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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.

Software Analytics Aerospace Ever Green Fund Spark Labs Group $1M+

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.

Information-Technology Software SAAS $1M+Messaging

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.

Information-Technology-Services $1M+

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.

Energy Oil-And-Gas Renewable-Energy 17 Shoals, Inc.$1M+

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.

News City Rock Hearst I Heart Media Sinclair Tribute Technology+1 more

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.

Fintech Cryptocurrency Bakkt Opco Holdings, Llc $1M+

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.

Healthcare Black Opal Castellan Group Deep Work Capital Enable Ventures Florida Opportunity Fund+2 more

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.

Truck-Transportation Institutional Investors $1M+

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.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Lachy Groom Slow Ventures $1M+

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.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Machine-Learning $1M+Robotics Industrial-Automation

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.

Health-Care Kindred Ventures Logan Kilpatrick $1M+

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.

$1M+

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.

Platform Series-A AI-ML Silicon Road Ventures Flashpoint VC Osage Venture Partners+3 more

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.

API-First Seed AI-Agents Heavybit Seligman Ventures Irregular Expression+2 more

27 May

Cool Company Raises · $5.0M

CodeIntegrity raises a $5.0M Seed round

CodeIntegrity builds a runtime control layer that acts as a deterministic guardrail for agentic AI applications, blocking prompt-injection attacks and limiting which enterprise systems and data an autonomous agent can touch. The company was founded in the Seattle area in May 2024 by Steven Jung and Abi Raghuram, alumni of Antler's New York residency, and recently relocated headquarters to San Francisco. Its product is currently being piloted with companies in regulated industries.

Syn Ventures Antler Boost VC $1M+

26 May

Cool Company Raises · $1.5M

Flexprice raises a $1.5M Seed round

Flexprice builds open-source monetization infrastructure for AI-native and SaaS companies, enabling usage-based, credit-based, and hybrid billing across API calls, token usage, and GPU hours. The platform offers real-time metering, entitlement gating, and revenue reporting and is self-hostable. Teams are based in New Delhi, Bengaluru, and San Francisco.

Shastra Vc Anupam Mittal TDV Partners $1M+

Cool Company Raises · $7.5M

Didit raises a $7.5M Seed round

Didit is a YC-backed identity and fraud infrastructure platform that ships KYC, KYB, AML screening, biometric verification, transaction monitoring, and wallet screening behind one API. The company serves 2,000+ customers across fintech, crypto, marketplaces, iGaming, and government use cases and is the only identity provider whose technology has been assessed by Spain's Treasury, CNMV, and SEPBLAC as equivalent to in-person verification. Dual HQ in San Francisco and Barcelona.

Y Combinator Founders Future Lobster Capital Orange Collective Phosphor Capital Pioneer Fund+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $8.2M

Human Archive raises a $8.2M Seed round

Human Archive builds large-scale multimodal training datasets for robotics and physical AI. The startup equips gig-economy workers in India with head-mounted cameras and sensors to capture first-person video of everyday home-services tasks, then licenses that data to AI labs developing embodied models. Founded by researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley; in Y Combinator's W26 batch.

Wing Venture Capital Nvp Capital Y Combinator $1M+

22 May

Cool Company Raises · $8.0M

Trajektory raises a $8.0M Series A round

Trajektory is a Chicago-based sports sponsorship analytics platform that consolidates fragmented measurement data into a single intelligence system used by brands, agencies, teams, and leagues. The company supports organizations representing more than $180B in annual sponsorship value and counts more than two-thirds of the NHL among its clients. Founded in 2019, it focuses on currency-grade valuations and reporting to help rights-holders and sponsors quantify the impact of their deals.

Wise Ventures $1M+

21 May

Cool Company Raises · $3.5M

Shatterdome Energy raises a $3.5M Seed round

Shatterdome Energy is a San Francisco-based AI-driven energy trading and intelligence startup, emerging from stealth in May 2026 to build an optimization platform for battery storage assets in wholesale power markets.

Crucible Capital Entrepreneurs First Transpose Platform VC $1M+

Cool Company Raises · $6.0M

MOTO Pizza raises a $6.0M Series A round

MOTO Pizza is a Seattle-based Detroit-style pizza chain founded in 2021 by Lee Kindell and Nancy Gambin, known for blending Filipino-influenced toppings with in-store robotic assembly. The company operates locations across West Seattle, Belltown, Edmonds, Pioneer Square and at T-Mobile Park, and is now spinning out a dedicated robotics venture, Motobotics, to build pizza-making robots in-house.

$1M+

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