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🌎 Americas
Augustus operates an AI- intelligent bank that offers stablecoin banking services, enabling users to pay directly from their accounts with no additional effort.
New Funding Raised: $180M, Series B
Round Investors: Tiger Global Management (lead), Alan Chang, BH Digital, Balaji Srinivasan
🚀Growth Focus: Support to serve leading fintechs and banks in Latin America, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.
Press: PR Newswire, FinSMEs
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Financial Services
Employee Count: 69
Neo Security develops a collaborative conversational AI platform that enables secure human and AI collaboration for complex decision-making, allowing enterprises to deploy controlled AI systems with data privacy and transparent decision-making.
New Funding Raised: $75M, Series A
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Bessemer Venture Partners (lead), Omer Adam, Ofir Ehrlich
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its go-to-market and engineering teams as enterprises prioritize security initiatives to manage rapid agentic software adoption.
Press: GlobeNewswire, AI Business Weekly
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Computer and Network Security
Employee Count: 50
TYBR Health develops a collagen-based resorbable hydrogel that protects healing tendons and ligaments and supports recovery after surgery, enabling clinicians to reduce complications that can impair tissue function.
New Funding Raised: $30M, Series A
Round Investors: Mutual Capital Partners (lead), Vensana Capital (lead), Neovate Capital Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand commercial access to its FDA-cleared B3 GEL® System, broaden its product indications, and run clinical studies evaluating tissue protection during orthopedic surgery.
Press: PR Newswire, FinSMEs
HQ: Houston, TX
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 21
Gritt Robotics operates an AI and robotics platform that automates labor-intensive tasks in solar energy construction, allowing infrastructure developers and engineering, procurement, and construction companies to improve construction productivity, accuracy, and safety.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Series A
Round Investors: Obvious Ventures (lead), Union Square Ventures, VSC Ventures, Congruent Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Construction
Employee Count: 18
Uniti AI develops an AI-driven sales assistant platform that enhances lead engagement and conversion processes, enabling real estate, community managers, and sales teams to connect with leads, reduce engagement time, and streamline their inbound conversion funnel.
New Funding Raised: $12M, Series A
Round Investors: Pathlight Ventures (lead), Alate Partners, Lenny Rachitsky, Flex Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 33
Organic Traditions develops and distributes organic plant-based food products, allowing consumers to access nutrient-dense superfoods, herbs, teas, and natural wellness ingredients sourced from global traditional food systems.
New Funding Raised: $10.5M, Series A
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate U.S. retail expansion, grow its eCommerce business, advance innovation behind its Fiber Flow line, and invest in the team and infrastructure needed to support continued North American growth.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Toronto, ON
Industry: Food and Beverage Services
Employee Count: 20
N-Zyme Biomedical Inc. develops pepsin inhibitor therapies, enabling the treatment of reflux disease through targeted therapies designed to improve patient outcomes and redefine the standard of care.
New Funding Raised: $4.6M, Series A
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support ongoing Phase 2 trials for laryngopharyngeal reflux and planned studies for proton pump inhibitor-refractory gastroesophageal reflux disease.
HQ: Milwaukee, WI
Industry: Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 5
NxLite manufactures energy-control coatings that reduce energy consumption in transparent barriers, allowing window manufacturers and transportation firms to produce lightweight, thermally efficient glazing solutions that improve solar control without the weight and fragility of traditional glass.
New Funding Raised: $3.9M, Series A
Round Investors: Crabtree Lane Alt (lead), MUUS, New Climate Ventures, VoLo Earth Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand manufacturing of its energy-efficient coatings for glass and polymer substrates.
HQ: Etobicoke, Canada
Industry: Climate Technology Product Manufacturing
Employee Count: 17
SkyPilot develops an AI compute orchestration platform, enabling organizations to unify and manage AI workloads across Kubernetes, Slurm, and multiple cloud environments through a single infrastructure layer.
New Funding Raised: $20M, Seed
Round Investors: Lux Capital (lead), Amjad Masad, Clem Delangue, Tristan Handy
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI infrastructure platform, which helps enterprises and frontier AI organizations manage large-scale computing resources across multiple cloud providers and hardware environments.
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 6
Infinity operates an AI inference infrastructure platform that delivers instant, low-latency, high-throughput streaming for developers deploying advanced language models in real-world applications, allowing users to integrate advanced language models seamlessly into applications, reduce latency, optimize throughput, and accelerate time-to-value.
New Funding Raised: $15M, Seed
Round Investors: Touring Capital, Principal Venture Partners, Ilia Zintchenko
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its automated AI research platform and its autonomous AI agent, Ignition, which writes inference code for any new AI chip; expand its engineering team; and accelerate its work with chip partners, including d-Matrix.
Press: Business Wire, TechCrunch
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 5
Sofab develops a perovskite solar cell manufacturing platform that offers functionalized materials for perovskite solar cells, enabling photovoltaic cell manufacturers to improve the efficiency and performance of their products.
New Funding Raised: $6M, Seed
Round Investors: Cloudberry Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Scale production of specialty materials designed to improve the reliability of perovskite solar cells.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Louisville, KY
Industry: Chemical Manufacturing
Employee Count: 6
🌍 EMEA
Hilo develops a monitoring tool that prevents and assists in high blood pressure, allowing patients to understand the underlying causes of blood pressure to develop new approaches to deal with the limiting and life-threatening condition.
New Funding Raised: $19M, Series B
Round Investors: DFO Management (lead), Khosla Ventures, Translink Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Expand operations and its development efforts.
Press: Yahoo Finance, Dealroom
HQ: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Industry: Home Health Care Services
Employee Count: 82
Humanoid develops safe, scalable humanoid robots for industrial and everyday use, enhancing efficiency, safety, and scalability in manufacturing, logistics, and potentially household applications.
New Funding Raised: $152M, Series A
Round Investors: Prime Movers Lab (lead), Aglaé Ventures, Bosch, Schaeffler Group
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate commercial deployments of its AI-powered wheeled robots, expand manufacturing, and advance its proprietary KinetIQ AI platform.
Press: Tech.eu, SiliconANGLE
HQ: London, England
Industry: Robotics Engineering
Employee Count: 264
Brenus Pharma’s immuno-oncology platform develops immunotherapies for the treatment of resistant and evolving solid tumors, allowing oncology healthcare providers and cancer patients to access targeted immunotherapies for hard-to-treat tumors.
New Funding Raised: €11M, Series A
Round Investors: Bpifrance, Noshaq, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regional Future Industry Fund, Angelor
🚀Growth Focus: Support to complete the Phase I program and continue accelerating our in vivo immunotherapy platform by advancing our next drug candidate.
Press: Business Wire, EU-Startups
HQ: Lyon, France
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 29
dsb Deutsche Sanierungsberatung operates an energy consulting company that supports building renovations, enabling users to plan energy-efficient renovation measures and access government subsidies.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: Simon Capital (lead), Verbund X Ventures (lead), FoodLabs, Vireo Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its climate-neutral home renovation platform.
Press: Dealroom, EU-Startups
HQ: Berlin, Germany
Industry: Services for Renewable Energy
Employee Count: 92
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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