Cosmos, a visual bookmarking and discovery app built for saving and organizing images, has raised a $15 million Series A financing round co-led by Shine Capital and Matrix as the startup rolls out a redesigned product aimed at making saving faster, discovery more social, and image credit more durable across the web. The round included participation from prior backers GV and Accel, as well as Plug and Play and Squarespace founder and CEO Anthony Casalena, according to McCune. Shine’s Ethan Daly has joined Cosmos’ board.
Cosmos positions itself as a “place” for visual inspiration rather than a utility, targeting designers, art directors, architects, photographers and other creatives who have historically relied on a patchwork of tools—such as Instagram saves, screenshots and private Pinterest accounts—to collect reference material. McCune said the product originated as a personal side project built with Luca Marra to serve as a “living archive” for his own creative work.
The company previously raised a $6 million seed round from GV and Accel and launched publicly last summer. Since then, Cosmos has grown “primarily through word of mouth” to millions of users, McCune said. He added that users now save more than 10 million images per month on the platform, and that Cosmos was featured in Apple’s “25 Apps for 2025” and reached No. 1 in the App Store’s Design category in 28 countries.
The latest release reflects a broader push beyond traditional creative professionals as the user base widens. The company is changing its core saving flow so that images can be saved instantly to a user’s profile, rather than requiring users to categorize each image into a “cluster” at the moment of capture. Clusters remain available, but profiles are now set as the default home for saved imagery, with the goal of allowing taste and aesthetic patterns to emerge over time.
Cosmos is also introducing a new following feed designed to encourage intentional discovery—helping users explore the collections of friends, artists, designers, and other tastemakers—while keeping social interaction focused on browsing rather than performance.
A central product bet is a new attribution and context system intended to reduce the loss of provenance that often occurs when images are reposted. Cosmos said it now researches images across the web and generates synthesized captions that identify creators and provide contextual details such as what an image depicts, where it was published, when it appeared and its broader lineage.
Cosmos said the new capital will be used to build the next phase of the platform, with a focus on protecting and improving the experience of finding and returning to inspiration over time.
