ESS Raises $66.0M for Long-

Airtap AI

AirTap is a personal AI platform focused on execution, not just intelligence. It operates apps across its cloud phone and user devices to complete real tasks — continuously. This unlocks a new category:

BDC Capital

BDC Capital provides innovative financing to New England businesses that might not be able to obtain all the financing needed from conventional lenders. These businesses might have a collateral shortfall, temporary losses, or high leverage. We provide financing for any business purpose by supplementing bank financing. BDC Capital is a private company established over 65 years ago. We source the funds for our loans and investments from over 30 member financial institutions. We can work with any type of business and their lender to provide innovative financing. We have offices in Wakefield, MA, Worcester, MA, Bedford, NH, Hartford, CT, Portland, ME, and Providence, RI. We can work with any lender to help "fill the gap" for any business purpose. Our financing includes: -revolving asset-based lines of credit from $500,000 to $5 million; -direct term loans from $500,000 to $5 million, typically in a junior secured position; -mezzanine investments from $1 million to $5 million. -SBA 504 loans for real estate and machinery & equipment through our affiliate New England CDC. BDC Capital also administers several state-sponsored programs for Massachusetts businesses including the Mass. Capital Access Program and the Mass. Recycling Loan Fund. In Rhode Island, we administer the RI Capital Access Program and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Loan Program. In summary, we help businesses grow by bridging the capital gap.

Voltaiq

Voltaiq is an enterprise battery intelligence platform for developing, producing, and optimizing batteries and battery-powered products, trusted by dozens of global companies for over a decade. Voltaiq helps companies, across the battery lifecycle—from R&D to manufacturing—instantly plot performance metrics, catch issues early, and trace problems to their source, using data they already collect. As the first battery-specific analytics solution, Voltaiq coined the term "battery intelligence" and has been a leader in the space since 2012. Voltaiq is the only platform to be successfully deployed and proven to work at enterprise scale for battery programs worldwide. Purpose-built for the complexities of battery development, testing, and production, Voltaiq delivers value in just one month.

VALIS

VALIS builds AI-powered software that makes recycling more profitable, material supply chains more sustainable, and closes the loop on a circular economy for metal fabrication.

DoubleVerify

DoubleVerify is a leading software platform for digital media measurement and analytics. Our mission is to help advertisers succeed. Hundreds of Fortune 500 advertisers employ our unbiased data and analytics to drive campaign quality and effectiveness, and to maximize return on their digital advertising investments – globally. Learn more at www.DoubleVerify.com.