Y Combinator
Rounds that piqued my interest with this investor on the cap table.
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
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.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Monday, June 8, 2026
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.
Friday, June 5, 2026
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Thursday, May 28, 2026
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.
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
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.
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.