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22 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $25.0M

Sea12 raises a $25.0M Series A round

Sea12 is an artificial intelligence startup based in New York that specializes in digitizing workflows for heavy industries. Founded in 2024, the company offers an AI-powered platform to automate complex workflows and connect data for enterprises. It serves clients such as Basden Steel, focusing on document processing and invoice management.

SoftwareArtificial-IntelligenceMachine-LearningCaffeinated Capital$10M+

Cool Company Raises · $9.7M

Sent raises a $9.7M round

Sent is the infrastructure layer powering cost-optimized, intelligent delivery for business messaging across SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, RCS, and more. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York City, Sent replaces the tangle of single-channel integrations with one unified API and a real-time smart-routing engine that maximizes deliverability, ensures compliance, and lowers costs. Companies of any size can use Sent to send everything from login codes and two-factor authentication prompts to appointment reminders and order confirmations—without worrying about channel-specific logic or backend plumbing.

Information-TechnologySoftwareSAAS$1M+Messaging

21 Jun

19 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $310.0M

Odyssey AI raises a $310.0M Series B round

Odyssey AI is an AI lab headquartered in Palo Alto that builds general-purpose world models. These models predict outcomes in physical space, unlike large language models that focus on text prediction. Odyssey's technology creates interactive video streams that respond to user inputs in real time, simulating real-world scenarios. Key applications include robotics training, gaming, autonomous vehicles, scientific research, and national security.

Artificial-IntelligenceMachine-LearningAmazonAmd VenturesEqtGarry Tan+7 more

Cool Company Raises · $863.0M

Common Fusion Systems raises a $863.0M Series B round

Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) is advancing the global transition to clean energy by making commercial fusion power a reality, leveraging breakthroughs like the world’s strongest high-temperature superconducting magnet. Backed by over $2 billion in funding and a world-class team, CFS is designing and building fusion power plants while partnering with policymakers and suppliers to deliver scalable, reliable energy worldwide.

Energy$100M+

Cool Company Raises · $900.0M

Pacific Fusion raises a $900.0M Series A round

Pacific Fusion Corp. is a power company focused on developing a nuclear fusion-based energy source. The company has recently attracted significant funding, placing it among the leaders in a rapidly expanding industry. Their goal is to create a new form of energy that could revolutionize power generation, although no fusion power plants currently exist. They are part of a growing group globally working to commercialize fusion technology.

EnergyRenewable-EnergyGeneral CatalystIndividual Company BuildersInstitutional V Cs$100M+

18 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $54.0M

Verse raises a $54.0M Series B round

Verse is an enterprise SaaS company that helps organizations reduce the cost and emissions of their power. Our software and services help corporate energy buyers evaluate specific clean power goals (e.g., cost, emissions, risk), and develop procurement roadmaps to achieve annual matching, carbon matching, and/or hourly matching. Companies can also improve risk management and optimize operational load and generation portfolios. With unparalleled data, real-time analysis within minutes, and optimization for least cost, Verse helps organizations turn their energy challenges into successes.

Renewable-EnergyBessemer Venture PartnersGvNorrsken VcNvidia$50M+

Cool Company Raises · $19.5M

Rejuvenate Bio Inc raises a $19.5M round

Rejuvenate Bio announced it raised $19.5 Million in an initial filing from an offering of $27 Million

Biotechnology$10M+

Cool Company Raises · $8.5M

NewDays raises a $8.5M round

NewDays delivers personalized cognitive treatment that combines expert-led therapy with AI-powered daily practice for people experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. Our science-backed, non-drug approach is designed to maintain cognitive function, build confidence, and help people live the way they want to live. Founded in 2024 by leaders from Amazon and Google X, NewDays makes clinically-validated cognitive interventions accessible through breakthrough AI technology and expert clinical oversight.

Information-Technology-Services$1M+

Cool Company Raises · $25.0M

Invisible Narratives raises a $25.0M round

Invisible Narratives is a leading entertainment company dedicated to helping digital creators build global franchises. Founded by industry veterans, it focuses on transforming creator content into sustainable entertainment businesses. The company has recently secured significant capital partnerships to accelerate its growth.

Media-And-EntertainmentGamingBc Partners CreditVerance Capital$10M+

17 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $25.0M

Traysar raises a $25.0M Seed round

Traysar is the world's first subterra defense tech company. Through breakthroughs in military boring and subterranean autonomous systems, Traysar transforms the Earth's crust into a three-dimensional maneuver space. They enable a new class of strike capabilities against previously unreachable targets and rapid underground protection of critical infrastructure for the United States and its allies.

Entrée CapitalImpatient VenturesLux CapitalManaNever Lift VcNew Vista+4 more

Cool Company Raises · $22.0M

Critical Energy raises a $22.0M Seed round

Critical Energy, founded by ex-SpaceX engineer Spencer Jackson, specializes in the design and mass production of modular geothermal turbines. These turbines are built in factories and utilize a closed-loop fluid system to convert heat into electricity. The company aims to reduce the deployment time of geothermal systems from years to weeks, addressing the reliability issues of clean energy sources. By focusing on surface equipment and turbines, Critical Energy seeks to support the wider geothermal industry rather than compete with underground drillers.

EnergyOil-And-GasRenewable-EnergyHumba VenturesMa C Venture CapitalScribble Ventures+6 more

Cool Company Raises · $11.5M

Nox Metals raises a $11.5M Seed round

Nox Metals is a seven-month-old startup based in Southwest Detroit that specializes in custom aluminum blocks for CNC machining. The company uses AI automation to significantly reduce lead times from days to seconds. Nox Metals aims to revitalize a World War II-era factory to further its mission and enhance production capabilities.

ManufacturingMiningPrecious-MetalsAlumni VenturesDtx VenturesHyperion+5 more

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8 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Prescience, Inc. launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Healthcare for the age of abundant intelligence.

Health-InsuranceInsuranceHealthcareY CombinatorYCYC-S26

Cool Company Raises · YC X26

Ploy launches at YC (Spring 2026)

Ploy turns your website into your company's growth engine.

B2BYCYC-X26Y Combinator

Cool Company Raises · $55.0M

Stepful, Inc. raises a $55.0M Series C round

Our mission is to empower communities with accessible pathways to healthcare careers, regardless of background or circumstance. Our healthcare staffing programs are designed to fill vacancies quickly and reduce hiring costs. We also provide medical career advancement training. Stepful specializes in training and placing healthcare professionals in various healthcare roles, including Medical Assistants, Coders & Billers, Pharma Techs, EKGs, and Phlebotomists.

OtherCiti Impact FundEcmc Education Impact FundForesite CapitalHearst VenturesIntermountain Health+4 more

Cool Company Raises · $115.0M

American Battery Technology Company raises a $115.0M round

American Battery Technology Company (ABTC), headquartered in Reno, Nevada, has pioneered first-of-kind technologies to unlock domestically manufactured and recycled battery metals critically needed to help meet the significant demand from the electric vehicle, stationary storage, and consumer electronics industries. Committed to a circular supply chain for battery metals, ABTC works to continually innovate and master new battery metals technologies that power a global transition to electrification and the future of sustainable energy.

ManufacturingRenewable-Energy$100M+

Cool Company Raises · $29.6M

Matternet raises a $29.6M round

Matternet is a drone delivery pioneer focusing on expanding urban delivery capabilities.

$10M+

Cool Company Raises

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) announces a Series C round

Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC) is a UK-based quantum computing company founded in 2017. It specializes in enterprise-ready quantum computers that utilize superconducting qubits and its patented Coaxmon chip. OQC aims to create a quantum-accelerated world through application-optimized computing.

Information-TechnologyAlpha EdisonBritish Business BankBullhound CapitalChevron Technology VenturesCofides+11 more

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