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Cool Company Raises · $3.0M

NEXTPredict.io raises a $3.0M Seed round

NEXTPredict is a premier media and conference organization that hosts the world's first global B2B prediction markets conference. With over 13 years of experience and more than 800 events, NEXTPredict aims to hedge investment risks in the events industry through innovative market strategies. The company focuses on utilizing prediction markets to manage exposure to uncertainties that can impact major live events.

27 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $4.5M

Pilot Protocol raises a $4.5M Seed round

Pilot Protocol is building an internet for agents, enabling AI agents to communicate and collaborate effectively. Launched from stealth, the company aims to redefine how agents interact by moving beyond their solitary operation. With $4.5 million in seed funding, Pilot Protocol is positioned to lead significant advancements in this space.

25 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $2.6M

Writesonic raises a $2.6M Seed round

Writesonic, Inc. is an AI Search Visibility Platform that helps brands track and improve their online presence across various AI platforms. Founded in 2021 by Samanyou Garg, the company evolved from a basic AI copywriting tool to encompass SEO content and chatbot functionalities. It has raised between $2.6 million and $3.1 million in total funding and is known for its user-friendly interface and various integrations. The platform offers a 7-day free trial for new users.

22 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $5.2M

Petra Labs raises a $5.2M Seed round

Petra Labs is focused on integrating AI search technology to boost revenue for enterprise businesses. The company employs advanced algorithms to optimize search functionalities and improve user experiences. Their innovative solutions aim to connect AI-driven insights with tangible business outcomes. Petra Labs is dedicated to transforming how enterprises leverage search capabilities.

21 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $2.5M

Uviquity raises a $2.5M Seed round

Uviquity is a deep tech startup working to change the world.

13 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $3.2M

Section raises a $3.2M Seed round

Section is the online business school for the age of AI, offering AI courses in a fast, live, cohort-based format. Founded in 2019 by NYU Professor Scott Galloway and led by serial entrepreneur Greg Shove, Section aims to help knowledge workers augment their day-to-day work. The school has taught 44,000 students across 95 countries and partners with over 200 enterprise clients to train future leaders.

8 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $9.1M

Payload CMS raises a $9.1M round

Payload is much more than a CMS—it’s just as much a CMS as it is an application framework. Its extensibility allows it to power everything from enterprise websites to native apps. It’ll never hold you back.

7 Jul

Cool Company Raises · $1.7M

Jones Soda raises a $1.7M Seed round

Jones Soda Co.® (CSE: JSDA, OTCQB: JSDA) is a leading craft soda manufacturer with a growing line of cannabis products. The Company markets and distributes premium craft sodas under the Jones® Soda and Lemoncocco® brands, and a variety of cannabis products under the Mary Jones brand. Jones' mainstream soda line is sold across North America in glass bottles, cans and on fountain through traditional beverage outlets, restaurants and alternative accounts.

29 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Altillion raises a $5.0M Seed round

Altillion is a Houston, Texas-based developer of brine mineral extraction technologies. The company focuses on autonomously extracting, concentrating, and purifying high-value elements from oilfield produced water and other sources. Its proprietary technologies, IRIS and ALIX, allow for efficient processing without disrupting existing operations. Altillion aims to establish a domestic supply of critical minerals.

Cool Company Raises · $3.4M

Row Global raises a $3.4M Seed round

ROW Global Health and the ROW Foundation exist to improve the lives of people living with epilepsy and associated psychiatric disorders in under-resourced areas around the world.

23 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $7.0M

Sophia Space raises a $7.0M round

Sophia Space is a Southern California startup focused on developing orbiting compute and data centers for geospatial intelligence applications. Their modular data centers are designed for intelligence gathering, disaster monitoring, and management, utilizing Earth-observation data. The company's TILE platform facilitates low-latency and energy-efficient AI processing in space. Sophia aims to provide rapid data processing for customers including satellite operators and commercial space stations.

22 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $9.7M

Sent raises a $9.7M round

Sent is the infrastructure layer powering cost-optimized, intelligent delivery for business messaging across SMS, WhatsApp, iMessage, RCS, and more. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in New York City, Sent replaces the tangle of single-channel integrations with one unified API and a real-time smart-routing engine that maximizes deliverability, ensures compliance, and lowers costs. Companies of any size can use Sent to send everything from login codes and two-factor authentication prompts to appointment reminders and order confirmations—without worrying about channel-specific logic or backend plumbing.

18 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $8.5M

NewDays raises a $8.5M round

NewDays delivers personalized cognitive treatment that combines expert-led therapy with AI-powered daily practice for people experiencing mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or early dementia. Our science-backed, non-drug approach is designed to maintain cognitive function, build confidence, and help people live the way they want to live. Founded in 2024 by leaders from Amazon and Google X, NewDays makes clinically-validated cognitive interventions accessible through breakthrough AI technology and expert clinical oversight.

16 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Mantle Energy raises a $5.0M Seed round

Mantle Energy is a Dallas, Texas-based developer of an activated geothermal and enhanced energy recovery platform. The company develops technology that repurposes depleted or low-yield oil and gas wells to generate controlled underground thermal combustion, capturing heat to deliver low-carbon baseload power directly to the electric grid. It was spun out from Hunt Energy's incubator and focuses on dual-benefit extraction and carbon emission storage protocols.

11 Jun

Cool Company Raises · $5.5M

Chptr raises a $5.5M Series A round

Chptr empowers people to create lasting legacies for the ones they love & for their stories to inspire generations to come.

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 · $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 · $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 · $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 · $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.

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.

28 May

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.

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