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2 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $42.0M

Layup Parts raises a $42.0M Series A round

Layup manufactures composite parts and the tooling to make those parts. We are developing tools that will put parts in our customers hands faster than has previously been possible. Our goal is to ship parts faster than our competition can return a quote.

Manufacturing Cerberus Ventures Founders Fund Lux Capital Marlinspike Pinegrove Venture Partners+1 more

1 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC X26

tday.com launches at YC (Spring 2026)

AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content

B2B YC YC-X26 Y Combinator

Cool Company Raises · $60.0M

Mecka AI raises a $60.0M Series A round

Mecka AI is a startup focused on training robots using human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones. The company aims to collect and utilize embodied AI data to improve robot training methodologies. Founded by a team with diverse backgrounds, including fintech and startup experience, Mecka AI emphasizes practical applications and integration of robotics technology into various sectors. With a projected annual run rate of $100 million, Mecka AI positions itself as an innovative player in the robotics field.

Framework Ventures Kindred Ventures Menlo Ventures Sv Angel Ted Xiao $50M+

Cool Company Raises · $3.6B

MaintainX raises a $3.6B round

MaintainX is the leading maintenance and frontline execution platform designed specifically for industrial and frontline teams. It helps companies streamline maintenance operations, improve asset management, and manage regulatory compliance and audits—all while delivering insights that can improve the bottom line. As a mobile-first platform, MaintainX delivers a modern, IoT-enabled solution for maintenance, reliability, and operations teams. MaintainX is trusted by over 6,500 companies worldwide, including companies like Duracell, Brenntag, Cintas, Shell, Titan America, and many more. The company was founded in 2018 by Chris Turlica, Hugo Dozois-Caouette, Mathieu Marengère-Gosselin and Nick Haase. For more information, visit www.maintainx.com.

Information-Technology Software $100M+

Cool Company Raises · $236.0M

Vesper Energy raises a $236.0M round

Vesper Energy is a developer, owner, and operator of utility-scale renewable energy assets, with a mission to develop, construct, and operate clean energy projects across the United States.

Energy Renewable-Energy Semiconductors Associated Bank Bayern Lb Mufg+1 more

30 May

Cool Company Raises · $1.0B

Together AI raises a $1.0B Series C round

Together AI, the leading AI Acceleration Cloud, empowers developers and enterprises to train, fine-tune and run inference for generative AI models — delivering unparalleled performance, control, and cost-efficiency. The Together AI Platform supports a comprehensive range of top open source and custom models across multiple modalities, while offering flexible deployment options with the highest levels of privacy and security. Committed to advancing the frontier of AI through open collaboration, innovation and transparency, Together AI ensures that powerful AI systems remain accessible and flexible while creating optimal outcomes for society.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning General Catalyst Prosperity7 $100M++2 more

28 May

Cool Company Raises · $15.0M

Trajectory raises a $15.0M Seed round

Trajectory builds a platform for continual learning, letting companies post-train open-source AI models on real user interactions so products improve weekly instead of staying static between major model releases. Founded in 2025 by former Google DeepMind, Apple, OpenAI and Meta Superintelligence Labs researchers, it works with AI-native customers including Decagon, Clay and Harvey to ship narrowly-tuned models that outperform frontier labs on customer-specific tasks.

Platform Seed AI-ML Conviction Bessemer Venture Partners BoxGroup+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $21.0M

Solstice raises a $21.0M Series A round

Solstice is an AI-native marketing agency for pharma brands, combining proprietary AI models with in-house medical and regulatory experts to generate, review and activate compliant commercialization content. Headquartered in New York, it serves a dozen-plus pharmaceutical companies, including several top-20 brands across oncology, immunology and metabolic diseases.

B2B Series-A AI-ML Transformation Capital Cory Capital Ford Street Ventures+6 more

Cool Company Raises · $6.2M

Rep AI raises a $6.2M Series A round

Rep AI builds an agentic AI operating system for ecommerce, unifying shopper-intent detection, personalized sales guidance, conversion optimization and post-purchase support inside a single platform. Founded in 2020 and led by CEO Yoav Oz, the New York-based company serves brands like OLLY, HigherDOSE, Satya Jewelry and Unclaimed Baggage.

Platform Series-A AI-ML Silicon Road Ventures Flashpoint VC Osage Venture Partners+3 more

Cool Company Raises · $3.0M

Modiqo raises a $3.0M Seed round

Modiqo is a San Francisco-based agentic AI infrastructure startup building a local execution layer called Rote that captures successful AI agent runs and transforms them into reusable, deterministic workflows. The platform connects agents to any API without server infrastructure or SDKs, reducing token usage and preventing repeated debugging when models or APIs update. Founded and led by CEO Chetan Conikee, Modiqo targets systems operators tasked with moving AI agents from one-off demos to production-grade systems.

API-First Seed AI-Agents Heavybit Seligman Ventures Irregular Expression+2 more

Cool Company Raises · $22.0M

Triomics raises a $22.0M Series B round

Triomics builds oncology-specific AI for cancer centers, automating chart prep, clinical trial matching, and tumor registry reporting against complex multi-year patient records. The platform is used by academic centers including Memorial Sloan Kettering and Yale Cancer Center, and is positioned against generic AI scribes by training models on oncology data rather than general clinical text.

Series-B AI-ML Enterprise-Software Battery Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Nexus Venture Partners+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $47.0M

Daloopa raises a $47.0M Series C round

Daloopa is a Series B, venture-backed company providing AI-powered fundamental data for institutional investors. Its platform sources, structures, and distributes the most complete and accurate historical financial dataset, covering nearly 4,700 public companies globally. The company is focused on accelerating decision-making for investment professionals by automating financial modeling and data extraction workflows.

AI-ML Automation Data-Platform Brighton Park Capital Nexus Venture Partners SquarePoint Capital+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $90.0M

Observable Space raises a $90.0M Series A round

Vertically-integrated space technology company building laser communications ground stations, optical sensing systems, and in-space imaging payloads. Headquartered in Los Angeles with a 57-acre manufacturing campus in Adrian, Michigan, the company supplies NASA, the U.S. Space Force, and commercial satellite operators.

Series-A Deep-Tech Defense Lux Capital BRV Capital Detroit Venture Partners+8 more

Cool Company Raises · $106.0M

Corgi raises a $106.0M Series C round

Corgi is an AI-native, full-stack insurance carrier built for startups, using modern infrastructure and artificial intelligence to handle underwriting, policy management, and claims so it can deliver fast, flexible commercial insurance tailored to growing companies.[2][5]

B2B AI-ML Fintech Tcv 8188 Capital First Order Fund+13 more

Cool Company Raises · $59.0M

Reactor raises a $59.0M Series A round

Reactor is a San Francisco developer platform for real-time generative AI video. Founded by ex-Apple Vision Pro engineers Alberto Taiuti and Bryce Schmidtchen, the company offers an SDK and API that let developers build interactive applications powered by world models, generating video dynamically rather than via batch processing.

API-First Series-A Ar-Vr Lightspeed Venture Partners Amplify Partners FPV Ventures+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $65.0B

Anthropic raises a $65.0B Series C round

AI research company

Growth-Stage Series-C-Plus AI-ML Altimeter Capital Capital Group Dragoneer+22 more

27 May

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

CodeIntegrity raises a $5.0M Seed round

CodeIntegrity builds a runtime control layer that acts as a deterministic guardrail for agentic AI applications, blocking prompt-injection attacks and limiting which enterprise systems and data an autonomous agent can touch. The company was founded in the Seattle area in May 2024 by Steven Jung and Abi Raghuram, alumni of Antler's New York residency, and recently relocated headquarters to San Francisco. Its product is currently being piloted with companies in regulated industries.

Syn Ventures Antler Boost VC $1M+

Cool Company Raises · $20.0M

Signos raises a $20.0M Series C round

Signos makes an FDA-cleared, over-the-counter continuous glucose monitoring app that turns biosensor data into personalized insights for weight management. The California-based company pairs Dexcom CGM hardware with an AI engine that helps non-diabetic users link food, activity, and metabolic response, and is sold direct-to-consumer through Dexcom's Stelo channel.

Gv Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama Dexcom Ventures $10M+

Cool Company Raises · $26.0M

Capchase raises a $26.0M Series C round

Capchase is a New York-based fintech operating a B2B vendor-financing platform that lets software and hardware vendors offer flexible payment terms while receiving full payment upfront. It uses AI agents for credit decisioning, quote parsing and buyer coordination, targeting the $1.3T equipment financing market. Customers include Okta, Palo Alto Networks, Barracuda Networks and Verkada.

01 Advisors Bling Capital Caffeinated Capital Invesco SciFi Ventures Thomvest Ventures+1 more

Cool Company Raises · $46.0M

Pace raises a $46.0M Series B round

Agentic AI platform purpose-built for the insurance industry to modernize business process outsourcing by replacing manual workflows with autonomous AI agents.

Sequoia Capital Thrive Capital Emergence Capital PruVen Capital $10M+

Cool Company Raises · $100.0M

Thea Energy raises a $100.0M Series B round

Thea Energy is a New Jersey-based fusion power company commercializing a planar-coil stellarator architecture, using arrays of mass-manufacturable superconducting magnets and software-defined controls in place of precision-machined 3D coils. Spun out of Princeton University and Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory in 2022, it is an awardee of the US Department of Energy's Milestone-Based Fusion Development Program and is building the Eos integrated stellarator en route to its first commercial Helios power plant.

USIT Alumni Ventures Calm Ventures Climate Capital Divergent Capital Emerald Technology Ventures+14 more

Cool Company Raises · $1.0B

Cognition AI raises a $1.0B Series C round

Makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer. We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents. We’re building collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower engineering teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

General Catalyst Lux Capital 8VC Atreides Management Founders Fund Layer Global+2 more

26 May

Cool Company Raises · $1.5M

Flexprice raises a $1.5M Seed round

Flexprice builds open-source monetization infrastructure for AI-native and SaaS companies, enabling usage-based, credit-based, and hybrid billing across API calls, token usage, and GPU hours. The platform offers real-time metering, entitlement gating, and revenue reporting and is self-hostable. Teams are based in New Delhi, Bengaluru, and San Francisco.

Shastra Vc Anupam Mittal TDV Partners $1M+

Cool Company Raises · $7.5M

Didit raises a $7.5M Seed round

Didit is a YC-backed identity and fraud infrastructure platform that ships KYC, KYB, AML screening, biometric verification, transaction monitoring, and wallet screening behind one API. The company serves 2,000+ customers across fintech, crypto, marketplaces, iGaming, and government use cases and is the only identity provider whose technology has been assessed by Spain's Treasury, CNMV, and SEPBLAC as equivalent to in-person verification. Dual HQ in San Francisco and Barcelona.

Y Combinator Founders Future Lobster Capital Orange Collective Phosphor Capital Pioneer Fund+5 more

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