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3 Jun
Cool Company Raises · $1.3M
Poppy raises a $1.3M Pre-Seed round
Poppy is the market leader in advanced air technologies for healthy, sustainable buildings. Poppy revolutionizes how buildings measure equivalent clean airflow, manage rising energy costs and secure health in buildings with their patented air tracing technology. Poppy serves over 1,000 locations in 25 cities, across Canada, US, Europe and the Middle East, helping building operators to reduce costs, decarbonize and protect occupant health. Poppy was founded in 2019, and is based in San Francisco and Toronto.
Cool Company Raises · $20.0M
Terra AI raises a $20.0M Series A round
Terra AI is an artificial intelligence platform provider based in Palo Alto, CA, that focuses on reducing subsurface uncertainty for mineral and energy development. The company offers a patented platform that integrates various types of exploration data to generate probabilistic geological models. These models help project teams make informed decisions regarding drilling and resource development by assessing potential subsurface scenarios. Terra AI aims to assist explorers in evaluating asset acquisitions and accelerating resource development efforts.
Cool Company Raises · $650.0M
Applied Aerospace & Defense raises a $650.0M round
Applied Aerospace & Defense (Applied) is a premier provider of advanced design, engineering, and vertically integrated manufacturing solutions for leading and next-generation space and defense technology companies. Applied builds complex hardware for extreme operating environments and is focused on three core markets: Space and Launch Systems, Defense Aviation and Airborne Systems, and C5ISR and Precision Strike Systems.
2 Jun
Cool Company Raises · $1.0M
Gridwater raises a $1.0M Seed round
Gridwater secures over $1M in equipment financing to support its 2026 fleet rollout. This financing validates its business model with initial trucks already funded and in production.
Cool Company Raises · $500.0M
Impulse Space raises a $500.0M Series D round
Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The flight-proven Mira vehicle uses a nontoxic, high-impulse chemical propulsion system to offer orbital transport, constellation deployment, and precision reentry services to customers from LEO to GEO. The high-energy Helios vehicle unlocks orbits beyond LEO with its powerful Deneb engine, dropping off payloads in MEO, GEO, heliocentric, lunar, and other planetary orbits. Led by a team that delivered the most reliable rockets in history, Impulse provides economical and efficient in-space transportation by reliably and rapidly getting customers where they want to go.
Cool Company Raises · $32.0M
Findigs, Inc. raises a $32.0M Series C round
Findigs makes renting safe and easy for renters and property managers. Rent units faster with zero fraud. Our digital underwriting platform verifies every applicant’s identity and income in minutes, no matter how they earn money. Fast, secure rental applications. Seamless screening and decision-making. This is renting, redesigned.
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.
1 Jun
Cool Company Raises · YC X26
tday.com launches at YC (Spring 2026)
AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content
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.
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.
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.
30 May
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
Cool Company Raises · $65.0B
Anthropic raises a $65.0B Series C round
AI research company
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.
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.
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