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🌎 Americas
Patronus AI develops an automated evaluation platform that detects issues in generative artificial intelligence outputs, enabling technology companies to identify model mistakes and ensure system reliability.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Series B
Round Investors: Greenfield Partners (lead), Factorial Capital, Datadog, Gokul Rajaram
🚀Growth Focus: Build digital worlds that stress-test AI agents.
Press: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 57
Scaled Cognition develops a foundation model for the agentic pre-trained transformer that optimizes actions, resulting in a new state-of-the-art for agentic workflows, allowing businesses to make creating, testing, and improving agents easy with low engineering lift.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series A
Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its research team and accelerate enterprise deployments.
Press: GlobeNewswire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 34
Arca Wealth provides an AI-powered wealth management platform, enabling financial advisors to deliver personalized financial planning and investment services through AI-driven automation and user intelligence.
New Funding Raised: $48.5M, Series A
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Venrock, Index Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Grow its client base, expand its advisory team, and continue developing its platform and brand.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 50
Nebulock operates an autonomous threat hunting platform that surfaces false negatives and translates hunts into hardened behavioral detections, allowing users to scan telemetry data for signs of policy violations, lateral movement, and attacker pre-positioning.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: FirstMark (lead), Bain Capital Ventures, Zetta Venture Partners, Decibel Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its AI-native cybersecurity platform, as enterprises seek new tools to detect increasingly sophisticated threats driven by artificial intelligence and credential-based attacks.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 34
Niural develops payroll payments and compliance platform for a global workforce. The company's platform offers to hire contractors, minimize legal risks, and handle all the tax and compliance documents, enabling companies to streamline their hiring process, manage global payroll, and keep tabs on compliance.
New Funding Raised: $21M, Series A
Round Investors: FOG Ventures, NewView Capital, Hustle Fund, M13
🚀Growth Focus: Support to extend that capability into other rule-heavy, deadline-driven domains that companies cannot afford to get wrong.
Press: PR Newswire, Dealroom
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Human Resources Services
Employee Count: 141
Upside provides housing stability services that support vulnerable members and health plans, allowing healthcare organizations to secure stable housing for high-need members and coordinate medical and non-clinical care services.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Aquiline Capital Partners (lead), 645 Ventures, Freestyle Capital, Flare Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform nationally, deepen its artificial intelligence capabilities, and grow partnerships with health plans and employers.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Fort Lauderdale, FL
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 48
Tetrix develops an AI-driven insights digital platform for optimising alternative investment management, enabling investment providers to make informed decisions with greater efficiency and confidence in their financial strategies.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Innovation Endeavors (lead), White Star Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, team expansion, and global growth.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 28
Netris’s network automation and multi-tenancy platform for efficient and secure operation of AI cloud infrastructure, allowing AI cloud operators to manage shared GPU infrastructure across multiple tenants and workloads with improved reliability and resource utilization.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Series A
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its lead in network automation for GPU clusters.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Santa Clara, CA
Industry: Computer Networking
Employee Count: 42
Anodyne Nanotech develops transdermal drug delivery technology that reformulates clinically validated molecules into needle-free therapeutics for chronic diseases, enabling patients with obesity and related conditions to access alternatives to injectables and infusions while expanding treatment possibilities through combination therapies.
New Funding Raised: $12.6M, Series A
Round Investors: Evercurious VC (lead), Velocity Partners (lead), Relativity Healthcare Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its lead obesity treatment candidate, a once-weekly GLP-1 patch, into Phase I clinical trials while accelerating development of its broader transdermal drug delivery platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 21
Lama AI builds a cloud-native lending technology platform that helps launch and scale new lending products, allowing bank lenders to distribute capital throughout the small business ecosystem efficiently.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Series A
Round Investors: EJF Ventures (lead), 1st & Main Growth Partners, Viola Ventures, The Perch Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its expansion across the United States and enhance its platform capabilities for community and regional banks.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Startup Researcher
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 50
Trase operates an AI-based enterprise platform that manages enterprise AI tools, enabling businesses to craft custom AI-powered workflows to rapidly develop and deploy the features they need.
New Funding Raised: $107M, Seed
Round Investors: ARCH Venture Partners (lead), Red Cell Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Support continued development of its Origin, its AI operating system, and growth of its go-to-market team.
Press: Business Wire, Startup Researcher
HQ: Mclean, VA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 59
Engram develops continually learning AI models that adapt to individual user preferences and evolving data in real time, allowing enterprises, researchers, and developers to deploy AI that personalizes experiences and remains aligned with evolving user behavior and requirements over time.
New Funding Raised: $98M, Seed
Round Investors: General Catalyst (lead), Kleiner Perkins (lead), Sequoia Capital (lead), Assaf Rappaport
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Research Services
Employee Count: 16
Seltz develops a web data processing platform that provides clean, structured information for AI and machine learning applications, enabling developers and organizations building retrieval-augmented generation systems, AI agents, chatbots, and knowledge bases to integrate reliable, context-aware web data into their workflows efficiently and effectively.
New Funding Raised: $12.5M, Seed
Round Investors: B Capital (lead), Speedinvest (lead), Futurepresent, United Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its crawl and indexing capabilities, grow the engineering and research team, and accelerate go-to-market efforts across frontier AI labs, AI-native startups, and enterprise companies.
Press: Pulse 2.0, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
🌍 EMEA
Alan operates an online digital insurance platform that simplifies access to corporate insurance, allowing businesses to easily and conveniently get medical advice and manage claims and reimbursements for employees.
New Funding Raised: €480M, Series G
Round Investors: Prosus (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support its international expansion and the development of its AI-powered healthcare products, with Prosus offering access to its consumer ecosystem and its Large Commerce Model.
Press: PR Newswire, Tech.eu
HQ: Labretonie, France
Industry: Insurance
Employee Count: 1505
AlpSemi develops power semiconductor technologies, enabling the deployment of solid-state circuit breakers and advanced power conversion systems for electrification and renewable energy applications.
New Funding Raised: €17M, Seed
Round Investors: Yotta Capital Partners (lead), Navitas Semiconductor, SE Ventures, Cycle Group
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the industrialization and commercial scale-up of its specialized semiconductor power switches, support ongoing electrical engineering research, and advance high-voltage product development.
Press: Business Wire, Tech.eu
HQ: Grenoble, France
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 14
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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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