Mach Industries develops defense aerospace systems that build smart defense infrastructure, enabling defense users to extend long-range reach and scalable protection in contested environments.

New Funding Raised: $300M, Series C

Round Investors: Infinite Capital (lead), Ribbit Capital (lead), Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Support to ramp up production for the Pentagon and allied forces.

Press: TechCrunch, Dealroom

HQ: Huntington Beach, CA

Industry: Defense & Space

Employee Count: 269

Mecka AI’s decentralized platform for an AI data layer for robotics provides a full suite of data collection and annotation services, including large-scale, high-quality human interaction data used to train robot policies, allowing developers of humanoid robotics to accelerate the development of autonomous systems through a data acquisition and training environment.

New Funding Raised: $60M, Series A

Round Investors: Framework Ventures (lead), Menlo Ventures, Ted Xiao, SV Angel

🚀Growth Focus: Build a business around collecting human physical data, hand gestures, walking gaits, body movements, and using it to train robots.

Press: Dealroom, FinSMEs

HQ: Toronto, Canada

Industry: Data Infrastructure and Analytics

Employee Count: 48

Sekai develops an AI-native social platform, enabling users to create, share, and remix interactive software experiences as user-generated content.

New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A

Round Investors: Connect Ventures (lead), Khosla Ventures (lead), A16Z GAMES Speedrun, Parable VC

🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.

Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom

HQ: Sunnyvale, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 24

General Compute operates an AI inference cloud platform for autonomous software agents and developers, allowing technology firms and enterprise software users to deploy, scale, and manage cognitive computations.

New Funding Raised: $15M, Seed

Round Investors: Carya Venture Partners, FUSE, Village Global

🚀Growth Focus: Support to deploy SambaNova chips for AI inference.

Press: TechCrunch, Dealroom

HQ: San Francisco, CA

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 6

RevReply develops user communication automation software that manages and converts business conversations, enabling businesses to engage prospects, qualify leads, and increase conversion rates through automated interactions.

New Funding Raised: $1M, Seed

Round Investors: AngelNV, SkyDeck Berkeley

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-powered sales automation platform.

Press: Dealroom, startupsunion.com

HQ: Henderson, NV

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 11

Maxwell Power develops solar and battery energy solutions, allowing homeowners and businesses to access reliable power and long-term energy cost savings through managed service agreements.

New Funding Raised: $750M, Private Equity

Round Investors: Fairtide Partners (lead)

🚀Growth Focus: Support to finance battery storage and solar power projects, strengthen partnerships with sales and installation firms, and expand into new state markets experiencing high energy costs.

Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs

HQ: Escondido, CA

Industry: Solar Electric Power Generation

Employee Count: 40

Rightsline provides rights and contract management software that merges business rights management with online sales and licensing, enabling users to manage, simplify, and maximize intellectual property content.

New Funding Raised: $500M, Private Equity

Round Investors: Klass Capital, Salem Partners

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its product and AI roadmap through its AI product incubator and support expansion into additional international markets and verticals.

Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire

HQ: El Segundo, CA

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 268

Oak Hill Bio develops clinical-stage rare disease therapeutics for extremely preterm infants and patients suffering from rare autoimmune diseases, allowing healthcare providers to address complications of extremely preterm birth and rare autoimmune diseases.

New Funding Raised: $32.5M, Series A

Round Investors: Balyasny Asset Management (lead), Janus Henderson Investors (lead), venBio Partners (lead), KCap Biotechnology Fund

🚀Growth Focus: Advance rugonersen, its lead antisense oligonucleotide therapy for Angelman syndrome, into a pivotal Phase 3 clinical trial expected to begin in mid-2026.

Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz

HQ: Altrincham, England

Industry: Biotechnology

Employee Count: 29

Inherent develops AI solutions, enabling organizations to automate processes, enhance decision-making, and improve operational efficiency.

New Funding Raised: $50M, Seed

Round Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Radical Ventures (lead), Max Jaderberg, Dwarkesh Patel

🚀Growth Focus: Advance the creation and training of its core AI system, expand its research team, and accelerate development out of its initial operating stage.

Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs

HQ: London, England

Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet

Employee Count: 7

encosa energy operates battery storage systems that reduce electricity costs and lower carbon dioxide emissions for commercial and industrial users, allowing commercial and industrial companies to save energy expenses and make a sustainable environmental impact.

New Funding Raised: €25M, Seed

Round Investors: Realyze Ventures (lead), Sebastian Baerhold, Bayern Kapital, Verve Ventures Zurich

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its commercial and industrial battery storage systems.

Press: EU-Startups, Dealroom

HQ: München, Germany

Industry: Services for Renewable Energy

Employee Count: 19

Eddy Grid develops a smart energy optimization platform that accelerates the transition from fossil fuels by improving the use of renewable energy and flexible capacity, enabling energy producers, large power consumers, and asset owners to increase profitability, maintain energy availability, and make renewable generation commercially viable.

New Funding Raised: €6.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Volve Capital, Graduate Ventures

🚀Growth Focus: Continue its aggressive growth trajectory, forecasting approximately 1,000% growth in 2026.

Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups

HQ: Utrecht, Netherlands

Industry: Services for Renewable Energy

Employee Count: 62

Caudal Energy develops renewable energy technologies, allowing sustainable power generation and improved energy efficiency for commercial and industrial applications.

New Funding Raised: £4.3M, Seed

Round Investors: Empirical Ventures (lead), Oxford Science Enterprises (lead), Zero Carbon Capital, Creator Fund

🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering and modelling capabilities, advance demonstration and deployment activities, and accelerate commercial partnerships across utility, industrial, and distributed energy markets.

Press: Tech.eu, FinSMEs

HQ: Oxford, England

Industry: Renewable Energy Power Generation

Employee Count: 12

Handshake operates an AI-powered retail agreement management platform that helps retailers and suppliers make, store, and execute contractual agreements, enabling retailers to make market-leading contract agreements with suppliers, save time by eliminating any manual contract administrative tasks, and ensure compliance on agreed terms to reduce contract leakage.

New Funding Raised: $3.2M, Seed

Round Investors: Triple Point Ventures (lead), Octopus Ventures, Future Back Ventures by Bain & Company

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its product development, expand its engineering and customer success teams, and support deeper partnerships with retailers and suppliers.

Press: PR Newswire, FinSMEs

HQ: London, England

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 7

Crimson develops AI-powered legal productivity software that streamlines litigation workflows, allowing litigation teams and arbitrators to minimize manual tasks and concentrate on effective advocacy.

New Funding Raised: $2.5M, Seed

Round Investors: Y Combinator (lead), Progressive Ventures, Acquisition.com, Eight Capital

🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its technical product development, expand its global enterprise law firm footprint, and support the establishment of its new commercial headquarters in New York.

Press: Pulse 2.0, FinSMEs

HQ: London, England

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 23

kopa.ai’s marketing platform of AI agents automates and accelerates core e-commerce operations, enabling online merchants to streamline their digital stores and grow performance with less manual effort.

New Funding Raised: €2M, Seed

Round Investors: Practica Capital (lead), XTX Ventures (lead), Inovia Capital, Etan Ilfeld

🚀Growth Focus: Further develop its core AI infrastructure, improve the intelligence and execution reliability of its specialized agents, and expand its go-to-market efforts.

Press: Pulse 2.0, FinSMEs

HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania

Industry: Software Development

Employee Count: 14