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🌎 Americas
Joulent develops large-scale baseload energy solutions, enabling AI infrastructure and industrial facilities to access reliable, cost-effective power for high-demand computing and manufacturing operations.
New Funding Raised: $1.75B, Venture - Series Undisclosed
Round Investors: National Grid Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its high-voltage project pipeline, fund modular generation infrastructure, scale its technical capabilities, and expand its engineering workforce to meet AI data center electricity demand.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Houston, TX
Industry: Electric Power Generation
Employee Count: 18
LeapXpert’s digital communications governance and archiving platform enables secure, compliant enterprise communication, allowing enterprises to maintain regulatory compliance and improve employee collaboration.
New Funding Raised: $180M, Venture - Series Undisclosed
Round Investors: Riverwood Capital (lead), Portage Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support to deepen its platform’s conversational intelligence capabilities, accelerate enterprise sales across the public sector and Forbes Global 2000 markets, and expand its senior leadership team.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 183
TJM Labs develops pharmacy automation software that automates repetitive operational tasks, enabling pharmacies to automate prescription intake, data entry, refill management, patient communication, and appointment scheduling.
New Funding Raised: $75M, Series B
Round Investors: Elephant (lead), Updata Partners, Arthur Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: EIN Presswire, Dealroom
HQ: Bear, DE
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 74
Qolab develops quantum computing hardware that enables scalable, high-performance quantum systems, allowing research institutions and technology companies to translate experimental advances in quantum computing into commercially viable computing applications.
New Funding Raised: $54.2M, Series B
Round Investors: UC Investments (lead), Phoenix Venture Partners, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Octave Ventures LLC
🚀Growth Focus: Support its continued development of scalable superconducting quantum computing technologies, expansion of strategic semiconductor collaborations, and acceleration of its target toward fault-tolerant quantum computing.
Press: GlobeNewswire, FinSMEs
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Computer Hardware Manufacturing
Employee Count: 15
LinqAlpha operates an AI research workflow platform that supports investment research and analysis for institutional investors, enabling buy-side and sell-side investment teams to evaluate securities, monitor developments, and support investment decision-making.
New Funding Raised: $22M, Series A
Round Investors: Atinum Partners (lead), AVP (lead), GFT Ventures (lead), Betatron Venture Group
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its global team, deepen integrations across market and alternative datasets, and accelerate the deployment of its multi-agent platform across equities, macro, credit, and multi-asset strategies.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 37
Luxonis develops AI-powered embedded vision systems that enable real-time depth perception and spatial awareness for machines, allowing robotics, automation, and industrial clients to deploy intelligent perception systems with low-latency, on-device inference, and three-dimensional environmental understanding.
New Funding Raised: $14M, Series A
Round Investors: Denali Growth Partners (lead), Taiwania Capital Management Corporation
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate commercial expansion, advance the product roadmap, and scale production of its OAK camera platform.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Denver, CO
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 87
KredosAI develops a fintech platform that improves payment outcomes by utilizing generative AI trained on domain-specific knowledge, enabling companies to reduce delinquency rates and enhance revenue recovery.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Series A
Round Investors: BMW i Ventures (lead), SaaS Ventures, Motley Fool Ventures, Okapi Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate growth of its AI-powered collections platform, expand into new financial services markets, and enhance its behavioral intelligence technology as enterprises seek more effective ways to recover overdue payments without damaging customer relationships.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Bellevue, WA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 20
Celea Therapeutics operates as a healthcare company for the treatment of respiratory conditions, allowing healthcare providers to address the limitations of existing treatments through stabilized lung function, reduced adverse effects, and optimized dosing for chronic disease management.
New Funding Raised: $180M, Private Equity
Round Investors: RA Capital Management, Leaps by Bayer
🚀Growth Focus: Support the planned early Q3 2026 initiation of SURPASS-IPF, a Phase 3 trial evaluating deupirfenidone.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 50
🌍 EMEA + Australia
Quantum Systems develops commercial unmanned aerial systems for aerial survey and three-dimensional reconstruction, enabling businesses to optimize decision-making through aerial data.
New Funding Raised: $1.2B, Series D
Round Investors: Advent International (lead), Airbus Defence & Space (lead), Blackstone Group (lead), Noteus Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the transition from individual uncrewed platforms to an interoperable family of systems connected through MOSAIC UXS, its software ecosystem for uncrewed systems.
Press: Vestbee, Quantum Systems News
HQ: Gilching, Germany
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 615
geoSurge’s generative engine optimization platform helps organizations manage and improve their brand representation within AI systems, allowing brands and agencies to measure AI-generated brand visibility and improve representation across large language models.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Seed
Round Investors: AlbionVC (lead), Signal AI, Boost Capital Partners, Celero Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of Corpus Engineering and its broader AI visibility capabilities as demand from enterprise organizations continues to grow.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 18
THEA-AI LTD powers B2B clients across risk markets, leveraging AI to increase gross revenue, reduce customer acquisition costs, and strengthen lifetime customer value.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: Fisher8 Capital, Maven 11 Capital, The Spartan Group, Manifold Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its operational AI infrastructure and an on-chain coordination layer anchored to Solana.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 3
HousApp develops real estate management software that automates administrative tasks for real estate professionals, allowing real estate agencies to manage communications and appointments.
New Funding Raised: €4.3M, Seed
Round Investors: Antler (lead), Arches Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its engineering team, and support growth as it continues to automate property transaction workflows.
Press: Tech.eu, HousApp News
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 15
Fluent develops a high-bandwidth brain-computer interface for translating speech to text, enabling individuals and healthcare markets to access safe, reliable, and advanced neural communication.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Seed
Round Investors: David Graydon, Founders Factory, Genesis Pre-Seed Fund, Jumpspace Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the transition from promising research to tangible clinical applications.
Press: Startup Researcher, Dealroom
HQ: Melbourne, Australia
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 2
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Arcade (LI) is hiring Founding Enterprise AEs out of its San Francisco and NYC offices.
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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