Cooley

Cooley is a full-service legal services firm founded in 1920 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California. The firm specializes in addressing legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies, focusing on transformative deals, complex intellectual property matters, and significant litigation. Its expertise spans various areas, including mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, equity and debt financing, estate planning, and fund formation. Cooley serves a diverse range of sectors, such as healthcare, energy, environment, life sciences, education, communication, and media, positioning itself at the intersection of innovation and law.

Ariane Andrade JD

Partner

Anitha Anne

Associate

Wilber Barillas JD

Associate

Chen Chen JD

Partner

Bram Couvreur

Partner

Matthew Dubofsky JD

Partner

Steven Dunst JD

Partner

Thomas Goodman

Partner

Alan Hambelton JD

Partner

Michael Klein JD

Partner

Rishab Kumar

Partner

Mika Mayer

Partner

Robert McDowell JD

Partner

John McKenna JD

Partner

Michael Nelson JD

Partner

Louise Pedersen

Associate

Rachel B Proffitt

CEO

Maya Rahwanji JD

Associate

Kenneth Rollins JD

Partner

Sacha Ross JD

Partner

Michael Tuscan JD

Partner

Mark Weeks JD

Partner

38 past transactions

SingleFile

Series A in 2025
SingleFile Technologies develops legal and compliance management software designed to streamline administrative tasks for companies and law firms. Its software facilitates the completion of reports, the management of filings, and the maintenance of internal records, helping clients efficiently manage compliance activities. By reducing waste, minimizing errors, and preventing missed deadlines, SingleFile enables organizations to save time and maintain good standing with legal requirements.

Coverd

Pre Seed Round in 2024
We disrupt the personal finance space through gamification and interaction, starting with letting people bet against their bills. On Coverd, users can play for as little as $0.01 to have entire credit card bills or obligations written off. We want to become the best personal finance solution based on game and interaction data.

World Class Health

Seed Round in 2024
World Class Health is a healthcare technology company that connects self-funded employers with top-tier medical facilities, known as Centers of Excellence, for complex medical procedures. Its platform facilitates data sharing, offers personalized advice from healthcare professionals, and provides regular check-ins, helping employers reduce healthcare costs and enhance clinical outcomes.

Suma Wealth

Seed Round in 2024
SUMA, LLC is a financial wellness company based in Los Angeles, California, founded in 2019. The company focuses on promoting financial inclusion within the Latino community by providing a comprehensive platform that combines digital media, financial technology, and virtual experiences. SUMA aims to educate and empower individuals by offering culturally relevant content and tools that simplify complex topics such as investment and debt management. Its mission is to help Latinos navigate financial challenges, enhance their economic knowledge, and build sustainable wealth, ultimately positioning itself as a trusted resource for fostering financial well-being and prosperity.

Aifleet

Series B in 2024
Aifleet is a pioneering technology-driven trucking company dedicated to transforming the logistics industry for drivers. Founded in late 2020, Aifleet employs advanced artificial intelligence algorithms to optimize asset utilization, achieving approximately 35% higher efficiency than the industry standard. The company operates within the extensive full truckload market, valued at $400 billion, and focuses on a driver-centric model. Each driver is supported by a dedicated fleet manager, ensuring clear communication and assistance both on the road and in daily operations. Through its innovative approach, Aifleet aims to enhance the trucking experience for hardworking drivers while enabling clients to streamline their logistics processes.

Superluminal Medicines

Series A in 2024
Superluminal Medicines is a biotechnology company specializing in generative biology and chemistry. It employs a unique platform that combines deep biological and chemical expertise, machine learning, and proprietary big data infrastructure to rapidly generate candidate-ready compounds for drug discovery and development. By integrating high-throughput experimental data with advanced algorithms, the company aims to accelerate the identification and optimization of novel drug candidates, improving efficiency and success rates in small molecule drug development compared to traditional methods.

Recast

Seed Round in 2024
Recast is a streaming platform that allows fans to access live and on-demand sports and entertainment through a subscription-free model powered by microtransactions. This innovative approach enables users to enjoy their favorite content affordably while ensuring that content creators and rights holders receive compensation for every view. The platform also includes a social video exchange feature, which facilitates direct engagement between sports and esports content and its audience. Users can earn in-application credits by watching advertisements or making purchases, which can then be used to access desired content, thereby creating a monetization avenue for rights holders and creators. Recast aims to provide an uninterrupted viewing experience, free from traditional advertising, by offering a seamless way for fans to connect with their favorite sports and entertainment.

Arya

Venture Round in 2024
Arya provides workforce ops teams with all the building blocks they need to automate how they onboard, staff, pay, motivate and move the people who move the world.

SingleFile

Seed Round in 2024
SingleFile Technologies develops legal and compliance management software designed to streamline administrative tasks for companies and law firms. Its software facilitates the completion of reports, the management of filings, and the maintenance of internal records, helping clients efficiently manage compliance activities. By reducing waste, minimizing errors, and preventing missed deadlines, SingleFile enables organizations to save time and maintain good standing with legal requirements.

FlowFi

Seed Round in 2024
FlowFi is a financial intelligence company focused on assisting entrepreneurs in achieving optimal financial performance. The company offers a platform that integrates technology with accounting services, providing founders with an accessible overview of their company's financial health. This enables users to generate essential investor reports and presentations, streamlining the financial management process for businesses. Through its innovative solutions, FlowFi aims to enhance the operational efficiency of companies and support their growth.

Sunnyside

Series A in 2023
Sunnyside is a company that develops an alcohol tracking application aimed at helping individuals cultivate healthier drinking habits. The app provides users with a personalized plan tailored to their existing drinking behaviors and specific goals. It includes features such as daily text reminders to encourage users to monitor and limit their alcohol consumption. By utilizing this app, users can experience benefits such as reduced weekly alcohol intake, improved sleep quality, enhanced dietary choices, financial savings, and an overall increase in well-being.

Easop

Venture Round in 2023
Easop is a developer of an equity compensation platform designed to assist companies in managing equity incentives for their employees, contractors, and advisors worldwide. The platform provides a fast and cost-efficient solution that ensures compliance with local laws when drafting equity grants. By integrating with cap table management services, Easop enables clients to incentivize their global teams seamlessly while adhering to tax regulations. This comprehensive approach allows businesses to efficiently navigate the complexities of equity compensation, making it easier to attract and retain talent across various jurisdictions.

Verifiable

Series B in 2023
Verifiable Inc. is a healthcare technology company that specializes in credential verification and compliance monitoring software. Founded in 2019, Verifiable is dedicated to streamlining the verification process by automating primary source verifications and providing real-time monitoring of licenses, sanctions, and other essential records. The company develops an API that connects healthcare providers with state and federal databases, allowing users to access a multitude of primary sources from a single platform. This integration enables healthcare organizations to enhance compliance, minimize risk, and maintain patient safety. By offering features such as automated notifications for potential issues and detailed audit logs, Verifiable aims to save time and resources for healthcare entities while ensuring adherence to regulatory standards. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Autio

Seed Round in 2023
Autio is a company that develops a mobile application focused on providing audio entertainment experiences for travelers. The Autio app utilizes geolocation technology to automatically play stories related to nearby landmarks, cities, and towns. These stories cover various aspects such as economic, geographical, artistic, political, historical, and mythological elements of different places across the United States. The app features narration from celebrities alongside local experts, offering users a personalized tour guide experience that can inspire detours, spark conversations, and uncover hidden knowledge along their journey.

Crowdbotics

Series B in 2023
Crowdbotics Corporation is a software development company founded in 2016 and based in Richmond, California. It specializes in providing an application development platform that accelerates the creation and deployment of web and mobile applications. By utilizing a comprehensive library of millions of production-grade software packages, Crowdbotics enables product managers and developers to efficiently turn ideas into functional code. The platform emphasizes systematic code reuse and integrates seamlessly with existing processes and infrastructure, enhancing the development workflow. Additionally, Crowdbotics offers ongoing support in infrastructure, implementation, maintenance, operations, monitoring, and security, ensuring that applications remain robust and secure throughout their lifecycle. By leveraging artificial intelligence, the company improves the quality of requirement definitions, ultimately allowing developers to build applications more quickly and effectively while minimizing risks.

Here

Seed Round in 2022
Here Holdings, LLC is a company based in Chicago, Illinois, that specializes in producing cold press juices, dips, and spreads. Its product lineup features a variety of juices made from ingredients such as pineapple, celery, apple, turmeric, and kale, among others. In addition to juices, Here Holdings offers a selection of dips, including black bean tomato, edamame pea sesame, and spinach mushroom. The company emphasizes the use of Midwest produce, reflecting its commitment to quality and local sourcing. Here Holdings aims to foster trust and transparency while serving the community through its food and beverage offerings.

Arya

Seed Round in 2022
Arya provides workforce ops teams with all the building blocks they need to automate how they onboard, staff, pay, motivate and move the people who move the world.

Myria

Pre Seed Round in 2022
Annually, the wealthiest 300,000 people spend $1.3 million each on their lifestyle, but still struggle to find everything they want. - The most sought-after products, services, and experiences are never listed online. - Private events, private clubs, and numerous other categories are not accessible. - The best people don't need the web to find clients or jobs. Myria is a private marketplace & community where all participants are fully vetted. Our offers are exclusive and otherwise unavailable online. Myria helps off-market sellers reach the nicest, richest, and most quailed buyers on Earth. In turn, we help the world’s most successful people find the best of everything and get the most out of life.

Life House

Series C in 2021
Life House is a hotel software and management platform dedicated to enhancing the profitability and reliability of independent hoteliers. The company develops proprietary products aimed at making hotel ownership more manageable and financially rewarding. By integrating its software solutions with hotel management, Life House seeks to create a seamless and predictable operation for hotel owners. This approach not only boosts profitability but also improves the overall guest experience, allowing travelers to enjoy boutique hotel accommodations at more accessible prices. As a vertically integrated hotel company supported by institutional investors, Life House is committed to transforming the hospitality landscape for independent properties.

Vint

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vint is an investment platform that enables individuals to invest in high-quality wines and spirits through fractional ownership. By securitizing investment-grade collections with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Vint provides a structured avenue for investors to purchase shares in curated wine and spirit assets. The company employs data models and analytics, supported by a team of industry experts, to source these collections effectively. Once the assets are acquired, Vint securely stores them in a network of cellars until market conditions are favorable for sale. At that point, Vint collaborates with merchant partners, auction houses, and private buyers to sell the assets and distribute the returns to investors on a pro-rata basis, thus allowing diversification in investment portfolios through the wine market.

Ascent Integrated Tech

Seed Round in 2021
Ascent Integrated Tech develops life-saving technology aimed at enhancing the safety and effectiveness of first responders, including firefighters and special forces. The company’s hardware-enabled software platform, known as the Tactical Assault Kit (TAK), provides real-time situational awareness through a dashboard that integrates with existing equipment and wearable devices. This technology enables incident commanders to monitor the locations and physiological conditions of their teams in hazardous environments, facilitating informed decision-making during emergencies. Ascent’s solutions are already in use across major U.S. metropolitan departments and are expanding internationally through collaborations with original equipment manufacturers and distributors. The company is supported by government contracts and venture funding, positioning it as a leader in redefining situational awareness for emergency response.

Autio

Seed Round in 2021
Autio is a company that develops a mobile application focused on providing audio entertainment experiences for travelers. The Autio app utilizes geolocation technology to automatically play stories related to nearby landmarks, cities, and towns. These stories cover various aspects such as economic, geographical, artistic, political, historical, and mythological elements of different places across the United States. The app features narration from celebrities alongside local experts, offering users a personalized tour guide experience that can inspire detours, spark conversations, and uncover hidden knowledge along their journey.

Plant Culture Systems

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Plant Culture Systems is a California-based company that specializes in vertical farming solutions. Founded in 2018 by Sanjay Rajpoot, the company provides hydroponic growing chambers designed to cultivate a variety of crops efficiently. Utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and deep learning models, Plant Culture Systems ensures optimal growth conditions for farmers around the world. Its full-stack vertical farming solution enables users to grow plants with minimal water and energy consumption, while also offering algorithmic monitoring and real-time production insights. This innovative approach allows customers to access fresh produce cultivated in a sustainable manner, making it a significant player in the agricultural technology sector.

Baton

Series A in 2021
Baton Trucking, Inc. is a logistics company based in San Francisco, California, that specializes in enhancing long-haul trucking efficiency through its innovative drop zone network. This network allows for the segmentation of long routes, facilitating the use of specialized vehicles for different sections of the journey. Additionally, Baton provides a real estate infrastructure designed for highway-only autonomous trucks to seamlessly interchange loads with human drivers for final-mile delivery. Incorporated in 2019, the company also operates a technology innovation laboratory that collaborates with Ryder System, focusing on a digital platform that utilizes optimization and artificial intelligence to streamline freight networks and reduce waste in trucking operations.

BetterBrand

Pre Seed Round in 2021
BetterBrand is a food technology company focused on innovating within the refined carbohydrate sector. It aims to address the global health crisis associated with refined carbs, which significantly contributes to obesity and related health costs. BetterBrand's flagship product, The Better Bagel, reimagines traditional bagels by transforming them into a healthier option that is the net carb equivalent of two slices of banana while providing over 25 grams of plant-based protein. This product contains no added sugars and features a clean label with non-GMO verified ingredients. BetterBrand aspires to empower consumers by breaking down dietary limitations and promoting a healthier lifestyle, ultimately contributing to enhanced global productivity and well-being.

Lupl

Corporate Round in 2021
Lupl is a legal technology company that provides a cloud-based platform designed to enhance collaboration among law firms and legal departments. The platform consolidates information related to people, conversations, documents, and other relevant data into a single space, facilitating more efficient communication and project management. By serving as an open industry platform, Lupl enables seamless integration with various legal technology providers, aiming to streamline interactions between law firms and their clients. This approach promotes a collaborative environment that enhances the overall efficiency of legal projects and processes.

Trubify

Seed Round in 2020
Trubify operates a unique music streaming platform accessible via iOS, Android, and web. It connects artists directly with superfans, offering intimate live performances and recorded content. Trubify stands out by providing modular revenue streams with higher payouts than traditional platforms, enabling musicians to earn a sustainable income from their craft.

SingleFile

Seed Round in 2019
SingleFile Technologies develops legal and compliance management software designed to streamline administrative tasks for companies and law firms. Its software facilitates the completion of reports, the management of filings, and the maintenance of internal records, helping clients efficiently manage compliance activities. By reducing waste, minimizing errors, and preventing missed deadlines, SingleFile enables organizations to save time and maintain good standing with legal requirements.

Max-bone

Series A in 2019
Max-bone is a Los Angeles-based retailer that specializes in high-quality apparel, toys, beds, leashes, and various other products for dogs. With an emphasis on timeless and sophisticated designs, the company aims to create items that reflect both style and functionality. Max-bone distinguishes itself as the first branded pet label by drawing inspiration from culture rather than fleeting trends, merging influences from fashion, art, and architecture. In addition to its physical stores located in Los Angeles and New York, Max-bone also offers its products online, catering to a broader audience while maintaining a commitment to elegance and quality in pet accessories.

Inspectiv

Pre Seed Round in 2018
Inspectiv is a business specialising in application security testing. It offers an innovative platform that combines manual and automated testing methods to help clients identify and rectify vulnerabilities in their applications before potential threats can exploit them. The platform provides actionable insights, enabling teams to prioritise risks effectively and optimise remediation efforts for secure application management at scale.

Vouch Financial

Series A in 2015
Vouch Financial is a San Francisco-based company established in 2016 that specializes in social lending services. It enables borrowers to secure personal loans with more favorable terms than those typically available from traditional lending institutions or marketplaces. Vouch Financial distinguishes itself by incorporating a friend-powered approach to lending, where loans are facilitated based on the credibility and endorsements from the borrowers' relatives and friends. This innovative model allows users to leverage their social networks to enhance their borrowing potential, thereby creating a more personalized and supportive lending experience.

Prevently

Seed Round in 2013
Prevently is a website that provides consumers with physician-reviewed health articles, physician-approved health products, health apps, and telemedicine consultations. These services centralize around an online patient profile that integrates data utilizing APIs from multiple personal health tracking devices.

Divshot

Seed Round in 2013
Divshot is a browser-based platform designed for front-end development, specializing in the creation of responsive web applications. It enables users to prototype HTML5 interfaces quickly, offering tools that streamline the design process and enhance efficiency. Divshot's innovative approach allows professionals to generate high-quality, clean, and semantic markup and CSS, comparable to manually written code. By simplifying the interface design workflow, Divshot helps users create web pages faster while minimizing wasted resources.

C8 MediSensors

Series C in 2012
C8 MediSensors, Inc., a San Jose, CA-based developer of non-invasive continuous glucose monitors for diabetic patients.

Message Bus

Series A in 2011
Mail Bypass, Inc., doing business as Message Bus, provides a cloud-native application service for enabling and powering messaging across email and mobile channels. Its service enables enterprises and application developers to deliver transactional and marketing messages, including emails, SMS, push mails, and social messages. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Corte Madera, California.

Posit Science

Venture Round in 2009
Posit Science Corporation, founded in 2002 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, specializes in brain training software designed to enhance cognitive performance. The company offers clinically proven programs that leverage advancements in brain plasticity—the brain's capacity to adapt and change—to improve cognitive functions such as speed, attention, and memory. By providing exercises through its website, Posit Science aims to help individuals maintain and enhance their cognitive abilities throughout their lives, facilitating better real-world performance. Originally known as Neuroscience Solutions Corporation, the company adopted its current name in January 2005.

Scene7

Series B in 2001
Adobe [acquired](http://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/8df47bafeccc8db6c9830dc69df1e5a3) Scene7 in May 2007 and now offers Scene7 as one of its products. Scene7 – provider of the leading on-demand rich media platform – enables companies to grow revenues, enhance customer experience and cut production costs. With Scene7, businesses can improve the entire selling and marketing cycle – from attracting customers, to guiding them to the right products and services, to successfully converting them into loyal buyers. The company offers rich media solutions built on a robust, integrated technology platform – for unrivaled breadth, depth, scalability and ease of ongoing rich media use. Adobe acquired Scene7 in May 2007.

AdFlight

Series A in 2000
AdFlight, Inc. offers online marketing technology and services. Its online marketing engine assists marketers and publishers in buying, executing, analyzing, and optimizing online advertising.
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