CREATE Medicines develops a cell therapy platform that reprograms innate immune cells for eradicating diseases, enabling medical practitioners to overcome many limitations of existing cell therapies and effectively cure diseases.

New Funding Raised: $122M, Series B

Round Investors: ARCH Venture Partners (lead), Hatteras Venture Partners (lead), Newpath Management (lead), Alexandria Venture Investments

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its CD19-targeted in vivo CAR-T therapy (CRT-402) into clinical trials for autoimmune disease, expand its dual CAR CD19 x BCMA program, and progress its oncology pipeline.

Press: PR Newswire, citybiz

HQ: Cambridge, MA

Industry: Biotechnology

Employee Count: 39

equipifi develops financial software that removes friction in the payments ecosystem, allowing consumers to utilize the benefits of buy now, pay later.

New Funding Raised: $34M, Series B

Round Investors: Left Lane Capital (lead), SWBC, SixThirty, PHX Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its partnerships with financial institutions and enhance its product capabilities as demand for embedded flexible payment solutions continues to grow.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Scottsdale, AZ

Industry: Financial Services

Employee Count: 58

9amHealth provides digital healthcare services that offer integrated care for cardiometabolic conditions, enabling individuals and healthcare organizations to manage weight, diabetes, and heart health through continuous, coordinated care and improved long-term health outcomes.

New Funding Raised: $26M, Series B

Round Investors: Define Ventures (lead), Catalio Capital Management, SemperVirens Venture Capital, NewHealth Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Support its continued growth, expand its platform to address additional high-cost, specialty-level chronic conditions, which collectively account for up to 70% of employer pharmacy spend.

Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0

HQ: Encinitas, CA

Industry: Health and Human Services

Employee Count: 147

Nectar Social develops a social conversational commerce platform for social engagement as a source of revenue, allowing brands to scale communication and drive conversions through messaging.

New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A

Round Investors: Menlo Ventures (lead), True Ventures, Kinship Ventures, Google Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand engineering and applied AI hiring across the Bay Area and New York, deepen platform partnerships, and broaden Nectar Agent into additional marketing categories.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: Palo Alto, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 58

Wirestock’s digital platform for the creation and monetization of generative AI content, enabling creators one-door access to all content marketplaces and earning money easily.

New Funding Raised: $23M, Series A

Round Investors: Nava Ventures (lead), Sandberg Bernthal Venture Partners, Formula VC, I2BF Global Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its capacity to execute on increasingly complex custom datasets, extend coverage across emerging creative modalities, and deepen the integrations that make its data pipelines an extension of its AI lab partners’ research workflows.

Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Media

Employee Count: 503

CREW Carbon develops a process intensification system that improves wastewater treatment performance while reducing costs and environmental impact, allowing wastewater treatment facilities and carbon removal buyers to achieve more efficient operations, lower emissions, and measurable, permanent greenhouse gas reduction.

New Funding Raised: $19M, Series A

Round Investors: Burnt Island Ventures (lead), Counteract, Idemitsu CVC, ANIMO Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its wastewater treatment optimization technology and carbon dioxide removal platform.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Hamden, CT

Industry: Environmental Services

Employee Count: 22

Optura creates AI-driven software to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making in healthcare, reducing administrative burdens, improving clinical outcomes, increasing cost-efficiency, and supporting scalable, value-based care transformations.

New Funding Raised: $17.5M, Series A

Round Investors: Salesforce Ventures (lead), Echo Health Ventures, HC9 Ventures, Susa Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform’s AI capabilities, grow its platform development teams, and scale its large language model partnerships.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance

HQ: Nashville, TN

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 41

Hint’s AI home management platform provides homeowners with a centralized system for efficiency, allowing users to easily manage their complex home management tasks.

New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed

Round Investors: Slow Ventures (lead), Brian Kelly, Tusk Venture Partners, Amplo

🚀Growth Focus: Launch AI-powered home management platform.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: Charlotte, NC

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 12

Synthetic operates an AI bookkeeping platform for autonomous accounting, enabling businesses to handle end-to-end financial management without manual data entry.

New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed

Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead), Tobias Lütke, Cosmin Nicolaescu, Michael Tannenbaum

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its product prototype, expand its in-person engineering team in San Francisco, and further refine its AI quality control systems to ensure higher reliability than human-staffed services.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 5

Ranger AI develops an AI-based platform that handles commercial operations, allowing firms to manage industrial tendering workflows, including compliance, request for proposals responses, and operational decision-making.

New Funding Raised: $8.4M, Seed

Round Investors: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Inovia Capital, Defined, 25madison

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its agentic operating system, expand its engineering team, and broaden platform deployment across legal, engineering, and commercial workflows in the industrial sector.

Press: citybiz, FinSMEs

HQ: New York, NY

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 17

Origin Lab operates as a provider of licensed multimodal data for artificial world intelligence, enabling customers to build, evaluate, and refine AI models.

New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed

Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Eniac Ventures, SV Angel, Kyle Vogt

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its software, capture, enrichment, QA, search, and delivery systems, while expanding its applied research work in world understanding, dataset intelligence, and interactive simulation.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 4

Violet Therapeutics develops therapeutics that identify and target cell-to-cell interactions associated with central nervous system disorders, allowing researchers and healthcare providers to address mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease and glial dysfunction.

New Funding Raised: $4.75M, Seed

Round Investors: Lifespan Vision Ventures (lead), Ono Venture Investment, Mass General Brigham Ventures, Dementia Discovery Fund

🚀Growth Focus: Advance its lead small molecule programme targeting EphB3 through IND-enabling activities.

Press: citybiz, Dealroom

HQ: Somerville, MA

Industry: Biotechnology Research

Employee Count: 12

Secludy develops a synthetic text data-generating platform that creates synthetic datasets that mimic original data without data leaking risks, enabling data science and machine learning teams to get privacy-guaranteed synthetic data for training AI models.

New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed

Round Investors: Impression Ventures (lead), Hustle Fund, Mana Ventures, Chispa VC

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate hiring, scale its go-to-market effort, and expand the platform across more enterprise AI workflows.

Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 3

Iceotope develops liquid cooling technology that manages the heat generated by electronics, allowing users to integrate edge computing, networking, and storage effectively.

New Funding Raised: $26M, Series B

Round Investors: Barclays Climate Ventures (lead), Two Seas Capital (lead), Northern Gritstone, British Patient Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Advance product and engineering development, expand its global patent portfolio, and accelerate ecosystem partnerships to bring its cooling solutions to market more quickly.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: Catcliffe, England

Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing

Employee Count: 60

Happl builds a social platform that creates an environment where all employees belong and feel supported, enabling companies to create inclusive and engaging workplaces.

New Funding Raised: $11M, Series A

Round Investors: Portage Ventures (lead), 6 Degrees Capital, Y Combinator, F Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Support product development and international expansion as demand grows for modernised benefits management infrastructure amongst global organisations.

Press: Happl News, Dealroom

HQ: London, England

Industry: Human Resources Services

Employee Count: 24