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🌎 Americas
Cowboy Space develops space-based power and computing infrastructure, enabling AI workloads to run on orbital data centers powered by solar energy and connected through satellite networks.
New Funding Raised: $275M, Series B
Round Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Baiju Bhatt, IVP, Construct Capital
🚀 Growth Focus: Launch its first satellite into orbit later this year to demonstrate space-to-Earth power beaming.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Carlos, CA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 51
Heaviside Industries develops autonomous precision munition systems, allowing defense operations across air, land, and sea environments.
New Funding Raised: $28M, Series A
Round Investors: Interlagos Capital (lead), Menlo Ventures, Anorak Ventures, Paul Dimitruk
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development, production, and delivery of multi-domain autonomous precision munitions for U.S. and allied special operations and conventional forces—including the initial deployment of aerial and underwater munitions platforms.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Marina del Rey, CA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 21
Pumpkinseed Technologies operates a proteomics data platform that supports direct analysis of protein sequences and molecular activity, enabling biopharmaceutical, biosecurity, and biological research organizations to generate proteomic data without reference databases or extensive sample preparation.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Future Ventures (lead), NFX (lead), Stanford University, Base4 Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its development from peptide to full-length protein sequencing and expand biopharma partnerships.
Press: Pumpkinseed Bio, Dealroom
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 17
Jesse & Ben’s produce fries that offer healthier, inflammation-free options, allowing users to enjoy nutritious and flavorful fries.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A
Round Investors: Greycroft (lead), Willow Growth Partners, Carter Comstock, Lauryn n.
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its continued retail expansion, supply chain investment, and leadership team build-out as the company scales nationally.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Rockville, MD
Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Employee Count: 12
Config’s data infrastructure platform drastically reduces the cost and time of developing bimanual robot models, enabling businesses working with custom robotic tasks to accelerate adoption and deployment.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Seed
Round Investors: Samsung Ventures (lead), Pieter Abbeel, ZERO1NE Ventures, Korea Development Bank
🚀Growth Focus: Expand foundation model data operations and scale industrial AI applications.
Press: TechCrunch, Whalesbook
HQ: San Jose, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
Ciridae develops AI technology solutions and digital services, allowing organizations to improve operational efficiency and business performance.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Andreessen Horowitz, Sunflower Capital, General Catalyst
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering team and advance its mission of bringing AI transformation to mid-market companies that have largely been left behind by the broader AI boom.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 15
Dishio operates an AI-powered guest data capture and marketing automation platform that helps restaurants identify and retain users, enabling restaurant groups to increase repeat visits, improve customer retention, and grow per-location revenue.
New Funding Raised: $2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support product expansion and continued growth as it works to help restaurants reduce revenue leakage and build lasting customer relationships.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Restaurant Technology News
HQ: Miami, FL
Industry: Technology, Information, and Media
Employee Count: 6
🌍 EMEA + Australia
Grand Games operates a gaming studio that develops games, allowing players to play games of various types.
New Funding Raised: $70M, Series B
Round Investors: Balderton Capital (lead), Laton Ventures, Mert Gür, Bek Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate marketing efforts to scale existing games and support a strong pipeline of upcoming releases, while continuing an active hiring push.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Istanbul, Turkey
Industry: Mobile Gaming Apps
Employee Count: 86
Eyeo develops nanophotonic image sensors that split light efficiently and improve digital image resolution, enabling electronics manufacturers and vision system developers to enhance smartphone camera performance, improve autonomous vehicle reliability, and capture high-fidelity medical diagnostics.
New Funding Raised: €40M, Series A
Round Investors: Innovation Industries (lead), HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds), Invest-NL, Qbic Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Support to commercialize a sensor technology that, in its framing, removes a constraint that has shaped digital imaging for fifty years.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Eindhoven, Netherlands
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 23
Fifth Dimension AI develops a decision intelligence platform that enhances real-assets investment decision-making, allowing real-assets investors and managers to accelerate underwriting timelines and scale deal capacity.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Series A
Round Investors: HV Capital (lead), Prudence, Anthemis, Seedcamp
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate expansion across the US and Asia Pacific, including a new Singapore office, and deepen its agentic AI capabilities for real assets investment decisions.
Press: Vestbee, EU-Startups
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 39
SWEBAL manufactures a trinitrotoluene production facility that strengthens and prevents military conflicts through the production of defensive capabilities, enabling users to improve supply chain reliability and ensure access to essential defense materials within Europe.
New Funding Raised: €30M, Seed
Round Investors: Pär Svärdson, Karl L E Engelbrektson, Thomas von Koch, Pär Svärdson
🚀Growth Focus: Support to complete the factory and unlock European supply chains at scale, at a time when foreign import dependencies and long-distance shipping pose a serious risk to the continent’s manufacturing.
HQ: Gothenburg, Sweden
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 3
ProcurePro develops a procurement platform for head contractors, setting a new standard of innovation for the built world, allowing businesses to improve visibility, efficiencies, quality, and consistency.
New Funding Raised: $11M, Seed
Round Investors: QIC Ventures (lead), Airtree Ventures, ISAI Cap Venture, Glitch Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its construction-focused AI product suite and support expansion across the United Kingdom, the Middle East, and North America.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: Brisbane, Australia
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 95
NanoStruct develops contaminant detection technologies, enabling manufacturers to identify microbiological, chemical, and microplastic contaminants for improved product quality and process safety.
New Funding Raised: €2.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Auxxo (lead), Bayern Kapital (lead), HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds) (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to validate its system through pilot projects in the food analysis market, build a structured sales organization, and capture its first target market.
Press: EU-Startups, Vestbee
HQ: Würzburg, Germany
Industry: Nanotechnology Research
Employee Count: 15
Avendar provides an AI-based operational intelligence platform for situational awareness and threat prioritization purposes, allowing defence organizations, civil security agencies, and enterprise operators to monitor operational data, improve response coordination, accelerate decision processes, and manage complex security.
New Funding Raised: €2.2M, Seed
Round Investors: BOM (lead), LUMO labs (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering team and prepare for broader European expansion.
HQ: Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
Enaxiom develops energy technology that makes the industrial process more sustainable and commercially viable, enabling businesses to achieve significant cost savings while advancing toward their sustainability objectives.
New Funding Raised: $1.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Antler, Black Nova Venture Capital, Epic Angels
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission to help the digital world grow without depleting the planet's most precious resources.
Press: Startup Researcher, Dealroom
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Engineering Services
Employee Count: 4
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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