# Cooley

> Cooley is a VC fund in Palo Alto backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 63 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, United States
- Total investments: 63
- Last investment: Jun 2026
- Lead investor: 10%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cooleyllp
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/CooleyLLP
- Website: http://www.cooley.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/CooleyLLP

Cooley is a legal services company that solves legal issues for entrepreneurs, investors, and established companies. Clients partner with Cooley on transformative deals, complex IP matters, and bet-the-company litigation, often where innovation meets the law. Cooley was founded in 1920 and headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 13 | 21% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 10 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 6 | 10% |
| FinTech | 5 | 8% |
| Business Intelligence | 5 | 8% |

106 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 18 | 29% |
| Series A | 14 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 13 | 21% |
| Series B | 5 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 6% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 39 | 62% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 5% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Israel | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Charles Cameron | SVP of Strategy | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/charles-cameron |
| Noah Pittard | Venture Capital and Emerging Company Partner | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/noah-pittard |
| Bram Couvreur | Partner | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bram-couvreur-4aaf |
| Calvin Cheong | Senior Vice President, Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/calvin-cheong |
| Carl Grant | EVP, Business Development | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carl-grant |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Idilio | Idilio TV is a media‑tech startup building an AI‑powered microdrama platform primarily for Spanish‑ and Portuguese‑speaking audiences. | $5.5M | Seed | Jun 09, 2026 |  |
| Steward | Steward.ai is a VC-backed fintech startup specializing in AI-powered compliance for investor onboarding, AML, and KYC processes. | $5M | Seed | Mar 17, 2026 |  |
| Slice Global | Issue equity to your teams in any country, stay in compliance locally, protect your employees from tax penalties, easily & quickly. | $25M | Series A | Jan 28, 2026 |  |
| Cork Protocol | Cork provides a decentralized finance (DeFi) technology that enables collateralized swaps against any pegged asset. | $5.5M | Seed | Jan 21, 2026 |  |
| Crosby | Crosby is a company with programmers from Ramp, Vanta, Meta, and Google joining attorneys. | $20M | Series A | Oct 08, 2025 |  |
| BrightAI | We harness the power of AI to seamlessly convert physical entities into digital counterparts, infusing them with intelligence and control. This catalyzes limitless opportunities for business expansion and fosters positive societal impact. BrightAI is headquartered in Hillsborough, California and was founded in 2020. | $51M | Series A | Jul 18, 2025 |  |
| RetroRate | Agent-focused real estate software in the assumable loans space. | $2.2M | Seed | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| Runwise | Runwise is a wireless control, sensor network, and software platform to better operate heating systems. Its mission is to enable buildings to run more efficiently using intelligent and easy-to-install wireless hardware and software.The company's users can reduce heating expenses and carbon emissions thanks to the network's management ofheating and boiler systems, which also avoids under- and overheating and gives a verifiable online record of both. | $30M | Series B | Jun 09, 2025 |  |
| SingleFile Technologies | SingleFile is an AI-powered compliance platform automating compliance filings and annual reports across 50 states for complex multi-entity organizations. The platform centralizes Secretary of State filings, annual reports, EIN applications, and service-of-process management in a single collaborative workspace designed for organizations managinglarge entity portfolios at scale.SingleFile's technology automates jurisdiction-specific requirements across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, processing thousands of filings in minutes rather than days. Services include entity formations, foreign qualifications, certificates of good standing, amendments, apostilles, and certified document retrieval.The multi-user platform enables seamless collaboration between organizations and their outside counsel or fund administrators, with audit-ready documentation and a pricing model that charges only for services performed—no per-user or per-entity fees. | $9.1M | Series A | Feb 19, 2025 |  |
| Beltways | Beltways is a mass transit system that helps urban pedestrians walk from point A to point B with no carbon footprint. The company designs and manufactures the world’s smartest, safest, and fastest accelerating walkways. Their systems are overlaid with a SaaS platform that provides unmatched analytics and insights into passenger movement, energyusage, incident detection, preventative maintenance, and more. |  | Seed | Feb 13, 2025 |  |

10 of 63 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Alumni Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alumni-ventures-group) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [Baseline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/baseline-ventures) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Fenwick & West](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fenwick-west) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Boston Seed Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boston-seed-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Operator Collective](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/operator-collective) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Perkins Coie](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/perkins-coie) — VC Fund, 4 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Cooley invest in?

Cooley invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 63 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### Who are the partners at Cooley?

The team at Cooley includes Charles Cameron (SVP of Strategy), Noah Pittard (Venture Capital and Emerging Company Partner) and Bram Couvreur (Partner), among 15 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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