Author: Jesse Landry

If you’re still thinking of fiber as the “nice-to-have” cousin of broadband, Brightspeed just pulled up with a $575 million reality check, and they didn’t come to play. Born in 2022, Brightspeed didn’t just enter the telecom scene, they stepped in like they owned the stage. Backed by Apollo Global Management and forged out of Lumen’s legacy ILEC assets, this isn’t some warmed-over copper rebrand. It’s a full-blown fiber renaissance across 20 states, rural, suburban, and everywhere the majors skipped because it didn’t look flashy on the deck. Guess who’s making those markets matter now? Let’s talk numbers before the…

When the planet’s choking on waste and the construction industry is burning through raw materials like it’s still 1985, someone’s gotta get their hands dirty and reengineer the game. That someone is KC McCreery, and the company is Fiber Global, a climate-tech powerhouse turning your trashed cardboard into high-performance building panels cleaner than a surgeon’s scalpel. This isn’t sustainability theater, this is industrial alchemy with a purpose. Let’s break it down: Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Lafayette, Indiana, Fiber Global didn’t tiptoe out of stealth, they kicked the damn door down last September. Their flagship product, Forged Fiber Board,…

When most companies are still stuck playing Whac-A-Mole with risk, chasing yesterday’s threats with last quarter’s data, Supply Wisdom is doing something far less reactive and far more radical: watching the entire chessboard in real time, across every piece. Financial. Cyber. Operational. ESG. Compliance. Location. Nth-party. You name the domain, they’re monitoring it 24/7, globally, with AI that doesn’t blink. Founded in 2017 by Atul Vashistha, a sourcing veteran who saw through the fog of one-time vendor assessments long before most people learned to spell “ESG,” Supply Wisdom isn’t just another SaaS platform bolting on risk scoring to keep up…

Stat tracking used to be a clipboard, a whistle, and a parent squinting at the court like they were decoding CIA surveillance footage. But in 2025, SportsVisio isn’t just capturing the game, it’s reading it, understanding it, and feeding that intel back to every coach, athlete, and stat-hungry fan like it’s gospel. Founded in 2021 by Jason Syversen (Founder & CEO), Samuel Corbitt (COO), and Dan Oblinger (CTO), this Boston-based crew didn’t just stumble into sports tech; they engineered their way in with DARPA-level brains and playground-level grit. Picture PhDs with clipboards turned cloud architects, frustrated by the archaic chaos…

When most people talk about the energy transition, it sounds like they’re pitching a TED Talk no one asked for. But Shelton, Connecticut-based Budderfly isn’t pitching, they’re installing, optimizing, financing, and scaling. While other companies theorize about sustainability, Budderfly’s out here converting 5,000+ commercial sites into energy saving machines and saving customers over $25 million in the process. That’s not just green talk, it’s real dollars, real emissions avoided, and real infrastructure transformation. So what happens when a company with a 250% CAGR and a patented, zero-upfront-cost model walks back into the funding arena? They don’t raise capital, they command…

You know a company’s onto something when their entire existence was sparked by corporate trauma. Not the HR kind, the data kind. Picture this: three high-caliber operators in three different powerhouses, Goldman Sachs, Uber Eats, and Amazon, all choking on the same problem: data that looked fine until it wasn’t. Reports that turned to fiction. Pipelines held together with hope and prayer. It wasn’t a bug, it was the system. And that’s exactly where Sifflet comes in. Founded in June 2021, Sifflet is what happens when you stop patching problems and start building the infrastructure to prevent them. Salma Bakouk,…

There’s a quiet panic spreading through marketing departments, and it starts with the same question: “Why isn’t our brand showing up in ChatGPT?” Welcome to the next search paradigm, where it’s not about ten blue links anymore. It’s about the answer. AI doesn’t “rank” you. It remembers you, or forgets you entirely. That’s the game Profound just walked into. Not with a whisper. With a $20 million Series A war chest, a rocket strapped to their back, and a map no one else had the guts to draw. Led by Kleiner Perkins with NVentures, Khosla Ventures, SV Angel, Saga VC,…

In a world where software runs the show and ops teams are stuck playing janitor at 2AM, Traversal Inc. just stepped out of stealth with a $48M mic drop, and it’s not just another AI startup playing Mad Libs with “GPT” and “enterprise.” This team’s coming for the chaos that breaks prod and the pagers that break engineers. Founded in 2023 by Anish Agarwal, Raj Agrawal, Raaz Dwivedi, and Ahmed Lone, Traversal wasn’t born out of some incubator daydream. It came from late-night debates at Columbia and MIT, half academic fire, half street-smart pragmatism. They weren’t content with dashboards that…

If you’ve been paying attention, you know metabolic health isn’t just another wellness hype, it’s the battleground where biotech, consumer demand, and scientific credibility all converge. And now, Veracity just walked in with $6 million in fresh Series A fuel to turn up the heat. Led by Maveron Ventures with Melitas Ventures as co-pilot, this round isn’t about catching up, it’s about pulling ahead in a race most of the industry hasn’t even laced up for. Veracity didn’t start in a lab. It started in a doctor’s office, more accurately, a string of them. Founder and CEO Allie Egan was…

Applied Intuition just dropped a $600 million Series F, and it’s not just a headline, it’s a flex. A machine learning maestro turned multibillion-dollar powerhouse, now clocking in at a $15 billion valuation. For the folks still asking if vehicle intelligence is a “real market,” this is your sign to stop squinting and start studying. Founded in 2017 by Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig, two Detroit-rooted technologists who didn’t just know the game, they helped write it, Applied Intuition isn’t chasing autonomous hype. They’re building the infrastructure for it. Qasar Younis, ex-Y Combinator COO and former GM/Bosch engineer, teamed up…