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2 Oct

Cool Company Raises · $4.5M

Photon raises a $4.5M Seed round

Photon is an AI startup based in San Francisco that helps developers replace traditional mobile applications with AI-powered agents. The company provides a suite of tools including a unified API, an extensible channel framework, and a command-line interface. Photon enables agents to operate across messaging services like iMessage, WhatsApp, and Telegram. The company focuses on delivering high uptime, SOC 2 Type II compliance, and HIPAA-compliant infrastructure for these applications.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Messaging A*Vercel Hong Shan+6 more

Cool Company Raises · $3.5M

Bodhium Labs raises a $3.5M Pre-Seed round

Bodhium Labs, based in Menlo Park, California, is an applied AI startup focused on developing a simulation and testing layer for marketing teams. Founded in 2026, the company aims to equip marketers with tools to predict the effectiveness of their content and strategies before deployment. Bodhium Labs specializes in closed-loop AI systems that facilitate simulation and testing of marketing tactics to enhance ROI and lower costs.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning Streamlined Ventures Long Journey Ventures $1M+

1 Oct

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Charter Space raises a $5.0M Seed round

Charter Space is a fintech company focusing on spacecraft insurance. It captures manufacturing and test data directly from sources to provide faster, cheaper, and more reliable risk evaluation for spacecraft insurance. The company's tool aids in developing an underwriting model to assess risks associated with satellite operations. Charter aims to increase the number of insured satellites, thereby enhancing safety and fostering investment in the space industry.

Manufacturing Artificial-Intelligence Defense-Space Hustle Fund Gaingels Blank Ventures+3 more

30 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $7.3M

Beltic raises a $7.3M Seed round

Beltic is a company focused on building agent verification infrastructure to empower businesses to confidently do business with agents. Their Know Your Agent (KYA) platform ensures trust in AI agents by providing verification and authorization infrastructure. With a mission to support the agentic economy, Beltic addresses the need for reliable identity and trust systems as transactions become increasingly autonomous. Led by experts in identity, payments, and data, Beltic is positioned to redefine the standards for agent verification.

Software Collide Capital Oxford Seed Fund Restive Ventures Norwest Venture Partners $1M+

29 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $7.0M

RemoteThreat raises a $7.0M Seed round

RemoteThreat is an AI-enabled offensive cyber operations platform company founded by security veterans Chris Thompson and Shawn Jones. The company's O/C/O Platform is a fully integrated, end-to-end commercial solution designed for enterprise red teams, U.S. government mission teams, and vetted defense partners. The platform combines eight connected systems including mission planning, command-and-control infrastructure, implants, and AI-assisted operations while maintaining human control over mission decisions. RemoteThreat's team includes operators, researchers, and engineers with experience from IBM X-Force, Mandiant, SpecterOps, Microsoft, and government organizations.

Information-Technology Software Artificial-Intelligence $1M+Cyber-Security

24 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $6.7M

Dextr AI raises a $6.7M Seed round

Dextr AI is a hospitality-focused AI startup that develops and deploys AI agents for hotels, resorts, and spas. The platform handles voice AI, guest management, back-office operations, staff management, sales, and marketing. The company operates across the US and global hospitality markets, including India.

Artificial-Intelligence Hospitality Machine-Learning Foundation Capital Elevation Capital $1M+

23 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $8.0M

American Supercritical raises a $8.0M Pre-Seed round

American Supercritical is focused on advancing technology to commercialize supercritical CO2. The company aims to innovate the energy sector by improving efficiency in power generation. Their goal is to make the traditional simple cycle gas turbine obsolete. Through their technology, they seek to provide cleaner and more effective energy solutions.

Energy Oil-And-Gas Renewable-Energy $1M+

21 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Notes.fm raises a $5.0M round

Notes.fm is a music royalty collection platform designed to help independent artists and music companies identify and collect 100% of their royalties. Founded by Tim Luckow, Notes.fm aims to unify distribution and publishing, providing artists with full control over their earnings. The platform facilitates a streamlined process for royalty collection, ensuring artists do not miss out on their rightful income. Notes takes a flat monthly subscription fee, allowing artists to keep all their royalties.

Music $1M+

17 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $2.0M

Antfly raises a $2.0M Seed round

Antfly is developing a retrieval engine designed for AI applications. Their technology is aimed at providing a self-hosted solution, along with a fully managed service called Antfly Cloud. The company believes that retrieval engines will be essential for the functioning of AI agents, much like databases have been for applications. They focus on enhancing the way context is utilized by AI agents.

Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning 8 Bit Capital Heavybit $1M+

15 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $2.0M

Boxd raises a $2.0M Pre-Seed round

Boxd is a Dutch startup developing cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents and developers. The company provides virtual machines that allow multiple agents to execute code, run tests, and manage workflows efficiently. Their platform enables the creation of snapshots and live-forking capabilities, streamlining the development process and enhancing security. Boxd focuses on simplifying virtualization by minimizing unnecessary hardware emulation.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Cloud-Infrastructure General Intuition Script Capital S20+4 more

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Interlune raises a $5.0M round

Interlune is a space resources company dedicated to leading the world in sustainable and responsible harvesting of natural resources from space, with the mission of benefiting humanity and advancing long-term scientific and economic progress.

Information-Technology Aerospace $1M+

9 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

Onix raises a $5.0M Seed round

Onix is a Montreal consumer AI company building Personal Intelligence: a private assistant trained on licensed knowledge from named health and wellness practitioners rather than scraped internet text. Users consult AI versions of specific physicians, nutritionists, sleep psychologists and athletes, with small language models run locally so the company never holds the user's data. Founded by CEO David S. Bennahum (former WIRED contributing editor) and CTO Dr. Nicholas Nadeau (former CTO of robotics company 1X), it raised a $5M USD pre-seed convertible note led by Alpha Edison with Garage Capital, Ride Home Fund, Jeremy Zimmer and JS Cournoyer. In early access on iOS.

Information-Technology Artificial-Intelligence Jean Sébastien Cournoyer Jeremy Zimmer Ride Home Fund Garage Capital+2 more

Cool Company Raises · $6.8M

Bulwark Dynamics raises a $6.8M Seed round

Bulwark Dynamics builds the Caravel series of uncrewed autonomous landing craft — vessels that carry cargo to shore without a port, pier or crane. A 15-foot prototype has completed an unmanned resupply demonstration; 35-foot and 55-foot variants are designed to carry one and two twenty-foot containers. The craft transit to unimproved shorelines, discharge and retract from the beach without a crew, including in GPS-denied environments. The $6.8M seed accompanies a memorandum of understanding with Japan's Onomichi Dockyard — itself a new investor — to manufacture Caravel in Japan and explore a dedicated site for serial production of unmanned vessels.

Logistics Onomichi Dockyard Nēnē Ventures Archetype Ventures Sbi Us Gateway Fund Lp $1M+

4 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $7.5M

Ollie raises a $7.5M Seed round

Ollie is a privacy-first personal AI assistant for households, run over group chat. It handles scheduling, meal planning, grocery shopping, task tracking, appointment booking and bill payments for the whole family, and is built around keeping household data private. Founded by Bill Lennon and based in San Diego. The $7.5M seed was led by Khosla Ventures with AI House.

Other Information-Technology Ai House Khosla Ventures $1M+

Cool Company Raises · $7.1M

Helogen raises a $7.1M Seed round

Helogen manufactures advanced biomaterials in orbit and returns them to Earth, building autonomous space factories for materials that are difficult or impossible to make under gravity. Its HEL-IOS system produces recombinant protein polymers, biologics and human tissue models in space, supported by custom spacecraft and Keystar, an orbital platform providing power, thermal management and docking. A NASA TechLeap Prize winner, the NYC company has biomaterial products reaching early customers. The $7.1M seed was co-led by RRE Ventures and Oceans, with One Way Ventures and Blisce.

Other Information-Technology Blisce One Way Ventures Oceans Rre Ventures+1 more

2 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $3.5M

Fambot raises a $3.5M Pre-Seed round

Fambot is an AI company based in San Francisco that provides an automated chief of staff for family logistics. Founded by veterans from Uber, Instagram, and Google, it aims to reduce the administrative burden on parents by synthesizing fragmented communications into a single, actionable daily plan. The platform aggregates school emails, calendar invites, and chat messages into daily summaries, helping working parents manage their complex scheduling needs. Fambot currently serves over 1,000 families and continues to develop its AI-driven infrastructure.

Software Artificial-Intelligence SAAS Founders Network Karman Ventures Correlation Ventures+5 more

1 Sept

Cool Company Raises · $9.0M

Newlight raises a $9.0M Seed round

Newlight builds hydrogen-injection plug-ins for cargo ships that cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions by over 20% without a dry-dock installation. On an 8,500-nautical-mile commercial voyage the hydrogen-hybrid system delivered a 24% reduction in fuel use and a 28% reduction in CO2 emissions. Founded by Haran Cohen Hillel (CEO) and Evyatar Cohen, the company has agreements to install on 12 vessels with wider rollout planned for 2027.

Manufacturing Fusion Vc Ci Ri Ventures Undeterred Capital Bird Energy Lomarlabs+1 more

31 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $7.0M

Molten Salt Solutions raises a $7.0M Seed round

Molten Salt Solutions was formed in 2018 to solve challenges in advanced nuclear power leveraging the unique technologies, capabilities and expertise of the DOE National Laboratories.

Information-Technology Future Ventures True Ventures Gaingels Alumni Ventures Vanedge Capital Partners+2 more

Cool Company Raises · $6.0M

Blue Voice raises a $6.0M Seed round

Blue Voice is a Boston-based startup that has developed an AI platform designed to provide police officers in the United States with operational legal and procedural guidance. Founded by former law enforcement officials and experts, the company aims to streamline access to critical legal information for law enforcement. The platform is utilized daily by officers across 225 county law enforcement agencies in 25 states. It helps officers make informed decisions quickly, enhancing their operational effectiveness.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Legal Las Olas Vc Signal Fire $1M++2 more

24 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $6.0M

Light Links raises a $6.0M Pre-Seed round

Light Links is an optical wireless communication company that has developed Wi-OW™, a technology that replaces traditional radio communication with invisible infrared light. Their solutions aim to enhance mission-critical networks in sectors such as industrial automation and defense. The company is focused on scaling production and expanding deployments. Light Links is backed by notable investors in the dual-use and defense-tech sectors.

Hardware Satellite-Communication Wireless Crosscourt Mana Output Capital+3 more

21 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $9.0M

idler raises a $9.0M Seed round

idler is a frontier data research lab and artificial intelligence evaluation platform based in San Francisco, CA. The company develops a comprehensive evaluation and benchmarking platform that builds advanced evaluation suites, programmatic datasets, and interactive reinforcement learning environments utilized by global AI labs. It focuses on specialized software engineering, cybersecurity, recursive self-improvement, and enterprise safety testing beds.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Cyber-Security Smaiyl Makyshov Nur Bazylbekov Feross Aboukhadijeh+9 more

20 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $1.8M

Dirac Labs raises a $1.8M Seed round

Dirac Labs is a quantum-enabled navigation company focused on building sensors that can accurately determine location when GPS is unavailable. Their innovative diamond-based sensing platform measures Earth’s magnetic field with extreme precision, providing an alternative to traditional GPS systems. The company aims to create scalable navigation solutions for challenging environments, including underwater and underground operations. Dirac Labs combines quantum sensing, AI, and semiconductor-compatible manufacturing to develop their technology.

Manufacturing Software Navigation Balaji Srinivasan Jude Gomila Quantum Edge Ventures+4 more

19 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $1.4M

Blueprint raises a $1.4M Seed round

Blueprint is the producer of life-extension products designed specifically for human health and longevity purposes. The company designs, develops and manufactures premium extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) that has polyphenolic compounds, natural minerals and vitamins that improve cardiometabolic health and potentially protect against various ailments like cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes, enabling people to improve health and slowing down the biological aging process.

Health-Care Medical A16z $1M+

18 Aug

Cool Company Raises · $6.5M

Synthefy raises a $6.5M Seed round

Synthefy is a foundation-model company that specializes in structured data intelligence, providing solutions that drive the physical and digital economy. Their Structured Data Foundation Models (SDFMs) are designed to generalize across various numerical data, enabling enterprises to solve high-value problems without the need for purpose-built models. By applying machine intelligence to structured numerical data, Synthefy enhances forecasting, pricing optimization, fraud detection, and more. The platform integrates seamlessly with existing data environments used by enterprises.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Cyber-Security Manohar Paluri Aparna Chennapragada Srinivas Narayanan+10 more

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