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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 · $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.

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