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Cool Company Raises · $25.0M

Excedr raises a $25.0M round

Excedr, Inc. is a scientific equipment leasing company founded in 2011, providing operating lease solutions and ongoing support for critical laboratory instrumentation. It serves various life sciences segments including therapeutics, diagnostics, and contract research organizations. The company's distinctive approach combines scientific expertise and flexible financing, enabling customers to preserve capital while accessing essential equipment.

Cool Company Raises · $10.0M

Throne Science raises a $10.0M Series A round

Throne Science is a company specializing in smart toilet sensors that monitor gut health, hydration, and urinary function. Founded in 2023, it aims to provide consumers with innovative health tracking solutions. Their products offer users insights into their health through advanced sensing technology. The company launched its first product to consumers in March 2023.

Cool Company Raises · $21.0M

Array Labs raises a $21.0M Series A round

Array Labs is an advanced aerospace company developing the satellites, sensors, and software required to deliver the first real-time, high-fidelity 3D map of Earth. Its innovative approach leverages distributed radar, formation flight, multi-static SAR imaging, and advanced image formation algorithms to provide unprecedented insights into the planet's surface. Raytheon, an RTX business, creates next-generation defense solutions for various applications, including space and surveillance. Umbra Space specializes in high-resolution Earth observation technologies, focusing on delivering advanced mapping capabilities.

27 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $18.0M

AndrenaM raises a $18.0M Series A round

AndrenaM is a startup that uses artificial intelligence to analyze sonar data and deliver real-time insights to secure oceans. Founded by former SpaceX engineers, the company aims to modernize the traditional use of hydrophones in defense technology. With a focus on building a distributed sensing network, AndrenaM is set to revolutionize underwater acoustic data processing. The team's innovative approach promises to integrate solutions that are more cost-efficient than existing bespoke systems.

23 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $36.0M

AegisAI raises a $36.0M Series A round

AegisAI is an AI-native Email Security platform. Our AI agents think like human analysts—stopping Zero-day Phishing, BEC, and Malware attacks while cutting false positives by up to 90%.

21 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $32.4M

Gritt raises a $32.4M Series A round

Gritt is building an intelligent system that combines robotics and AI to accelerate the world's infrastructure buildout. The company aims to enhance infrastructure projects through innovative technology. Their solutions include robotic arms designed to integrate with existing systems.

20 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $10.0M

Self Inspection raises a $10.0M round

Self Inspection is an AI-driven vehicle inspection company based in San Diego, California, founded in 2021 by Constantine Yaremtso and a team of experts from Tesla and NVIDIA. The company aims to modernize the vehicle inspection process, making it faster, more consistent, and cost-effective. The company offers an AI-powered vehicle inspection platform that allows auto lenders, rental companies, dealerships, and other automotive professionals to conduct contactless, self-guided inspections using a smartphone camera. The platform analyzes images of the vehicle's exterior, interior, and tires, producing detailed condition reports that include a CR score, damage detection, repair cost estimates, tire health, and OBD2 diagnostics. Key features include fast inspections, AI-powered damage recognition, customizable workflows, and comprehensive reports accessible across platforms. Self Inspection has gained notable clients such as Avis, CarOffer, and Westlake Financial, and has raised $3 million in seed funding, showcasing strong investor confidence in its innovative approach to the vehicle inspection market.

13 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $21.0M

Augmodo raises a $21.0M round

Augmodo is the only real-time inventory and task tracker that uses wearable SmartBadge™ on retail associates, creating live 3D store maps with cutting-edge tech to enhance retail experiences and cut costs for retailers, brands and consumers. The spatial AI assistant builds better, more accurate shelf inventory and creates planograms updated dozens of times daily. The Augmodo system is easy to scale, 100X cheaper than alternatives and requires no operational changes.

9 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $30.0M

Hippo Harvest raises a $30.0M Series C round

Hippo Harvest is a robotics and AI startup revolutionizing indoor farming with a focus on repurposed warehouse robots for efficient and sustainable food production.

7 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $35.0M

Arkenstone Defense raises a $35.0M Seed round

Arkenstone Defense emerged from stealth to provide technology companies with a platform that eliminates the burdens of compliance, security, workforce, and operations needed to sell to the U.S. government. Their comprehensive service allows commercial technology firms to focus on innovation while Arkenstone manages the operational requirements. The company aims to streamline the entry of startups into federal contracting, ensuring they are operationally ready without the lengthy setup process.

Cool Company Raises · $30.0M

Bezos Earth Fund raises a $30.0M round

The Bezos Earth Fund is a philanthropic organization founded by Jeff Bezos in 2020. With a pledge of $10 billion, it aims to combat climate change through innovative grants and investments. The fund focuses on advancing green technologies and preserving natural ecosystems.

6 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $40.0M

BespokeLabs.AI raises a $40.0M Series A round

Data curation for post-training

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.

18 Jun

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

8 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $29.6M

Matternet raises a $29.6M round

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

3 Jun

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 · $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.

2 Jun

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.

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.

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