions for autonomous systems navigating in GPS-denied and contested environments across land, air, and sea.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Santa Clara, CA

Industry: Robotics Engineering

Employee Count: 96

Trillium Renewable Chemicals manufactures renewable chemical production technology, allowing the manufacture of acrylonitrile and related compounds from sustainable feedstocks with reduced environmental impact.

New Funding Raised: $13M, Series B

Round Investors: Hyosung Advanced Materials (lead), Capricorn Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Advance engineering and development of its first commercial-scale manufacturing plant.

Press: GlobeNewswire, Ventureburn

HQ: Knoxville, TN

Industry: Chemical Manufacturing

Employee Count: 12

Dandelion Health AI develops a clinical and AI real-world data platform that supports research, patient phenotyping, and drug development, enabling biopharmaceutical companies, researchers, and healthcare organisations to study disease progression, treatment response, and trial population characteristics.

New Funding Raised: $14M, Series A

Round Investors: Healthier Capital (lead), Colle Capital Partners, Convergent Ventures, Moxxie Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its growth across pharmaceutical drug development, deepening its data infrastructure, expanding its pharma partnerships, and bringing its platform to more research and commercial teams across the industry.

Press: PRWeb, Dealroom

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

Employee Count: 49

Subquadratic develops AI models that enable large-context reasoning and efficient computation, allowing developers and enterprises to analyze large codebases, documents, and data in a single context with improved speed and lower cost.

New Funding Raised: $29M, Seed

Round Investors: Justin Mateen, Javier Villamizar

🚀Growth Focus: Support to utilize its sparse attention architecture to achieve a 12-million-token context window in its AI model.

Press: SiliconANGLE, The New Stack

HQ: Miami, FL

Industry: Research Services

Employee Count: 35

Nace.AI operates a metamodeling platform, enabling businesses to create, deploy, and manage custom AI models with integrated validation and performance monitoring.

New Funding Raised: $21.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Walden Catalyst (lead), General Catalyst, MVP Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Support to commercialize a platform where more than 100 specialized AI agents autonomously execute complex enterprise workflows, with human experts providing final validation.

Press: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Palo Alto, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 50

ReFiBuy develops a commerce intelligence engine that optimizes product data and offers for agentic commerce environments, allowing brands and merchants to improve product visibility and maximize revenue across AI-driven commerce channels.

New Funding Raised: $13.6M, Seed

Round Investors: NewRoad Capital Partners, Silicon Road Ventures, Commerce Ventures, Knoll Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Scale its Commerce Intelligence Engine and accelerate go-to-market strategies, according to a press statement released today by the startup.

Press: Yahoo Finance, Hypepotamus

HQ: Raleigh, NC

Industry: Retail

Employee Count: 25

Village provides a pediatric therapy platform that simplifies the discovery and management of specialized care, enabling families to find providers that fit their needs and reduce the complexities of care coordination.

New Funding Raised: $9.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Upfront Ventures (lead), GTMfund, Perceptive Ventures, Bling Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its continued market-by-market expansion across Southern California, into additional California markets, and new states, leveraging national insurance contracts and a repeatable launch playbook refined through its Los Angeles rollout.

Press: Yahoo Finance, FinSMEs

HQ: Los Angeles, CA

Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

Employee Count: 29

Altara develops an AI-powered platform that streamlines scientific research and development by integrating and analyzing complex data across systems, allowing users to accelerate experimentation, reduce manual data work, and drive faster scientific breakthroughs through AI-powered data integration, analysis, and automation.

New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed

Round Investors: Grayrock Partners (lead), Neo, BoxGroup, Jeff Dean

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate scientific and industrial breakthroughs with agentic AI.

Press: Business Wire, TechCrunch

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 1

Xcaliber operates a digital health platform that automates and manages healthcare data tasks using AI agents and a connected data fabric, enabling care teams, administrators, and clinical staff to coordinate workflows, reduce manual effort, and maintain compliance.

New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Seed

Round Investors: ManchesterStory Group (lead), Benhamou Global Ventures, Arka Venture Labs

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and scale the platform across organizations nationwide.

Press: Yahoo Finance, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Plano, TX

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 62

Spring Labs Holdings, Inc. develops an AI-based platform that automates regulatory workflows for financial institutions, enabling banks, fintechs, sponsor banks, and debt collection agencies to achieve compliance, reduce manual oversight, and improve efficiency without increasing staff.

New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed

Round Investors: BankTech Ventures (lead), Haymaker Ventures (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion from AI-compliant and dispute agents into a broader compliance workflow and agent orchestration platform for banks, sponsor banks, and fintechs.

Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance Singapore

HQ: Marina del Rey, CA

Industry: Financial Services

Employee Count: 60

QuantWare develops quantum processing units and foundry services that supply hardware components for the assembly of quantum computers, enabling research institutions and technology developers to construct quantum systems, implement error-correction models, and execute quantum computations.

New Funding Raised: $178M, Series B

Round Investors: ETF Partners (lead), Intel Capital (lead), IQT (lead), FORWARD.one

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its VIO processor architecture and fund the construction of KiloFab, the world’s largest dedicated quantum open-architecture fabrication facility.

Press: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Delft, Netherlands

Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing

Employee Count: 87

Smartness builds web-based pricing management software that manages hotel rates, allowing users to spend less time managing prices and taking care of property, staff, and guests.

New Funding Raised: €47M, Series B

Round Investors: CDP Venture Capital (lead), United Ventures (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Further strengthen its competitive advantage in a global market that is rapidly shifting from software tools to AI-powered operational systems.

Press: EU-Startups, Ventureburn

HQ: Arco, Italy

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 186

Cytospire Therapeutics develops multispecific antibody therapies, enabling targeted activation of immune cells for next-generation treatment of diseases.

New Funding Raised: £61M, Series A

Round Investors: 4BIO Capital (lead), Criteria Bio Ventures, Pathway Bioventures, Modi Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its pipeline in solid and liquid tumours, including advancement of lead program, CYT X300 targeting EGFR-positive cancers, to clinical proof-of-concept

Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance

HQ: London, England

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 19

eleQtron develops quantum computing hardware that advances computational capabilities for complex problem-solving, allowing industry sectors such as materials research, logistics, pharmaceuticals, finance, and data analytics with enhanced computational efficiency and new capabilities for addressing specialized computational challenges.

New Funding Raised: €57M, Series A

Round Investors: Schwarz Digits (lead), Earlybird Venture Capital, Ankaa Ventures, Precitec

🚀Growth Focus: EU-Startups, Vestbee

Press: Scale production capacity, expand cloud access, and further develop its hardware platform for industrial applications.

HQ: Siegen, Germany

Industry: Information Technology & Services

Employee Count: 101

Lithosquare operates an AI-powered mineral exploration technology that improves the discovery of critical mineral deposits, enabling mining companies to identify promising mineral targets and reduce exploration risks efficiently.

New Funding Raised: $25M, Seed

Round Investors: Kindred Capital (lead), World Fund (lead), OVNI Capital, Daphni

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the discovery and development of critical metals deposits at a time when existing supply chains cannot meet global demand.

Press: EU-Startups, Tech Funding News

HQ: Paris, France

Industry: Mining

Employee Count: 20