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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.
Cool Company Raises · YC X26
Ploy launches at YC (Spring 2026)
Ploy turns your website into your company's growth engine.
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.
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.
Cool Company Raises · $29.6M
Matternet raises a $29.6M round
Matternet is a drone delivery pioneer focusing on expanding urban delivery capabilities.
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.
5 Jun
Cool Company Raises · YC S26
Agentcard launches at YC (Summer 2026)
debit cards for AI agents.
Cool Company Raises · $200.0M
Auger raises a $200.0M Series A round
Auger is a new supply chain startup founded by former Amazon executive Dave Clark. The company focuses on innovative solutions to streamline supply chain processes. With a significant financial backing of $100 million, Auger aims to enhance operational efficiency in logistics. Its mission is to transform the way businesses manage their supply chains.
Cool Company Raises · $200.0M
Apex raises a $200.0M round
Apex is a Los Angeles-based spacecraft manufacturer specializing in productized satellite buses ranging from 100 to 500 kilograms. Founded in 2022 by Ian Cinnamon and Max Benassi, Apex addresses the growing demand for reliable, rapidly deployable spacecraft platforms in the evolving aerospace industry. By integrating software-driven design, vertical manufacturing, and scalable hardware, Apex delivers configurable satellite buses—such as Aries, Nova, and Comet—tailored for missions spanning Earth observation, communications, and defense applications. With a focus on rapid delivery and transparent pricing, Apex enables customers to deploy payloads efficiently, supporting the expansion of space-based capabilities across various sectors.
Cool Company Raises · $400.0M
Generalist AI raises a $400.0M round
Generalist AI is a developer of embodied robotics intelligence and foundation models, based in San Francisco, CA. The company focuses on creating advanced systems that enable robotic hardware to autonomously adapt to various tasks. They launched their core foundation model architecture in April 2026 and have a team composed of veterans from Google DeepMind and Boston Dynamics.
Cool Company Raises · $75.0M
Highland Electric Fleets raises a $75.0M round
Highland Electric Fleets is a comprehensive turnkey solutions provider that delivers electric school buses (EVSB) to school districts and third-party managed fleet providers (3PMs). We offer a model involving financing, infrastructure, vehicle deployment, and maintenance in an easily digestible, budget-neutral format that enables EVSB acquisition at traditional diesel pricing. Our mission is to eliminate the barriers to better student health and a cleaner environment.
Cool Company Raises · $12.0B
Lovable raises a $12.0B round
Lovable is a platform that enables anyone to build apps and websites simply by chatting with AI, created by a small European team of serial founders, product engineers, physicists, and competitive programmers united by a passion for rapid, high-quality product building. On a mission to create the last piece of software the world will ever need, Lovable focuses on making software creation intuitive, fast, and accessible through AI-driven conversation.
4 Jun
Cool Company Raises · $9.4M
Bakkt Holdings raises a $9.4M round
Bakkt Holdings, Inc. builds solutions that enable their clients to grow with the crypto economy. Through institutional-grade custody, trading, and onramp capabilities, their clients leverage technology that’s built for sustainable, long-term involvement in crypto.
Cool Company Raises · $5.8M
Kalogon raises a $5.8M round
Kalogon revolutionizes the way the world sits through technological innovation, cutting-edge research, and customer collaboration. By prioritizing empathy-driven design and embracing inclusivity, we aim to set a new benchmark in seating solutions for those who spend an extended time sitting, inspiring positive change in the industry. Our ultimate goal is to empower individuals to lead active, seated lives with enhanced comfort and well-being.
Cool Company Raises · $465.0M
Helion Energy raises a $465.0M round
Helion is a fusion power company based in Everett, WA, with the mission to build the world's first fusion power plant, enabling a future with unlimited clean electricity. Our vision is a world with clean, reliable, and affordable energy for everyone. Currently, we are scaling up our latest fusion prototype to make our vision a reality. We’re hiring brilliant scientists, engineers, and builders passionate about developing world-changing technologies. If that sounds like you, check out our open positions.
Cool Company Raises · $500.0M
Nuro raises a $500.0M round
Nuro is an American Physical AI company building the world's most scalable AI driver. Founded in 2016, Nuro has refined its autonomous driving technology through extensive driver-out deployments. The company offers two flagship products to automotive manufacturers, suppliers, and mobility companies: Nuro Driver™ (Level 4) and Nuro Driver™ Assist (Level 2++), each combining automotive-grade hardware with AI-first self-driving software. Nuro's technology can be integrated into robotaxis, goods-delivery vehicles, and consumer vehicles—always with the same goal: to improve everyday life by making the benefits of autonomy available to everyone.
Cool Company Raises · $2.3B
Freepoint Commodities raises a $2.3B round
Founded in 2011, Freepoint is based in Stamford, Connecticut, and employs more than 600 people worldwide. The company is a global merchant of physical commodities, providing customers with physical supply and logistics chain management and services, along with environmentally friendly products and solutions.
Cool Company Raises · $6.0M
Xos raises a $6.0M round
Dedicated to making fleets more efficient, we build state-of-the-art electric commercial vehicles at a much lower operating cost. Developing cutting edge technologies for medium and heavy duty electric vehicles—like step vans, box trucks and vocational vehicles—our mobility solutions exceed anything on the present market. Capable of transporting products with greater reliability and simplicity, Xos electric trucks are designed in the most environmentally conscious manner possible.
Cool Company Raises · $2.0B
Benchmark Capital raises a $2.0B round
Benchmark Capital is a Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for its early-stage investments in technology companies such as eBay, Snap, Uber, and Twitter. After over 20 years of maintaining smaller fund sizes, Benchmark has recently raised $2 billion across two new funds, including a significant $1.25 billion growth fund. The firm has adapted its investment strategy to include more flexibility in funding capital-intensive startups, particularly in the AI sector. It aims to build deep relationships with entrepreneurs at various stages of their companies' lifecycles.
Cool Company Raises · $7.0M
Craftwork raises a $7.0M Series A round
Craftwork is a Charlotte-based home-painting startup that aims to modernize the painting process through proprietary software, offering homeowners instant online quotes for scheduling projects. Launched in 2023, it employs full-time painters, which is atypical in the industry, to ensure high-quality service and stability for its staff. The company recently secured a $7 million Series A funding to expand its operations and team. Craftwork aspires to become the largest painting company in Charlotte within the next 18 months.
3 Jun
Cool Company Raises · YC S26
Dock launches at YC (Summer 2026)
Multiplayer agent workspace that grows your company without growing…
Cool Company Raises · $5.0M
Dexterity raises a $5.0M Seed round
Dexterity offers robots as a service solution for logistics, warehousing, and supply chain operations. The company provides a 'robots as a service' model, which allows businesses to efficiently integrate robotics into their supply chain operations.
Cool Company Raises · $10.2M
Shifters AI raises a $10.2M Seed round
Shifters AI Inc. is a global deep-tech company pioneering a family of rugged robotic platforms for dangerous ground missions. The company focuses on developing supervised autonomous ground robotic systems that enhance situational awareness and preserve human life in hazardous environments. Their mission, called 'Robots Go First', aims to allow robots to enter dangerous areas before human operators. Shifters is building the next generation of AI-native autonomous robotic teams.
Cool Company Raises · $400.0M
Suno raises a $400.0M Series D round
Suno Inc. is a new crop artificial intelligence startup focused on building tools to automate the music-making process.
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