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🌎 Americas
Assort Health develops a conversational AI platform that augments and automates call center operations for health care to transform patient care, enabling the healthcare sector to reduce hold time, decrease dropped calls, and reduce costs while driving appointment revenue.
New Funding Raised: $120M, Series C
Round Investors: Menlo Ventures (lead), Chemistry, Tau Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its AI agents platform for the patient journey.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 186
Taktile develops a decision engine platform that industrializes, scales, and maintains machine learning models, allowing data science teams to quickly build, run, and optimize automated risk decisions without engineering support.
New Funding Raised: $110M, Series C
Round Investors: Goldman Sachs Alternatives (lead), Tiger Global Management, DIG Ventures, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Enhance its AI solutions for complex banking and insurance use cases, and expand its global footprint across the US, EMEA, and LATAM.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 220
Ollin Biosciences provides ophthalmic therapeutics that treat vision-threatening eye diseases and preserve patient vision, enabling patients with retinal and ophthalmic disorders to access therapies aimed at improving disease control and treatment outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $330M, Series B
Round Investors: ARCH Venture Partners (lead), TCG Crossover (lead), a16z Bio+Health, T. Rowe Price
🚀Growth Focus: Support global Phase 3 trials of OLN324, a potential VEGF/Ang2 antibody addressing causes of vision loss in the $15 billion retina market.
Press: PR Newswire, Business Wire
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 21
Osanni Bio operates a biotechnology company that delivers therapies to prevent and reverse blindness caused by retinal diseases, allowing physicians to save patients' eyesight.
New Funding Raised: $190M, Series B
Round Investors: Patient Square Capital (lead), Retinal Degeneration Fund, Horowitz Group, Invus Opportunities
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its current pipeline of multiple programs and scale its discovery and development process.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 32
xCures develops an AI-assisted clinical data platform that replaces manual processes for acquiring, reading, and re-entering medical records, enabling telehealth platforms and diagnostics firms to access verifiable medical data, reduce workflow friction, and make evidence-driven decisions.
New Funding Raised: $46M, Series B
Round Investors: Innovius Capital (lead), Spring Mountain Capital, iGrow Venture Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support the continued expansion of the clinical clarity layer to turn fragmented medical records into decision-ready clinical data.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Oakland, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 62
Vanna Health provides online healthcare services that improve overall health and well-being for individuals with serious mental illness, allowing people to improve their mental health regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
New Funding Raised: $17M, Series B
Round Investors: AlleyCorp (lead), Health Velocity Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its clinical reach, deepen its technology, and grow its teams.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Mental Health Care
Employee Count: 71
Runpod develops an online GPU platform for core graphics processing unit computing, enabling users to be able to process AI development and meet production needs.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series A
Round Investors: Summit Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI infrastructure platform and support growing demand from developers building and deploying AI applications.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 101
Runlayer operates an AI security-focused platform that connects and manages business tools and resources, allowing organizations to leverage AI productivity tools without exposing themselves to the risks of data leaks, malicious servers, or unmanaged access.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Felicis (lead), Khosla Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for enterprise AI governance and agent management, as organizations increasingly seek ways to deploy AI at scale without sacrificing security, compliance, or operational oversight.
Press: citybiz, Yahoo Finance
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 36
Coval develops a simulation and evaluation platform for testing autonomous agents, enabling engineers and product teams to validate agent behavior, improve reliability, and accelerate deployment across real-world applications without relying on manual testing.
New Funding Raised: $28M, Series A
Round Investors: Norwest (lead), Twilio, Y Combinator, MaC Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for testing, monitoring, and evaluating autonomous voice agents, positioning the company to capitalize on growing enterprise adoption of voice AI technologies.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 24
Onyx Odds develops a free-to-play sports prediction gaming platform that allows users to bet on sports through promotional games and sweepstakes prizes, allowing players to get free in-game currency prizes.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Payward (lead), Xfund, Breyer Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Mobile Gaming Apps
Employee Count: 22
Caplight develops a financial product platform that facilitates derivative transactions in private company stock, enabling institutional trading counterparties to take long and short positions in private companies via synthetic and cash-settled derivatives.
New Funding Raised: $16M, Series A
Round Investors: BlackRock (lead), Fin Capital (lead), Dash Fund, DB1 Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel its expansion in private market data and enhance its agentic workflows for research and transactions.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 22
🌍 EMEA
TISSIUM develops biodegradable programmable polymer technology for tissue reconstruction and is adaptable for use in multiple clinical areas, allowing surgeons to treat patients with a polymer that can be used in the fields of tissue repair and localized drug delivery.
New Funding Raised: €30M, Series D
Round Investors: Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement, Mérieux Equity Partners, Crédit Mutuel Innovation, Cathay Health
🚀Growth Focus: Support to finance the rollout of its tech in the US, and fund clinical trials as it looks to expand the tech to other areas of healthcare.
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 144
Astral Systems develops fusion reactors that harness energy through immediate medical and industrial applications, enabling energy providers to produce cleaner, sustainable power with cutting-edge technology.
New Funding Raised: £23M, Series A
Round Investors: Mercia Ventures (lead), Tees River, Blast. Club, Daphni
🚀Growth Focus: Support its efforts to scale production, expand its team and facilities, and advance its mission of bringing fusion-produced isotopes closer to clinical use.
HQ: Hallen, England
Industry: Measuring and Control Instrument Manufacturing
Employee Count: 34
RQ Bio operates a biotechnology company that develops medicines based on potent, broad-spectrum mAbs to provide instant and long-lasting protection for vulnerable people, allowing pharmaceutical companies to develop antibodies to protect against infectious diseases where vaccines cannot.
New Funding Raised: $115M, Series A
Round Investors: Frazier Life Sciences (lead), University of Oxford, Wellington Management, Monograph Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support clinical development of RQB01 and advance our proprietary antibody discovery approach towards a pipeline of assets for prophylaxis of respiratory viral diseases.
Press: GlobeNewswire, RQ Bio News
HQ: London, England
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 16
Jupus operates legal AI client intake and document drafting software for managing prospective client communications and preparing legal documents, enabling law firms to reduce administrative handling time and standardize case-preparation inputs.
New Funding Raised: €30M, Series A
Round Investors: Semapa Next (lead), HTGF (High-Tech Gruenderfonds), Acton Capital, NRW.Venture
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI capabilities and strengthen its presence among small and mid-sized law firms across Europe.
HQ: Cologne, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 75
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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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