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🌎 Americas
Hyperlight developer of integrated optical circuits that help reduce low levels of signal loss, enabling users to operate at proper speeds and low power.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series C
Round Investors: MediaTek (lead), Foxconn Technology Group, Foothill Ventures, CDIB -TEN Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand manufacturing capacity, accelerate customer qualification, scale its TFLN Chiplet Platform, and deepen partnerships across foundry, semiconductor, networking, and systems integration domains.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Cambridge, MA
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 80
InStride Health operates an outpatient care platform that provides evidence-based care for pediatric anxiety, allowing children and families to access an evidence-based treatment that is accessible, affordable, and effective.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series C
Round Investors: Echo Health Ventures (lead), FMZ Ventures (lead), General Catalyst, Mass General Brigham Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support expansion into new markets and strengthen payer partnerships.
Press: InStride Health News, Dealroom
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Mental Health Care
Employee Count: 315
Verse develops an energy infrastructure platform that helps organizations procure and manage clean power, enabling data centers to accelerate grid connection timelines and reduce power costs.
New Funding Raised: $54M, Series B
Round Investors: Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), NVIDIA, Google Ventures, Norrsken VC
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued product development and deployment as it scales to meet growing demand.
Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 7
Connie Health provides medical advisory services that improve the user experience in Medicare decision-making, allowing people to choose their optimal healthcare plans, find suitable doctors available to them, and navigate their plan's benefits.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: HealthQuest Capital (lead), Khosla Ventures, JSL Health Capital, aMoon Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate expansion in the rapidly growing Medicare market.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 145
Hydra Host develops a distributed bare-metal infrastructure platform that provides scalable and available infrastructure using distributed storage systems, enabling developers to deploy scalable computational resources across multiple geographic regions.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series A
Round Investors: Kindred Ventures (lead), SPLY Capital, Flume Ventures, 10x Founders
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global AI infrastructure platform and increase GPU-as-a-Service capacity as demand for computing power continues to surge across AI applications.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Miami, FL
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 80
Andera develops an AI-powered compliance automation platform, allowing enterprises to streamline and automate Sarbanes-Oxley testing and internal control assessments.
New Funding Raised: $37M, Series A
Round Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Lightspeed Venture Partners
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Accounting
Employee Count: 14
Telepatia operates an AI-driven healthcare platform that increases access to medical expertise and resources for underserved populations, enabling individuals and healthcare providers to access quality care and improve health outcomes efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $33M, Series A
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), A*, Canary, Picus Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the AI doctor platform across Latin America.
HQ: São Paulo, Brazil
Industry: Health and Human Services
Employee Count: 55
Aston Power operates a decentralized energy and infrastructure company for a carbon-free utility network, allowing users to get green places to work that have all sustainable features.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Building Ventures (lead), TDK Ventures (lead), JLL Spark Global Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its physical operations, expand its geographic footprint across North America, and accelerate full-stack power infrastructure deployment to address growing utility grid constraints.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Electric Power Generation
Employee Count: 24
Cuprum Metals operates a natural resources company that revolutionizes copper extraction, enabling rapid, high-yield copper oxidation that can be easily integrated into existing heap leaching operations.
New Funding Raised: $19.4M, Series A
Round Investors: Lundin Family Office (lead), Woodline Partners, BHP Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued commercial deployment, expansion of technical capabilities, hiring of personnel, and the continued growth of its customer base.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Boulder City, NV
Industry: Mining
Employee Count: 2
El Dorado develops a mobile software that offers a free multi-currency digital wallet while fulfilling the needs of users, allowing gamers to access trusted trading channels for digital gaming assets and complete transactions with greater security and convenience.
New Funding Raised: $9M, Series A
Round Investors: Paradigm (lead), Coinbase Ventures, Verda Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its engineering and product teams, expand its liquidity infrastructure across Latin American corridors, and accelerate international user acquisition.
HQ: Bogota, Colombia
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 68
SubBase develops a centralized order management platform that simplifies outdated workflows in construction materials management, enabling construction teams and procurement professionals to streamline purchasing, track orders, and manage vendor communications in real time, saving time and reducing costs.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Series A
Round Investors: FINTOP Capital (lead), Fika Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support product development, expand supplier network integrations, and build an AI-driven intelligence layer that leverages pricing, supplier performance, and delivery data.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Dealroom
HQ: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 39
Cargofy’s freight management platform finds loads for independent truck drivers, allowing fleet managers and users to achieve lower operating costs, fuel efficiency, asset utilization, and real-time tracking for each delivery.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Series A
Round Investors: Movens Capital (lead), Toloka.vc (lead), u.ventures (lead), Des Traynor
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI-powered digital workers for logistics, enabling freight companies to automate operations, improve efficiency, and scale across international markets.
Press: Tech.eu, EU-Startups
HQ: Houston, TX
Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Employee Count: 33
Traysar manufactures autonomous underground systems for military strike and defense purposes, enabling defense operators to conduct operations, surveillance, and maneuver in subterranean environments with reduced exposure and extended reach.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Seed
Round Investors: Silent Ventures (lead), Steve Blank, Never Lift Ventures, Mana Enterprises
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand engineering and manufacturing capabilities, and advance deployment of its autonomous subterranean systems.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 1
🌍 EMEA
Kvasir Technologies develops carbon emissions technology that produces biofuel from non-edible biomass, allowing consumers to have climate-friendly fuel.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: The Footprint Firm, Maersk Growth, Export and Investment Fund, European Energy
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its proprietary production technology at its test facility, expand its biochemical engineering teams, and finance the initial design of its first commercial-scale industrial fuel manufacturing plant.
Press: Tech.eu, EU-Startups
HQ: Copenhagen, Denmark
Industry: Biomass Electric Power Generation
Employee Count: 27
NeuralTrust operates a cybersecurity platform that provides a comprehensive security infrastructure for organizations adopting generative AI, enabling enterprises to deploy and scale AI confidently with continuous monitoring, compliance automation, and granular policy enforcement while integrating seamlessly with existing workflows and infrastructure.
New Funding Raised: €17.2M, Seed
Round Investors: Alstin Capital (lead), Finaves, EA Ventures, Plug and Play
🚀Growth Focus: Further integrate its platform, expand its engineering team, and broaden support for the growing range of AI models, tools, and platforms being adopted by enterprises.
Press: Tech.eu, EU-Startups
HQ: Barcelona, Spain
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 27
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Mecka (LI) is hiring a Director of NA Enterprise Sales for its NY-based team.
Cyera (LI) is hiring a Regional Sales Director - West, and a Commercial AE - Northeast for its SF + NYC teams.
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.
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