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🌎 Americas
Bespoke Labs develops AI data and environments for RL, which can be used to post-train agents by enterprises and frontier labs, enabling developers and organizations to reduce hallucinations, which are instances when AI generates false or unsupported information.
New Funding Raised: $31.75M, Series A
Round Investors: Wing Venture Capital (lead), The House Fund, Mayfield Fund, Tristan Handy
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its research team, scale its environment-building infrastructure, and accelerate its business momentum.
Press: Business Wire, SiliconANGLE
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 62
Ognomy Sleep’s telemedicine platform offers virtual home testing, diagnosis, and treatment, allowing patients to connect with doctors, home testing options, and treatment providers to effectively treat sleep apnea.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Series A
Round Investors: Catalyst Investors (lead), University at Buffalo, Upstate Biotech Ventures, Blue Heron Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the expansion of its AI-enabled clinical platform, wearable integrations, and strategic partnerships across the healthcare ecosystem.
Press: EIN News, Sleep Review
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 33
Katalyze AI operates an AI-powered biomanufacturing platform that connects and analyzes raw material and process data to enhance production outcomes, enabling biopharma manufacturers to optimize yield, reduce cycle times, and accelerate process development through intelligent automation.
New Funding Raised: $10.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Bonfire Ventures (lead), Inovia Capital, Gokul Rajaram, Farzad Soleimani
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
HQ: Mountain View, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 36
🌍 EMEA + Australia
Stenon develops soil analysis technology that provides independent real-time analysis, allowing farmers to get instant access to soil data that will help them optimize soil health and overall cultivation.
New Funding Raised: €18M, Series B
Round Investors: Pymwymic (lead), Founders Fund, Atlantic, Oyster Bay Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its nitrogen and soil data platform.
HQ: Potsdam, Germany
Industry: Farming
Employee Count: 40
Southern Launch develops and operates commercial space launch infrastructure, enabling aerospace companies to conduct orbital and suborbital launches through end-to-end launch, testing, and mission support services.
New Funding Raised: A$25M, Series A
Round Investors: Brindabella & Company (lead), COUPLAND ASSET MANAGEMENT, National Reconstruction Fund Corporation, Alex Harvey
🚀Growth Focus: Support towards upping headcount and accelerating its launch, re-entry, and range services.
Press: Southern Launch, Startup Daily
HQ: Adelaide, Australia
Industry: Defense & Space
Employee Count: 34
StirlingX operates a drone-based data intelligence platform that delivers actionable insights for critical infrastructure monitoring and asset management, allowing energy, construction, telecommunications, and transport organizations to gain continuous, timely intelligence for monitoring, managing, and protecting complex assets with precision and operational confidence.
New Funding Raised: £15M, Series A
Round Investors: Rokos Capital Management (lead), Ventura Capital (lead), GALLOS Technologies
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development and growth.
Press: SiliconANGLE, Dealroom
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 34
CurifyLabs develops a compounding system that brings consistency, safety, and speed to personalized medicine preparation, enabling hospitals and pharmacies to deliver precise, individualized treatments efficiently.
New Funding Raised: €12M, Series A
Round Investors: HealthCap (lead), Sandwater (lead), Lifeline Ventures, Tesi
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its US operations, strengthen its supply chain, enhance customer support, and accelerate product development.
Press: EU-Startups, Tech.eu
HQ: Helsinki, Finland
Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 42
CCRAFT operates a photonic foundry that manufactures scalable thin-film lithium niobate chips for high-frequency photonics applications, allowing organizations to deploy advanced optical components with reliability, speed, and compatibility across cutting-edge platforms.
New Funding Raised: $7.8M, Seed
Round Investors: QBIT Capital (lead), Blue Wonder Ventures, Zürcher Kantonal Bank, Spacewalk VC
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its independent thin-film lithium niobate photonic chip foundry in Switzerland for AI, networking, aerospace, and quantum applications.
Press: The Quantum Insider, Dealroom
HQ: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 13
Worldmodeldata develops AI training data solutions, enabling organizations to build next-generation AI systems with high-quality, reality-grounded, and reliable datasets.
New Funding Raised: £7M, Seed
Round Investors: Iona Star (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for licensed video game training data for AI applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and beyond.
Press: EU-Startups, Tech.eu
HQ: Cambridge, England
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 8
Alqem develops novel materials that improve industrial material discovery through physics-informed AI models and real-world validation, allowing manufacturing and industrial sectors to accelerate material development and improve product performance.
New Funding Raised: €8M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Union Square Ventures (lead), UVC Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand an AI-driven platform designed to discover and commercialize advanced materials.
Press: Startup Researcher, EU-Startups
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 5
Aylight manufactures semiconductor lasers for optical connectivity in AI data centers, enabling operators of optical systems to scale terabit links and meet increasing datacenter demands.
New Funding Raised: €4.5M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Elaia (lead), Swisscom Ventures (lead), Plug & Play, Verve Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of its first semiconductor-foundry prototypes and the expansion of its research and development team.
HQ: Zürich, Switzerland
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 2
Dawnguard develops a cloud security architecture platform that integrates infrastructure validation into the early stages of system design, allowing cloud engineers and security teams to proactively build and maintain secure, compliant infrastructure with reduced manual oversight.
New Funding Raised: $3.3M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Curiosity VC, BNVT Capital, eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its AI-driven architecture intelligence systems, open its new corporate office in New York City, and scale its enterprise go-to-market footprint.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 44
Epitome Therapeutics develops epigenome editing technology to advance precision medicine, offering novel disease management approaches, improving therapeutic outcomes, reducing reliance on traditional genetic modification, and integrating epigenome editing into medical practice.
New Funding Raised: €2M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Caesar Ventures (lead), XISTA Science Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its development programs toward drug candidate nomination.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Innere Stadt, Austria
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 8
Nomerra develops AI coworker software that automates operational tasks for private market asset operations, allowing asset managers to automate document processing and financial reporting workflows.
New Funding Raised: $2M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: 14Peaks Capital, Redstone.VC
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI platform for private market operations, helping asset servicers and asset managers automate manual workflows and improve operational efficiency.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Tech.eu
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 6
Stoa Corporation develops a financial services platform, enabling consumers to access digital savings, investment, and money management products through a mobile-first experience.
New Funding Raised: $2.4M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Bespokeist Partners (lead), Ingenii Capital (lead), Fuel Ventures, Suneel Hargunani
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate core software product engineering and consumer merchant onboarding campaigns, and scale its localized go-to-market operations across the United Kingdom.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 8
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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