North America 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.

Kanin Energy develops, finances and operates on-site power projects for heavy industry. Its waste-heat-to-power systems capture heat from industrial processes and convert it into dependable electricity, while its Energy-as-a-Service model funds the installation so facility partners can access energy and emissions benefits without upfront project capital.

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.

Expertise AI lets businesses deploy AI agents for sales, customer support and internal workflows. Teams connect business knowledge and tools, select or configure agent workflows, then use custom or prebuilt agents to qualify leads, answer customer questions, book meetings and update systems; enterprise plans add dedicated infrastructure and deployment support.

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