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🌎 Americas
Gauntlet operates a financial modeling and simulation platform that makes blockchain protocols and smart contracts safe, enabling investors to maximize their capital efficiency and stakeholder returns while minimizing risk.
New Funding Raised: $125M, Series C
Round Investors: SBI Group (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its quantitative risk platform as institutional adoption of blockchain finance accelerates.
Press: Yahoo Finance, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 60
Hephae Energy Technology operates as an alternative energy technology company that offers a new generation of drilling technology, allowing the energy industry to access suitable technology to accurately, safely, and productively drill geothermal wells, bringing cost reductions.
New Funding Raised: $17.8M, Series A
Round Investors: Susquehanna Sustainable Investments (lead), Underground Ventures (lead), Future Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the commercial deployment of its advanced drilling systems to expand the frontier of depth, heat, and drilling speed.
HQ: Spring, TX
Industry: Renewable Energy Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 30
Bee Charged EV develops mobile electric vehicle charging solutions, enabling businesses and fleet operators to deploy on-demand EV charging without permanent infrastructure.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its nationwide commercial mobile EV fleet charging services across the US.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: Jacksonville, FL
Industry: Services for Renewable Energy
Employee Count: 3
Forge Industries develops waste-to-fuel technologies, allowing industrial customers to convert waste into cleaner, high-performance fuels through scalable energy solutions.
New Funding Raised: $3.85M, Seed
Round Investors: 8090 Industries (lead), Next Phase Capital (lead), Golden Seeds, Twynam Agricultural Group
🚀Growth Focus: Support the development of its first U.S. biofuel facility, planned for a site outside Las Vegas later this year, as it moves from successful industrial-scale pilots into commercial operations.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: Las Vegas, NV
Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Employee Count: 5
Octozi develops a clinical intelligence platform that accelerates clinical development, enabling pharmaceutical sponsors to increase clinical data-cleaning throughput and reduce error rates in clinical trials.
New Funding Raised: $3M, Seed
Round Investors: Surface Ventures (lead), Remarkable Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its agentic AI platform and deepen its integrations with clinical systems used by pharmaceutical, biotech, and medtech companies.
Press: Pulse 2.0, GlobeNewswire
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 6
Wonderdog operates a pet health company that develops products and services designed to help dogs live longer, healthier lives, allowing dog owners to better monitor, manage, and improve their pets' long-term health outcomes.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Maveron (lead), WndrCo (lead), Jeffrey Katzenberg
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its at-home veterinary technician network, accelerate product engineering for its mobile platform, and fund geographic market expansion into Phoenix, Arizona, and Miami, Florida.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Pet Services
Employee Count: 2
🌍 EMEA
Oxylabs develops business intelligence software that provides stable and reliable proxy resources, enabling companies to get efficient data for business.
New Funding Raised: $130M, Series A
Round Investors: Warburg Pincus (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support AI infrastructure development, new products, and strategic acquisitions.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Ventureburn
HQ: Vilnius, Lithuania
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 491
Gradium develops modular audio language models for real-time voice interactions, allowing developers and enterprises to build scalable, natural-sounding, production-grade voice applications across a range of languages and use cases.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Seed Extension ($100M Total)
Round Investors: NVIDIA (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate AI research, product development, international expansion, and the establishment of a new office in San Francisco, consolidating its position.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 24
Nexcade develops AI-powered logistics automation software, enabling freight companies to automate quoting, tender management, rate optimization, bookings, and operational reporting.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Project A Ventures (lead), Connect Ventures, Entropy Industrial Capital, MMC Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its product offering, grow its team, and increase its presence across the UK, Europe, and the US.
HQ: London, England
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 12
TaiSan develops sodium-ion battery technology that provides safer and more sustainable energy storage for electric mobility, allowing micromobility manufacturers and light electric vehicle manufacturers to improve battery safety, reduce costs, and simplify fleet integration.
New Funding Raised: £4.65M, Seed
Round Investors: Eos (lead), Mercia Ventures (lead), Exergon, Heartfelt Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its technology and begin pilot tests with leading manufacturers.
HQ: Cambridge, England
Industry: Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 13
Lissi’s digital identity wallet integration platform supports regulated identity verification and authentication workflows, enabling financial institutions and identity verification providers to integrate EUDI Wallet workflows into existing compliance infrastructure.
New Funding Raised: €3.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Ventech (lead), Ninepointfive, BM H Beteiligungs-Managementgesellschaft Hessen, Commerzbank
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its EUDI Wallet platform and accelerate digital identity adoption across Europe, helping financial institutions meet evolving regulatory requirements and enable new Open Finance use cases.
HQ: Frankfurt, Germany
Industry: Information Technology & Services
Employee Count: 29
Finto develops enterprise-grade automation software for invoice management and financial process optimization, allowing medium- to large-sized enterprises to reduce manual effort and processing time and promote accuracy in accounts payable workflows.
New Funding Raised: $3.4M, Seed
Round Investors: Gradient (lead), Lightspeed Venture Partners, Y Combinator
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of its automated financial platform, tap into technical talent at the Technical University of Munich, and scale product adoption across Europe’s industrial mid-market.
HQ: München, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 10
En Carta Diagnostics develops a biotechnology platform for molecular diagnostics through synthetic biology, enabling healthcare professionals to easily detect and identify infections.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Seed
Round Investors: Blue Forest Ventures (lead), CentraleSupélec Venture
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its molecular diagnostics platform and support its commercial launch.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Paris, France
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 12
BirdsView develops AI-powered email marketing software, allowing e-commerce businesses to automate personalized customer communications through autonomous AI agents.
New Funding Raised: €2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Fortino Ventures (lead), Newion (lead), TGFS - Technologiegründerfonds Sachsen
🚀Growth Focus: Support Avys, its AI-powered digital worker designed to help retailers grow repeat purchases.
Press: Pulse 2.0, EU-Startups
HQ: Düsseldorf, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 20
sherpa operates an AI platform for external workforce management, enabling enterprise organizations with a configurable framework.
New Funding Raised: $2.2M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Seedcamp (lead), DN Capital, Activant Capital, Brighteye Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand enterprise deployments, deepen integrations across VMS, orchestration platforms, HRIS, ERP, and ATS systems, and support compliance readiness, including SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certification.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Startup Researcher
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 6
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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