Nox Metals is a seven-month-old startup based in Southwest Detroit that specializes in custom aluminum blocks for CNC machining. The company uses AI automation to significantly reduce lead times from days to seconds. Nox Metals aims to revitalize a World War II-era factory to further its mission and enhance production capabilities.

Manufacturing Mining Precious-Metals Alumni Ventures Dtx Ventures Hyperion+5 more

13 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Touchmark launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Solving AI pricing

Artificial-Intelligence Infrastructure B2B Y Combinator YC YC-S26

12 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Atomarine launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Off shore nuclear powered data centers at sea.

Hard-Tech Energy Industrials Y Combinator YC YC-S26

10 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Glen launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Unified organizational context for agents and humans

Artificial-Intelligence Generative-AI B2B Y Combinator YC YC-S26

8 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Prescience, Inc. launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Healthcare for the age of abundant intelligence.

Health-Insurance Insurance Healthcare Y Combinator YC YC-S26

Cool Company Raises · YC X26

Ploy launches at YC (Spring 2026)

Ploy turns your website into your company's growth engine.

B2B YC YC-X26 Y Combinator

Cool Company Raises · $55.0M

Stepful, Inc. raises a $55.0M Series C round

Our mission is to empower communities with accessible pathways to healthcare careers, regardless of background or circumstance. Our healthcare staffing programs are designed to fill vacancies quickly and reduce hiring costs. We also provide medical career advancement training. Stepful specializes in training and placing healthcare professionals in various healthcare roles, including Medical Assistants, Coders & Billers, Pharma Techs, EKGs, and Phlebotomists.

Other Citi Impact Fund Ecmc Education Impact Fund Foresite Capital Hearst Ventures Intermountain Health+4 more

5 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Agentcard launches at YC (Summer 2026)

debit cards for AI agents.

Fintech YC YC-S26 Y Combinator

1 Jun

Cool Company Raises · YC X26

tday.com launches at YC (Spring 2026)

AI that turns your product into on-brand marketing content

B2B YC YC-X26 Y Combinator

28 May

Cool Company Raises · $22.0M

Triomics raises a $22.0M Series B round

Triomics builds oncology-specific AI for cancer centers, automating chart prep, clinical trial matching, and tumor registry reporting against complex multi-year patient records. The platform is used by academic centers including Memorial Sloan Kettering and Yale Cancer Center, and is positioned against generic AI scribes by training models on oncology data rather than general clinical text.

Series-B AI-ML Enterprise-Software Battery Ventures Lightspeed Venture Partners Nexus Venture Partners+5 more

26 May

Cool Company Raises · $7.5M

Didit raises a $7.5M Seed round

Didit is a YC-backed identity and fraud infrastructure platform that ships KYC, KYB, AML screening, biometric verification, transaction monitoring, and wallet screening behind one API. The company serves 2,000+ customers across fintech, crypto, marketplaces, iGaming, and government use cases and is the only identity provider whose technology has been assessed by Spain's Treasury, CNMV, and SEPBLAC as equivalent to in-person verification. Dual HQ in San Francisco and Barcelona.

Y Combinator Founders Future Lobster Capital Orange Collective Phosphor Capital Pioneer Fund+5 more

Cool Company Raises · $8.2M

Human Archive raises a $8.2M Seed round

Human Archive builds large-scale multimodal training datasets for robotics and physical AI. The startup equips gig-economy workers in India with head-mounted cameras and sensors to capture first-person video of everyday home-services tasks, then licenses that data to AI labs developing embodied models. Founded by researchers from Stanford and UC Berkeley; in Y Combinator's W26 batch.

Wing Venture Capital Nvp Capital Y Combinator $1M+

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