Leads for today: New Funding Rounds

Fresh leads from today’s business news. We scan the headlines. You cash the commissions.

January 16, 2026

In partnership with

Hiring in 8 countries shouldn't require 8 different processes

This guide from Deel breaks down how to build one global hiring system. You’ll learn about assessment frameworks that scale, how to do headcount planning across regions, and even intake processes that work everywhere. As HR pros know, hiring in one country is hard enough. So let this free global hiring guide give you the tools you need to avoid global hiring headaches.

Hey Rainmaker,

Here are your fresh leads from today’s business news. We scan the headlines. You cash the commissions.

Every weekday, you get:
🧑‍💼 New executive hires suddenly with budgets to spend
💰 Fresh funding rounds that unlock buying cycles
🔗 Direct contact links so you can strike first

Skim the list, pick your targets, and pop the champagne to celebrate your quota🥂

PolyML (Waterloo, ON) — $1.5M strategic investment (up to $3.0M) from Martinrea International to scale its Fiins AI ML/analytics platform for manufacturing and financial services. (polyml.com)

Outreach:
  • Mardi Witzel (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mardiwitzel

Revive Infrastructure Group (Pacific, MO) — undisclosed investment from St. Cloud Capital to expand operations and development of its critical infrastructure services. (reviveig.com)

Outreach:
  • Ted Schulz (Chief Financial Officer)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/tedschulz1

Plume (Palo Alto, CA) — Acquired Sweepr (Dublin) for an undisclosed sum to integrate AI customer-care orchestration with its ISP platform, automating support to cut calls/truck rolls and costs while improving subscriber experience. (plume.com)

Outreach:
  • Shari Pire (Chief Legal and Privacy Officer at Plume Design, Inc.; Independent Director)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/sharipire

SaleCycle (Gateshead, UK & Paris, France) — acquires BEYABLE to combine onsite personalization and conversion optimization into a unified ecommerce conversion platform; terms undisclosed. (salecycle.com)

Outreach:
  • Fabien Sanchez (CEO)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/fabiensanchez

Veera (Singapore) — $10M across Pre-Seed and Seed to accelerate product and expand access to its onchain, self-custodial neobank unifying investing, borrowing, and spending. (veera.com)

Outreach:
  • Aditya Julka (Co-Founder)
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/aditya-julka-9374471

Equipment policies break when you hire globally

Deel’s latest policy template on IT Equipment Policies can help HR teams stay organized when handling requests across time zones (and even languages). This free template gives you:

  • Clear provisioning rules across all countries

  • Security protocols that prevent compliance gaps

  • Return processes that actually work remotely

This free equipment provisioning policy will enable you to adjust to any state or country you hire from instead of producing a new policy every time. That means less complexity and more time for greater priorities.

🚀 Crushing deals with these leads?

Hit “reply” and tell me what closed—or ask for a custom daily feed tailored to your company and product.

Hunt smart, sell hard. 💸
Zach