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Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Vyra launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Vyra is an AI video editor that turns raw footage into finished video. You describe the edit in plain language — "cut my clips to the beat and make a color wheel edit" — and Vyra analyses the uploaded footage and returns a finished draft in minutes, with every conventional editing tool (split, ripple, slip, clone, motion graphics, text layers) available in the same conversation rather than buried in a timeline UI. It is built for people who are not editors but still have to ship video, and it connects to Claude, ChatGPT or any MCP client. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Caleb Pong (built neural networks for Omoggle, 3M+ users, and Adobe plugins; CS at Brown) and Sulan Zhang (CS and visual arts at Brown; 60k+ creator following as @sulansart). Y Combinator Fall 2026.

VideoAutomationSmbYCConsumer

Cool Company Raises · $40.0M

Impossible Objects raises a $40.0M round

Impossible Objects, based in Northbrook, IL, makes Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) systems that bring 3D printing to industrial-scale production. Its CBAM 25 platform prints composite parts — including carbon fiber — at production speeds, standing in for CNC machining and injection moulding rather than for prototyping. Parts are stronger, more precise and geometrically more complex than other additive methods allow, across a wider range of materials. Customers include the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army's Rock Island Arsenal — where the technology can support production of up to 10,000 drone bodies a month — the National Institute for Aviation Research, the Oregon Manufacturing Innovation Center and Rochester Institute of Technology.

Manufacturing3d-printing$10M+

Cool Company Raises · $50.0M

Archy raises a $50.0M Series C round

Archy is an all-in-one cloud platform that replaces virtual servers and patchwork of specialized tools, enabling scheduling, charting, imaging, billing, insurance, payments, messaging, and reporting—all in real time, all in one place. The platform’s design allows practices to hire and quickly onboard non-dental professionals, while built-in AI-powered automation handles time-consuming tasks like insurance verification and patient communication, reducing overhead and optimizing efficiency.

SoftwareHealth-CareAlvenCrvBessemer Venture PartnersEntrée Capital+3 more

10 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Mirrors launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Mirrors builds runnable staging environments for AI agents. It captures production traces from an agent's real sessions, reconstructs a working twin of the internal tools and APIs that agent calls, then replays those sessions against every prompt, model or tool change before it ships — so regressions surface in staging rather than in production. The gap it fills is that agents call bespoke internal services no standard test suite can reproduce, which matters most where a mistake is irreversible: issuing refunds, updating records, sending outbound messages. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Aryan Singhal (ML research at UT Austin and UCSB; six AI/ML papers published while in high school, three at NeurIPS). Y Combinator Fall 2026.

Developer-ToolsSAASB2BYCDevopsAI

Cool Company Raises · $15.0M

Piston raises a $15.0M Series A round

Piston is a cardless payments platform that connects commercial fleets with gas stations, founded by former fleet owners Vikram Sekhon and Shivam Shah. The company has created a secure payment system that eliminates card fraud and retail price markups. Piston aims to transform the fuel payment landscape by offering real-time insights and savings for both fleets and gas stations. Currently, Piston is serving over 120 fleets and 800 gas stations while processing more than $20 million in annualized transaction volume.

SoftwarePear VcSpark CapitalFpv Ventures$10M+

Cool Company Raises · $100.0M

Maven Robotics raises a $100.0M Series A round

Maven Robotics designs, builds, and deploys intelligent robotics for logistics and manufacturing. They created the world's first general-purpose robotics system for industrial work, integrating hardware, software, and AI across all layers. Their robots are designed for complex physical environments and rigorous commercial standards, focusing on industrial-grade reliability and scalability.

ManufacturingSoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceXtx VenturesVine VenturesLocal Globe+4 more

Cool Company Raises · $15.0M

R3 Lithium raises a $15.0M Series A round

R3 Lithium produces lithium carbonate from 100% recycled battery materials at its facility in Covington, Georgia. The company operates a 154,000-square-foot plant designed to recover lithium at commercial scale from battery manufacturing scrap and end-of-life batteries. R3's facility can process up to 30,000 metric tons of battery material annually and currently produces 2,500 metric tons of lithium carbonate per year. The company has secured approximately $1 billion in offtake agreements with customers including major trading firms.

ManufacturingRenewable-Energy$10M+

9 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Onix raises a $5.0M Seed round

Onix is a Montreal consumer AI company building Personal Intelligence: a private assistant trained on licensed knowledge from named health and wellness practitioners rather than scraped internet text. Users consult AI versions of specific physicians, nutritionists, sleep psychologists and athletes, with small language models run locally so the company never holds the user's data. Founded by CEO David S. Bennahum (former WIRED contributing editor) and CTO Dr. Nicholas Nadeau (former CTO of robotics company 1X), it raised a $5M USD pre-seed convertible note led by Alpha Edison with Garage Capital, Ride Home Fund, Jeremy Zimmer and JS Cournoyer. In early access on iOS.

Information-TechnologyArtificial-IntelligenceJean Sébastien CournoyerJeremy ZimmerRide Home FundGarage Capital+2 more

Cool Company Raises · $6.8M

Bulwark Dynamics raises a $6.8M Seed round

Bulwark Dynamics builds the Caravel series of uncrewed autonomous landing craft — vessels that carry cargo to shore without a port, pier or crane. A 15-foot prototype has completed an unmanned resupply demonstration; 35-foot and 55-foot variants are designed to carry one and two twenty-foot containers. The craft transit to unimproved shorelines, discharge and retract from the beach without a crew, including in GPS-denied environments. The $6.8M seed accompanies a memorandum of understanding with Japan's Onomichi Dockyard — itself a new investor — to manufacture Caravel in Japan and explore a dedicated site for serial production of unmanned vessels.

LogisticsOnomichi DockyardNēnē VenturesArchetype VenturesSbi Us Gateway Fund Lp$1M+

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

SuperRadiant launches at YC (Fall 2026)

SuperRadiant builds Embodied Scientific Intelligence: general-purpose robotic experimentalists that observe, form hypotheses and run experiments in the physical world. The system automates the full experimental loop while staying flexible enough for real discovery work, adapting to changing protocols and new instruments. Founded in 2026 in San Francisco by Cooper Niu, Benedict Quartey and Owen Tower, with a team drawn from Brown, NASA JPL, Fermilab and CERN. Y Combinator Fall 2026.

RoboticsEnergyAdvanced-MaterialsYCAIBiotechnology+1 more

Cool Company Raises · $50.0M

Bluecore Energy raises a $50.0M Seed round

Bluecore Energy builds small modular nuclear reactors mounted on floating barges, delivering clean baseload power to ports and the infrastructure around them. Founded in 2026 by Kofi Asante, the company is developing a maritime nuclear system with an initial deployment planned for the Port of Long Beach. The $50M oversubscribed seed round was led by Silverton Partners, with Collab Capital, HartBeat Ventures, Slauson & Co., Harlem Capital and Chris Larsen participating; it closed in eight weeks and follows a $10M pre-seed.

OtherCommerce-And-Shopping$50M+

8 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

ORO AI launches at YC (Fall 2026)

ORO AI runs an open benchmark for agentic commerce: builders submit shopping agents that independent validators score against problems that change daily, the best performers earn rewards on Bittensor, and every run produces training data that feeds back into the next generation. Founded in 2026 in Vancouver by Shardul Bansal (ex-AWS, Crucible Labs) and Seth Schilbe (ex-AWS). Y Combinator Fall 2026.

Artificial-IntelligenceCrypto-Web3Consumer-ProductsYCB2B

Cool Company Raises · $1.0B

Stoke Space raises a $1.0B round

Stoke Space is a pioneering aerospace company on a mission to build 100% reusable rockets and redefine space mobility. By empowering top industry talent with ownership and innovation freedom, Stoke moves fast, works hard, and delivers breakthrough advancements in reusable launch technology—making space access more sustainable, efficient, and exciting for the future.

ManufacturingTransportationTravelY CombinatorWoven CapitalWashington Harbour Partners+8 more

Cool Company Raises · $60.0M

Poseidon Aerospace raises a $60.0M Series A round

Poseidon Aerospace is developing unmanned cargo aircraft for aerologistics, focusing on cost-effective cargo transportation rather than flashy technology. The company is building fixed-wing aircraft powered by conventional combustion engines, including the Egret and its seaplane variant Heron, designed to operate without pilots. Poseidon targets defense and regional commercial cargo markets, with plans to operate its own air cargo business serving routes with degraded infrastructure. The startup emphasizes autonomy and remote piloting to reduce operational costs and enable more flexible, point-to-point cargo delivery.

TransportationAerospaceDrover VenturesDraper AssociatesStarship VenturesJaws+4 more

Cool Company Raises · $275.0M

Celero Communications raises a $275.0M Series C round

Celero Communications develops advanced coherent DSP solutions that enable high-bandwidth, low-power optical connectivity for AI infrastructure. Founded in 2024 by industry leaders from Marvell, Inphi, Broadcom, and ClariPhy, Celero combines deep expertise in analog design, digital signal processing, and system architecture to redefine how data centers connect and scale across large AI networks.

Information-TechnologyArtificial-IntelligenceMaverick SiliconSutter Hill VenturesCapital GValor Equity Partners+2 more

Cool Company Raises · $2.0B

Cognition AI raises a $2.0B round

Cognition is the maker of Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, which plans, writes, tests and ships production code inside existing developer workflows. The company also owns Windsurf. The $2B Series E values Cognition at $48B, roughly double its May 2026 mark, against a revenue run rate approaching $900M.

SoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceMachine-Learning$100M+Natural-Language-ProcessingInformation-Technology-Services

Cool Company Raises · $32.0M

Antioch raises a $32.0M Series A round

Antioch moves robotics development and validation out of hardware-in-the-loop rigs and into high-fidelity simulation, calibrating the simulator to a customer's own hardware and running evaluations at cloud scale. It integrates natively with existing CI/CD workflows, bringing test-driven development to autonomy. The $32M Series A was led by Greylock, with A* Capital, Category Ventures, BoxGroup and Icehouse Ventures, plus angels including Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar; total raised is $44.75M.

SoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceRobotics$10M+

7 Sept

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Halmos Labs launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Halmos Labs builds autonomous systems for scientific research: intelligent experimental design software that works out which experiment would reduce uncertainty most, so labs get more information from fewer experiments and fewer experiments per conclusion. The platform runs parallel analyses under many possible assumptions, validates every analysis, and answers open-ended questions about results where fixed workflows fall short, with early work spanning wet-lab experiment design and cancer vaccine manufacturing. Founded in 2026 in Lund, Sweden by Mattias Akke and Linus von Ekensteen Lofgren, who have worked at MIT, AstraZeneca and Danske Bank. Part of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch.

AI-Powered-Drug-DiscoverySwarm-AIBiotechYCHealthcare

5 Sept

4 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $7.5M

Ollie raises a $7.5M Seed round

Ollie is a privacy-first personal AI assistant for households, run over group chat. It handles scheduling, meal planning, grocery shopping, task tracking, appointment booking and bill payments for the whole family, and is built around keeping household data private. Founded by Bill Lennon and based in San Diego. The $7.5M seed was led by Khosla Ventures with AI House.

OtherInformation-TechnologyAi HouseKhosla Ventures$1M+

Cool Company Raises · $7.1M

Helogen raises a $7.1M Seed round

Helogen manufactures advanced biomaterials in orbit and returns them to Earth, building autonomous space factories for materials that are difficult or impossible to make under gravity. Its HEL-IOS system produces recombinant protein polymers, biologics and human tissue models in space, supported by custom spacecraft and Keystar, an orbital platform providing power, thermal management and docking. A NASA TechLeap Prize winner, the NYC company has biomaterial products reaching early customers. The $7.1M seed was co-led by RRE Ventures and Oceans, with One Way Ventures and Blisce.

OtherInformation-TechnologyBlisceOne Way VenturesOceansRre Ventures+1 more

2 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $3.5M

Fambot raises a $3.5M Pre-Seed round

Fambot is an AI company based in San Francisco that provides an automated chief of staff for family logistics. Founded by veterans from Uber, Instagram, and Google, it aims to reduce the administrative burden on parents by synthesizing fragmented communications into a single, actionable daily plan. The platform aggregates school emails, calendar invites, and chat messages into daily summaries, helping working parents manage their complex scheduling needs. Fambot currently serves over 1,000 families and continues to develop its AI-driven infrastructure.

SoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceSAASFounders NetworkKarman VenturesCorrelation Ventures+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $20.8M

Aslan Protects raises a $20.8M Seed round

Aslan Protects is a defense technology and cyber intelligence startup based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2025, it develops a specialized cyber defense and intelligence platform using human-supervised, autonomous AI operatives. These operatives are designed to infiltrate hostile digital environments at internet scale, moving beyond static data collection. The platform targets cross-border smuggling, exposes foreign state actors, and maps international cyber-fraud networks.

Information-TechnologySoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceAlumni VenturesLiquid 2 Ventures2048 Ventures+6 more

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