Latest United States Startup Funding Rounds

Barrell Lithium is developing lithium-brine resources in East Texas’s Smackover Formation. It assembles prospective land positions, evaluates subsurface geology and advances direct-lithium-extraction projects to supply lithium for the battery value chain; the company is in exploration and commercial development.

Noetive is an applied AI research lab building an intelligence layer for physical businesses. Its agents learn operating procedures by combining enterprise-system data with observations from sensing pods, then support or carry out recurring work and improve their models from operational feedback; the company is working with a small group of design partners in manufacturing, logistics and construction.

A modular clean-compute platform that deploys GPU clusters at renewable-energy sites without building a conventional data center.

A health-benefits platform that lets employers set healthcare budgets while employees choose insurance and eligible care to fit their needs.

BackOps coordinates supply-chain exceptions across enterprise systems, carriers, suppliers and distributors.

H Clinical helps clinical-trial sponsors, CROs and research sites run studies across Latin America through local clinical teams and infrastructure. Services include patient recruitment and support, home visits, mobile and community research sites, staffing, medical-supply procurement, warehousing and logistics across 22 countries.

A clinical-stage biotechnology company developing an oral drug candidate for thyroid eye disease.

A semiconductor company developing custom three-dimensional SRAM memory to increase bandwidth and capacity for AI computing chips.

Nix Biosensors makes a wearable sweat sensor and companion apps that continuously measure fluid and electrolyte loss during activity. Its algorithms turn sweat readings into personalized hydration guidance for individual athletes and dashboards for coaches, teams, military, labor and research groups; the consumer biosensor is available while Nix Health is in beta.

Circle Pharma discovers macrocycle medicines for cancer and other serious diseases using its MXMO platform, which combines computational, structure-based design with synthetic chemistry to create cell-permeable compounds against difficult protein targets. Its lead programs are investigational and at discovery or preclinical stages.