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Gradial develops a generative AI platform for enterprises to build powerful native and cross-app workflows and provide customer support, enabling businesses to take data-driven decisions and allow creative teams to focus on core brand strategy.
New Funding Raised: $65M, Series C
Round Investors: Insight Venture Management (lead), LLC. (lead), Madrona, VMG Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its AI engineering teams, accelerate global enterprise sales, and expand its cloud infrastructure to support high-speed asset generation and cross-platform publishing.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 94
SyntaxBio operates a cell therapy company that generates the diversity of all cells in the body, allowing the manufacturing of stem cells for therapies across many indications.
New Funding Raised: $14.4M, Series A
Round Investors: DCVC Bio, Draper Associates, Portal Innovations, Walder Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, FinSMEs
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 14
Pramaana Labs develops an AI verification and accountability platform that ensures that claims produced by intelligent systems can be justified, verified, and defended, enabling organizations to develop and deploy AI systems that improve trust, ensure responsible use, and maintain defensible decision-making across automated and human-in-the-loop processes.
New Funding Raised: $27M, Seed
Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead), Sriram K. Rajamani, Premji Invest, BoldCap
🚀Growth Focus: Support to build out its auto-formalization software infrastructure, scale its formal verification proof engine, and hire additional research engineering talent from top-tier AI laboratories.
Press: GlobeNewswire, TechCrunch
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Information Services
Employee Count: 26
Architect develops chip design software that accelerates the creation of specialized silicon for AI, allowing users to co-design and providing frontier labs and hyperscalers with tools.
New Funding Raised: $24M, Seed
Round Investors: Kindred Ventures (lead), Jeff Dean, Shaad Khan, Race Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its compute infrastructure, deepen its AI research, and co-design production silicon with early industry partners.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 21
Aether AI operates causal world models that provide an intelligence layer for physical systems and scientific discovery, enabling robots and researchers to predict outcomes, simulate futures, and discover stable causal structures in real-world environments.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: Matrix Partners China (lead), Innoangel Fund, UnityVC, SWC Global
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate research and development of its causal technology, expand its engineering infrastructure and scientific team, and support initial commercial deployments in Physical AI and robotics applications.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 4
HighGround develops a government market intelligence platform, allowing investors and defense companies to analyze public sector demand, procurement activity, and revenue opportunities through AI-driven market insights.
New Funding Raised: $6.5M, Seed
Round Investors: NEXT Frontier Capital (lead), Tandem Ventures, Context VC, Fulcrum Venture Group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its data coverage and deepen its analytical models.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Washington, D.C
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 6
Tenet Security develops an AI security platform, enabling organizations to protect AI agents and their access to enterprise systems through automated monitoring, governance, and threat defense capabilities.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: MizMaa Ventures (lead), The Westly Group (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued product development and the expansion of its go-to-market operations.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 15
BoolSi operates a codebase company that makes designing and verifying hardware as easy as software.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Fine Structure Venture (lead), Pillar VC, Fifth Quarter Ventures, Coalition Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 7
Clario develops a data governance platform, enabling enterprises to identify and eliminate redundant, obsolete, and trivial data to reduce risk, lower storage costs, and improve the quality of data used for AI initiatives.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Preface Ventures (lead), Moment Ventures, Michael Callahan, Ridge Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Menlo Park, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 12
Vali Health’s AI-powered platform streamlines home care agency operations, enhances caregiver retention, and drives business growth, allowing home care providers to improve service quality, expand their client base, and stay competitive.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Comma Capital, Jacquelyn Kung, Supernode Global
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its business reach.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Artificial Intelligence
Employee Count: 10
KLIPY operates a platform for short-form media content that integrates generative technology and monetization capabilities, enabling creators and media audiences to engage, share, and profit from short-form media experiences.
New Funding Raised: $3.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Google AI Futures Fund (lead), Yash Patel, Red Swan Ventures, Sturgeon Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Grow its product, engineering, and go-to-market teams, expand to even more platforms, and build new monetization and creative tools for creators and content studios.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Entertainment
Employee Count: 24
Ralo develops an AI-powered mortgage co-pilot that automates complex mortgage processes, allowing users, especially home buyers, to manage mortgages.
New Funding Raised: $2.9M, Seed
Round Investors: Y Combinator, Manresa Ventures, Ryan Frazier, Pack Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its product offering and launch in additional markets this year.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 8
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Comand AI develops tactical planning software for defence and security applications, enabling defence and security organizations to improve decision-making, strengthen situational awareness, and improve operational performance across complex, multi-domain environments.
New Funding Raised: €32M, Series A
Round Investors: Blossom Capital (lead), Saab, Expeditions
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its next-generation command-and-control platform for allied defense forces.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Comand AI News
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 40
SOMAREALITY develops an eye-care monitoring device that helps in eye tracking, allowing users to have continuous real-time insights into their neuropsychological status.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Series A
Round Investors: Catalyst Romania (lead), RDY Ventures, MT Lab, Moondust Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Scale commercial operations, advance longitudinal research into cognitive health and human performance, and support the development of a consumer-facing product aimed at expanding the technology beyond enterprise applications.
Press: EU-Startups, Vestbee
HQ: Vienna, Austria
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 14
Monument Technology builds a Banking-Platform-as-a-Service platform for financial institutions to streamline their operations, enabling institutions to launch or modernize their services efficiently.
New Funding Raised: £18M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Scale in the UK and internationally, grow its team, and make its platform faster to implement for financial services clients.
Press: Startup Researcher, Dealroom
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 29
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Bland (LI) is hiring BDRs, Mid-Market AEs, and Enterprise AEs for its SF-based team.
PointFive (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its West Coast and London-based teams.
NinjaOne (LI) is hiring Enterprise Regional Sales Managers and Enterprise AEs globally.
Corgi Insurance (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs and SDRs for its New York + SF offices.
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.
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