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🌎 Americas
Stord develops a digital warehousing and distribution network that provides visibility and control over inventory across the supply chain, enabling brands and retailers to manage inventory and orders efficiently, improve margins, and deliver consistent customer experiences.
New Funding Raised: $250M, Series F
Round Investors: Strike Capital, Founders Fund, G Squared, Bond
🚀Growth Focus: Advance physical intelligence layer for commerce.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Union City, GA
Industry: Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Storage
Employee Count: 888
OpenRouter operates an AI model aggregator platform that provides access to various large language models, allowing businesses to leverage AI for tasks such as creative text generation, code completion, and advanced research.
New Funding Raised: $113M, Series B
Round Investors: CapitalG (lead), MongoDB Ventures, NVentures, Snowflake Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its routing, governance, and optimization capabilities as enterprises increasingly deploy AI systems into production environments.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 64
Handle develops construction-specific financial management software that automates payment compliance and credit operations, enabling construction suppliers and subcontractors to reduce compliance risk and accelerate collections.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Series B
Round Investors: Marbruck (lead), Liquid 2 Ventures, Wex, Energize Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support its expansion from a compliance and payments solution into a comprehensive financial operations platform for the construction supply chain, deepening its go-to-market reach and product suite.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 95
Robbin provides financial services that provide credit cards for small and medium businesses, allowing businesses with financial management services that sell through the machine or payment links.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: Canary (lead), Clocktower Technology Ventures, ABSeed Ventures, Atlantico
🚀Growth Focus: Scale a B2B buy now, pay later platform that lets small retailers pay for wholesale purchases in installments.
Press: Startup Researcher, Dealroom
HQ: São Paulo, Brazil
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 41
American Fortress develops privacy and cryptographic infrastructure technology, enabling secure, compliant, and post-quantum protection across blockchain ecosystems and AI-driven applications.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: 0G (lead), Moon Pursuit Capital (lead), SAVA Investment management (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate production deployment of its privacy infrastructure and support the planned $AF token generation event, targeted for Q2 2026.
Press: Yahoo Finance, TradingView
HQ: Sheridan, WY
Industry: Data Security Software Products
Employee Count: 10
Didit develops a privacy management software that ensures identity verifications and prevents fraud, allowing businesses to automate verification, reduce costs, and enhance security at scale.
New Funding Raised: $7.5M, Seed
Round Investors: SaaSholic (lead), Y Combinator, Taro Fukuyama, Phosphor Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-based identity verification and fraud detection platform amid growing demand for digital identity infrastructure and online compliance tools.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 20
Certo’s product compliance platform helps businesses manage regulatory obligations, enabling compliance, legal, product, and operations teams to reduce manual effort, manage regulatory risk, and bring products to market more efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed
Round Investors: Daphni (lead), Transpose Platform Management, Motier Ventures, Entrepreneurs First
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-powered compliance platform, helping beauty and consumer goods companies manage complex international product regulations.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 4
Flexprice builds a usage-based pricing platform that automates billing for AI and agentic companies, enabling software businesses and AI service providers to efficiently track usage, streamline revenue operations, and monetize their offerings.
New Funding Raised: $1.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Shastra VC (lead), TDV Partners, Anupam Mittal
🚀Growth Focus: Expand internationally and broaden its product offerings beyond billing solutions.
Press: Dealroom, Siliconindia
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
🌍 EMEA
Lucis develops a blood testing platform that transforms regular blood testing into actionable insights to help people live healthier, allowing users to get a customized health plan tailored to their health status.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Singular (lead), Celine Lazorthes, Y Combinator, Manu Lecomte
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its personalization capabilities, invest in longitudinal monitoring and clinical safety tools, and accelerate its market expansion into Spain, Germany, and Italy by the end of 2026.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Ventureburn
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Health and Human Services
Employee Count: 33
allO develops a restaurant management platform, enabling local restaurants to streamline operations, improve staff efficiency, and enhance guest experiences through accessible digital tools.
New Funding Raised: $14M, Series A
Round Investors: Zigg Capital (lead), Keen Venture Partners, Aperture.co, LifeX Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its AI restaurant operating system across Europe.
Press: EU-Startups, Ventureburn
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 62
Quanscient develops a multiphysics simulation software that uses cloud and quantum computing to improve simulation technology, allowing users to run complex simulations in a fraction of the time.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: 55 North (lead), B&C Group (lead), First Fellow Partners, Crowberry Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support product development and global expansion.
Press: EU-Startups, Ventureburn
HQ: Tampere, Finland
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 49
Perceptic develops an AI operating system that streamlines the drug development lifecycle, allowing pharmaceutical researchers to automate asset scouting, scientific evaluation, and clinical data analysis while maintaining transparent and traceable decision workflows.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed
Round Investors: Accel (lead), Air Street Capital, Elder Gull
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering team and grow its customer base.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 10
Coachbetter builds a sports tech platform that manages coaching-related activities, enabling football coaches at all levels to manage their daily training and team activities.
New Funding Raised: $8.2M, Seed
Round Investors: Swiss Founders Fund, Zen11 Holdings, Brighteye Ventures, Julian Draxler
🚀Growth Focus: Support team expansion, product development, and scaling into additional markets and club structures.
Press: Dealroom, startbase.com
HQ: Hof, Switzerland
Industry: Spectator Sports
Employee Count: 40
PerPlant develops a sensor technology that helps optimize farming, allowing farmers to easily monitor plants with centimeter-level precision.
New Funding Raised: DKK7.6M, Seed
Round Investors: Jytte Rosenmaj (lead), Kraen Nielsen (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Dealroom, techsavvy.media
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 19
Tequipy’s hardware-as-a-service platform simplifies business technology access for companies worldwide, enabling users to streamline equipment procurement, reduce upfront costs, and ensure their teams have the technology they need to be productive, regardless of location.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: Smedvig Ventures (lead), Manta Ray Ventures, Unfold.vc
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform beyond hardware into software and security operations.
Press: Startup Researcher, Tech.eu
HQ: London, England
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 26
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⭐️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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