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Slightly later in the day, but with our friends on the West Coast now online, this week's Funding Friday will focus on the US #SaaS and #Industry40 (#AI, #MachineLearning, #NLP, #RPA & #IndustrialAutomation) space... Neuron7.ai | Series B | $44m Starting in San Jose, CA with Neuron7.ai - a service Intelligence platform that enables companies to deliver crucial service outcomes. Path Robotics | Series D | $100m To Columbus, Ohio where Path Robotics offer robotic welding systems to improve manufacturing efficiency. Xscape Photonics Inc | Series A | $44m New York-based Xscape Photonics provides photonic chips for high-speed connections in high-performance computing systems and data centers. Galileo 🔭 | Series B | $45m Back to California with San Francisco-founded Galileo, who provide Evaluation Intelligence for AI developers to ship trustworthy AI apps fast. Decagon | Series B | $65m Also in San Francisco, Decagon creates generative AI for building customer service agents that work much more like humans. Liner | Series B | $29m Liner is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort, again based in San Francisco. Lightmatter | Series D | $400m Lightmatter changes chip architecture, powering faster, energy-efficient computing with photonic processors for sustainable AI advancement, this time in Mountain View, CA. Terray Therapeutics | Series B | $120m Pasadena, CA-based Terray Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that propels drug discovery into the information age. Agency AI | Seed | $12m Boston, Mass-formed Agency AI helps to manage workflows of B2B Customer Success. Horizon Surgical Systems | Series A | $30m Horizon Surgical Systems develops AI-driven, imaging-guided surgical robotics for microsurgery. Their home's in Malibu, CA. Capacity | Series D | $26m Saint Louis, Missouri's Capacity is an AI-powered help desk that automates support for customers and employees. Agtonomy | Series A | $10m To round off a busy week in California as we return to San Francisco a final time with Agtonomy - a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform that specialises in advanced autonomous and AI solutions for agriculture. Congratulations to everyone involved! For all hiring support or market insight into the Fourth Industrial Revolution, please reach out to the following: 🔗 Damian Bird | Co-Owner & Managing Partner 📧 dbird@usurpo.com ☎️ +44 (0) 7899 794 091 🔗 James Harrington | Partner & VP International 📧 jharrington@usurpo.com ☎️ +44 (0) 7305 045 998 🔗 Jess Jones | Senior Consultant 📧 jjones@usurpo.com ☎️ +44 (0) 7553 283 620 #vcfunding #venturecapital

The role of a Product Manager is often to wear many hats and see things from many different perspectives. Feel free to add to the below, but for us they must have: - Strategic vision - Customer focus - Cross-functional leadership skills - An insight into the market - Problem solving skills - An understanding of how they affect revenue If you're a Product Manager looking for your next opportunity, check out the opportunities below or reach out to our resident Product expert, Ben Adams: 🔗 Ben A. 📧 badams@usurpo.com ☎️ +44 (0) 7912 569 360 #productmanager #saas #hiring #executivesearch #recruitment

A first Funding Friday feature for the world of Payments. This industry's evolved due to technology and increased demand for digital payments, now including mobile and online payments, point-of-sale systems, and digital wallets. RD Technologies | $7.8m | Series A Hong Kong-based RD Technologies is a trusted Multi-currency Business Account for Global Businesses PayRange | Undisclosed | Private Equity PayRange is a network for everyday purchases developing a mobile payment technology to make mobile payments easy-to-use established in Portland Oregon. Mozper | $6.1m | Seed Mexican start-up Mozper Mozper is a debit card and money app that provides an all-in-one money management platform for families. Voly | $2m | Debt Financing Voly is a financial management solution that provides APA management, payment platform, treasury management and security services founded in London. KOHO | $29.5m | Unknown Toronto-based KOHO is an online financial services provider that offers an application-based banking platform to simplify financial products. Konnect | $1.5m | Seed Tunisian business, Konnect, is a cross-border payment solution intended to simplify complex financial flows. MOLO MOLO PAY | $0.85m | Pre-Seed Pay for all your products and services in several instalments thanks to MOLO MOLO Pay - based in Cameroon. Congrats to everyone involved. Harry Price is your #Payments expert for your leadership, GTM, Product, Tech, Risk and Compliance hires. #vcfunding #executivesearch

Account executives are vital for building and maintaining strong relationships between a company and its clients, ensuring their needs are met and satisfaction is high. They drive revenue growth by identifying up-selling and cross-selling opportunities while providing tailored solutions to client challenges. Their expertise in communication and problem-solving fosters long-term partnerships that contribute to overall business success. We have a couple of AE opportunities with 2 fantastic clients in the #fintech space, check them out below and if they hit the mark, get in touch: 🔗 Karin Themsen 📧 kthemsen@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7939 562 600 #accountexecutive #saas #sales #hiring #executivesearch #recruitment

The new Netflix documentary, "What's Next? The Future with Bill Gates", is a fascinating watch. The subject of the first episode is the remarkably complex world of Artificial Intelligence - AI to you and I. So today's Funding Friday, you guessed it, will focus on AI. There were some 70 deals this week, according to our friends at Crunchbase, here are 10 of our favourites... Convergence | $12m | Pre-Seed UK based Convergence provides Personal AI assistants that learn, adapt, and remember, handling tasks so you focus on what matters - built on Large Meta Learning Models. Scribenote | $8.2m | Seed The Canadian "Scribenauts" are on a mission to cherish and protect the human-animal bond by improving the lives of the veterinary professionals who make it possible. Knownwell | $4m | Seed Virginia's own Knownwell is an AI platform offering instant, unbiased insights into your client portfolio’s health for smarter decision-making. GenLogs | $6m | Seed Staying in Virginia with GenLogs, a freight intelligence company that offers truck carrier mapping services via AI-driven roadside sensors. Tamnoon | $12m | Series A Washington threat specialists Tamnoon offers a managed cloud security remediation platform focused on enhancing cloud security and effectively managing threats. GeoX Innovations | $19m | Series A Israeli based GeoX is an aerial imagery AI analytics company that provides geospatial property data for the insurance industry. Mediwhale | $12m | Series A Over to APAC, South Korea specifically, where Medi Whale offers medical AI software for disease detection. BHub | $13.6m | Series A Brazilian BHub - simply put, the "number 1 Financial back-office solution in Latam" WeMeet Mobility | $15.2m | Series B Back to South Korea where WeMeet Mobility has an AI-based logistics platform that offers transportation planning, location, routing, and monitoring services. Torq | $70m | Series C And finally, to the Rockies of Colorado - Torq is a AI-first security hyperautomation company that provides a no-code automation platform designed to enhance security operations. Congratulations to everyone involved! To chat all things Industry 4.0 - AI, NLP, Machine Learning and Robotics - reach out to one of our experts - Damian Bird, James Harrington or Jess Jones. #artificialintelligence #ai #vcfunding #excutivesearch

As a business we work across the #GTM spectrum - #sales #customersuccess #presales / #salesengineering but this one's for our #marketing connections. So please click through the below to find your next role. 🗣 Head of Demand Generation | UK | Cyber| £90-100k 🗣 Head of Marketing | UK | Cyber | £110-130k 🗣 Digital Marketing Manager | UK | Cyber | £60-80k 🤝 Dan Rhodes 📧 drhodes@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7786 857 744 🗣 Marketing Data Analyst | UK | Industry 4.0 | £50-70k 🗣 Marketing Operations & Analytics Director | UK | Industry 4.0 | £130-150k 🤝 James Harrington 📧 jharrington@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7305 045 998 🗣 Growth Marketing Manager | Berlin | SaaS | €55k plus 15-25% bonus 🤝 Ben A. 📧 badams@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7912 569 360 #saas #executivesearch #recruitment

Funding Friday returns this week with some big deals in Usurpo's original market - Cyber Security... BLACKCLOAK | $17m | Series B Floridian formed BlackCloak is the Pioneer of Digital Executive Protection for corporate executives, family offices and private wealth individuals. Intezer | $33m | Series C Intezer is a New York-based cybersecurity platform that automates alert triage, incident response, and threat hunting. Hydden | $4.4m | Seed Back to the Big Apple with Hydden, an identity security company that continuously takes action to reduce the attack surface RunSafe Security Inc. | $12m | Series B Moving to Virginia now with RunSafe Security, which immunizes software without developer friction to enable continuous delivery. c/side | $6m | Seed C/side is a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that provides monitoring solutions and safeguarding vulnerable browser-side third-party scripts. EasyDMARC | $20m | Series A Armenian startup and Delawarean-based EasyDMARC is an email security firm that simplifies the email security and authentication process for businesses of all sizes. Patchstack | $5m | Series A Estonian founded Patchstack is the world's largest vulnerability discloser with 7000+ virtual patches to protect you. Congrats to everyone involved. Dan Rhodes and Anthony S. are your Security experts when the time is right to add world class GTM executives to your rocket ships... #cybersecurity #vcfunding #executivesearch

Two new recruits in two weeks as we welcome Jess Jones to Usurpo. Jess brings six years' experience hiring Commercial and Technical talent across emerging markets and fits perfectly into our Industry 4.0 practice. Get in touch with Jess if you're on the lookout for your next position or if you're indeed looking to hire within your Sales and/or Engineering teams. 📧 jjones@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7553 283 620 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eiiJZsJE All the best Jess, we look forward to working with you! #industry40 #gtm #technicalhiring #executivesearch

With the addition of Harry Price to the team here at Usurpo, it made sense for this week's Funding Friday to focus on the FinTech and Payments space. Agree.com | San Francisco | Pre-Seed | $3m "Securely send and sign any agreement with AI-powered workflows, free e-signature, automated invoicing, and integrated payments." Propelle | London | Pre-Seed | $1.2m "Propelle focuses on empowering millions of women financially." Flex | San Francisco | Seed | $3.2m "Flex is a financial services company that provides analysis, integration, and management solutions for HSA/FSA payments." NOQ | London | Seed | $3.43m "NOQ is an end-to-end POS, payments and operational management solution. Built for events & festivals." UniFox | Bordeaux | Seed | undisclosed "UniFox is a sustainable investment ecosystem and trading platform powered by a sustainable AI." Sedric.ai | Tel Aviv | Series A | $18.5m "Sedric is a compliance excellence platform for next-gen fintech companies." Ziina زينة | Dubai | Series A | $22m "Ziina is a financial service company that provides peer-to-peer payment for mobile apps." Malaa Technologies | Riyadh | Series A | $3.67m "Mala'a Technologies is a finance management app that helps manage finances and provides recommendations on finances." Cobre | Bogota | Series B | $35m "Treasury management to accelerate money movement for companies in LatAm." BillEase | Manila | Series C | undisclosed "BillEase is a consumer finance app with AI-driven financial products and services." Congratulations to everyone involved! #fintech #payments #funding #venturecapital

We're delighted to announce Harry Price to Usurpo, working closely with Karin Themsen to deliver world class GTM and Product talent across the FinTech & Payments space. Harry joins with more than 6 years' experience in executive search with the last 4 being across FinTech & Payments. Get in touch with Harry if you're looking to hire within Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Presales and Product or indeed if you're looking for your next role: 📧 hprice@usurpo.com ☎ +44 (0) 7912 886 927 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dSMr-9ic We wish you all the best, Harry and look forward to watching your success with Usurpo! #fintech #payments #gtm #product #executivesearch