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Artificial Intelligence
3 companiesInferact
Making AI inference cheaper and faster for everyone
Built by the creators of vLLM, the most popular open-source AI inference engine, Inferact is on a mission to make deploying large language models at scale something any team can do.
Read full article →Fundamental
Building the next frontier of AI research
Fundamental is an AI research company pushing the boundaries of what foundation models can do. With a massive $255M Series A, they're assembling a world-class research team.
Read full article →Simile
AI that mimics human decision-making
Simile is building AI systems that replicate how humans actually make decisions. Their technology captures the intuition, biases, and contextual awareness that make human judgment so hard to automate.
Read full article →Robotics & Hardware
3 companiesBubble Robotics
Building the ocean's autonomous workforce
Ex-NASA and ETH Zurich engineers building persistent autonomous ocean robots that stay at sea for months, replacing $50K/day ship crews with AI-driven subsea fleets at 1/10th the cost.
Read full article →Skild AI
A universal brain for every robot on Earth
Skild AI is building a single foundation model that can control any robot — from humanoids to quadrupeds to industrial arms — without knowing what type of body it's operating.
Read full article →TARS Robotics
Shanghai's humanoid robot factory
Just one year old and already valued at $1.9 billion, TARS is building humanoid robots for industrial and commercial applications.
Read full article →Health & Biotech
3 companiesProxima
AI-powered drug discovery for "undruggable" targets
Formerly VantAI, Proxima is using AI to unlock an entirely new class of medicines called proximity therapeutics that traditional chemistry can't touch.
Read full article →Korsana Biosciences
Oral therapeutics for allergies and autoimmune diseases
Korsana is developing oral STAT6 inhibitors for asthma and atopic dermatitis, aiming to replace expensive injectable biologics with simple pills.
Read full article →auryx
Turning everyday earbuds into health monitors
Cambridge University spinout using AI to extract cardiac and respiratory data from the microphones already inside noise-cancelling earbuds — no new hardware needed.
Read full article →Fintech
3 companiesMercury
The bank that startups actually love
Mercury hit $650M in annualized revenue and four consecutive years of profitability. They just raised $200M at a $5.2B valuation — and they're on the verge of becoming a real bank.
Read full article →Kalshi
The regulated exchange for betting on real-world events
Kalshi doubled its valuation to $22 billion, raising $1 billion to expand its regulated prediction market for real-world events.
Read full article →SolvaPay
The payment layer for AI agents
Building the world's first payment infrastructure for autonomous AI agents — letting them find, negotiate, and pay for services with built-in spend limits and policy controls.
Read full article →Food & Hospitality
3 companiesPickup Pointe
Giving restaurants their independence back
Born in California's Central Valley, Pickup Pointe is building a new kind of restaurant platform — one that lets restaurants own their customer relationships, keep their brand front and center, and stop hemorrhaging margins to big tech middlemen. Growing like wildfire, the platform is approaching 100 restaurants in just six months. Same food, same prices, no markups.
Read full article →Standing Ovation
Making dairy without the cow
This Paris-based startup uses precision fermentation to produce real casein — the protein that gives cheese its stretch and melt — without a single cow.
Read full article →NoPalm Ingredients
Replacing palm oil with yeast-grown fats
NoPalm grows oleaginous yeast in fermentation tanks fed by potato peels and food waste to produce fats that replicate palm oil, shea butter, and cocoa butter.
Read full article →Climate & Energy
3 companiesAstranis
Small satellites, massive internet coverage
Astranis builds geostationary satellites that are 1/20th the size of traditional ones, bringing affordable internet to the 4 billion people still without reliable connectivity.
Read full article →Octavia Carbon
Direct air capture powered by Africa's geothermal energy
Building the Global South's first commercial direct air capture plant in Kenya, using geothermal energy to remove CO2 at a fraction of the cost of Western peers.
Read full article →Equilibrium
Carbon removal with 150,000 Indian farmers
Full-stack carbon infrastructure across India — agroforestry, biochar, and mangrove restoration with 150,000+ smallholder farmers, delivering verified carbon credits at scale.
Read full article →Cybersecurity
3 companiesTorq
AI agents that run your security operations center
Torq's AI-powered security platform can autonomously handle 90% of Tier-1 security tickets without human intervention.
Read full article →Memcyco
Real-time protection against brand impersonation attacks
Memcyco detects and neutralizes phishing sites, fake apps, and brand impersonation attacks in real time — before customers get scammed.
Read full article →Ciphero AI
The verification layer for enterprise AI
Built by the team behind Fakespot (acquired by Mozilla), Ciphero governs shadow AI and agentic workflows in real time — intercepting every AI interaction to enforce policies and prevent data loss.
Read full article →Developer Tools
3 companiesCursor (Anysphere)
The AI code editor that developers can't stop using
Cursor went from zero to $2 billion in ARR in just three years — the fastest any B2B company has ever scaled. Now reportedly in talks for a $60B valuation.
Read full article →Chainguard
Securing the software supply chain by default
Chainguard delivers hardened, verified builds of the open-source software that the world depends on. From containers to AI agent skills, they're making supply chain security the default.
Read full article →Laminar
Observability built for AI agents
Open-source observability for autonomous AI agents. Capture every LLM call, tool use, and browser action with one line of code. Y Combinator S24 batch.
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