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🌎 Americas
Benefitbay develops an administration platform that offers personalized benefits for the modern workforce, enabling employees to access the tools and support to select and enroll in the right plan.
New Funding Raised: $18M, Series A
Round Investors: Ten Coves Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its payments infrastructure, direct carrier and payroll integrations, and broker-focused enablement tools that support large-scale ICHRA deployment.
Press: citybiz, EIN Presswire
HQ: Kansas City, MO
Industry: Insurance
Employee Count: 64
Texture’s data platform coordinates energy operations across assets, teams and partners, allowing users to deliver products and services at a lower time and cost.
New Funding Raised: $12.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Equal Ventures (lead), VoLo Earth Ventures (lead), Abstract, Lerer Hippeau
🚀Growth Focus: Support the expansion of its platform, which is already being used by utility cooperatives and energy companies to help manage grid operations in real time.
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 21
Vêtir operates a luxury fashion platform that provides curated designer shopping experiences and an AI-powered personal styling system for women, enabling users to discover, organize, and elevate their wardrobe with personalized, trend-forward choices.
New Funding Raised: $5.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Laidlaw & Company
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its personalization engine, expand its global presence, and deepen integrations with enterprise partners across luxury fashion and retail.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 16
20n Bio operates a biotechnology research company for peptide drug discovery and development.
New Funding Raised: $7.5M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Advance an AI-enabled cyclic peptide discovery platform.
HQ: Philadelphia, PA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 4
Clouted develops a marketing technology platform that automates video clipping, allowing creators to reach a wider audience.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: Slow Ventures (lead), Z Venture Capital, Andrew Tan, Ventures Together
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its Distribution Intelligence infrastructure, grow the creator network, and accelerate vertical expansion into gaming and streaming.
Press: Pulse 2.0, TechCrunch
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Advertising Services
Employee Count: 38
CVRD Health develops an ICHRA management platform that maximizes health and wellness dollars, reduces administrative burden, and strengthens employers' competitive edge, enabling employers to optimize their fringe benefit spending while offering employees flexibility and choice in their health coverage.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Upfront Ventures (lead), Distributed Ventures, Waterline Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate platform development, expand its compliance and member advocacy teams, and bring its solution to federal contractors of all sizes nationwide.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: McLean, VA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 12
Contrario operates an AI recruiting platform that builds early-stage teams, enabling companies to shortlist suitable candidates for open roles to eliminate headhunters and expensive recruiting agencies.
New Funding Raised: $2.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Nexus Venture Partners (lead), Hank Couture, Goodwater Capital, David Chen
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 55
Patina develops novel scent molecules that expand the palette of available fragrance ingredients, allowing perfumers, brands, and cultural institutions to access an expanding library of never-before-existing scent materials that broaden the creative possibilities of olfactory design.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: True Ventures, Betaworks
🚀Growth Focus: Support to create new scent molecules with AI.
Press: TechCrunch, Dealroom
HQ: Brooklyn, NY
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 2
🌍 EMEA
Cycles develops a financial technology platform that enables individuals to settle debts securely, enabling users to regain financial control in a way that aligns with their needs and values.
New Funding Raised: $6.4M, Seed
Round Investors: Blockchange Ventures (lead), Coinbase Ventures, Compound, Primitive Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of the clearing network, expand product rollout, and scale enterprise adoption efforts as Cycles attempts to establish itself as foundational infrastructure for a more capital-efficient on-chain financial system.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Lausanne, Switzerland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 8
QuberTech provides biotechnology systems for material production, allowing industries that rely on rubber and related materials to maintain their supply and production.
New Funding Raised: £3.4M, Seed
Round Investors: Sustainable Ventures (lead), UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its engineering biology platform, expand operational capabilities, and support early-stage commercialization efforts.
Press: Tech.eu, FoundersToday
HQ: Norwich, England
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 11
Deep Forestry develops an autonomous drone that performs wood volume calculations, enabling users to calculate wood volumes and georeferenced maps to assist in the harvesting process.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: Fairpoint Capital (lead), Arbor Day Impact Fund, First Gate Invest, Spatial Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support team expansion and establish commercial presence in key forestry markets globally.
Press: EIN Presswire, Dealroom
HQ: Uppsala, Sweden
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 17
MEDIADS develops a social advertising amplification platform, allowing businesses to enhance campaign performance by combining branded content with media partnerships and audience targeting tools.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: Seventure Partners, 404 Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its entry into the United States, the world's largest social advertising market.
Press: Startup Researcher, Tech Funding News
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Advertising Services
Employee Count: 17
ARYZE develops a digital currency that offers a payment option with multi-asset integration and a range of integration tools for both private users and businesses, enabling users to make seamless mobile payments through the digital wallet.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued development of their integrated approach.
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 26
Efferon operates extracorporeal blood purification technologies for medical detoxification, aiding intensive care by stabilizing critically ill patients, reducing mechanical ventilation time, and mitigating risks of systemic inflammatory and multiple organ failure syndromes.
New Funding Raised: $2.9M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the expansion of its U.S. office and strengthen the local team.
HQ: Villach, Austria
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 11
Qurie provides solid-state cooling systems for refrigeration purposes, enabling industrial and commercial cooling markets to reduce dependence on climate-damaging refrigerants and improve operational efficiency.
New Funding Raised: €2.2M, Seed
Round Investors: TT49, HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds), Aepikur
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued technology development, while an additional research program funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy will support development activities through the end of 2026.
HQ: Freiburg, Germany
Industry: HVAC and Refrigeration Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 8
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Exa (LI) is hiring a Founding NYC AE and a Head of Sales Development for its SF/NYC-based team.
Sigma Computing (LI) is hiring remote + in-person Enterprise AEs, and Commercial AEs for its NYC-based team.
Socket (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs and a Channel Partners Lead for its remote based team.
Fresha (LI) is hiring sales roles globally, including in London, Paris, and Austin, TX.
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.
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