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Baseten develops AI inference infrastructure that deploys and optimises machine learning models at scale, enabling developers and enterprises to train, deploy, manage, and scale generative AI applications across cloud and self-hosted environments.
New Funding Raised: $1.5B, Series F
Round Investors: Altimeter Capital (lead), Conviction (lead), Sands Capital Ventures (lead), Spark Capital (lead), Wellington Management (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support talent, compute, and accelerated enterprise go-to-market efforts.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 307
AppsFlyer’s mobile attribution and marketing analytics platform helps track and optimize user acquisition, allowing users to get a holistic view of every user journey across platforms, channels, and devices.
New Funding Raised: $1B, Series E
Round Investors: Moloco, Google, Unity, Eight Roads Ventures, Meta
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 1539
fomo develops a trading platform for on-chain trading, enabling trading enthusiasts to see what other traders are buying in real time and trade instantly.
New Funding Raised: $75M, Series B
Round Investors: Index Ventures (lead), Jack Randall, Patrick Kavanagh, Alex Casimo
🚀Growth Focus: Expand into additional asset classes, including equities, perpetuals, and prediction markets, while continuing to invest in its broader trading and social platform.
Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 16
Nura Bio develops transformative neuroprotective therapies that prevent and protect against neuronal loss and related neuroimmune dysregulation, allowing healthcare professionals to improve the nervous system's immune surveillance capacity in response to neurological injury.
New Funding Raised: $73.8M, Series B
Round Investors: The Column Group (lead), Euclidean Capital, Sanofi Ventures, Samsara BioCapital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of the clinical pipeline, including the Phase 1b/2a study of NB-4746, its oral, brain-penetrant SARM1 inhibitor, which recently commenced dosing in ALS patients.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 34
Upscale AI operates an AI networking company that optimizes, secures, and automates enterprise network infrastructure, enabling organizations to optimize, secure, and automate their network infrastructure.
New Funding Raised: $190M, Series A
Round Investors: Premji Invest (lead), Tiger Global Management, StepStone Group, NVIDIA
🚀Growth Focus: Scale the business and accelerate delivery of its advanced AI-native networking technology.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Industry: Computer Networking Products
Employee Count: 209
Prosper AI develops AI-powered phone agents for healthcare, allowing providers to automate patient and payer communications, including scheduling, benefits verification, claims management, and administrative workflows.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Company Ventures, Base10 Partners, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering and customer-facing teams, deepen integrations across the largest EHR platforms, and accelerate adoption across provider groups and health systems.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 34
Portal’s cell engineering platform enables novel cell analytics and next-generation cell therapies, enabling the healthcare sector with research and clinical-scale technologies.
New Funding Raised: $9M, Seed
Round Investors: NFX (lead), Undeterred Capital, IKJ Capital, IA Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support commercial scaling of its platform, which is designed to address one of biology’s major bottlenecks: delivering complex molecules safely and efficiently into cells without compromising cell function.
HQ: Watertown, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 84
Sophia Space develops a solar-powered data processing platform that alleviates the constraints faced by terrestrial data centers, allowing defense and emergency responders to access near-real-time data processing in space, delivering faster results without latency issues.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: SparkLabs Group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand product development, grow engineering and commercial teams, accelerate strategic partnerships, and support deployment of its technology platform across government, commercial, and international markets.
Press: PR Newswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Pasadena, CA
Industry: Space Research and Technology
Employee Count: 28
Channel Robotics provides miniaturized surgical robotic systems for endoscopic procedures, enabling surgeons to operate the endoscope and control the robot simultaneously without additional ergonomic strain while achieving enhanced surgical reach and precision.
New Funding Raised: $4.6M, Seed
Round Investors: True Ventures (lead), Defined, Old Line Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued product development, regulatory advancement, and preparation for commercialization.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Del Mar, CA
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 3
Devplan develops an AI-powered software development planning platform that helps product and engineering teams convert ideas into execution-ready plans, allowing organizations to improve planning, collaboration, and software delivery.
New Funding Raised: $2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: AI2 Incubator (lead), eLab Ventures, Grand Ventures, Mighty Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Build a product intelligence platform for software teams.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Artificial Intelligence
Employee Count: 6
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Nearfield Instruments develops high-throughput scanning probe microscopy systems for semiconductor metrology, enabling users to increase the production yields and functionality of their microchips.
New Funding Raised: $380M, Series D
Round Investors: Fidelity (lead), ING Group, TNO Ventures, Temasek
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its innovation roadmap, expand production capacity, strengthen its global customer support organization, and deepen collaborative R&D with semiconductor manufacturers.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Rotterdam, Netherlands
Industry: Semiconductors
Employee Count: 400
Bionyra develops biologic therapies for immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, allowing improved disease control through next-generation mono- and multispecific antibodies targeting novel immune pathways.
New Funding Raised: $165M, Series A
Round Investors: Jeito Capital (lead), Sofinnova Partners (lead), Sixty Degree Capital, Arkin Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Advance a portfolio of biologic drugs designed to treat immune-mediated inflammatory diseases.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 50
Isometric operates an AI-powered certification platform, enabling the verification and certification of carbon removal, emissions reduction, and sustainable industrial projects through automated review and public registry infrastructure.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series A
Round Investors: AVP (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its agentic compliance software across the broader industrial economy, accelerate global market expansion, and scale its specialized engineering and regulatory audit teams.
Press: EU-Startups, FinSMEs
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 186
Graph Therapeutics develops AI-driven precision medicine for perturbation modeling from primary patient cell samples combined with multi-omics data to deliver transformative targeted therapies and biomarkers for immune-driven diseases, allowing the healthcare industry to overcome the unique challenges of developing therapies for complex inflammatory diseases.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Merantix Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support the advancement of its internal drug discovery pipeline across multiple inflammatory and immune-mediated disease indications, while further expanding the company's platform capabilities and strategic partnership opportunities.
Press: Tech.eu, Startup Researcher
HQ: Innere Stadt, Austria
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 15
PDKinematics manufactures precision guidance systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, enabling defense and security operators to conduct accurate aerial deployment missions while reducing reliance on satellite navigation and protecting carrier vehicles from counter-unmanned aircraft systems.
New Funding Raised: €2M, Seed
Round Investors: Coinvest Capital (lead), Iron Wolf Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Scale manufacturing, grow European deployments, and advance the R&D pipeline.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 5
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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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