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🌎 Americas
GridCARE develops an AI-driven grid optimization platform that helps data centers and utilities meet unprecedented electricity demand by rapidly unlocking existing grid capacity, enabling users to scale AI infrastructure faster, lower electricity costs, and improve resilience while benefiting utilities and ratepayers.
New Funding Raised: $64M, Series A
Round Investors: Sutter Hill Ventures (lead), Xora Innovation, Overture Ventures, National Grid Partners (NGP)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate what the company describes as a new category called “Power Acceleration” for AI infrastructure.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Redwood City, CA
Industry: Energy Technology
Employee Count: 36
Nof1 develops an AI-driven trading and research platform that leverages financial markets, allowing users to benefit from cutting-edge AI systems designed for adaptability, resilience, and long-term innovation across complex real-world scenarios.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Seed
Round Investors: Karatage (lead), Sui Group Holdings (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to enable recursive superintelligence to continue pursuing open-ended algorithms designed to drive continuous, self-sustaining scientific discovery.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 7
Shyld AI operates an AI-driven system that automates workflow and infection control within healthcare facilities, enabling hospitals and clinics to maintain safer environments for patients and staff while improving operational efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $13.4M, Seed
Round Investors: Aulis Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate deployments across U.S. health systems and expand its Active AI capabilities into additional clinical and industrial applications, including regulated cleanroom environments and pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Press: Yahoo Finance, FinSMEs
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 26
Sprouts develops an AI-powered go-to-market platform that builds precise target account lists, allowing users to streamline demand generation using AI.
New Funding Raised: $9M, Seed
Round Investors: Accel (lead), True Global Ventures (TGV) (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support product development, expansion of its AI agent capabilities, and broader enterprise distribution.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 146
ChampAI provides enterprise automation technology that creates AI agents that execute workflows across operations and systems, enabling enterprises and startups to automate support, reconcile invoices, monitor pricing, manage onboarding, and streamline operations while reducing manual work, improving efficiency, and ensuring scalability across industries.
New Funding Raised: $8.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Redpoint (lead), Max Mullen, JJ Zhuang, SV Angel
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, accelerate product development, and deepen its presence across key verticals.
Press: GlobeNewswire, The Manila Times
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 6
Graphon develops a pre-model intelligence layer that helps enterprises transform multimodal data into persistent relational memory, allowing users to scale enterprise knowledge agents, conduct deep multimodal research, and drive cost-efficient AI search by reducing token and compute usage.
New Funding Raised: $8.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Novera Ventures (lead), Hitachi Ventures, GS Futures, B37 Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Build out its relational representation platform, advance its continuous multimodal graph technology, and scale infrastructure to support enterprise-wide AI agent frameworks.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
Flick.art develops an AI-powered filmmaking platform that gives creators intuitive control over visual storytelling, enabling filmmakers and video creators to focus on storytelling and artistic direction while using AI to enhance creative output.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: LightSpeed, True Ventures, Google Ventures, N1
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its core creative tooling for cinematic control, and grow its community of filmmakers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 6
Developer Capital develops early-stage investment and support services, allowing AI startups to access capital and technology expertise for growth.
New Funding Raised: CA$5M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its unique strategy of operating more like a startup than a traditional venture capital firm.
Press: Startup Researcher, Mobidictum
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Industry: Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Employee Count: 4
Hardal’s server-side analytics platform has control over data and ensures compliance with privacy regulations, enabling businesses to collect user data and analyze marketing campaigns without relying on third-party cookies or trackers.
New Funding Raised: $1.55M, Seed
Round Investors: Simya VC (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand globally, grow its team, and strengthen its AI infrastructure.
Press: Dealroom, Mobidictum
HQ: Wilmington, DE
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 19
DataMission.ai operates an AI-powered government data platform that streamlines public sector operations and decision-making, allowing cities, counties, and public sector agencies to improve operational efficiency, enhance planning accuracy, and make data-driven decisions.
New Funding Raised: $1M, Seed
Round Investors: Elephant Genius (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its suite of department-specific AI agents covering finance, public safety, housing, infrastructure, 311 operations, and economic development.
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Government Administration
Employee Count: 4
🌍 EMEA
DesignVerse develops a design system platform that creates quality designs for projects efficiently, enabling designers to experience the ease of adapting their designs effortlessly, enhancing innovation and efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $5.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Begin Capital (lead), GapMinder VC (lead), Underline Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering team and accelerate growth across the enterprise sector, both in Europe and the US.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Bucharest, Romania
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 16
PANTA develops a cloud-based index management platform, allowing financial institutions to create, operate, and analyze custom indices and investment portfolios.
New Funding Raised: £3M, Seed
Round Investors: Fuel Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support product development, expand engineering capabilities, and drive commercial growth as it transitions from its pilot phase into broader market deployment.
Press: Pulse 2.0, UK Tech Investment News
HQ: London, England
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 14
Zerops’s cloud platform builds, deploys, and runs apps without hassle, enabling programmers and developers to manage runtimes, databases, and storage.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: Gi21 Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global bare-metal infrastructure presence into North America and Asia—including opening a new data center in Singapore—while accelerating product development and scaling its team.
HQ: Prague, Czechia
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 7
Envoke operates a digital twin platform that simulates instruments for sales, training, and remote service operations, allowing laboratory equipment manufacturers and service teams to improve product training, user engagement, and maintenance support.
New Funding Raised: £1.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Finance Yorkshire, NPIF – Mercia Equity Finance, Foresight Group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its product presence into the Asia-Pacific market and create three to five new software engineering and customer success jobs within the United Kingdom.
Press: Startup Rise EU, FinSMEs
HQ: Leeds, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
DDD Invoices develops a cloud-based platform for invoice management, enabling businesses to operate more efficiently and effectively.
New Funding Raised: €1.31M, Seed
Round Investors: 500 Global (lead), Fil Rouge Capital (FRC) (lead), Hans Berg, Carl-Henric Nilsson
🚀Growth Focus: Expand country coverage, streamline integrations and deployment, and grow the team across product, engineering, and go-to-market.
Press: Vestbee, EU-Startups
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 21
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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