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🌎 Americas
Cognition provides AI training that protects company data, enabling employees to learn AI tools for the ethics and data security of the company.
New Funding Raised: $1B, Series D
Round Investors: 8VC (lead), General Catalyst (lead), Lux Capital (lead), Atreides Management
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global footprint and deepen enterprise adoption.
Press: TechCrunch, Ventureburn
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 393
ClearNote Health develops proprietary epigenomic technology for early detection of high-mortality cancers through a standard blood draw, benefiting high-risk individuals like those with type 2 diabetes or predispositions to pancreatic and ovarian cancers.
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
Daloopa develops a document automation and data extraction platform that automates workflow for complex, large-volume, and mission-critical tasks, enabling financial institutions to gain clarity in managing investment research data and to focus on decision-making.
New Funding Raised: $47M, Series C
Round Investors: Brighton Park Capital (lead), Squarepoint Capital, Touring Capital, Nexus Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Enhance its platform growth and expand its team across engineering, product, and go-to-market.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 501
Triomics develops an interconnectivity and workflow automation platform that accelerates clinical trials, allowing pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations to deliver rapid, cost-effective, optimal clinical trials.
New Funding Raised: $22M, Series B
Round Investors: Battery Ventures (lead), Nexus Venture Partners, Precision Health Informatics, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate adoption across health systems, oncology networks, and life sciences organizations.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 65
Reactor operates an infrastructure platform for real-time generative video and world models, enabling developers to build, scale, and distribute interactive artificial intelligence applications across media, entertainment, physical computing, and robotics fields without managing complex hardware clusters.
New Funding Raised: $59M, Series A
Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Sky9 Capital, WndrCo, FPV Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Build infrastructure for one of AI’s next major competitive battlegrounds: real-time, interactive AI-generated worlds.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 6
Secretome Therapeutics develops cell-based therapy for people who experience a heart attack and patients with heart failure, allowing medical practitioners to treat patients suffering from heart failure.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: RA Capital Management (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support its operations and the continued development of its pipeline.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Baltimore, MD
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 16
Solstice Health develops AI-native pharmaceutical marketing services, enabling life sciences companies to commercialize therapies and accelerate patient access.
New Funding Raised: $21M, Series A
Round Investors: Transformation Capital (lead), Virtue, Twelve Below
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its go-to-market expansion and product development, and enable it to grow its team across product and customer-facing functions.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 26
Tensormesh provides AI infrastructure optimization software for improving the performance of enterprise software, allowing enterprise and research organizations to accelerate inference speeds, reduce GPU waste, and maintain full control over data and operational environments.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: NVentures, CoreWeave, Valley Capital Partners, AMD Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand hardware-level integrations with AMD, CoreWeave, and NVIDIA, and deepen its contributions to the open-source ecosystem.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 22
Itera operates an AI platform that automates balance sheet processing and corporate credit analysis, enabling financial institutions and credit analysts to scale risk assessment processes, improve data accuracy, and make informed lending decisions.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed
Round Investors: Upfront Ventures (lead), Costanoa Ventures, Colle Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support to commercialize its fluid circuit board technology, which enables engineers to test and modify electronic designs in real time.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Engineering Services
Employee Count: 10
Psilera develops psychedelic-based drugs for neurological therapeutics, allowing clinicians to treat cognitive, mood, and substance use disorders.
New Funding Raised: $8.8M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its lead clinical asset, PSIL-006, towards first-in-human trials in 2027.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Tampa, FL
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 14
Paralign Health operates community-based preventive healthcare delivery services for improving access to care in underserved areas, enabling healthcare payers and providers to reach underserved populations, improve health outcomes, and reduce avoidable emergency utilization and overall care costs.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: Flyover Capital (lead), Forum Ventures, Sorenson Impact Foundation, SixThirty
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its national network of fire departments and EMS agencies, accelerate development of its technology platform, and grow partnerships with health plans.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Home Health Care Services
Employee Count: 5
Cypher AI develops AI-enabled laboratory automation tools for scientific research productivity, allowing research teams to accelerate experimentation and reproducible scientific outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: MaC Venture Capital (lead), LiquidMetal Ventures, Connecticut Innovations, Epsilon Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-native infrastructure platform for biotech, pharmaceutical, and research organizations seeking to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation.
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 6
🌍 EMEA
Fonoa develops tax automation and compliance software that helps companies streamline the entire transactional chain, enabling tax managers to manage their obligations without stress.
New Funding Raised: $110M, Series C
Round Investors: Headline (lead), Eurazeo, OMERS Private Equity, Dawn Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance Singapore
HQ: Dublin, Ireland
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 236
Orbital Industries’s technology platform supports the development of advanced materials, hardware, and manufacturing processes, allowing industrial manufacturers and data center operators to build high-performance infrastructure with improved thermal management.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series B
Round Investors: Plural (lead), Radical Ventures, NVentures, Fly Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its technical teams across London and San Francisco, and accelerate its underlying AI simulation platform for broader industrial use cases.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Ventureburn
HQ: London, England
Industry: Research Services
Employee Count: 59
Geordie AI develops a safe scale agentic AI that accelerates agentic without unleashing risk, enabling clients to make risk-aware decisions, reducing organisational risk as adoption scales, without adding overhead.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Balderton Capital (lead), Crosspoint Capital Partners, General Catalyst, Ten Eleven Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate adoption of agentic AI systems and seek stronger controls around deployment and governance.
Press: Ventureburn, citybiz
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 40
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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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