Issue #23September 3, 202611 links

Odyssey Energy raises $74.0M for solar financing

Odyssey Energy Solutions raised a $74.0M round for its platform connecting solar companies with financiers across origination, due diligence, credit underwriting, procurement and asset management. Reframe Systems raised $40.0M for robotic microfactories that the Boston company says can manufacture five single-family homes per week.

Dev Tools

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Desert Ant Labs: Little brains in every product

Desert Ant Labs is a frontier AI lab for on-device models. Specialized models that run on Apple, Android, and the web, dropped into any product in a few lines of native code.

Local Models Design Inspiration

Cool Company Raises

$74.0M

Odyssey Energy Solutions raises a $74.0M round

Odyssey’s mission is to radically accelerate capital deployment into distributed energy to get more projects built, faster. Odyssey brings together solar companies and financiers through a technology platform to streamline solar financing through every phase of the process, from origination and due diligence to credit underwriting, procurement, portfolio tracking, and asset management, reporting & compliance.

Energy Triple Jump Cygnum Capital Bio British International Investment Transition Ventures+10 more

YC F26

Maritime launches at YC (Fall 2026)

The managed cloud for AI agents.

Developer-Tools Cloud-Computing Infrastructure YC B2B

YC F26

Asakana launches at YC (Fall 2026)

AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP

SAAS Food-Beverage Consumer YC

YC F26

Ascii launches at YC (Fall 2026)

The best cloud VMs for billions of agents

Developer-Tools Cloud-Computing B2B YC

YC S26

Frontier Computing launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate

Artificial-Intelligence Hard-Tech Hardware YC Industrials

$21.0M

Lone Palm Labs raises a $21.0M Series A round

Lone Palm Labs is a San Francisco-based provider of Retro, a private photo-sharing and consumer social platform. Founded in 2022, the company develops a premium, ad-free private photo journal and sharing application designed for close personal networks. The platform enables curated weekly photo recaps, collaborative albums, and physical postcard deliveries, along with an AI-driven application called Splat that creates printable coloring pages from digital images.

Social-Media Photography Photo-Sharing Dylan Field Uncommon Projects Positive Sum+8 more

$7.0M

Molten Salt Solutions raises a $7.0M Seed round

Molten Salt Solutions was formed in 2018 to solve challenges in advanced nuclear power leveraging the unique technologies, capabilities and expertise of the DOE National Laboratories.

Information-Technology Future Ventures True Ventures Gaingels Alumni Ventures Vanedge Capital Partners+2 more

$10.0M

Diffraqtion raises a $10.0M Pre-Seed round

Diffraqtion is a Massachusetts-based startup focused on developing quantum cameras for space applications. The company combines quantum imaging technology with artificial intelligence to detect distant objects and provide high-resolution imaging at lower costs. Their innovative platforms aim to reduce image processing times while offering analytics and insights rapidly. Diffraqtion is working towards building a constellation of satellites to enhance their imaging capabilities for national security and earth observation services.

Artificial-Intelligence Ground State Ventures Adin Milemark•Capital Aether Vc Tek Ventures+6 more

$40.0M

Reframe Systems raises a $40.0M round

Reframe Systems is a Boston-based startup that uses physical AI to automate the homebuilding process. Its scalable microfactories enable the construction of resilient homes more quickly and affordably. The company leverages proprietary software and advanced robotics to reduce time and costs while addressing the skilled labor shortage. Reframe's AI-driven microfactories can manufacture five single-family homes per week.

Manufacturing Software Artificial-Intelligence Laci Impact Fund Up Partners Thin Line Capital+6 more

$6.0M

Blue Voice raises a $6.0M Seed round

Blue Voice is a Boston-based startup that has developed an AI platform designed to provide police officers in the United States with operational legal and procedural guidance. Founded by former law enforcement officials and experts, the company aims to streamline access to critical legal information for law enforcement. The platform is utilized daily by officers across 225 county law enforcement agencies in 25 states. It helps officers make informed decisions quickly, enhancing their operational effectiveness.

Software Artificial-Intelligence Legal Las Olas Vc Signal Fire $1M++2 more

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