Lucend, formerly known as Coolgradient, has raised $3.3 million in funding to expand its transparent AI platform into the U.S. market. The company is focused on enhancing data center performance by improving uptime, reliability, and energy efficiency through intelligent, explainable AI. Lucend’s platform is designed to bring visibility and control to complex data center environments by integrating seamlessly with existing infrastructure—without requiring any new hardware. By connecting to current systems, the platform transforms traditionally static operations into adaptive, self-optimizing environments. The solution empowers data center operators, innovation leaders, and sustainability officers with actionable insights grounded in transparency. Unlike opaque AI models, Lucend’s approach ensures that decisions made by the system are understandable and trustworthy, enabling teams to act with confidence. With growing demands on data centers driven by AI workloads and digital transformation, energy efficiency and operational resilience have become critical. Lucend’s technology helps organizations reduce downtime, prevent failures, and optimize cooling and power usage—key factors in lowering costs and meeting environmental goals. The fresh capital will support product development, market expansion, and customer acquisition across the U.S., as enterprises seek smarter, more sustainable ways to manage their infrastructure. As data centers continue to grow in scale and complexity, Lucend aims to become a foundational tool for building resilient, efficient, and transparent digital infrastructure.