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ClearNote Health develops a proprietary epigenomic technology that detects high-mortality cancers at an early, more treatable stage through a standard blood draw, enabling high-risk individuals, such as those with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes or predisposition to pancreatic and ovarian cancers, to access early detection and improved treatment outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $52M, Series D
Round Investors: Mattias Westman (lead), Sandy Weill, Stephen Quake
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued commercial expansion, operational scale-up, clinical study execution, and product development.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 55
Thea Energy provides a scalable fusion energy technology that creates a limitless source of zero-emission power, allowing the energy sector to harness safe, sustainable, and clean fusion power for the future.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: US Innovative Technology Fund (lead), Hitachi Ventures, Emerald Technology Ventures, Calm Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its planar superconducting magnet manufacturing capacity with a second facility in Northern New Jersey, finalize the site selection and fast-track construction for its “Eos” large-scale integrated fusion system, and double its workforce.
Press: TechCrunch, Ventureburn
HQ: Kearny, NJ
Industry: Renewable Energy Power Generation
Employee Count: 106
Pace develops an AI operations platform that modernizes and streamlines insurance back office workflows, enabling insurance carriers and agencies to operate faster with consistent accuracy and reduced operational burden.
New Funding Raised: $46M, Series B
Round Investors: Sequoia Capital (lead), Thrive Capital (lead), Emergence Capital, PruVen Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support to help customers scale their AI-driven workforce to tens of millions of operational tasks this year across the United States, Europe, and additional global markets.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 35
Polsia develops a public key infrastructure-based identity platform, allowing organizations to secure cloud access and protect data from unauthorized use and cyber threats.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Drysdale Ventures, True Ventures, Adjacent, Sound Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its vision to enable AI agents to run large portions of business operations autonomously.
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 6
Lastwall’s public key infrastructure-based identity platform protects cloud data and prevents unauthorized access to cloud services, enabling users to protect data from theft and piracy.
New Funding Raised: $16M, Series A
Round Investors: Business Development Bank of Canada (lead), Frostbite Capital, Blue Bear Capital, BlueWing Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support to defend critical infrastructure from nation-state cyberattacks
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: Fredericton, NB
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 31
CasaPerks develops a resident engagement and loyalty platform for the apartment industry, allowing property managers and operators to enhance resident satisfaction, increase renewals, and drive referrals through meaningful interactions and incentives.
New Funding Raised: $15.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Longevity Equity (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion across student housing and conventional multifamily, scale its AI-powered workplace recognition platform, and further enhance its growing consumer rewards business.
Press: Austin, TX
HQ: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 17
Protuoso Biosciences operates a multifunctional biologic therapeutics platform that addresses complex diseases with unmet medical needs, enabling pharmaceutical researchers and biotechnology organizations to study and advance biologic drug development.
New Funding Raised: $9.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Darwin Ventures (lead), Taya Venture Capital (lead), NSG Ventures, Seeds Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its AI-driven protein synthetic biology platform and multifunctional biologics pipeline targeting cardiometabolic, oncology, and autoimmune diseases.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 3
Human Archive develops a multimodal AI training data and robotics infrastructure platform that advances the frontier of physical AI and world modeling, allowing users to train foundation models on real-world human sensorimotor intelligence.
New Funding Raised: $8.2M, Seed
Round Investors: nvp capital (lead), Wing Venture Capital (lead), Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Build infrastructure for collecting real-world training data for robots and physical AI systems.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 19
🌍 EMEA + Australia
WeRoad operates a traveling agency that provides tours for groups of people that share the same interests and lifestyle, enabling travel enthusiasts to choose the type of trip and to encounter the local community to discover distant countries and cultures.
New Funding Raised: $58M, Series C
Round Investors: Airbnb (lead), H14
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate international growth and launch in the US.
Press: TechCrunch, Ventureburn
HQ: Milan, Italy
Industry: Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Employee Count: 1402
Focused Energy develops a commercialized inertial fusion energy platform that provides a safe, clean, and abundant source of energy, allowing users a reliable and affordable source of energy that does not produce greenhouse gases.
New Funding Raised: $240M, Series A
Round Investors: SPRIN-D, Prime Movers Lab, Hessen Kapital, RWE
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate laser fusion industrialization and to fund a unique power plant at Biblis, Germany.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Darmstadt, Germany
Industry: Electric Power Generation
Employee Count: 125
D-CRBN manufactures industrial carbon capture and utilization technology that transforms carbon dioxide emissions into circular carbon monoxide, enabling heavy industrial sectors and petrochemical plants to decarbonize their manufacturing processes while establishing cost-effective, circular business models for carbon waste.
New Funding Raised: €17.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Astaia (lead), European Innovation Council Fund, SFPIM
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its first industrial demonstration units, expand its engineering and operations teams, and accelerate the commercial rollout of its CO₂-to-CO and syngas platform.
Press: Vestbee, EU-Startups
HQ: Antwerp, Belgium
Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 15
RevEng develops a cybersecurity defense and AI platform that helps organizations understand their cybersecurity supply chain, allowing users to develop an application programming interface that allows them to build AI for downstream tasks that inherently understand computer code.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: NATO Innovation Fund (lead), Episode 1, IQT, Sands Capital Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: London, England
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 22
Olyzon operates an agentic advertising technology platform that facilitates monetization of content on connected TV, enabling advertisers, content owners, and distributors to enhance brand uplift, optimize user engagement, and maximize return on ad spend.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A
Round Investors: S4S Ventures (lead), Ventech, Eurazeo, CASSIUS
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the expansion of its US operations and the opening of a London office, extending its presence into EMEA ahead of Cannes Lions.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Advertising Services
Employee Count: 53
Pacifico Biolabs develops biomanufacturing technology for the purpose of producing bio-based compounds through fermentation, allowing users to reduce environmental impact and diversify their ingredient sources through renewable and ocean-based biological inputs.
New Funding Raised: €7M, Series A
Round Investors: Simon Capital, Stray Dog Capital, TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen, FoodLabs
🚀Growth Focus: Support the scaling of production through existing brewery infrastructure, expansion of the team, and acceleration of product development and commercial rollout.
Press: EU-Startups, Vestbee
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 24
Baymatob’s maternal monitoring platform addresses unmet needs in women's health, enabling healthcare providers to acquire, interpret, and predict critical information on pregnancy progression and risks to mothers and their babies.
New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Series A
Round Investors: Clare Ventures, University of Sydney, Scale Investors, Alberts Impact Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Advance regulatory submissions with the Therapeutic Goods Administration and the US Food and Drug Administration, as well as business operations, and the establishment of manufacturing operations and headquarters in Australia.
Press: SmartCompany, Dealroom
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 21
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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