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🌎 Americas
Exa develops an AI-powered search engine that performs web searches at a large scale, enabling businesses to run agentic queries with a model that predicts which webpage is likely to fill in the blank of unfinished instructions.
New Funding Raised: $250M, Series C
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI infrastructure.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Dealroom
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 148
Socket operates a cybersecurity platform that protects companies from software supply chain attacks, allowing companies to reduce security risks and streamline enterprise security.
New Funding Raised: $60M, Series C
Round Investors: Thrive Capital (lead), Michael Lai, Nick Marwell, Andreessen Horowitz
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the adoption of AI coding tools and seek better ways to secure third-party open source dependencies entering production environments.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 103
Sardine develops a device intelligence platform that provides risk and fraud infrastructure for the online economy, enabling companies to build the risk and fraud layer of the fintech infrastructure and reduce costs in the ecosystem.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series C
Round Investors: NAventures (lead), Andreessen Horowitz, Geodesic Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 329
Amca manufactures precision metal components for aerospace, defense, and industrial applications, allowing users to produce components that meet strict performance, quality, and regulatory requirements across critical industries.
New Funding Raised: $300M, Series B
Round Investors: Caffeinated Capital (lead), House Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of a modernized industrial base for aerospace and defense manufacturing.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: El Segundo, CA
Industry: Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Employee Count: 43
RemotePass develops an employer-of-record platform that helps companies hire, onboard, and pay remote workers, enabling businesses with compliance to hire, onboard, and pay their global team.
New Funding Raised: $17.4M, Series B
Round Investors: EBRD Venture Capital (lead), Khwarizmi Ventures, 212, Access Bridge Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion across Europe and the US, deeper compliance coverage, and continued investment in AI capabilities.
Press: Ventureburn, Tech.eu
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 121
Quartermaster AI develops real-time maritime awareness software, allowing vessel operators to access ocean intelligence, monitor signals, and improve navigation and safety decisions.
New Funding Raised: $43M, Series A
Round Investors: First Round Capital (lead), Quiet Capital (lead), TMV, Operator Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support engineering hires to advance the technology for applications including ship identification, marine autonomy training data, and government intelligence.
Press: TechCrunch, Dealroom
HQ: Arlington, VA
Industry: Computers and Electronics Manufacturing
Employee Count: 59
Catena Labs’s decentralized identity management platform for user-controlled digital interactions, enabling users to securely manage online presence and conduct transactions without intermediaries.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: a16z crypto (lead), Acrew Capital (lead), General Catalyst, IDG Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support to build a regulated banking infrastructure for AI agents.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 15
Vital Signals develops health technology to monitor and interpret physiological data, providing structured insights for healthcare providers, researchers, and individuals, supporting medical research, enhances preventive care, and improves decision-making.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Seed
Round Investors: XYZ Venture Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Advances its technology platform and continues development efforts focused on blood pressure monitoring and long-term cardiovascular health management.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Mission Viejo, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 5
Hellbender manufactures AI-powered camera systems that improve diverse industrial and commercial needs, enabling businesses to provide end-to-end development from concept to full-scale manufacturing.
New Funding Raised: $12.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Magarac Venture Partners (lead), Veredas Partners (lead), Active Angels Network, Gaingels
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate domestic manufacturing capabilities and expand its edge AI hardware platform portfolio.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Pittsburgh, PA
Industry: Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
Employee Count: 92
Tribal develops an AI-powered enterprise development platform, allowing organizations to build, automate, and manage applications and agents within existing systems and workflows.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Team8 (lead), DYDX
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its product across major enterprise platforms, including Salesforce, ServiceNow, SAP, NetSuite, and Workday, while also accelerating expansion and hiring across the US.
Press: GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Wilmington, DE
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 50
Checker develops an API infrastructure platform that builds liquidity highways, enabling users to access financial products efficiently and on a widespread basis through direct partnerships with financial institutions.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: Al Mada Ventures (lead), Framework Ventures (lead), Galaxy Ventures (lead), Cerulean
🚀Growth Focus: Support to deepen its global payments coverage to replace traditional correspondent banking dependencies.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 17
Benji develops a loyalty partnership API, enabling brands to create meaningful partnerships and offer their members powerful ways to earn and redeem reward points.
New Funding Raised: $6.25M, Seed
Round Investors: at.inc/ (lead), Preface Ventures (lead), M25, Great North Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the expansion of its engineering and go-to-market teams in Chicago and New York as it continues scaling integrations across its loyalty partnership network.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 15
🌍 EMEA
Scope AI develops an AI-based inspection automation platform that writes error-free test, audit, and inspection reports, enabling inspectors to increase accuracy, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Susa Ventures, Syndicate One, Naren Shaam
🚀Growth Focus: Grow its London-based team and accelerate adoption among inspection companies globally.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 24 (⚡71% increase in last 6 months)
Prelude operates a phone number verification and authentication platform for secure user onboarding and fraud prevention, allowing businesses and developers to integrate reliable, cost-efficient, and scalable verification processes for users worldwide.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: The Twenty Minute VC (lead), Steffen Tjerrild, Will Wu, FDJ UNITED Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its trust infrastructure through deeper telecom partnerships, expanded API coverage across Europe, further investment in machine learning-based fraud detection, and team expansion across engineering, partnerships, and customer success.
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 64
Stilta develops an AI-powered platform that automates and streamlines patent workflows with speed, accuracy, and full auditability, enabling patent practitioners to move beyond manual document review and make faster, more informed intellectual property decisions with legal-grade transparency.
New Funding Raised: $10.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its team to approximately 10 members within the next three to six months and aims to establish an office in New York by the end of this year or early 2027.
Press: Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 5
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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