[ { "id": "cadence-health", "name": "Cadence Health", "tagline": "Remote recovery monitoring for orthopedic clinics", "sector": "Healthcare", "stage": "Series A", "location": "Boston, US", "founded": 2021, "team": 34, "raising": 12000000, "valuation": 60000000, "committed": 0.45, "website": "cadencehealth.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "$4.1M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "118%" }, { "label": "Net retention", "value": "131%" }, { "label": "Clinics live", "value": "217" } ], "about": "Orthopedic practices lose track of patients the moment they leave the building. Cadence gives surgeons a daily read on range of motion, pain scores and adherence, collected through a phone app and a $19 sensor band. Clinics use it to catch complications early and to bill remote therapeutic monitoring codes that were previously left on the table.", "traction": "Deployed across 217 clinics in 14 states. The average site adds $9,400 a month in reimbursable RTM billing, which is how the product pays for itself in the first quarter.", "use_of_funds": "Two thirds to a clinical sales team covering the Midwest and Southeast, the rest to CPT-code expansion into cardiac and pulmonary rehab.", "founders": [ { "name": "Dr. Amara Osei", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Orthopedic surgeon, 11 years at Mass General. Ran the post-op telehealth pilot the company came out of." }, { "name": "Ben Tomlinson", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Previously staff engineer on device integrations at Epic." } ], "investors": ["Cedarline Capital", "Marlow Angels"] }, { "id": "verdant-grid", "name": "Verdant Grid", "tagline": "Battery scheduling for community solar operators", "sector": "Climate", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Copenhagen, DK", "founded": 2023, "team": 11, "raising": 4500000, "valuation": 22000000, "committed": 0.6, "website": "verdantgrid.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "€680K" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "240%" }, { "label": "MW under management", "value": "310" }, { "label": "Payback", "value": "7 months" } ], "about": "Community solar projects sell power into day-ahead markets with spreadsheets and guesswork. Verdant Grid forecasts prices and dispatches co-located batteries automatically, splitting the upside with the operator. It plugs into the four inverter manufacturers that cover most of the Nordic and German market.", "traction": "310 MW under management across Denmark, Sweden and northern Germany. Operators see an average 14% lift in revenue per MWh against their prior manual scheduling.", "use_of_funds": "Market entry into Germany and the Netherlands, plus the trading licences required to bid directly rather than through an aggregator.", "founders": [ { "name": "Sofie Lindqvist", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Six years trading intraday power at a Danish utility." }, { "name": "Jonas Reiter", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Forecasting lead at a German virtual power plant. PhD in stochastic optimisation." } ], "investors": ["Terra Nine"] }, { "id": "kilnworks", "name": "Kilnworks", "tagline": "Quoting and scheduling for job-shop machinists", "sector": "Manufacturing", "stage": "Series A", "location": "Sheffield, UK", "founded": 2020, "team": 41, "raising": 9000000, "valuation": 45000000, "committed": 0.25, "website": "kilnworks.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "£3.4M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "82%" }, { "label": "Logo retention", "value": "96%" }, { "label": "Shops live", "value": "480" } ], "about": "A machine shop wins work by quoting fast and accurately. Kilnworks reads a CAD file, estimates cycle time against the shop's own machine list and labour rates, and returns a quote in under two minutes. That is work which typically ties up a senior engineer for half a day.", "traction": "480 shops in the UK, Ireland and Poland. Customers quote roughly three times more jobs per week and report win rates up by a third.", "use_of_funds": "A direct sales team in Germany and Italy, and support for sheet metal and injection moulding alongside the existing CNC coverage.", "founders": [ { "name": "Ruth Bellamy", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Third generation of a family machine shop. Ran operations there for eight years." }, { "name": "Yusuf Adeyemi", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Geometry kernel engineer, formerly at a CAD vendor." } ], "investors": ["Fenwick Grove Ventures", "Ravel Capital"] }, { "id": "ottermail", "name": "Ottermail", "tagline": "Shared inbox built for freight forwarders", "sector": "Logistics", "stage": "Pre-seed", "location": "Lisbon, PT", "founded": 2025, "team": 5, "raising": 900000, "valuation": 7000000, "committed": 0.3, "website": "ottermail.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "€94K" }, { "label": "Growth (MoM)", "value": "22%" }, { "label": "Paying teams", "value": "38" }, { "label": "Burn", "value": "€31K/mo" } ], "about": "Small forwarders run their entire operation out of a shared Outlook mailbox. Ottermail keeps that habit but adds structure: every thread is attached to a shipment, quotes and arrival notices are parsed automatically, and nothing gets answered twice.", "traction": "38 paying teams, almost all from referrals inside two Portuguese and Spanish forwarding associations. The median team has six seats.", "use_of_funds": "Two engineers and a first commercial hire, targeting 18 months of runway.", "founders": [ { "name": "Inês Carvalho", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Ran customer operations at a Lisbon forwarder with 60 staff." }, { "name": "Tomás Ferreira", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Early engineer at a European email infrastructure company." } ], "investors": [] }, { "id": "sable-analytics", "name": "Sable Analytics", "tagline": "Product analytics that runs inside your warehouse", "sector": "Data", "stage": "Series B", "location": "Berlin, DE", "founded": 2019, "team": 96, "raising": 30000000, "valuation": 210000000, "committed": 0.7, "website": "sableanalytics.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "$14.2M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "64%" }, { "label": "Net retention", "value": "124%" }, { "label": "Gross margin", "value": "81%" } ], "about": "Teams already keep their event data in Snowflake or BigQuery. Sable queries it in place rather than copying it into another vendor's cloud, which removes the duplication cost and most of the data-residency argument that stalls enterprise deals.", "traction": "$14.2M ARR across 190 customers, 40 of them above $100K. Land-and-expand runs through data teams rather than product managers.", "use_of_funds": "North American go-to-market, and a semantic layer that lets analysts define metrics once for both Sable and their BI tooling.", "founders": [ { "name": "Katrin Vogel", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Data platform lead at a large European retailer, then two years building the first version alone." }, { "name": "Michel Aubert", "role": "CPO", "bio": "Product at a BI company through its acquisition." } ], "investors": ["Northstack Capital", "Fenwick Grove Ventures"] }, { "id": "harborlight", "name": "Harborlight", "tagline": "Treasury and FX for small exporters", "sector": "Fintech", "stage": "Series A", "location": "Singapore, SG", "founded": 2022, "team": 28, "raising": 11000000, "valuation": 55000000, "committed": 0.5, "website": "harborlight.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "Revenue", "value": "$2.8M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "155%" }, { "label": "Volume/yr", "value": "$1.1B" }, { "label": "Customers", "value": "640" } ], "about": "An exporter doing $20M a year has real currency exposure and no treasurer. Harborlight gives them multi-currency accounts, scheduled hedges and payment rails across eight Asian corridors, priced as a flat basis-point spread instead of the opaque markup a bank applies.", "traction": "$1.1B of annualised volume across 640 customers, concentrated in electronics and speciality chemicals. Revenue retention is 140%.", "use_of_funds": "Licences in Japan and Korea, and a credit product secured against confirmed purchase orders.", "founders": [ { "name": "Wei Lin Tan", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Corporate FX desk at a regional bank, then head of treasury products at a payments firm." }, { "name": "Priya Nathan", "role": "COO", "bio": "Compliance lead across three MAS licensing rounds." } ], "investors": ["Bright Harbor Partners", "Northstack Capital"] }, { "id": "quarry-robotics", "name": "Quarry Robotics", "tagline": "Autonomous haulage for aggregate quarries", "sector": "Robotics", "stage": "Series A", "location": "Pittsburgh, US", "founded": 2021, "team": 52, "raising": 18000000, "valuation": 90000000, "committed": 0.35, "website": "quarryrobotics.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "$5.6M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "97%" }, { "label": "Sites live", "value": "23" }, { "label": "Trucks retrofitted", "value": "180" } ], "about": "Rather than selling autonomous trucks, Quarry retrofits the fleet a site already owns. A sensor mast and drive-by-wire kit installs in four days per truck. The site keeps its maintenance contracts and its people, who move into loader and supervisor roles.", "traction": "180 trucks running at 23 sites across Pennsylvania, Ohio and Texas. Sites report 19% more tonnes moved per shift and a sharp drop in incident reports.", "use_of_funds": "Retrofit throughput, meaning a second install facility, plus MSHA certification work for underground operations.", "founders": [ { "name": "Daniel Marsh", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Led the mining autonomy programme at a heavy equipment manufacturer for six years." }, { "name": "Elena Popescu", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Perception lead at an autonomous trucking company. Earlier, CMU Robotics Institute." } ], "investors": ["Northstack Capital"] }, { "id": "northbeam-legal", "name": "Northbeam Legal", "tagline": "Policy and contract review for mid-market insurers", "sector": "Legal", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Toronto, CA", "founded": 2023, "team": 16, "raising": 5000000, "valuation": 26000000, "committed": 0.55, "website": "northbeamlegal.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "CA$1.2M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "190%" }, { "label": "Customers", "value": "31" }, { "label": "Avg contract", "value": "CA$39K" } ], "about": "Insurers below the top tier review endorsements and reinsurance treaties by hand. Northbeam flags deviations from the carrier's own standard wording and cites the clause it came from, so a reviewer checks a diff rather than reading 90 pages.", "traction": "31 carriers and MGAs, mostly Canadian, with three US brokers signed this year. Reviewers get through roughly four times the volume.", "use_of_funds": "US expansion and SOC 2 Type II, which is the gate on every enterprise deal currently in the pipeline.", "founders": [ { "name": "Claire Beaudoin", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Ten years as coverage counsel at a Canadian insurer." }, { "name": "Raj Kapoor", "role": "CTO", "bio": "NLP engineer, previously at a legal research company." } ], "investors": ["Ravel Capital"] }, { "id": "palta-foods", "name": "Palta Foods", "tagline": "Cold chain for independent grocers", "sector": "Consumer", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Mexico City, MX", "founded": 2022, "team": 63, "raising": 6000000, "valuation": 24000000, "committed": 0.2, "website": "paltafoods.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "Revenue", "value": "$8.9M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "76%" }, { "label": "Gross margin", "value": "23%" }, { "label": "Stores served", "value": "1,900" } ], "about": "Independent grocers in Mexico buy fresh produce at a central market at 4am, or accept whatever a distributor drops off. Palta runs refrigerated routes with next-morning delivery and a fixed price list, so a store owner can order at 8pm from a phone.", "traction": "1,900 stores across three cities, 61% of them ordering weekly or more. Waste sits at 4% against a 12% category norm.", "use_of_funds": "A fourth distribution centre in Guadalajara, and working capital to extend seven-day terms to the best-performing stores.", "founders": [ { "name": "Mariana Ruiz", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Built the fresh category at a Mexican quick-commerce company." }, { "name": "Carlos Delgado", "role": "COO", "bio": "Twelve years in cold chain logistics at a national food producer." } ], "investors": ["Alder & Finch"] }, { "id": "signal-reef", "name": "Signal Reef", "tagline": "Detection engineering for cloud data stores", "sector": "Security", "stage": "Series A", "location": "Tel Aviv, IL", "founded": 2022, "team": 37, "raising": 15000000, "valuation": 78000000, "committed": 0.65, "website": "signalreef.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "$4.9M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "134%" }, { "label": "Net retention", "value": "128%" }, { "label": "Customers", "value": "84" } ], "about": "Most breach detection watches the network. Signal Reef watches the data: who queried which table, how much left, and whether that matches the last ninety days of behaviour for that role. It ships as detections a SOC team can read and edit, not as a black-box score.", "traction": "84 customers with a heavy weighting to financial services. Median deal size $58K, sales cycle 71 days.", "use_of_funds": "A US-based sales team, and coverage for Databricks and on-prem warehouses.", "founders": [ { "name": "Noam Weiss", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Military signals intelligence, then detection lead at a cloud security company through its acquisition." }, { "name": "Tal Bergman", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Built query-log pipelines at a cloud data warehouse vendor." } ], "investors": ["Northstack Capital", "Marlow Angels"] }, { "id": "trellis-labs", "name": "Trellis Labs", "tagline": "Protein stability screening as a service", "sector": "Biotech", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Cambridge, UK", "founded": 2023, "team": 19, "raising": 7500000, "valuation": 34000000, "committed": 0.4, "website": "trellislabs.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "Revenue", "value": "£840K" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "160%" }, { "label": "Programmes run", "value": "47" }, { "label": "Turnaround", "value": "12 days" } ], "about": "Biologics fail late because a candidate aggregates at concentration. Trellis screens hundreds of variants for thermal and colloidal stability in a single run and returns a ranked shortlist in under two weeks, a job that takes an internal team a quarter.", "traction": "47 paid programmes for 14 pharma and biotech customers, four of whom have moved onto multi-programme contracts.", "use_of_funds": "A second automated line to triple throughput, and the beginnings of an in-house pipeline on retained assets.", "founders": [ { "name": "Dr. Hannah Whitfield", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Protein engineering at a large pharma company. 22 papers on formulation stability." }, { "name": "Dr. Kwame Boateng", "role": "CSO", "bio": "Ran a high-throughput biophysics group at a research institute." } ], "investors": ["Fenwick Grove Ventures"] }, { "id": "mint-route", "name": "Mint Route", "tagline": "Dispatch software for motorcycle courier fleets", "sector": "Logistics", "stage": "Pre-seed", "location": "Nairobi, KE", "founded": 2024, "team": 8, "raising": 750000, "valuation": 5500000, "committed": 0.15, "website": "mintroute.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "$110K" }, { "label": "Growth (MoM)", "value": "18%" }, { "label": "Fleets", "value": "52" }, { "label": "Riders on platform", "value": "3,400" } ], "about": "Courier fleets in East Africa dispatch over WhatsApp and settle rider pay in cash. Mint Route replaces both with a dispatcher console and a lightweight rider app that works on 2G, plus mobile-money payouts at the end of each shift.", "traction": "52 fleets and 3,400 riders across Nairobi, Mombasa and Kampala. Fleets report 24% more deliveries per rider per day.", "use_of_funds": "Engineering, plus a Kampala and Kigali expansion with two ground staff per city.", "founders": [ { "name": "Achieng Odhiambo", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Operations at a Kenyan e-commerce logistics arm, managing 900 riders." }, { "name": "Brian Mutiso", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Mobile engineer. Built offline-first apps at a Nairobi fintech." } ], "investors": ["Kestrel Ventures"] }, { "id": "stonefold", "name": "Stonefold", "tagline": "Retrofit planning for social housing portfolios", "sector": "Proptech", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Amsterdam, NL", "founded": 2022, "team": 22, "raising": 5500000, "valuation": 27000000, "committed": 0.48, "website": "stonefold.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "€1.4M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "88%" }, { "label": "Homes modelled", "value": "310K" }, { "label": "Customers", "value": "26" } ], "about": "A housing association with 20,000 homes has to decide which ones to insulate first on a fixed budget. Stonefold models each property from public and survey data, then sequences the works to get the most carbon and comfort per euro spent.", "traction": "26 associations in the Netherlands and Belgium covering 310,000 homes. Two national subsidy programmes now reference the output format.", "use_of_funds": "Entry into Germany and the UK, plus a contractor-facing module for tendering the works.", "founders": [ { "name": "Lotte van Dijk", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Asset strategy at a large Dutch housing association." }, { "name": "Pieter Janssen", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Building physics simulation, TU Delft." } ], "investors": ["Terra Nine", "Foundry Row"] }, { "id": "halden-care", "name": "Halden Care", "tagline": "Scheduling and retention for home-care agencies", "sector": "Healthcare", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Chicago, US", "founded": 2023, "team": 24, "raising": 6500000, "valuation": 30000000, "committed": 0.3, "website": "haldencare.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "$1.8M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "145%" }, { "label": "Agencies", "value": "112" }, { "label": "Caregivers", "value": "19K" } ], "about": "Home-care agencies lose money on unfilled visits and on caregivers who quit inside 90 days. Halden schedules around caregiver preferences and travel time, and flags the churn signals early enough to act on: cut hours, long commutes, missed pay.", "traction": "112 agencies and 19,000 caregivers scheduled. Fill rates up 11 points and 90-day caregiver retention up 16 points on average.", "use_of_funds": "Sales into the franchise groups, and payroll and billing so agencies can drop a second system.", "founders": [ { "name": "Grace Nkemelu", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Ran a 400-caregiver agency in Illinois for five years." }, { "name": "Adam Roth", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Scheduling and constraint-solving engineer, previously at a workforce software company." } ], "investors": ["Cedarline Capital"] }, { "id": "fernway", "name": "Fernway", "tagline": "Apprenticeship management for the trades", "sector": "Education", "stage": "Seed", "location": "Dublin, IE", "founded": 2022, "team": 18, "raising": 4000000, "valuation": 19000000, "committed": 0.35, "website": "fernway.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "€960K" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "94%" }, { "label": "Employers", "value": "340" }, { "label": "Apprentices", "value": "11K" } ], "about": "Electrical and plumbing firms take on apprentices and then drown in the paperwork the training board requires. Fernway handles logbooks, assessor sign-off and funding claims from the phone in the apprentice's pocket, on site.", "traction": "340 employers and 11,000 apprentices across Ireland and the UK. Three regional training boards recommend it to member firms.", "use_of_funds": "UK sales, and coverage of construction and engineering frameworks beyond the current electrical focus.", "founders": [ { "name": "Declan Murphy", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Master electrician. Ran apprenticeship training for a 200-person contractor." }, { "name": "Aoife Kelly", "role": "CPO", "bio": "Product at a UK vocational education provider." } ], "investors": ["Marlow Angels"] }, { "id": "cobalt-yards", "name": "Cobalt Yards", "tagline": "Yard optimisation for container terminals", "sector": "Logistics", "stage": "Series B", "location": "Rotterdam, NL", "founded": 2018, "team": 118, "raising": 26000000, "valuation": 175000000, "committed": 0.4, "website": "cobaltyards.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "€11.8M" }, { "label": "Growth (YoY)", "value": "48%" }, { "label": "Net retention", "value": "119%" }, { "label": "Terminals", "value": "39" } ], "about": "Terminal operating systems are twenty years old and cost eight figures to replace. Cobalt sits on top of them and optimises the yard specifically: where each container goes, which crane moves it and in what order, with a live view the shift supervisor actually uses.", "traction": "39 terminals across Europe and the Gulf. Customers average 12% fewer rehandles, which is the number terminal directors are measured on.", "use_of_funds": "Asia-Pacific expansion and a rail interface, the most requested adjacency from existing customers.", "founders": [ { "name": "Sanne de Vries", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Terminal operations manager at a Rotterdam container terminal for nine years." }, { "name": "Erik Nilsen", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Optimisation researcher, previously at a port equipment manufacturer." } ], "investors": ["Northstack Capital", "Bright Harbor Partners"] }, { "id": "peatland", "name": "Peatland", "tagline": "Verification for peat restoration carbon credits", "sector": "Climate", "stage": "Pre-seed", "location": "Glasgow, UK", "founded": 2025, "team": 6, "raising": 850000, "valuation": 6000000, "committed": 0.25, "website": "peatland.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "Revenue", "value": "£120K" }, { "label": "Growth (QoQ)", "value": "70%" }, { "label": "Hectares monitored", "value": "24K" }, { "label": "Burn", "value": "£38K/mo" } ], "about": "Peat restoration is the cheapest carbon removal available in the UK and the hardest to verify. Peatland combines satellite water-table proxies with a small number of in-field sensors to produce reports that meet the Peatland Code, at a fraction of the cost of a full survey.", "traction": "24,000 hectares under monitoring for six landowners and two credit developers. First verified issuance expected in the next reporting cycle.", "use_of_funds": "Science hires, sensor manufacturing, and accreditation as an approved validator.", "founders": [ { "name": "Fiona MacLeod", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Peatland restoration ecologist, ten years with a Scottish public agency." }, { "name": "Callum Reid", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Remote sensing engineer, formerly at a European space agency contractor." } ], "investors": [] }, { "id": "ledgerly", "name": "Ledgerly", "tagline": "Bookkeeping that closes the month for small firms", "sector": "Fintech", "stage": "Pre-seed", "location": "Warsaw, PL", "founded": 2024, "team": 7, "raising": 1200000, "valuation": 8000000, "committed": 0.5, "website": "ledgerly.example", "metrics": [ { "label": "ARR", "value": "€180K" }, { "label": "Growth (MoM)", "value": "16%" }, { "label": "Accounting firms", "value": "44" }, { "label": "Client entities", "value": "2,600" } ], "about": "Polish accounting firms handle 80 to 150 small clients each, and most of the month goes on categorising bank lines and chasing receipts. Ledgerly does the first pass and hands the accountant only the exceptions, with the reasoning attached.", "traction": "44 firms processing 2,600 client entities. Firms report the monthly close going from nine working days to five.", "use_of_funds": "Engineering, plus Czech and Romanian localisation, where the same firm structure exists.", "founders": [ { "name": "Marta Kowalska", "role": "CEO", "bio": "Certified accountant. Ran a 30-person firm in Kraków." }, { "name": "Piotr Zieliński", "role": "CTO", "bio": "Document extraction engineer, previously at a European e-invoicing provider." } ], "investors": ["Foundry Row"] } ]