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🌎 Americas
Anduril Industries develops autonomous defense and surveillance systems, enabling military and government agencies to enhance threat detection, situational awareness, and operational efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $5B, Series H
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Thrive Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its manufacturing capacity.
Press: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Orange, CA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 8038
Rivermark Medical develops a minimally invasive device therapy that restores urinary function among patients, allowing patients an early return to normal daily life.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series D
Round Investors: Andera Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support its ongoing RAPID III pivotal clinical trial, achieve regulatory approval in the United States, and prepare for the commercial launch of Rivermark’s flagship product, the FloStent™ System.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Milwaukee, WI
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 15
Oishii operates vertically farmed, indoor-grown berries and tomatoes for premium consumer markets, enabling grocery retailers and food service buyers to offer consumers consistently ripe, pesticide-free, high-quality fresh produce available year-round, regardless of seasonal constraints.
New Funding Raised: $150M, Series C
Round Investors: SPARX Asset Management (lead), Nomura Real Estate Development, MISUMI Group, Mizuho Bank
🚀Growth Focus: Support to increase production capacity, advance robotics integration, expand farm infrastructure, and develop new product formats within its Smart Farm model, while continuing to invest in R&D and innovation capabilities across the United States and Japan.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Jersey City, NJ
Industry: Farming
Employee Count: 285
Cerevance develops novel therapeutics for new medicine formulation for central nervous system diseases, allowing healthcare providers to detect and tackle the early onset of various neurological diseases.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series C
Round Investors: Gates Frontier Fund, Lightstone Ventures, Google Ventures, UPMC Enterprises
🚀Growth Focus: Support operations into mid-2027 and finance completion of the ARISE study alongside continued pipeline development.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 37
Monaco’s AI-native revenue intelligence platform enables companies to automate demand generation, sales outreach, and pipeline growth, enabling users to streamline prospecting and sales execution through AI-driven revenue automation.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series B
Round Investors: Benchmark (lead), Human Capital, Founders Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its AI-powered sales platform and prepare for a broader commercial launch.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 61
Judgment Labs develops an AI evaluation platform for real-time monitoring and assessment of multi-step workflows, allowing users to deploy and maintain their models with efficiency at an enterprise scale.
New Funding Raised: $32M, Series A
Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission of helping AI‑native teams turn production data into continuously improving agents.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 23
BranchLab develops an AI-native platform that improves how healthcare marketers identify and engage high-value audiences, enabling healthcare marketers to reach the right professionals and patients with greater relevance and efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Series A
Round Investors: McKesson Ventures (lead), Sanofi Ventures, FCA Venture Partners, AIX Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand enterprise deployments, deepen integrations across the healthcare and media ecosystem, and continue building the unified AI platform for pharma commercialization.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Advertising Services
Employee Count: 42
Outmarket AI operates an AI-driven intelligence platform for insurance brokerages that streamlines complex workflows and automates manual tasks to drive agency-wide productivity, allowing users to save significant manual labor hours, reduce errors and omissions risk through data-backed insights, and scale their expertise to grow revenue.
New Funding Raised: $17M, Series A
Round Investors: Permanent Capital Partners (lead), Fika Ventures, Dash Fund, TTV Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate platform expansion and build additional AI-powered workflows for commercial, benefits, personal lines, and specialty insurance.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Insurance
Employee Count: 35
Vector develops an advertising audience platform that helps businesses identify and target potential buyers, enabling business-to-business marketing teams to improve ad targeting and identify sales opportunities from buyer activity.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A
Round Investors: HubSpot Ventures (lead), SignalFire (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its AI‑powered ad automation platform for B2B marketers.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 87
CASIMIR operates electric power generation devices that manipulate the structure of quantum field energy, allowing businesses to interact with quantum fields through nanotechnology.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed
Round Investors: Scout Ventures (lead), Capital Factory, Tim Draper, Cottonwood Technology Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate chip performance optimization, targeting commercial availability of its MicroSparc chip by 2028.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Houston, TX
Industry: Renewable Energy Power Generation
Employee Count: 10
Avant Genomics develops a liquid biopsy technology that supports non-invasive blood-based cancer detection and therapeutic monitoring, enabling clinical laboratories to deliver precise and accessible diagnostics for patient care.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: TitletownTech, Halyard Ventures, The Global Good Fund, Virginia Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its Avant Source platform, an automated liquid biopsy sample preparation system designed for precision cancer detection.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Charlottesville, VA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 8
Phase3D operates an in-process data machine that decreases schedule delays and reduces energy waste, allowing engineers to find advanced part geometry defects and parameterize sensors for optimum detection.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: New York Angels, Quest Venture Partners, DMG Mori Seiki, Kinisis Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its growth and strengthen its position in the industrial additive manufacturing sector.
Press: cbn.com.cy, Cyprus Mail
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
Employee Count: 13
🌍 EMEA
Fractile develops advanced AI inference hardware that accelerates large-scale model execution, enabling AI developers, enterprises, and cloud infrastructure providers to run high-performance models at reduced operational cost and increased processing efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $220M, Series B
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Factorial Funds (lead), Founders Fund (lead), Kindred Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of a new generation of inference hardware designed to dramatically increase the speed and efficiency of frontier AI systems.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: London, England
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 89
NVision Imaging Technologies creates medical imaging and quantum-enhanced diagnostic systems for early treatment response assessment, providing oncology and clinical markets with high-throughput, room-temperature metabolic imaging for precise disease and therapy evaluation.
New Funding Raised: $55M, Series B
Round Investors: Abbott (lead), Playground Global, Entrée Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expands from quantum sensing into quantum computing, with the goal of accelerating the discovery and validation of new therapies.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Ulm, Germany
Industry: Nanotechnology Research
Employee Count: 130
Mantle8 operates geoscience technologies that identify and assess natural hydrogen resources, enabling researchers and energy industry participants to evaluate hydrogen potential and resource characteristics.
New Funding Raised: €31M, Series A
Round Investors: Sandwater (lead), Calderion, IP Group, Bpifrance Digital Venture
🚀Growth Focus: Support to execute a global exploration and drilling campaign over the next two years to locate, drill, and prove the commercial viability of high-purity natural hydrogen reservoirs.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Grenoble, France
Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Employee Count: 26
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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