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🌎 Americas
Reo.Dev develops a revenue intelligence platform that helps companies uncover new sales opportunities, enabling go-to-market teams to prioritize accounts most likely to convert into paying users.
New Funding Raised: $11.3M, Series A
Round Investors: Elevation Capital (lead), Gokul Rajaram, Heavybit, Foster Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate development of its AI-powered go-to-market platform, which helps software companies identify buying signals from engineering teams and technical decision-makers.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 83
Kind Designs manufactures 3D-printed seawalls for coastal protection and habitat restoration, allowing commercial and government users to protect shorelines while restoring marine biodiversity.
New Funding Raised: $10M, Seed
Round Investors: Portfolia, Kyle Kuzma, Golden Seeds, Tamiami Angel Funds
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate production of its 3D-printed Living Seawalls and expand into new U.S. coastal markets, positioning the Miami-based company to capitalize on growing demand for climate-resilient infrastructure from municipalities, hospitality developers, and federal agencies.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Miami, FL
Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Employee Count: 17
Glacis Labs develops a multichain clearinghouse for settling digital assets, enabling financial institutions to execute large-scale trades with atomic delivery, zero slippage, and embedded protocol-level compliance.
New Funding Raised: $6.8M, Seed
Round Investors: Faction (lead), Protein Capital, A.GAIN (Formerly IDC Ventures), Coinbase Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand ZeroDelta, its multichain clearinghouse for digital assets.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: Wilmington, DE
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 11
Apaluma’s data intelligence platform standardizes environmental data sets for all government data, allowing government agencies and public institutions to streamline permitting and licensing processes, improve transparency, and ensure sustainable decision-making through reliable, digitized information management.
New Funding Raised: $5.55M, Seed
Round Investors: Crosslink Capital (lead), Haven Ventures (lead), Kickstart (lead), Overwater Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for transforming fragmented government and environmental records into searchable, connected, and actionable data.
Press: Yahoo Finance, FinSMEs
HQ: Albuquerque, NM
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 9
Aina develops AI-native consumer hardware interfaces, enabling users to interact with digital devices through context-aware input technologies beyond traditional keyboards and touchscreens.
New Funding Raised: $5.5M, Seed
Round Investors: 360 ONE Asset (lead), Redstart Labs (lead), Shashank Kumar, Antler
🚀Growth Focus: Support to bring its flagship interface, which the team has been building in stealth, to market and to scale the team across its San Francisco and Bangalore offices.
Press: GlobeNewswire, TechCrunch
HQ: Lewes, DE
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 34
EverSettled operates an estate settlement guidance platform that helps families navigate the probate process after the death of a loved one, allowing families navigating estate settlement to manage the complex probate process with structured, professional guidance at a lower cost than traditional legal representation.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Emergence Capital (lead), Paul Copplestone, Charles Jolley, Entrepreneurs First
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its strategic hiring pipelines across engineering, marketing, growth, and legal divisions, expand its product capacity to handle complex multi-state estates, and scale its core machine learning architecture.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 5
Woddle Baby develops infant care technology that simplifies parenting through connected nursery tools, enabling parents and caregivers to monitor infant growth and manage daily care activities from a connected platform.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: Capital Q® Ventures Inc. (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support inventory release, clinical sales team expansion, and AI diagnostic model development.
Press: EIN Presswire, Dealroom
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Retail Health and Personal Care Products
Employee Count: 15
Proaction develops fleet management software that optimizes the operation and tracking of vehicle fleets, allowing fleet operators to streamline their daily workflows, automate routine tasks, and reduce time spent on manual data entry, ultimately increasing fleet productivity while lowering operational costs.
New Funding Raised: $4.2M, Seed
Round Investors: Holman Growth Ventures, Iowa Economic Development Authority, Aviso Ventures, Innoventures Iowa
🚀Growth Focus: Build a modern alternative to the expensive, outdated methods by which commercial fleets are traditionally managed.
Press: PR Newswire, Dealroom
HQ: Des Moines, IA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 12
Synthreo, Inc. operates an AI infrastructure platform for managed service providers to build and deploy enterprise AI capabilities across multiple client environments, enabling managed service providers serving industries such as construction, legal, and healthcare to deliver scalable, isolated, and enterprise-grade AI deployments across dozens of user organizations from a single unified dashboard.
New Funding Raised: $2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Rashaad Bajwa, Adam Slutskin, Kevin Blake, Arlin Sorensen
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate its engineering, product, and partner success organizations while expanding its enterprise agentic AI capabilities.
Press: EIN Presswire, Dealroom
HQ: Phoenix, AZ
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 18
Logcat AI develops an AI-powered operating system engineering platform, allowing software teams to autonomously diagnose issues, generate fixes, validate system changes, and develop OS-level features across software stacks.
New Funding Raised: $2.55M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Founders' Co-op (lead), Act One Ventures, Shorewind Capital, Alumni Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform for automating Android and Linux operating system debugging.
Press: citybiz, EIN Presswire
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 4
🌍 EMEA
ENGO Eyewear develops augmented reality smart eyewear, enabling athletes to view real-time performance metrics through a heads-up display during training and competition.
New Funding Raised: €5.1M, Seed
Round Investors: Bpifrance (lead), ODYSSEE VENTURE (lead), Ventech (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its international presence and accelerate the development of next-generation heads-up display technologies.
Press: Tech.eu, EU-Startups
HQ: Grenoble, France
Industry: Consumer Electronics
Employee Count: 17
NOUS Energy operates a food tech company that develops new ingredients for the Food & Beverage and Nutraceutical markets, allowing food, beverage, and nutraceutical industries to offer a versatile range of products that support both mental and physical well-being.
New Funding Raised: €2.315M, Seed
Round Investors: DSM-Firmenich Venturing (lead), FoodSeed
🚀Growth Focus: Advance the commercialization of Koncentra, its branded botanical functional ingredient for the energy category.
HQ: Lomazzo, Italy
Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing
Employee Count: 7
Energyminer develops hydrokinetic power generation systems that generate renewable electricity from flowing rivers, enabling communities and utilities to access continuous renewable electricity generation.
New Funding Raised: €2.1M, Seed
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support its efforts to bring its technology to market.
Press: startbase.com, Dealroom
HQ: Gröbenzell, Germany
Industry: Hydroelectric Power Generation
Employee Count: 26
Sightera Biosciences develops an AI-powered drug discovery platform, allowing the design of biomarker-driven small molecule therapies through patient-derived biological data and generative AI.
New Funding Raised: €3M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Anacura (lead), Entourage (lead), Qbic Fund (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its workforce, scale its pre-clinical oncology and fibrosis asset portfolios, accelerate its lead molecular glue oncology program toward candidate selection, and prepare for a larger follow-on financing round to transition its lead asset, SIGHT001, into human clinical trials.
Press: EU-Startups, FinSMEs
HQ: Niel, Belgium
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 5
Arq develops quantum communication hardware for quantum network and data transmission purposes, enabling scalable quantum repeater nodes for long-distance secure communication and distributed quantum computing.
New Funding Raised: $1.4M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Ground State Ventures (lead), Big Sur Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support to establish a new laboratory facility, accelerate the technical development of its quantum memory devices, and improve hardware manufacturing reproducibility.
HQ: Barcelona, Spain
Industry: Telecommunications
Employee Count: 11
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Fireworks AI (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs, a Head of Sales Development, and AI Native AEs for its NYC and San Mateo-based teams.
Ollama (LI) is hiring a founding Account Executive for its Palo Alto-based team.
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.
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