Brightwave

Brightwave is a deep technology startup building LLM-powered investment research systems that can autonomously reason across huge bodies of multimodal text, table and image data such as SEC filings, real-time news feeds, earnings call transcripts, legal rulings, patents, sell-side analysis and more.

AI agentsFoundation models and researchVoice and audio AI

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Brightwave | 382 days from website to first raise on record

@brightwaveio·Raised $21M in 2 sourced rounds·2 signals before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

Date	Round	Amount	Lead	Source
Oct 29, 2024	Series A	$15M	DDecibel Partners	businesswire.com
Jun 11, 2024	Seed	$6M	—	finsmes.com

Timeline

1. June 4, 2023
   X account created
2. May 26, 2023
   Website created

Founders and team

• BK
  Brandon Kotara Founder & CEO

  LinkedIn · source: brightwave.io
• MC
  Mike Conover Founder

Investors

• DDamien Weiss
• DDecibel Partnerslead investor
• DDerek Steer
• DDonnie Flood
• GGreg Bayer
• JJack Swift
• LLilian Weng
• LLuke Duncan
• MMoonfire Ventures
• OOMERS Ventures
• PPoint72 Ventures
• SSam Shah
• SShawn swyx W
• SSteven K Lumpkin

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• RRaid AIPre Seed · Jun 2026
• TTheta$500K

Other companies backed by Decibel Partners

• MMantis Biotech$6.3M Seed · Jan 2026
• SSublime Security$150M Series B+ · Oct 2025
• SStrella$14M Series A · Oct 2025
• DDropzone AI$37M Series B+ · Sep 2025
• VVeris$8.5M Seed · Aug 2025
• SScrunch$15M Series A · Jul 2025

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