The Intake

Issues corporate credit cards to small firms without asking a founder for a personal guarantee, and monitors company spending for problems.

Measures, reports and verifies the methane that rice growing gives off, so farms can prove they have cut their emissions.

Backed by Colam Impact · Proparco · Suma Capital · elea · Working Capital Fund

Sells clear plastic dental aligners direct to customers for straightening teeth at home, under the Toothsi and Zenyum brands.

Runs a business school in Bengaluru, and is spending the money on new courses taught on its own campus.

Recycles lithium iron phosphate batteries to recover the materials inside them, from a plant in Singapore handling 1,300 tonnes a year.

Builds robots designed for use around the home. This is its fourth raise in roughly six months.

Backed by Tuobang · Hony Capital

Runs a marketplace for airport parking, matching travellers with car parks and supplying those spaces to other travel booking sites.

Automates the back-office paperwork and financial admin of construction and property companies.

Backed by Fortino Ventures · Rise PropTech · CuriosityVC

Designs a single general-purpose processor chip for autonomous machines and other hardware that has to run AI on board.

Backed by Ibex Investors

Manages energy for its customers through its own software platform, as part of a German energy group now valued at $1.35bn.

Sells its own fitness gear and sportswear straight to shoppers online, and is now opening physical stores.

Backed by Bharat Value Fund

Flies uncrewed hydrogen-powered airships over pipelines, power lines and other critical infrastructure to inspect it from the air.

Backed by Rubio Impact Ventures · DRW · Teampact Ventures · Y Combinator · Ring Capital

Builds software that lets AI models run efficiently on chips from many different makers rather than one vendor's hardware.

Makes touch sensors for machines, plus gloves that record how human hands handle objects.

Backed by X Square Robot · Songshan Lake investment capital · XBOT PARK Fund

Builds uncrewed aircraft meant to keep flying when their radio links are jammed by electronic warfare.

Makes robots that train people at sport, starting with machines that play table tennis against you.

Backed by Shanghai State Investment Pilot Fund · Hua Capital · Pudong Venture Capital · BlueRun Ventures

A certification body that signs off AI and software-based medical devices so they can legally be sold.

Backed by Headline · Notion Capital

Sells software to transport operators, air-cargo firms and event organisers. It was profitable and bootstrapped for twelve years before this round.

Backed by IronWave · Bpifrance Investissement · Seaya Andromeda

Sells flat-shaped reusable water bottles made to slide into a bag.

Software that connects AI models to robots of different designs, so one model can drive machines built in different shapes.

Backed by Suwen Electric Energy

Makes smart glasses for everyday wear, sold through its own shops as well as online.

Backed by Gobi Partners

Runs market research for companies using AI, to get findings about customers back faster than a conventional study.

Backed by Baobab Ventures · Lanai Ventures · Acurio Ventures · Masia VC

Helps companies work out which international trade rules apply to the goods they move.

An Indian menswear brand selling online and through its own shops, now opening more physical stores.

Backed by Fireside

Software that tests other companies' applications on its own, instead of engineers writing each test.

Backed by Mosaic Ventures · Moonfire Ventures · AngelInvest Ventures

Checks the quality of the monitoring data software teams collect, so the dashboards and alerts built on it can be trusted.

Backed by Next Frontier Capital

A wearable biosensor that sits against the skin and reads glucose and other molecules just beneath it.

Backed by Ascensia · Balderton Capital · Norrsken VC · Simplyhealth Ventures · JamJar Investments

Analyses cells for teams developing cell-based immunotherapies. It is a spin-out of imec, VIB and Ghent University.

Backed by imec.xpand · Flanders Future Tech Fund · InnovationQuarter Capital · Qbic · VIB

The company behind Manus, a Chinese AI agent.

Backed by Boyu Capital · IDG Capital · Tencent · HSG · ZhenFund

Sells its own lifestyle products direct to consumers online in India, and is expanding into physical stores.

Backed by Xponentia Capital

Sells Swedish households their home energy kit and supply as one service, to move them off fossil fuels.

Laser links that let satellites in a constellation talk to one another by light rather than radio.

Predicts which stories spreading online will take off, and who is pushing them.

Backed by Mudita Venture Partners · Silicon Road Ventures

Turns a festival's own fans into its ticket sellers, rewarding them for bringing friends along.

Turns food, farm and forestry waste into jet fuel, moving from the lab to trials at a working biogas plant.

Finances fleets of taxis for professional drivers in emerging markets.

Automates the administrative work financial and insurance advisers do for each client.

Backed by High-Tech Gründerfonds · Insurtech Gateway

Payments that move straight between bank accounts, offered as an alternative to card networks.

Building large quantum computers out of linked modules, from a University of Sussex spinout.

Pulls together evidence about what consumers want so companies can use it when making decisions.

Backed by Angular Ventures · 100in · Kima Ventures · Olympe Capital

Software that runs a mortgage lender's application process using teams of AI agents.

Backed by Conversion Capital

Helps design clinical trials so that fewer of them run into delays.

Backed by Breega · Enzo · Heartfelt · Together Ventures · Bynd

Voice AI built for banks, lenders and insurers to run their customer conversations on.

Manufactures consumer electronics in India and is widening its product range.

Backed by Blume Ventures

Pays people to record themselves doing everyday tasks, and sells the motion data to train humanoid robots.

Backed by Sequoia

Designs chips small and frugal enough to sit inside neural implants and wearable devices.

Plumbing that lets businesses move money using stablecoins.

Runs Spandan, a cardiac diagnostics platform for spotting heart problems.