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🌎 Americas
Life Biosciences develops drug therapies that improve the lives of people as they age, enabling senior citizens to tackle age-related diseases to extend healthy life spans.
New Funding Raised: $80M, Series D
Round Investors: [Not Disclosed]
🚀Growth Focus: Support its operations into the second half of 2027, including the completion of its recently initiated Phase 1 clinical trial of ER-100 and the continued advancement of its broader Partial Epigenetic Reprogramming platform across multiple therapeutic indications.
Press: Life Biosciences News, FinSMEs
HQ: Boston, MA
Industry: Biotechnology
Employee Count: 26
True Footage develops a real estate data authentication platform that streamlines residential transactions, allowing organizations to assess content credibility and reduce risks from misleading media.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series C
Round Investors: Socium Ventures (lead), Story Ventures, PagsGroup, Nava Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate the expansion of its proprietary software platform, enabling faster, more accurate, and cost-efficient valuations at scale.
Press: GlobeNewswire, citybiz
HQ: Austin, TX
Industry: Real Estate
Employee Count: 153
Sidewinder Therapeutics operates a precision biologics development company that delivers new life-saving therapies for cancer and rare disease patients, enabling users to access new life-saving therapies for cancer and rare diseases.
New Funding Raised: $137M, Series B
Round Investors: Frazier Life Sciences (lead), Novartis Venture Fund (lead), Astellas Venture Management, Alexandria Venture Investments
🚀Growth Focus: Advance precision bispecific ADCs into clinical development for cancer.
Press: Pulse 2.0, Business Wire
HQ: San Diego, CA
Industry: Biotechnology Research
Employee Count: 7
Starfish Space develops autonomous satellite servicing vehicles for in-space satellite maintenance, allowing satellite operators to extend the operational life, perform relocations, and manage debris and operations.
New Funding Raised: $100M, Series B
Round Investors: Activate Capital Partners (lead), Point72 Ventures (lead), Shield Capital (lead), Nomi Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support expansion of Otter satellite-servicing missions and team growth.
Press: Ventureburn, FinSMEs
HQ: Seattle, WA
Industry: Space Research and Technology
Employee Count: 92
Patlytics operates an AI engine that augments intellectual property workflows, enabling the intellectual property industry to shorten the path to valuable assets.
New Funding Raised: $40M, Series B
Round Investors: SignalFire (lead), BAM Corner Point, N47, Antiportfolio Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate core product development to consolidate its position.
Press: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: New York, NY
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 60
Aria Networks develops an AI-focused networking platform that delivers scalable, reliable, and efficient performance for demanding workloads, allowing data center operators to maximize GPU utilization, simplify network management, and maintain consistent performance for AI training and inference.
New Funding Raised: $125M, Series A
Round Investors: Sutter Hill Ventures (lead), Eclipse, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management
🚀Growth Focus: Deliver on initial customer orders and expand operations.
Press: Business Wire, Startup Researcher
HQ: Palo Alto, CA
Industry: Computer Networking Products
Employee Count: 34
Pomo develops AI-based marketing content software that creates, optimizes, and manages marketing campaigns, enabling organizations to manage marketing workflows and campaign performance.
New Funding Raised: $4.5M, Seed
Round Investors: Kindred Ventures (lead), Scott Belsky, 645 Ventures, Timeless Partners
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its engineering and applied AI teams, enhance its real-time intelligence capabilities, and accelerate customer adoption globally.
Press: Business Wire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: San Francisco, CA
Industry: Marketing Services
Employee Count: 14
Satellites on Fire provides a real-time forest fire detection system that provides early warnings and minimizes fire-related losses, allowing organizations and individuals to monitor areas effectively and respond quickly to potential threats.
New Funding Raised: $2.7M, Seed
Round Investors: Dalus Capital (lead), Embarca Ventures, Reciprocal, Avesta Fund
🚀Growth Focus: Fuel the global expansion of a solution that originated as a high school project.
Press: Startup Researcher, FinSMEs
HQ: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 17
Petwealth operates a pet diagnostic platform that provides gold-standard PCR health screening, enabling users to monitor their pets proactively.
New Funding Raised: $1.7M, Seed
Round Investors: Predictive, Noa Capital, Founders Future, Generous Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Further develop its suite of financial products, which are designed to help pet owners save, budget, and access credit for pet-related expenses.
Press: Business Wire, citybiz
HQ: Miami, FL
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 5
Route 92 Medical develops a medical device that treats stroke and other related conditions, allowing healthcare professionals to cure patients and improve the lives of patients recovering from a stroke.
New Funding Raised: $50M, Private Equity
Round Investors: Novo Holdings (lead), U.S. Venture Partners, Norwest, The Vertical Group
🚀Growth Focus: Accelerate global commercial expansion, advance clinical evidence to support broader adoption of its neurovascular procedural approach, and invest in continued product innovation across its platform.
Press: GlobeNewswire, Yahoo Finance
HQ: West Jordan, UT
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 189
🌍 EMEA + Australia
neuroClues develops neurological diagnostic biomarker technology, enabling clinicians to detect disorders such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and multiple sclerosis at earlier stages.
New Funding Raised: €10M, Series A
Round Investors: Teampact ventures (lead), White Fund (lead), invest.bw, LeanSquare
🚀Growth Focus: Build out the commercial team, pursue FDA clearance in the United States in 2026, and expand into European markets.
Press: EU-Startups, The Next Web
HQ: Louvain-la-neuve, Belgium
Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Employee Count: 31
Treon develops an IoT-based device monitoring platform for businesses to connect operations, drive impact, and sustainability, allowing companies to create scalable IoT services using data-driven automation.
New Funding Raised: €6.8M, Series A
Round Investors: ACME Capital (lead)
🚀Growth Focus: Support its push toward autonomous industrial operations, building on its existing platform that integrates AI-driven analytics, wireless sensors, automated workflows, and a mobile-first interface.
Press: PR Newswire, Pulse 2.0
HQ: Tampere, Finland
Industry: Technology, Information, and Internet
Employee Count: 98
CONXAI’s AI-powered data platform transforms fragmented construction data into actionable knowledge, enabling construction professionals to improve productivity, enhance project control, and reduce knowledge loss.
New Funding Raised: €5M, Series A
Round Investors: BayBG Venture Capital (lead), Capricorn Partners (lead), Pi Labs, Argonautic Ventures
🚀Growth Focus: Expand its platform worldwide and establish agent-based automation in the construction industry.
Press: The Next Web, startbase.com
HQ: Munich, Germany
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 28
AirHub develops a drone operations management platform that integrates drone technology into daily life and business operations, allowing drone operators and public safety organizations to coordinate aerial missions and maintain operational oversight and regulatory compliance.
New Funding Raised: €4.4M, Series A
Round Investors: Keen Venture Partners (lead), Lumaux, RunwayFBU, LUMO labs
🚀Growth Focus: Enable its operations, innovate its product offerings, and meet the increasing demand for secure drone solutions.
Press: Vestbee, Startup Researcher
HQ: Groningen, Netherlands
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 25
Kimia operates an AI platform that assists chemical professionals by providing curated knowledge from diverse sources, enabling chemists and researchers to make informed decisions faster, accelerating product development and innovation in the chemical industry.
New Funding Raised: $7M, Seed
Round Investors: Airtree Ventures (lead), Blackbird Ventures, Skip Capital
🚀Growth Focus: Support the expansion of its go-to-market strategy to reach a global audience within the chemical industry.
Press: Startup Researcher, PRWeb
HQ: Sydney, Australia
Industry: Software Development
Employee Count: 22
Sales Gigs 🏆
⭐️Cognichip (LI) is hiring a VP of Sales and Sales Director for its Redwood City based team.
Coder (LI) is hiring a remote Cloud Partner Sales Manager for its US-based team.
Replit (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC and Foster City (Bay Area) based teams.
Legora (LI) is hiring Mid-Market & Enterprise GTM Managers across the US.
Nimble (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC and West Coast teams, as well as a RevOps leader and BDRs, based in NYC.
Encord (LI) is hiring AEs for its London and SF-based teams, as well as a BDR Manager for its SF-based team.
Braintrust (LI) is hiring tons of sales roles, including Strategic, Commercial, and Enterprise AEs across all regions of the US.
Render (LI) is hiring a remote Enterprise AE and Strategic Account Manager for its SF-based team.
Bretton AI (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs & Deployment Strategists for its SF-based team.
Brandlight (LI) is hiring Enterprise AEs for its NYC-based team.
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