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🌎 Americas
Helion Energy develops a fusion energy technology that generates clean electricity through controlled nuclear fusion, enabling utilities, energy partners, and large-scale power users to produce continuous, clean electricity without fuel scarcity or carbon emissions.
New Funding Raised: $465M, Series G
Round Investors: Thrive Capital (lead), Good Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Capricorn Investment Group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand manufacturing and accelerate commercial fusion deployment.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Everett, WA
Industry: Renewable Energy Power Generation
Employee Count: 542
Supabase operates an open-source backend platform that helps developers build and manage applications, allowing developers to create applications with built-in scalability, security, and compatibility with various frameworks and technologies.
New Funding Raised: $500M, Series F
Round Investors: GIC (lead), Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, Felicis
🚀Growth Focus: Support to strengthen its position as a provider of infrastructure for AI-native applications and autonomous software agents.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 357
CereVasc operates a medical device company that treats patients with neurological diseases, enabling doctors to treat various neurological brain disorders efficiently with minimally invasive treatments.
New Funding Raised: $85M, Series C
Round Investors: Piper Sandler (lead), Medtronic, Perceptive Advisors, Bain Capital Life Sciences
🚀Growth Focus: Support the clinical and regulatory development of its eShunt System, including the ongoing STRIDE pivotal trial in patients with Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus.
Press: PR Newswire, Ventureburn
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 36
The Ryl Company develops ready-to-drink tea beverages that provide low-calorie functional refreshment, allowing health-conscious consumers and mainstream beverage buyers to access tea-based drinks with reduced sugar content, consistent ingredient composition, and convenient availability across grocery, convenience, and ecommerce channels.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series C
Round Investors: Purchase Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its retail footprint, expand its direct store delivery distribution network, invest across its operational and sales teams, and build out its future beverage product pipeline.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Morristown, NJ
Industry: Food and Beverage Services
Employee Count: 98
Scotch develops retail management software for operational efficiency in liquor stores, enabling liquor retailers to manage transactions, monitor stock levels, and online sales within a unified system, thereby streamlining store operations and enhancing oversight.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: VMG Partners (lead), First Round Capital, Toba Capital, Lerer Hippeau
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its engineering and go-to-market teams, and continue scaling its AI-enabled operating system nationwide.
HQ: Denver, CO
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 42
Terra AI develops an analytics platform that provides insights into subsurface resources by fusing a wide range of data and running drilling optimization, allowing firms to optimize complex projects across mineral exploration and natural resource projects.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead), BHP Ventures, Sahin Boydas
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate deployment of its generative geological modeling platform across mining, enhanced geothermal, and carbon storage.
Press: citybiz, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Services for Renewable Energy
Employee Count: 25
Arpio develops a cybersecurity software that protects and restores AWS environments, enabling users to protect and restore the entire AWS environment.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Paladin Capital Group (lead), S3 Ventures (lead), Valor Ventures, Lookout Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the continued expansion of its recovery and cyber resilience platform, deepen capabilities across Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure, and expand support to Google Cloud and other AI-native services.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Durham, NC
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 35
Scispot’s lab assistance platform turns fragmented workflows into a unified, automated lab ecosystem, enabling companies to manage lab data effectively, promote lab interoperability, and increase efficiency and reproducibility.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Series A
Round Investors: Avenue Growth Partners (lead), Breakwater Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Grow its product, engineering, AI, implementation, and customer success teams, with a focus on adding high-skill roles in Canada while supporting life sciences customers across North America and globally.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Kitchener, ON
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 21
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Semble develops a cloud-based clinical system that covers all the medical and administrative needs of the medical practice, enabling practitioners to improve health outcomes for patients.
New Funding Raised: £30M, Series C
Round Investors: Revaia (lead), Octopus Ventures, Partech, Mercia Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its connected healthcare platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 137
Ona Therapeutics provides biotechnology therapies that discover and develop biologics targeting tumor metastatic-initiating cells and lipid metabolism, allowing healthcare institutes to treat various metastatic tumors, including oral, breast, ovarian, gastric, bladder, prostate, and melanoma.
New Funding Raised: $86.6M, Series B
Round Investors: Columbus Venture Partners (lead), Mérieux Equity Partners (lead), Ysios Capital, Fund+
🚀Growth Focus: Advance the clinical development of its lead program, ONA-255, an ADC initially focused on breast cancer, and progress ONA-389, a second ADC targeting colorectal cancer.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Ventureburn
HQ: Barcelona, Spain
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 34
Gr3n Recycling develops a microwave-assisted depolymerization technology for the chemical recycling of PET plastic waste, enabling the packaging and textile industries to produce virgin-grade polymers from recycled feedstock.
New Funding Raised: €15.5M, Series B
Round Investors: 360 Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of MODUS, one of the world’s first industrial-scale plants based on microwave-assisted depolymerisation technology.
Press: Ventureburn, EU-Startups
HQ: Lugano, Switzerland
Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 17
Glyphic develops a revenue orchestration platform that uses AI to automate sales workflows, CRM updates, outbound engagement, deal monitoring, and coaching, allowing go-to-market teams to improve productivity and revenue execution.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: DN Capital (lead), Framework Venture Partners, VI Partners, Atlassian Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
Flok Health develops a digital physiotherapy service that delivers personalised and autonomous musculoskeletal care, allowing patients to receive cost-effective and immediate care without traditional wait times or in-person visits.
New Funding Raised: $12.5M, Series A
Round Investors: AlbionVC (lead), Mercia Ventures, Eka Ventures, Form Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its autonomous musculoskeletal care platform and reduce extensive patient waiting lists.
Press: Startup Researcher, Ventureburn
HQ: Cambridge, England
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 21
Freshflow’s food supply chain management platform helps manage fresh products for grocery retailers, enabling retailers to reduce global carbon emissions and make fresh food cheaper and available to customers.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Series A
Round Investors: Reimann Investors (lead), Catatumbo Capital, IBB Ventures, Caesar Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support expansion into all fresh product categories and warehouse replenishment features.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 43
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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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