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#63 · The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI

Mon, 02 Nov 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Super interesting article called The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI you should read. Upwind raised a $400.0M Series C at a $3.8B valuation, and says its 2026 revenue quadrupled. Plato raised $16.0M in a Series A to build simulated work environments for training and evaluating AI models, and Superserve released an open-source sandbox that runs long-running agents in Firecracker microVMs.

Interesting

The Mythical Man-Month in the age of AI - Jan van den Berg — An update to Brooks's Law in the age of AI.

Dev Tools

Superserve — The open-source sandbox for long-running agents. Run AI code in secure, fast Firecracker microVMs. sandboxes

Cool Company Raises

RouterPlus launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Marketplace for AI inference: the right model at the best price ai, b2b, developer-tools, marketplace, yc
Northstar Security raises a $7.0M Seed round — $7M — Northstar Security is a cybersecurity company focused on uncovering hidden risks across disconnected security systems by providing a context foundation for agentic security.... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, cyber-security, information-technology, network-security, security, wing venture capital
Sava raises a $10.0M Seed round — $10M — Sava is a next-generation trust company that provides administrative trustee services through its subsidiary, Sava Trust Company, an independent corporate fiduciary chartered in... $10m+, gradient ventures, max mullen, orange collective, real-estate, surgepoint capital, sv angel, y combinator
Plato raises a $16.0M Series A round — $16M — Plato builds working simulations of real jobs and tasks for AI training and evaluation. Its environments combine realistic tools, situations, and task requirements so AI labs... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, gradient ventures, machine-learning, mustafa suleyman, nava ventures, software, transpose platform
Upwind raises a $400.0M Series C round — $400M — Upwind closes $400M Series C round at $3.8B valuation as 2026 revenue quadruples. $100m+
The Letter Company launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — The world's first coding agent, harness, & IDE for growth engineering. b2b, developer-tools, saas, web-development, yc

#62 · Hex raises $100.0M for its analytics workspace

Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Hex raised $100.0M for its collaborative, shareable analytics workspace. Infisical raised a $40.0M Series B for its open-source, end-to-end encrypted secrets and environment variable manager, and Hyperbolic raised a $30.0M Series A to build an open-access AI cloud for inference and compute.

Cool Company Raises

Superserve launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Virtual machines for autonomous agents ai, b2b, cloud-computing, infrastructure, yc
Hyperbolic raises a $30.0M Series A round — $30M — Hyperbolic is building the leading open-access AI cloud. Access inference and compute at a fraction of the cost, and build AI applications without relying on centralized... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, blockchain, cambium capital, dell technologies capital, general catalyst, machine-learning, vista equity partners, walden catalyst
Edge Sound Research raises a $2.0M Seed round — $2M — EDGE Sound Research seeks to connect people closer to a moment by blurring the line between the real and virtual worlds. It is game-changing technology that serves as the... $1m+, audio, music, stormbreaker ventures
Infisical raises a $40.0M Series B round — $40M — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that helps developers manage secrets and environment variables across their teams, devices, and infrastructure. $10m+, elad gil, gradient, software, y combinator
Hex raises a $100.0M round — $100M — Hex is changing how people use data by building a collaborative, shareable analytics workspace. We empower our users to ask new questions and share their findings in one product... $100m+, amplify partners, andreessen horowitz, peak xv partners, sequoia capital, software

#61 · Elementl Power lands $750.0M for three nuclear projects

Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Elementl Power secured a partnership to fund up to $750.0M for the development of three advanced nuclear projects, led by DS Investment Partners and Samsung C&T. Nevis raised a $70.0M Series B for AI that automates administrative workflows for wealth advisors, and MARC raised a $5.0M Seed to flag cost discrepancies in real estate vendor invoices.

Cool Company Raises

0.security launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — The autonomous cybersecurity team b2b, cybersecurity, defense, enterprise, open-source, yc
MARC raises a $5.0M Seed round — $5M — MARC is an AI-powered platform that analyzes fragmented vendor contract and invoice data for property units to help real estate managers identify cost discrepancies and... $1m+, commercial-real-estate, des traynor, ian nolan, mark g., mxv capital, real-estate, work bench
Nevis raises a $70.0M Series B round — $70M — Nevis is an AI platform for wealth management that helps financial advisors automate their administrative workflows end-to-end. The company serves some of the fastest-growing... $50m+, eqt ventures, quantumlight, software, the charles schwab corporation
Elementl Power raises a $750.0M round — $750M — Elementl Power has secured a partnership to fund up to $750 million for the development of three advanced nuclear projects, led by DS Investment Partners and Samsung C&T. $100m+, ds investment partners, energy, samsung c&t

#60 · Xona Space Systems raises $250.0M Series D for LEO navigation

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Xona Space Systems raised a $250.0M Series D to build an independent satellite navigation and timing system, delivered as a high-power signal from low Earth orbit under the name PULSAR. Coherence Neuro raised a $45.0M Series A for implantable and wearable bioelectronic devices that monitor and treat cancer.

Cool Company Raises

Tenera joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Simulation models that predict how users react to software before it ships, for product teams at Fortune 500s a16z speedrun, ai-agents, dev-tools-devops, enterprise-saas
Kairox Systems launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Autonomous drones that fly and swim aerospace, defense, drones, hardware, industrials, maritime, yc
Xona Space Systems raises a $250.0M Series D round — $250M — Xona Space Systems is developing an independent high-performance satellite navigation and timing system to meet the needs of intelligent systems. Delivered via a secure,... $100m+, aerospace, future ventures, other, privacy-and-security
Coherence Neuro raises a $45.0M Series A round — $45M — Coherence Neuro is a developer of AI-powered oncology medical devices. The company focuses on creating specialized implantable or wearable bioelectronic devices that monitor and... $10m+, 8vc, ahren, artesian, artificial-intelligence, biotechnology, blackbird, chad byers, divergent, dr. matthew macdougall, dr. rory murphy, founders fund, health-care, health-diagnostics, lux capital, maor shlomo, medical, medical-device, olive capital, openai startup fund, possible, romina nejad, timeless, topology, xeia, xtal
SpartanX Technologies raises a $5.0M Seed round — $5M — SpartanX is a cybersecurity company building an AI-native offensive security platform designed to automate full-stack red teaming. The platform combines 500+ AI agents with... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, security

#59 · Resend launches Inboxes, a shared email inbox for agents

Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Resend released Inboxes, which lets teams create shared inboxes, connect their own agents and build workflows around email. Dub launched Dub for Startups, offering 50% off the first year of its software for running partner programs and tracking referrals.

Dev Tools

Dub for Startups — Launch your partner program, track every referral, and reward the people helping you grow. Get 50% off your first year of Dub. growth
Inboxes · The inbox for agents — Create shared inboxes, connect your own agents, and build workflows around email. agent tools, communications

#58 · Flapping Airplanes raises $1.0B for data-efficient AI

Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Flapping Airplanes raised $1.0B in a Series A to train capable AI models without the massive datasets today's labs rely on. Peak Energy raised $108.0M in a Series B to fund US manufacturing of its grid-scale sodium-ion battery storage, and Blacksmith raised $66.0M in a Series C for CI on high-performance hardware.

Interesting

What Shall I Teach My Son?

Dev Tools

Composio Instant | Give your agent a wallet — Audio, video, search, browser and data. Connect once, no keys to manage. Give your agent a wallet, not a pile of subscriptions. agent tools, payments
Asimov 1 | Menlo Research — Educational humanoid for whole-body control and locomotion training by Menlo Research. robotics

Cool Company Raises

Banbury Road joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Multi-agent civilizations that deliver frontier capability at a fraction of the cost and memory of monolithic models. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-models-research, deep-tech
Blueprint joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Hardware, as fast as thought. Turning plain language into physical machines. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, dev-tools-devops, hardware
Blacksmith raises a $66.0M Series C round — $66M — Blacksmith makes CI faster, more cost-effective, and more reliable by avoiding hyperscaler-based solutions and running GitHub Actions on high-performance hardware with... $50m+, software
Audora launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Audiobooks where every character has their own voice. consumer, entertainment, generative-ai, yc
Baba raises a $40.0M Series A round — $40M — Baba pairs Medicare and Medicaid patients with AI-supported human advocates who handle their appointments, prescriptions, insurance and benefits across the healthcare system. $10m+, cvs health ventures, firstmark capital, general catalyst, genius ventures, ground up ventures, health-care, medical, valtruis
Peak Energy raises a $108.0M Series B round — $108M — Peak Energy builds grid-scale sodium-ion battery storage designed to run its 20-year life without scheduled maintenance, for utilities, power producers and AI data centers. The... $100m+, eclipse, energy, general motors ventures, infinite capital, lg technology ventures, maverick silicon, renewable-energy, solar, xora innovation
Ultra Security raises a $10.0M Seed round — $10M — Ultra Security is a company focused on providing an agentic security platform designed for real-time visibility and guardrails, ensuring that autonomous agents can operate... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, detroit venture partners, entrée capital, fdvc, firedrop, hidden capital, ludlow ventures, security
Fleet Defender raises a $1.3M Seed round — $1.3M — Fleet Defender is a platform intelligence system that provides cyber protection and business intelligence to fleet owners. $1m+, information-technology
Flapping Airplanes raises a $1.0B Series A round — $1B — Flapping Airplanes is a frontier AI research lab focused on data efficiency — training capable models without the massive datasets today's labs rely on. $100m+, artificial-intelligence, atreides, gv, index, kleiner perkins, lux, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, nvidia, sequoia capital, valor

#57 · Arda Industries raises $232.0M to automate assembly lines

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Arda Industries launched from stealth with $232.0M for software that turns new product designs into working robotic assembly lines. Mistral released Timestral, a family of probabilistic multivariate time-series forecasting models ranging from 5M to 209M parameters, and Different raised a $48.0M Seed round for its B2B demand generation system.

Dev Tools

Nango | Build integrations with AI — Connect your product & AI agents with 800+ APIs. Build, run, and maintain integrations with AI in code, on infrastructure built for scale. embedded integrations
Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation models | Mistral — State-of-the-art probabilistic, multivariate forecasting with just 209M parameters, in four sizes from 5M to 209M. CPU-efficient, zero-shot across domains, fine-tunable via... time series, tsfm

Cool Company Raises

Alven joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Alven is an AI employee that replaces the need for human property managers a16z speedrun, ai-agents, real-estate-prop-tech
Wondersearch launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Instant semantic search over your data without embeddings. ai, b2b, developer-tools, infrastructure, yc
Orgo launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Computers for Agents ai, b2b, cloud-computing, developer-tools, yc
Different raises a $48.0M Seed round — $48M — Different is a marketing system that runs demand generation across channels for B2B companies. It unifies campaign orchestration, personalization, and optimization in one closed... $10m+, advertising, b2b, digital-marketing, general catalyst, lead-generation, lightspeed venture partners, marketing, marketing-automation, saas
Gradient raises a $4.0M Pre-Seed round — $4M — Gradient is an AI-native accounting firm for US startups, offering managed bookkeeping, tax and compliance for a flat monthly fee, with licensed CPAs signing returns. $1m+, acadian ventures, artificial-intelligence, heartfelt, kima ventures, software, tinyvc, venturefriends
Mural raises a $15.0M Series A round — $15M — Mural is a New York-based fintech startup founded by former Palantir engineers that provides businesses with a unified platform to manage international payments. The platform... $10m+, fintech, north island ventures, payments, tether
Arda Industries raises a $232.0M round — $232M — Arda Industries has launched from stealth with the aim of speeding up American manufacturing. Their software assists manufacturers in rapidly transforming new product designs... $100m+, manufacturing

#56 · Tolan raises $30.0M for voice-first AI companion app

Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Tolan raised $30.0M for its voice-first AI companion app, which lets users create characters that retain months of conversation history and hold voice and video calls. The company says 70% of its users are women aged 30-45. Mirai, which uses world models to make real places explorable starting with real estate, was listed in a16z speedrun.

Cool Company Raises

Vela Energy joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — The AI Workforce for Power Delivery a16z speedrun, ai-agents, climate-energy, enterprise-saas
Mirai joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Making Any Real Place Explorable With World Models, Starting With Real Estate. a16z speedrun, ai-generative-media, real-estate-prop-tech, travel-hospitality
Keythorn joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Insurance for the AI Frontier a16z speedrun, ai-agents, cybersecurity, insurtech
Nimble joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — AI operating system for freight forwarding a16z speedrun, ai-agents, supply-chain-logistics
Tolan raises a $30.0M round — $30M — Tolan is a voice-first AI companion app that uses persistent relationships and memory to provide emotional support and assist with routine tasks. Founded in 2023, the platform... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, homebrew, khosla ventures, machine-learning, messaging, software, union square ventures

#55 · Headless social media API and automated AI officers

Wed, 21 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Postproxy is a social media API that the company says won't break pipelines. Codos, listed in a16z speedrun's SR007 cohort, builds a virtual chief AI officer whose agents interview a workforce to find inefficiencies, and reports seven-figure live ARR growing 50% month over month.

Dev Tools

Postproxy — A unified social media API that doesn't break your pipeline. social media

Cool Company Raises

Vene Health joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Vene Health is an AI patient advocate for families managing chronic conditions, working over calls and texts. Calling and browser agents, backed by an agent-native EHR, handle... a16z speedrun, ai-agents, healthcare
Codos joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Codos is a virtual Chief AI Officer for public and PE-backed companies: AI agents interview the workforce to find inefficiencies, then automate sales, operations and engineering... a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-infra, enterprise-saas

#54 · Kairo joins a16z speedrun with AI code security plane

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Kairo, a three-person San Francisco company founded in 2026, joined a16z speedrun cohort SR007 with a continuous security plane that reviews every pull request inline and keeps testing the running system, producing a signed report. ObsessionDB launched in YC's Fall 2026 batch selling managed ClickHouse hosting pitched as a real-time data warehouse for AI agents.

Dev Tools

Confidence — Experiment like Spotify, with Confidence. loops, spotify

Cool Company Raises

Elu joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Your software, improving itself: An autonomous product, run entirely by agents a16z speedrun, ai-agents, dev-tools-devops
Kairo joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Kairo is a continuous security plane for teams shipping code with AI agents: it reviews every pull request for security issues inline and keeps testing the running system,... a16z speedrun, ai-models-research, cybersecurity, infra
Superintelligence Foundry joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Creative AGI for autonomous invention, scientific discovery, and company creation. a16z speedrun, ai-models-research, deep-tech, robotics
Tilo launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — A Linux-based, AI-native operating system. ai, aiops, b2b, yc
ObsessionDB launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — ObsessionDB is fully managed hosting for ClickHouse, pitched as a real-time data warehouse for AI agents — a drop-in replacement focused on performance per dollar with no... analytics, b2b, big-data, databases, yc
Particularity launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Building the tech stack for government regulators government, govtech, yc
Obia launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — AI-native commercial real estate brokerage b2b, proptech, real-estate, real-estate-and-construction, yc

#53 · Seven companies join a16z speedrun's SR007 batch

Mon, 19 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Seven companies disclosed they joined a16z speedrun's SR007 batch, including Mecone (perpetual futures infrastructure for exchanges), KIRA (industrial wastewater turned into clean water for data centers) and Coop (independent benchmarks and evals for robotics models). Circularity Fuels raised $8.8M toward a $10.2M offering per an SEC Form D, and Marklo raised a $5.0M Seed.

Interesting

Americans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years economics

Dev Tools

rtrvr.ai: Retrieve, Research, Robotize the Web with AI — Navigate the web with AI, automate tasks, and extract data effortlessly. browser agents, design inspiration
Pancake — Pancake’s AI agents monitor buying signals, find warm leads, grow your AI search visibility, and learn from every interaction. design inspiration, gtm

Cool Company Raises

Mecone joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — We are building the financial infrastructure to let exchanges offer Perpetual Futures ("Perps") on any underlying asset. a16z speedrun, blockchain-crypto, fintech
Reelful joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Personal video-editing agent turning raw footage into ready-to-share content, saving 90% of editing time a16z speedrun, ai-generative-media, consumer, media-entertainment-creator-economy
KIRA joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — We transform industrial wastewater into clean water for data centers: we enable critical infrastructure. a16z speedrun, hardware, infra, manufacturing-industrials
Coop joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Independent, industry-specific benchmarks and evals for robotics models. a16z speedrun, ai-models-research, hardware, robotics
Praxis launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Praxis builds AI agents that run law-firm operations from first inquiry to paid invoice — intake, onboarding, admin and billing — with a lawyer approving each step. Live with US... artificial-intelligence, b2b, legal, legaltech, yc
Marklo raises a $5.0M Seed round — $5M — Marklo is a provider of an agentic marketing platform specifically designed for brands operating on Shopify. The platform intelligently analyzes sales, marketing activities,... $1m+, advertising, analytics, brand-marketing, content-marketing, forerunner, freestyle capital, marketing, marketing-automation, saas
Circularity Fuels raises a $8.8M round — $8.8M — Circularity Fuels builds AI-controlled, mass-manufacturable reactors that turn waste carbon and cheap renewable power into drop-in hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals. Its October... $1m+, energy
Colmez joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Agentic platform for the $248bn hazardous waste industry a16z speedrun, climate-energy, enterprise-saas, manufacturing-industrials
Baro joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Building the AI General Manager for Consumer Brands. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, commerce-marketplaces
Switchfrog joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Turn every web product into an app for agents a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-infra, cybersecurity

#52 · Anthropic built its own version control system in 5 months

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Anthropic published how it migrated to an in-house version control system over five months, after merges per day grew more than tenfold and source control became its biggest development bottleneck. Lightsprint raised a $6.1M Seed round for a platform that turns plain-English requests from non-technical employees into reviewable pull requests.

Dev Tools

Redesigning source control at Anthropic — As our merges per day grew more than tenfold, source control became our biggest development bottleneck. Here, we share how we migrated to an in-house version control system in... source control

Cool Company Raises

Caveman launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Caveman cuts what AI agents cost without making them dumber. artificial-intelligence, b2b, developer-tools, infrastructure, open-source, yc
Lightsprint raises a $6.1M Seed round — $6.1M — Lightsprint is a Y Combinator-backed startup that enables non-technical employees like product managers, designers, and operations workers to directly modify a company's... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, enterprise-software, saas, software
Intellivisa raises a $3.0M Seed round — $3M — Intellivisa is an AI-powered clearance engine that handles visa, entry, and compliance requirements for international travelers end-to-end. The platform uses agentic AI to... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, incisive ventures, mu ventures, p2s: altair capital, recursive ventures, smart partnership capital, travel, uncommon denominator, united airlines ventures
Space joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — The infinite AI-native filesystem. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-infra, enterprise-saas
Sintem launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Agentic phones for teams artificial-intelligence, b2b, telecommunications, yc

#51 · Anthropic says small AI models may soon self-replicate

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Anthropic published research saying small AI models may be only months away from self-replicating across cheap IoT devices such as Android TV boxes, with no datacenter required. Graylark raised a $10.7M Seed round for Raven, a visual intelligence platform that locates images, identifies vehicles and assesses whether visual content is authentic.

Interesting

AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter — Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed. rsi

Cool Company Raises

Graylark raises a $10.7M Seed round — $10.7M — Graylark is a Boston-based software company that develops AI-powered visual intelligence tools. Their mission is to turn the physical world into real-time search. The company... $10m+, ai grant, alexandr wang, analytics, artificial-intelligence, general catalyst, machine-learning, recorded future, software
VoicePatrol announces a Seed round — VoicePatrol is an Artificial Intelligence-based startup that provides real-time protection against toxic behaviors in multiplayer game voice chats. The product monitors and... artificial-intelligence, gaming, gapminder vc, impact ventures, ollin ventures, software, the build fund

#50 · Tone, Lasers, and a Wrench on a16z speedrun

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Four companies announced spots in a16z's speedrun SR007 batch: Oruk, building speech foundation models that read tone and intent; PhotonSpear, orbital lasers for missile defense; Embrasure, an AI-agent-run data warehouse; and Bounty, which lets founders hire AI agents and pay per completed job. Rodeo Robotics launched in YC's Fall 2026 batch with robots for vehicle maintenance.

Cool Company Raises

Oruk joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Speech foundation models that understand people: words, tone of voice, emphasis, intent, and emotion. a16z speedrun, ai-infra, ai-models-research, ai-voice
PhotonSpear joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Orbital Lasers for Missile Defense a16z speedrun, gov-tech-defense, hardware, space-tech
Embrasure joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — An autonomous data warehouse run entirely by AI agents that build pipelines, maintain data, and discover business opportunities. a16z speedrun, ai-infra, enterprise-saas
Bounty joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Bounty lets founders and small business owners hire AI agents and specialised teams, paying for completed work instead of tool subscriptions. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, commerce-marketplaces, future-of-work
Rodeo Robotics launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Robots for vehicle maintenance. artificial-intelligence, automotive, hard-tech, industrials, robotics, yc

#49 · Oratomic raises $475.0M for quantum error correction

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Pasadena-based Oratomic raised a $475.0M Series B for its fault-tolerant quantum computing architecture and error-correction systems, targeting machine learning and molecular chemistry simulations. Hone, a San Francisco startup building autonomous agents it calls "Engines" to run business goals like customer retention and procurement, raised a $60.0M Seed round.

Interesting

Parallel — Powering autonomous rail. cool as f

Dev Tools

Loco.rs - Productivity-first Rust Fullstack Web Framework — Loco.rs is like Ruby on Rails for Rust. Use it to quickly build and deploy Rust based apps from zero to production. mvc, web frameworks
Open Wearables — Open-source wearable API and health intelligence platform. Health scores, AI reasoning engine, and coaching profiles. Connect Whoop, Garmin, Oura, Apple Health, Strava, Polar,... api, health apis
Cactus Compute — On-device AI inference engine for smartphones, laptops, and edge hardware with automatic cloud fallback. local models

Cool Company Raises

Theseus Robotics launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Humanoids to restock retail shelves & pick orders hard-tech, industrials, retail-tech, robotics, yc
Munito AI launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Open-model inference provider for Europe, private by default. artificial-intelligence, b2b, enterprise, infrastructure, yc
Hone raises a $60.0M Seed round — $60M — Hone is a San Francisco-based A.I. start-up founded by Austrian entrepreneur Moritz Stephan that builds autonomous A.I. agents called "Engines" designed to independently manage... $50m+, benchmark, elad gil, index ventures, scott wu, software, sv angel
Cluster joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Infrastructure for GTM agents a16z speedrun, ai-agents, sales-gtm
Motherboard Labs joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Full-stack Service Layer for Robots and Autonomous Machines a16z speedrun, ai-agents, manufacturing-industrials, robotics
Infragrid joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Memory system that recommends automations as you work a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-models-research, future-of-work
Composal launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Swarms of agents acting like users to find bugs before release artificial-intelligence, b2b, cloud-computing, developer-tools, devsecops, yc
Lucebox launches at YC (Winter 2027) — YC W27 — Self-improving inference workstation consumer, hardware, open-source, yc
Oratomic raises a $475.0M Series B round — $475M — Oratomic is a Pasadena, CA-based developer of fault-tolerant quantum computing architectures and quantum-error correction systems. The company focuses on building commercially... $100m+, arch venture partners, bezos expeditions, general catalyst, index ventures, khosla ventures, machine-learning, spark capital
InventWood raises a $1.5M Seed round — $1.5M — InventWood transforms nature’s oldest building material into something extraordinary. With SUPERWOOD, we’ve reinvented wood itself, delivering a building material that’s... $1m+, building-material, manufacturing

#48 · Parallel Systems raises $100.0M for autonomous freight rail

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Parallel Systems raised a $100.0M Series C to commercialize Panther, its battery-electric autonomous rail vehicle for short-haul freight. Minerva Humanoids raised a $10.0M pre-seed for Roger, a semi-autonomous robot for hazardous oil and gas jobs, and a16z added Acaysia, AgentCat, Ontem, ChatOverflow and Rollup to its SR007 speedrun cohort.

Dev Tools

OpenUI - The Open Standard for Generative UI — OpenUI is a full-stack Generative UI framework with a compact streaming-first language, a React runtime with built-in components, and ready-to-use chat interfaces - using up to...
ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line — 191 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed. cool as f, design inspiration

Cool Company Raises

Acaysia joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Real-time AI control layer to optimize industrial reactors. a16z speedrun, deep-tech, hardware, manufacturing-industrials
AgentCat joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Session replay and observability for AI agents across MCP, Claude Connectors, and ChatGPT Apps. a16z speedrun, ai-infra, dev-tools-devops
Ontem joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Ontem turns receivables into cash flow for the $3 trillion commercial services economy a16z speedrun, ai-agents, fintech
Databuddy launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — AI Data Analyst for fast-growing teams ai, analytics, b2b, data-engineering, infrastructure, yc
Parallel Systems raises a $100.0M Series C round — $100M — Parallel Systems is the world's leading battery-electric autonomous freight rail company, focused on commercializing its innovative Panther rail vehicle. Founded in 2020 by... $100m+, agility global, anthos capital, avp, cobalt capital, collaborative fund, congruent ventures, hillspire, logistics, riot capital, transportation
ChatOverflow joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — The network where AI agents learn from each other a16z speedrun, ai-agents, dev-tools-devops, future-of-work
Rollup joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Years of user context for personal AI, in minutes. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-infra, infra
Minerva Humanoids raises a $10.0M Pre-Seed round — $10M — Minerva Humanoids is a robotics company focused on building humanoid robots for hazardous jobs in onshore and offshore oil and gas operations, as well as public safety. Their... $10m+, babylon, chaotica, codecademy, compound, credo ventures, founders embassy, general catalyst, hugging face, kaya, long journey ventures, mvp ventures, public-safety, robotics, runwayvc, tiny ventures, walter ventures, yg (alex yazdi)
Authors First raises a $10.0M Seed round — $10M — Authors First is a NYC provider of a book-to-screen studio and distribution platform. The company offers a human-led, AI-enabled service that collaborates directly with authors... $10m+, andy mills, bolt ventures, brand foundry, john kline, mike duggal, robert hamwee, software

#47 · Abliteration.ai joins a16z speedrun with $7M ARR

Fri, 09 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Abliteration.ai, which sells unrestricted LLMs for cybersecurity, agent testing and defense, joined a16z's speedrun SR007 cohort, saying it has $7M ARR and grew 8x last month. AntSeed launched an open peer-to-peer market for AI inference, with payment per request in USDC and no central account.

Dev Tools

AntSeed — The open market for AI inference. Serve or consume AI peer-to-peer. Pay per request in USDC. Anonymous by design, with independent providers and no central account. token markets

Cool Company Raises

Abliteration.ai joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Unrestricted LLMs for cybersecurity, agent testing, and defense—$7M ARR and grew 8x last month. a16z speedrun, ai-models-research, dev-tools-devops, gov-tech-defense
PreMan joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Agentic infrastructure that prevents your product from breaking when millions of AI agents use it. a16z speedrun, ai-infra, cybersecurity, dev-tools-devops
OneGC joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — The AI-native platform that runs legal for startups. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, enterprise-saas, legal-tech
Latent launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Catch wrong LLM answers before your customers do ai, b2b, fraud-detection, yc
Ploid launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — The people data company for the agent era ai, api, artificial-intelligence, b2b, sales, yc

#46 · Ceramic sells web-scale search API at $0.05 per 1K

Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Ceramic.ai is selling a web-scale search API for LLMs and agents at $0.05/1K, available over API and MCP, and says it is 100x cheaper and 10x faster than alternatives. A post on world.hey.com titled "What on earth are you dooming about?" says most material metrics of humanity have never been better.

Interesting

What on earth are you dooming about? — Paradise is not lost, the world is not ending, and most material metrics of humanity have never been better. Yet the endless, incessant dooming about the climate, the... ai anxiety

Dev Tools

Web-Scale Search API for AI & LLMs — 100x Cheaper | Ceramic — Ceramic.ai provides web-scale search for AI agents & LLMs. 100x cheaper, 10x faster, fully independent. $0.05/1K via API & MCP. search, search api

#45 · Great stuff from a16z speedrun

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Three companies joined a16z's speedrun SR007 cohort: Delightful AI, building AI agent worlds for science and healthcare; Ripline, an applied research lab deploying sovereign intelligence in critical industries; and Saru, which makes brand-voice AI agents for consumer brands. LinkLane, an AI-powered freight brokerage, launched out of YC's Winter 2027 batch.

Dev Tools

opensend.cc — Open source email API you run yourself. Resend-compatible REST and SMTP, React templates and webhooks on Next.js, Convex, Better Auth and AWS SES. communications

Cool Company Raises

Delightful AI joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — AI agent worlds for science and healthcare. a16z speedrun, ai-infra, ai-models-research, healthcare
Ripline joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Applied research lab deploying sovereign intelligence in critical industries. a16z speedrun, ai-agents, ai-models-research, supply-chain-logistics
Saru joins a16z speedrun (SR007) — speedrun SR007 — Brand-voice AI agents that give consumer brands 1-to-1 customer relationships a16z speedrun, adtech-marketing-tech, ai-agents, consumer
LinkLane launches at YC (Winter 2027) — YC W27 — AI-powered freight brokerage. Quote, book, and track loads in seconds. b2b, digital-freight-brokerage, marketplace, workflow-automation, yc

#44 · FieldAI raises $700.0M for robot autonomy software

Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

FieldAI, the Irvine robotic autonomy company, raised a $700.0M round for its Field Foundation Models, which the company says let robots navigate without maps or GPS. ZymoChem raised $25.1M for bio-based materials, and Photon raised a $4.5M Seed round to replace mobile apps with agents running on iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram.

Dev Tools

Muse Gadgets — Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself. Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays,... hardware, open source
Famulor AI Phone Assistant — Famulor is Europe's leading AI phone assistant — human-like, 24/7, GDPR-compliant. Automate calls, WhatsApp & chat. Try it free. communications, voice
Omnia — Omnia helps brands track and improve their visibility in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. As one of the leading GEO... geo, seo

Cool Company Raises

FieldAI raises a $700.0M round — $700M — FieldAI is a physical AI and robotic autonomy company based in Irvine, CA. It specializes in developing embodied AI software that enhances autonomous robot operations in... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, robotics, software
Rystic launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — API simulators for testing and training agents locally artificial-intelligence, b2b, developer-tools, enterprise-software, yc
Photon raises a $4.5M Seed round — $4.5M — Photon is an AI startup based in San Francisco that helps developers replace traditional mobile applications with AI-powered agents. The company provides a suite of tools... $1m+, a*, artificial-intelligence, gradient, hong shan, karman, llama ventures, machine-learning, messaging, software, vercel, z fellows
Bodhium Labs raises a $3.5M Pre-Seed round — $3.5M — Bodhium Labs, based in Menlo Park, California, is an applied AI startup focused on developing a simulation and testing layer for marketing teams. Founded in 2026, the company... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, long journey ventures, machine-learning, software, streamlined ventures
ZymoChem raises a $25.1M round — $25.1M — ZymoChem is breakthrough science for a fossil-free future. We accelerate the transition to a real-zero economy by developing bio-based materials for everyday products. Are... $10m+, chemical-manufacturing

#43 · doxx.net raises $38.0M Series A for agent networking

Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

doxx.net raised a $38.0M Series A for its Agentic Defined Networking platform, which the Miami-based company says gives people and their AI agents peer-to-peer encrypted networks with their own DNS root and IP space across six continents. Charter Space raised a $5.0M Seed to price spacecraft insurance from manufacturing and test data.

Interesting

The last time my family was replaced by technology — My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up. ai anxiety
The Death of the American Host — The share of US adults who say they regularly entertain friends at home has declined 70 percent since 1975. Why? economics

Dev Tools

Kapso — The fastest way to add WhatsApp to your product. Connect in 2 minutes, integrate this afternoon. Ship to 3 billion users today. agent infra, communications

Cool Company Raises

Charter Space raises a $5.0M Seed round — $5M — Charter Space is a fintech company focusing on spacecraft insurance. It captures manufacturing and test data directly from sources to provide faster, cheaper, and more reliable... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, blank ventures, crystal venture partners, defense-space, gaingels, hustle fund, manufacturing, qed
doxx.net raises a $38.0M Series A round — $38M — doxx.net is a Miami, FL-based provider of an Agentic Defined Networking (ADN) platform that enables people and their AI agents to create private, secure networks with... $10m+, andreessen horowitz, animo ventures, artificial-intelligence, focal vc

#42 · Varda raises $251.0M Series D for orbital processing

Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Varda Space Industries raised a $251.0M Series D to build reentry capsules and in-orbit pharmaceutical processing. General Intuition raised $220.0M to train models on games instead of text, and Quartermaster raised a $140.0M Series B for SmartMast, its distributed maritime sensing network.

Cool Company Raises

General Intuition raises a $220.0M round — $220M — General Intuition is a research and technology company building machines that learn, reason, and adapt through interaction—just as humans do. While most foundation models are... $100m+, 776, atreides, general catalyst, information-technology, khosla ventures, point72, valor equity partners
OuterSignal raises a $22.0M Series A round — $22M — OuterSignal is an agentic customer intelligence platform that helps brands understand their customers on a personal level, allowing for 1:1 personalization in marketing.... $10m+, abstract ventures, advertising, alex haro, ame cloud ventures, analytics, bam ventures, dave heath, e-commerce, emery wells, james beshara, ken nguyen, kim perell, long journey ventures, marketing, marketing-automation, michael loeb, michael perry, michael preysman, nik sharma, raad mobrem, rich vogel, rohan shah, saas, sahil bhaiwala, sahil bloom, software, steve carroll, superangel.fund, top shelf ventures, troy ossinoff, zach sims
Varda Space Industries raises a $251.0M Series D round — $251M — Varda Space Industries is making reentry as common as launch. We are building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy and enabling foundational science, from in-orbit... $100m+, 8090 industries, also capital, biotechnology, caffeinated capital, founders fund, general catalyst, giant step, information-technology, khosla ventures, lux capital, manufacturing, natural capital, other
Beltic raises a $7.3M Seed round — $7.3M — Beltic is a company focused on building agent verification infrastructure to empower businesses to confidently do business with agents. Their Know Your Agent (KYA) platform... $1m+, collide capital, norwest venture partners, oxford seed fund, restive ventures, software
Proximal raises a $15.0M round — $15M — Proximal is an AI coding data startup based in New York City. Founded in 2025, the company develops an advanced AI infrastructure platform that automates the post-training... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, chemistry, erik bernhardsson, general catalyst, go global ventures, kevin weil, liam fedus, machine-learning, software, sv angel
Fortem Technologies raises a $50.0M Series B round — $50M — Fortem Technologies is the leader in airspace awareness, security, and defense for detecting and defeating dangerous drones. Through an advanced, end to end system of... $50m+, aerospace, lockheed martin, manufacturing, security, unusual machines
Hundred launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — 100% automated inspection for consumer electronics parts computer-vision, hard-tech, hardware, industrial, industrials, machine-learning, yc
Dydema launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — The model company for neurotech. ai, b2b, neuroinformatics, neurotechnology, yc
OpenSEO launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Open source alternative to Semrush and Ahrefs b2b, marketing, open-source, seo, yc
Quartermaster raises a $140.0M Series B round — $140M — Quartermaster is an Arlington, Virginia-based startup that is developing a maritime sensing solution called SmartMast. This technology consists of advanced sensors that provide... $100m+, boxgroup, first round capital, insight partners, operator partners, overmatch ventures, public-safety, quiet capital, steel atlas, stifel, tmv logistics
RemoteThreat raises a $7.0M Seed round — $7M — RemoteThreat is an AI-enabled offensive cyber operations platform company founded by security veterans Chris Thompson and Shawn Jones. The company's O/C/O Platform is a fully... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, cyber-security, information-technology, software

#41 · Motive raises $1.3B and Modal raises $750.0M

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Motive raised $1.3B for its platform unifying safety, operations and finance for fleets and physical operations, which the company says serves over 120,000 customers across transportation, construction, energy and retail. Modal raised $750.0M for its code-first compute platform for AI and machine learning workloads, and Presto raised $10.0M for restaurant drive-thru voice AI.

Cool Company Raises

HABU launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Like Crosby, but for real estate development hard-tech, housing, real-estate, real-estate-and-construction, yc
Motive Technologies raises a $1.3B round — $1.3B — Motive empowers those who run physical operations with tools to enhance safety, productivity, and profitability. The platform unifies safety, operations, and finance functions,... $100m+, general catalyst, information-technology
Presto raises a $10.0M round — $10M — Presto is the Voice AI market leader for restaurant drive-thrus. Presto’s products increase revenue, decrease labor costs, improve staff productivity, and standardize/enhance... $10m+, information-technology, remus capital, software
Modal raises a $750.0M round — $750M — Modal is a company that provides a global, code-first compute platform built specifically for AI and machine learning workloads. Its platform supports the full machine learning... $100m+, accel, information-technology-services, software

#40 · Versine launches agent sign-in with user consent

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Versine launched a service that lets AI agents sign users in and sign them up, with what the company says is user-controlled identity and consent. ALGAL, a programming language and VM for agent programs that wait for approval and leave receipts you can replay, was published on GitHub.

Interesting

AI NPCs for FiveM | Humalike — Fill your FiveM server with AI characters that talk, remember and react, keeping meaningful roleplay within reach even when other players aren’t around. cool as f, npc life, world models

Dev Tools

hraness/algal — ALGAL is a programming language and VM for AI agent programs that wait for approval and leave receipts you can replay autonomous orgs
Versine — Autonomous authentication for agents — Versine helps agents sign users in and sign them up with user-controlled identity and consent. authentication, qa

#39 · Fireworks AI raises $1.5B Series D

Tue, 29 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Fireworks AI raised a $1.5B Series D for its cloud for building, tuning and scaling open models, which it says powers production workloads at Uber, DoorDash, Notion and Cursor. Tekever raised a $580.0M Series D led by UC Investments and Baillie Gifford at a $6.4B valuation for its defence drones.

Interesting

First Principles Thinking — On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly. first principles, mental models

Dev Tools

Odyssey — Odyssey is an AI lab pioneering general world models: causal, multimodal systems that learn to understand and simulate the world. world models
Meet Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform — Stripe's Knowledge AI Platform is our versatile AI agent platform built to handle diverse non-coding knowledge work, from quick queries to complex, multi-day projects. By... documentation, stripe
A deep dive into pstack — pstack turns Cursor into a rigorous engineering workflow with playbooks, specialist skills, multi-model review, and runtime verification. autonomous orgs, loops

Cool Company Raises

BigHat Biosciences raises a $75.0M Series C round — $75M — BigHat’s mission is to improve human health by making it far easier to design advanced, next-generation antibody therapeutics. Our AI-enabled experimental platform integrates a... $50m+, biotechnology
OpEra launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Automated operations research (OR) lab ai, b2b, logistics, manufacturing, operations, supply-chain, yc
Go.AI raises a $85.0M Series A round — $85M — Go.AI is a provider of an on-premises, examiner-ready AI infrastructure platform designed for regulated industries. The company enables institutions to deploy AI securely and... $50m+, artificial-intelligence, machine-learning, software
Solcoa Industries raises a $75.0M round — $75M — Solcoa Industries is a rare earth metals producer based in Alameda, CA. Founded in 2025, the company develops halide-free chemistries, engineers processes, and builds and... $50m+, biotechnology, manufacturing
Fireworks AI raises a $1.5B Series D round — $1.5B — Fireworks is the fastest way to build, tune, and scale AI on open models. Ship production-ready AI in seconds on our globally distributed cloud infrastructure, optimized for... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, information-technology-services, software
Island raises a $400.0M round — $400M — What if the enterprise had complete control over the browser? What would it mean for security, for productivity, for work itself? Introducing Island, the Enterprise Browser -... $100m+, evolution equity partners
Dextr AI raises a $6.7M Seed round — $6.7M — Dextr AI is a hospitality-focused AI startup that develops and deploys AI agents for hotels, resorts, and spas. The platform handles voice AI, guest management, back-office... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, elevation capital, foundation capital, hospitality, machine-learning
Tekever raises a $580.0M Series D round — $580M — Tekever is a Portuguese-British maker of AI-powered unmanned aerial systems for defence and security surveillance, battle-tested in Ukraine and selected by the UK Ministry of... $100m+, ai, baillie gifford, crescent cove, defense, drones, merlyn advisors, uc investments
Pendulum Robotics launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Quick-turn, purpose-built motors & actuators for all drones, electronics, hard-tech, industrials, manufacturing, robotics, yc
Elimentary launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Agents that run middle/back-office operations for Private Capital enterprise, finops, fintech, yc
American Supercritical raises a $8.0M Pre-Seed round — $8M — American Supercritical is focused on advancing technology to commercialize supercritical CO2. The company aims to innovate the energy sector by improving efficiency in power... $1m+, energy, oil-and-gas, renewable-energy

#38 · Cyclon launches at YC with an AI-first phone

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Cyclon launched out of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch with a phone that uses AI as the interface. The company is the only new raise on today's list.

Cool Company Raises

Cyclon launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — a phone where AI is the interface ai, consumer, hardware, yc

#37 · Rainmaker raises $100.0M for cloud-seeding drones

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Rainmaker Technology Corporation raised a $100.0M Series B for its weather-resistant cloud-seeding drones, which the El Segundo company says it validates with proprietary radar. Catena Labs raised a $30.0M Series A to build a licensed financial institution that gives AI agents a way to identify themselves and move money.

Interesting

Sell to State — AI-powered government procurement intelligence platform covering 194 countries. finance data, government contracts
ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector — OpenAI's ad collector at bzr.openai.com sets a cookie called __obi, scoped to .openai.com. The value is while you are on ChatGPT and tied to your ChatGPT account. __obi is then... adtech

Cool Company Raises

Spott raises a $21.0M Series A round — $21M — Spott is an AI-native recruiting platform aimed at transforming how recruitment agencies operate. The startup focuses on automating entire workflows to streamline daily... $10m+, balderton capital, base10 partners, fortino, software, y combinator
Bryel launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Devin for AI Research Engineering ai, b2b, yc
Grep AI launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — AI agents that automate high-stakes knowledge work you can't afford… ai, b2b, fintech, yc
Catena Labs raises a $30.0M Series A round — $30M — Catena Labs is building the first AI-native financial institution to provide the financial infrastructure and services AI systems need to conduct commerce. We’re giving AI... $10m+, a16z crypto, acrew capital, artificial-intelligence, information-technology, oak hc/ft
Notes.fm raises a $5.0M round — $5M — Notes.fm is a music royalty collection platform designed to help independent artists and music companies identify and collect 100% of their royalties. Founded by Tim Luckow,... $1m+, music
Rainmaker Technology Corporation raises a $100.0M Series B round — $100M — Rainmaker Technology Corporation is a next-generation cloud seeding company based in El Segundo, Calif. The company uses weather-resistant drones to produce additional... $100m+, agriculture-and-farming, dcvc, dream ventures, lowercarbon capital, noa vc, upfront ventures

#36 · NEX raises $150.0M for computer vision sports apps

Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

NEX, the computer vision company behind HomeCourt and Active Arcade, raised $150.0M. Geothermal operator Mazama Energy raised a $135.0M Series B to extract heat from superhot rocks, and Cloudflare published a coding-agent skill that runs multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings.

Interesting

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work meat proxies

Dev Tools

cloudflare/security-audit-skill: A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings — A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings - cloudflare/security-audit-skill cybersec

Cool Company Raises

GrayPass launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Verify that the expected person is in control before key actions. b2b, biometrics, identity, infrastructure, yc
Faraday launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Industrial aOS between humans, agents, and robots artificial-intelligence, b2b, enterprise-software, industrials, manufacturing, robotics, yc
Invertix launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Energy Superintelligence, AI that runs energy operations. artificial-intelligence, generative-ai, industrials, solar-power, yc
Mazama Energy raises a $135.0M Series B round — $135M — Mazama Energy is a geothermal operator and development company dedicated to advancing technologies and methods for extracting heat from superhot rocks to generate utility-scale,... $100m+, biomass-energy, energy, khosla ventures, oil-and-gas, renewable-energy
Mainstay raises a $18.0M round — $18M — Mainstay is a comprehensive market intelligence and transaction platform for the single-family rental industry. It aims to provide actionable insights to all market participants... $10m+, alpaca vc, clocktower technology ventures, era ventures, fj labs, hospitality, khosla ventures, parker89, real-estate, stackpoint
NEX raises a $150.0M round — $150M — Nex Team Inc., the computer vision company behind HomeCourt, Active Arcade, Party Fowl, Starri, Peppa Pig: Jump and Giggle, and Miniatics, was founded in 2017 by second time... $100m+, media-and-entertainment, software
Antfly raises a $2.0M Seed round — $2M — Antfly is developing a retrieval engine designed for AI applications. Their technology is aimed at providing a self-hosted solution, along with a fully managed service called... $1m+, 8 bit capital, artificial-intelligence, heavybit, machine-learning
Magentic raises a $18.0M Series A round — $18M — Magentic is an AI agent platform that identifies savings across global manufacturing supply chains. It integrates ready-to-use AI agents tailored for procurement and supply... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, felicis, sequoia capital, software, the westly group
Throne Labs raises a $14.1M round — $14.1M — Throne Labs is transforming public restroom access with data-driven, inclusive smart restrooms that prioritize cleanliness and reliability. Its innovative, utility-free units... $10m+, health-care, other
Whisper Aero raises a $46.3M round — $46.3M — Delivering the next generation of cleaner, quieter, more efficient thrust for drones, jets, and more $10m+, energy
Oasive launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Automating research, valuation, and reporting for the bond market finops, fintech, investments, yc

#35 · Impulse Space raises $308.0M for in-space transport

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Impulse Space raised a $308.0M Series D for its Mira and Helios in-space transportation vehicles, which carry payloads from LEO to GEO, lunar and heliocentric orbits. Daytona raised $48.0M in a Series B for isolated infrastructure that runs AI-generated code, and AIUC raised a $40.0M Series A for AI agent insurance and audits.

Interesting

On learning programming in an age of LLMs — Open answers to a reader's letter. programming

Dev Tools

AIUC-1 | The world's first AI agent standard — AIUC-1 is the world's first AI agent standard. Designed to unlock enterprise adoption. Covers all enterprise concerns. Built with trusted institutions. agent insurance

Cool Company Raises

Multiply Labs, Inc. raises a $75.0M Series B round — $75M — Multiply Labs develops advanced robotic systems that manufacture individualized drugs at scale. Our products are enabled by the combination of pharmaceutical science with... $50m+, astra zeneca ventures, casdin capital, founders fund, information-technology, legend biotech, lingotto, lux capital, strange ventures
Daytona raises a $48.0M Series B round — $48M — Daytona provides a secure, scalable infrastructure for executing AI-generated code. Our platform delivers instant environment creation, complete isolation, and enterprise-grade... $10m+, software
Lark launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Lark - Specialized agents for wholesale distributors ai, b2b, industrials, supply-chain, yc
Memorable launches at YC (Summer 2027) — YC S27 — Self-evolving workflows for AI agents b2b, developer-tools, infrastructure, yc
Perit.AI launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Expert-led data and RL platform for AI labs b2b, data-labeling, yc
Impulse Space raises a $308.0M Series D round — $308M — Impulse Space, the in-space transportation company founded by Tom Mueller, is opening access beyond Low Earth Orbit (LEO) with its fleet of in-space transportation vehicles. The... $100m+, 137 ventures, banner vc, dfj growth, linse capital, logistics, lux capital, other, transportation, valor equity partners
Terviva raises a $23.2M round — $23.2M — Terviva is a food and agriculture company that delivers tasty and nourishing plant-based food ingredients from the pongamia tree. We provide patented high-yielding trees and... $10m+, agriculture-and-farming, farming, food-and-beverage
Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company raises a $40.0M Series A round — $40M — The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) focuses on providing insurance coverage and rigorous safety standards to help enterprises deploy artificial intelligence... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, first harmonic, information-technology, machine-learning, ribbit capital

#34 · Base Power raises $1.0B for distributed grid batteries

Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Base Power raised $1.0B to deploy a nationwide network of distributed batteries across the US grid. Factory, which sells agent-native development tooling it calls Droids, raised $200.0M, and TypeSafe AI, a lab founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, raised a $40.0M seed.

Interesting

Instinct — Instinct is a personal assistant that understands your work and takes action across your applications and devices. imessage, personal assistant, poke alternative
Introducing System One Models and Jev - TypeSafe AI Blog — TypeSafe AI is a new AI lab operating in stealth frontier, models
why i'm still bearish on LLMs after navier-stokes | jay kruer llms, mathematics, navier-stokes
dario, please! - POP RDI; RET; — Your favourite ROP gadget funny
Why we built Pion | Andon Labs — Pion is the platform we built to run our autonomous businesses. Today we are opening it up so many more people can experiment with autonomous businesses, and here is why. autonomous orgs

Cool Company Raises

Base Power raises a $1.0B round — $1B — Base is building the future of American power. The grid is the largest, most complex machine in the world. But it’s aging, struggling to keep up with today’s demand, and is... $100m+, energy, renewable-energy
Boxd raises a $2.0M Pre-Seed round — $2M — Boxd is a Dutch startup developing cloud infrastructure for AI coding agents and developers. The company provides virtual machines that allow multiple agents to execute code,... $1m+, antler, artificial-intelligence, blue yard capital, cloud-infrastructure, general intuition, ovni capital, s20, script capital, software
Mithrl raises a $20.0M Series A round — $20M — Mithrl is an AI infrastructure company focused on the biopharma sector. It develops advanced platforms that utilize proprietary biomedical world models to optimize AI... $10m+, agi house, artificial-intelligence, biotechnology, headline, machine-learning, obvious ventures
Liquid Compute raises a $15.0M Seed round — $15M — Liquid Compute is a marketplace company focused on building regulated venues for trading AI infrastructure. The company emerged from stealth with significant seed funding to... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, blockchain, brainchild holdings, chemistry, dmitry balyasny, first mark, k8 capital, machine-learning, night capital, true bridge, ufo holdings
Scaffold raises a $15.0M Seed round — $15M — Scaffold is a software company that uses AI to automate coordination among trade contractors in the homebuilding industry. Its platform integrates with existing systems to... $10m+, builders first source, d.r. horton, grid capital, home technology ventures, ivy zelman, navitas capital, pulte homes, software, stage2 capital, windsor america
Factory raises a $200.0M round — $200M — Factory is pioneering agent-native development, a new way of building software that keeps developers in control of the important high-level details while agents – or Droids –... $100m+, blackstone, brad gerstner, clearlake, evantic capital, insight partners, khosla ventures, mantis vc, marc benioff, nea, nico rosberg, sequoia capital, software, sound ventures
TypeSafe AI raises a $40.0M Seed round — $40M — TypeSafe AI is a frontier AI lab focused on building machine-native, composable AI. Founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida and his team, the company aims to create a... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, dcvc, machine-learning, software
Interlune raises a $5.0M round — $5M — Interlune is a space resources company dedicated to leading the world in sustainable and responsible harvesting of natural resources from space, with the mission of benefiting... $1m+, aerospace, information-technology

#33 · Nuance Labs raises $50.0M Series A for audiovisual model

Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Seattle research lab Nuance Labs raised a $50.0M Series A led by returning investor Lightspeed Venture Partners, with NVIDIA and Define Ventures joining, to build a full-duplex audiovisual foundation model that generates speech, facial expression and body language from one system. BoomerangHR raised a $12.7M seed co-led by Kalos Ventures and Album Ventures.

Cool Company Raises

Papaya launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Papaya tunes AI agents that are already in production. You connect traces with a one-line SDK or hand over raw data, and it runs 200+ research-backed analyses across thousands... ai, aiops, b2b, enterprise-software, infrastructure, yc
Agent 37 launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Agent 37 runs coding agents as always-on hosted sandboxes, so you host neither the machine nor the state. One POST to /v1/instances provisions an isolated environment with its... ai, b2b, developer-tools, saas, yc
BoomerangHR raises a $12.7M Seed round — $12.7M — BoomerangHR turns the people who leave a company into its next hires. The platform automates offboarding — exit compliance, COBRA, 401k rollovers, equipment returns — then keeps... $10m+, album ventures, artificial-intelligence, capital eleven, enterprise-software, information-technology, kalos ventures, monta vista capital, saas, software, strada education foundation
Nuance Labs raises a $50.0M Series A round — $50M — Nuance Labs is a Seattle AI research lab building a full-duplex audiovisual foundation model for human conversation. Instead of chaining transcription, a language model, voice... $50m+, accel, artificial-intelligence, biotechnology, define ventures, lightspeed venture partners, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, nvidia, south park commons

#32 · Paul Graham publishes 'Making Startups Powerful'

Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Paul Graham posted a great new essay, "Making Startups Powerful," on paulgraham.com. It is the only item in today's brief. And worth a read.

Interesting

Making Startups Powerful paul graham

#31 · Maven Robotics raises $100.0M Series A for industrial robots

Tue, 15 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Maven Robotics raised a $100.0M Series A for the general-purpose robotics system it builds for logistics and manufacturing work. Archy raised $50.0M in a Series C for its all-in-one cloud platform for dental practices, and Impossible Objects raised $40.0M in a Series B for its composite 3D printing systems.

Interesting

Declaration — Math and AI — Read the declaration and add your name. mathematics
Security cybersec, funny
Software Drives People Insane — I have a little pet theory that software drives people insane. Not in the "wash your hands every thirty minutes like Howard Hughes" kind of way, but more ... funny, mental health
Opusfived — Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing. funny, parody

Dev Tools

realiti4/claude-swap: Switch between multiple Claude Code accounts — Switch between multiple Claude Code accounts token productivity
asd-ste100 — ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and the reply shape a reader with ADHD can act on. A standing style rule, not an on-request tool. Layer 1 governs the words of every... copywriting, deslop

Cool Company Raises

Vyra launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Vyra is an AI video editor that turns raw footage into finished video. You describe the edit in plain language — "cut my clips to the beat and make a color wheel edit" — and... automation, consumer, smb, video, yc
Impossible Objects raises a $40.0M round — $40M — Impossible Objects, based in Northbrook, IL, makes Composite-Based Additive Manufacturing (CBAM) systems that bring 3D printing to industrial-scale production. Its CBAM 25... $10m+, 3d-printing, manufacturing
Archy raises a $50.0M Series C round — $50M — Archy is an all-in-one cloud platform that replaces virtual servers and patchwork of specialized tools, enabling scheduling, charting, imaging, billing, insurance, payments,... $50m+, alven, bessemer venture partners, crv, entrée capital, health-care, jmi equity, software, tcv
Mirrors launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Mirrors builds runnable staging environments for AI agents. It captures production traces from an agent's real sessions, reconstructs a working twin of the internal tools and... ai, b2b, developer-tools, devops, saas, yc
Piston raises a $15.0M Series A round — $15M — Piston is a cardless payments platform that connects commercial fleets with gas stations, founded by former fleet owners Vikram Sekhon and Shivam Shah. The company has created a... $10m+, fpv ventures, pear vc, software, spark capital
Maven Robotics raises a $100.0M Series A round — $100M — Maven Robotics designs, builds, and deploys intelligent robotics for logistics and manufacturing. They created the world's first general-purpose robotics system for industrial... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, industrial-automation, local globe, manufacturing, robo strategy, robotics, software, vine ventures, xtx ventures
R3 Lithium raises a $15.0M Series A round — $15M — R3 Lithium produces lithium carbonate from 100% recycled battery materials at its facility in Covington, Georgia. The company operates a 154,000-square-foot plant designed to... $10m+, manufacturing, renewable-energy

#30 · Bulwark Dynamics raises $6.8M for autonomous landing craft

Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Bulwark Dynamics raised a $6.8M seed for its Caravel uncrewed landing craft, which deliver cargo to shore without a port or pier, and signed an MOU with new investor Onomichi Dockyard to build in Japan. Onix raised a $5.0M pre-seed led by Alpha Edison for an assistant trained on licensed knowledge from named health practitioners.

Cool Company Raises

Onix raises a $5.0M Seed round — $5M — Onix is a Montreal consumer AI company building Personal Intelligence: a private assistant trained on licensed knowledge from named health and wellness practitioners rather than... $1m+, alpha edison, artificial-intelligence, garage capital, information-technology, jean sébastien cournoyer, jeremy zimmer, ride home fund
Bulwark Dynamics raises a $6.8M Seed round — $6.8M — Bulwark Dynamics builds the Caravel series of uncrewed autonomous landing craft — vessels that carry cargo to shore without a port, pier or crane. A 15-foot prototype has... $1m+, archetype ventures, logistics, nēnē ventures, onomichi dockyard, sbi us gateway fund lp

#29 · Cognition raises $2.0B at a $48B valuation

Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Cognition, maker of Devin, raised a $2.0B Series E at a $48B valuation, roughly double its May 2026 mark, against a revenue run rate approaching $900M. Stoke Space raised $1.0B for reusable rockets, and Celero Communications raised a $275.0M Series C for coherent DSPs in AI data center optics.

Dev Tools

ayghri/i-have-adhd: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. — A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. - ayghri/i-have-adhd claude code, harness engineering

Cool Company Raises

SuperRadiant launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — SuperRadiant builds Embodied Scientific Intelligence: general-purpose robotic experimentalists that observe, form hypotheses and run experiments in the physical world. The... advanced-materials, ai, biotechnology, energy, industrials, robotics, yc
Bluecore Energy raises a $50.0M Seed round — $50M — Bluecore Energy builds small modular nuclear reactors mounted on floating barges, delivering clean baseload power to ports and the infrastructure around them. Founded in 2026 by... $50m+, commerce-and-shopping, other
ORO AI launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — ORO AI runs an open benchmark for agentic commerce: builders submit shopping agents that independent validators score against problems that change daily, the best performers... artificial-intelligence, b2b, consumer-products, crypto-web3, yc
Stoke Space raises a $1.0B round — $1B — Stoke Space is a pioneering aerospace company on a mission to build 100% reusable rockets and redefine space mobility. By empowering top industry talent with ownership and... $100m+, aerospace, general innovation, glade brook capital, manufacturing, point72 ventures, satellite-communication, spark capital, transportation, travel, us innovative technology fund, washington harbour partners, woven capital, y combinator
Poseidon Aerospace raises a $60.0M Series A round — $60M — Poseidon Aerospace is developing unmanned cargo aircraft for aerologistics, focusing on cost-effective cargo transportation rather than flashy technology. The company is... $50m+, aerospace, draper associates, drover ventures, g squared, hanwha asset management, jaws, starship ventures, tq ventures, transportation
Celero Communications raises a $275.0M Series C round — $275M — Celero Communications develops advanced coherent DSP solutions that enable high-bandwidth, low-power optical connectivity for AI infrastructure. Founded in 2024 by industry... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, atreides management, capital g, information-technology, maverick silicon, sutter hill ventures, valor equity partners
Cognition AI raises a $2.0B round — $2B — Cognition is the maker of Devin, the first autonomous AI software engineer, which plans, writes, tests and ships production code inside existing developer workflows. The company... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, information-technology-services, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, software
Antioch raises a $32.0M Series A round — $32M — Antioch moves robotics development and validation out of hardware-in-the-loop rigs and into high-fidelity simulation, calibrating the simulator to a customer's own hardware and... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, robotics, software

#28 · Halmos Labs joins YC Fall 2026 with experiment design AI

Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Halmos Labs, founded this year in Lund, Sweden by Mattias Akke and Linus von Ekensteen Lofgren, launched out of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch with software that picks which experiment would cut uncertainty most. The company says it runs parallel analyses under many possible assumptions, with early work in wet-lab design and cancer vaccine manufacturing.

Cool Company Raises

Halmos Labs launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Halmos Labs builds autonomous systems for scientific research: intelligent experimental design software that works out which experiment would reduce uncertainty most, so labs... ai-powered-drug-discovery, biotech, healthcare, swarm-ai, yc

#27 · Dreamscale Labs launches at YC, claims 40-50% lower latency

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Dreamscale Labs launched out of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch with a cloud inference platform for robotics, letting teams offload physical AI models too large for on-robot GPUs and serving them back at real-time latency. The company says it is hitting 40-50% lower latency than existing neoclouds, and its first product is Dropbear.

Cool Company Raises

Dreamscale Labs launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Dreamscale Labs is building the fastest cloud inference platform for robotics. As complex physical AI models become too large to fit on expensive on-robot GPUs, Dreamscale lets... artificial-intelligence, industrials, infrastructure, robotics, yc

#26 · Medici Brands raises $250.0M Series B

Tue, 08 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Medici Brands, the consumer group behind the high-protein food brand David Protein and the confectionery brand HallPass, raised a $250.0M Series B. Ollie, a privacy-first household AI assistant that runs over group chat, raised a $7.5M seed led by Khosla Ventures with AI House.

Interesting

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems — AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve. code review, incident management
Large-Language Models as a Cognitive Virus — Large-language models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of human culture, reshaping how information is produced, transmitted, and used. Here we propose that their diffusion can... mental health
Any Human Ever — One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived. thought experiments

Dev Tools

OpenTrailPaper — Open-source bike computer firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 4.7" E-Paper PRO, with offline maps, GPX routes, FIT recording and Bluetooth sensors. cool as f, e-paper, open source

Cool Company Raises

Sinter launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Accelerating scaled plastics with additive technologies 3d-printing, advanced-materials, industrials, manufacturing, yc
Ollie raises a $7.5M Seed round — $7.5M — Ollie is a privacy-first personal AI assistant for households, run over group chat. It handles scheduling, meal planning, grocery shopping, task tracking, appointment booking... $1m+, ai house, information-technology, khosla ventures, other
Helogen raises a $7.1M Seed round — $7.1M — Helogen manufactures advanced biomaterials in orbit and returns them to Earth, building autonomous space factories for materials that are difficult or impossible to make under... $1m+, blisce, information-technology, oceans, one way ventures, other, rre ventures
Medici Brands raises a $250.0M Series B round — $250M — Medici Brands creates progress by rethinking the products of the past. Its portfolio includes David Protein, a high-protein food brand, and HallPass, a confectionery brand that... $100m+, food-and-beverage, food-processing, greenoaks, iconiq, imaginary ventures, peter rahal, valor equity partners
OnePatch launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — OnePatch is a forward-deployed AI SRE that automates on-call at agent scale. It instruments your services, watches how they actually behave in production, catches incidents, and... ai, automation, b2b, devops, yc

#25 · Lyte raises $165.0M Series C for robotics perception

Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Lyte raised a $165.0M Series C for LyteVision, its integrated 4D sensing platform for robotics, built by founders who worked on Apple Face ID and Microsoft Kinect. Aslan Protects, a Washington, D.C. defense startup founded in 2025, raised a $20.8M seed for a cyber intelligence platform run by human-supervised autonomous AI operatives.

Interesting

CS146S: The Modern Software Developer - Stanford University ai engineering, learning
Stanford CS329Z | Engineering AI Agents — Official course website for Stanford CS329Z: Engineering AI Agents — schedule, deadlines, coursework, project, and logistics. ai engineering, learning
The Emergent Symbolic Structure of Artificial Neural Networks — Modern systems in artificial intelligence (AI) somehow excel in domains for which they seem poorly suited. Intelligence has traditionally been modeled as operating over... neural networks
i wanna live an npc life — the general consensus around being an npc is that you’re giving up your autonomy—essentially becoming a side character in someone else's story or watching li... minimalism, npc life

Cool Company Raises

Fambot raises a $3.5M Pre-Seed round — $3.5M — Fambot is an AI company based in San Francisco that provides an automated chief of staff for family logistics. Founded by veterans from Uber, Instagram, and Google, it aims to... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, baukunst, correlation ventures, founders network, karman ventures, machine-learning, messaging, next view ventures, saas, software
Aslan Protects raises a $20.8M Seed round — $20.8M — Aslan Protects is a defense technology and cyber intelligence startup based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2025, it develops a specialized cyber defense and intelligence... $10m+, 2048 ventures, alumni ventures, artificial-intelligence, box group, cyber-security, information-technology, khosla ventures, liquid 2 ventures, machine-learning, software, xyz venture capital
Lyte raises a $165.0M Series C round — $165M — Lyte is an end-to-end integrated perception company for robotics and Physical AI, focused on enabling machines to see, understand, and operate safely in the physical world.... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, information-technology, maverick silicon, robotics, software

#24 · Owner.com raises $240.0M Series D for restaurant software

Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Owner.com raised a $240.0M Series D for software that helps independent restaurants grow online. Physical Superintelligence raised a $58.0M seed to build a physics research lab run by AI-driven virtual physicists, and says it is the founding technical partner for the first privately funded interstellar space mission.

Dev Tools

World Labs — World Labs is a spatial intelligence company, building frontier models that can perceive, generate, and interact with the 3D world. world models

Cool Company Raises

Orca Aerospace launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — AI spacecraft operator that lives onboard the vehicle. aiops, industrials, satellites, space-exploration, yc
Physical Superintelligence raises a $58.0M Seed round — $58M — Physical Superintelligence (PSI) is creating the world's most advanced physics research lab, focused on discovering new physical laws and engineering systems beyond human... $50m+, a16z scout fund, anthony scaramucci, artificial-intelligence, balaji srinivasan, breakthrough energy ventures, dragon global, hugging face, jump capital, nvidia, open ai, oracle, robot ventures, ron conway's sv angel, soft bank energy, software, solari, susa, valkyrie
Norbert Health raises a $14.0M Series A round — $14M — Norbert Health builds autonomous robotic nursing assistants. Norbert is a contactless, multimodal vital-sign scanner and autonomous care manager that rounds, senses, documents... $10m+, alexis le quoc, cardinal group, care it, exor seeds, olivier pomel, saeju jeong, thomas clozel, william a. marino
Newlight raises a $9.0M Seed round — $9M — Newlight builds hydrogen-injection plug-ins for cargo ships that cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions by over 20% without a dry-dock installation. On an 8,500-nautical-mile... $1m+, bird energy, ci ri ventures, fusion vc, lomarlabs, manufacturing, undeterred capital
Owner.com raises a $240.0M Series D round — $240M — Owner.com makes online growth easy for restaurants. Our software helps local restaurants compete — and win against — big national brands. Independent restaurants choose us... $100m+, growth equity at goldman sachs alternatives, headline, information-technology-services, jack altman, meritech, redpoint, software

#23 · Odyssey Energy raises $74.0M for solar financing

Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

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

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. design inspiration, local models

Cool Company Raises

Odyssey Energy Solutions raises a $74.0M round — $74M — Odyssey’s mission is to radically accelerate capital deployment into distributed energy to get more projects built, faster. Odyssey brings together solar companies and... $50m+, abstract ventures, al mada ventures, bio, british international investment, broadscale group, cygnum capital, energy, equal ventures, fj labs, fmo, mcj, transition ventures, triple jump, twelve below, union square ventures
Maritime launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — The managed cloud for AI agents. b2b, cloud-computing, developer-tools, infrastructure, yc
Asakana launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — AI order entry for food distributors: emails and texts to ERP consumer, food-beverage, saas, yc
Ascii launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — The best cloud VMs for billions of agents b2b, cloud-computing, developer-tools, yc
Frontier Computing launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Frontier grows scalable biological brains as an ML training substrate artificial-intelligence, hard-tech, hardware, industrials, yc
Lone Palm Labs raises a $21.0M Series A round — $21M — 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... $10m+, box group, coalition, conviction, copper, dylan field, imaginary ventures, photo-sharing, photography, positive sum, scribble ventures, social-media, thrive capital, uncommon projects
Molten Salt Solutions raises a $7.0M Seed round — $7M — 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... $1m+, alumni ventures, dolby family ventures, future ventures, gaingels, information-technology, true ventures, vanedge capital partners
Diffraqtion raises a $10.0M Pre-Seed round — $10M — Diffraqtion is a Massachusetts-based startup focused on developing quantum cameras for space applications. The company combines quantum imaging technology with artificial... $10m+, adin, aether vc, artificial-intelligence, collaborative fund, ground state ventures, lockheed martin ventures, milemark•capital, plug and play, presidio ventures, sbi us gateway fund, tek ventures
Reframe Systems raises a $40.0M round — $40M — 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... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, counterpart ventures, e12 ventures, energy impact partners, global brain, laci impact fund, machine-learning, manufacturing, software, thin line capital, up partners
Blue Voice raises a $6.0M Seed round — $6M — 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.... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, las olas vc, law-enforcement, legal, legal-tech, signal fire, software

#22 · Three startups launch out of YC's Fall 2026 batch

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Three companies launched out of Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch: Nodus, an intelligent execution layer for AI workloads; Workers IO, selling deterministic virtual machines; and The Subvocal Company, which lets users talk to a computer without talking. Dwarkesh Patel published "The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations," an account of the OpenAI/Hugging Face story.

Interesting

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations — The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English cybersec, openai

Cool Company Raises

Nodus launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Intelligent execution layer for AI workloads artificial-intelligence, b2b, infrastructure, yc
The Subvocal Company launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Talk to your computer without talking consumer, hard-tech, yc
Workers IO launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Deterministic Virtual Machines ai, b2b, developer-tools, yc

#21 · REGENT raises $240.0M Series B for electric seagliders

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 04:42:00 +0000

REGENT raised a $240.0M Series B for its all-electric seagliders, wing-in-ground-effect craft the company says will serve routes up to 180 miles on existing battery technology using current dock infrastructure. Cyclic Materials raised $75.0M for critical metals recycling, and Pollen Robotics opened pre-orders at $399 for Microduck, a 25 cm open-source biped.

Interesting

Microduck - A tiny biped robot you can teach new tricks | Pollen Robotics — Microduck is a 25 cm biped robot with 15 motors, a camera, LiDAR and a grasping beak. Playable out of the box, and its open-source stack lets you train new behaviours in... robotics
The choices we make about AI now are critical | Bill Gates — AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice. We need to start planning now so it makes the world a fairer place. ai risk, bill gates

Dev Tools

Nebula Sans — Nebula Sans is the brand typeface for Nebula, available under the SIL Open Font License. font faces, nebula sans

Cool Company Raises

Levanta raises a $22.0M round — $22M — Levanta is a leading affiliate marketing platform designed to help Amazon sellers unlock growth through creator-driven commerce. By connecting sellers with a network of vetted... $10m+, internet, volition capital
REGENT raises a $240.0M Series B round — $240M — REGENT’s seagliders will revolutionize regional transportation. Our mission is to drastically reduce the cost and headache of moving people and goods between coastal cities. Our... $100m+, ae ventures, caffeinated capital, consumer-goods, dcvc, erebor bank, food-and-beverage, founders fund, giant step capital, japan airlines, lockheed martin ventures, mare liberum, mobile, transportation
Cyclic Materials raises a $75.0M round — $75M — Cyclic Materials helps businesses recycle, provides the market with a secure and local supply of critical metals, and does so in an ethical, economic, and sustainable way. $50m+

#20 · Instinct raises $250.0M at a $2.5B valuation

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Instinct, an AI assistant that connects a user's apps and devices and takes instructions by text message and phone call, raised a $250.0M Series B led by Index Ventures and Benchmark at a $2.5B valuation, taking total funding to $350M. 3D-printing construction company ICON raised $115.0M.

Cool Company Raises

Instinct raises a $250.0M Series B round — $250M — Instinct is an AI assistant built to organize your life: users connect their apps and devices and talk to it by text message and phone call. Founded by Noah Shinn and operated... $100m+, benchmark, biotechnology, health-care, index ventures
Talos launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Talos builds predictive maintenance for power infrastructure. It continuously monitors critical power equipment, detects meaningful changes in behaviour, and tells teams where... deep-learning, energy, industrials, iot, yc
VeryAI raises a $10.0M Seed round — $10M — VeryAI is a Proof of Reality platform providing biometric-based identity verification. Founded by experts in biometrics, crypto, and AI, the company focuses on securely... $10m+, anagram, artificial-intelligence, berggruen institute, biometrics, machine-learning, polychain capital
Voya Energy raises a $35.0M Series A round — $35M — Voya Energy is focused on innovative energy solutions, unveiling a proprietary aluminum-based metal fuel system paired with an electrochemical generator. This technology aims to... $10m+, energy, energy impact partners, founders fund, john doerr, mantis vc, manufacturing, overmatch, renewable-energy, seven stars, step stone
SiFly Aviation raises a $20.0M Series A round — $20M — SiFly delivers helicopter-like performance at drone economics through long-endurance autonomous aerial systems. Its cloud-connected, U.S.-made platforms enable persistent... $10m+, alumni ventures, bbk capital, information-technology, qudit, shield capital, software
Deep Cogito raises a $43.0M Series A round — $43M — Deep Cogito is a San Francisco AI research company building general superintelligence. Its research centres on advanced reasoning and iterative self-improvement — models that... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, atreides management, benchmark, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, nexus venture partners, saas, software, south park commons, tq ventures, zscaler
Corvus Robotics raises a $20.0M round — $20M — Corvus Robotics builds physical AI agents for large scale supply chain environments, enabling companies to understand and coordinate inventory operations in real time. Built in... $10m+, catalyst investors, cibus capital, f7 ventures, logistics, other, s2 g investments, spero ventures, transportation
ICON raises a $115.0M round — $115M — ICON is a construction technology company developing robotic and AI systems to lower the cost and increase the speed and quality of construction to tackle the global housing... $100m+, information-technology

#19 · Gatik raises $200.0M Series D for driverless trucking

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Gatik raised a $200.0M Series D for its autonomous middle-mile trucking fleet, which runs short-haul B2B deliveries for customers including Kroger, Walmart, Loblaw and Tyson Foods. Bengaluru-based Airbound raised a $37.0M Series A for its vertical-takeoff cargo aircraft, funding a three-city drone delivery network in Andhra Pradesh after more than 13,000 autonomous flights.

Interesting

SpaceX Starbase LA — A spaceport on the Louisiana Gulf Coast enabling a multiplanetary future spacex, star port, starbase
Black hole singularity is a surface not a point — It is widely repeated in the popular literature and elsewhere that the singularity at the center of a black hole is a point. It is not true. Two observers who free-fall into a... astrophysics

Cool Company Raises

TerraBlaster raises a $12.5M Seed round — $12.5M — TerraBlaster builds laser-based soil sensors that read nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and pH in real time as a tractor or ATV drives the field, at resolutions down to 0.15... $10m+, ag startup engine, bidra, builders vision, farming, grain innovate, hort innovation venture fund, khosla ventures, manufacturing, plug and play, reservoir, sunna, trailhead capital, ulu ventures
Gatik raises a $200.0M Series D round — $200M — Gatik, the leader in autonomous middle mile logistics, delivers goods safely and efficiently using its fleet of light and medium duty trucks. The company focuses on short-haul,... $100m+, ark invest, intact private capital, koch disruptive technologies, millennium management, qatar investment authority, transportation
Airbound raises a $37.0M Series A round — $37M — Airbound builds autonomous, zero-infrastructure delivery aircraft — engineered, manufactured, and flown in India. Its TRT blended-wing-body tailsitter takes off vertically... $10m+, doordash labs, drones, greenoaks, humba ventures, lachy groom, lightspeed venture partners, logistics, manufacturing, transportation

#18 · Greyparrot raises $27.0M for AI waste sorting

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Greyparrot, a London-based AI waste intelligence company whose camera units sit above recycling sorting belts and identify materials in real time, raised a $27.0M Series B led by Omar Mir, bringing total funding to $60M. Mantel raised $18.3M for molten-salt carbon capture, and Shipyard said its IPFS funding was cancelled.

Interesting

The Rise of the AI Engineer — Emergent capabilities are creating an emerging job title beyond the Prompt Engineer. ai coding, ai engineering, andrew ng, learning
AI Coding will Prevent Expertise | Lars Faye — The need for ongoing friction in long-term skill formation. ai coding, learning
The end of IPFS at Shipyard — We have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled ipfs

Cool Company Raises

Mantel raises a $18.3M round — $18.3M — Mantel is developing the first molten-salt based carbon capture technology. Our molten borates are designed to operate at the high temperatures found inside boilers, kilns, and... $10m+, manufacturing
Light Links raises a $6.0M Pre-Seed round — $6M — Light Links is an optical wireless communication company that has developed Wi-OW™, a technology that replaces traditional radio communication with invisible infrared light.... $1m+, anorak, crosscourt, hardware, mana, outlander, output capital, satellite-communication, wireless
Greyparrot raises a $27.0M Series B round — $27M — Greyparrot is a London-based AI waste intelligence company. Its Analyzer camera units sit above the sorting belts in recycling facilities and identify materials, products and... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, computer-vision, omar mir, recycling, sustainability, waste-management

#17 · Ethos launches at YC to make solar silicon on the Moon

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 04:42:00 +0000

Ethos Space Resources launched out of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch to make solar-grade silicon on the Moon, melting, electrolysing and purifying lunar regolith in hard vacuum. Spectre Intelligence, in the same batch, is a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders instead of hiring human ones and trades semiconductor and biotechnology sectors.

Cool Company Raises

Ethos Space Resources launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Ethos Space Resources makes solar-grade silicon on the Moon. Demand for AI compute is compounding toward a terawatt a year of new capacity, and once data centres head to orbit... 3d-printing, aerospace, energy, exascale-computing, hard-tech, industrials, yc
Spectre Intelligence launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Spectre Intelligence is a multi-strategy trading firm that trains AI traders instead of hiring human ones. An independent research and trading company built around reasoning... biotech, fintech, investing, semiconductors, trading, yc

#16 · Muon Space raises $250.0M Series C for satellites

Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:08:55 +0000

Muon Space raised a $250.0M Series C to build and operate mission-optimized satellite constellations on its Halo platform, serving commercial and national security customers from production facilities in Silicon Valley. MIT spinoff Apollo Atomics raised a $31.0M Seed for factory-built pressurized water reactors, and says it has signed letters of intent covering over 20 gigawatts.

Interesting

I'm becoming AI-blind - Rafal Cymerys — Recently I've been catching myself having these little moments at work, when I'm trying to read a document someone has sent me and my brain somehow refuses to analyze it. It... ai saturation
Computational Agents Exhibit Believable Humanlike Behavior | Stanford HAI — Generative agents rely on a large language model to remember their interactions, build relationships, and plan coordinated events, with implications for both gaming and social... cool as f, simulation, world models
Meet the man who bought a Ferrari Luce for $40m — An electric Ferrari upstaged California's big car event. We look at the man who bought it cars, optometrist

Dev Tools

Home | Simile — Simile is a simulation platform for human behavior. cool as f, simulation, world models

Cool Company Raises

idler raises a $9.0M Seed round — $9M — idler is a frontier data research lab and artificial intelligence evaluation platform based in San Francisco, CA. The company develops a comprehensive evaluation and... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, catheryn li, cyber-security, dan posch, feross aboukhadijeh, janine leger, lynett capital, machine-learning, manish chandra, nur bazylbekov, paradigm, smaiyl makyshov, software, y combinator
Muon Space raises a $250.0M Series C round — $250M — Muon Space, founded in 2021, is an end-to-end space systems company that designs, builds, and operates mission-optimized satellite constellations to deliver critical data and... $100m+, acme capital, activate capital, analytics, arc tern ventures, congruent ventures, costanoa ventures, data-and-analytics, eclipse capital, galvanize, google, i squared capital, information-technology, overlap holdings, radical ventures, salesforce ventures, wellington management, woven capital
Dirac Labs raises a $1.8M Seed round — $1.8M — Dirac Labs is a quantum-enabled navigation company focused on building sensors that can accurately determine location when GPS is unavailable. Their innovative diamond-based... $1m+, automotive ventures, balaji srinivasan, jude gomila, manufacturing, navigation, quantum edge ventures, riceberg ventures, software, titletown tech
Apollo Atomics raises a $31.0M Seed round — $31M — Apollo Atomics is an MIT spinoff focused on developing the next generation of pressurized water reactors (PWRs) designed for factory-based manufacturing. The company aims to... $10m+, alumni ventures, duke capital partners, energy, evan meagher, fcvc, manufacturing, matteo franceschetti, nucleation capital, paul graham, pelion vc, philip johnston, ray rothrock, renewable-energy, robinhood ventures, telesoft partners, y combinator

#15 · Ramp raises $750.0M for spend management

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:42:11 +0000

Ramp, which sells corporate cards and spend management software, raised $750.0M. Hybrid-electric aircraft startup Ampaire raised a $19.0M Series B, and router.com launched Ramp Router, an LLM gateway across OpenAI, Anthropic and open models that is free through 2026 and that the company says cuts inference costs by 40% on average.

Interesting

A taxonomy of moats — Value is created through innovation, but how much of that value accrues to the innovator depends partly on how quickly their competitors imitate the innovation. Innovators must... moat, value prop

Dev Tools

Ramp Router — An LLM gateway that cuts inference costs by 40% on average. One endpoint for OpenAI, Anthropic, and open models – routed automatically. Free through 2026. ai, ramp, router

Cool Company Raises

Studio launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Engineer the future ai, analytics, artificial-intelligence, b2b, yc
Blueprint raises a $1.4M Seed round — $1.4M — Blueprint is the producer of life-extension products designed specifically for human health and longevity purposes. The company designs, develops and manufactures premium extra... $1m+, a16z, health-care, medical
RAMP raises a $750.0M round — $750M — Ramp is a financial operations platform for businesses — corporate cards, expense management and bill payments, used to control and automate company spending. $100m+, finance, fintech, software
Ampaire raises a $19.0M Series B round — $19M — Ampaire is a Californian startup focused on developing hybrid-electric aircraft. The company aims to improve fuel efficiency and reduce emissions by retrofitting existing... $10m+, aerospace, alaska airlines, autodesk foundation impact fund, automotive, diamond stream partners, forward ventures, international air group, los angeles cleantech incubator impact fund, techstars ventures
Capveon launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — We help municipal government contractors win more work government, govtech, yc

#14 · Deepgram raises $130.0M Series C for speech AI

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 04:42:10 +0000

Deepgram raised a $130.0M Series C for its speech AI platform, which the company says has transcribed over one trillion words since inception. Antares Nuclear raised $60.0M for compact microreactors aimed at remote military bases and austere industrial sites, and Resolve AI raised a $40.0M Series A to automate production troubleshooting.

Interesting

Announcing the Artificial Analysis Search Index: Same Agent, Different Search — The Artificial Analysis Search Index benchmarks how search API providers perform on quality, cost, and speed when used by an agent. We compare different Search API providers... search, search api

Dev Tools

mattpocock/sandcastle: Orchestrate sandboxed coding agents in TypeScript with sandcastle.run() — Orchestrate sandboxed coding agents in TypeScript with sandcastle.run() - mattpocock/sandcastle sandboxes
mattpocock/skills: Skills For Real Engineers — Matt Pocock's agent skills for real engineering — small, composable, and model-agnostic. Install the whole set as a Claude Code plugin, or copy them in as editable files with... claude code, skills, software engineering
treg — turn your coding agent into an SEO expert, a media buyer, an SDR — Give your agent the tool catalog for the job. 2,617 endpoints across 42 providers — premium SEO, social, enrichment and ads data, pay as you go. Plus your own keys & skills, and... agent infra, agent tools, ai

Cool Company Raises

Hilstart launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Autonomous Hardware Testing developer-tools, hardware, industrials, yc
Callbook AI launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — AI collections agency for late stage portfolios ai, b2b, yc
Deepgram raises a $130.0M Series C round — $130M — Deepgram's speech AI platform is the foundation for the future of voice technologies. We've raised $86 million to put speech AI behind leading innovators and have transcribed... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, edbi, information-technology
Resolve AI raises a $40.0M Series A round — $40M — Resolve AI is a startup focused on automating software operations by developing AI-powered tools for software engineers. Founded by former Splunk executive Spiros Xanthos, the... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, dst global, salesforce ventures, software
Sonic Fire Tech raises a $15.0M round — $15M — Sonic Fire Tech is doing business as Incaendium Initiative Corporation. Sonic Fire Tech is transforming fire suppression with its groundbreaking acoustic wave technology—an... $10m+, information-technology, other
Antares Nuclear raises a $60.0M round — $60M — Antares is building compact nuclear microreactors to deliver reliable, mobile energy where it’s needed most—remote military bases, austere industrial sites, and eventually deep... $50m+, information-technology
Synthefy raises a $6.5M Seed round — $6.5M — Synthefy is a foundation-model company that specializes in structured data intelligence, providing solutions that drive the physical and digital economy. Their Structured Data... $1m+, analytics, aparna chennapragada, artificial-intelligence, big-data, canonical, cyber-security, data-mining, haystack, lightscape, machine-learning, manohar paluri, samsung next, software, srinivas narayanan, wing venture capital

#13 · Lovable Labs raises $382.0M, Wispr raises $280.0M

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:42:08 +0000

Lovable Labs disclosed $382.0M raised in an initial filing from a $400 Million offering. Wispr raised a $280.0M Series B for its voice-first Flow product, and Cursor released Origin, a git forge the company describes as built for the agentic era.

Dev Tools

Cursor · Origin — A git forge for the agentic era. ai, hosting

Cool Company Raises

Lanyon AI raises a $10.6M Seed round — $10.6M — Lanyon AI is a fundamental research lab focused on developing scientific and technical AI for mission-critical tasks. It builds a neurosymbolic AI platform capable of generating... $10m+, artificial-intelligence, dimension, industrious ventures, machine-learning
Proof raises a $56.4M round — $56.4M — Proof was formerly known as Notarize. Proof is a digital trust platform that makes secure, verified interactions possible in an increasingly digital world. We help businesses... $50m+, information-technology, software
Wispr raises a $280.0M Series B round — $280M — Wispr is building a more natural interface to interact with technology, aiming to enhance productivity through voice-first tools. Established in 2021, the company focuses on... $100m+, 8 vc, aaron gordon, acrew, alex caruso, dak prescott, dk metcalf, domantas sabonis, forerunner, goodwater, joe burrow, klay thompson, kyle hamilton, livvy dunne, menlo ventures, mvp ventures, nea, neo ventures, notable capital, paul george, peak xv, plus capital, shaun white, software, together fund, trae young
Palona AI raises a $20.0M Series A round — $20M — Palona AI is a leading provider of Real-World AI solutions for the restaurant industry. Founded by former engineering leaders from Google and Meta, Palona offers a comprehensive... $10m+, ardenwood ventures, artificial-intelligence, crimson ox, defy, fusion fund, llama ventures, machine-learning, maynard webb, neo, software, turbo, up honest
Lovable Labs raises a $382.0M round — $382M — Lovable Labs announced it raised $382 Million in an initial filing from an offering of $400 Million $100m+, information-technology

#12 · ConnectDER raises $35.0M Series D for meter adapters

Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:42:10 +0000

ConnectDER raised a $35.0M Series D for its meter socket adapter, which the company says cuts the cost and interconnection time for residential solar, EV charging and home battery storage. Daring Fireball published a critique of watermark text adulteration in Claude, calling the practice a perversion of writing.

Interesting

Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing — It’s unacceptable for a tool to sacrifice an iota of clarity, coherence, meaning, quality, etc. for the purpose of embedding hidden clues within the text to suggest its... ai, slop detection, watermarks
Who Are the Token Brokers? — A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference... ai, inference markets

Dev Tools

Chert — Chert is a YC-backed AI company building iMessage infrastructure for reaching people at scale, with quality, trust, and personalized interaction. communications, facetime, imessage
HarnessRouter — HarnessRouter is an AI agent API and backend layer for bringing agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code, and Hermes into products through one integration. ai, harness engineering
System Prompts — See updates to the core system prompts on [claude.ai](https://claude.ai) and the [Claude iOS app](https://anthropic.com/ios) and [Claude Android... ai, claude, system prompts

Cool Company Raises

Veeza AI launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — AI travel agent for people with weak passports, starting with visas. ai, aiops, consumer, yc
Standard Medical launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — A primary care clinic where AI earns clinical autonomy digital-health, health-tech, healthcare, primary-care, telehealth, yc
Kandor launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Making health insurance invisible artificial-intelligence, fintech, healthcare, yc
ConnectDER raises a $35.0M Series D round — $35M — ConnectDER (www.ConnectDER.com) represents the next generation in US-based resource technology product development. Our signature product, the ConnectDER Meter Socket Adapter,... $10m+, energy, manufacturing
Dream launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Pocket-sized AI cameras that catch asset damage. artificial-intelligence, b2b, computer-vision, hardware, machine-learning, yc

#11 · DeepSeek ships agent harness in developer preview

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:42:11 +0000

DeepSeek released its Harness agent framework in developer preview, publishing the source code at the same time and implementing every agent capability as a swappable plugin. Recurrent Energy raised $695.0M, which the company says gives it flexibility to accelerate its shift to a develop-to-own model in North America and Europe.

Interesting

AI Isn’t Outthinking Mathematicians. It’s Out-Remembering Them. — The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory. mathematics
How Google is Making Private AI Practical with Homomorphic Encryption — Today we're excited to showcase HEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-sec… cool as f, encryption, homomorphic
Learn to code with Scrimba — Scrimba is the fast way of learning to code! Our interactive courses and tutorials will teach you React, Vue, Angular, Web Development, Node.JS, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, and more. ai, courses, learning
Ordinary Abundance — A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new. cool

Dev Tools

Mixedbread — The Search API for your data. Turn your documents into discoverable and understandable context for AI. search, search api
Understanding is the new bottleneck — Agents can write code faster than we can absorb it. Here's why it still matters for humans to understand what they build — and some techniques for doing that efficiently:... code review, hud
DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin — DeepSeek Harness is now available in developer preview to developers building agent harnesses worldwide, with the source code released at the same time. Every agent capability... ai, harness engineering

Cool Company Raises

Mass Magnetics launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — USA-made magnetics for aerospace, robotics and defense. drones, hard-tech, industrials, manufacturing, yc
Riven Systems raises a $7.9M Seed round — $7.9M — Riven Systems is a NYC-based industrial chemistry startup that provides an AI platform for optimizing domestic critical minerals processing. The platform integrates autonomous... $1m+, alumni ventures, artificial-intelligence, cerberus ventures, clai, lightscape partners, machine-learning, new system ventures, scout ventures
Akon Labs launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Nervous System for AI Agents b2b, deep-learning, generative-ai, saas, yc
Bernard launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — AI employees that run home appliance repair companies ai, b2b, home-services, yc
Magma launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Monetize your agent's traces. ai, b2b, data-engineering, reinforcement-learning, yc
Pennant launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — The Corporate Governance OS for Public Markets ai, fintech, investing, investments, yc
Meteoric launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Drones that clear clouds over solar farms climatetech, hard-tech, industrials, renewable-energy, yc
Recurrent Energy raises a $695.0M round — $695M — This structure provides Recurrent Energy significant flexibility to execute on its growth plans and accelerate its transition to a develop-to-own model in its core markets in... $100m+, energy, mitsubishi ufj financial group, inc., nord/lb, renewable-energy, solar, wells fargo
Blubird raises a $118.0M round — $118M — Blubird is an all-in-one SaaS platform that simplifies and automates funding, cap table management, and token deployment for Web3 startups and traditional projects. It provides... $100m+, enterprise-software, information-technology-services, saas, software
Terram raises a $14.0M round — $14M — Terram Lab is creating a waste free world by eliminating plastic and harmful chemicals from packaging. $10m+, environmental-services
TovenAI launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms ai, fintech, regtech, yc
EdotEnv launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — A Quant Neolab building toward RSI via quant trading b2b, reinforcement-learning, time-series, yc
DeepReach Inc. launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Real-world data network for robots & world models artificial-intelligence, b2b, computer-vision, hardware, machine-learning, robotics, yc
Dipole Labs launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — AI-controlled optical switching for AI clusters ai, hard-tech, industrials, semiconductors, yc

#10 · CodeRabbit raises $143.0M Series C for AI code review

Fri, 14 Aug 2026 04:42:09 +0000

CodeRabbit raised a $143.0M Series C for its AI code review tool, which provides line-by-line suggestions and Q&A inside the code. Skan AI raised $63.0M for enterprise process intelligence, and Blacksmith, founded in 2024 by engineers from Faire and Cockroach Labs, raised a $45.0M Series B to run GitHub Actions on gaming-grade CPUs.

Interesting

LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 — Transform any topic into peak LinkedIn thought leadership guaranteed to make your followers shudder. funny, slop
A Framework for Frontier AI and the Dawning of a New Age — This is a pivotal moment in human history. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), a system that exhibits all the cognitive capabilities the brain has, is probably only a few... ai, demis
The New Software Lifecycle — By Addy Osmani lifecycle, software engineering
Nvidia’s Risky Business — Nvidia is finding new ways for its customers to raise money, and it’s expanding the risk of the AI buildout significantly. ai finance

Dev Tools

Dograh — Open-source voice agent infrastructure — Self-hostable voice agent platform. Bring your own models, drive it from MCP, deploy on your servers or our cloud. ai, voice
Xirp — Know your systems, so your agents can too — Xirp connects to your services, ownership, docs, and architectural decisions so every AI coding session starts with real context, not guesswork. Battle-tested at Spotify.... ai, context, spotify

Cool Company Raises

Skan AI raises a $63.0M round — $63M — Skan AI, the leader in enterprise process intelligence, provides the industry's first living system of record for process execution. Through comprehensive capture of... $50m+, artificial-intelligence, information-technology-services, machine-learning, software
Blacksmith raises a $45.0M Series B round — $45M — Blacksmith makes CI faster, more cost-effective, and more reliable by avoiding hyperscaler-based solutions and running GitHub Actions on high-performance hardware with... $10m+, gv, peak xv partners, software, y combinator
CodeRabbit raises a $143.0M Series C round — $143M — CodeRabbit provides detailed, line-by-line code suggestions and conversation capabilities for Q&A within your lines of code. $100m+, atomico, information-technology, smash capital, software

#9 · River AI raises $1.1bn for user-owned models

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:42:05 +0000

Igor Babuschkin's River AI has $1.1bn to hand model ownership back to users, and it lands the same day xAI ships Grok Bot — agents with their own computers, working your tools around the clock. The bet on both sides is that the scarce thing is no longer the model but the labour it replaces.

Cool Company Raises

Hemlock launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI hard-tech, hardware, industrials, yc
Simulithic launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Simulate how any product change will perform before shipping. ai, b2b, yc
TryNearby launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Local creators for local businesses b2b, creator-economy, marketing, restaurant-tech, smb, yc
Moving Atoms launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Virtual Reality for Robots (World Models) artificial-intelligence, industrials, robotics, virtual-reality, yc
Tenor launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Turn every employee into a manager of AI workers artificial-intelligence, automation, b2b, yc
River AI raises a $1.1B round — $1.1B — River AI is a full-stack AI company founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin. The company focuses on building powerful personal AI and providing tools for developers and... $100m+, amd ventures, amp pbc, artificial-intelligence, computer-vision, general catalyst, image-recognition, machine-learning, natural-language-processing, nvidia, software, temasek, y combinator
Soctera raises a $4.0M Seed round — $4M — Soctera builds power amplifiers that extend the range, fidelity, and reliability of modern systems that detect threats and carry critical communications. From defense radar and... $1m+, 9 yards capital, anorak ventures, mana ventures, manufacturing, multiball capital, red bear ventures, satellite-communication
Pathway raises a $30.0M Seed round — $30M — Pathway is building live AI systems that think and learn in real-time as humans do. Underpinned by the fastest data processing engine on the market and an AI framework, it lays... $10m+, id4 ventures, jonathan frankle, kadmos capital, red bridge ventures, software, tq ventures, ws investment co.
Silicon Data raises a $30.5M Series A round — $30.5M — Silicon Data is on a mission to revolutionize compute markets through unparalleled data transparency. As pioneers in the field, Silicon Data is dedicated to developing... $10m+, analytics, blank vc, breed, cme group, drw, f prime, further, hack, jump, samsung, sancus ventures, so gal ventures, software, tectonic, valor atreides ai fund, van eck, wintermute

Interesting

Introducing Grok Bot — Grok Bot is your team of always-on agents. They have their own computer, work inside tools and apps like you do, and keep working 24/7. agents, ai, ai coworker

#8 · Skild AI raises $1.4bn for robotics foundation model

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:42:14 +0000

Skild's $1.4bn Series C bets that robot foundation models will scale the way language models did, while the day's tooling concedes that agents mostly don't behave: Docker is now selling microVM isolation for Claude Code and Codex, and Meta's open 30B is explicitly tuned for failure recovery. Cheap robots, expensive containment.

Cool Company Raises

Ranchbot Monitoring Solutions raises a $15.0M Series B round — $15M — Ranchbot Monitoring Solutions is the leading provider of remote water monitoring solutions for ranchers. They focus on building relationships with ranchers, educational... $10m+, builders vc, farming, fulcrum global capital, lever vc, lewis & clark partners, macdoch ventures, the cultiv8 livestock technology fund, water
EarthGrid PBC raises a $52.8M round — $52.8M — Earth Grid Pbc announced it raised $52.8 Million in an initial filing from an offering of $57.6 Million $50m+
Safe Pro Group raises a $5.0M round — $5M — Safe Pro Group Inc. is a leading provider of artificial intelligence solutions specializing in drone imagery processing. The company focuses on developing novel threat detection... $1m+, artificial-intelligence, information-technology, public-safety
Skild AI raises a $1.4B Series C round — $1.4B — Skild AI is an AI robotics company focused on building a scalable foundation model for robotics. They are breaking the data barrier in robotics by training their model on a... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, bezos expeditions, coatue, lg, lightspeed, machine-learning, nvidia’s n ventures, robotics, salesforce ventures, schneider electric, sequoia capital, soft bank
Checkerspot raises a $27.4M round — $27.4M — Checkerspot is a pioneering biotechnology company and Certified B Corporation™ that develops high value triglyceride fats and oils not easily or sustainably sourced from nature,... $10m+, biotechnology, other
Financial Datasets launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Connect your agent to the stock market artificial-intelligence, b2b, fintech, stocks, yc

Dev Tools

Docker Sandboxes | Sandboxes for Coding Agents | Docker — Secure sandboxes for Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, and Kiro. Run coding agents with microVM-based isolation. agent infra, ai, sandboxes
Muse Glimmer | Meta — An open 30B model for always-on local agents. Runs on a single GPU, Apache 2.0 licensed. Tuned for tool use, long tasks, and failure recovery. ai, local models

#7 · Niron Magnetics raises $150m for rare-earth-free magnets

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:42:10 +0000

Iron nitride magnets, micro data centres built for orbit, a sovereign Starlink and embodiment-agnostic robot brains: four of today's five raises need a factory, and Niron's $150m is the only cheque large enough to buy one. The lone software company in the batch collects debts.

Cool Company Raises

Pacific launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Micro data centers for the harshest places on Earth and in space. ai, fintech, industrials, manufacturing, robotics, space-exploration, yc
Audun launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — AI-native debt collection ai, artificial-intelligence, finance, fintech, yc
Niron Magnetics raises a $150.0M round — $150M — Niron Magnetics is developing the world’s first advanced manufacturing process for the mass production of permanent magnets powered by its breakthrough material formulation.... $100m+, energy, manufacturing
Neuromorphic launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Building embodiment agnostic robot brains. artificial-intelligence, b2b, biotech, hard-tech, industrials, robotics, yc
Exosat launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Building a sovereign Starlink aerospace, industrials, iot, satellites, space-exploration, telecommunications, yc

#6 · LMArena raises $150m to benchmark AI models

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:42:12 +0000

A $150m Series A for a leaderboard is a bet that nobody trusts their own evals, and Uber open-sourcing the agent security tooling it runs in production makes the same point from the other end. Models ship freely now; knowing whether they behaved is the scarce part.

Cool Company Raises

herdr launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — building the open agent runtime ai-assistant, artificial-intelligence, b2b, developer-tools, yc
Solo Labs launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — Coding Agents ai, consumer, developer-tools, yc
LMArena raises a $150.0M Series A round — $150M — LMArena is an open community platform for evaluating AI models, aiming to bring scientific rigor to AI reliability. It provides a neutral, reproducible infrastructure that... $100m+, artificial-intelligence, felicis, machine-learning, uc investments
Malachyte raises a $10.0M Seed round — $10M — Malachyte is a behavior intelligence company co-founded by a team from Spotify, specializing in advanced personalization for e-commerce. Their technology leverages behavior... $10m+, bessemer venture partners, e-commerce, fashion, gradient ventures, harpoon ventures, internet

Dev Tools

uber/ADR: ADR secures enterprise AI agents through observability, security benchmarking, and threat detection. Deployed at Uber. — ADR secures enterprise AI agents through observability, security benchmarking, and threat detection. Deployed at Uber. - uber/ADR cybersec, security, uber
PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent: Prime Agent is a self-improving RLM agent that can be used for coding workflows, or even long-running autonomous tasks. — Prime Agent is a self-improving RLM agent that can be used for coding workflows, or even long-running autonomous tasks. - PrimeIntellect-ai/prime-agent ai, rsi
Click | Give your agent more than web search — Click MCP provides context beyond search results - from LinkedIn reactions to YouTube transcripts to live flight fares. ai, mcp, search
DeltaDB — Sign up for early access to continuous source control and review. version control
Prime Intellect - The Open Stack for Self-Improving Agents — The compute and infrastructure platform for you to train, evaluate, and deploy your own agentic models. rsi
Discovery Loop — Continuous Exploration — Discovery Loop is building AI systems that automate the experimental loops of science and engineering. Continuous Exploration. ai labs

Interesting

Why Is Everyone In Tech So Sad? - NOEMA — Work has never been able to provide people with the kind of value that a vocation, spiritual belief system or community once did. But AI might change that. ai anxiety
Mario meets Pareto — Discover how to find the best Mario Kart 8 build using the Pareto frontier method. This interactive guide explores multi-objective optimization of speed, acceleration, and other... fun, pareto principle
Aristotle’s Top 25 Quotes on Virtue & Joy — Explore Aristotle’s timeless insights on virtue, knowledge, and happiness. These 25 quotes offer wisdom for a thoughtful and fulfilling life. philosophy, stoicism

#5 · Aurelius raises $40m for anti-drone laser weapons

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:42:20 +0000

Most of today's raises buy instruments rather than software: smart balloons in the stratosphere, radar satellites, subsurface models for geothermal drilling, and a scanner that photographs your entire skin. Meanwhile YC's newest cohort shipped two more trading terminals, which suggests the contested frontier is measurement, not the transaction layer built on top of it.

Cool Company Raises

Forward launches at YC (Fall 2026) — YC F26 — Unifying Global Private Credit artificial-intelligence, b2b, fintech, yc
Arbital launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — The trading terminal for perps, memes, and stocks. crypto-web3, defi, fintech, trading, yc
WindBorne Systems raises a $37.0M Series B round — $37M — Global sensing for better weather forecasts. WindBorne designs, builds, and operates a constellation of long-duration smart weather balloons targeting the most critical data in... $10m+, galvanize, information-technology, khosla ventures, lux capital, trans link capital
Integrated Biosciences raises a $68.4M round — $68.4M — Integrated Biosciences is a biotechnology company specializing in synthetic biology and machine learning to develop advanced therapeutics for age-related diseases. Founded in... $50m+, artificial-intelligence, biotechnology, machine-learning, therapeutics
Aurelius Systems raises a $40.0M Series A round — $40M — Aurelius Systems is developing autonomous laser weapons to counter modern drone threats. Based in San Francisco, the company fuses advanced optics, AI-guided tracking, and... $10m+, alumni ventures, bravo victor venture capital (bvvc), cyber-security, decisive point, detroit venture partners, draper associates, general catalyst, hanwha defense usa, information-technology, kas venture partners, manufacturing, outlander
Zanskar raises a $6.0M Seed round — $6M — Zanskar's mission is to make geothermal power the most affordable form of widely-deployable, 24/7, carbon-free energy generation on the planet. $1m+, artificial-intelligence, bessemer venture partners, biomass-energy, energy, oil-and-gas
SkinBit raises a $6.0M Pre-Seed round — $6M — SkinBit raises $6M in a Pre-Seed round led by Boost VC, Cleo Capital, Manna Ventures, and Profluent Capital to develop full-body skin scanning technology. $1m+, boost vc, cleo capital, logan green, manna ventures, profluent capital
ICEYE US announces a funding round — ICEYE US is a leader in persistent Earth monitoring with radar satellite imaging. aerospace, eqt ab, general atlantic, image-recognition, satellite-communication

#4 · Anthropic raises $36bn in single round

Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:42:20 +0000

Anthropic's $36bn is underwritten by the thesis the day's reading spells out — Karpathy's autoresearch agents, Lilian Weng on harness engineering — that a model can improve the pipeline producing its successor. The $2.1bn going to Base Power, Beta and Sunrun is the same bet, placed on the power supply.

Cool Company Raises

Agent FM launches at YC (Summer 2026) — YC S26 — One group chat to hear and steer your coding agents. artificial-intelligence, b2b, developer-tools, productivity, yc
Beta Technologies raises a $830.0M round — $830M — BETA Technologies is an electric aviation company based in Burlington, Vermont. Founded in 2017, BETA is working to change the paradigm of how we transport goods and people by... $100m+, aerospace, exim bank, information-technology, manufacturing, transportation
Delightree raises a $25.0M round — $25M — Delightree is an all-in-one franchising technology platform built for emerging franchise brands to scale efficiently without compromising their brand promise, enabling faster... $10m+, accel, emergent, information-technology, innovius, timber grove ventures
Claryx raises a $3.5M Seed round — $3.5M — Claryx is a genomic intelligence company focused on preventing hospital outbreaks. It is developing an immune system for hospitals that detects transmission in real-time and... $1m+, biotechnology, health-care, health-diagnostics, outlander vc
Polymarket raises a $1.0B round — $1B — Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market where traders predict the outcome of future events and earn rewards for being right. Market forecasts span politics, current... $100m+, software
Clearjet raises a $24.3M round — $24.3M — Clearjet is an end-to-end express delivery network infrastructure + operating system utilizing the US commercial airlines for ecommerce delivery. Clearjet zone skips packages to... $10m+, professional-services
Anthropic raises a $36.0B round — $36B — Learn the critical role of AI & ML in cybersecurity and industry specific case studies. Watch on-demand sessions today. $100m+, artificial-intelligence, blackstone, cyber-security, machine-learning
Ambrook raises a $30.0M Series B round — $30M — Ambrook's mission is to build a more prosperous and resilient future for America's family-run businesses. We're starting with accounting tools to help businesses manage... $10m+, cameron ventures, field ventures, finance, fintech, lachy groom, software, thomson reuters ventures, thrive capital
Sunrun Inc. raises a $267.0M round — $267M — Sunrun is a United States-based provider of residential solar electricity and solar power services for homeowners. $100m+, bof a securities, citigroup, energy, morgan stanley, rbc capital markets
Base Power raises a $1.0B Series D round — $1B — Base Power raised $1B in Series D funding at a $13B valuation, bringing total funding to over $2.5B. The Austin-based company installs home battery systems in customers'... $100m+, a16z, addition, altimeter, battery, capitalg, clean energy, climate, coatue, d1 capital partners, energy, energy impact partners, energy storage, jpmorganchase strategic investment group, layer global, lightspeed, ribbit, sands capital, thrive capital, trust ventures, valor equity partners

Interesting

karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically — AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically - karpathy/autoresearch rsi
Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement — The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all... harness engineering, rsi