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🌎 Americas
Antares manufactures a transportable microreactor that provides reliable power in remote or austere environments, enabling users to deploy resilient energy systems with minimal maintenance.
New Funding Raised: $370M, Series C
Round Investors: Caffeinated Capital (lead), Paradigm (lead), Point72 Ventures, Industrious Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Deliver its first electricity-producing reactor in 2027 and begin military deployments in 2028.
Press: Business Wire, Ventureburn
HQ: Torrance, CA
Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing
Employee Count: 128
Atoms operates a portfolio of physical automation companies that digitize industrial and physical world operations, allowing industries to reduce dependence on human labor and operate with greater efficiency at scale.
New Funding Raised: $1.7B, Seed
Round Investors: Andreessen Horowitz (lead), Alpha Square Group, K5 Global
🚀Growth Focus: Integrate its newly merged multi-sector corporate assets, scale the production of its task-specific machine learning hardware, and accelerate full-scale industrial AI deployments across global distribution and heavy-industry networks.
Press: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch
HQ: Los Angeles, CA
Industry: Automation Machinery Manufacturing
Employee Count: 720
Fluxco operates a transformer procurement platform that simplifies industrial transformer sourcing and lifecycle management, enabling utility operators, industrial facilities, and energy infrastructure developers to procure compliant transformer equipment with streamlined vendor management and operational oversight.
New Funding Raised: $26M, Seed
Round Investors: 8VC (lead), Congruent Ventures (lead), Koch Disruptive Technologies, Overture Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Support to help buyers sort through a convoluted process of selecting the right transformers for electrical grids.
Press: Dealroom, MarketWatch
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Electrical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 10
Dopl Technologies develops an AI and robotics-powered healthcare platform that delivers diagnostic exams and interventional procedures in underserved areas, allowing rural populations and medically underserved communities to access care without delays or travel.
New Funding Raised: $6.3M, Seed
Round Investors: SpringTide Ventures (lead), TVF, WRF Capital, Precursor Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Pursue FDA clearance for its product ecosystem, which includes Traverse™, a remote robotic ultrasound system; Dopl Connect™, a secure connectivity and data platform; and SonoFlex™, a distributed clinical workforce and workflow management solution.
Press: Business Wire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 14
Cashboard’s AI-powered financial analysis platform automates recurring financial planning and analysis tasks for businesses, enabling finance teams and business leaders with streamlined reporting, reduced manual effort, improved accuracy, and real-time financial information.
New Funding Raised: $5M, Seed
Round Investors: FINTOP Capital (lead), Y Combinator, TTV Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Scale its go-to-market efforts, accelerate product development, and launch its forthcoming AI budgeting and forecasting offering.
Press: Dealroom, Cashboard News
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 13
Pairidex develops personalized digital PCR assays that detect gene fusions in blood cancers accurately, allowing healthcare providers to monitor disease progression and evaluate treatment response.
New Funding Raised: $4.9M, Seed
Round Investors: BioGenerator Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate commercialisation of FusionMRD, an RNA-based droplet digital PCR blood test for monitoring minimal residual disease in gene fusion-driven blood cancers.
Press: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Dealroom
HQ: Saint Louis, MO
Industry: Medical and Diagnostic Laboratories
Employee Count: 6
Pilot Protocol develops a networking stack that enables secure communication between autonomous agents, providing infrastructure teams with a platform to establish direct agent identities and discover specialized services for autonomous machine-to-machine collaboration.
New Funding Raised: $4.5M, Seed
Round Investors: OneVentures (lead), Lenny Rachitsky, Ben Tossell, Night Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Develop a communications and commerce network designed specifically for AI agents, positioning itself as foundational infrastructure for what it expects will become a rapidly expanding autonomous software economy.
Press: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 6
The American Baby Company provides affordable, all-inclusive IVF and egg freezing services that make fertility treatment accessible to individuals and couples seeking to start or grow their family, enabling users to access quality, transparent, and affordable fertility care.
New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed
Round Investors: Tower Research Capital (lead), Wormhole Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support to open its first clinic in West Palm Beach, Florida, and enter additional markets, with a long-term goal of helping 250,000 patients annually over the next 10 years.
Press: Dealroom, Femtech Insider
HQ: West Palm Beach, FL
Industry: Hospitals and Health Care
Employee Count: 5
Flair Labs develops an AI-powered lead generation platform that streamlines client engagement in real estate and lending, allowing real estate professionals to identify high-intent leads and enhance client experiences.
New Funding Raised: $4M, Seed
Round Investors: Leo Capital (lead), Y Combinator (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its AI voice platform for lenders, brokerages, and loan officers.
Press: Dealroom, Bergen Record
HQ: Stanford, CA
Industry: Technology, Information and Internet
Employee Count: 12
🌍 EMEA
Multiverse Computing’s quantum computing software applies probabilistic or nondeterministic-inspired technologies to tackle complex problems, enabling users to solve complex problems in finance, energy, manufacturing, defense, cybersecurity, life sciences, and chemistry and deliver practical applications and tangible value.
New Funding Raised: €500M, Series C
Round Investors: BNP Paribas Solar Impulse Venture fund (lead), Bullhound Capital (lead), Forgepoint Capital (lead), NAventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its library of efficient models, continue research and development on its proprietary algorithms, support strategic investments in sovereign AI gigafactory infrastructure and the software stack needed for deployments, and establish a stronger regional presence.
Press: EU-Startups, Yahoo Finance
HQ: San Sebastián, Spain
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 427
Ominimo develops an AI-powered insurance platform that improves risk assessment, pricing, and underwriting processes, allowing users to obtain insurance coverage through data-driven risk evaluation and pricing.
New Funding Raised: $22.5M, Series B
Round Investors: EBRD Venture Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Develop data-driven motor insurance products using proprietary technology.
Press: Tech Funding News, The Next Web
HQ: Budapest, Hungary
Industry: Insurance
Employee Count: 90
Datapizza develops enterprise AI transformation solutions, enabling organizations to deploy AI systems, build internal capabilities, and integrate artificial intelligence into business operations.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: Nextalia Ventures (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support its growth, enabling it to strengthen its ability to meet demand from large enterprises and to make AI solutions accessible to small and medium-sized Italian businesses as well.
Press: Leaders League, BeBeez International
HQ: Milan, Italy
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Employee Count: 96
Nuclear Turbine operates a nuclear generator that powers commercial gas turbines, providing scalable power for markets where electricity costs constrain growth.
New Funding Raised: £15M, Seed
Round Investors: IQ Capital (lead), Rhapsody Venture Partners, Empirical Ventures, BAE Systems
🚀Growth Focus: Advance its reactor technology, build large-scale test facilities, and expand its team as it works toward bringing its compact nuclear power system to market.
HQ: Manchester, England
Industry: Nuclear Electric Power Generation
Employee Count: 1
Scape develops an AI-powered desktop email client that streamlines inbox organization and automates workplace communication workflows, enabling business professionals to manage workplace communication and reduce administrative workload.
New Funding Raised: $3.2M, Seed
Round Investors: Sophia Bendz, Sebastian Knutsson, Jacob Wallenberg, Max Junestrand
🚀Growth Focus: Support core engineering and product design hires, scale its local data processing models, and accelerate its global early access rollout campaigns.
HQ: Stockholm, Sweden
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 8
Furbnow provides home energy efficiency planning and design services that help homeowners reduce energy bills and carbon emissions, allowing residential property owners to implement energy upgrades in sequence and transition to low-carbon heating solutions.
New Funding Raised: £2.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Future Planet Capital (lead), Daniel Luhde-Thompson, Nesta, SFC Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Grow the team, develop the technology platform further, and roll out service offerings across the United Kingdom, a timely boost for efforts to speed up home retrofit at scale.
Press: Dealroom, Startupmag
HQ: Birmingham, England
Industry: Residential Building Construction
Employee Count: 14
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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