Joshua Adragna

🔥 These are the hottest early-stage startups in #California that recently raised funding. And yes, they’re #hiring. If you’re looking to join breakout companies early, this list is for you. #startups 💰 MoneyHash Payment platform offering fintech services 💰$5.2M 🧬 Segmed, Inc. RWE governance & clinical data platform 💰$10.4M 🛍️ Alta AI-powered personal shopping & styling 💰$11M 🔋 UNIGRID Battery Sodium-ion batteries for energy storage & e-mobility 💰$2.9M ⚡ Fourier Modular automated hydrogen production systems 💰$18.6M 📊 Hightouch Data sync platform from warehouse to CRM & marketing tools 💰$10M 🧠 Subsense Inc. Non-surgical brain-computer interface technologies 💰$10M 🎮 Layer Generative AI for game asset creation 💰$6.5M 🛡️ Cogent Security AI taskforce for vulnerability management 💰$11M 🛒 PublicSquare Marketplace for value-aligned local & national businesses 💰$7.5M 🎥 Hedra AI-powered content creation platform 💰$1M 📑 Patlytics AI-driven patent intelligence solutions 💰$21.1M ☕ Reborn Coffee, Inc. Global lifestyle coffee brand 💰$6.5M 📂 TransCrypts SaaS consumer record management services 💰$15M 📊 Anomalo Continuous data inspection & validation platform 💰$10M 🩸 Melio Quick, comprehensive blood test for infections 💰$3.5M 🫁 LEADOPTIK Miniature imaging platform for early lung cancer diagnosis 💰$4.6M 🧬 Elysium Therapeutics, Inc. Healthtech & biotech focusing on fitness, medical & robotics 💰$7.5M 🚗 Stic Ad tech platform promoting brand stickers in cars 💰$10M 🔍 Voyage AI by MongoDB Embedding models & rerankers for search & RAG 💰$20M 💳 Flagright AI-native transaction monitoring & AML compliance 💰$4.3M 🛡️ Legion Intelligence Agentic AI orchestration platform for security & enterprise 💰$40M 🚀 Heliospace Systems engineering for space flight missions 💰$1.06M 🧪 858 Therapeutics Small molecule drugs for oncology & immunology 💰$50M 📊 Truewind AI-powered accounting & finance services 💰$13M 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬? If you want to get top, 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐋 jobs that are actually hiring from elite tech companies delivered to you, subscribe to the waitlist for our soon-to-launch newsletter: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eV-JMpw3 #hiringalert #jobalert #hiringnow #engineeringjob #softwaredeveloper #softwareengineer

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We’re excited to release our latest Seed Report for 1H 2025, a full overview of all publicly announced Seed funding across Southern California. In the first half of the year, LA founders raised $364M across 85 rounds. Hardware continued its strong momentum, while AI showed up everywhere: over 40% of all Seed deals referenced AI, and companies with meaningful AI differentiation raised 45% larger rounds on average. If you’re tracking early-stage activity in Southern California, we hope you find this helpful. 👇 Full report below https://lnkd.in/gX3UzdtG #SeedFunding #VentureCapital #LAtech #Startups #EarlyStage

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Some great thoughts from my friend Neal Bloom🎩 about the critical importance of Founders in the starting and building of companies, and a startup ecosystem in a community. Sometimes we lose sight of this important fact. Service providers, non-profits, Angel investor, and venture capitalists are here to service the startup companies, and they are anchored by founders. He references a great book written by Brad Feld, “Startup Communities”. For those that don’t know, Brad is an entrepreneur, author, blogger, and venture capitalist at Foundry Group in Boulder, Colorado, a firm he started with partners Seth Levine, Ryan McIntyre, and Jason Mendelson. #sandiego #startups #venturecapital

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The missing key to explosive growth: true leadership alignment. 🔑 On the GTM Made Simple Podcast with host Sangram Vajre, ZoomInfo founder and CEO Henry Schuck revealed why Go-to-Market excellence depends on a rock-solid leadership trifecta. Without tight alignment between the CPO, CRO, and CMO, product teams risk building what sales can’t sell — and marketing messages fall flat. 🔗 Link below for the full episode.

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Royalty-based growth capital gives founders another option beyond venture capital, bootstrapping or friends and family rounds. This structure is designed for high-margin B2B SaaS businesses that want flexibility, predictable repayments and no loss of ownership or control. Vik Thapar of Cypress Growth Capital explains how this model works best for revenue-generating companies with early product-market fit and can often be far more affordable than traditional equity financing if the business continues to grow. 🎙️ Tune into the Private Equity Value Creation Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gxkEsH3Z 👇🏽 Find Us Here https://lnkd.in/gTdPMk8P #privateequity #privateequitypodcast #privateequityvaluecreation

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What is ISEF? The Innovative Small E-Fleet (ISEF) program from California Air Resources Board (CARB), administered by CALSTART, is designed specifically to help small fleets in California make the move to zero-emission vehicles. Unlike traditional voucher programs, ISEF offers flexible funding options like leasing, rentals, charging support, infrastructure planning, and more. Why it matters: ISEF recognizes that small fleets face unique challenges in electrification — from limited capital to uncertainty about operations. This program removes those barriers by giving small operators the flexibility they need to get started and grow with clean technology. Who qualifies? ✅ California-based fleets with 20 or fewer trucks or less than $15M in revenue ✅ Businesses with fewer than 500 employees ✅ Independent owner-operators ✅ Those looking for alternative ownership models (e.g., leases or rentals) If you're a small fleet operator looking for support beyond just a vehicle voucher, ISEF could be the key to making zero-emission work for you. To find out if you qualify or to learn more, reach out to our experts Ryan Pritchard, John Lanham, or Scott Phillippi, or email us at info@commercialevs.com.

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BoxPower is honored to join Aggie Square’s January MIX event in Sacramento and contribute to an excellent lineup of innovators who are reimagining how Northern California communities are powered and served. Fallon Vaughan, our Director of Business Development, will share how utility-grade microgrids can act as scalable resilience assets and the need to treat these systems as core, long-term infrastructure rather than niche backup solutions. Headquartered in Grass Valley, just up the road from Sacramento, BoxPower is a one-stop shop from energy audit through operation for utility-grade, standardized microgrids that help organizations and communities enhance resilience, reduce wildfire and outage risk, and deliver reliable and clean power anywhere. #GridResilience #Microgrids #DistributedEnergy #BatteryStorage

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Most founders expect pipeline in 60 days. Math says 120. The problem isn't your SDR. It's that the sales process doesn't exist yet. Define it. Document it. Test it. Then hire someone to execute it. https://lnkd.in/g5-wQ88k

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