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🌎 Americas
Databricks develops a data analytics platform that offers an open and unified environment for the data and AI sectors, enabling organizations to work with improved usability, performance, and security in an optimized runtime.
New Funding Raised: $3B, Venture - Series Undisclosed
Round Investors: Coatue (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 16136
Meshy AI develops a three-dimensional model generation platform that converts text or images into three-dimensional models for digital content creation, allowing designers, game developers, and digital content creators to create three-dimensional assets with minimal technical effort.
New Funding Raised: $400M, Series B
Round Investors: IDG Capital (lead), Matrix Partners China (lead), Monolith Capital (lead), Granite Asia
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate multimodal foundation model research, strengthen its core algorithmic infrastructure, and expand its commercial sales across global enterprise markets.
Press: Dealroom, RuntimeWire
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 157
Twenty Technologies’s cyber-warfighting platform enables real-time offensive cyber operations for defense missions, enabling U.S. and allied defense teams to gain operational dominance.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series B
Round Investors: Khosla Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its development of AI-enabled cyber warfare systems for the U.S. military and intelligence community.
HQ: Arlington, VA
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 51
Natural develops a financial transaction infrastructure that facilitates real-time international payments between AI agents and businesses, allowing businesses integrating AI-driven workflows to conduct secure, automated, and compliant financial operations.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Forerunner (lead), Armaan Ali, Pete Koomen, Logan Paul
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering and product development teams as demand grows for AI-native financial infrastructure.
Press: PR Newswire, citybiz
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 18
Empirical Security develops a cybersecurity platform that delivers AI-driven vulnerability management by modeling both global and enterprise-specific threat landscapes, enabling security teams in enterprises to reduce alert noise, prioritize critical threats, and make data-informed decisions.
New Funding Raised: $25M, Series A
Round Investors: Brightmind Partners (lead), Costanoa Ventures, HPA (Hyde Park Angels)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its predictive cybersecurity platform for exposure and vulnerability management.
Press: Pulse 2.0, FinTech Global
HQ: Chicago, IL
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 29
Runta develops an AI agent execution platform, allowing organizations to securely run, govern, and monitor AI agents with runtime controls for token efficiency, credential protection, and policy-based access.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Jeff Dean, Fei-Fei Li, Ram Shriram
🚀Growth Focus: Expand the architecture of its isolation guardrails, expand its core systems engineering divisions, and build secure compute environments that safely throttle AI model capabilities in production.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 4
Pure operates a rake-free online poker platform for cash games and tournaments, allowing players to manage deposits, payouts, and winnings directly to their bank accounts with transparent pricing and a streamlined experience.
New Funding Raised: $8M, Seed
Round Investors: Hidden Capital (lead), Z Fellows, Alex Pall, MaC Venture Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand engineering and compliance capabilities, strengthen its payments infrastructure, and support continued growth across supported U.S. markets.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 19
SONATA provides concierge healthcare services that deliver personalized health optimization, allowing individuals to proactively manage their health and improve long-term well-being.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: Sunflower Capital, BoxGroup, Lux Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support its proprietary clinical AI platform, scale its physician-led digital care networks, and accelerate consumer membership onboarding campaigns across its initial launch hubs of New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
Press: FinSMEs, Femtech Insider
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 6
TripWip develops a car rental application that connects owners and small rental companies with tenants, enabling users and travelers to avail security and safety throughout travel.
New Funding Raised: $4.2M, Seed
Round Investors: CrossBoundary, Promotora Social México, Satrack Ventures, Latin Leap
🚀Growth Focus: Launch operations in Monterrey and Los Cabos in Mexico and in Mendoza and Bariloche in Argentina.
HQ: Montevideo, Uruguay
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 21
Reme-D provides molecular diagnostic kits that enhance the accuracy and timeliness of disease detection, allowing global populations in underserved areas to access accurate and reliable diagnostics and treatment information.
New Funding Raised: $1.45M, Seed
Round Investors: Africa Health Ventures, Global Innovation Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Expand production capacity, regional distribution, and product portfolio.
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Health and Human Services
Employee Count: 37
StratX develops an engineered landfill emissions reduction platform that converts high-emitting landfills into carbon offset assets, enabling landfill operators and host governments to monetize emissions reductions.
New Funding Raised: $1.19M, Seed
Round Investors: Neglected Climate Opportunities (lead), CarbonFix, Terraset
🚀Growth Focus: Support installations across Asia, Africa, and South America.
Press: Tech.eu, RuntimeWire
HQ: Washington, DC
Industry: Waste Treatment and Disposal
Employee Count: 1
🌍 EMEA
Cue develops a user service platform that creates omnichannel customer conversations with live chat, chatbots, and broadcasts, enabling businesses to build customized conversation journeys and scale their user support.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Series A
Round Investors: Knife Capital (lead), Fam Investment
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the development of its AI-driven customer service platform.
Press: Dealroom, TechAfrica News
HQ: London, England
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 75
Poolhouse operates a bar-restaurant entertainment company that improves social entertainment, allowing users to enjoy enhanced access to social experiences with entertainment.
New Funding Raised: $55M, Private Equity
Round Investors: Bluestone Equity Partners (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the global expansion of its technology-enabled cue sports platform and premium entertainment venues.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: London, England
Industry: Entertainment Providers
Employee Count: 50
NextGO Epi manufactures gallium oxide semiconductors that deliver better performance than traditional silicon carbide and gallium nitride semiconductors, enabling users to design and manufacture power electronic systems that are more efficient, reliable, and compact.
New Funding Raised: €2M, Pre-Seed
Round Investors: Vireo Ventures (lead), IBB Ventures, Boris Habets, Ultratech Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate product development, expand its team, and grow international sales.
Press: EU-Startups, Dealroom
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Semiconductor Manufacturing
Employee Count: 5
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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