| 1 | Lexful lexful.com | Seed | $7M | Enterprise Software | Pinar Ormeci CEO & Founder | - -Pinar Ormeci was a senior business development leader and executive at Qualcomm and Ericsson before founding Lexful.
- -She frames MSP documentation as an economic problem, building an AI-native platform to replace tribal knowledge with reliable intelligence.
- -The $7M seed led by Top Down Ventures supports a July general-availability launch with full integrations and the Ask Lex assistant.
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| 2 | Goldenrod Therapeutics goldenrodtherapeutics.com | Seed | $6.5M | HealthTech | Dev Chatterjee CEO | - -Dev Chatterjee leads Goldenrod Therapeutics as CEO, advancing brain-penetrant therapies for neuroinflammation and neurological disorders.
- -The company commercializes the 11h molecule developed by UNMC chemist Corey Hopkins to inhibit the PDE4 protein.
- -The $6.5M seed led by Ataxia Ventures and a Fannin Partners affiliate moves the lead program toward clinical trials.
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| 3 | Jedify jedify.com | Series A | $24M | AI & Machine Learning | Assaf Henkin CEO & Co-founder | - -Assaf Henkin is a repeat entrepreneur who co-founded Jedify in 2023 and leads it as CEO from New York.
- -He built the company with CTO Adi Elimelech and CPO Erik Shani around Semantic Fusion context graph technology.
- -The $24M Series A led by Norwest, with Snowflake Ventures, scales a context layer that gives enterprise AI agents business knowledge.
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| 4 | Invisible-Light Labs invisible-light-labs.com | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | Robotics & Hardware | Josiane P. Lafleur CEO & Co-founder | - -Josiane P. Lafleur co-founded Invisible-Light Labs as a TU Wien spin-off commercializing infrared analysis for nanomaterials.
- -She leads a founding team of four building NEMS-FTIR technology for picogram-level identification of sub-micron particles.
- -The 1.5M euro pre-seed led by XISTA Science Ventures accelerates global rollout of the EMILIE system co-branded with Bruker Optics.
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| 5 | Niteshift niteshift.ai | Seed | $7M | Developer Tools | Sajid Mehmood CEO & Co-founder | - -Spent nearly a decade at Datadog, helping grow it from its early days to a multi-billion-dollar valuation.
- -Co-founded Niteshift with fellow Datadog engineer Conor Branagan to build cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents.
- -Just raised a $7M seed led by Greylock's Jerry Chen with angels including Reid Hoffman and Datadog's Olivier Pomel, and is hiring founding engineers.
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| 6 | Orbital orbital.space | Seed | $5M | Robotics & Hardware | Euwyn Poon CEO & Founder | - -Founded e-scooter company Spin in 2017 and sold it to Ford a year later.
- -Holds a Computer Science degree and a J.D. from Cornell and practiced M&A law at Simpson Thacher before founding startups.
- -Raised a $5M seed via a16z Speedrun to deploy 10,000 satellite-based data centers by 2028.
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| 7 | Uncovr uncovr.ai | Seed | ~$6M | HealthTech | Ines Iraki CEO & Co-founder | - -Was the first hire at a fast-growing drug discovery biotech, where she built data partnerships with pharma groups and hospitals.
- -Previously invested in insurtech and healthtech before co-founding Uncovr alongside surgeon Professor Eric Vibert.
- -Raised a 6M euro seed led by Index Ventures to turn surgical video into automated operative reports and billing codes.
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| 8 | Layup Parts layupparts.com | Series A | $42M | Robotics & Hardware | Zack Eakin CEO & Co-founder | - -A former Anduril engineer who previously worked at Chip Ganassi Racing and The Boring Company.
- -Grew Layup Parts from a $9M seed in 2024 to roughly 60 employees building software-led composites manufacturing.
- -Raised a $42M Series A led by Marlinspike with Founders Fund and Lux Capital to scale carbon-fiber parts production.
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| 9 | Paypercut paypercut.com | Seed | ~$5M | FinTech | Stoil Vasilev CEO & Co-founder | - -Former VP of Corporate Development at SumUp, where he shaped fundraising and investment strategy.
- -Co-founded Paypercut and grew it from a BNPL aggregator into a full payments platform serving 200+ merchants.
- -Raised a 5M euro seed co-led by Concentric, Passion Capital and Araya Ventures to expand across eight CEE markets.
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| 10 | Evotrex evotrex.com | Series A | $30M | Climate & Energy | Alex Xiao CEO & Co-founder | - -Draws on prior product leadership experience at consumer electronics company Anker.
- -Debuted the world's first power-generating RV trailer at CES 2026 after exiting stealth in late 2025.
- -Raised a $30M Series A, bringing total funding to $46M, to scale its US off-grid RV presence.
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| 11 | Sensie sensie.io | Pre-Seed | ~$500K | Food & Agriculture | Olivier Begerem CEO & Co-founder | - -Co-founded Sensie in 2025 in Ghent to make plant intelligence accessible to professional growers.
- -Built the Sensie Omni wearable that captures direct physiological signals from crops in real time.
- -Raised a 500K euro pre-seed led by Division Q following first commercial greenhouse deployments and a GreenTech award.
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| 12 | Mimir mimir.ai | Pre-Seed | ~$518K | AI & Machine Learning | Jørgen Vartdal Halse CEO & Co-founder | - -Co-founded Mimir in 2024 and grew it to profitability without external funding.
- -The platform handles 250,000+ customer conversations a month for around 60 brands across five countries.
- -Raised a 518K euro pre-seed led by Sondo Capital after roughly 7x growth, expanding from Norway across Europe.
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| 13 | NanoCo nanoco.ai | Seed | $12M | Cybersecurity | Gavriel Cohen CEO & Co-founder | - -Built the open-source NanoClaw agent harness from scratch, reaching nearly 29,000 GitHub stars.
- -Closed his prior AI marketing startup to focus full-time on NanoClaw with his brother and co-founder Lazer.
- -Turned down a roughly $20M buyout and instead raised a $12M seed led by Valley Capital Partners with Docker and Vercel.
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| 14 | Board board.gg | Series A | $20M | Consumer | Brynn Putnam CEO & Founder | - -Founded connected-fitness company Mirror, acquired by Lululemon for $500M in 2020.
- -A former professional ballet dancer turned repeat consumer-hardware founder.
- -Raised $20M for Board, a face-to-face game console that has already sold thousands of units.
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| 15 | Sekai sekai.com | Series A | $20M | Consumer | Lucky Zhang CEO & Founder | - -A four-time founder whose first company was acquired by Apple.
- -Previously built Latin America's largest short-video platform (acquired by TikTok) and Vietnam's largest music streaming service.
- -Raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures as users created 15M AI mini-apps.
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| 16 | Companion.energy companion.energy | Seed | $9M | Climate & Energy | Thomas Vyncke Co-founder | - -Thomas Vyncke co-founded Companion.energy in 2022 and links his work to energy research at KU Leuven.
- -He co-founded the company with Jonas Verstraeten to turn real-time energy management into trading-style execution software for heavy industry.
- -Companion raised a 7.8M euro (about $9M) seed co-led by Realyze Ventures and Pi Labs to expand into Germany and Spain, already managing half a billion euros of energy spend for clients like TotalEnergies and KPN.
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| 17 | Volund Manufacturing volundmfg.com | Seed | $12M | Defense & GovTech | Eric Hostetler Co-founder & CEO | - -Eric Hostetler worked at Anduril, Oakley and Apple before founding Volund Manufacturing.
- -He co-founded the company with Ken Spaulding to build low-cost jet-turbine propulsion for unmanned aircraft and defense platforms.
- -Volund raised a $12M seed led by Root Ventures to scale a vertically integrated factory targeting hundreds of engines a year by 2027.
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| 18 | Reset getreset.co | Seed | $6M | FinTech | Matt Dicou Co-founder & CEO | - -Matt Dicou previously led Visa's earned-wage-access business in North America and earned an MBA from Stanford.
- -He co-founded Reset with CTO Brian Mascarenhas to embed on-demand pay into community banking, motivated by watching his father work up to four jobs at a time.
- -Reset raised a $6M seed anchored by its own credit-union customers, signaling strong market pull as it scales integrations and compliance.
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| 19 | THEKER theker.ai | Series A | $85M | Robotics & Hardware | Jiaqiang Ye Zhu CEO & Co-founder | - -Jiaqiang Ye Zhu co-founded THEKER in 2022 after meeting his co-founder as an engineering student at UPC in Barcelona, where they ran the university robotics club.
- -He leads a team building AI-native generalist factory robots designed to work the day they arrive and keep improving through AI afterward.
- -THEKER just closed Europe's largest-ever robotics Series A at $85M with backing from CRV, Samsung and LVMH to scale industrial deployments and grow the engineering team.
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| 20 | Poetic poetic.com | Series A | $50M | AI & Machine Learning | Markie Wagner Founder & CEO | - -Markie Wagner is a Thiel Fellow who researched at Stanford and worked on machine learning at Google and Waymo before founding Poetic.
- -She previously launched an AI consultancy called Delphi Labs and started the company under the name Forge.
- -Poetic emerged from stealth with a $50M Series A at a $500M valuation led by Kleiner Perkins, with OpenAI and Founders Fund backing its enterprise rollout.
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| 21 | Aryon Security aryon.security | Series A | $29M | Cybersecurity | Ron Arbel CEO & Co-founder | - -Ron Arbel is a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree and veteran of Matzov, the IDF's elite cybersecurity unit.
- -He built Aryon on insights gained while helping secure Project Nimbus, Israel's multi-billion-dollar national cloud infrastructure contract.
- -Aryon raised a $29M Series A led by Brightmind Partners just over a year after exiting stealth, with plans to extend its platform to AI systems and SaaS apps.
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| 22 | Capsa AI capsa.ai | Series A | $18M | FinTech | Danyal Ozduzenciler Co-founder & CEO | - -Danyal Ozduzenciler co-founded Capsa AI to build an automated operating system for the private equity industry.
- -He scaled Capsa to a revenue-generating platform serving PE funds managing over $30 billion across the US, UK and Germany within roughly a year of founding.
- -Capsa raised an $18M Series A co-led by TX Ventures and Pivot Investment Partners and recently opened a New York office to expand across deal sourcing, diligence and portfolio monitoring.
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| 23 | Generalist AI generalistai.com | Series A | $400M | Robotics & Hardware | Pete Florence Co-founder & CEO | - -Pete Florence is a former Google DeepMind researcher who helped architect the PaLM-E and RT-2 robotics models before co-founding Generalist AI.
- -He is building GEN-1, an AI foundation model designed to control any robot hardware rather than a single robot type.
- -Generalist AI raised a $400M Series A led by Radical Ventures with NVIDIA and Bezos Expeditions backing, pushing total funding past $500M to scale its universal robot brain.
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| 24 | A Security asecurity.ai | Series A | $37M | Cybersecurity | Yossi Torati Co-founder & CEO | - -Yossi Torati co-founded A Security drawing on deep experience in how attackers operate and how enterprise environments break.
- -He built the company with co-founders Omer Gull and Yuval Itzchakov to create an autonomous offensive security platform that thinks like an attacker.
- -A Security emerged from stealth with a $37M round led by Lightspeed and Cyberstarts, backed by the CEOs of Wiz and Cyera, to scale engineering and enterprise pilots.
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| 25 | EDGE Markets edgemarkets.io | Series A | $29.2M | Blockchain & Web3 | Seni Thomas Founder & CEO | - -Seni Thomas founded EDGE Markets in 2025 and is a recognized voice on the convergence of prediction markets and regulated finance.
- -He built EDGE to create banking and payment products spanning gaming, crypto and prediction markets.
- -EDGE Markets raised a $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund to launch EDGE Pro, a high-throughput banking platform for market makers on CFTC-regulated exchanges.
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| 26 | Lexful lexful.ai | Seed | $7M | Enterprise Software | Pinar Ormeci CEO | - -Pinar Ormeci is a global tech executive who leads Miami-based Lexful as CEO.
- -She is building an AI-native documentation platform that turns the tribal knowledge of IT teams into a queryable system.
- -Lexful closed an oversubscribed $7M seed led by Top Down Ventures and York IE to build out the product, hire engineers and win mid-sized MSP customers.
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| 27 | Sandstone sandstone.com | Series A | $30M | LegalTech | Nick Fleisher Co-founder & CEO | - -Nick Fleisher is an engineer by training who led the legal-tech service line at McKinsey, building agentic solutions with QuantumBlack.
- -He is a Wharton graduate who co-founded Sandstone with his first-year Penn roommate Liam Germain.
- -Sandstone raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed with Sequoia participating to serve underserved in-house legal teams at small and mid-sized businesses.
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| 28 | Structured AI getstructured.ai | Seed | $4.2M | PropTech & Construction | Raymond Zhao Co-founder & CEO | - -Raymond Zhao studied Mathematics and Statistics at Oxford and worked at Goldman Sachs before co-founding Structured AI.
- -He co-founded the company with fellow Oxford graduates Brandon Smith and Isabel Greenslade to automate quality checks on construction documents.
- -Structured AI, a Y Combinator F25 company, raised a $4.2M seed led by FCVC to embed automated engineering corrections directly into design software.
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| 29 | Board board.fun | Series A | $20M | Consumer | Brynn Putnam Founder & CEO | - -Brynn Putnam founded Mirror, the connected fitness startup acquired by lululemon for $500M in 2020.
- -She returned to hardware with Board, a 24-inch face-to-face gaming console that recognizes touches, gestures and physical objects.
- -Board raised a $20M Series A led by Union Square Ventures and has already sold thousands of units ahead of a wider launch.
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| 30 | Niteshift niteshift.dev | Seed | $7M | Developer Tools | Sajid Mehmood CEO & Co-founder | - -Sajid Mehmood spent 4.5 years at Datadog helping it scale from early stage to a unicorn before founding Niteshift.
- -He co-founded Niteshift with fellow Datadog veteran Conor Branagan to build model-agnostic infrastructure for coding agents.
- -The fresh $7M seed from Greylock is funding a cloud platform that lets AI coding agents run, test, and verify software before deployment.
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| 31 | Generalist AI generalist.com | Series A | $400M | Robotics & Hardware | Pete Florence CEO & Co-founder | - -Pete Florence was a senior scientist at Google DeepMind where he helped create the RT-2 and PaLM-E robotics models.
- -He co-founded Generalist AI with Andy Zeng and Andrew Barry to build a single foundation model that controls any robot hardware.
- -The $400M round led by Radical Ventures values the company at $2B and funds scaling of its GEN-1 model launched in April 2026.
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| 32 | GALVANY galvany.energy | Seed | $11M | Climate & Energy | Raik Belka CEO & Founder | - -Raik Belka founded GALVANY in 2022 after seeing Germany's heat pump market break down on subsidy bureaucracy rather than technology.
- -He built a vertically integrated platform spanning the GALVANY Cube hardware, battery, and Fusion energy management system.
- -The 10M euro seed led by SET Ventures follows sevenfold revenue growth to 20.1M euro and a positive EBIT for the year.
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| 33 | Uncovr uncovr.com | Seed | $7M | HealthTech | Ines Iraki CEO & Co-founder | - -Ines Iraki co-founded Uncovr in 2025 to fix how surgeons document operations from memory hours after the procedure.
- -She built the team with CTO Johann Diep and medical co-founder Prof. Eric Vibert to turn surgical video into clinical records.
- -The $7M seed led by Index Ventures funds the system of record for surgery, with backing from Digital Surgery founder Jean Nehme.
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| 34 | Kosmos kosmos.ai | Seed | $5M | Enterprise Software | Sanjay Gidwani CEO & Founder | - -Sanjay Gidwani brings two decades of enterprise delivery operations and Salesforce ecosystem experience to Kosmos.
- -He founded the Chicago company to end escalation chaos by correlating signals across Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, and observability tools.
- -The $5M seed led by Norwest accompanies the platform's commercial launch and accelerates product development and market education.
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| 35 | Corca corca.com | Seed | $7.8M | AI & Machine Learning | Anton Gladkoborodov CEO & Co-founder | - -Anton Gladkoborodov co-founded Corca in 2023 to build a collaborative mathematics workspace from Brooklyn.
- -He partnered with co-founder Oleg Shevlyagin to combine AI assistance with real-time computation and equation editing.
- -The $7.8M round led by NEA, with Bloomberg Beta and NVentures, backs the next phase of the AI-powered math platform.
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| 36 | Aryon Security aryon.io | Series A | $29M | Cybersecurity | Ron Arbel CEO & Co-founder | - -Ron Arbel is a repeat founder and alumnus of Matzov, the IDF's elite cybersecurity unit, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree.
- -He built Aryon with CTO Ariel Litmanovich and CPO Yair Ladizhensky on lessons from securing Israel's national cloud contract.
- -The $29M Series A led by Brightmind Partners brings total funding to $38M to advance preventive cloud security enforcement.
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| 37 | InfoHawk infohawk.ai | Pre-Seed | $2.25M | Cybersecurity | Rob Leathern CEO & Co-founder | - -Rob Leathern built and scaled Facebook's Business Integrity platform before founding InfoHawk.
- -He co-founded InfoHawk with Benjamin Poiesz, with whom he previously worked on privacy at Google.
- -The $2.25M pre-seed led by Moonshots Capital funds an AI platform to detect deception and scams at internet scale.
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| 38 | EDGE Markets edgemarkets.com | Series A | $29.2M | FinTech | Seni Thomas CEO & Founder | - -Seni Thomas founded EDGE Markets to reduce payment friction across regulated gaming, crypto, and prediction markets.
- -He previously raised a $17M seed that launched EDGE Boost, a debit and banking platform tailored for gamblers.
- -The $29.2M Series A led by CoinFund funds new products EDGE Connect and EDGE Pro for the prediction market ecosystem.
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| 39 | Plot plotworkspace.com | Seed | $10M | Media & Entertainment | Megan Duong CEO & Founder | - -Megan Duong was a social marketing lead at Apple and a digital producer at Gap before founding Plot in 2022.
- -She co-founded the company with Phuoc Phan after text-based social listening tools failed to read short-form video.
- -The $10M seed co-led by XYZ Venture Capital and Mischief Ventures scales multimodal AI used by Visa, PepsiCo, and CAVA.
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