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🌎 Americas
Farther operates an investment advisory firm that provides technology-enabled wealth management services, enabling users to manage, preserve, and grow their wealth based on their financial goals and risk tolerance.
New Funding Raised: $150M, Series D
Round Investors: General Atlantic (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its advisor platform, expand operational capabilities, and deepen its push into AI-driven financial advisory infrastructure.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 616
Modal Labs develops a serverless cloud computing platform that facilitates the deployment and scaling of compute-intensive workloads for machine learning and data processing, allowing AI and machine learning teams to run large-scale inference, training, and batch processing workloads efficiently without manual infrastructure management.
New Funding Raised: $355M, Series C
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Redpoint (lead), Menlo Ventures, Accel
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Yahoo Finance, SiliconANGLE
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 158
Hark develops a personal intelligence platform that offloads users' mental workload through advanced AI, enabling consumers to automate tasks and reclaim time for creative and personal priorities.
New Funding Raised: $700M, Series A
Round Investors: Parkway Venture Capital (lead), Brookfield, Tamarack Global, Qualcomm Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its development of advanced personalized intelligence and next-generation hardware designed to serve as a universal interface between humans and machines.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: San Jose, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 47
status operates an interactive storytelling platform that facilitates character-based roleplaying across fictional universes, allowing roleplaying participants and digital communities to structured narrative interaction and identity exploration.
New Funding Raised: $17M, Series A
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support to help scale the platform.
Press: Yahoo Finance, TechCrunch
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Social Networking Platforms
Employee Count: 38
Quantum Bridge develops proprietary software and quantum repeater hardware that improve quantum communications, enabling companies to make current networks resilient.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Series A
Round Investors: Primo Capital (lead), Club degli Investitori, Cadenza Ventures, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
🚀Growth Focus: Expand deployment of quantum-safe cybersecurity systems aimed at protecting critical infrastructure from future quantum computing threats.
HQ: Toronto, Canada
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 23
The Path develops an AI-powered therapy and coaching platform, allowing users to access personalized guidance and behavioral support through continuous digital experiences.
New Funding Raised: $14.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Prime Movers Lab (lead), Deontay Wilder, Designer Fund, Apolo Ohno
🚀Growth Focus: Expands infrastructure designed to deliver continuous, personalized therapy and coaching support outside traditional clinical care settings.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Reno, NV
Industry: Wellness and Fitness Services
Employee Count: 17
Blank Bio develops ribonucleic acid (RNA) analysis technology for mRNA design and transcript characterisation, enabling the biotechnology and pharmaceutical markets to enhance drug discovery processes, improve the efficiency of RNA-based drug development, and reduce the time and cost associated with bringing new therapies to market.
New Funding Raised: $7.2M, Seed
Round Investors: Define Ventures (lead), Ripple Ventures, SignalFire, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Support model development, expanded pharmaceutical and diagnostic partnerships, and new RNA sequencing datasets.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 6
Century Health provides a healthcare technology that accelerates drug commercialization by applying AI to longitudinal clinical data previously untapped by pharma, allowing researchers to analyze real-world data more efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Origin Ventures (lead), Next Play Ventures, 2048 Ventures, Zorba Lieberman
🚀Growth Focus: Scale collaborations and use cases with pharmaceutical and life sciences partners, grow its specialty provider data network, and expand its AI-powered data curation infrastructure.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 16
Rely develops a transaction management system that simplifies multifamily real estate workflows by reducing manual work, enabling acquisitions teams to improve accuracy, shorten review cycles, and stay focused on key tasks.
New Funding Raised: $4.5M, Seed
Round Investors: 2048 Ventures (lead), Range Ventures, Better Tomorrow Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Grow its engineering team with key hires in New York and New England and strengthen network relationships with lenders and servicers.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Startup Researcher
HQ: Dover, DE
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 6
🌍 EMEA
Fresha builds salon and spa software that helps users discover, book, and pay for beauty and wellness appointments, allowing partner businesses to unlock revenue potential by leveraging the power of online bookings and automated marketing through user-friendly and convenient mobile applications.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series C
Round Investors: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate global expansion and fuel next-generation product and AI innovation.
Press: Business Wire, TechCrunch
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 785
Pivot develops consumer-grade procurement software that helps companies keep their spending under control while enhancing their teams, enabling firms to reduce manual work and endless email threads.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: Forestay Capital (lead), Notion Capital (lead), Greyhound Capital, Visionaries Club
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of its agentic AI capabilities, expand into new enterprise markets, and deepen technical integrations with ERPs and financial systems across complex corporate environments.
Press: Ventureburn, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 104
Muybridge develops real-time computer vision systems that turn cameras into software for advanced imaging and storytelling applications, allowing dynamic virtual viewpoints and automated camera control.
New Funding Raised: $16M, Series A
Round Investors: Fairpoint Capital (lead), Idekapital (lead), Investinor (lead), RunwayFBU (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its software-defined imaging platform, designed to replace traditional broadcast camera infrastructure with virtual, real-time camera perspectives for sports and live event production.
HQ: Oslo, Norway
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 37
ClearOps’s software platform connects machine manufacturers with their dealer networks for global spare parts planning and service operations, enabling machine manufacturers and dealer networks to manage operations efficiently and improve service delivery.
New Funding Raised: €8.6M, Series A
Round Investors: Hitachi Ventures (lead), Barkawi Group, Schoeller Holding
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its mission to become the AI operating system for global OEM after-sales operations.
Press: ClearOps News, EU-Startups
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 60
Neurosoft Bioelectronics develops soft implantable electrodes that diagnose and treat neurological diseases by recording or electrically stimulating neural tissues, allowing doctors to improve therapeutic outcomes in patients and open up new applications for neural interfaces.
New Funding Raised: $7.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Skybound Venture Capital (lead), IAG Capital Partners, PL Capital, Connecticut Innovations
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its minimally invasive brain interface platform already tested in 10 patients and accelerate development of a cortical foundation model for new BCIs.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Geneva, Switzerland
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 18
Imperagen operates an enzyme evolution platform that brings together patented advances in enzyme simulation, AI, synthetic biology, and automation, enabling the healthcare sector to overcome inefficiencies and meet the needs of speed, capacity, and scalability.
New Funding Raised: £5M, Seed
Round Investors: PXN Ventures (lead), Northern Gritstone, IQ Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate research and development, expand its wet lab capabilities, and build out its go-to-market function over the next 18 months.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Manchester, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 16
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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