Series A startups to watch in 2026

Startups who raised Series A funding in 2025 and are hiring into their tech teams.

cord Collections are designed to make finding standout opportunities in tech easier by curating companies hiring by uniquely interesting attributes.

27 companies in collection
Ordered by funding date

Sequence

Series A funding Dec '25

Sequence streamlines the quote to cash process for modern B2B teams.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Software, B2B
  • Series A Funding: $20,000,000

Runware

Series A funding Dec '25

Runware provides an API platform that enables developers and businesses to integrate generative AI for media creation and transformation.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Developer APIs, Generative AI
  • Series A Funding: $50,000,000

Cellular Origins

Series A funding Dec '25

Cellular Origins is an automation manufacturing company that provides cell and gene therapies.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Manufacturing, Mechanical Engineering, Robotics
  • Series A Funding: $40,000,000

Whitespace

Series A funding Nov '25

Whitespace help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved 'Eureka!' projects

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Software, Business Development, Information Technology
  • Series A Funding: $13,000,000

PolyModels Hub

Series A funding Nov '25

Accelerate drug development with modeling, simulations, and data.

  • Employee Count: 1-10
  • Industries: Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A Funding: £7,000,000

Deblock

Series A funding Nov '25

Deblock is a crypto-banking startup that offers banking services to cryptocurrency users.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A Funding: €30,000,000

Reelables

Series A funding Nov '25

Reelables is automating supply chains and inventory management with cellular and Bluetooth smart labels.

  • Employee Count: 1-10
  • Industries: Logistics, Manufacturing, Engineering
  • Series A Funding: $10,400,000

Mondra

Series A funding Oct '25

Mondra is a data based insights platform enabling food companies to meet carbon neutrality goals, check performances, and drive profits.

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Sustainability, Artificial Intelligence (AI), GreenTech
  • Series A Funding: £10,000,000

Saturn AI

Series A funding Oct '25

Saturn aims to improve financial peace of mind by developing the premier operating system for wealth managers.

  • Employee Count: 1-10
  • Industries: B2B, FinTech
  • Series A Funding: $15,000,000

General Index

Series A funding Oct '25

Commodity prices based on the most data

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Energy, Information Services, Oil and Gas
  • Series A Funding: $10,000,000

Finster AI

Series A funding Oct '25

Finster AI is an AI-driven financial research platform designed specifically for the asset management and investment banking sectors.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Financial Services
  • Series A Funding: $40,000,000

CoMind

Series A funding Oct '25

CoMind is a noninvasive neural technology company building next-generation neural interfaces.

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hardware, Machine Learning, Neuroscience
  • Series A Funding: $60,000,000

Flow Engineering

Series A funding Oct '25

Reinvent the way humanity develops its most important machines

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: SaaS, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace
  • Series A Funding: $23,000,000

Ryft

Series A funding Oct '25

Ryft is a payment platform that allows marketplaces and digital platforms.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: E-Commerce, Mobile Payments
  • Series A Funding: Undisclosed

MyEdSpace

Series A funding Sep '25

MyEdSpace is an educational technology company that offers live online lessons for students aged 10-18.

  • Employee Count: 1-10
  • Industries: E-Learning, EdTech, Education
  • Series A Funding: $15,000,000

GoodFit

Series A funding Sep '25

Commercial Leaders use GoodFit to configure the data they need, to fuel their GTM strategy of choice.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Information Technology, Software
  • Series A Funding: $13,000,000

Duel

Series A funding Sep '25

A Brand Advocacy Platform that enables brands to transform customers into their biggest acquisition channel

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Marketing and Advertising, E-Commerce, Retail Technology
  • Series A Funding: $16,000,000

Yaso

Series A funding Sep '25

Yaso assists global brands in selling to China, co-investing with them and managing logistics, payments, and marketing.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Brand Marketing, E-Commerce, Social
  • Series A Funding: £8,250,000

CuspAI

Series A funding Sep '25

CuspAI is an AI company that discovers new materials to solve problems and enable human progress.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Chemical, Information Technology
  • Series A Funding: $100,000,000

ZILO

Series A funding Sep '25

ZILO's mission is to innovate and deliver transformative technology that enables organisations to operate more efficiently.

  • Employee Count: 101-250
  • Industries: Financial Services, FinTech
  • Series A Funding: £20,000,000

Sava Technology

Series A funding Jul '25

Sava Technology creates under-skin sensors to monitor glucose, lactate, and ketones continuously, providing real-time health data.

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Biotechnology, Health Care
  • Series A Funding: £14,200,000

Bitfount

Series A funding Jul '25

Federated data science and AI platform for privacy-preserving analytics & AI/ML

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Series A Funding: $8,000,000

Gradient Labs

Series A funding Jul '25

Gradient Labs is the conversational AI platform transforming customer operations in financial services

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Business Process Automation (BPA), FinTech
  • Series A Funding: $13,000,000

AssetCool

Series A funding Jul '25

AssetCool produces photonic coatings and materials that enhance the functionality of electrical networks.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Chemical Engineering, Industrial Manufacturing
  • Series A Funding: £10,000,000

Yaspa

Series A funding Jul '25

Yaspa is a fintech company that leverages open banking and AI to deliver instant payment and identity services.

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI), FinTech
  • Series A Funding: $12,000,000

Portal Biotech

Series A funding Jun '25

Portal Biotech is a biotechnology company specializing in advanced proteomics and metabolomics through single-molecule detection.

  • Employee Count: 11-50
  • Industries: Biotechnology
  • Series A Funding: £27,000,000

Skyral Group

Series A funding Jun '25

Skyral Group is a software company that provides data visualization, data modeling, AI, and simulation services.

  • Employee Count: 51-100
  • Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI), Software Engineering
  • Series A Funding: $20,000,000