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30 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Nodus launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Intelligent execution layer for AI workloads

Artificial-Intelligence Infrastructure B2B YC

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

The Subvocal Company launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Talk to your computer without talking

Hard-Tech Consumer YC

26 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Talos launches at YC (Fall 2026)

Talos builds predictive maintenance for power infrastructure. It continuously monitors critical power equipment, detects meaningful changes in behaviour, and tells teams where to look before a failure becomes an outage. Founded in 2026 by Kevin Hwang, Amitav Kohli and Himani Musku, the Baltimore-based company is in Y Combinator's Fall 2026 batch.

Deep-Learning IOT Energy YC Industrials

23 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Ethos Space Resources launches at YC (Summer 2026)

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 it is rocket capacity, not the grid, that caps the buildout — so terawatt-scale AI in space has to be built from mass already outside Earth's gravity well. Ethos melts, electrolyses and purifies lunar regolith in hard vacuum, a single process that yields construction materials, rocket propellant and solar-grade silicon, tested in the company's own lunar environment chamber. The work starts with mining and construction for the first heavy landings: landing pads, propellant for the trip home, and silicon that turns sunlight into more capacity. Founded in 2022 by Ross Centers (Planetary Sunshade Institute) and Brogan BamBrogan (former principal propulsion engineer at SpaceX, co-founder of Hyperloop One), Ethos is based in Los Angeles and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.

Hard-Tech Exascale-Computing 3d-printing YC Energy Aerospace+1 more

22 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Spectre Intelligence launches at YC (Summer 2026)

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 under uncertainty, it currently trades in the semiconductor and biotechnology sectors. Founded by Michelle Li (CEO) and Joshua Zyzak, the firm is based in San Francisco and is part of Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch.

Biotech Investing Trading YC Semiconductors Fintech

19 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Studio launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Engineer the future

Artificial-Intelligence B2B Analytics YC AI

18 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Hilstart launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Autonomous Hardware Testing

Developer-Tools Hardware Industrials YC

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Callbook AI launches at YC (Summer 2026)

AI collections agency for late stage portfolios

16 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC F26

Veeza AI launches at YC (Fall 2026)

AI travel agent for people with weak passports, starting with visas.

Aiops Consumer AI YC

15 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Standard Medical launches at YC (Summer 2026)

A primary care clinic where AI earns clinical autonomy

Health-Tech Telehealth Digital-Health YC Healthcare Primary-Care

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Kandor launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Making health insurance invisible

Artificial-Intelligence Fintech Healthcare YC

14 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Mass Magnetics launches at YC (Summer 2026)

USA-made magnetics for aerospace, robotics and defense.

Hard-Tech Drones Manufacturing YC Industrials

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

Akon Labs launches at YC (Summer 2026)

Nervous System for AI Agents

Deep-Learning Generative-AI SAAS YC B2B

12 Aug

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

TovenAI launches at YC (Summer 2026)

AI agents for compliance at institutional trading firms

Fintech Regtech AI YC

Cool Company Raises · YC S26

EdotEnv launches at YC (Summer 2026)

A Quant Neolab building toward RSI via quant trading

Reinforcement-Learning Time-Series B2B YC

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