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Cool Company Raises · $470.0M

Antares Nuclear raises a $470.0M Series C round

Antares is building compact nuclear microreactors to deliver reliable, mobile energy where it’s needed most—remote military bases, austere industrial sites, and eventually deep space and underwater missions. Founded to tackle the challenge of delivering power where it’s hardest to access, the company is driving momentum in a U.S. nuclear industry that hasn’t seen true progress in decades. Backed by over $50M from top-tier investors, Antares brings together talent from SpaceX, Relativity Space, Ursa Major, MIT, the U.S. Air Force, and more, with a focus on shipping hardware—not hypotheticals.

Cool Company Raises · $200.0M

Spur Intelligence raises a $200.0M round

Spur Intelligence delivers the highest-fidelity IP intelligence available to detect anonymized, proxied, or otherwise obscured internet traffic. Their platform empowers organizations to stop fraud, fake users, and threats by providing infrastructure-aware IP intelligence. Designed by expert security researchers and engineers, Spur has elevated VPN attribution, bot detection, and residential proxy tracking. The company's solutions cater to mission-critical government and commercial systems.

Cool Company Raises · $620.0M

Agility Robotics raises a $620.0M round

Headquartered in Corvallis, Oregon, Agility Robotics makes robots that are made for work. Agility marries design, software, and hardware to build robots capable of doing limitless tasks as part of a blended human-robot workforce. For more information about how Agility is innovating today to create a better tomorrow, visit agilityrobotics.com and follow @agilityrobotics on Twitter.

27 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $3.0B

Safe Superintelligence raises a $3.0B round

Safe Superintelligence is an artificial intelligence research lab focused on developing safe AI systems. Co-founded by OpenAI’s former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, the startup aims to address growing concerns about the potential harm of AI technology. Within just three months of its founding, it successfully raised $1 billion to enhance its capabilities. The company is based in Palo Alto, California.

24 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $129.0M

Scribe Therapeutics raises a $129.0M round

Scribe is enabling the creation of genetic medicines through its CRISPR by Design™ approach to genetic modification.

22 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $1.7B

Atoms raises a $1.7B round

Atoms is Travis Kalanick's industrial automation and robotics company, built out of his CloudKitchens holding company (rebranded Atoms in 2026) and the acquisition of Anthony Levandowski's automation firm Pronto. It builds physical automation for food, mining, and transport — software-controlled robotics to digitize and automate heavy industry. The $1.7B round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with Ben Horowitz joining the board.

21 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $1.2B

AST SpaceMobile raises a $1.2B round

This entity holds certain S-Band ITU priority rights to MSS frequencies for use in low Earth orbit. The rights facilitate the provision of mobile satellite services across various spectrum bands. Further details about the entity are not specified in the text.

Cool Company Raises · $850.0M

Electra raises a $850.0M round

Electra is decarbonizing iron and steelmaking to eliminate 3.7 gigatons or 10% of global carbon dioxide emissions. Leveraging proven industrial-scale electrochemical and hydrometallurgical processes, and backed by leading sustainability-focused venture capitalists, our team is developing lower cost, scalable solutions utilizing renewable energy to forge a cleaner, greener future for the trillion-dollar steel industry. With a uniquely collaborative culture, endless passion for developing disruptive technologies, and the opportunity to revolutionize carbon-intensive manufacturing industries, careers at Electra offer challenge, reward, and the chance to bring to market solutions that dramatically improve the health of the planet.

17 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $1.0B

Valar Atomics raises a $1.0B round

Valar Atomics is an energy startup based in El Segundo, Calif. which aims to produce low-cost, carbon neutral synthetic fuels by leveraging atomic energy. Valar’s proprietary technology will generate synthetic fuels such as aviation fuel, diesel, and natural gas from atmospheric carbon dioxide and water, using mass-manufactured nuclear reactors as the energy source for the reactions. The company aims to sell its synthetic fuels as drop-in replacements for naturally extracted petroleum at a lower price than conventional products from the oil and gas industry.

Cool Company Raises · $109.0M

ASP Isotopes raises a $109.0M round

ASP Isotopes is an advanced materials company (Nasdaq: ASPI) pioneering next-generation isotope enrichment. Over the past 18 years, our scientists have developed the proprietary Aerodynamic Separation Process (ASP)—a breakthrough technology that enables the enrichment of isotopes that are difficult or impossible to process using traditional methods. Our platform uniquely supports the enrichment of elements across both low and high atomic masses, unlocking capabilities beyond conventional approaches. The applications of ASP are broad and transformative, spanning nuclear energy and advanced reactors to quantum computing and other high-precision technologies.

16 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $509.0M

Point Digital Finance, Inc. raises a $509.0M round

Point offers homeowners Home Equity Investments (HEIs), HELOCs and SEED investments which enable home buyers to make larger down payments. You can access up to $500k with a quick online application, and top-notch customer service to help you through the process.

15 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $302.0M

Walden Robotics raises a $302.0M round

Walden Robotics is a full-stack Physical AI company that is focused on building and deploying general-purpose robots. These robots are designed to continuously learn and improve while performing real work. The company aims to integrate advanced AI technologies into practical robotic solutions. Launched with significant funding, it positions itself as an innovator in the robotics industry.

7 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $134.0M

Quaise Energy, Inc. raises a $134.0M Series B round

Quaise develops millimeter wave drilling systems for deep geothermal heat access. Our technology is the only approach in the world with the potential to build geothermal wells at unprecedented depths and temperatures. By targeting depths up to 20 kilometers and temperatures up to 500 degrees Celsius, we will have the ability to build clean electric generation and heat distribution plants within a short distance of every major population and industrial center on the planet, at a fraction of the footprint of other renewables. And by scaling through the established supply base of the fossil fuel industry, we will be able to achieve the terawatt-level annual deployments that will be required to successfully decarbonize our global energy system.

Cool Company Raises · $120.0M

Norm Law raises a $120.0M Series C round

Norm Law is an AI-native law firm built for global institutional clients. The firm combines advanced AI technology with legal expertise to improve service delivery. It aims to transform legal services through innovation and unique approaches. Norm Law focuses on areas such as investment funds, private equity, and business development.

Cool Company Raises · $300.0M

Oratomic raises a $300.0M Series A round

Oratomic is a Pasadena, CA-based developer of fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures and quantum-error correction systems. The company focuses on building commercially scalable quantum computers that circumvent noisy intermediate-scale quantum bottlenecks through advanced error correction techniques. Oratomic supports large-scale applications in machine learning and molecular chemistry simulations with optimized hardware designs. Led by CEO Dolev Bluvstein, the company is aggressively expanding its engineering teams to enhance its quantum technology capabilities.

30 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $800.0M

Etched raises a $800.0M round

Etched is a semiconductor company building purpose-built chips and servers optimized for transformer inference by hardwiring the transformer architecture directly into silicon, delivering unprecedented performance and efficiency for large-scale AI workloads.

29 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $107.0M

Heron's Key raises a $107.0M round

Heron's Key is a Washington nonprofit corporation and 501(c)(3) organization that develops, owns, and operates senior living facilities in Washington. It features a life plan community set in a picturesque Pacific Northwest setting, offering a continuum of care and various amenities. Currently, it provides independent living, assisted living, memory care, and skilled nursing units for over 300 residents. The community is expanding with new residential units and renovations to enhance its offerings.

26 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $430.0M

Applied Digital Cloud raises a $430.0M round

Applied Digital Corporation (Nasdaq: APLD) designs, develops and operates next-generation data centers across North America to provide digital infrastructure solutions to the rapidly growing high-performance computing (HPC) industry. Find more information at www.applieddigital.com. Follow us on Twitter at @APLDdigital.

24 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $500.0M

Oceaneering raises a $500.0M round

Oceaneering International, Inc. is a global technology company delivering engineered services and products and robotic solutions to the offshore energy, defense, aerospace, manufacturing, and entertainment industries.

Cool Company Raises · $300.0M

TeraWatt Infrastructure raises a $300.0M round

The company focuses on powering electrified fleets of cars and trucks with a network of solar-powered charging stations. The company expects to use money to accelerate its next phase of development and expansion, which is focused on the buildout of a growing portfolio of charging centers and adding talent to the team to support this work. The company develops and owns charging centers and brings them online with in-house expertise and experience, enabling fleets to avoid capital expenditure and focus on their own operations.

23 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $125.0M

Solar Landscape raises a $125.0M round

Solar Landscape is a provider of a platform for distributed energy infrastructure built on commercial real estate. The company develops, builds, owns, and operates distributed energy projects that deliver new capacity to the grid while generating long-term income for commercial and industrial property owners. They partner with over 170 commercial real estate owners and utilities. Solar Landscape has deployed more than 500 projects across various locations.

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.

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.

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.

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