| 1 | Companion.energy companion.energy | Seed | $9M | Climate & Energy | Thomas Vyncke CEO & Co-founder | - -Thomas Vyncke spent years implementing large energy projects for leading industrial groups before co-founding Companion.energy in Ghent.
- -He co-founded the company with engineer Jonas Verstraeten to automate enterprise energy management in real time.
- -The oversubscribed 7.8M euro seed led by Realyze Ventures fuels European expansion after revenue grew tenfold past 1M euro ARR.
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | Goldenrod Therapeutics goldenrodtx.com | Seed | $6.5M | HealthTech | Dev Chatterjee CEO | - -Dev Chatterjee leads Goldenrod Therapeutics, a Houston-based drug discovery company.
- -The company focuses on drug discovery for neurological conditions, with backing from Ataxia Ventures.
- -A $6.5M seed led by Ataxia Ventures and backed by Fannin Partners funds early drug discovery work.
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| 6 | Seltz seltz.ai | Seed | $12.5M | AI & Machine Learning | Antonio Mallia Co-founder & CEO | - -Antonio Mallia is a research scientist with a background from NYU Tandon School of Engineering.
- -He built Seltz's search stack from scratch, including a proprietary crawler and semantic and graph indexes.
- -Seltz raised a $12.5M seed in June 2026 led by Speedinvest and B Capital to scale its retrieval API for AI agents.
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| 7 | Hang Ten Systems hangten.systems | Seed | $32M | Enterprise Software | Vishal Sikka Founder & CEO | - -Vishal Sikka architected SAP HANA as SAP CTO and later served as CEO of Infosys.
- -He was an early advocate of enterprise AI, building Infosys's AI platform years before the current wave.
- -Hang Ten's $32M seed led by Mayfield with Aramco Ventures comes as it works with enterprises like Siemens Gamesa and Fresenius.
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| 8 | Runlayer runlayer.com | Series A | $30M | Cybersecurity | Andrew Berman Co-founder & CEO | - -Andrew Berman is a three-time founder who previously co-founded baby-monitor company Nanit and video tool Vowel.
- -He sold Vowel to Zapier in 2024 and became Zapier's Director of AI, building one of the first MCP servers.
- -Runlayer's $30M Series A led by Felicis brings total funding to $42M, with customers like Instacart, Gusto and Lemonade.
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| 9 | Caplight caplight.com | Series A | $16M | FinTech | Javier Avalos Co-founder & CEO | - -Javier Avalos worked in private markets since 2017 and was head of Marketplace and SVP at Forge before founding Caplight.
- -His finance background spans Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Cowen.
- -Caplight's $16M Series A was led by BlackRock and Fin Capital with UBS Investment Bank joining strategically.
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| 10 | TensorX tensorx.ai | Seed | ~$8M | AI & Machine Learning | Shane Morton Founder & CEO | - -Shane Morton built and sold financial trading software and acquired Irish data-centre business ICT Services before founding TensorX.
- -He repeatedly met companies eager to adopt AI but unwilling to compromise on data residency, which inspired TensorX.
- -TensorX raised €8M led by Darius Cubed Ventures and plans to deploy up to €100M in Nvidia Blackwell GPUs across Europe.
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| 11 | Coval coval.dev | Series A | $28M | Developer Tools | Brooke Hopkins Founder & CEO | - -Brooke Hopkins previously worked on simulation at Waymo, bringing autonomous-vehicle testing discipline to voice AI.
- -She built Coval through Y Combinator's S24 batch and has become a prominent voice on AI agent reliability.
- -The $28M Series A led by Norwest brings total funding to $31M, with customers including Zoom and Deepgram running tens of millions of evaluations.
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| 12 | Arca arcawealth.ai | Series A | $64M | FinTech | Rron Rexha Founder & CEO | - -Rron Rexha was a former product leader at Plaid before founding Arca to build an AI-native wealth management firm.
- -He assembled a heavyweight advisory roster including former Vanguard chairman Bill McNabb and former Schwab CFO Peter Crawford.
- -The $64M raise, pairing a Series A led by General Catalyst with a Venrock-led seed, comes as Arca already manages over $1B in client assets.
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| 13 | Ground groundtech.co | Pre-Seed | $3.6M | Blockchain & Web3 | Reid Cuming Co-Founder & CEO | - -Reid Cuming co-founded Superstate and was VP and GM of Compound Treasury, described as the first S&P-rated DeFi product.
- -His earlier career spanned Stripe, Chime, and Square before he turned to onchain financial infrastructure.
- -The $3.6M pre-seed co-led by Bain Capital Crypto and ParaFi funds an enterprise API connecting customer balances to onchain yield.
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| 14 | Cambrian cambrian.org | Seed | $6M | Blockchain & Web3 | Sam Green Founder & CEO | - -Sam Green co-founded and was CTO of Semiotic Labs, a core development team behind The Graph.
- -He holds a PhD in reinforcement learning with roughly five years of cryptography experience.
- -The $6M seed led by a16z CSX, with Franklin Templeton and Polychain, funds an oracle network delivering blockchain data to institutions and AI agents.
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| 15 | Trase Systems trasesystems.com | Seed | $107M | Enterprise Software | Grant Verstandig Co-Founder & CEO | - -Grant Verstandig founded Rally Health as a Brown University dropout and later advised the CEO of UnitedHealth Group.
- -He is founder, chairman, and CEO of Red Cell Partners, the incubator behind Trase Systems.
- -The $107M seed led by ARCH Venture Partners funds an agentic operating system for regulated industries, with a recent AWS exec hire and Seattle-area expansion.
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| 16 | Luxonis luxonis.com | Series A | $14M | Robotics & Hardware | Bradley Dillon CEO | - -Bradley Dillon was previously Head of Worldwide B2B Pricing Product Management at Amazon before leading Luxonis.
- -He studied at the University of Washington Foster School of Business and now runs the OAK edge-AI camera line.
- -The Series A supports scaling the OAK 4 spatial-AI platform across a team of roughly 87 people.
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| 17 | Tsuga tsuga.com | Series A | ~$30M | Developer Tools | Gabriel-James Safar Co-Founder & CEO | - -Gabriel-James Safar and co-founder Sebastien Deprez are both Datadog alumni.
- -They previously co-founded Madumbo, which Datadog acquired in 2018, before launching Tsuga in 2024.
- -The €30M Series A led by Singular expands an AI-native observability platform that runs inside the customer's own cloud, used by Black Forest Labs and Le Monde.
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| 18 | Fika Jobs fikajobs.ai | Pre-Seed | $4M | HR & Recruiting | Jakob Dubois Co-founder & CEO | - -Jakob Dubois previously built the social app Gaff with his brother and Fika co-founder Alexander Dubois.
- -The idea for Fika came from a recruiting moment at Gaff where a strong candidate was nearly passed over due to a weak resume.
- -The $4M pre-seed led by Luminar Ventures funds an early-access launch and growth to roughly 10 employees by end of 2026, with 100+ companies on the waitlist.
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| 19 | Isometric isometric.com | Series A | $40M | Climate & Energy | Eamon Jubbawy Founder & CEO | - -Eamon Jubbawy previously co-founded Onfido, a digital identity-verification company serving Fortune 100 firms.
- -He founded Isometric in 2022 and built it into the world's largest certifier of carbon removal by contracted volume.
- -The $40M Series A led by AVP funds expansion of its certification platform beyond carbon removal into energy and industrial markets.
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| 20 | Cortea cortea.ai | Seed | ~$12M | AI & Machine Learning | Valentin Neumann Co-founder & CEO | - -Valentin Neumann previously helped scale hearing-aid company audibene, eventually serving as CTO of a large engineering team.
- -He founded a company before attending WHU and was General Manager of Idealab on campus.
- -Cortea's €12M seed led by Dawn Capital is backed by former KPMG global audit head Larry Bradley, and its agents reviewed over 4,000 audit reports.
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| 21 | encosa encosa.energy | Seed | ~$25M | Climate & Energy | Sascha Koberstaedt Co-founder & CEO | - -Sascha Koberstaedt previously built an electromobility company that raised €70M and grew past 100 employees.
- -He co-founded encosa in 2024 to bring AI-optimised battery storage to Germany's industrial Mittelstand.
- -encosa's €25M seed led by Realyze Ventures will scale deployment of commercial and industrial battery storage systems.
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| 22 | INXM inxm.ai | Pre-Seed | ~$5.7M | Enterprise Software | Alex Oelling Co-founder & CEO | - -Alex Oelling was Chief Digital Officer at both Isar Aerospace and Volocopter.
- -At Isar Aerospace he helped launch a rocket from a Norwegian fjord before pivoting to enterprise AI.
- -INXM emerged from stealth with a €5.7M pre-seed led by Cherry Ventures and Redstone to build an AI process execution engine.
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| 23 | Invisix invisix.com | Seed | ~$20M | Robotics & Hardware | Christina Porter Co-founder & CEO | - -Christina Porter earned a PhD in physics at the University of Colorado Boulder before leading soft X-ray metrology research at ASML.
- -She co-founded Invisix to commercialise a decade of R&D incubated inside ASML since 2015.
- -Invisix raised an oversubscribed €20M seed backed by Hitachi Ventures, imec.xpand and a tier-1 semiconductor manufacturer.
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| 24 | Coval coval.ai | Series A | $28M | Developer Tools | Brooke Hopkins Founder & CEO | - -Brooke Hopkins led evaluation infrastructure at Waymo, running millions of self-driving simulations.
- -She founded Coval to bring autonomous-vehicle simulation discipline to voice and chat AI agents.
- -Coval's $28M Series A led by Norwest brings total funding to $31M, with customers including Zoom and Deepgram.
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| 25 | Seltz seltz.com | Seed | $12.5M | AI & Machine Learning | Antonio Mallia Founder & CEO | - -Antonio Mallia is building search infrastructure designed for AI agents rather than humans.
- -Seltz built its own crawler, index and ranking stack from scratch instead of wrapping Google or Bing.
- -Seltz raised a $12.5M seed led by Speedinvest and B Capital and crawls hundreds of millions of pages a day.
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| 26 | CardNexus cardnexus.com | Pre-Seed | ~$3.5M | E-Commerce & Marketplace | Tristan Foureur Co-founder & CEO | - -Tristan Foureur co-founded and was CTO of WeMaintain, scaling it from 3 to 300 people and raising over $50M.
- -He brings 16 years of engineering experience and left WeMaintain in late 2024 to start CardNexus.
- -CardNexus's €3.5M pre-seed led by Piton Capital follows fast growth past 50,000 users since its March 2026 launch.
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| 27 | New Dawn Bio newdawnbio.com | Pre-Seed | ~$2.1M | Climate & Energy | Tom Clement Co-founder & CEO | - -Tom Clement is a systems biologist who studied bioinformatics at Wageningen University.
- -He co-founded New Dawn Bio in 2023 on Wageningen Campus to grow the world's first cultured wood.
- -The €2.1M oversubscribed pre-seed led by CapitalT will advance product development and expand its R&D team.
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| 28 | Acodyne acodyne.com | Pre-Seed | ~$2.5M | Defense & GovTech | Mads Schnack Co-founder & CEO | - -Mads Schnack worked on counter-drone systems and JTAC at the Danish Ministry of Defence.
- -He co-founded Acodyne in 2023 alongside a former SAS pilot and aerospace systems veterans.
- -Acodyne's €2.5M pre-seed will fund its E100 cargo drone prototype, with first flight tests planned before the end of 2026.
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| 29 | Joyvié Health wearjoyvie.com | Pre-Seed | ~$774K | HealthTech | Zoe Robson Founder & CEO | - -Zoe Robson founded Joyvié Health after losing her father to pancreatic cancer in 2025.
- -She is building patent-pending continence underwear designed from first principles to protect skin and dignity.
- -The pre-seed round, including an Innovate UK grant, was backed by HERmesa Angels, SyndicateRoom and Lavender Ventures.
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| 30 | Uncovr uncovr.com | Seed | $7M | HealthTech | Ines Iraki Co-founder & CEO | - -Ines Iraki was the first hire at Theremia, where she scaled the company from zero as Chief of Staff.
- -She previously worked as a healthtech and insurtech VC before founding Uncovr.
- -Uncovr raised a $7M seed led by Index Ventures in June 2026 to turn surgical video into clinical records.
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| 31 | Evotrex evotrex.com | Series A | $30M | Climate & Energy | Alex Xiao Co-founder & CEO | - -Alex Xiao previously helped grow Anker into the world's leading mobile charging brand.
- -He co-founded Evotrex with fellow former Anker product leader Stella Qin.
- -Evotrex raised a $30M Series A in June 2026 and plans to build around 1,000 hybrid RV trailers a year.
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| 32 | Naratix naratix.ai | Seed | ~$1M | E-Commerce & Marketplace | Marius Drenea Co-founder | - -Marius Drenea co-founded Naratix while also serving as a partner at WebitFactory.
- -He builds Naratix as ecommerce content infrastructure for global online retailers.
- -Naratix raised a €1M seed in June 2026 to accelerate its market growth.
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| 33 | Sandstone sandstone.legal | Series A | $30M | LegalTech | Nick Fleisher Co-founder & CEO | - -Nick Fleisher and co-founder Liam Germain were college roommates before building Sandstone together.
- -He lived the pain of in-house legal teams drowning in repetitive work, which inspired Sandstone.
- -Sandstone raised a $30M Series A led by Lightspeed just 147 days after launching, reaching 450+ legal teams across 53 countries.
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| 34 | Gradient Labs gradient-labs.ai | Series A | $26M | FinTech | Dimitri Masin Co-founder & CEO | - -Dimitri Masin previously built Monzo's data and machine learning stack before founding Gradient Labs.
- -His AI agents now serve over 32 million banking customers across Europe and the US.
- -Gradient Labs doubled its Series A to $26M in June 2026 with revenue up 900% year over year.
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| 35 | Conduct conduct.ai | Series A | $60M | Enterprise Software | Jan Philipp Haas Co-founder & CEO | - -Jan Philipp Haas spent years at Palantir working inside complex enterprise environments before co-founding Conduct.
- -He co-founded Conduct with two fellow ex-Palantir engineers, Philipp Hoefer and Henry Thompson.
- -Conduct raised a $60M Series A led by Index Ventures and ICONIQ in June 2026, with SAP joining.
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| 36 | Acumino acumino.com | Seed | $11.7M | Robotics & Hardware | Minas Liarokapis Co-founder & CEO | - -Minas Liarokapis studied at the National Technical University of Athens before co-founding Acumino.
- -His startup was handpicked by DeepMind for its robotics accelerator.
- -Acumino raised an $11.7M seed in June 2026 to advance its robotics technology.
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| 37 | Board getboard.com | Series A | $20M | Consumer | Brynn Putnam Founder & CEO | - -Brynn Putnam previously founded the connected fitness company Mirror, which she sold to Lululemon.
- -She built Board as together-tech designed to bring family and friends physically around a table.
- -Board raised a $20M Series A led by Union Square Ventures and has sold thousands of units across all 50 states.
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| 38 | GitHits githits.dev | Pre-Seed | ~$1.5M | Developer Tools | Olli-Pekka Heinisuo Co-founder & CTO | - -Olli-Pekka Heinisuo invented GitHits and serves as its co-founder and CTO.
- -He built GitHits as a spin-out of the Softlandia Venture Studio.
- -GitHits raised €1.5M in pre-seed funding in June 2026 to build a code search grounded in open-source repositories.
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| 39 | Clair Health clair.health | Seed | $11.6M | HealthTech | Jenny Duan Co-founder & CEO | - -Jenny Duan co-founded Clair Health at age 21 as a Stanford alum focused on women's health.
- -She co-founded the company with CTO Abhinav Agarwal to close gaps in women's health infrastructure.
- -Clair Health raised an $11.6M seed led by Khosla Ventures to launch its hormone-monitoring wearable in November 2026.
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| 40 | NexDash nexdash.com | Seed | ~$2.5M | Logistics & Supply Chain | Michael Cassau Founder & CEO | - -Michael Cassau previously scaled the consumer tech unicorn Grover before founding NexDash.
- -He has spoken publicly about moving from consumer tech to critical logistics infrastructure.
- -NexDash secured €2.5M from EIT Urban Mobility in June 2026 to electrify Europe's road freight.
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| 41 | Lexful lexful.com | Seed | $7M | Enterprise Software | Pinar Ormeci CEO | - -Pinar Ormeci is a global tech executive leading Lexful as CEO.
- -Lexful is chaired by Chris Day, who founded IT Glue, the documentation tool that defined the MSP category before Kaseya acquired it.
- -A $7M seed led by Top Down Ventures and York IE funds Lexful's AI-native documentation platform for MSPs.
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| 42 | A Security asecurity.ai | Series A | $37M | Cybersecurity | Yossi Torati Co-founder | - -Yossi Torati co-founded A Security in 2025 with Omer Gull and Yuval Itzchakov.
- -The team builds AI agents that detect, simulate and block autonomous cyberattacks before they reach enterprise networks.
- -A $37M round led by Cyberstarts and Lightspeed launches the company out of stealth to defend against weaponized AI.
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| 43 | Uncovr uncovr.ai | Seed | ~$6M | HealthTech | Ines Iraki Co-founder & CEO | - -Ines Iraki was the first hire at Theremia, scaling it from zero as Chief of Staff, and is an ex-healthtech and insurtech VC.
- -She co-founded Uncovr with Prof. Eric Vibert, one of Europe's top liver surgeons, and ETH Zurich robotics engineer Johann Diep.
- -Uncovr emerged from stealth with 6M euro seed led by Index Ventures to build the system of intelligence for surgery.
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| 44 | Layup Parts layupparts.com | Series A | $42M | Robotics & Hardware | Zack Eakin Co-founder & CEO | - -Zack Eakin previously worked as an engineer at Anduril Industries before co-founding Layup Parts.
- -He co-founded the company with CTO Hanno Kappen to build an on-demand marketplace for composite parts.
- -A $42M Series A led by Marlinspike, with Founders Fund and Lux Capital, funds expansion of advanced composite manufacturing.
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| 45 | Orbio orbio.ai | Series A | $21M | HR & Recruiting | Sergi Bastardas Co-founder & CEO | - -Sergi Bastardas, Stanford-educated, leads Orbio targeting the 2.7 billion frontline workers ignored by enterprise software.
- -Co-founder Nacho Travesi previously co-founded Cobee and is an ex-Wellhub operator.
- -A $21M Series A led by Dawn Capital backs Orbio's AI agents for hiring and onboarding; customers already include YUM! Brands.
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| 46 | Prosper AI prosper.ai | Series A | $30M | HealthTech | Xavier de Gracia Co-founder & CEO | - -Xavier de Gracia co-founded Prosper AI with Josep Marc Mingot, taking the company through Y Combinator.
- -Prosper now powers more than 60 healthcare organizations, including athenahealth and ImagineSoftware.
- -A $30M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz follows an earlier $5M seed and fuels expansion across US ambulatory groups.
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| 47 | Rainbow Crops rainbowcrops.com | Seed | ~$9.7M | Food & Agriculture | Giacomo Bastianelli Co-founder & CEO | - -Giacomo Bastianelli, a Harvard Business School alumnus, co-founded Rainbow Crops to advance precision breeding.
- -The company's Trait Foundry platform combines multiplex genome editing, AI, and precision breeding.
- -A 9.7M euro seed funds development of improved crop varieties engineered for complex agronomic traits.
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| 48 | Board board.game | Series A | $20M | Consumer | Brynn Putnam Founder & CEO | - -Brynn Putnam previously founded fitness company Mirror, which sold to Lululemon, before launching Board.
- -Board's together-tech recognizes physical pieces on screen so players of all ages can play games together.
- -A $20M Series A led by Union Square Ventures, with angels Tim Ferriss and Biz Stone, backs the launch after selling thousands of units.
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| 49 | Probook probook.com | Series A | $40M | Enterprise Software | George Eliadis Co-founder & CEO | - -George Eliadis built Probook to solve a dispatch problem he faced in his own business, alongside co-founders Ben Cervantez and Lewis.
- -Co-founder Ben Cervantez grew up helping his dad plumb in San Francisco, grounding the product in home-services reality.
- -A $40M round from Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital backs Probook's AI operating system; one customer booked 2,542 jobs in its first month.
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| 50 | Houdini Bio houdini.bio | Seed | ~$1.5M | HealthTech | Jonathan Cohen-Gold Co-founder & CEO | - -Jonathan Cohen-Gold brings breakthrough PhD discoveries from the University of Cambridge to Houdini Bio.
- -He is joined by CBO Lee Dunham, who brings commercial expertise from the Cell and Gene Therapy Catapult.
- -A 1.5M pound seed backed by Science Creates VC and Cambridge Enterprise launches Houdini Bio out of stealth.
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| 51 | Andera andera.ai | Series A | $37M | Enterprise Software | Aryo Patel Co-founder & CEO | - -Aryo Patel previously scaled Azure infrastructure at Microsoft and worked the trading desk at Jane Street.
- -Co-founder Tinah Hong studied at MIT alongside him and built machine learning systems at Stripe.
- -A $37M Series A led by Lightspeed funds Andera's push to automate SOX and compliance testing for Fortune 100 enterprises.
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| 52 | Fearn fearn.ai | Seed | $5.5M | LegalTech | Han Kim Co-founder & CEO | - -Han Kim drafted patents across software and life sciences at Morrison & Foerster and is a Caltech PhD student.
- -Co-founder and CTO Angela Gao earned her Caltech PhD under Katie Bouman and built AI models at Google Research.
- -A $5.5M seed led by Kindred Ventures, with a16z speedrun, funds Fearn's AI patent drafting tools.
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| 53 | Niteshift niteshift.dev | Seed | $7M | Developer Tools | Sajid Mehmood Co-Founder & CEO | - -Sajid Mehmood spent 4.5 years at Datadog helping it scale toward a unicorn valuation.
- -He co-founded Niteshift with fellow Datadog veteran Conor Branagan.
- -The $7M seed led by Greylock's Jerry Chen, with angels Reid Hoffman and Olivier Pomel, funds a cloud platform for AI coding agents.
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| 54 | Hydra Host hydrahost.com | Series A | $100M | AI & Machine Learning | Aaron Ginn CEO & Co-founder | - -Aaron Ginn previously co-founded the Foundation for American Innovation and the digital marketing firm Fabius Labs.
- -He was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and holds economics and finance degrees from Texas Christian University.
- -The $100M Series A from Kindred Ventures and NVIDIA funds global expansion of Hydra Host's AI factory and GPU orchestration capacity.
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| 55 | Pramaana Labs pramaana.ai | Seed | $27M | AI & Machine Learning | Ranjan Rajagopalan Co-founder & CEO | - -Ranjan Rajagopalan co-founded Pramaana Labs with fellow IIT Madras alumni Krishnan Raghavan and Sanjay Ganapathy Subramaniam.
- -The founding team is applying formal verification methods to AI, a deep technical specialty rare among startups.
- -The $27M seed led by Khosla Ventures funds product development to bring mathematical guarantees to AI systems.
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| 56 | Convey convey.com | Series A | $38M | AI & Machine Learning | Rohan Chopra Co-founder & CEO | - -Rohan Chopra spent eight years at DoorDash, joining as an early engineer and rising into leadership.
- -He was inspired to start Convey after automating DoorDash's manual delivery-assignment workflows.
- -Convey crossed $50M ARR within seven months and raised a $38M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to expand its AI workforce platform.
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| 57 | Foundation Alloy foundationalloy.com | Series A | $22M | Robotics & Hardware | Jake Guglin Founder & CEO | - -Jake Guglin holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- -He co-founded Foundation Alloy in 2022 with Jasper Lienhard and professors Chris Schuh and Tim Rupert.
- -The $22M Series A funds a new 36,000-square-foot Massachusetts facility and a Japanese distribution partnership.
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| 58 | Jedify jedify.ai | Series A | $24M | AI & Machine Learning | Assaf Henkin Co-Founder & CEO | - -Assaf Henkin is a serial founder whose previous company Kontera was acquired by Singtel and folded into Amobee.
- -He built Jedify with co-founders Erik Shani (CPO) and Adi Elimelech (CTO).
- -The $24M Series A led by Norwest, with Snowflake Ventures, supports Jedify's context graph platform serving early customers like The Weather Company.
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| 59 | Podium Automation podiumautomation.com | Series A | $18M | Robotics & Hardware | Jamie Niu Serota Co-Founder & CEO | - -Jamie Niu Serota co-founded Podium Automation with engineers and operators from Tesla, Blue Origin, and Bowery Farming.
- -She built the company in 2024 alongside co-founder and CTO Jacob Buser.
- -The $18M Series A led by Construct Capital, with a16z, funds software that cuts industrial control-panel build times by two thirds.
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| 60 | Tenet Security tenetsecurity.com | Seed | $6M | Cybersecurity | Barak Sternberg Co-Founder & CEO | - -Barak Sternberg is a Unit 8200 alum who helped build Cisco's AI Defense research team.
- -He previously co-founded cybersecurity company Wild Pointer, which served Fortune 500 customers, with co-founder Nevo Poran.
- -Tenet emerged from stealth with a $6M seed from The Westly Group to secure enterprise AI agents via patent-pending Agent-side Simulation.
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| 61 | Clario clario.ai | Seed | $6M | Enterprise Software | Yousuf Khan Co-Founder & CEO | - -Yousuf Khan is a five-time CIO turned VC, having served at Pure Storage and Moveworks and as a venture partner at Ridge Ventures.
- -He co-founded Clario with Madhu Vohra, a former engineering leader at Oracle, NetApp, Nutanix, and VMware.
- -Clario launched from stealth with a $6M seed led by Preface Ventures to eliminate redundant, obsolete, and trivial enterprise data.
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| 62 | Taste Labs tastelabs.ai | Seed | $18.5M | AI & Machine Learning | Thais Castello Branco Founder & CEO | - -Thais Castello Branco attended the University of Chicago and is based in San Francisco.
- -She founded Taste Labs after building in stealth, on a mission to end AI slop.
- -The $18.5M seed co-led by CRV and Amplify Partners funds preference datasets and evaluation tools for frontier AI labs.
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| 63 | Goldenrod Therapeutics goldenrodtherapeutics.com | Seed | $6.5M | HealthTech | Dev Chatterjee CEO | - -An MD, PhD leading a Houston biotech focused on brain inflammation in neurodegenerative disease.
- -In-licensed the company's core '11h' molecule from the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
- -Closed the initial $6.5M seed round led by Ataxia Ventures and Fannin Partners to move the 11h program into the clinic.
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| 64 | Jedify jedify.com | Series A | $24M | AI & Machine Learning | Assaf Henkin CEO & Co-founder | - -Previously built Kontera Technologies, a large-scale intelligence platform acquired by Singtel in 2014.
- -Led Singtel's Digital Data Business Unit after the acquisition, with 15+ years working at the intersection of data and AI.
- -Raised a $24M Series A led by Norwest with Snowflake as a strategic investor to build context graphs for enterprise AI agents.
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| 65 | Invisible-Light Labs invisible-light-labs.com | Pre-Seed | ~$1.5M | Robotics & Hardware | Josiane P. Lafleur CEO & Co-founder | - -Leads a TU Wien spin-off commercializing nanomechanical infrared analysis technology.
- -The company's EMILIE analyzer produced its first scientific publication in ACS Nano.
- -Raised a 1.5M euro pre-seed co-led by XISTA Science Ventures and aws Gruendungsfonds to commercialize internationally.
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| 66 | 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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| 67 | 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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| 68 | 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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| 69 | 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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| 70 | 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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| 71 | 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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| 72 | 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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| 73 | 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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| 74 | 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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| 75 | 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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| 76 | 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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| 77 | 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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| 78 | 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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| 79 | 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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| 80 | 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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| 81 | 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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| 82 | 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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| 83 | 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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| 84 | 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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| 85 | 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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| 86 | 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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| 87 | 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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| 88 | 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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| 89 | 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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| 90 | 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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